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Last Friday I got a phone call from school. I’ve passed my final exams yaaaay (and with damn good grades too). On to college, finally!

No secondary school or adult education anymore whiiiiee.

It was awesome ’cause my whole street came over and brought me flowers. My grandma and aunt came too and I got a present and some money. That evening my two best friends came over and rang the bell. I didn’t see them but heard a noise. There they were, on the street with party hats, party whistles and a flag that said I passed my finals. They also had confetti. It was awesome and my whole street seemed to think so, except for one neighbour. He got all angry, rang the bell, asked me what levels I had done finals in, so I answered I had followed adult eductation for higher general secondary education and he congratulated me and asked if we would clean up the mess RIGHT NOW, as the confetti would affect his plans. I told him I was having a party and couldn’t clean it up right now, but would do it later. The confetti wasn’t even near his garden btw. Anyway, we got ourselves some brooms and a dustpan and started cleaning. At one point my mom came outside to tell us it was enough, and told the neighbour he didn’t have any plants in his garden and asked him why he cared anyway, if his curtains were always closed and he was never at home anyway (their curtains are closed throughout the whole day, seriously). We went inside and overheard him telling his wife that you could see what level I had done and that he could see why I failed pre-university education last year, because I was too stupid to even sweep the street properly. They then took a broom out themselves, and seriously sweeped everything that was left under our car! They then laughed for a while, as if it was like super funny. 

The funniest part was when he started talking about it to one of my other neighbours who was having a walk and said we were antisocial and stupid. My other neighbour said he shouldn’t behave like such a twat and that it was a great idea. Owned.

Yeah they just moved in after the lady who lived there before died last year. Just like the neighbours next to me they never introduced themselves to anyone, think of themselves too good to even greet anyone, and always have their curtains closed. We don’t have problems with them though, as they’re hardly ever here and really at themselves. My next door neighbours though..that’s another story. Having parties that go on until 3 am. Not even in the weekends, just on Tuesdays or something, having fights and yelling at each other on the middle of the street. Also, we had a big bush in our frontyard and they wanted to re-decorate their frontyard, so they asked if they could cut off what was on their own land. When my mom and I came home the whole bush was gone except for one pathetic little branche. This meant they had been on OUR land as well. This bush had been there for 15 years, and it was very important for our privacy, because otherwise everyone would be able to look straight into our livingroom, which isn’t that odd considering everyone who goes into town goes through our street. Anyway, my mom was furious and told them she wanted a new bush, on which our neighbour answered that it was a fugly bush anyway and that we should be thankful because they built a fence in their backyard, which is complete nonsense, as we already had a bushy hedge and it has nothing to do with the frontyard anyway. My mom just threatened they could either plant a new one, because they are quite expensive apparently, or she would sue them, which would also mean they would have to move the tiny walls of their frontyard a bit because it’s too close to the boundary of our gardens.

Oh, and they pretty much throw all their garbage in our front and backyard. You really don’t make friends this way.

June 18th was also the third anniversary of the day Toy Story 3 came out, so obviously I had to watch that. I don’t know why I do that to myself, though. As much as I love Toy Story 3 I really hate it. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO ANDY’S KIDS, AND WOODY WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO COLLEGE WITH ANDY! Old Prospector didn’t know what he was talking about when he said Andy wasn’t going to take Woody to college with him, because Andy was going to, only Woody had to ruin everything because he’s stupid like that. And when they’re all holding hands waiting to die. It’s so sad. It makes me want to go brush my all my doll’s hair and change their clothes and tell them how much I love them, and then hug all my stuffed animals. I didn’t do that, though, because they’re all set up in my closet and it would be a hassle putting them back. Sorry, I just really love the Toy Story movies and I have a lot of feelings.

As for the neighbours thing, I think it’s nice to have them there. As long as you get on relatively well with them, it’s nice to know that you can get a cup of sugar if you need it. Once they start making your life a little more miserable (mine seem to like to let me know what’s happening on their tv) or getting too involved in your business, they can be undesirable.

With most of my neighbours, we say hello, know to alert us if someone appears to be climbing through our window, are willing to call an ambulance if one is ever needed, but aren’t interested in what the argument was about the other night. That’s how I am with them, and that’s how I would like them to be with me.