Super week day 1 continued.

Since super-mega-ultra-power week is a very long name I have shortened it down to super week. However that does not mean that the super-mega-ultra-power of the week is gone, only some words in the name.

Anyhow, it’s been a great start. I have not been eating anything that I am not allowed to. I have played tennis for one hour (compared to my boyfriend who has not been exercising today at all, except for that he took the bike instead of the bus which was beautiful done!). I have finished all homework that is due tomorrow, except for that I have a maths test that I have no idea of what it includes or anything. Therefore, I won’t study maths any more today.  Right now I’m going to continue studying until at least 8 then I’m free of doing whatever I want.

Another great thing is that me and my boyfriend booked tickets for a theatre play today! It’s not until the 3rd of May but I’m really excited. We never do things like going to the theatre!  The play is inspired by Sidney Lumets film “12 angry men” from 1957 and I hope that the evening will be interesting and very enjoyable!

Super-mega-ultra-power week: day 1

This is the first day of the super-mega-ultra-power week! My boyfriend and I have challenged each other to make this week the best in a very long time.

We are to sleep by ourselves all week at our own places. We cannot eat candy or anything else that is sweet or classified as unhealthy, including fast-food of course! Also we are to exercise like it’s the only thing we are capable of doing.

As for myself, I have played tennis this morning and now I’m on my way to school for my only Monday lesson!

Wish me good luck!

Enjoying Shakespeare

There’s a great risk of this turning out as a cliché but I don’t mind. Anyhow, as I am reading Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” at the moment I wish that the book was a lot more vintage than it is. Almost as old as if Shakespeare would have read it himself. Also, I wish that I had a place, my own space that only I knew about. A place where I could sit and read for hours without any disturbance. You see, my siblings are experts of interrupting their older sister - me!

I wish I would sit there in a comfortable armchair and read, listen to the beautiful language and just enjoy the moment. And Y E S it is possible to enjoy Shakespeare if one is not forced to do it. 

About that, is there ANYTHING that is pleasurable when being forced doing it? I don’t think that I can come up with a thing actually, maybe work –  If you’re into money. Or, charity work - Who does not receive happiness by doing things for others? 

But that’s a sidetrack, back to Shakespeare: Listen to this beautiful quote from Juliet:

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”

Read it out loud to yourself if you cannot enjoy it by just reading in silence. And now, I shall continue!

Heroes

We are all fighting. No doubt about that. I will never be convinced of that someone out there doesn’t fight. It doesn’t necessarily have to be fighting for their lives, others lives, for food, water etc. but to fight for yourself, your own personal life goals are as much fighting as anything else. I’m not saying that it is as honourable to achieve your personal goal as to save another human beings life. However, that may be questioned if other people had to suffer or lose their lives to save that individual. Anyhow, this is not at all what I was planning to talk about but since we’re on the subject…

Achieving ones personal goals for instance; reaching the goal weight, eating healthy, having a wonderful relationship with ones boyfriend/girlfriend. etc. may demand just as much as well. To be a hero doesn’t have to include saving peoples lives, it doesn’t have to be someone with superpowers or someone that donates money every month to charity. NO! I have many heroes in my lives and most of them does not have superpowers and as far as I know none of them has ever saved a human life. Why they are my heroes? I’ll tell you:

First of all, one of my heroes is my best friend. She loves animals and are always nice to them (a characteristics that I envy her for since I sometimes want to do bad things to animals if they do not obey me! I must add that I never do the bad things and I don’t have any animals for my own so there’s no worries!). Another reason of why she is my hero is that she always cares about me and others, she may be a bit self-centred sometimes but who is not? We all have things going on in our lives and when it gets over our heads we don’t have time to think about others. That is the truth, honestly. Moreover, she is one of the most ambitious people I know. She is also very healthy in the way that she is exercising a lot, however her eating habits is not something that I plan to copy. She’s a big fan of sweets (in a small body). Anyhow, I love her and she is my hero that’s how simple it is.

How sweet my sleeping beauties!

 Secondly, another hero of mine is my boyfriend. Why? Because he rock my world everyday! He always cheers me up when I feel a bit down. Takes care of me when I’m ill (even when I have the stomach flu). He knows a lot of things about a lot of things. In other words: He is smart! For example, he knows a lot about music; bands, years, albums and songs. Maybe not a lot about today’s pop-stars but about the classics, those that everyone know of. The legends. Queen, KISS, The Beatles etc. He is cute. Actually he is the only one of my heroes that actually have got a superpower! He has got magical lips! It’s true! They’re absolutely magical, once you’ve touched them you cannot deny the fact that you are unable to remove them. However, I do not recommend any of you to try this, because if you do - I will probably have to hurt you! 

This is one of my favourite pictures, even though it's almost two years old but this moment was one of our more romantic ones.

Indeed, this is also very simple. He is my hero and I love him for who he is and because he makes me happy. And at the moment those are my two favourite heroes. Also I need to get back to work! I’ve got plenty to do this weekend before school starts again on Monday!

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

- Ernest Hemingway

 

Home-spa evening

After a long day of hard work including studying, exercising and running around down town in the rain and a lot of other things what we deserve is a relaxing evening. So what do we do? We prepare for a home-spa evening!

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We took what we had (and bought some as well) and made different stations. This far we’ve got a nail-station, foot-station, face-station, relax-station(bubble bath with body-scrub & face-peeling) and a sauna-station.

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It looks like this is going to be one relaxing evening! I really need it right now, to get away from all homework, essays and schoolwork! Also I believe I’m on my way to become ill. My throat hurts, my stomach doesn’t want to be nice to me and my head is nearly non-existing!

Education, education and more education!

Right now all I want to do is vomit. Vomit on my books, my computer, my notes and the blank paper on the screen in front of me. School. Right now it is ruling my life. Taking it from me while I’m trying to hold on to it as hard as I can.The life that I’ve got left that is!

I’m exercising to get my diploma. Action. I’m trying to be creative to get my diploma. Creativity. I’m trying to do some good for the community to get my diploma. Service. I’m trying to finnish this essay, and this presentation, that essay, Finnish reading that novel IN ORDER TO GET MY DIPLOMA! Extended Essay, written tasks, Further oral activities, novels.

Something that comes to my mind as I sit here at the university trying to write is the amount of words that students write during their educational years. And what happens to them later on? The words? Some teacher or examiner reads them, sets the grade and them what? What happens next?

Anyhow, I thought this break would be relaxing, I guess I was wrong!