Elliott Family Blog

Well, Ihad a great summer thanks to Terri. Going to Austria was amazing! During my trip we also went to Wroclaw in Poland, Venice in Italy and Zagreb in Croatia - all by car from Vienna. My longest car journey was 11 hours - but thats cos the weather was bad, Terri had to drive and wasn’t feeling to good… that was the trip to Wroclaw (Pronounced Rots-woth. Crazy language is Polish, I should know - I heard to 24/7!). Driving through the mountains to get to Venice was glorious, I was just thanking God the whole way for such awesome landscapes, whilst listening to worship music of course. And singing along.
You won’t believe how much chocolate and presents I brought back! My suitcase weighed around 30kg on the way back, compared to the 25kg on the way there… Anyway I had a lovely time and I wish to go again sometime… but not just yet, I’m saving to go sking again for the 3rd time next Easter - same place, same trip. I just can’t get enough of it!

So at the beginning of September I went into Year 11 at school which is my 5th year so: important exams in June! Oh yes, my GCSEs are getting closer and it feels even more close now because this week and next week I have my mock GCSEs. These are to get a predicted grade for exma sin June, also to get a feel of what they are like and to get used to revising so much… which is what I should be doing now, revising German for my exam tomorrow but… oh, I could write this in German… then mum and dad can’t say it’s not revision! But unfortunatly I’m not that good…!

Yeah… so that’s what’s going on with me…

Much love, Karen -x-

I’m writing this instaead of packing. Whoops. But I haven’y written on here in ages and I thought I would. This Summer our family has gone and are going all over the world. Mum and Dad are off to Guernsey again on their own. David has gone to New Zealand for his Gold DofE. Simon has gone to Spain and is going to Canada aswell, and as for me, I’m off to Austria to see Terri Plater, my Godmother. She lives in Vienna, so I’m flying there and we’re going to go to Venice in Italy for a short time, and two different places in Poland, and we’ll be driving through a number of other countries too. All of this over 3 weeks. I havent spent this amount of time away from home before and I’m sure it’ll be an experience!

I’ve just had end of year exams, and I got mostly B’s, and I’m expected to go up a grade next year so hopefully, crossing fingers I’ll be getting A’s

So thats what’s been happening recently and what is going to happen over the summer. In September Simon will be in his 3rd and last year of University to finish his degree. David is going into his last year at secondary school to do his A2’s, and I will be going in to year 11 (5th year) to to my GCES’s.

Crossed fingers and hopes all around next year…