Sunday, November 12, 2006

"So you snorted the flour, then what did you do?"

We went to court on Thursday, about 15 of us shivering in the cold while our frizzy haired teacher briefed us. We talked to men from the bbc waiting for that muslim dude who stirred up racial hatred in London over the murder crimes, but he was in custody all day.
Blah blah blah, we managed to get into a court room and heard that flour bit, this girl called Sophie and i just stared at each other. Then this dude started telling his story, and our teacher pulled us out to tell us she had to go. We found out later that these 2 guys killed a boy for selling them flour instead of Cocaine.
I hung around with a group of girls i usually stayed away from, for 4 hours while we waited for courts to open up. What was really weird, was that they invited me. We were just waiting to go in the first court room and they asked my opinion on everything. Then they included me in their little discussions...it scared me so i kept walking off for bits, but then they'd follow me. It was nice though, 2 of them went off for a while and this girl i previously despised told me they were bitching about her. I dont despise her anymore because now she seems more human. We waited in a pub eating for HOURS. I got so frustrated i kept going for walks, then walked down fleet street. Then played with all the crap we had on the table. I got so bored i read the Sun. We had to leave our bags in a cafe hours earlier, not allowed them in the old bailey, so didnt even have my phone.
Later we went into a case where a man with schizophrenia was accused of rape. I was going to walk out, but it would have been stupid of me. It was pretty harsh, i didnt believe the woman though, i dont think the jury did either. They were both as messed up as each other.
I ran home, ran to waterloo, ran to staines. Mormons are funny. I met Cate. I spent the whole of institute looking at this girl thinking "why does she speak so articulately, but then texts like a retard?" I was relieved Cate was a bit more normal than the girl i thought she was. I met a girl who went to my uni, Joel (hmm) and others.
Everyone "O you're Jordana! We've heard so much about you! Thats Joel by the way" *pushes me over* (O yeah subtle, thanks.)
Basically, when uni started i spent the week with this woman called Rowena. We were eating dinner one day and she asked about my relationship life, told her i was recently-ish single and she turns to her daughter and says "Ooh, do you know who is perfect for her? Joel."
Adam from South-end later tells me at Arieges party that Rowena has been telling everyone that Joel and i should date. He sends me a picture of Joel with chocolate round his face. Nice.
So by the time i introduce myself to everyone on thursday night, theyre pushing me towards Joel. We dont talk. We get into Cates car and go to where ever for some mormon fun.
"I'm Joel"
"I know"
"OOOh Adam sent you a picture of Joel didnt he Jordana?"
"Uh oh yeah, it was nice."

Finally we arrived at this girls house, met more people, who made fun of my name...in a sad way "O so are you named after the river Jordan, you know, where Jesus got baptised?"
"I really dont know, where's the bathroom?"

They played this rope game, where you have to qs(cant be bothered to 'splain.) Joel and i sat out.

Then we played this game called pulse. You split into two groups, and then each group gets into a line and holds hands. At one end someone flips a coin and if its heads, then the team leaders at the top of the line, squeezes the hand of the person next to them. Everyone else has their eyes closed and you then squeeze the next persons hand. The pulse is passed along til it reaches the two people at the end. Once they feel a pulse they have to grab an object (keys) before the other team. (If this makes sense.)
I really dreaded my turn at the end. I lost once, and then Joel was against me. I then beat him (by grabbing the keys first). Then i was one of the leaders at the top and was against him again, and we beat him.
We had a stand off in the kitchen. He offered me food so we went. We talked about people we knew, then awkward silences, then a kind of conversation went past in which we basically said "please dont let this be awkward because of other people, we arent going to date, we dont even know each other, ok, sorted, good."
Then we played a cup stacking game, i didnt play on the principle that id seen an advert for it and i thought it was so bad i wouldnt even touch it. It looked fun in the end. We even watched the instructional video where a really happy girl proclaimed to be the "world record cup stacker." Now that's ambition.

THEN we played a "drinking " game. Obv the persons house it was wasnt a real mormon, but we played it with all those crappy tescos drinks. She was also a geek, (lord of the rings swords everywhere and knew the elven language whatsit)
So we watched Return of the Jedi. It was a pointless game. "ooo look anakin is using his light saber, drink up." About half an hour into it they decided the team that had to go to the toilet first would be the losers...smart.

The girls geeky brother got on my nerves. Joel and i were talking in the kitchen and he came in. Joel politely said "*persons name* my friend, hows it going?"
then this WEIRDO said (looking at me the whole time which freaked me out)
"WON, yew are not my friend, teeeww ive only seen yew 3 days a week at most..."
(i walked out by three, i was freaked out/disgusted beyond belief, when people ask how you are, you just lie and say fine dude.)
He also played the cup stacking game earlier, acting like he knew what he was doing, and when someone tried to help he made them feel really stupid. I rolled my eyes, then remembered where i was, and just looked down...THEN rolled my eyes. At one point in the drinking game, he walked past the table full of the bottles. A girl was trying to pour herself a drink and he waddled past kicking the bottle out her hand and all over the floor. He blamed it on her which made her upset.
Cate got a phonecall and left the room, she then came back and said "Jordana," (i thought she was going to say, your dads on the phone wants to know when youre coming home)
but instead she said "Adam called to say hello to you and he'll see you soon." I whimpered
"oh, adam," as it was the only familiarity i could cling onto, and the room exploded with everyone saying "what about the rest of us!" Then we all screamed adams name down her mobile.
Later on as we were watching the movie, the brother spilt more drink, Cream soda exploded EVERYWHERE soaking some guy on the floor. I laughed a lot, no one else did. Made me happy. I stopped laughing when that weirdo said to his sister "CLAIRE, REMEMBER WHAT MUMMY SAID ABOUT MESS" in one of those, im showing off because this is my house and im really cool in my mind sort of way.
Finally we left.
Cate, Fiona, Jaime, Joel and I got lost from where ever we were, back to Surrey. It was a fun journey. They played weird songs and sang. I live near jaime. In the car i got a few calls from an undesirable (guess who), felt a bit depressed, but didnt answer and turned off my phone.
By the time i got home it was close to 1 am. Cate invited me out this monday night. I like my new group. Im glad Cates not a retard, im glad jaime's not up herself. Im glad Joel's got his head screwed on right, and im glad Fiona isnt as intimidating as she sounds when shes talking bout church stuff in institute.

i write waaaay too much dude.
havent even finished. Ariege and i talked a lot today. I write this stuff because i dont tell people about my day, and because i dont expect people to read this it just comes out. "Everything that goes in must come out." its nice. Its annoying though. But i still hide alot of it.
lalalalala laaaah.

1 comment:

GD said...

The world class level cup stackers are fucking insane, and by insane i mean awesome.