This half-term Ella and I decided to try something new. We are both similar in that we find being at school a struggle and relish our holidays yet we are always left with the feeling that the holidays are too short. Being but teenagers we succumb to the stereotype and are rarely caught out of bed before eleven o’clock however we thought of a brilliant way to nearly extend our half term and that was to wake up early! We started with our feet in the deep end as we agreed to join my older sister for a car boot sale that she was doing, arriving at six thirty in the morning!
I had never been to a car boot sale before and I absolutely loved it. After arranging all of the bits and bobs that my hoarding sister had collected and had finally decided to let go of we sat and waited. People in all guises wandered over and started handling our goods before deliberately putting them down and moving on. Finally an elderly man with a very retro jacket and a green baseball cap asked me the price of an old unopened science experiment present I had been gifted. I brashly offered a price of around three pounds but rightly so the man shook his head in disgust and walked on. We learnt from our lesson and so when our next customer, an old lady with a fistful of pound coins asked how much the horse shaped post was we were quick to give a price as low as we dared. She handed over her 50p with a smile and we began to make headway with getting rid of all our clutter.
That evening after a full afternoon of jobs at home and a long walk, Ella and I were talking and we agreed, that waking up early had almost turned the one day into two different ones and so throughout half-term we continued to rise with the sun and waste not the day.
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