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A fun challenge ^^

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Yay, something that makes me write a blog entry xD

Marie challenged me to do this picture blog thingy..:

1. Go to your Pictures folder

2. Choose the 6th folder

3. Find the 6th picture

4. Paste the picture into your blog and write a bit about it

5. Invite 6 new people

Soooo… Let’s go to the Pictures folder then

So then we hit something kind of boring: Pictures –> Nature

Which means there are only edited pics ^^ Anyway, here it is:

I have no clue why I even have this picture.. I really liked it somehow, because it was so creepy with the chain and the movement, etc. Anyway, this is my mother’s old bike. It hangs on the wall in our garage, because she never uses it. Today she actually got a new bike, so let’s hope she uses this one a bit more!

Now; people to challenge.. Almost all the bloggers I follow have already done this! Therefore I’ll challenge YOU instead ^^ Yes, you, now get your ass on the task and tell me if you’ve done it, because it’s always fun to see what picture people end up with!

Apart from that, school is quite busy. We sold cakes at school this evening at a parents meeting, and earned 1000kr 500 will go to “Pant en flaske for Nairobi” and 500 to our school group of Amnesty International. Amnesty is going to sell more cakes on Thursday next week, and I really hope that goes just as well!

Oh, and of course I’ve been photographing!

These pictures are from a Norwegian project where we were going to take pictures of ourselves in front of the statue of an author and then tell about the author in class. The top one is some friends by the statue of Aleksander Kielland, and the bottom one is of me next to “Johanna”, a character from Ajax’s stories!

A lot of other things have happened as well, but I don’t have the time to write about it :/ Please forgive me x)

I’m enjoying life these days. It’s busy, but really fun as well. Sorry for not blogging too much, but hopefully I’ll get better again soon

Best wishes to you all!

- Juno

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I’m awesome.

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Why? Because I… I don’t know. I just am. So because I’m awesome, you will forgive me that I haven’t written anything for like… three weeks!

Anyway, been going to school for a few weeks now, and it’s busybusybusy, but also quite fun. I finally only have subjects I wish to study, which really improves my attention in class and motivation to work with the subjects.

We also had the semester’s first Amnesty meeting at school last week, and we were more people than I’ve ever experienced at a school meting (almost twenty people :D). We’re planning a campaign at school, and later on we will hopefully have one in town as well.

Oh, and I’ve almost finished my Amnesty poster/collage, finally! It’s a huge poster hanging on my door, which I decorate with all the cards/flyers/posters I can find from Amnesty (Mostly causes/campaigns I have participated in myself, but also other important causes):

In addition to school, I just started the “grunnkurs” (basic traffic licence course), and I’m going to a related first aid course on Tuesday. I’ve heard it’s quite fun, so I’m looking forward to it! Also, I will go to an evening course in German every Thursday from October to February. Finally I might be able to learn the language more properly!

Speaking about German, I’m going to Switzerland in the autumn holidays I’m staying there for over a week, and I’m really looking forward to see my dear Caspar again

On the picture front, I haven’t done much new stuff yet, but I’ve started practicing a new technique in PhotoShop, using “Smart object”. This means I can have seperate layers where I can go back at any time and edit the raw settings, and will give me a lot more control on what I’m doing. This is the picture I used as an experiment for the technique:

And here’s the result

I’m quite pleased with it, but I could’ve done better on the edges of the flower.

Another picture is this:

It’s still a WIP, and I think I want to replace the whole sky with a more interesting one. First, I just have to get a good sky-picture

I’ve also become addicted to some finnish oatmeal cookies I made a couple of weeks ago (havrefarn på norsk), and here’s a picture I took of those as well!

The recipe is really simple:
60gr oat

1 tablespoon flour

125gr sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

50gr melted butter

1 egg

Mix all the dry ingredients together, then add the melted butter and stir it together. Then put in the egg and stir until it’s an even mixture (it will look kind of disgusting thanks to the oat, though). Put teaspoon sized piles on a baking tray (3×3) and put them in the oven (hot air, 200 degrees) for 4-6 minutes. Make sure to watch them closely so that they don’t burn themselves! Let them cool down on the baking tray for a little while (5-10 minutes).

P.S.: They taste really good with ice cream!

Well, that’s the end of my very rough update, hope it wasn’t too long!

-Juno

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Human Rights Blog and School

Friday, August 14th, 2009

I’m terrible at writing these days, and I’m terribly sorry about it.

I’ve been thinking lately that I want to start another kind of blog, in addition to this one. My plan is to make a human rights blog, and it will be named “The Freedom Blog”. I will try and update it once a week with various causes that I burn for. The idea isn’t fully developed yet, but I’m working on it.

Anyway, it’s only three days until school starts again, and I’m quite excited. Who will I go to class with? How will my time table look? Will my teachers be nice/good? Will anyone give me the swine flu? I really don’t want it the first weeks of school. But honestly, I think the hysteria about it isn’t really worth it. My school now says that if you have a headache and a fever one day, they want you to stay home for 7 days! I think it sounds crazy, but I guess it’s ok to be careful so that only maybe a few get sick instead of the whole school.

It will be nice to start up again anyway, because the last two weeks have been quite boring. I’ve been sitting around just missing my boyfriend far too much compared to what’s healthy, so it will be good to actually not have time for that anymore.

So as I’ve most likely said before, I will have all my subjects in English this year, because I’m taking the International Baccalaureate (IB). It is a quite special school system, where you can choose all your subjects yourself. There are six groups, and you have to have a subject inside each of them: Mother Tongue; Second Language; Scientific; Mathematics; Social Study; and Artistic (or another scientific, social or lingual subject).

The subjects I chose were: Norwegian HL, English HL, Biology HL, Mathematics SL, Psychology SL, and German HL.

As you see, I put a HL or SL after all the subjects. The HL means that it’s on a higher level than what’s normal in gymnasium, while SL means that it’s at a standard level.

My last choice of subject, the German, was unfortunately not available, so now I’m having Chemistry HL instead, which also will be quite interesting.

I still need to learn German if I want to study in Switzerland, so I will go to an evening course instead. I think that is a good solution.

Well, I’m looking forward to get back to school again, for some reason, and I hope that feeling will last for a while. If I know myself right, I’ll be tired again after a month, but then it’s not far from autumn holidays anyway.

Hope you all had a great summer!

Juno

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Trying to Enjoy Life

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

There was no school today. Tomorrow is the last day I’ll go to school this season, maybe. I’ll only go to school to find out if I’m going to have an oral exam or not. If I don’t, it’s holidays. Which sounds wonderful, unbelievable actually.

Right now I’m trying to enjoy life, but I can’t really remember what that means, so I’m really just doing what I always do when I’m too tired to do what I’m supposed to: Watch a stupid movie, surf the net, and try to find out what’s the most important thing to do, or in this case; what I want to do.

On the to-do list is:

- Organizing all my old school papers

- Cleaning the windows I haven’t cleaned yet

- Making a movie about my dad, uncle and two other guys’ trip to the Orkney Islands

- Editing all the pictures I haven’t finished editing yet from the past month

- Finishing the piano song I just started making

- Tidying a bit- this place is a mess

- Reinstalling Cubase, because it suddenly claims my license is wrong

- Reading one of the 30 books waiting for me in my book shelves

- Designing a website design I’m actually pleased with (and capable of finishing)

- Blogging (and as you’ve probably noticed, that’s what I’m doing ^^)

Probably quite some other things to do, but I’ll stick to that list of choices for now.

But still, what am I doing? Watching Diminished Capacity and.. yeah well, at least I’m blogging.

I think maybe I should plan what to pack next week soon. I’m leaving in 8 days :D:D:D It’s going to be wonderful to see England again enjoy the countryside of Cumbria, the banks of River Eden… Drinking English Tea with English water (I’d never drink the water like it is, because it tastes horrible compared to the water here in Norway, but it gives this special taste to the tea that I really like :D). Play Scrabble long past midnight…

I’m really looking forward to go to Italy as well. We’ll go from Manchester Airport directly to Sardinia (an island outside Italy) a week after we arrived in England. We always go somewhere else for one week. Italy is new, though. We usually go to France. Something else that’s new, is that I won’t go back to England with my parents. Instead I’ll take a plane from Sardinia to Lugano, Switzerland, where my Swiss boyfriend will pick me up We’re going to have three wonderful weeks together this summer, which is more time than we’ve ever had together before. Usually we only get to meet for like eight days. Last time we only had five. Hopefully we’ll get to travel around a bit, and see more of Switzerland too. It’s all gonna be a real nice, but different (compared to the usual “four weeks with my parents in England and France”), holiday to me.

Anyway, I’ve used like an hour writing this, and now even my movie is finished. The length of it tells me I should stop as well. Probably write more as soon as I get something interesting done xD

Oh, and btw: Just read “The Beginning of the End” by Dean Koontz, which actually was a quite good book. Unfortunately, I read it in Norwegian, and the translation was terrible. The essence of the book was still the same though, so I suggest that you lot read it (if you like books with lotsa details and an actual meaning)

Oh, and another btw: I’m going to a Muse concert in Oslo in October with friends!! That’s just gonna be great! *adds a Muse song to the*

Cheers!

- Juno =)

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The Finished Commercial Video

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Here’s the finished version of the commercial video I made with a group of pupils from my class at school.

See http://www.junojones.com/blog/?p=10 for translations

I worked all evening with getting the layout for my blog right and when I finally was finished I was so tired I just had to go to bed and didn’t write any entry about it. Sorry. x)

I had to make the blog all over, so I lost all my old entries. I re-uploaded a few, the ones I find most important of the recent ones. If you would like to see any of my old posts, please go to http://junojones.com/blog/old

I’ll probably write more later. Bye for now!

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Movie Almost Finished :D

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

So the Red Cross commercial is fianlly getting somewhere. Almost all the nescessary pictures are shot and edited, and I’m looking forward to putting it all together properly. Unfortunately I have a project about Congo that I must finish by Thursday, so I won’t be able to put the commercial together before the weekend.
Here are the finished pictures for the movie:

Popular at school…

But not as popluar at home…

Good friends at home…

…but maybe the opposite at school

Eager on being a good pupil…

…but maybe not as eager on your own life

Eating candy with friends…

…but maybe it doesn’t get to stay for too long (any other suggestions for how to say this one,..? I’m trying to express anorexia)

So yeah, that’s it. In the end I’m going to have some information and so on, a phone number and yah… And if you didn’t read my previous blog entry: I’m going to use the song “How to Save a Life” by The Fray.
Any comments or critiques about the images are very welcome. I want this project to turn out as good as possible!

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