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Hi! I decided to give up on posting any other pictures that aren't absolutely amazing because they take way too much time to set up and add in. Today was really great, we went sledding down one mountain then went to the city. It was quite fun!
Tomorrow, we're planning on skiing and then skating at the rink again because it was so great today. I hope you had a great day and I'll update tomorrow!

~Sara

By the way, tomorrow is 2.21.13, or 221B day! Yay!

Hi again!

Guess whaaaat! It's my birthday today! I'm quite excited because, well, a) I'm in the land of cheese and chocolate, and b) because I am now fifteen!
Also, here's something that I got in email when I woke up this morning...




Isn't that just the best thing ever? Thank you, Mom! And once again, sorry for screwing up the Blogger template with a ginormous image... I have absolutely no idea how to fix it, but I want to add more picuutres in the coming days, so if it bothers you, I'm sorry about that. Also, maybe I should say that my iPad is still set to my usual time zone, so it wasn't actually 3:00am when I read it...

I will definitely try to post more tonight because we're going sledding since we didn't yesterday, and we're going into a nearby city that shall remain nameless because I don't want creepy stalkers.

I hope you got to see the awesomeness that was that poster/card thing because I loved it! Now it's time to start the day! Bye!

~Sara

Missing Pictures

Like I said, Blogger and the iPad don't play we'll together. Here are the pictures that I tried to add:

I'm Heeeere!

Hi!
I am writing this from the kitchen table of our friends' house in Switzerland! We just ate lunch after skating here:













... Which is pretty impressive.
Sorry if there are formatting problems, the iPad and Blogger don't play well together.

Apparently, they also have Whomping Willows here:













I'm going to write more tonight if I can, because we're on our way to go sledding. But when the Swiss say sledding, they mean flying around the side of a mountain on ski trails. I might take some pictures if possible and add them here. Bye!
~Sara

Easy, Geeky Bookmarks!

Bonjour!
Today, I made some really simple, cool bookmarks out of Doctor Who images! You can do this one of two ways. The first way takes about ten minutes and is for those of you, who, like myself, are impatient. The second way is better if you only have a few minutes here and there to work on it. Either way works, but the latter will probably last longer in the end.

If you've chosen the first way, you will need:

• A clear image, which is about 5 to 6 inches tall and 1 to 3 inches wide. All of mine are just from Google Images, but if you have extra time, you can draw something and then use that...
• Freezer Paper (I love that stuff!), which can be found in most grocery stores.
• An X-Acto knife or scissors, whichever you prefer.
• An iron

...And instructions:

• Take your image and put a piece of freezer paper (shiny side facing the back of the image) on the back of it. Iron it well, so that there aren't any big wrinkles or bubbles. I had a few, but if you go over it a few times with the iron, it should look okay.

• Now, cut out the image with the X-Acto knife, being sure not to separate the paper and the freezer paper. 

• You're done! Wasn't that easy?

If you've chosen the second path, here's what you'll need:

• Another image, as detailed above.
• Elmer's Glue or similar
• A paintbrush
• Poster board (like the kind you can roll up for school projects), or I suppose a manila file folder or oaktag paper might work too.
• An X-Acto knife or scissors.
• Something flat and heavy to put on top of your paper while it dries, like a textbook.

...And instructions:

• Use your image and paint the glue lightly on the back of it, making sure you get all of the corners but you don't saturate the paper.
• Press it on the poster board/oaktag/folder and smooth out all of the little wrinkles. 
• Place under the heavy object for several hours and let it dry.
• When it's completely dried, cut out the pieces of the image that you want, and voila! There's your extra-durable bookmark!
• Also, to make it last even longer and make it shiny, you could paint ModgePodge over the top of it. Just make sure you let it dry before sticking it in your book!

          I have no idea why, but whenever I try to insert an image into this post, it puts it at the top, so you can see the final products right under the heading up there ^. The Weeping Angel was made using the first method, and the Dalek was made with the second. I hope you enjoyed this!
          The next time I post, it may be from Switzerland! See you soon!

~Sara

Hello!

This is just a really quick update to say that I have an exciting project coming up that I'll hopefully post on Friday or Saturday. Also, I'm going to try to do a daily update while I'm in Switzerland because I finally figured out how to work Blogger on the iPad! So yay! I've got to get back to my homework now because my group in World Civ did absolutely nothing and now I'll be up really late working on a three-person project by myself. 

Anyway, I'll try to post on time for once with my project, but we'll see how that goes. Bye!

~Sara

An Exciting Day!

Hello!
          This has been a really awesome day! So yesterday, I wrote a post about how the snowstorm was coming, and it has arrived! The weather people told us that we could get up to a foot and a half, and we only have (by my measurement) about six inches currently. But we didn't lose power, either, which was good because I really hate the dark. Anyway, would you like to see some pictures?

This was earlier, around 4:00-4:15, before it started to get really dark.

These are Christmas lights on our back porch (no, I don't know why we still have them up, but they're pretty).

This was my favorite picture of the ones I took today. It was actually an accident, because I had set my camera to the wrong setting, so it flashed even though I didn't want it to, and look how it turned out! It's probably not the best for my camera to be so cold and wet, but I've got a lot of cool pictures out of it!

AND ALSO! This is really exciting! Today, it was officially decided that I'm going back to Switzerland during February vacation! Yaaaaaay! Allow me to frolic:

Sorry it's so blurry... but I'm so excited! 

I suppose I'll post soon, possibly tomorrow if there's a ton of snow - I may even make another Reichenbach snowman...

~Sara       

News

          So the Nor'Easter named Nemo is supposedly coming tomorrow afternoon, which means we don't have school tomorrow!
          I know I said I would post on Sunday or Monday, but you probably know by now that usually that doesn't happen. It's weird, when it comes to schoolwork, I don't actually procrastinate that much. I mean, I never really enjoy it, but when I have a long-term project, I always get really excited about it and generally get it done way before it's actually due. However, this blog is never graded or anything, so I don't feel the need to update it often.
        I've got a lot of news that isn't interesting, but it's just miscellany that I wanted to mention on here. Firstly, something that I have been meaning to say is that I started watching Doctor Who! I finished Doomsday the other day, so I'm on the third season. It's all a bit odd, but in a good way. I'm going to miss Rose, though. Also, you probably don't care at all, but we just started brand-new classes, so now I have Gym, Art, World Civilizations, Geometry, and Composition. There's a lot more, but I don't want to bore you by listing it all.
          I wish I could think of something really exciting to say as a closer to this post, but I suppose I'll update tomorrow if I can while we're all snowed in.

That's all for now!
~Sara

I Survived Finals!

Yay!
Sorry I haven't updated in over a week. I had my very first ever finals/exams week! It went surprisingly well, because I only had four classes last semester, and now I get five new ones! Anyway, enough about my school life...

So I was looking at my past posts and saw my Sherlock drawings, and I was appalled at the fact that I thought that they looked like Sherlock and John. Sorry for that. I'm actually quite proud of the way this turned out, though:

Okay, so it's definitely not exact or anything, but I am proud nonetheless.

In more drawing-related news, I made this!

This is supposed to be my sister (in green), our Swiss friends, and me (on the right). It it more cartoonish than anything, because I simply cannot make things look like actual people. Also, please note that the gigantic green mountain in the middleground is supposed to be a pine tree. It's based on an actual picture, but it's basically just all four of us in the outdoor skating rink in Switzerland.

And of course, how else would I spend my post-exam time other than Sherlocking (it is now a verb, people)? So I had just finished my Physical Science exam, and I thought, why not do something that I haven't seen online? so I 'made' Sherlockian physics based off of The Reichenbach Fall!

Again, I apologize for the terrible picture, I took it with my phone, which has horrible resolution. I played with the effects and stuff on iPhoto, though, so it might be a bit easier to read, but the actual mathematical results for Sherlock's fall are:
Final Velocity: 20.6 meters/second downwards
Time: 2.07 seconds to land
Force: Approximately 780 Newtons
Potential Energy on the top of the roof and Kinetic Energy as he hit the ground: 16,500 Joules

These are all approximate values which are mostly based off of Google results for "St. Bart's hospital roof height" and things like that. If you can read the picture, that's great, but I doubt you'll be able to decipher much because I can't even read it myself, and it's my own handwriting!

I hope you have a fantastic weekend and I may post more tomorrow or Monday (no guarantees there!). Bye!

~Sara