Back home and needing help

Yo

I'm finally back from Sardinia. Not that I'm particularly excited about that, but still now I'm back home with lots of work to do. Firstly, I emailed Kristina Horner (italktosnakes on youtube) asking her whether she was interested to answer some questions related to The Parselmouths and Harry Potter as a sort of "interview", in order to put it up on a fan site and here, on my blog. I've been trying to contact the-leaky-cauldron.org to see if they'd be interested in putting it up in the next edition of The Quibbler, but I am yet to receive a reply. As I don't know how else to contact Melissa or any other member of the site; does anyone know how to help me here?

  I'd really appreciate any help I can get. Even if I can get in touch with any other webmaster or mistress if another HP fan site. So yeah, it's a shout out to get some help here! If anyone reads this, please comment and answer!!

Thank you!!!

YoDifferent font for today. I'm in Sardinia and was with my friend Jenny till hours ago. She took the plane and went home. Now, I'm all alone waiting for my lazy ass to get off the couch and start packing to go home this evening. I doubt that will ever happen anyway. Overall it was a good holiday. Went to the beach..a LOT, shopped here and there, had good sea food and chilled. Now, that is what you come here for: a good old sea side holiday.

Song of the holiday: I'm on a Boat ft. T-Pain

Picture of the week:

 Quote for picture: "I'm the King of the world, on a boat like Leo..."

Ah yes, the good bumps on the boat. Good times Jen. I'm all alone at home now, so this is what I end up doing: writing a blog that nobody reads, enjoys or comments on. I understand why people usually as you to comment stuff. Because we need feedback and we need to know that there is someone out there who finds us interesting, to say something!

I'm a boring person. 

So make me interesting.

Peace. :P

Fighting a fear?

Alright, so here's something that has bothered me today. I am scared of open spaces or places like open water. This afternoon I went to the lake with a bunch of friends and I found myself facing one of my fears. My friends were all telling me to jump in because it was a lot of fun and the water was relatively clean and cool. I couldn't. I looked in, not knowing how deep it was or what was underneath whatever my eye could manage to see. To be honest, I did consider going in for a moment because it did look like a lot of fun and quite frankly, refreshing too. But no, I just couldn't bring myself round to it. All my friends were telling me it wasn't exactly "open water" because it was only the lake. Well, here's what I consider "open water": whatever is larger and deeper than the average swimming pool. 

  So, I have set my goal to Saturday, when I will be heading back to the beach with my friend Jenny and I am convinced I will manage to swim in that lake. Hopefully I won't panic or drown hehehe, but I will definitely write about it if it's a success. 

Sorry, I just had to get this out. 

Yeah.

See you.

Bye.

Bye.

Harry Potter truck, Milan

Where 

to start? Monday 29/06 was an amazing day. Firstly, it was my best friend's birthday and secondly, after a long long wait; I got to meet some of the people that take part in the thing I am biggest fan of: Harry Potter. 

 So, in Milan

 that evening there was the inauguration of the Harry Potter truck exhibition in the Piazza Duomo. Three actors were expected to attend: James and Oliver Phelps and Evanna Lynch who play Fred and George Weasley and Luna Lovegood, respectively. Luckily, my 2 friends and I got there in time. There was hardly anyone gathered around the truck as they started getting everything ready. We decided to 

stand there and keep our places in front row, just in case there would turn out to be a lot of people as expected.

  So we stood there, taking turns to jog off to the closest bar to buy a couple of bottles of cold water, as we stood in the square for 2 and a half hours under 35°C and sticky air in Milan. Time went by quite fast as we talked to eachother wondering what was going to happen and expressing how surreal the whole situation felt. Meanwhile, more fans started to gather around, asking us what was going on. The press started to show up and I took out my "Deathly Hallows" copy and that attracted the media's attention. My friends and I were interviewed and many pictures were taken with us and the book. 

  Then, the loud mumbling started as a couple of dark Mercedes pulled in at the side and people started clapping and screaming as Evanna Lynch and the Phelps twins got onto the red carpet. First, they stood infront of the cameras for a bit and got some pictures taken, then they moved onto signing some autographs. It was hectic. We were worried we might not get our books signed as Evanna walked towards us, but she signed every single book she could reach for! So, I thought I'd ask her if I could snap a picture with her and she agreed :).

Here's a video of when she approached us and signed my book. It happened at about 0:19

To watch it click here

 Then the Phelps twins walked over and they were so sweet and laid back as they took their time signing books and pieces of paper. If I'm not wrong, Oliver came first, followed by James and they both wrote "Happy Birthday" in my friend's book. They went along, signed mine as well and then I asked James if I could take a picture with him and with the most Fred-like, familiar voice he answered "Go for it".

Unfortunately, I had a bad aim..but at least I caught him in the pic

  

 They were both really kind and thanked us for coming. I think they felt a tad more at ease when they found 3 proper English speaking fans. It was really an amazing day and I think every minute of it was absolutely 100% worth it! I've got so many pictures, I couldn't possibly put them all up here hehehe The only thing that could possibly top that off, would be meeting the other members of the cast. So basically, what I want to say is: If this happens near you, don't miss the opportunity, because it really is worth your time!!

ari x

He will never die

Michael Jackson has passed away.

I cannot explain the shock and the pain I am going through. To me and many others I'm sure, he has been an iconic figure that I have loved and mostly, respected with all my heart. I am only 15, but since I was 6 years old I fell in love with his music and Michael as a person. He has been trying to share important messages of love with the world and has made a huge impact on music's history. He is a legend. It upsets me to think about how hard the media has made his life. He was not a circus act, he was not weird, he was unique. His childhood had been taken away from him and he had been hurt and lied through throughout his life, so it is only predictable that he might like different activities and still feel like a child. 

 His love for children was never, and i mean NEVER in any way abusive or perverted. I believe every word Michael has said and his true fans know the truth. His life was turned into mayhem by the media; forcing him to act in ways that did not show his true self. He was a shy, caring and also scared human being. He was also very sensitive and so his feelings were easily hurt, but that comes to no surprise after what he'd been through. 

I could write pages and pages about how I feel about Michael and what a big part he'd played in my life. It's such a waste, to have lost such a lovely, caring, talented, amazing person like Michael Jackson. I am in denial. The King of Pop will never truly die. He was beautiful inside and at one point also out. May he rest in Peace forever. Now you're safe Mike.

All my love and affection to his family, his beautiful kids and his friends.

I love you Michael.

I miss you.

I'll never forget you.

Ever.

Love.

Peace.

It's OVER

Wooooow!! Today I had my last test! It was a maths test, the longest one we've ever had and I didn't even manage to finish it; crap. Well, on the other hand I got some test results back as well and they count as my end-of-year mark on my report. So here's what I've gotten so far:

• Physics: 6.5  (Whooohhooo!!! :D)
• Geography: 8  (Whooohhhhhooooo!!!!)
• Spanish: 10  (Well... yeah!)
• Finnish: 7.5  (could be worse..)
  

Well, for now that's all I know. Tomorrow I'm getting my history test back and honestly, I think that went alright. Can't wait till school is over dudes!! My best friend who left a while ago is coming to visit for the summer!! OMG! Cannot wait! AND I'll be going on holiday with her and it'll be soo much fun!

So, I must apologize for the very short post, but seen as I haven't got much to talk about I wouldn't want to bore you much more. I'll be bloggging again soooon!

ari

Duuuude Seriously!

Oh Good day to you all!

I should probably start off by saying how deeply sorry I am for abruptly "giving up" on my blogging. It was very rude of me. BUT this is another day, so let us get over that minor detail and move on to this blog.

So, seen as it has been a while since I last posted I guess I should talk about what I've been up to. Well, here we go: 

1. I started school again
2. I figured no one was reading my blogs
3. I forgot to have time to write my blogs
4. I was busy falling in love hopelessly
5. I was studying for my exam
6. I've been stressing
7. I've been lazying about
8. I've been busy trying to get over the guy
9. The guy's finished with school so I'll never see him again
10. I'm still not over the guy
11. Homework.
    

Right, so number 9. isn't entirely true, because I mean I'll probably run into him here and there or whatever, but no big deal. HELL YEAH! It's a Hu-flipping-mungus deal! I am NOT going to go into details about this person because it will not help my "therapy". Anyway, I find blogging is a pretty good way to kill time and just tell people (in my case: invisible followers) what you've been doing. If you think about it, it doesn't really make sense. You know, if you've just been through a ridiculously boring day, then why on earth would you blog about it when you have nothing to say? Well, simply because there is nothing better to do in my life. Schoolwork aside.

 Now now, school ends in 2 weeks time!! OMG. I know half the schools in Europe have probably finished school already, but hey, I guess that at the European School they just like to be unique and keep the kids in school for just a little while longer. Just so they can say that the students do more work and hence, shall be smarter once they finish their time here and we are depriving them of an awesome day at the beach so that they can stay locked up in a stuffy B.O smelling classroom for just a little while longer.Why, how I love our school system. Although I do tend to speak of it as if it were a jail. You know when i say "finish their time here" etc. I do think we are actually doing time. Which brings me to think: Why is it that we have to wake up every morning and endure a solid 8 hours of school, to then go home and end up having piles of more schoolwork to do, and we don't even get PAID. 

Duuuuude, seriously! All teachers do is lie around all day complaining about how we're not good enough and how it's not their problem if we haven't found a gap in our "schedules" to fit in the presentation they want ready for the next day. I mean, honestly guys. I'm not denying they do have work to do themselves.. you know, like marking some homework, tests and wirting report cards. But hey, a shout-out to the teachers: You brought it on yourselves! Now, don't complain to us when you knew you had this coming.

Do you agree?

Man, I am quite tired of writing already! I guess I just have to get used to this blogging thing again. FYI this was probably the most spontaneous, "go-with-the-flow" blog I've written...ever.

Bye for now :)

ari