well this is my karma post

Here's some encouraging news: it gets easier after A2s. University, especially first year, is RIDICULOUSLY easy in comparison.
Oh and Nyika, y'all should come to ARU in Cambridge, home of the funkiest dude imaginable (moi, bien sur)
But Uni's great. You'll love it. Just don't be labouring under the impression that random strangers will offer you drugs, doesn't often work that way (unless it's roofies in a bar). I found a baggie of weed on campus though, that fucking rocked.

 

dude awesome

lol

 

did you have a nice day?
what's your favourite kind of joss stick?

i don't mean to sound condescending but you remind me of me a couple of years ago. got to (almost) 18 and i've sorted myself right out - entirely happy with who i am now, pretty much. so good luck with all that. and get dreads, they're great fun

and also, about the glastonbury thing: go to smaller festivals as well/instead. less people but a lot more that you want to know. kind of like a concentration of hippyness! the atmosphere is relaxed and all about making friends and having fun. even if you don't care too much about the bands it's an amazing experience. go on your own too. then you have no choice but to talk to people you don't know! works wonders for curing shyness.

 

Today I worked 10 hours, so you could say it wasn't my best day.
My favourite joss sticks are patchouli and jasmine.

Can you recommend me some festivals? I need to do some itinery planning for next year!

 

mmm jasmine. good choice!

shambala festival! that's my recommendation. it's amazing, like a little dreamworld. plus everyone is so friendly and happy. obviously the drugs help. but still!

good things about shambala: chai tea tent, craft workshops, free hottubs by a LAKE!, pretty lights, fancy dress night, sauna, tibetan prayer wheels, crazy forest trail with hammocks, brilliant music. it's also really cheap for you cos you're under 17. plus they organise buses from major towns and cities, and you make friends before you even get to the festy site

more? secret garden party is meant to be good and looks amazing. beautiful days is great but now getting expensive, maybe only worth it if you love the levellers. you'd probably like big green gathering, it's big and green and eco friendly! sunrise and waveform are great too although sunrise is in our exam period i think. waveform is much later.

hope that helped :daisy:

 

Thanks!!!!!!!!!! I am so going to Shambala!

 

anytime

 

Haha, Shambala sounds awesome.. whereabouts is it? And when? I'll go even if it means skipping lectures... not that I attend all that many in the first place.

 

It's Market Harbrough in Northamptonshire, t'would be awesome if you came!

 

it tends to move about i think... but if it is in market harborough again (i think nynysuts is right) it's a lovely spot. completely flat and tiny, and there's not really any seperation between the tent areas and the actual festival.

we should have a hipforums gathering there or something

anyway back to karma..
have we covered what kind music you're into?

 

Yeah, the thread kinda got derailed a bit there...
Do you think you'll go to university? Any ideas on what you'd study?
Oh and by the way, if anyone (teachers etc) tries to make you feel ashamed if you don't want to go to university - FUCK 'EM. Not literally, but you get my point.. I originally thought I'd go, but then I changed my mind, dossed around for a few months then started a course in Naturopathy and Kinesiology. Follow your dreams, babe!
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what kind music you're into?
Anything and everything, mainly old hippie stuff and the levellers! I do love Peter Bjorn and John, and Newton Faulkner and Jack Johnson keep me sane most days.

Do you think you'll go to university? Any ideas on what you'd study?
I want to go to university to study Geography (with environmental studies), hopefully at Southampton, then go and do a masters in new environmental technologies at the centre for alternative technologies in Wales. I want to stop the growth of Nuclear power and find a green alternative, I think a combination of wind, wave and tidal, all built into one unit would be best, the wind may not always blow, but the tide always goes in and out.

As an aside, I'm learning poi at the moment, which I hope to take to Shambala with me. They seem to enjoy clonking me on the head and the back of my calves. My sister has christened them Bruce and Barry!

 

What are poi? I get this image of two big balls on a long rope.. you know, the kind you light on fire and twirl around you. Not that i recommend lighting them on fire until you can stop them hitting you...

And speaking of alternative energies, try looking up Zero Point Energy. it sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but it actually exists. It's the fundamental energy that everything posesses - even if you cool something to absolute zero, it still has some energy. That's zero-point energy, it's found in everything, everywhere, even in vacuum. Essentially, it's "free energy". Not "free" in the true sense of the word because some energy will be lost from the quantum structure of the object being harnessed, but close.
The mechanism for tapping into it is somewhat theoretical at the moment. one guy, a Canadian I think, built a device that SEEMED to tap into it, but many are skeptical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy << Wikipedia
http://www.zpenergy.com/ << Zero-point news
http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html << Introduction to it.. maybe a bit technical.

 

Ooo, cool! I'm not amazing at physics, I'd rather work on the side of choosing locations and sorting people out who protest against it! bSort of like a planning officer, I suppose, but at the moment I have no idea how things will pan out.

Fire poi are a type of poi, but Mine are rainbow striped and are basically tennis balls on string with tails. They're good fun, I got them for Christmas!

 

Ah... well, I'm sort of a mad science nut when it comes to this sort of thing.. like when I was younger I built a device that turned radio waves into electricity - completely by accident. I was mucking around with some diodes, I think I had them in a helix shape, and suddenly there was current flowing even though the nearest battery was in the next room! Turns out... well, some very complicated physics is involved, and I've derailed the thread AGAIN.
So, um... back to questions..
How do you feel about organised religion?

 

Given that i used to belong to one, I really don't know. I'm half christian, half doubtful, you could call me agnostic. Somehow I'm too scared to stop believing in God.

 

wherabouts in wales is that centre for alternative technologies?

 

It's near Aberwystwyth (or however you spell it)

 

On a related topic, whereabouts do you live? Big city, country, small town?
Do you like it there?

 

Small backwater on the Cambridge-London line called Baldock. I hate it with a passion, too urban, even though its supposed to be a country town. It's such a chavvy town, there are a few hippies around, but they're all much older than me, or much younger than me if you count the kiddies down the road! I long for the freedom of the countryside, and for the wildness of the sea!