GCSE RESULTS!!! (20th August)

After having been extremely nervous and very emotional for the past couple of weeks, and specifically the last couple of days, I finally got my GCSE results today. I can't begin to explain how nervous I was! On several occasions I worked myself into such a tizzy that I'd convinced myself I'd failed multiple subjects and I wouldn't have good enough grades to get into the sixth form at my school...

Since I'm over here in the U.S there was no chance of me going to collect my results, so my Nanny went to collect them for me. She moved her hair appointment and postponed their weekly Thursday Waitrose shop until Friday :). She went to collect them at 10:30am at school and as soon as she got home she phoned me. It was about 6:00am here, but I'd been wide awake for hours, my stomach was going round and round. 

The first thing I wanted to know was what my worst grade was going to be, I wanted to be prepared before I heard them all. I couldn't believe it when she said my worst grade was an 'A'. I was completely gobsmacked. I had convinced myself that I had failed my maths and physics exams so I had a big cry when I realised I definitely hadn't. The one subject I really worked hard on was maths as it's one of my worst, so when I thought I'd flunked it I was really upset, but angry too, l felt like all of the time I spent doing extra maths revision was a waste of time. I think my big crying when I heard I got an A was just absolute relief that it was all worth it. 

In total I got 7A*s and 4A's! 

My Nanny said she cried when she first opened them. I still can't quite believe it. The relief is unbelievable, the massive weight off my shoulders is crazy!

All my friends did amazingly too, I'm super proud of us all, we worked hard and got what we deserved. 

Today, in celebration, my Dad took Liv and I to Toojay's for lunch and to get a slice of cake. 

Lunch: Stuffed tomato with egg salad

The cake at Toojay's is legendary! We usually get a whole Banana Dream cake for Dad's birthday, but since we were in Puerto Rico we didn't get one this year. To make up for the lack of Banana Dream birthday cake, Dad bought a couple of slices to have after dinner. And for dinner we're having steak, sweet potato fries, onions and mushrooms. It's like my dream dinner! 

It's nearly ready so I better go.

Thank you for reading, this was quite a personal post, but I couldn't not post about it, after all this is like my summer diary and my GCSE results are a massive part of that.

Today, the Big Wide World has taught me: I'm better at maths and science than I gave myself credit for and my exams didn't go as badly as I thought! And the ridiculous worrying and stupid tizzies I got myself worked up into were pointless (but of course, knowing that won't change the fact I'll still stupidly worry about things in the future. I'm a hardcore worrier!). 

Until next time, 

L
xxx