Mockingjay: Part One thoughts

The trailer for the penultimate Hunger Games movie is here!
 *WARNING: possible spoilers for those who have not read the books*

As a lover of both the books and the movies, I am very excited for this film to come out.  With some book-to-movie conversions, I feel very disappointed as a reader how unlike the book the films often are *cough Percy Jackson cough* but the Hunger Games movies are (generally) loyal to their book counterparts and for that I am thankful. From what I can tell from the trailer, they have District 13 exactly as I imagined it from the books, dark, mysterious but a hopeful place.

In terms of the cast, I am particularly excited for Natalie Dormer's part as Cressida in this movie - she is a fantastic actress, seen in Game of Thrones and Elementary, as well as just being an all-round beautiful person. I honestly think she could take over the world tomorrow and everyone would just be okay with it. Josh Hutcherson as 'Captiol' Peeta in this movie could also be very interesting to play out on screen. In the books, those scenes broke my little Katniss/Peeta shipper heart so to actually see them in front of me will probably just turn me into more of  an emotional wreck than I already am!

There isn't really much more I can say on this, just because it simply is a trailer for a movie that looks really bloody good. The first two instalments of The Hunger Games are fantastic, particularly Catching Fire, so I have no doubts that this will match up in all aspects. Once the full movie comes out, I will obvs be doing a review. These were just some initial thoughts I had and wanted to tell someone about!
Let me know what you think if you are a fan also!
Laura x

New school year, New start

I'm pretty sure I've said this every school year I have started - "I'm gonna be really organised!" "I'm gonna get all my homework out the way when I get it" blah blah blah, you get the picture but never actually followed it through.

But seeing as this is my last EVER school year (oh god), I am so determined to keep to these promises. This is my most important year of school and exams and for once, I am motivated to try hard, go the extra mile and all that jazz.

Including, making time for this blog. Starting from this week, I am going to be posting something every Sunday, could be a review of some kind, a recipe, something I want to talk about, something I've written myself but just a blog post with words in it.

This one is gonna be short and sweet so all I am going to say is to my fellow students, work hard and keep to any promises you make to yourself! We can do this together!

Tis all for now.
Laura x

I CAN'T WRITE PERSONAL STATEMENTS - a ramble about my life

So if you're like me, you are 17, got your AS results (and if you're really like me, you are incredibly annoyed with yourself over them) and are now just stressing about life and the ominous 'future'.

And the truth is.... I am terrified.

Generally, I'm a postive person- I'd like to think I spend quite a lot of time making sure my friends are happy and not feeling down. I give them advice that I ought to take myself but I just can't think straight when it comes to me.

The way I'm going writing a personal statement, passing my A2's and getting into a decent uni seem virtually impossible at the moment. If you add loving but pressuring parents, ill grandparents and low self-esteem on top of that, I feel overwhelmed. While I can't decide if this is due to my own feelings or the British schooling system, it is likely it is a mixture of both.
I've spent the last 24 hours thinking what the hell am I going to do? I'm never going to amount to anything, I'm never going to pass anything....etc.

However. Nearly everyone I know is possibly in the same boat. This is our final year of school that has suddenly got here very quickly. We're all scared. We all probably don't know what we are going to do in the future. We all know we have a hard year ahead.

So this is essentially a post to say.... let's be scared together.
A piece of paper with some letters on it does not define you and I need to remember that.  I think a lot of us need to remember that.

I realise this hasn't been coherant but whatever. Share thoughts with me if you have them on this matter :)
Laura x

Hello!

Now you've read the blog title, I'm hoping I've got the song "Hello!" from the Book of Mormon stuck in your head!

Anyway, this is my first post on this blog! To give you some infomation about myself, I am Laura Caley, a 16 year old girl from the North of England (namely Yorkshire). I decided I wanted to give this blogging thing a try as kind of creative outlet for me - because I can't draw, sew, watch myself back on camera or do anything else creative but what I can do is talk. (Often about nothing to be honest!)

I've had Tumblr for a long while which is, first and foremost, a blogging website but I generally use my Tumblr to fangirl over Darren Criss and random TV shows. I decided I wanted somewhere where I can write down my thoughts and feelings on anything and everything whether it be a book review, a film review, if there is a particularly good or bad episode of a TV show I'm watching or even just something that happened in my day and a proper blog would be much better for me to do this rather than just some thoughts on tumblr where it is so easy to be attacked for having a different opinion to someone else!

It doesn't matter to me whether or not people read this blog (although it would be nice!), it's just something for me to do in my spare time as a hobby. 

This post isn't going to be very long or particularly exciting but there will be more to come shortly! For example, my LeakyCon London post will be up shortly!

Thanks for reading :) 
Love Laura x