Yearbook-thingy

Oh yes, we already have to write the pages to our yearbook even though we don't graduate till next year. Of course I'm going to edit it (someone has to take some responsibility) so I've already read the rough draft to my page. Some people might say that I shouldn't read it before I get it in the book form, but seriously I don't really care and I want to make sure that my friends only write 'nice' things about me. But because I'm such a nice person I decided to share this draft with you guys. There'll be no explanation because it probably won't exits anyway! Here goes:

Nickname: Sille and Michael

Characteristics: She is very quiet, calm, smart and sweet. And then she is pretty hot.

Motto: "Piv" and "Easily amused,  easily confused."

Will be remembered for: Her perverted mind (which we can thank Mie for) and for how generous she is. She will be remembered for her sweet hamster-sounds. At last she will be remembered for not washing her salad.

Biggest blunder: To become friends with Camilla and Mie - they have filed her brain with perverted thoughts and evil plans.

3 things she would bring to a deserted island: Books, her salad (WHICH ISN'T WASHED) and Hugh Jackman's naked chest.

10 years from now: Cecilie has become the new J. K. Rowling and writes long fantasy-books. She has bought the entire coast road in Aarhus, where her nearest friends and family have moved in. She is married to Hugh Jackman's naked chest. They have three kids and the hamster Hemming. If she does not break through as the new Rowling, then she'll 'just' write erotic books like "Once you go Mie, you never go back!" She has also gotten a part of Mie's company "Build-a-dil'o" which is the world's erotic answer to "Build-a-bear."

The advice from the class: You can do it! You are a hot lady, and don't let anyone tell you different. Believe in yourself and jump into life with both legs, no matter if it's the private life or your profession.

I hope you enjoyed this, my translation is probably not that good, but hopefully it will do. Bye!

Love is...

...A Journey
“They say it is better to travel than to arrive. It's not been my experience, at least. The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey." (D.H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious, 1922)

It is with travelling as it is with love - there are so many destinations but there’s also a journey to get you there.

For some the journey is more important than the destination  - some people value the chasing over the settling down, they want the thrill of the airplane lifting off the ground, and what’s at the other end might then turn out to be as boring to them as where they came from.

For others the journey gets in the way of the destination, some people are so afraid of flying they’ll never get the sensation of landing in a different exciting country. If they’ve had a bumpy flight before they might get scared by the thought of getting on an airplane again, and who knows what they’re missing out on.

Yeah, some may only be interested in the travelling, some may be so scared of travelling they’ll never get to the destination - and then again some may be so focused on the destination that the journey fades in the background.

For me personally, the destination makes the hours in trains, planes and busses fly by - I’ve run through airports because I know that what, or who is waiting for me, is worth it.

I know this one is a short one, but I wrote this in English class (our most recent subject is "Love", and we had to write something like this to get us started on the subject) and I actually really liked what I ended up writing, I know it's a bit cheesy, but aren't we all?

... and therefore you should watch it!

Once again I had been staring at my computer screens for half an hour before I decided what to write about. Yeah, I don't get that many great ideas these days. Either way I thought to myself: "Now Sille, remember, you have to watch the next episode of The Legend of Korra today." and then it me - I'll write about the show! Well actually no, I won't. I'll write why should watch the first series Avatar: The Last Airbender since I like it more than Legend of Korra (that show hasn't caught my attention yet but I'm still hoping). So here's a few reasons why you should watch Avatar (and why I love the show, eh)!

Let's begin with the plot: In this world the four elements fire, water, earth and air live peacefully together. Some people can control the elements and they're called benders. But the peace only lasted until the day the fire nation attacked the air nation and hell broke loose. The only person who could stop this madness was the Avatar, the only master of all four elements. But he disappeared the day he was needed most. A hundred yes later Katara and Sokka, sister and brother, finds the Avatar Aang inside and ice bloke.

Sokka (left) and Aang (right)

The rumour of the Avatar's return spreads and Aang, who hasn't completed his Avatar training yet and can therefore only bend air, is in great danger when the fire nation's prince Zuko tries to track him down and kill him to win back his honour. See that is the greatest beginning of a show ever. Yes, only the beginning! I could talk forever about the plot because it's amazing and very original. But now to the characters!

First of all I adore the characters in Avatar. I'm sure of that anyone in the entire would be able to find at least one character in the show that they'd fall in love with. For example we've got Sokka, one of the only main characters who can't bend but simply run around with his boomerang and sword while having the surplus to cheer up everyone. Yes, he's one of my favourites, for some reason I always fall for the kinda useless and amusing characters in TV-shows I really can't help it. Oh and don't get me started on Toph, a blind earth-bending girl who can kick your butt in less than a split second.

So did I forget anything? Yes! Watch it! You won't regret it and if you do, well, at least I convinced you to try. Oh and by the way don't watch the movie, it can't be compared to the show. The movie sucks, I'm sorry to say it, but that's the truth. Stick with the TV-show and you'll be juuuust fine.

Sille is out!

Introversion...

These days just about 95% of the internet is claiming that they’re introverts, and I started wondering, so I decided to try taking a personality test (the Jung-typology test) based on the works of the psychiatrist Carl Jung and the writer Isabel Myers-Briggs. The test defines your personality based on extraversion(E)/introversion(I), sensing(S)/intuition(N), thinking(T)/feeling(F) and judging(J)/perceiving(P). In this test I ended up with the result INFJ, but what interested me most was the fact that I tested to have a 89% preference to introversion over extraversion, when the fact is that a lot of the so called “introverts” on the internet in fact aren’t introverts at all. And Chris who thought he was strongly introverted was actually only slightly introverted - but then I started thinking about it. And I’ve come to the conclusion that the internet’s perception of introversion is quite wrong, and bear with me here - because I am largely basing this on my experience…

A thing I’ve noticed a lot is that people seem to think being an introvert is the same as not liking people - it’s really, really not. Others seem to think it’s the same as being bad at socialising (this is the case with Chris), for which the same goes - it’s wrong.

Being an introvert is about being fine just being alone, that doesn’t mean you never need social interaction, it just means you’re more comfortable being on your own. And I think it’s a lot like that with most of the people in my family, my parents do have people over every once in a while but they’re not the kind of people to be some place every weekend. Though my mom seems to think I’ve taken it to extremes - I rarely see people “in real life” as she says, which is true, I don’t go visiting friends after school all that often (pretty much never), Sille and I do plan sleepovers every once in a while and I usually go to the parties I get invited to but… Honestly, after a day at school, even if it’s not a long day, I’m exhausted from the amount of social interactions I have to make, because when I’m out (in school or doing other things) I can’t just say that I need half an hour to myself - because for some reason that’s weird. It’s been widely accepted in my family that I don’t show up for most family parties, though my parents make me go every once in a while so the family doesn’t think I’m dead.

What annoys me is that the internet (maybe especially tumblr) seems to think that “being an introvert” allows you to be mean to people - it does not - you don’t have to hate people to be an introvert, I love people I just don’t love being around them for too long.

So introverts are (or at least can be) nice people, we just sometimes need alone time and space, because that’s how we recharge.

Anywho, I’m off!

Short vacation-update-thingy

From Randers Regnskov, wuhu!

It has been a busy week as usual but mostly because we've had our fall vacation and I really haven't been home much. There've been a party, a Disney-marathon-sleepover, a day in Randers Regnskov (Rainforest if you want it in English) and 3 lovely days in Aalborg where I visited a friend of mine. Today I've been doing my homework and I feel like the vacation disappeared in two seconds when I just happened to blink. But what I really wanted to say is that I'm very glad that I had the chance to spent some quality time with my friends. I appreciate that my friends want to watch Disney movies with me, go on 'adventures' in rainforests and don't mind walking the entire day, going from bookshop to bookshop, trying not to spent all the money on lovely books. I truly had a great week and I had really hoped when I woke up this morning that I was going to have another week off. Sadly this isn't the case, I have my math assignment laughing at me saying I better finish it before Tuesday. So altogether I just wanted to thank all my friends for being, well, my friends and for not turning insane will being in my company! I can be an odd hamster to be around I admit that. And I think that's it, I don't really have anything else to say this week, sorry about that! Oh well... Sille is out!  

animals

I started thinking this week about how all personalities are a bit like an animal of some kind, and I came to the conclusion that Cecilie as a hamster or something mouse-like, because she's always silent and hiding in the corners as if she's afraid to be eaten if she talks. Chris is a dog, always loyal and wanting of love expect from when he wants to eat or sleep .And I'm cat which I wrote a little poem thing about:
I'm a cat,

I can go off on my own for days,
And I come back craving only ten minutes of love,
I can watch apathetically as things happen around me,
And then when I've had enough I scratch and harm the one holding me.
I can want your love one moment,
And wander off alone the next.
(titled "I am a cat" or "I should stop doing drugs" I'm not sure which one to go with yet :P)

Anywho, I have to go to Copenhagen, now.

bais

Why I despise horror movies!

Hello dear readers, I'm taking over for Sidsel this week (because I'm so lovely) and since I had no idea of what to talk about I've chosen the topic my friend Markus suggested: "Why I hate horror movies!" So here goes. First of all I don't understand why people want to get scared. Seriously, after I watched The Ring (at the age of 13) I've been scared every time I was alone in a dark room. A couple of days afterwards I would jump up from the chair when the phone rang as well... So why this need to be scared of something? I suppose some people get some kind of adrenalin-kick out of it or something but me on the other hand, I just get so scared that I can barely sleep. Once I was at a classmates' birthday party and we watched The Woman in Black (with Daniel Radcliffe, HARRY WHAT ARE YOU DOING), and it was filled with jumpscares I was dying. A girl I didn't know the name of was stroking me on my back when I hit my face at Camilla's shoulder. That is not an amusing evening in my opinion.

Secondly  I don't like the plots, well I mean, I don't like the non-existing plots in many horror movies. Though I haven't seen many horror movies (luckily) but those I've seen didn't have the greatest plots and from what I can tell from my friends that is very common in this genre. So why, why watch them if the plots aren't even well-written?

Thirdly I don't understand how people can be so stupid in these films. Seriously, if you hear a mysterious noise from the dark, cold, old part of the abandoned house you're in, don't go near it, run for God's sake! Try using your brain for once! But no, of course not, they have to see where this noise comes from and BANG then they've been killed by a ghost girl who was drowned in a well years ago. I don't get it, really, I don't. Horror movies are filled with cliché characters who are just plain stupid and we all know that only one or two of the people in the film are going to survive anyway and it's never difficult to guess who - the main character!

No I don't get this genre mostly because it scares the living *beep* out of me but also because they have uncreative and not-surprising plots with dead boring, cliché characters who are most likely going to die anyway... Yep, Sille is out!