A LONG overdue bit of blogging.

HELLO DARLINGS :D
Miss me?
Didn't think so.
So, in my life in the last couple of weeks:
-Got a bed
-Got a wardrobe (It really HAS been a while!!)
-Filled wardrobe.
-GOT CHRISTMASSY

Oh yes.  December.  Favourite month of the whole damn year because everything starts looking so damn beautiful.
Including, now, my room.
Got a little over excited...
It does look a wee bit like a grotto (cluttered grotto, sure, but a grotto).
I've got a wee tree with COLOUR-CHANGING LIGHTS on it :D
No decorations though.  Cannot seem to find them, and will assume they got packed away carefully with all the other ones.
Anywho.
Pretty tree, with colour-changing lights.
In an attempt to buy this colour changing lights, the B&Q card machine denied my card twice.
Was NOT amused.
Was fairly nice to the poor bloke behind the till though, because he looked tired and I'm generally a nice person...  Who should probably be doing her Great Gatsby reading journal.
But ya know what?
It's a shit book.
A really really shit book that contains nothing but detestable characters continually screwing each other over and also just screwing each other. 
Which is why I'm taking a stand.
Okay.
I'm not taking a stand.
I am just severely bored and not really all that bothered by Gatsby and his greatness.
Because he's just not that great. 
If he was great, he'd have gotten the fuck over Daisy, found some pretty bird who wasn't incurably dishonest, a total show off, and unfaithful.
He'd have found a nice bird.
Dammit, Luke, and your making me use the word "bird".  For it is the word.
God I hate myself sometimes.
I'm sure I was blogging about something more interesting a minute ago...
OMG CHRISTMAS :D
Excitement.
I also draped fairy lights over my curtains.
I am still having an internal debate as to whether or not that's a fire safety hazard...
I may check my smoke alarm batteries once I return home.
But for now, am stuck in a free period for a further...  half hour.
Sigh...
I may have to go read the blog of Sullaay.  She implies that I should.  I imply that YOU should.  It is splendiferous and fun.
-Takes a moment to read the blog-
I rather enjoy her little bio.
Amused.
Apparently, she's friends with Nasa.
There was a kid at my school called Nasa.
Never really got on with him.
Not exactly a starry personality.
-Insert pity laughs here-
Lord, that only killed five minutes.
Bored bored bored bored bored.
Bored bored.
Bored.
I might have to make a twitter account.
Not because I'm bored, but for my EPQ, where I may or may not make a mini series on Youtube and attempt to become an internet sensation at LEAST in Japan.
May not explain HOW they keep coming back from death til the end though.
It involves a pirate and a viking and a sea monster.
Yep.
And all that came from one bus ride when we FINALLY managed to beat those fucking private school kids to the front seats in the bus. 
FUCK YEAH.
That was a good morning.
There should have been some form of alcoholic celebration, as befits vikings, though we tend to go for the pillaging rather than the rape.
Hmmm.
There could be an entertaining episode of this where we explain the lack of raping and pillaging.
Possibly by taking the piss out of chavs...
OOOOOOH, plans.  Moodling Sarah. Back later xxxxx

Here purely because I cannot for the life of me figure out netstorage. Ignore.

1989 Test

1.    Who was the General Secretary of the USSR in 1981?      

    Name the free Trade Union in Poland      Solidarity

In the early 1980’s who was in charge in

    East Germany          Willi Stoph

    Hungary         János Kádár

    Poland          Henryk Jablonski

    Czechoslovakia      Husak

    Romania         Nicolae Ceauşescu

2. Who became leader of the USSR in March 1985?    Gorbachev

Name the three policies he introduced and give the English meaning of each:

(i)Peresrtoika    means     political reform
   
(ii) Glasnost        means openness       

(iii)    DEmocracy        means open vote multi party leadership       

3. Give a word which describes the major changes the new leader ordered in foreign policy
     Closeness

    Give three examples of these in different countries

    (i)     West Germany

    (ii)    USA

    (iii)    Britain

4. What was so significant for Eastern Europe about the Soviet leaders speech to the UN in New York in December 1988?

Meant that they could forge their own paths away from communism with removal of Soviet troops.

The leaders of which two countries responded very positively to the changes in the USSR?

    Poland and Hungary

The leaders of which three main countries failed to respond at all to the changes in the USSR?

    Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria


5. What could ordinary people of E Europe see happening by the spring of 1989?

   
Soviet troops began to go home
    What happened in the USSR in March 1989?   


    What important political decision was taken in Hungry in early 1989?

Decided to take down the iron curtain.

    What was legalised in Poland in the spring of 1989?

Solidarity

6. What ceremony took place in Budapest in June 1989?

Reburial of Imre Nagy

    What was the result of elections in Poland in June 1989?

1/3 communist, 1/3 other coalition parties.

    How did the old style Communist government in Poland come to an end?

Communists lost elections, asked Solidarity man to make a government, he did so.

7. In the summer of 1989, what did E German tourists discover they could do?
Get through Berlin Wall fairly freely.

What did the E German government do about this situation by the end of summer 1989?
Let them knock the wall all the way down.

Why did E German tourists camp in the grounds of the West German embassies in Budapest  (Hungry) and later in Prague (Czechoslovakia)?

Objected to GDR.
When the E German government gave permission for these people to go to W Germany, why did it insist that they must travel by train VIA E Germany?



Name two German cities where there were peaceful demonstrations in September and October 1989:

Leipzig

8. On October 9 1989 the E German authorities came within 20 minutes of doing what to the demonstrators in Leipzig?



    Who became the new leader of E Germany in late October 1989?

Hans  Modrow
What in early November 1989 did the new E German government do about E German citizens travelling abroad?



    What did the E German people do about this?



Explain the muddle that led to the opening of the Berlin Wall in the late evening of November 9 1989?

Radio show with leader who said they could tear it down.

How did the old-style Communist government of East Germany come to an end?
Because communism was always doomed to fail.

9. What was the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia?

The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution (November 17 – December 29, 1989) was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government.
    Name two leaders who emerged:

Havel and Dubcek

    How did the old-style Communist government of Czechoslovakia come to an end?

The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 that it would relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state.

10. In October 1989 the Soviet leader and the US president met in the Mediterranean and declared:



    This was dubbed by the world’s press:



11.  What happened in Romania?

A week-long series of fights and riots which got increasingly violent     What was the army called on to do?

Spray tear gas and hoses.

    What did the army do after a few hours?

Began to shoot at them

    How did the old-style Communist government of Romania come to an end?