Simon and Garfunkel - I am a Rock

A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.

Been so long! Starting to get lazy with posting now. Helped out with my mum's Indian Independance day function a few days after the last post, but it's not really worth going into so.....

I'll start with Scotland: Went there at the end of August with my cousins. We saw the Edinburgh festival on the 1st day, and stayed in a youth hostel with a beautiful sea view.



Went on a frickin' scary ghost tour at night after seeing a random play and a few street shows. The next morning we hired a car and drove to Balloch in the Trossachs. Our youth hostel was like an old castle on the edge of a loch and was surrounded by forests and fields - it was incredibly beautiful.



After looking around the local area and loch lomond,the next day we drove up to another few lochs and Inverary, where we got lunch and proceeded to drive back to Edinburgh taking a different, more scenic route, including a car ferry. We ended up getting stranded on the car ferry for an hour (should have been a 15 minute journey) because the pier on the other side had collapsed after a storm the night before. The views were beautiful though and there was a full rainbow accross the loch for us to admire while we waited.



That was all very exciting, but meant we had to pay extra to return our car at a different place in Edinburgh and had to catch a train that got us home at 3am! Anyway, the scenery of that place was stunning, I'd love to go walking there properly one day I think.

Since then...I've driven down to Chester and back to secretly get my dad's birthday present, which was a model ship. He liked it which is always good! My aunty left for India a couple of days ago and our bathroom has been ripped apart because we have wet rot and we're having the whole bathroom replaced. Also just got a new radio cd player for my car :D

That's mostly it really. Oh, one more thing. We sent the mobile phone I was using last summer to my grandad in India with my aunty, and discovered I still had a load of old messages on there. It was strange reading through and deleting all those messages, thinking how much my relationships with people had changed in just one year. I won't go into the detail of them on here, but well, lets just say that it's funny how quickly things can change :)