Still Alive

Another FAB week at school has passed. I am getting used to LOGS and I am actually starting to make some friends now. The Telford’s family is very nice and they take good care of me. Monday I heard that they had planned to go to the North of England this weekend a couple of months ago and that they couldn’t change the hotel booking anymore. They felt sorry for me but I said that I didn’t have any problems with it. Mr Blewitt would arrange a host family for me to stay with during the weekend.

Tuesday I wasn’t so tired anymore. After school, Sanny, Harvey, Maxwell and I went to the café of Harvey’s mum. Sanny is staying with Harvey. It was a very cozy café and we had a hot chocolate and a piece of cake. Afterwards we walked to the sports club where Sanny and I had hockey practice with Daisy, Amy, Gabbey, Bessie, Lucy, Phoebe, Katy, Rebecca and the rest of the team (I am sorry for still not remembering all your names).

Wednesday I heard I would be staying with Tilly Sherwood this weekend, a nice girl from year 13. After school I went to Caffè Nero with Tim and his family, where we had a nice hot drink. Tim had asked me if I wanted to teach him some Dutch. It took some time until he remembered some sentences and his accent is still hilarious, but now he always comes to me and asks ‘Hoe gaat het?’ and ‘Hoe was jouw dag?’ At night we watched the football match of England vs The Netherlands. Luckily the Netherlands had won.

Thursday, my favourite day (NOT), was a busy day. I had all subjects and only one free period. During my psychology lesson we talked about what we had been doing last lesson. We had been divided into groups and watched clips of car accidents all lesson. After each clip we had to estimate how fast the cars were going when they hit/smashed/contacted/bumped/collided each other. Guess what happened that afternoon? I experienced a car crash myself!

After school, Tim’s grandparents came to pick Nick and me up. Tim had planned to go and see his girlfriend. Before he left he had introduced me to his grand mum and granddad. They were also very friendly. I was sitting at the left back of the car and Nick was at the right back. We were about to enter the drive, actually the front of the car was already on the drive, when a police car (that was driving on the wrong side of the road) hit our car at the right back. The car turned round and moved a couple of metres. All airbags collapsed and the only think I could think about was getting out of the car. When the car had stopped moving Nick and I immediately got out. We were very shocked but fine and we realised that we were standing in our neighbour’s garden. We could see glass all over the road. Because a police car had hit us, the police were already there. Tim’s grandparents were also ok, but they were not able to get out of the car by themselves, so the ambulance came. After they had been taken out of the car we all needed our body and blood pressure to be checked and we gave our details to the police. Fortunately everyone was fine. Though the ambulance staff decided to take me to hospital to have a better look at my hips and my ribs. They said they weren’t worried about me but they wanted to be sure. Meanwhile Tim’s mum had been phoned and Tim had come home by bus. He and his brother came with me and we got to Eastbourne hospital by the ambulance car.

Tim, Nick and I had been waiting for 3 (!) hours until I finally could go in. Meanwhile Tim’s mum had arrived at the hospital. As they had expected, I hadn’t broken anything. They gave me some painkillers and said that the pain would disappear within a few days. After our visit to Eastbourne hospital we had dinner at McDonald’s to celebrate that we had been so lucky.

Friday we all slept out and went to school later. Because a LOGS bus passed by when Nick and I were standing next to the car and the ambulance arrived, everyone knew about the crash half an hour later. Everyone was pleased that we were all ok. After school I got home with Tilly. I met her parents and her little brother. Unfortunately Tilly had to go to work tonight, but her parents took me out to have a drink at a pub and afterwards we had dinner at home.
Tomorrow I won’t be playing hockey. Tilly and I are going to Eastbourne. She told me that there are shops and that there is a beautiful pier, so I am very excited about it.