Saturday, March 12, 2011
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
Hello!
I haven't posted in a while so I figured I should post again. I've had an amazing week. How can all good things happen in one week? No idea, but they did.
This week we had a preparation week for our Greek trip we're going on. It made me really excited, even though it's still two months away. We had lectures (which were very boring sometimes, but also interesting) and then we had to use what we learned in the lectures to build a temple out of clay or greek fighting.
We also had to give a presentation, which was really scary. With a group of four to give a presentation in front of three teachers is really frightening, but I survived and we had a really good grade! I was so relieved.
I'm also really getting into photography and I'm practicing a lot. You can see the album if you click on the link below.
CLICK HERE
A while ago I posted that I was really stressed about the BBC AWARDS with writing an essay. And I just heard this week that I got shortlisted to go to the finals! Seven out of a hundred were chosen, which is just amazing! I was so excited I couldn't sleep.
On Wednesday, my team elected me MVP of the season (most valuable player) and I was really flattered and of course flabbergasted.
I had an awesome week and I thought it was going to be the end of my week yesterday by getting my grades, but instead we walked into the class room and there was Greek food everywhere. Greek salads, greek bread, olives, ouzo. And we had a Greek lunch, such a total surprise! How can so many good things happen in a week? I don't know, but here I am. Enjoying the first sunshine of the season!
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN - GREG LASWELL
Some pictures!
I haven't posted in a while so I figured I should post again. I've had an amazing week. How can all good things happen in one week? No idea, but they did.
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| Our great Greek Temple |
We also had to give a presentation, which was really scary. With a group of four to give a presentation in front of three teachers is really frightening, but I survived and we had a really good grade! I was so relieved.
I'm also really getting into photography and I'm practicing a lot. You can see the album if you click on the link below.
CLICK HERE
A while ago I posted that I was really stressed about the BBC AWARDS with writing an essay. And I just heard this week that I got shortlisted to go to the finals! Seven out of a hundred were chosen, which is just amazing! I was so excited I couldn't sleep.
On Wednesday, my team elected me MVP of the season (most valuable player) and I was really flattered and of course flabbergasted.
I had an awesome week and I thought it was going to be the end of my week yesterday by getting my grades, but instead we walked into the class room and there was Greek food everywhere. Greek salads, greek bread, olives, ouzo. And we had a Greek lunch, such a total surprise! How can so many good things happen in a week? I don't know, but here I am. Enjoying the first sunshine of the season!
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN - GREG LASWELL
Some pictures!
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| Close by my house |
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| At school, two of my friends |
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| Shoes! |
Saturday, January 29, 2011
HEARTBREAKER
I really hate shopping... It is such a tedious pastime and well.. I've started to dislike it.
Today was the first time in three months that I went shopping and I really picked the right store to get into it again. Holland is already overpopulated and we went to the busiest shop in all of Utrecht (the H&M).
It was amazingly busy. I've never seen a store so busy. You had to push your way through to get places and because it's Holland everybody pushes back. Dutch people are really pushy and when you put half of the shoppers in this city in one store I can't imagine anyone liking to be there. It gets kind of suffocating.
Well, anyway. My mom and I had a great time and I bought a lot of clothes, because if you don't buy clothes for three full months you start needing a lot. It was very fun, but I rather shop on weekdays, because this was amazing.
I'm so excited, because this week is my meeting for my trip to Greece. I'm going to Greece in about two months and I'm really looking forward to it. I've been looking forward to this trip for the past 5 years and it's one of the reasons why you endure 5 years of latin/greek. My friend, Nicole, is going to have her birthday in Greece so she's going to be very surprised. My birthday is a week later. :( I wish I had my birthday in Greece, but going to Greece is so cool as it is already.
My next relief is my essay! I got it done and my teacher sent it to the BBC Awards! She thought it was really good and I hope the jury thinks so too. I had about 8 drafts of it! It would be soo great if I got shortlisted. You can win a trip to England and you can pick a writing course.
Tonight my family and I are going to a comedy club in Amsterdam, so that should be interesting. I think we're about to leave. So I'm keeping it short.
Julia
PS. HEARTBREAKER - MATT WERTZ
Today was the first time in three months that I went shopping and I really picked the right store to get into it again. Holland is already overpopulated and we went to the busiest shop in all of Utrecht (the H&M).
It was amazingly busy. I've never seen a store so busy. You had to push your way through to get places and because it's Holland everybody pushes back. Dutch people are really pushy and when you put half of the shoppers in this city in one store I can't imagine anyone liking to be there. It gets kind of suffocating.
Well, anyway. My mom and I had a great time and I bought a lot of clothes, because if you don't buy clothes for three full months you start needing a lot. It was very fun, but I rather shop on weekdays, because this was amazing.
I'm so excited, because this week is my meeting for my trip to Greece. I'm going to Greece in about two months and I'm really looking forward to it. I've been looking forward to this trip for the past 5 years and it's one of the reasons why you endure 5 years of latin/greek. My friend, Nicole, is going to have her birthday in Greece so she's going to be very surprised. My birthday is a week later. :( I wish I had my birthday in Greece, but going to Greece is so cool as it is already.
My next relief is my essay! I got it done and my teacher sent it to the BBC Awards! She thought it was really good and I hope the jury thinks so too. I had about 8 drafts of it! It would be soo great if I got shortlisted. You can win a trip to England and you can pick a writing course.
Tonight my family and I are going to a comedy club in Amsterdam, so that should be interesting. I think we're about to leave. So I'm keeping it short.
Julia
PS. HEARTBREAKER - MATT WERTZ
Saturday, January 15, 2011
BACK TO US
It is really time for a new post. It's been a month! At the moment I'm living and breathing my essay (obviously not now).
This week I tried out garageband for the first time in my life and it is really complex. If anyone knows how it works, please, help me. I recorded a song and this was the result:
The sound is really bad and at a certain moment you hear my dad and my sister laughing. ;) I just recorded it for fun. I think I'm going to start recording more! It's really funny and strange to hear yourself sing. I really hate my voice when I listen to it. Everybody has that though.
I was walking in the park with my dog Max two days ago and I saw a man. He was sitting on one of the benches pulling out his bag with food. He was homeless and had to eat out in the cold. Although I think the Dutch system gives people the option to live in homes, so it was a strange sight. You don't see a lot of homeless people here. I was shivering cold and I couldn't imagine eating my dinner out here. I really felt bad for him, but what could I really do for him. I've been thinking lately of doing some kind of community service, but I don't know what yet. In my next week off I have nothing planned yet and most of my friends are going somewhere (I think). So I might do some community service or some other job. I've been looking on internet for the past 2 days and I can't really find anything that's really for someone of my age. But there is an office in the center of Utrecht so I guess they'll be able to find something for me!
I've been thinking about next summer a lot for the past week and I have half made plans. I really want to go on vacation with my friends for a week! They're going to Texel, which is an island up north. It's one of the 5/6 islands in Holland. TVTAS ('tvbag') --> Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog. We would go for a camping trip, but I still have to convince my parents. So I hope that after they read this they'll come running down stairs and say: 'Of course you can go on a camping trip with your friends!' I mean, I am going to be on my own in 1.5 years! And then it will only be a year! So enough reasons, I think. ;)
I'm also thinking of doing a summer program at an American University. You can take any course you want (no credit) and the selection is so big! They have very weird courses as well. I forget, but trust me, everything under the sun! When I mentioned this to my sister, she asked me why I would want to go to school when I finally have summer vacation. That is so true, but I think there is so much more to it then that. It's probably not only studying, but also making new friends and having fun. And you are taking a course you yourself selected. So I'm really excited about that too.
Well, enough for now. Oh, and Dieske and I are going to post our own song when we've finished and recorded it!
Thank you for reading!
BACK TO US - KINA GRANNIS (FT. JULIA DUNN)
This week I tried out garageband for the first time in my life and it is really complex. If anyone knows how it works, please, help me. I recorded a song and this was the result:
The sound is really bad and at a certain moment you hear my dad and my sister laughing. ;) I just recorded it for fun. I think I'm going to start recording more! It's really funny and strange to hear yourself sing. I really hate my voice when I listen to it. Everybody has that though.
I was walking in the park with my dog Max two days ago and I saw a man. He was sitting on one of the benches pulling out his bag with food. He was homeless and had to eat out in the cold. Although I think the Dutch system gives people the option to live in homes, so it was a strange sight. You don't see a lot of homeless people here. I was shivering cold and I couldn't imagine eating my dinner out here. I really felt bad for him, but what could I really do for him. I've been thinking lately of doing some kind of community service, but I don't know what yet. In my next week off I have nothing planned yet and most of my friends are going somewhere (I think). So I might do some community service or some other job. I've been looking on internet for the past 2 days and I can't really find anything that's really for someone of my age. But there is an office in the center of Utrecht so I guess they'll be able to find something for me!
I've been thinking about next summer a lot for the past week and I have half made plans. I really want to go on vacation with my friends for a week! They're going to Texel, which is an island up north. It's one of the 5/6 islands in Holland. TVTAS ('tvbag') --> Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog. We would go for a camping trip, but I still have to convince my parents. So I hope that after they read this they'll come running down stairs and say: 'Of course you can go on a camping trip with your friends!' I mean, I am going to be on my own in 1.5 years! And then it will only be a year! So enough reasons, I think. ;)
I'm also thinking of doing a summer program at an American University. You can take any course you want (no credit) and the selection is so big! They have very weird courses as well. I forget, but trust me, everything under the sun! When I mentioned this to my sister, she asked me why I would want to go to school when I finally have summer vacation. That is so true, but I think there is so much more to it then that. It's probably not only studying, but also making new friends and having fun. And you are taking a course you yourself selected. So I'm really excited about that too.
Well, enough for now. Oh, and Dieske and I are going to post our own song when we've finished and recorded it!
Thank you for reading!
BACK TO US - KINA GRANNIS (FT. JULIA DUNN)
Thursday, December 23, 2010
MISSING
Finally we're having a break from school. I actually believe I've got all my presents for everybody now. ;) It's coming along really well. Today I went over to a friend. We have this assignment for music class. We have to write our own song so we decided to work on it today. Of course, we first stared at the piece of paper for a while, but we actually worked really well. It took us about 2 hours.
The song's called 'Don't know, Don't care'. If you want a copy of our amazing songwriting skills, please leave a comment. It was a lot of fun and it's good to start doing these kind of things instead of always using well-known music.
This is the point where I totally got stuck yesterday. In the couple months that I've been blogging I've realized what writers feel when they get stuck. Luckily my living doesn't depend on it so it makes it easier coming back a day later to continue. It's probably pure torture for writers when they are just stuck and they have an idea, but they can't get it out there in any way. I guess it's even harder for me, because I have no sense of creative writing or good vocabulary. The one thing about blogging about your life is that it's very easy. You just write about yourself and drone on and on and on and on... - you get the point - Sometimes I wonder who really cares what I write, but I guess I care. For me, it's more than pleasing anyone who reads it. I write primarily for myself.
Anyway, today was a very boring day. So, why am I on the computer on a very boring day? I typically have no inspiration. The reason why this day is getting better is because I decided to enter a competition: The BBC AWARDS. I haven't been looking forward to writing or thinking about it. You choose either to speak, which means you talk for 5 minutes by heart and after that the jury fires difficult questions for 3 excruciating minutes. I decided against that, just because it takes a lot more work. So I've signed up for the Young Writers Award. You have to write an essay of 600 words. It has to be smart, articulate and you have to really develop a thought. The topics are very funny, because on the one hand you feel like they're very specific but on the other hand they can be interpreted in many ways. The topics are:
Now I'm going to continue enjoying my winter break and stop thinking about saving the world, because at this moment I'm missing out on all the fun I could be having. Have a great winter break!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love Julia
MISSING - ELIZA DOOLITTLE
The song's called 'Don't know, Don't care'. If you want a copy of our amazing songwriting skills, please leave a comment. It was a lot of fun and it's good to start doing these kind of things instead of always using well-known music.
This is the point where I totally got stuck yesterday. In the couple months that I've been blogging I've realized what writers feel when they get stuck. Luckily my living doesn't depend on it so it makes it easier coming back a day later to continue. It's probably pure torture for writers when they are just stuck and they have an idea, but they can't get it out there in any way. I guess it's even harder for me, because I have no sense of creative writing or good vocabulary. The one thing about blogging about your life is that it's very easy. You just write about yourself and drone on and on and on and on... - you get the point - Sometimes I wonder who really cares what I write, but I guess I care. For me, it's more than pleasing anyone who reads it. I write primarily for myself.
Anyway, today was a very boring day. So, why am I on the computer on a very boring day? I typically have no inspiration. The reason why this day is getting better is because I decided to enter a competition: The BBC AWARDS. I haven't been looking forward to writing or thinking about it. You choose either to speak, which means you talk for 5 minutes by heart and after that the jury fires difficult questions for 3 excruciating minutes. I decided against that, just because it takes a lot more work. So I've signed up for the Young Writers Award. You have to write an essay of 600 words. It has to be smart, articulate and you have to really develop a thought. The topics are very funny, because on the one hand you feel like they're very specific but on the other hand they can be interpreted in many ways. The topics are:
- Ideas that will change the world
- A multi-cultural existence: unrealistic? can different cultures really co-exist?
- Celebrities are not born, they are made
- Are comedians becoming too offensive or are we taking ourselves too seriously?
- Is life becoming more dangerous?
- Global companies, global responsibilities
Now I'm going to continue enjoying my winter break and stop thinking about saving the world, because at this moment I'm missing out on all the fun I could be having. Have a great winter break!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love Julia
MISSING - ELIZA DOOLITTLE
Sunday, November 28, 2010
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE (OR MORE)
Yesterday I celebrated 'Sinterklaas' with my friends.
For those of you who have never heard of him I copied and pasted a translation here:
Sinterklaas (also called Sint Nicolaas, de Goedheiligman or simply de Sint in Dutch [
pronunciation (help·info)]) and Saint Nicolas in French) is a traditional Winter holiday figure in the Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Suriname and Netherlands Antilles; he is celebrated annually on Saint Nicholas' eve (5 December) or, in Belgium, on the morning of 6 December. The feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of Amsterdam, children and sailors. He is the basis of the mythical holiday figure of Santa Claus in the United States.
I in turn got a huge clock, because I'm known for always being late. All my friends were really creative. We had a great night. After that we watched a movie and sang and played the guitar for a while. Although it's not my favorite event of the year, I had a great time. It was close to beating christmas. ;)
For those of you who have never heard of him I copied and pasted a translation here:
Sinterklaas (also called Sint Nicolaas, de Goedheiligman or simply de Sint in Dutch [
pronunciation (help·info)]) and Saint Nicolas in French) is a traditional Winter holiday figure in the Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Suriname and Netherlands Antilles; he is celebrated annually on Saint Nicholas' eve (5 December) or, in Belgium, on the morning of 6 December. The feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of Amsterdam, children and sailors. He is the basis of the mythical holiday figure of Santa Claus in the United States.Sinterklaas
Sinterklaas has a long red cape, wears a traditional white bishop's robe and red mitre, and holds a crosier, a long gold-coloured staff with a fancy curled top. He carries a big book that tells whether each individual child has been good or naughty in the past year. He traditionally rides agray horse.
[edit]Zwarte Piet
Sinterklaas and his Black Pete usually carry a bag which contains candy for nice children and aroe, a chimney sweep's broom made of willow branches, used to spank naughty children.Some of the older Sinterklaas songs make mention of naughty children being put in the bag and being taken back to Spain. The Zwarte Pieten toss candy around, a tradition supposedly originating in Sint Nicolaas' story of saving three young girls from prostitution by tossing golden coins through their window at night to pay their father's debts. They also climb down chimneys to fill the children's shoes with presents, this causes their skin to be black.
Basically, when you're younger you receive gifts from the 'Sint' in your shoe. You put your shoe by the chimney and you sing, hoping that he will hear. He puts a gift in your shoe if you leave a carrot or something he can give to his horse. The horse apparently also rides on the roof, which is really impossible. There are a lot of flaws to the story. It results in a big bag of presents left on the doorstep on the fifth of december. Once you get older the fun of only receiving presents wears off and you start to make gifts for other people.
The standard form is: a poem, a 'suprise' and a gift. The 'suprise' is the most important of the whole evening. You pull names out of a hat and you have to make something creatively for someone else. It somehow has to contain a hobby or characteristic of the person. I pulled my friend Janne and because she wants to go to Med School, I decided to make her cut open the chest of a doll.
I in turn got a huge clock, because I'm known for always being late. All my friends were really creative. We had a great night. After that we watched a movie and sang and played the guitar for a while. Although it's not my favorite event of the year, I had a great time. It was close to beating christmas. ;)So you might think that Sinterklaas is the most racist event on the planet it also is about giving and even though there's a guy who is a slave for the white guy. It has the spirit that christmas has and everybody works so hard to make something really nice. So in my opinion, that's what it's all about. So I hope I won't lose these friends. They mean the world to me.
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE - THE FRAY
Saturday, November 20, 2010
BICYCLE RACE
I had one of the worst days in a long time. This morning I wanted to ride my bicycle to school and I left my bicycle outside. I went to the front door and my bicycle was gone. It had been stolen and I felt so stupid to leave it outside. It had been stolen right from our front yard. So I couldn't go to school.
I actually turned in my Dutch column and my teacher really liked it! We actually got to read all of the columns. I read really good ones and really bad ones and I realized that the people I go to school with are really smart and articulate behind their shell. Some come across so different when they write. All my judgments actually vanished while reading.
My day was pretty boring after that, but just a few minutes ago my dad told me someone he knows had an interview with someone who is applying to Duke. The interviewer asked the girl: "If you could meet with anyone on this planet present or past. Who would it be?"
She said Adolf Hitler, which is one of the people I would have never thought of. I started to think about who I would want to meet with. My dad thought of Gandhi and I also got on the track of famous people. I was thinking Napoleon. And then I realized that I didn't want to meet anybody famous. I didn't really want to meet Martin Luther King or Gandhi. I was just thinking that, because I thought that was who they meant in the question. The truth is you can fill in that question in any shape or form it doesn't really matter.
Maybe you're starting to wonder who I would have dinner with? When I was a little girl I sometimes would feel lonely so I would put my hands up to the wall. I always thought that there was someone on this planet, at the exact same moment, putting his or hands on the wall thinking the same thing as I was thinking. It suddenly popped up in my brain and I realized that that was the person I would really like to meet. If that person really exists. He or she helped me through a lot, because I realized I was not alone and that person didn't really have to do anything. It made me feel less lonely and after every bad day I would have that ritual and the next day I'd feel better. So that's the person who I liked to meet. I don't do that ritual anymore. I don't need it anymore, but one of these days I would like to meet someone who did the same thing as I did.
Don't get me wrong, Gandhi, Hitler, Napoleon, Obama, George Washington are probably really interesting people. They will never know how I felt and they can not imagine how my life has been, but the person who is on the other side of my wall feels exactly like me. It's probably going to be a less interesting person, but they understand where I'm coming from.
Maybe you are starting to think who you would like to meet. Leave a comment. It will be interesting. And don't worry about mentioning a famous person. After all they probably have a much more exciting life. ;)
So now I just really want to ride my bicycle. :(
BICYCLE RACE - QUEEN
I actually turned in my Dutch column and my teacher really liked it! We actually got to read all of the columns. I read really good ones and really bad ones and I realized that the people I go to school with are really smart and articulate behind their shell. Some come across so different when they write. All my judgments actually vanished while reading.
My day was pretty boring after that, but just a few minutes ago my dad told me someone he knows had an interview with someone who is applying to Duke. The interviewer asked the girl: "If you could meet with anyone on this planet present or past. Who would it be?"
She said Adolf Hitler, which is one of the people I would have never thought of. I started to think about who I would want to meet with. My dad thought of Gandhi and I also got on the track of famous people. I was thinking Napoleon. And then I realized that I didn't want to meet anybody famous. I didn't really want to meet Martin Luther King or Gandhi. I was just thinking that, because I thought that was who they meant in the question. The truth is you can fill in that question in any shape or form it doesn't really matter.
Maybe you're starting to wonder who I would have dinner with? When I was a little girl I sometimes would feel lonely so I would put my hands up to the wall. I always thought that there was someone on this planet, at the exact same moment, putting his or hands on the wall thinking the same thing as I was thinking. It suddenly popped up in my brain and I realized that that was the person I would really like to meet. If that person really exists. He or she helped me through a lot, because I realized I was not alone and that person didn't really have to do anything. It made me feel less lonely and after every bad day I would have that ritual and the next day I'd feel better. So that's the person who I liked to meet. I don't do that ritual anymore. I don't need it anymore, but one of these days I would like to meet someone who did the same thing as I did.
Don't get me wrong, Gandhi, Hitler, Napoleon, Obama, George Washington are probably really interesting people. They will never know how I felt and they can not imagine how my life has been, but the person who is on the other side of my wall feels exactly like me. It's probably going to be a less interesting person, but they understand where I'm coming from.
Maybe you are starting to think who you would like to meet. Leave a comment. It will be interesting. And don't worry about mentioning a famous person. After all they probably have a much more exciting life. ;)
So now I just really want to ride my bicycle. :(
BICYCLE RACE - QUEEN
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
CANDLE LIGHT
After reading my post, my dad and sister came up with candles and we turned off the lights for a while.
It was fun!
Enjoy!
It was fun!
Enjoy!
SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD
ALSO, two of my friends recorded this video. Dieske on piano and Eline singing. It's really good!
SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD
NEW SHOES
Hello again!
It has been a long time since I've posted here and it is due to immense work load. I have my exam week next week so I'm stressed out.
For Dutch class we just got this really cool assignment to write a column. It's basically a blog post, but it has a bigger focus on grammar and sentence structure and a structure as a whole. I've decided to tell you something about the topic I chose.
Nowadays we use electricity like water. We don't even think about how much we depend on it and what our lives would like without. It's all part of the evolution of humans. Last week the lights in our street, our neighborhood and part of our city went out for a while. There was total darkness everywhere. Typically it switches back on after 5 minutes and you just sit in front of your laptop waiting for it to light up again. This time, however, it didn't. People have no obligations or chores they can do for the time being. And who is really going to stare into darkness for a whole hour. Eventually you have nothing else to do but go downstairs and light candles with your family and actually talk to them for a while. You always have some task set in your mind to do, but here you have nothing else to do. You realize that people without computers or lights had to cooperate on a much higher level than we have to. One of the reasons families are less close is because of the internet. People are far more interested in the lives of people outside of their house or even on the other side of the planet!
The thing I realized after a while was that it was kind of fun to just sit and talk by candle light. The conclusion of this story: when the light turned back on, the candles went out and everybody hid behind their computers again. The only one left was my mom who realized how destructive the internet is for families and here I am again sitting behind a computer writing to people across borders and seas. In some ways internet made a lot of things easier, in other ways it didn't at all.
Maybe after this story you should get up, light some candles and talk to someone you haven't really talked to for a long time. Who's in? ;)
I had one of my best friend's birthday on Saturday and I gave her a CD. I asked all my friends to think of a song that they always listened with her, which reminded you of her. I compiled the songs and gave it to her and it was really fun to give. It didn't cost a lot of money and she really liked it more than any of my bought presents. Now every song makes her think of someone. I picked the song: New Shoes - Paolo Nutini, because we used to love to listen to this song when we were in 9th grade. :)
I'm running out of inspiration, but I might have more time after exam week to let my mind flow a little bit.
Wish me luck!
It has been a long time since I've posted here and it is due to immense work load. I have my exam week next week so I'm stressed out.
For Dutch class we just got this really cool assignment to write a column. It's basically a blog post, but it has a bigger focus on grammar and sentence structure and a structure as a whole. I've decided to tell you something about the topic I chose.
Nowadays we use electricity like water. We don't even think about how much we depend on it and what our lives would like without. It's all part of the evolution of humans. Last week the lights in our street, our neighborhood and part of our city went out for a while. There was total darkness everywhere. Typically it switches back on after 5 minutes and you just sit in front of your laptop waiting for it to light up again. This time, however, it didn't. People have no obligations or chores they can do for the time being. And who is really going to stare into darkness for a whole hour. Eventually you have nothing else to do but go downstairs and light candles with your family and actually talk to them for a while. You always have some task set in your mind to do, but here you have nothing else to do. You realize that people without computers or lights had to cooperate on a much higher level than we have to. One of the reasons families are less close is because of the internet. People are far more interested in the lives of people outside of their house or even on the other side of the planet!
The thing I realized after a while was that it was kind of fun to just sit and talk by candle light. The conclusion of this story: when the light turned back on, the candles went out and everybody hid behind their computers again. The only one left was my mom who realized how destructive the internet is for families and here I am again sitting behind a computer writing to people across borders and seas. In some ways internet made a lot of things easier, in other ways it didn't at all.
Maybe after this story you should get up, light some candles and talk to someone you haven't really talked to for a long time. Who's in? ;)
I had one of my best friend's birthday on Saturday and I gave her a CD. I asked all my friends to think of a song that they always listened with her, which reminded you of her. I compiled the songs and gave it to her and it was really fun to give. It didn't cost a lot of money and she really liked it more than any of my bought presents. Now every song makes her think of someone. I picked the song: New Shoes - Paolo Nutini, because we used to love to listen to this song when we were in 9th grade. :)
I'm running out of inspiration, but I might have more time after exam week to let my mind flow a little bit.
Wish me luck!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
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