a happy meal

The smell spread everywhere. A young mother and her child were eating a hamburger meal in the bus. I couldn't but feel sad and a little sick too when the mother kept giving the small chid COKE, french fries and the hamburger. I know it's fast and reasonably cheap but... GAH.

Shouldn't we be teaching our offspring how to lead a healthy life? I have to admit my parents sometimes bought me some special meals meant for children (toys included!!) after they picked me up from kindergarten. I wont lie: the food is nice and tempting a very unhealthy way. But I want you to know that I was really chubby too. It's so ironic how we are dying of being too fat and at the same time people are dying because they don't have anything to eat...

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My friend once told me that because in Israel the food in restaurants usually has to be kosher (Jewish dietary laws: Jews don't mix milk products with meat), people are asked wheather they want cheese or beef between their bred. I thought it was hilarious. It was a joke though. There are kosher McDonalds´too...

A list of random small things that made me happy this week part1

- A good exam results
- Enthusiasm for school
- Walks in the nature and looking at the awesome autumn colours
- I found the books I wanted from the library
- Planning an interrail trip (for now it'll only happen in my head, though...)
- Take6´s song 'Even though'
- The smell of fresh doughnuts (mmm... doughnuts)
- Dreaming of speaking fluent French
- Finding out that my eyesight is ok
- Playing the guitar and the piano
- Eating a delicious dessert
- Meeting a friend
- My granny
- Hot chocolate
- Thinking of the upcoming holiday
- A random person kept the door open for me
- My Aunt mailed me
- The Improbatur-magazine came and it was really interesting
- We had a sports day in school and the weather was lovely
- I was able to fight temptations and avoid going to the annoyingly popular sales that are going on right now. People are carrying yellow bags everywhere and suddenly have the need of some random product...
- Ice-cream
Count your blessings, ehh? it's really funny when you come to think of it... So many nice things happen and so often I miss them... or am too busy to enjoy them.

Prinsessa!

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I really enjoy being creative and tinkering with small things. I especially enjoy scrap-booking kind of projects where I decorate note books that have pictures and special memories in them. I made one after our school dance last February. I must say it's much nicer to look at than a traditional albums. Plus there is more room to write stuff about funny things that happened...

This one is extra girly because that's how I fealt that day, like a princess. I guess that's why the crown's there aswell. I got my hairdo inspiration from Thandie Newton. The back isn't "as succesful" but I like the real flower, though.

Doing stuff by yourself is really worth trying. It's more valuable than buying everything ready made :)

SOS!

I don't know what to write. My head is blank. I want to write but I can't. I hope this is just a phase.

I'm so tired and miserable right now :'(

I just wanted you to know I'm alive but for now... I'm silent.


I love this song.

Postcrossing

How does it work?

First, the short version:

1. request an address from the website
2. mail the postcard to the address
3. wait to receive a postcard
4. register the received postcard in the system

The project

The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you will receive at least one back from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world.

http://www.postcrossing.com/about

I've been a member since 2006. I really like it! At times it can be boring to buy and write cards, and frustrating to get many cards from the same country but dispite the faults, I think it's been and still is a exiting adventure. And you know. the world really is small. I'm not joking.

Here are my favourite cards (you can write what kind of cards you'd like but in the end, the sender makes the decision since no one can them to buy a sertain card. Oh well, postcrossers are nice and they usually try to be active).

This is my first card from postcrossing from Estonia. September 26th 2006. It's self-made aswell. Sigh... nostalgic.

This dish is called Yosenabe! The card says it's a "Japanese-style chowder, chiken, fish, shellfish, mushroom, seasonal vegetable, etc. are boiled in soup seasoned with fish soup stock, soy sauce, rice wine, etc. (I wonder what etc´s are... ) I think I'm too sissy to try this but it's a really cool card!

This one is cute, the antique trolley car is from USA. Choo choo!

My first (and only) card from Africa! These giraffes are from South Africa

A really nice card from Germany (written in German since my profile says I speak German!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Well, I understood actually and replied in GERMAN!). I love these unique cards!

Well, it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to know where this card is from. I love this because it's self-made and cute too!

This sweet ladybug card is from Switzerland. Danke schön für die schöne Karte!

This card is from China. I don't know... it's got something.. special...

This card is from the States. I think it's really cute. When I scanned it, the computer made the picture bigger than in reality.. oh well..

This card is not that special but the family who sent it added really nice pictures and the two boys drew me pictures. I almost cried when I saw it... I was so touched. My stupid skanner wont work this evening so you can't see them.

This is from America aswell. My profile name is polkadot. Heheeee

I love these cards because they remind me of my trip to France and the beaches and the Atlantic ocean. The first one is from Portugal and the second one from the Netherlands.

This card is so sweet. Sigh.

Mamma mia (Italian). This card is actually a map of the city of Modena!

This postmodern card just leaves me awe-struck every time. What the heck is this? I love it even though I still don't know.

This card is so so so lovely. In my profile I wrote that I'd really like a self made card and this lovely person made this for me! She still sends me artistic cards when she has time. (I send her some wannabe artistic cards too but.. well..)

I had two more cards but like I said earlier own, the skanner has issues today. Fortunately I found the picture of my ultimate favourite one from the net http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2186/2539275892_7d96e22f1b.jpg:

Domestic cats and their character. I've got an Italian pen pal that I found through postcrossing. She is really awesome and last month we met live! She came here with ther Dad because there was a postcrossing meeting in Helsinki later on. I didn't attend the meeting but she sent me this card and it had the signatures of every partisipant there. Thank you so much OnTheMoon<3.

It's funny how these cards always suprise me after a sucky day. I hope that postcards or snailmail in general wont be extinct in the future. It'd be horrible and unfair.

3 million cards have been sent through postcrossing!!! Cool! Feel like trying it?

Solid

Ah, the 80´s.

I've been really tired and sombre lately because I'm just sick of my hectic schedule. I did my final English exam and I've still got one more exam to go. In addition, I also need to do normal school work and exams. I'm so tired. I also feel really numb and useless since this is what I've been practising for and now the time has come to give my all and I don't know if I've got it in me. I'm just having moodswings because of lack of sleep. This will be over soon.

On the day I did my English exam I was really exhausted after sitting for six hours. I just threw my school bag somewhere when getting home, I put the radio on and increased the volume. I started singing really loud and I danced to really random but awesome music from the old good days. I just danced for several minutes. Note, people could see into my room because I hadn't closed my windows drapes. I didn't care. It was so much fun (yes, I guess it was sad in a way).

Here are some of the songs I coreographed that evening. These are my favourite since I love the music from the 80´s. It was such cool time, I mean look at their hair (Solid) their clothes..!

Well enjoy these (very corny) videos. (Well, I guess that's too much to ask.. just watch it and imagine me dancing in a way that's alot like the final scene in Little Miss Sunshine.)

Oh, and have a nice weekend :)

la joie compléte

Last October was the best October in my life, I think. For nearly two weeks, I was able to flee from hard work and grey surroundings into merry walks on the beach. I noticed that I hadn't written anything about it here, which is really weird. There are so many awesome memories that I can't even find words to discribe my feelings, so I'll use pictures. I've got hundreads of pictures but I'll only show the ones that are somewhat special.

The trip to France was a short exchange thing. A group of French students were visiting Tampere and our school in February 2008, if I remember right. Some of those who studied French plus some extras (like me) accommodated them. Then in October, it was our turn to go there.

This is the hotel we were staying in. It was full of other students like us. I left my beautiful umbrella there. I had bought it from London. (It was from H&M though)


The place was modern. This 'thing' changed colour and had different countries on it plus greetings with various languages. Can you spot a country you know?


The stairs of Arc de Triomphe were two much. They were so narrow and seemed like they'd never end. When going down, I started feeling really dizzy but I couldn't stop because people were coming behind...

Carousels, they were all over the place.


I spied on some soldier people from the top of the Arc.


Oh lala.

SO many motorbikes.


My friends and I were let inside a Louis Vuitton shop on this famous road. HAHAHA.


The birds near the Eiffel towe really loved attention. They were posing. I ain't lying.


This time Paris didn't appear as the city of love and romance. Don't know why.


The first time I was in Paris, I used the lift. This time I walked. It was breathtaking in the words every meaning.

It was so weird seeing the European Union shortened this way.

The tower is pretty only, when you look from a long distance.

Too many buildings. It was shocking since in Tampere there are several lakes plus forests in the city...

Ahhh.. the nightlife.


What a funny name for a restaurant (?)


I used to have a crush on Quasimodo. The inside and the atmosphere of the cathedral was amazing. It was phenomenal. In away, I wish tourists wouldn't bother the masses being held there. They talk out (really) loud even though some people are trying to worship. Rude.


This man was so funny. He had a bowl with a fish on it on his head and he was doing tricks with some kinds of pieces... Why were people just ignoring him!?


Ahhh Montmartre, the place where all the artists live. I could see myself living in these buildings. Well, atleast in my dreams :)


a super duper fast TGV train that made my ears pop in tunnels.


PART TWO - La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, France

a STUD FARM isn't a place that'd come to my mind when I'd think of things to show of the place I live in...
... the guide was nice though.


I adore these houses. They are so simple and beautiful.


Les Sables-d'Olonne. Amazing. I can still hear the sound of the sea when I consentrate. It was just awe-strucking. I can't believe that experiencing the Atlantic is part of someones everyday life.


Les Sables-d'Olonne was the place where the Vendée-Globe sailing competition begins. We weren't allowed to see them though.

It is also a place where rich pensioners go and spend their money.


It was so hot! And it was October! I had just bought new wintershoes...


Enchanted.


We were able to walk in the bottom of the Atlantic ocean because of the tide.

People came to pick moule, mussels, their national delicacy. They actually served French fries with mussels in the restaurants. Moule frites. Well.. what ever makes you happy, I guess.

Mmmmmm... Moule

a road under the water.

a pilar you could hang on if you would not notice the water coming on time. (how can you not see the atlantic coming towards you?)

We went to explore other villages and when we later came back, voilá. It was so cool! And fortunately no one was hanging on the pilars.


This is me finishing my first fondue(= you dip pieces of bread into melted cheese). It was so nice. The family had a game that if you drop your bread into the cheese, the rest of the people could order you to do what ever they wanted. I, ofcourse, dropped the bread...


I just had a evening chat with my grandmother. She told me about her trip to Germany where she studied the language for several weeks. She told me about all the funny things she did there. So many nice things to remember. I'm thankful that I was able to take this trip even though everything wasn't perfect. Thanks for taking this (long :D) nostalgia journey with me.