In this day and age most
people watch too much TV or spend their time on the internet. It seems that
some people are addicted to TV and they must watch it every day, otherwise they
become angry. A TV-series can be the thing that determines the pass of the day.
In that way TV can be like a drug.
But is it good that people are
so into watching TV? Some programs are good and they discuss current things and
happenings. People, and specially children, can learn from TV when they see and
hear something they didn’t know before. Children’s programs are always quite instructive.
Besides, Finns have learned English from TV because most programs and movies
aren’t dubbed unlike in Germany where almost everything is dubbed instead of
subtitles.
But, of course, everything has its pros and
cons. Some cons of TV in my opinion are the programs that teach teens and
children bad habits. For instance smoking and drinking alcohol; in most movies
the characters do both and teens might think it seems cool and they want to try
it as well. Another thing is that because of watching TV people have less time
to do something else.
My relationship to TV isn’t very
close and warm. I don’t even have time for TV. I only watch two or three movies
a month, that’s all. I think I don’t need TV because if I want to watch
something, I can watch from internet when I have time. If TV is opium for the
masses, internet is my heroin and music my crack.
The last... 1. drink? - water 2. phone call? - mommmm 3. text message? - it was from school... 4. song you listened to? - Sanni - Me ei olla enää me 5. time when you cried? - yesterday
Have you ever... 6. dated the same person two times (means broke up in between)? - nope 7. been cheated? - no 8. kissed someone and regretted it? - no 9. lost something important? - yes 10. been depressed? - yea.. 11. done something stupid? - of course, many times
List three of your favourite colours 12. white 13. black 14. red/purple
Last and this year, have you... 15. got new friends? - yeaaa, many lovely and awesome ones!! <3 love them 16. lost an old friend - unfortunately yes.. :/ 17. laughed tears in eyes? - yeaaaaah :D 18. met someone who changed you? - yea, some people have really changed me a lot 19. realized who your REAL friends are? - I have noticed that too 20. found out that someone is talking bad about you behind your back? - not really but I guess that happens 21. kissed anyone from your friendlist? - friendlist? no
General about me... 22. How many people from your friendlist knows you in real life? - On facebook? most people 24. Do you have pets? - yea, a dog 25. Would you want to have some other name? - noo, Sofia is a good name, I don't like my last name though (so I need to get married so that I can change it :P :D ) 26. What did you do on your last birthday? - nothing special.. 27. At what time did you wake up today? - at 5:50 28. What did you do at midnight? - I was chatting 29. Name a thing that you can't wait for? - meeting my best friend next weekend <3 30. Last time when you saw your mom? - about 2 hours ago 31. One thing you would want to change? - only one thing? my clothes right now :DDD 32. What do you hear right now? - music 34. What is annoying you right now? - I have a headache, and it's late and I should sleep but I'm not sleepy 35. Most used website? - Facebook 37. Nicknames? - I don't tell them to you :P 38. Favourite hobby? - correspondence 39. Zodiac sign? - leo ;) 40. A boy or a girl? - me? I guess I'm a girl 41. Elementary school? - What about it? I have finished it already a long time ago.. (well, not so long but now it feels like it was maaany years ago) I was bullied in school.. 42. High school? - I'm studying in high school, the second year 43. University? - maybe in the future, I hope 44. Colour of your hair? - brown 45. Long or short? - What? Hair? short 46. Lenght? - 171 cm (I would like to be a little taller) 47. Do you have a crush on someone? - kinda, but not really, I don't even know 48. What do you like in yourself? - honesty 49. Piercings? - just earrings 50. Tattoos? - no!!! 51. Left- or right-handed? - right
Your first... 52. surgery? - o.O none.. 53. piercing? - earrings when I was 5 years old 54. best friend? - Jasmin :) 55. hobby? - hmmm.. piano I guess 56. holiday trip? - how could I remember? 57. crush? - Eerik... nowadays he doesn't even talk to me if we happen to meet somewhere.. 58. shoes? - serioulsy?
Right now: 59. Are you eating? - no 60. Are you drinking? - nope 61. I'm going to... - go to sleep 62. Song - Isac Elliot - First Kiss 63. I'm waiting for... - a message
Future: 64. Children? - who knows, perhaps 65. Married? - perhaps 66. Job? - no idea
Which one? 67. Eyes or lips? - eyes 68. Hugs or kisses? - hugs 69. Taller or shorter? - taller 70. Younger or older? - younger 71. Romantic or spontaneous? - both? if only one then spontaneous 72. Nice belly or nice hands? - weird question.. hands 73. Sensitive or loud? - sensitive 74. Promiscuous or relationship? - relationship 75. ? - ?
Have you ever... 76. kissed a stranger? - no, I'm not so stupid 77. drunk alcohol? - a couple of times 80. broken somebody's heart? - I'm afraid so, I tried to fix it... 81. And has someone broken your heart? - yea 83. gave a strike out? - yea 84. cried when someone died? - yes :'( 85. fell in love with a friend? - maybe not love, but crush yea
Do you believe in... 86. yourself? - yea and no 87. people? - not 100 % 88. love at the first sight? - yea :) 89. heaven? - yea 90. Santa Claus? - of courseeee :D (btw Santa lives in Finland) 91. a kiss in the first date? - who not? ;) 92. angels? - yea
Answer honestly: 93. Have you ever had many dating partners at the same time? - no 94. Did you sing today? - yes I did :D 96. If you could go back to past, how far would you go? - Why go back? life goes on 97. If you could change one day of last year, what would it be? - I don't know, nothing comes to my mind right now 99. Tell your best friends- Mari, Heidi, Aksu 100. Do you love yourself? - a little There was some things about me :) I saw those questions in another blog and answered to them myself too.
What and where we happen to be born into doesn't necessarily and automatically tell us what our future will be like. It depends on our choises and chances. Not everybody is given the same opportunities and possibilities in life but everybody can affect their living in some way.
If you lived in a wealthy family, you would probably go to school and study without even thinking if it was possible for you to study and get a good career and job in the future. For poor people that isn't as clear, they don't have money to spend on education, they need all they have to survive normal weekdays. One thing about Finland I'm proud of is that we can educate ourselves for free or almost free so everybody has the same and equal right for knowledge. If you can't study, you can't get a well-paid job and you will never get rid of poverty.
I think another important thing is people's health. Living in a slum can't be good for your health and going to the doctor and getting medication when needed isn't so simple. For us it might be, but not for everyone on this shared globe. And, of course, food, starvation and clean water are great problems that are difficult to solve.
If you think about it, money defines our place in the society. Even in Finland but, for example, in India much more than here. It feels wrong but that's how it is.
In Finland we had The Red Nose Day, on Friday I watched the Red Nose Day's show from TV. If someone doesn't know about Red Nose Day, its slogan is "Do something funny for money". It collects money to help the poorest countires in the world. This year in Finland we pained attention specially to Nepal and Burundi. Burundi is one of the poorest countries.
A girl from Nepal :)
"The Finnish Justin Bieber" Robin Packalen made a new single and all its profits he gave for helping those countries. I'm not a great fan of his but I still bought that single, it was the least I could do, it wasn't even expensive. There were also many many other products like that, for example the noses of course, and mugs, shirts, gloves, flaslights etc. All the money went for Red Nose Day. Only during the The Red Nose Day's show Finns and different companies here donated 2,9 million euros (that's a huge amount, almost 3 millions, good Finns!!!!) for example by calling, texting or from online bank services.
We saw many touching videos from Nepal and Burundi, how the life is there. Stories of different families in various situations. Any of the stories was a good one. It was terrible to see the people suffering there. I wish there was some way I could help them. Specially the children. One video actually made me cry. There was a family, without parents. The oldest child was 7 years old. He was taking care of his little brother and sister, alone. No adults helping him, he was completely alone. They didn't even know how to cook. Sometimes they got food from neighbours if they brought them water. So they didn't even get anything to eat every day. A Finnish woman was talking with him, asking some things. She said she would want to help if there was anything she could do. She asked what did the boy wish, what kind of future he would want for him and his siblings. And he said that he hopes to die some day so that all his problems would fade away. Is that what a little boy should wish?
Daniel, the boy I just told about, and his siblings
I could tell many other stories too, how people with illnesses can't get help, how kids have to go to work right after they turn 5 years. How girls have to face sexual violence, they get pregnant and become moms when they're 13. How just one mosquitoes bite can kill.
Robin in Burundi with Mediatrice and her child and brother
Robin said in the show that the trip to Burundi, where he made his music video, really opened his eyes and he's ashamed how much and easily we complain about everything. Our day is ruined if our iPhone doesn't have enough of charge and a bad hair day is almost the end of the world. C'mon people, aren't there any bigger troubles?
I am very happy how Finns were, and are, active helpers. It was great to see how many people wanted to join the Red Nose Day and many celebrities wanted to go to the show. I don't know about other countries but I hope it is working at least as well in ohter places as here.
Hey..
Guess what?
I got an idea...
When I know I make a lot of mistakes...
So I thoght if I apologised...
Even though I know that you may not have any reason to be angry right now...
So I would apologise everything I've done...
Or everything wrong I'll do...
All those wrong words...
Wrong acts...
Things that I say and don't say...
I hope that you know I'm not perfect...
But because of you I promise to try...
I promise to try to learn when it's better be quiet and when say something...
And I promise that I will never let an argue separate me from you...
I promise that if we argue, I'll make sure that we will become reconciled as well...
Because you are my little angel, my little star...
Without you a moment feels like eternity...
And you know how I hate waiting...
Now I have promised many things...
Will you promise?
I only ask one thing...
Do you promise that you will never leave me alone?
I know, it's a great plea...
But I promise it to you...
Because I don't get along without you...
You are my whole life...
And I never want to say you were...
That's it...
It sounds simple, right?
So let's make it true...
"I will never leave you"
Will you answer "I won't leave you either" ?
I love U... Be my friend?
Now? Always? Forever?
Little words. Great pleas...
But I ask anyway...
Now I will stop and just say...
See you? <3
A girl called Emily was in a corridor. The weather was warm and the sun was shining gently through the windows. It was very bringt but somehow a bit misty at the same time, as if you had just opened your eyes after waking up.
Emily was watching around and trying to understand where she was. She hadn't been there before and the place was very strange for her.
Emily walked ahead towards a door. It looked attractive and fascinating. Emily heard some noise from behind the door. Something like birdsong, zephyr and that kind of things. Maybe there was a forest?
Emily went in front of the door. She tried carefully if it was locked. It wasn't. She went in and came into a huge room. It was circulat and the walls were full of doors. The doors looked all exactly similar.
Emily was very confused. She didn't know where she was and everything just always went even more weird. She just wanted to get away from there and go home.
She turned to leave and go back from the same door as she had come. But the door was closed. Suddenly she heard a voice that said: "You are in a Choosing Room. You have to make a choice between these doors. Behind every door there is a different room. The rooms are representing different ways of life and lifestyles. At first think what is important to you and what you want from life and the future. Then you can take a look at the things that the rooms are providing. And you can also watch into the rooms and check what like could look like in there. Then you must male the choice and decide how you want to live in the future."
Emily tried to understand. "What did that mean? Why do I have to choose? Why can't I just go home?" she thought.
After a moment Emily decided to take a look at the different doors and rooms. In one she would have a good job, in another a family, in one she would be alone, in one a single parent and so on. In every alternative there were its pros and cons. Emily didn't know what to do.
Emily sat down and cried. "How can I know what to choose? What will happen if I choose wrong? Can I come back and make the choice again? Can somebody help me, please!" she said.
Then Emily heard another voice and listened to it. "Dear Emily. I'm sure that you are a sensible and gentle young lady. I know that you can make the right decision. Listen to your heart and be open-minded and positive. You know what is right and what you want."
Emily stopped crying and got up. She dried her tears and walked to one of the doors. "I want to go home and carry on living as it stands now. I don't want to think about the future yet. I want to laugh and enjoy life. Everything comes when it's time to come. I want to get a family in many years or get a job. First I have to study and be young. I want to have a good time with my friends and family. The future can wait."
Emily opened the door and stepped in.
"Good morning" mom said. Emily woke up in her own bed. At home. Everything was like before. Emily smiled.
- Hehehe, I just found an old notebook when I was cleaning my room. I had written that story for school some years ago, now it sounds so silly when I read it. My English has become a bit better from that time too I hope. :D There were many other great stories in the notebook too, for example of friendship and everything. Makes me smile to remember those old good times. :)
