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 

ღ

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

ღ

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

★

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

-E

ღ

Vegan Zucchini Fritters.

For the Vegan Zucchini Fitters you´ll need:

• 1 Zucchini

• ½ tsp Salt

• ¼ tsp Pepper

• 1 tsp Baking Powder

• 110 garms/ ½ cup Flour

Mixture makes 11 fritters.

1. Grate the zucchini.

2. Add flour, baking powder, salt, pepper and chia seeds, if you want to.

3. Mix, Mix it well :)

It don´t look good, but, it´ll taste delicious.

4. Fry until golden brown.

5. Eat. They fill your stomach.

If you want to, you can make these too. Just cut some slices of zucchini and fry them.

-E

ღ

Vegan Banana Pancakes.

For those jummy pancakes you will need:

• Bowl 
• Blender or any that type of thing. 
• A banana
• 6 tbs Flour
• 1 tsb Baking powder
• 2 tbs Cinnamon (optional)

Toppings:

• Chia seeds
• Maple syrup
• Banana

Mixture makes 13 pancakes.

I´m not sure about the measurements, I just randomly did them :D

1. Blend the banana. I know it looks pretty grose, but it smells soo good :)

2. Add remaining ingredients.

                            

3. Mix it well.

4. Put some oil on the pan and 7 tablespoons of the dough (if you have bigger pan, then more tablespoons).

                           

5. Turn them around. 

And they´re ready, serve them, whit some honey, banana slices and chia seeds, if you want to.

-E

ღ