The other day there was this old conductor on the train (so keep in mind the possibility of this being ageism although i'm not completely saying it was) and he refused to let me have the £3.80 ticket which i should have had and instead was trying to charge me with a £4.50 one. I knew i was right so argued back (why should i pay 70p extra? it may just be 70p but if this happened for 10 days that would add up to £7 and then 100 days would be £70 so its a lot of money, really).

It took him about 10 minutes, in which time some people had got on at 1 stop and got off at the next without paying so they lost quite a bit of money from this foolish man. Finally, he wouldn't back down so the man opposite me (i was sitting at a table seat) offered to pay the extra 70p but i didn't think this would be fair on him really so i just paid the man the money.

Today on the train, however, the man was asking for tickets and i had worked out that on a packed train, the way they knew who had got on was body language and mostly relied on people reaching for money or something when they looked at them or when they came close. So, i decided to do a little psycological experiment of my own - i completely blanked the conductor to see what would happen.

And it worked! He walked straight past and i got on the train for free. This is now whats known as the Andrew pass. :-)

Me and Toby (one of my new friends) went venturing into newcastle and to KFC today during lunch. We were standing in the line waiting to be served and i heard this guy behind me telling his friend how he was in a holiday villa near the one madeline got kidnapped from (either that or he lived near her, couldn't quite make it out) and he said he'd been questioned by the police. Oooh, interesting.

So we had English and ICT, both which weren't particularly interesting, and then we had Psycology. In Psycology, we got homework to write 500 words on what we expect to do in the next 5 years so i thought i might share it with you here (apparently the teachers sometimes search for a line out of stuff you hand in on google to make sure you havn't just copied and pasted it from somewhere so if you do it and you find this blog then HI MISS!! Give me an A please..:

How I plan to spend the next 5 years

In my GCSEs I got a C in maths and Business Studies, the rest were all D’s apart from 1 E which was in English Literature.

My schools 6th form said I couldn’t do A-levels and they wouldn’t let me do re-sits there. They would only let me do a 1 year B-tech course in Retail which would have been the equivalent of 4 Cs and then I could go into 6th form the following year and do my A-levels. I wasn’t in the slightest bit interested in the Retail course though and since it leaded to no real qualifications and I knew that a B-tech in retail might not go as far as 5 GCSEs in English language, English literature, Psychology, ICT and Physics, I made the decision not to go to 6th form and to go to college instead.

After spending a year re-sitting my GCSE’s, I will decide whether to spend the following year either at my schools 6th form or college, depending on how I feel about college at the end of the year and if I would want to go back. Either way, at the end of this year, I will go on to do my A-levels.

Since I don’t know which courses will overlap with each other in terms of time and which I will be then qualified to do, I don’t know exactly which courses I will take but they will probably be made up of a selection of these options:

• Business Studies
• Psychology
• Film Studies
• ICT
• Some other media course

Doing those for 2 years will end 3 years into the future from now on. After I have finished that i have to make another decision – do I want to go to university or not? While the answer will probably be yes, I’m not completely sure. I don’t know anything about the available courses that you can do in university so I don’t know what I would be doing there but I would imagine it to be similar to the course list for A-level.

If I don’t end up going to university at the end of my A-levels, I will open a business. That is my main plan for life. I don’t know what type of business or what it would do at the minute but there’s at least 3 years until I would have to decide so I have plenty of time. I am interested in business and the aspects involved with running a business and take an interest in it. I also take an interest in learning about the lives of famous businessmen such as Steve Jobs who owns Pixar and Apple (who make iPods and Macs).

If I decide not to go down the business route then I will do some sort of behind the scenes work on movies and TV.