Time Flying

I had a really strange experience today. I was talking with a woman I work with about age. She was saying that the little children that come into my work (Jersey Library) see me as an adult, as they're too young to understand the kind of in-between that a teenager is. So yeh, they'd see me like they'd see other 'grown-ups'. This isn't the strange part, the strange part came a few hours later, and tied in well with the subject of age and time etc. A girl came into the library, and a few years ago I was really good friends with her. We went to a christian youth group together and I became good friends with her and some other of the girls who went. We wern't the same age, they were all about 4-5 years older than me, but because we were together so much, so similar etc it just 'felt' like we were the same. So anyway, she came in today and asked me what I was up to. I just said, you know, last year of school, uni next year, you? And she said, did you see the guy i came in with? We're getting married next year. Now, this completly threw me. It was as if a girl in my year at school was telling me this. It was honestly the weirdest thing I've ever felt. Of course I knew she was older than me, but I just 'saw' her as my age (even though she's finished uni now, and I know that), as a teenager, just as those small children in my work 'saw' me as an adult. I've been trying to work out how I felt about this encounter and I've come to the conclusion that I'm actually very sad about it. I've missed out on years of a past friends life, someone I desperatly wish I had kept in more contact. This was a reminder to me that, actually, we don't have 'all the time in the world'. We move, we grow up, we grow old and we die. It goes so quick and I'm not ready for it to go so quickly. I don't want to be reminded so much of my own mortality.
Time flies on.

Lunchtimes! yay!

Bench-hopping!!
Today was a very surreal lunchtime. After getting some chocolate from a local shop, me, marina, freddie and tori (soon to be joined by claire and chloe) sat down on a group of three benches. While we were talking about...what 17-18 year olds talk about...you know, normal stuff, not bout what we do with our boyfriends AT ALL!! .../ahem anyway...but yeh then a lil group of year 9's decided to join us :S (We, of course, had to stop our previous conversation so as not to scar their innocent little minds) They decided to talk about the very interesting subject of what they were going to do on the weekend /snore, whilst sniggering ofc :P ('what is you sniggering at young man? i bet i got it right.' eh alex? :P) After my friends and I had looked around at each other with that look of 'Quoi?', we decided to join in their little conversation :D to be sociable nd all that crap. This, however, seemed to confuse the poor little things, and they hopped off to a nearby cluster of benches. However, we had just started getting into this convo, and so decided to join them to continue it!! :D this succeded for a few mintues before our dear bench-hoppers decided to leave us again :( This, however, leads onto the next chapter in this exciting lunchtime!! (Ready? queue the drum roll...)
The Adventure!!
So, after our terribly interesting conversation with a bunch of year 9's about what we were doing this weekend, freddie, marina and I decided to go for a little wonder around the old cross-country route :D So, after the boring start (walking on gravel past two 4x4's), we came across the old path(!), now all overgrown and muddy (mmm nice). So, after walking (marina and freddie walking, me being dragged:P) past lots of bugs, holly bushes, mud and a random wall we'd never seen before with a big fluffy dog and random woman on the other side :S we reached the end of our off-road track and found...The Primary School!!! So, after climbing up the grassy slope in a really subtle, in-cognito kinda way /cough, we made our way back to the 6th form common room for a rest after all that adventure!! Tuh! What a lunchtime!! :O