I decided that the blog client I was using really was lacking, so I’ve changed into Wordpress now. You guys have to be patient with me when it comes to the layout though. I have no clue at all about how to write the CSS codes to get my old layout back. Hopefully I’ll learn something from it at least ^^
Until then! 
I went for a walk tonight to get my bike from school (where I had left it by a mistake), and I brought the Nikon D40 with me to get some snapshots on the road. Somehow these "snapshots" ended up being 104 exposures, but barely any of them were good. It was getting too dark and most of them are really blurry.
The trip made me start thinking though. I found so much garbage on the way to my school. First I found an empty can of beer smashed into the ground:
Then a very unhappy Happy Meal box, or so it seemed at least:
And at last, a forgotten Big Mac between some rocks on top of a fence:
I can’t understand how people can leave things around like that. There are garbage bins just about everywhere, what’s the problem with carrying your trash for a few more metres and then throw it?
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Anyway, I’m not in the mood for ranting about the environment right now. I’m just happy the sun is finally showing itself again and I’m able to take the camera outside to take pictures from real life instead of macro and such ^^
So yeah, I took some more pictures as well of course. Here are some: 
Going to bed now, then…
Good night!
Yesterday I wanted to upload and show you some pictures from a walk I had to the beach on wednesday. Actually, I managed to only push the preview button instead of the publish button, then closed the window, and voila: My blog entry was gone.
Anyway. My walk to the beach ended up being a lot further than I had planned. I walked about 5km from the bus stop next to a main road. There were a lot of cars and it was a bit scary. So scary I got my camera from my bag and started shooting flower pictures where there was no pavement to walk on. Smart me. A truck honked at me, but it seems I survived anyway.
I’ll upload the pictures again then:
I hope you enjoy! (=
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!
So I just checked out some recent news from Amnesty, andthe newest heading was "Death of Delara".
Delara Darabi was an Iranian woman that I, and so many other activists around the world, have been fighting for for many years.
Delara was said to be a really nice and caring person. She always took the blame when something bad was done, even if someone else had done it. When she was seventeen years old, she was arrested. Arrested for murderer. And she admitted to have done it at first, though later a different story came to the surface.
Her older boyfriend was the real murderer, it’s said. She took the blame because she’s underaged and they didn’t think she could get punished by death. At least that’s what the law says.
Unfortunately for Delara, they were wrong. She’s been improsoned for many years now. Activists around the world have fought for her, and time after time have we managed to postpone her execution.
Today, on May 1, they executed her without a warning. Not even her lawyer was warned. Nobody expected anything to happen before June. But it did.
I don’t understand. She never got a fair trial. And now they even executed her without anyone knowing? It makes me sad, but mostly outraged. I hope the Iranian government will get to feel this one and regret that they ever even arrested Delara Darabi.
Some facts:140 people have been executed in Iran so far this year. Two of them were children*
*Child = person below 18 years of age when crime took place.
Can’t the world just….. make Iran stop? They’re going crazy with all their executions down there.
Read more in Amnesty UK’s blog.
It’s ice cold in here>_> No clue what to do right now either. I’ve done some cleaning around the house and I’m planning to maybe do some shoots for Easter pictures today. I don’t know of what yet, though. The weather outside has guaranteed that I won’t do any outside photograpy today either, at least. It rains a little bit, the sky is completely white, and the wind seems to make the trees into giant whips. It’s nice to look at from inside, but wouldn’t do on photos, I think.
So… What to talk about… I guess I could tell you a bit about myself:
For starters, I’ve experienced seventeen winters, and I’m quite tired of them. I’m the kind of person who stays away from most sports, especially things including running, jumping or skiing. I love swimming though, and volleyball is quite fun as a social activity. I’m an eleventh grader, which means I’m at the end of my first year at gymnasium, and have finally started realising that school isn’t the most important thing in this world. Despite this little realisation, I have great plans for further studies. My dream since I was ten is to become a psychologist.
Now to the music. When I was ten I also bought a guitar just because my cousin had gotten herself one quite cheaply, and I wanted to find a better deal (and I managed). I never bothered to learn to play it though, until in eight grade when guitar playing suddenly was part of the school’s pensum list. I took it quite seriously and made sure to get a 6 (best mark) on every guitar test. It also made me more interested in music and I started making my own songs. They’re quite amateurish, but I don’t know if I even can play them anymore anyway. I always forget to practice, so it hurts now. Half a year after I started playing the guitar, I bought myself an el-guitar, and I’m still working at decorating it with tons of stickers. Here are a few pictures of it:
The following summer I wanted a better acoustic guitar as well, so I bought a lovely one in England. That was two years ago.
Now I’ve only talked about me and my guitars. I totally left out the piano. When I was seven years I started taking piano lessons at my grandmother’s. We used an hour a week, and I also got a keyboard from my parents so I could practice every day. It didn’t go long before I went tired though, because I didn’t really manage to learn at the speed I wanted to. Just so that I’ve mentioned it, though, I really appreciated the time I had with my grandmother back then. We had so much fun during the lessons! But well, when I was nine or so, I put away the piano playing for a while. Again, I returned to my piano pretty much because of school. I just loved the instrument when I started playing it again, and I’ve done so since. Last Christmas I bought myself a new stage piano (Korg SP-200), which is the best electric piano I’ve ever played on. It almost feels real! I’m still not too good at the piano though, but I’m practicing and it will probably focus on that as my main instrument in the future.
So that’s the music. I’ll try and record some stuff soon and upload it too the new website I’ll hopefully make soon (Yeah, that’s a lot of stuff to do, so you will probably have to wait for quite a while ^^).
What about webdesign? And photography? And writing? I’ll give you those and probably more stories another time!
- Juno