United States of America

Do you know what this is?

Yeah, it's the map of the USA and as you can see it is almost empty. We had to write down the names of the sates ourselves ... Can you guess how many of them I got right?? Well ... I got Texas, California and Florida. And I had an idea about where Kentucky, Ohio and Idaho were, but I couldn't really put them down on the map. I have a friend from Idaho and I couldn't spot her state, how embarrassing is that? :)

We did this in American literature class. We were trying to learn about where all those writers came from. The first one was O. Henry and his story "The Gift of the Magi". Click HERE and read it, it's a very nice short story. :)

Anyway, don't be mad at me, I found a nice map online and I'm going to fix my map, I promise. :P

Poppy ;)

Christening

Do you like babies posts? I usually don't, but here's one. :)

I said I "adopted" my boyfriend's nephew, because my brother is 19 and my sister is 11 so I can't expect any nephews or nieces any time soon. His name is Jani and he is (of course) the cutest little baby ever. (at least until I'll have one) :)

This weekend I had the honour to become his godmother. He was baptised on a sunny day in the church in a beautiful village on the top of the hill, overlooking the whole valley. And I have to say he had the cutest white baby tuxedo.

Anyway, all I wanted to post today is a baby picture!

Me and my new godson:

His relatives said we're all related now, no matter what happens between me and my boyfriend. Beware! :)

Poppy ;)

Anorexia? No, thanks.

It's October and I'm back to school. When I'm not attending classes, lectures and seminars and when I'm not arranging a ton of new study materials I just got, I usually don't have anything to do. So you can imagine I spend a lot of time in front of my laptop.

One of the things I like to do is watching some interesting shows and one of those I find interesting is America's next top model. I don't really like all those chick-fights and stuff, I like photoshooting ideas, stylings ... Surprisingly I like fashion, although you'd never guess that if you met me. I'm a jeans + T-shirt person.Anyway, I was watching 1st part of the cycle 15 and something surprised me in a positive way. There was a beautiful girl, Anamaria, who did quite well in photoshoots:

Tyra once mentioned that she isn't happy with her skinny body. Eat a sandwich, girl! But after listening to Anamaria's arguments how skinny she has to be to become a supermodel and how well she plans her diet, Tyra became seriously concerned.

Anamaria was the first one eliminated from the show, because the judges didn't want to send the message that skinny is good to young girls all over the world. "Too skinny isn't good, you have to pack your belongings and leave!"

I mean, look at her ...

Compared to the image that fashion industry shows as perfect I find this move as a very good step towards changing the ideal of perfect skinny tall girls back to normal.

After all, Tyra did that twice before:

Firstly, when she chose Whitney Thompson as the winner of cycle 10. Whitney was the first plus-size America's next top model!

And secondly, cycle 13 was all about petite models. Only 5"7' And Under allowed!

Support, Tyra! :)

Poppy ;)

When the actor doesn't fit into the role

Do you know that feeling, when you're watching a movie and it seems a bit weird, but you can't really figure out why? It happened to me yesterday, when I was watching Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time. Let me explain.

There was this guy, Tus, the king's son and a great, brave warrior. That's him in the middle:

But he seemed a bit weird to me. And why? Somewhere in the middle of the movie I realized that the same actor, Richard Coyle, was starring as Jeff in Coupling. And Jeff was a complete weirdo! It was hard to imagine him as a warrior, I tell you.

Do you want to know why? Click HERE and take a look at this video. And by the way, I totally recommend Coupling, it's the funniest and one of my favourite series.

Has it ever happened to you? Do you remember certain actors from some certain movie / series and you don't really see him / her as someone else? :)

Poppy :)

...

I'm opening a new business.

It's called

PreExamInsomnia inc.

And I'm taking all the important positions in it, because I'm THE pro here. :P

Good night! (hopefully ... )

just in case

I have already posted this prayer on FB, but to be sure:

DEAR STUDY GODS!

Please make morphology, phraseology and lexicology easier for me.
Make it go into my brain and stay there.
At least for a week.

Thank you.

P.S.: Dear procrastinators' patrons. Please help us stay away from procrastinating.

Please ... ?

Thank you again.

:) Poppy

Home made bread

Yaaay! I baked my first loaf of bread ever! :) It always seemed so impossible when my brother was doing it (sorry, bro :D ) so I didn't even want to try, but E. convinced me to do it after all. So I found a very simple recipe yesterday, bought the ingredients (and a new plastic bowl, that's a very important factor!) and gave it a try. And guess what! It turned out great!

This is what it looked like before:

look, it's starting to rise!

And here it is: my very first loaf of bread. :)

I call it a succes. And now I'm going to have dinner. Bon apetit. :)

Poppy