Weekly News Round-Up #61: 11/05/2014

Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing alright. As exam season dawns on us, this will probably be the last WNR for a few weeks. We'll see. But don't forget, we've still got plenty going on in the coming weeks, especially with Exam Quote Month all scheduled and ready to go!

So we started on a Tuesday this week. ConscienceSarah created a new game named 'Twist the String'. Let me tell you now, if you're ever invited to play, do NOT take up the offer. This game is not fun, it's destructive. It requires 2 players getting a piece of string around 70cm (around 27.5 inches). Players each take an end and on the word 'go' they attempt to single-handedly twist the string around their index finger. This continues until they meet in the middle, at that point it's just a big game of tug of war. As you can imagine, the string does temporarily cut off blood circulation. Don't try this at home, kids.

On Wednesday, we presented ConscienceSarah with her birthday presents. She was most pleased with her Hufflepuff pen and badger device case. Later on that lunchtime, Wicks knighted Sharah with the pen whilst Master filmed the ceremony.

There was a particular point of discussion where we questioned whether the bear featured on the gift bag should be called Tedmund or Nedmund...

Excuse the mis-spelling of Nedmund

Thursday saw a particularly odd incident in our Maths class. It all started when Master was a few minutes late to lesson, due to a meeting. Sharah felt the need to fill the chair next to her. Upon spotting that there was a balloon in the room, she propped the balloon up in her coat, which was laid across Master's chair, thus creating 'Balloon Jen'. I must admit that it was a rather startling sight for Master to walk into class and find this balloon imposter. Afterwards, Sharah drew a face on the balloon and claimed that it bore a remarkable likeness to Master. The balloon also had 'Happy Birthday' writted on it, which lead to Master commenting sarcastically that she has the exact same tattoo on the back of her head. In the end, Master popped the balloon, reasoning that she did it to 'prevent further disruptions and balloon troubles.'

That same Maths lesson, Sharah drew a bear/sheep (slightly ambiguous) which appeared to be attached to a propeller, which Master joked was powered by Ryan's theoretical infinite power motor. Sharah proved to be all about the pictures that day when she drew a tree diagram (literally a tree) which featured a hippogriff hovering above it.

Well what an interesting week it's been!

Until next time, have a good one ;)