Another New Year.

So how is my life going?
Thanks for asking!

I changed school. Went to a birthday. I passed the fox test (FOX DUBBING). Went to a program of 5 workshops. Went to a school masquerade ball. Survived Christmas. No actually everything I quite ok.



SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER

Changing school was a challenge but I'm already used to it, I like it. I went there with my best friend and I didn't talk to pretty much anyone but my friend. My friend went to Africa and I was at school alone. Not actually, I have like 25 sometimes 50 classmates. I have 25 in my class but there are two 10th grades. I had 3 options:
1) European 25% lessons in English (mine)
2) International 100% in English (it doesn't exist this year)
3) Business 0% in English (other 25 students)
It was a great opportunity to make some friends. Yeah, I have some friends but I think it's better to have a few good friends rather that a lot friends who you talk with but can't trust and rely on. Marks aren't the greatest but they're ok.
I went to my god's birthday, it's a big thing for me to go somewhere if I don't know anyone there. I had great time and made friends even though I don't talk to them anymore. I sometimes see them and talk with them. They were all at least 18 hahah, I'm 16 :D. Anyway had fun, great time, nice people.
Foxes day wasn't as bad as I though it would be. We had to come to school earlier to change clothes and do some morning exercises. I had to wear red jeans with a neon orange XL sports shirt, long sleeves, a orange cape made out of a curtain and I was holding a pink wand, it had dolphins on it. I wasn't the worst, there were people with unibrow, boys with girls clothes, people chained together, ananas taped onto a hand, carrying skis with them. Some had to eat dog food, cat food, nasty fishes, garlic, onion. I didn't have to eat anything because my god was in the hold of torture chamber. We still had all of our lessons. In biology teacher just gave us some crosswords. Then my god's friend came in and I thought he came to get his fox but he came behind me and covered my eyes and took me with him. I went to the torture chamber, it was dark in there. They told me to tell them my sins. I was just laughing a little because I know them both, they were being serious and I found it funny. I just told them that I don't know what they're talking about and I don't have any sins :'D.
They fed me some really ugly tasting food. At the end they splattered a lot water to my face "holy water". I walked back to class, water dripping from my face. After lessons we went to the park and they had planned some games for us. What I can say is that it was really stick, floury and spiky.



OCTOBER - NOVEMBER

I went to some workshops about business. I was interested about it but I didn't want to go there alone, I asked everyone, no one could come or didn't want to come. It was even a big surprise for me that I ended up going there, shy me. No regrets. They were about marketing, brand, social media, public media, photo, video, graphic design and web design. On the last one we had to make a full marketing plan for mobile company's app in 24h. We won! We made some funny and a little over the top videos for instagram, facebook and it's own site. I was up all night, no coffee, no energy drinks and I was really tired when I got home. I wanted to go to sleep but I had to go to a shop to buy a present for my sister's kid and afterwards go watch a boxing match because I really wanted to. I ended up being up for like 40 hours straight. I had much fun and everyone were really nice.



DECEMBER

We had some dance lessons, some basic dances. We had a masquerade ball. My friend was in Africa then. There wasn't lots of people. School had ordered a band to play and it was really great. I danced with 2 boys and then we, girls were dancing in a circle and just having fun. It was 3h long, the time flew so fast. I wish it was longer, the end was when I started having fun. We did secret Santa and I got a bear and a chocolate, cute.



JANUARY

School continues and I have lots of great plans for this year. I want to travel a lot (at least once).
I'm thinking about starting to save up for a new laptop. I don't know which one.

I'm that kind of person who loves gadgets that I don't actually need, such as GorillaPod, Penny boards, speaker, food dryer, chopper, blender, mix & go blender, hand blender, wings for my shoes. The list could go on and on. I still would like to have a RC truck or a bigger GorillaPod. I just love trying new things and experimenting with them.
 There are some days when I could just decide that I want to edit and I try editing a video.
I love making things (DIY) for my hamsters, for my room and myself.
I like drawing but I know that if I want to draw like a person, then I have to have a picture of him/her in front of me and drawing details takes a long time. So I almost never draw people or detailed pictures. I sometimes still doodle into my notebooks or onto some paper. This summer I will have the time to draw, at least I hope so.

I don't have New Years Resolutions, I have 101 goals (47, because I run out of paper). The goals aren't meant to be completed in a year they're for a longer time. There are some like

• Go snowboarding.
• Read more.
• Have a sick roadtrip.
• Learn how to do back/front flip. 
• Fail.
• Climb a mountain. 
• Make people happy.

I just wrote briefly about everything if you're interested about something or have questions don't be afraid to comment.


I'm tuning out now. Don't forget to be yourself and open to opportunities.

Life life the fullest!

No!

I hate my life rn. I have to sleep here, in someones bed, I don't have a hairbrush, toothbrush, nightwear or skincare products. I feel like a mess and I don't want to be here (I'm 100% not coming back here never again). I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable, a little scared and I can't sleep. The sheets smell of someone, I hate it. I don't want to go to sleep. I can't see a thing in the room, cause I closed the door and put the curtain on. I'm not alone here, I am alone in this room. My mom and little brother are in the room next to me, door closed, so I can't talk with them and there are some people next to them aswell, so I couldn't talk with them anyways and I don't want to talk to my mom cause I didn't want to stay here. We had to stay cause they decided to fix my moms car, cause why not, right? They don't know I'm vegan and I'm not going to explain it to them, cause I don't want to! I just want to get up and hop onto the car, drive to a shop, get a watermelon and a spoon and then drive home. But no we have to wake up, see them while acting ok, but feeling like a mess. Then my mom is making plans for the day and I'm just like nooo, I want to go home, no one understands me, if I say I want to go home. I didn't fell asleep, I hardly slept for 30 mins because I felt really uncomfortable, I kept waking up after like an hour or so. I felt like something was crawling on me, something little, but it might of  been my dream or something. I went to bed at 12 AM (00:00). Now it's 8 AM and I'm up, not really, I'm still in the bed, cause I don't want to go anywhere, cause no one is awake. I heard someone walk downstairs and I think it was my mom. Btw they said to me: "sleep as long as you want", but I'm a morning person. I really just want to go home. The kids and some grownups are awake and talking downstairs, but I'm not going. 

I'm not unthankful, I just wanted to go home. I didn't want to stay, I didn't want to eat some grilled meat.  I wanted my bed and my home.

The morning: 

We had planned to go to a event, they invited us. We went there by ourselves and we didn't see them while being there. There was a lot of people, it was like a outdoor festival and some people sold things like jewellery, soaps, cheese, ice creams and other things they had made. I don't do well with crowded places, I just don't like it at all. It was blue sky with some little clouds. So it was really hot and I had put on jeans and a long jumper kind of thing + I have dark hair. So I was melting and didn't feel good and comfortable. 

 

 There were some wrecks from a long time ago.

We walked 7 km and after that I felt really tired, my mom already agreed to just have a little rest and then go home by car, but then they called and invited us over. My mom accepted the invitation and I asked if we could not be there for a long time, cause I was tired. So the night went and went by, they tried to fix my mom's car and they put in there something that had to dry overnight (-_-,). We (me, brother and a kid) played cards, soccer with a basketball that wasn't full and hide and seek, there wasn't much to do. As the night came, kids went inside, so did I. Ithers started playing with their phones, but me and my brother watched some Natural Geographic (cause there was notting else to watch) and played cards. One of the hosts showed us (brother and me) the rooms, that we were going to stay in. I was so pissed off that we had to stay here, my impression showed that. So my mom came and we went to bed. 

Next day: 

They made pancakes for breakfast. Luckily I had bought a lavash bread, the thin one. So I got that from the car and ate it with the jam. After that I really wanted to go home, but my mom and a woman made plans to go to the beach and to a adventure park (where we climb and try to get to the end of a track). We ended up doing it all. 

 

View from a tower that was in the beachy kind of thing.

At the end of the day I was okay with it, I quite enjoyed the park. 

 

It was really hard to do it and I kept doing splits with jeans. I liked it, I think it was a little overpriced as there was only 2 tracks and it cost like 16€.

 It was kind of a vlogy kind of thing. I might do more of these. 

Bad CAN turn into a good thing, if you're open to the world.

 Sometimes you just have to say yes.

Movies.

★          Not worth your time

★★        Ehh

★★★      Ok 

★★★★   Okay

★★★★★ Love it! 

• San Andreas                                                                                                                  ★★★★
• Spud 2                                                                                                                           ★★★★
• Not Cool                                                                                                                     ★★★★★
• Easy A                                                                                                                        ★★★★★
• The DUFF                                                                                                                  ★★★★★
• Clueless                                                                                                                      ★★★★★
• Pitch Perfect 2                                                                                                              ★★★★
• The first time                                                                                                              ★★★★★
• Annie                                                                                                                          ★★★★★
• Nick & Norah´s Infinite Playlist                                                                                ★★★★★
• The fault in our stars                                                                                                  ★★★★★
• Prom                                                                                                                          ★★★★★
• Jurassic World                                                                                                              ★★★★
• She´s the Man                                                                                                            ★★★★★ 
• What a girl wants                                                                                                         ★★★★
• Paper planes                                                                                                                 ★★★★
• The longest ride                                                                                                         ★★★★★
• Minions                                                                                                                        ★★★★
• Angus, Thongs & Perfect snogging                                                                          ★★★★★
• Sleepover                                                                                                                     ★★★★
• Confessions of a teenage drama queen                                                                        ★★★★
• Wild child                                                                                                                  ★★★★★
• Friends with benefits                                                                                                 ★★★★★
• The right kind of wrong                                                                                            ★★★★★
• The sisterhood of traveling pants                                                                                ★★★★
• The sisterhood of traveling pants 2                                                                             ★★★★
• McFarland, USA                                                                                                       ★★★★★
• Paper Towns                                                                                                              ★★★★★
• The Chosen                                                                                                               ★★★★★
• If I stay                                                                                                                        ★★★★
• The last song                                                                                                               ★★★★
• Silver lining playbook                                                                                                 ★★★★
• A walk to remember                                                                                                 ★★★★★
• How to lose a guy in 10 days                                                                                    ★★★★★
• Deadpool                                                                                                                   ★★★★★
• Zoolander                                                                                                                  ★★★★★
• Finding Dory                                                                                                               ★★★★

Saint Petersburg trip.

18- 21.06.2016

It was raining, we met with our friends and went to the port. We met our class at 4 PM, got the tickets we needed and went to the ship. Our ship was going to set off at 7 o´clock night time. At first we went to our cabins, 4 people in one. We were there for a bit and then went to 7 Seas to eat dinner. After dinner we went to our cabin and visited our friends around us. After a while our class had took some drinks. I don´t drink at all, I drink water. We talked until 2 AM and then we went to bed kind of, we waited for the teacher to go away to get the pillows and a phone back that boys took from us. This doesn´t end here, the boys started knocking at our door. It woke us up and we couldn´t sleep. A girl from my room decided to have a shower in the middle of the night because she couldn´t sleep and she would have done it anyways in the morning. After the boys finally told us, what they wanted (asked if we wanted to watch a movie) and we refused because we had to wake up at 7. We slept for 3 hours until 6:25 AM then we washed and went to 7 Seas again. I had to get another cabin key, because mine stopped working. I don´t speak Russian very well, like I don´t know much words.
After eating breakfast we arrived to the port.
Teacher told us to get our arrival card out, but then they asked for our boarding card and 2 girls had lost it. We got out and waited for them for like an hour.  They made them a new card and then the teacher asked them, why they need it if we aren´t coming back today to this ship. Then the worker said:"OH! You´re not coming back? OH! Then you don´t need that card." We got out, we were in front of the port and a boy just vomited (ew), he wasn´t seasick.  We went to two separate mini buses. We rode really close to St.Isaac´s Cathedral. We had an hour before the next bus ride so we got to walk a little by ourselves.

Monument to Nicholas I

 We went to the next bus, it was like a tour bus, but it was raining so we didn´t go out, only once.
We walked to our hostel, got there and they tell us that we have to go to the other one of theirs (uhh), we were so tired.  When we got to our real hostel, we had to wait for half an hour, everyone were on the ground sitting or sleeping. We went to our rooms and fell asleep for an hour, then we went out.

We somehow managed to get to Galeria. We ate there, I got some sushi and drank a juice. Some ordered from Burger King, some from a Chinese place. There was 7 of us in the shop. After eating we started shopping at first with the group, but a little bit later we decided that 4 of us didn´t want to go to every shop, so we separated from them and set a time to meet them. Off we went to like Zara and shops like that.

Kazan Cathedral

Matryoshka doll

Pic from Zara´s page, it really looks like this.

Spoon Zara

I bought a spoon (hahah) ,some
Russian candy, magnets, a matryoshka doll, necklaces, a ship and a key chain. These were all gifts, I bought myself the spoon and a black egg necklace. Zara Home had the whole set of that colored cutlery, I want them so badly. That night we went to the riverside of Neva to see the Palace Bridge.













 It was 2 AM. We got back and were talking for some time and went to bed.
Next day others wanted to go to Galeria as well, so the teacher decided to go there by subway/metro with the whole class.
We walked with our 7 people group again. We ate at a really retro looking restaurant called Varenichnaya No.1 .
I really enjoyed that we all had a coloring sheet on the table and some pencils. After that we went to Galeria to get some things we forgot the day before. It took us the whole day pretty much, we were leaving that night so we had to be at the port by 5 PM.We were a little late because we didn´t know when the bus was coming, how long the ride was and if we were on a right bus.

We got to port and went to the ship, ate and went to our cabins. My cabin key didn´t work again and they just then told us not to keep it close to your phone (I kept it in my phone case). We were talking in our cabin and some boys joined us. It ended up being 9 of us (or more, I have a really bad memory) they stayed because at least 2 of them couldn´t go to their room because it stank cause someone vomited, one lost his key and couldn´t get in and didn´t want to wake his mates up. We talked and played games until like 5;30AM then we realised we needed to sleep cause we had to wake up at 7 o´clock.  I slept for 30 minutes maybe, I was so sleepy and it was really hot there.
In the morning we woke up because someone was knocking on the door. It was already past 7 and we just started running pretty much. We put our things into our bags and at the same time someone knocks cause he wants something he forgot here and we were just really busy. Alot happened at the same
time. Someone wanted to go to the bathroom to get his things  but someone was there so he had to just wait. I think you already get it, that we were in a hurry. We got our things, got out of the ship and now we were in Finland, Helsinki. We didn´t get out of the port, we had an hour before the next ship. We all sat on the floor and most of us fell asleep. Then we got to the ship, took a table and I just fell asleep on it and woke up a bit before we arrived and went to the shop with my friends.

End of that trip.

  

Veganism.

Veganism is a lifestyle where you don't eat any animal product. Besides food, vegans may also choose to avoid clothes that are made of fur or leather and cosmetics that have been tested on animals.

I tryed this lifestyle for a month last June. Why just for a month? Because I didn't knew anything about it and just saw a video and thought that I'm going to be vegan from now on. That wasn't the best decision because you can't one day eat meat and dairy and enjoy it and next day not eat it anymore. I had never thought of going vegan before June so I couldn't handle that big of a change on that time and I had to give up. Since then I didn't really enjoy meat, it felt really strange and not made for me at all. I avoided meat, but not dairy because my mum bought a lot of different yoghurts I hated milk even before June. 

On 21 of March I decided to become vegan again, because I don't want to consume any animal product anymore. I have done my research and know much more about it. 

How to become vegan:

1) Do your research about it, educate yourself and  decide why YOU want to become vegan. Wether for your health or you just love to eat real food etc. There are a lot ofdocumentaries and books about it, but my fav is YouTube video called "101 reasons to go vegan" it's about a hour long, but it's really worth it, so good. 

2) Gradually cut down on animal products. I think the easiest is to first cut down on meat and eggs, then get rid of dairy, like milk, cheese, yoghurt etc. And then lastly get rid of things that have animal products in them, cookies, that have milk in them etc. 

3) What to cook and eat now? Get some inspiration from the internet and cookbooks. I love Deliciously Ella cookbook.  And I've marked a lot of pages with a little paper to remember to try to make them. There's soo many yummy recipes in there.

 I bought this book and I didn't knew who Ella was until I realised, that I had a cutout of her on a box. I got the pic from H&M magazine a long time ago. Now I know that she's a blogger and a YouTuber. 

4) Come out to world. Okay now I might have not sone that yet, but I promise I will, one day. I know I'm such a inspiration aren't I c: On this step you have to explain a lot of things, like why are you doing it and how are you doing it? Be prepared to answer to all of those questions.

5) You don't have to go all out with you beauty products and clothes to be vegan. You can just gradually change them, don't waste them, when they run out, just try something new and vegan if you're ready and want to do so.  

6)You do you. Don't fight with other vegans or people who are saying that you're doing it wrong. You do you and don't let them effect you.

7) Supplement. Take some supplements like B12 and iron. Get a nice vegan supplement for the beginning.

8) Never stop learning. Always try new things and new ingredients, that makes it all more interesting.

Some interesting vegan YouTubers:

• Deliciously Ella (there's a lot of recipes)

• Edgy Veg (I really enjoy her videos and she's such a inspiration, never fails to make me smile.)

• Kalel (So positive and active person.)

• Lush/GayGod (be aware he's a little different as we all are. He is completely different from others who are here, he does vlogs and normal vids. He was the 1st YouTuber I subscribed to.)

• Mango Island Mamma (She's life is literally perfect, so interesting to watch.)

Some interesting apps: 

• Animal-Free It's free for ios and android. You can search the ingredients and it says if it's vegan or not.

• Is it vegan? It's free for ios and android. You can scan foods barcodes and it says if it's vegan or not. 

• Bunny free It's free for ios and android. You can search companies and it says if it's cruelty-free or not.   

 Finland consumes the most dairy per capita by consuming 361.19 litres per capita (2007). 

If you have any questions then you can ask me in the comments below, I'm not an expert c:

~E 

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Motivation & Basketball.

We all want to be motivated and it´s really hard to keep being motivated. It doesn´t matter if you want to start working out  or eating healthy. You might think at the beginning, that it´s going to be like this from now on, but no. You will get tired of it and just don´t want to do it anymore, especially if you´re doing the same thing over and over again. It might not be like this with everyone, but it is with me c:

I think it´s best to talk about myself. Let´s start from the beginning.
I played basketball in 2011 and 2012, then I stopped. The reason was, because it just wasn´t fun anymore. I was pretty much forced to go there and if I didn´t then I had to explain, why I didn´t go. Does it mean I got lazy? :D  But I couldn´t have a life, because of basketball, no free time. My marks weren´t the best, but it might be only because of my laziness. Anyway I left the basketball team, did nothing for a year and got a little fatter at least I felt so. In 2014 I went back to basketball and I´m still there. I will be there only this year and then I´ll have to change the school and I´ll leave the basketball team too. My basketball trainings are in my school and it´s the main reason, why I do it. I have to change the school, because we have only 9 classes/grades and I´m in 9th grade currently. I don´t know, will my next hobby be, I might just start running or jogging just to be active or should I take a new hobby. I won´t really have any free time next year, because I HAVE to focus on studing or do I, will anyone look at my 12 grade marks if I go to work? The one thing, that I know is that I need to find a amazingly beatiful dress for finishing 9th grade and I have no idea, where to look for. I´m in my basketball team and I quite enjoy it, so I might carry on playing basketball, who knows :D
Some random mind clean talk➶

My biggest inspiration is my sister, who trains everyday, to be better. I had a lovely lunch with her and we talked about lots of different topics and it made me think about it all.

Some motivational quotes for you:

You CAN and You WILL.

-E

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Perfect Water Park Day.

I had such a amazing day today. I just came back from the Viimsi water park. Thanks to my sister, who wanted to invite me and my brother to have a fun day with them.
Me, my little brother, my big sister, her child and her bf went to Viimsi by taxi.
At first we went to watch a 5D movie called Knight raid. Wow, the special effects tho :o
Then we went to a restaurant (I don´t remember the name of it, but it was next to the cinema). I had a caesar salad, that wasn´t the best. Salad pieces and meat were too big, I thought that was their job to make me a salad, not that I have to finish chopping the big pieces.
After that, we went to the water park. They just opened it. I love that men and women are together, but they change clothes each in a different little cabin. Men and women washing rooms are separated obviously. Washing room has lots of individual shower booths, that are separated with a wall on two sides (some water parks washing rooms have just shower heads and not the walls).
We had to wear flip flops, because the floor was really slippery.

That´s just a paddling pool, that was much fun with the tube. 

They had lots of resting areas and a cafe. 

Tubes

I went on all of the rides.

Orange ride.

Pretty slow, but they say that it´s medium, not tube allowed. ★★

Green slide.

Really fast, not tube allowed ★★★★★ (I got water into my nose, even if I didn´t breath in that time)

Blue ride.

Medium speed, not tube allowed, but it looked perfect for it ★★★

Dark blue/Black ride.

The ride on this picture was closed, but there was a really similar one, where you can go with the tube, medium speed ★★★★★

Purple ride.

Faast, not tube allowed :o, I didn´t go there so I can´t rate it, but I think it´s scarily amazing.

Yellow slide.

They say it´s slow, but I would say that it´s medium, tube allowed ★★★★★

I saw my friend from school there, randomly. How, she came the same time and day as me.

My little brother fell, remember I said, that the floor was slippery. He fell and his elbow started to bleed :/ Yikes.

As my mum didn´t come, she got a little rest from me and my little brother :D

I need to go there once more, because all the slides weren´t open. I wan´t to go on them, so badly. They open the Purple one a day after I went.


Afterwards we went back to the restaurant and I ordered overcooked dumplings with blue cheese and they were in a cheese sauce, OmG soo good, especially the cheese sauce. I literally ate the rest of it with white bread. I ordered a cocoa, that was so good too, creamy/milky and not hot, but perfect. I ordered a New York cheesecake with some strawberry sauce, nom nom, so creamy and perfect.
Perfecto dinner.
Then I hop on to a taxi and got home. The taxi driver was listening to some dating radio (haha, if it only be real).

That was a perfect day.

Every summer has a story

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The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.

-E

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