On Friday 28th, I had my year 11 school prom which was full of smiles, music and beautiful girls and boys!
At 2.30pm, my sister, Beki and I, went over to my friend, Esme's house. Beki was with me because she offered to do mine and some of the girls' hair. The girls who wanted Beki to do her hair were Marie, Nina, Isobel, Saskia and me of course. We were the first ones to arrive at Esme's so Beki did my hair and makeup first. She has bare minerals makeup so I appreciated her letting me use some! She did the base of my makeup first then curled my hair then put the rest of my face on and applied the false lashes.I had been to my step mum, Helen's salon the day before for a haircut and had it dyed a couple of weeks before. On Thursday, one of Helen's employees curled my hair but I thought they were far too bouncy and made my hair look short so I just asked Beki to do them looser and I must say, she did a mighty fine job! Anyway, the rest of the girls started arriving and Beki was powering through, mind you she was getting pretty stressed by about 4pm as we were supposed to be at Tom's for 5.30. We all started getting in our dresses and encountered the inevitable wardrobe malfunctions such as eyelashes not sticking on, bra straps on show, Ruby's dress ripping at the back etc! But we got through the panic and eventually and managed to stagger over to Tom's in our high heels, clinging to umbrellas! At Tom's, we had sangria and there were lot of group and paired photos being taken. It was ADORABLE when Alvin arrived with a bunch of flowers in his hand and handed them to Esme, his date. I was talking to him later and told him that it was so cute and h said that h forgot to offer to pay for her ticket so thought it would be only right to buy her a bunch of flowers. I nearly died from the adorableness.
These were some of the photos taken at Tom's:
left to right: Me, Marie, Ruby, Phoebe, Peter, Jake
Cute couple, Isobel and Alex
left to right: Aidan, Tom, Jack, Jake, Max, Peter, Felix, Alex M, Lucas, James, Alvin, Ben, Gabriel, Alex C
Another cute couple (not actually going out), Holly and Lucas
Esme and Alvin (flower guy)
left to right: Ruby, me, Anna, Marie, Clara
back left to right, front left to right: Saskia, me, Clara, Isobel, Nina, Marie, Phoebe, Anna, Ella, Holly
At about 6.45pm, we headed off to school but because the world hates me, as soon as I walked out the door, my dress ripped! luckily it wasn't too noticeable as it was kind of hidden but it put a dampener on the day and we hadn't even arrived at prom yet! The mums all clubbed together and looked through their bags of mum things but none of them had a safety pin or a needle and thread but Saskia's mum told me that the school would have something. So, in a bit of a rubbish mood, I walked with the others to school. Marie and I were having to walk a bit slower than everyone else because we were rather more unfortunate in the shoe department but luckily we saw my mum in the car on the way to school because she was going to take photos on our arrival so we got a cheeky lift with her and she dropped us round the corner from school.
We walked through the back gates and round the corner in to the car park where we were greeted by people saying "wow" and lots of parents taking photos! The boys had a group photo and then us girls had ours taken. One of the teachers was taking more professional photos with a good camera but we haven't seen them yet.
These are similar to the ones she took...
left to right: Claudia, Luz, Amy, me, Marie, Nina
Shortly after this, there were some snazzy arrivals! Katie, Puja, Alex and Ruby T arrived in a stretched hummer and some others arrived in a limo but I'm not sure who it was because I had gone inside when they drove in.
Just found this photo on facebook so I'm guessing these two arrived in the limo. This is Marcus and Jade.
On our way to the hall from the back entrance, we noticed a photo booth and lots of fun props so we decided to have some fun!
Nina, Marie, Clara, Phoebe and me
We then went back in a couple of hours later...
Ella, Phoebe, me, Nina and Marie
When we came out of the photo booth and went in to the hall, I saw Mrs Madan (the best teacher and loveliest lady I have ever met...she's so small and cute!!) and I told her that my dress ripped and she said she'd find a safety pin for me because like I said, she's really lovely!
I'd heard that last year's prom was really badly organised and everyone just stood around and didn't dance at all so I didn't have very high hopes for this one, even though it was organised by people in our year! I was pleasantly surprised it in the end because the band was really good, there was a table at the back of the hall called candy mountain which basically just had loads of jars of different sweets on it and pick n mix bags, there was a candy floss machine in one of the classrooms which also had a memory tree where you'd write a memory on a paper leaf and hang it on a branch of a tree and relaxing space with beanbags and sofas to just chill and chat. The photo booth was a really good idea and was very amusing to look at them all! The only downsides to prom were that the DJ didn't show up, the weather wasn't very nice, my dress ripped and my shoes killed me but the last three aren't anyone's faults so all in all I was very impressed!
Later on, Mrs Madan had to squeeze through everyone to find me on the dance floor where she presented me with a safety pin, yaaaay! She quickly fixed my dress and I gave her a big hug cause I loves her! I also danced with her later, I can't remember what song it was too but it was funny. She hugged me again and said "if you were free, I'd adopt you!". I said "please do!!!". Mrs Madan can't have kids which makes me sad because she would be the world's greatest mum!!
Here are some photos taken during prom:
believe it or not this was my year 10 and 11 photogaphy class! There was one other person but he goes to Coleridge (another school that Parkside set up). Left to right: me, Ethan, Hettie, George
Cheeky selfie in the toilets! I love this girl, she's my gym buddy! Katie and me :)
This was towards the end of the night as you can probably tell by the fact that all the girls have their shoes off...
Left to right: me, Peter, Kester, Clara, Nina, Tom and Marie.
Woohoo candy floss machine! Left to right: Marie, Esme, Anna
Sean Healy (English teacher) being a pimp with the ladies! Isobel (next to him) looks very excited!
These girls had a bit of a pattern in their photos...all with male teachers!
Charlotte, Keri, Mr Biltcliffe (maths teacher) and Puja.
Maddy, Puja, Sean Healy being a pimp again, Keri and Charlotte
Puja, Charlotte, Alex, the gorgeous Mr Blayney, Kester, Keri and Maddy
Here's a video of Mrs Madan, dancing with the lads! Cheeky!!
Here's another video of Mrs Madan grinding Kester and being grinded by Mr White! haha!
Prom finished at 11pm and I walked back to Esme's house with Esme, Nina and Anna, bear footed which hurt so much but less than it would in my heels! I grabbed my bag from Esme's and walked back to mine, again bear footed, where I quickly got changed and retouched my make up for the after prom party at Kester's house which started at midnight. I wore black disco pants and a blue cropped top, a gold chain, a bowler hat and black wedges. I then cycled back to Esme's after a lecture from my mum about being careful when I come home and not drinking too much etc! At Esme's, were her, Saskia, Isobel and Anna. After they were ready, we cycled to Holly's house although I'm not really sure why we did that because Holly drove to the party with her dad and Ella but I think Saskia had to borrow a dress from her or something. We then cycled to Kester's which was terrifying because none of us had lights and you have to go through big pitch black fields to get there but I turned on the torch on my phone which helped a bit. Iso was cycling in front because she knew the way, then it was me, Saskia, Esme then Anna. Every time we came to a bump on the road, Iso would shout "BUMP!" which I would then repeat followed by Saskia, Esme then Anna said it even though she was the last one! We eventually made it to Kester's where there were two dads standing by the door to check you were on the list but they were the worst bouncers ever because one of them said "You're all stunning, come in!" without even checking the list! We dumped our bags in one of the rooms and got that party started. It was a fun but eventful party, Sean Healy, our legend Englsh teacher was there which was kind of weird but very entertaining. Two people called Josh and Louise got off which is HIDEOUS. The next door neighbours came round at about 2.30am complaining about the noise and saying that they'd call the police if it carried on so Kester cleared everyone out of the garden and made us go inside but to everyone's devastation, the speakers broke at about 3am, an hour before the party finished! They were Phoebe's speakers and she did not look very happy! Shortly after this, Anna and I cycled home and I got back to my house at about 3:45am. The next morning, I felt really horrible, my makeup was still all over my face so loads of spots has appared, my fake eyelashes were stuck to my cheeks and my feet were absolutely killing me. I have just about recovered!
Prom was amazing and a fabulous way to end 5 years at Parkside. Bring on the rest of my life!
Love and stuff xx
