Claire's Nail Varnish

I've recently tired Claire's 'burgundy' colour nail polish which someone brought for me to try. I really don't go for a reddy type of nail polish but when I painted my nails with the polish it was like love at first sight and since that day I haven't taken it off. It's a 10ml bottle and it cost £2.50. I was given another two different colour's to try but still hadn't had a chance to try them. The two different colours are 'Love me not' and 'Acid' and also they are both in the red family. They also look both really good and they where also £2.50. The 'Acid' colour polish is light then the 'Burgundy' colour and looks a bit like a reddy pinky colour.

All three colours

Burgundy

Love Me Not

             

Acid

   

My mother death and how it effected me

From when my mum got sick and after her death no one ever asked me how I felt or how I was coping. I was always scared when she was alive to be left alone with her for a couple of minutes or hours. I was scared that something bad would happen and I wouldn't know what to do. I was scared that if she would die on me or when I was with her. If she was to die on me and I was alone I would always think that I would walk away from her and leaver her their. If I was to say this to anyone no one would ever understand me. 

This feeling stated a year before my mum died. One day my mum was not feeling well and she decided to stay at home. My dad went to work and then he went to pick me up at school. When we arrived at home, I was the first one to walking in and I call her name. Their was no respond. I walk in a bit more and I notice cloths on the floor. She comes out of her room naked with no cloths on. I ask her why she got no cloths. She tired to speak but the words that came out of her mouth made no sense. My dad starts to speak to her but still she was not speaking write. I start to feel sick and scared. I started to cry my dad to. My mum looked like a little child, they way she spoke and acted. We walk into her room to put some cloths on her and as we walk into the room the room was in a mess. Cloths on the floor,table lamps smashed. I then call my sister to tell what was happening all nervous and she said she was going to call an ambulance and she was on her way. I went into the back room which was being used as a storage room and stayed in their until my sister arrived. As my sister was arriving the ambulance was arriving as well. When my mum arrived at the hospital the doctors gave her a sedative to calm her down. We asked them what had happen but they had no explanation for what had happen. They didn't know if it was caused by the Cancer. I asked them if it would happen again and they said no. The next day when we went to visit her she was herself again. We asked her if she remember what had happen. She said she had no memory of yesterday. She was in hospital for a couple of days. They prescribed her some new medications. When she went back home I decided that I would look after her. Every day after school I would come home and stay with her instead of going to help my dad at the restaurant and stay with her all day when I didn't have to go to school.

Five months after this happening to my mum it happened again after the doctors told me it would never happened again. I woke up one morning not feeling to great. It was a Monday I remember getting ready to get to school and I suddenly feel a bit dizzy like I'm about to faint but it goes away. Every morning It was normal for me to give my mum her medication. I handed her a glass of water but when she grabbed the glass it dropped. I told her I would clean it up but when she spoke it sounded the same as last time. I started to feel scared of what was happening. I go to my dad and tell what has happen. He said their nothing to worry about. He took me to school as nothing had not happened. After school I receive a text message from my sister that my mum had gone to hospital for the same thing that happen last time. I arrive at the hospital my sister told me that mum was worse then last time. It look 2 days for her to get back to her own self. The doctors came to me, my sister, my dad and my niece to talk about my mum situation. The doctor told us that what my mum was going through was the aggressive part of the Cancer and that through time it was going to get worse. He told us that their where people to help us get through this and people to help look after her. The doctors suggested that we placed her in a hospice until she got better. We agreed with them. We knew that at the hospice she would be looked after well and they said we could visit at any time of the day. She was at the hospice for a couple weeks. When she came home we had nurses come and look after her, give her, her medication, showed her and feed her. 

As week went by she become more and more sick. She got so sick that we had to place her back at the hospice. She was in and out of the hospice many times in two months. As they days went she was getting more aggressive. Their was one day that she started shouting at me for no reason. By this time she was back at the hospice and I was alone with her. Even thought their where nurse outside I was still scared of what was happening.  She started shouting saying I was hurting her and that she was going to call the police to take me away. My told me to take no notice but he didn't know that I felt hurt listening to her speak like that after all I had done for her. I wanted someone to ask me how I was feeling but no one did. I some time thought about running away and never coming back. It was to much for a 13/14 year girl to handle but no one understood. On October 12th 2012 my mum passed away. She was a the hospice. On the night she died me and my dad had finished at the restaurant and we decided to go and visit her. Even though it was 11 at night they still allowed us to visit her. By this stage of her cancer she was no longer concise. She hadn't ate or drank anything in weeks. Everything was done at her bed. When we arrived at her room their was something about her breathing that was different and I knew that she was dying.  

Her death had a big effect on me. Since her death I've never been the same person. In my mind I know I need help. I know from her death I caught some kind of depression but I'm scared of what they might say. One day I will gain the courage to speak to some about my problems.     

I would like to thank the staff at Marie Curie Hospice for everything they did for my mum.            

Day at the London Zoo

On Thursday 28th May me and my Friend Emily spent the day at the London Zoo. We decided to do this as we hadn't been to the zoo since we where little girls. I was so happy to see all the animals and the new baby animals and touching them. I felt like a little kid going to the zoo for the first time. My favourite animal is Giraffes. I like them because over their long neck and their colour.


When we arrived at the zoo we got our photo taken on the green screen. Which is when they can change the background of the photo to what ever they want or you want. These our how mine and my friend Emily pictures turned out to be.












After we did the green screen experience we went and look at the animal's. I love taking pictures of anything new I see or anything that catches my eye. While I was at the zoo I look over 200 pictures of the animals and landscapes. These are the pictures I took at the zoo. They are taken and edited by me.

  

   

I had so much fun at the zoo with Emily. For the first time in my life I got to see the whole zoo in a day. After the zoo we went for a meal at Pizza Express. Had such a nice meal and we had good service.

Diana Alves 

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Are fast-food companies the ones to blame for obesity?

In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, over 20, were diagnosed as being obese. This is a rapid rising static so why has no one done anything to prevent this fat epidemic? Some people may argue that fast food companies such as McDonald’s and Burger King are to blame for this death sentence of being fast food dangerously over weigh. Fast food companies are to blame, however I also believe that it is the public’s own responsibility.

Firstly, fast food alone is a huge contributor to obesity. Considering the millions of people served at fast food restaurants versus any other eating establishment, fast food restaurants hold a particular responsibility to provide nutritious, tasty and healthy food. Instead, most fast food restaurants provide clearly unhealthy food, or unhealthy food disguised as natural foods, such as salads with low fat salad dressing. In MacDonald’s the chicken and bacon salad that has 16 g of fat has more fat contents then a sweet chill Mayo chicken sandwich which has 10g of fat. The meals that are served at these fast food outlets mainly come with fries as their sides normally contain over 1,000 calories, which is more than half of an average person’s daily amount. The NHS recommends that an average male should eat about 2,500 calories a day and a female should eat about 2,000 calories a day.        

A recent 2014 study has shown that 34% of an average British income is spent on greasy takeaways and fat-filled feasts. Fast foods restaurants such as McDonald’s and Burger king have offers and promotions advertised on their homepage of their websites and even downloadable apps that offer “Exclusive offers”. Low prices are used to engage the public to come and buy their fatty food. Places such as Sam’s chicken sells products such as hot dogs for 99p. However the chicken that is sold at prices low as £3.49 is full of grease and is most likely to be the giblets, skin and toe nails that are not used in the average chicken roast that you will have on a Sunday evening. The foods that fast food restaurants advertise to the public looks pleasing, juice and mouth-watering but really when you have it in your hands it looks disgusting, sickening and unappealing. It like the food the use in the adverts and posters are not real it look like they used plastic food models that 4 years play with in their role play kitchen.     

However people must realise that the public are equally to blame for their junk food intake. Place such as “Boost juice bars” provided health alternatives to their unhealthy takeaway. Tottenham court road has a “Boost Juice Bar” which is located next door a three floor MacDonald’s. Also the people in general are to blame due to them wanting to waste their money greasy and fatty foods. From my own experience I have seen that fast food restaurants are brain washing poor innocent young children into wanting and liking these hell houses. This has been done by fast food restaurants having songs to do with these restaurants the song that is most common and most children know is “A Pizza Hut”.  MacDonald’s brain wash their children by placing breakable toys or games in children’s happy meals making children asking their parents to buy them a happy meal just for the toy that in 2 days’ time the children will lose it or even the toys will break. It is very shocking that before most children can speak they can recognise the MacDonald’s logo.  

Fast food has become an addiction for human beings it’s like someone being addicted to drugs or alcohol. Even though fast food is easily available to most people, still individuals have to make a choice to maintain their health. Most people may say that fast food outlets are to blame for their fatness but I think they are wrong because use people decided what to eat, what to spend are money on and what to do. It is shocking to see how many human beings are being brainwashed into eating greasy, fattening and unreal fast food. Fast food outlets is not healthy and it will never be healthy. After every person has fast food to eat they don’t have the energy or the power to do any type of exercise, instead they go home and sit in front of the TV the rest of the day.       

In conclusion I think that fast food outlets are to blame for obesity. I think this because after the first fast food restaurant to open (Wimpy in 1974) the rate of obesity increased by 45% and more people become ill and start to get health problems. Also fast food outlets are to blame as they decided to add MSG into their foods making people craving more of their food and always coming back to their restaurant for more. There are many people in the world that don’t know what they are eating and what is contain in their food for all they know they might be eating a nice, rich and tasty piece of chicken but really they might be eating a horrible, unreal and disgusting pigeon.