[RE] Chocolate

My post respond on Lotta's free post from last week about chocolate.

So I'am the friend of her who started with her the three-weeks-without-chocolate-challenge:D
We are doing that just for fun and to look if we are strong enough to resist the temptation.
Actually I have to say that it is so much easier to do that with friends. When I'm trying to eat less chocolate and I do it on my own, it never works because I never pass through the temptation.
For sure I miss to eat chocolate and it kills me when my sister sits next to me with a huge brownie and I'm just thinking: Alright Claire, only two weeks more...

I think nobody can exactuely tell us, why we just need sometimes to eat a piece of chocolate, it is just like it is. And nothing else can replace it. I personally can not eat something instead of chocolate when I want something sweet. Then I prefer to eat nothing with sugar and set a day where I can eat as much calories I want to eat:D

I'm happy that I'm not alone because as I said, I could never make it on my own:P I'm really looking forward to our chocolate evening because then we can enjoy all our calories we missed the last weeks and be proud that we made it. That sounds like I'm a bit weird, of course most of the time I eat chocolate without bad feelings, like everybody else, but I think it's fun to try this out. But only for 3 weeks, that's for sure! :P

[FREE] My future plans

I think the 'future plans' topic is always a huge subject to talk about. How should my future look like? I think that is always one of the most difficult questions because to decide how I want to spend my life is kind of complicated.
It should be a mixture of our dream and a realistic job. It's not always the best idea to pursue our dream job because with certain works, earning money is easier, as with others.

In Luxembourg you decide a direction kind of early because after the 4th year of highschool, you have to choose a 'section'. A, B, C, D, E, F or G
At the moment I'm thinking to take the C-Section. It is for science subjects like Biologie, Chemistry and Physics. I have the advantage that my strengths are kind of the same than my interests so it allows me to realize my dream job.

I'm interested in Medecine but I know that to study it takes a very long time and it's hard, very hard. In Europe, they make big selections at Universities, so they only take the people with the best grades. I don't know if I'm strong enough to get on well with that pressure for all these years.

When I would decide to study Medecine I would be finish with my studies when I'm around 30 years old. One the one side is it kind of late to have children. One the other side, is it only the beginning when you want to make a career as a doctor so 30 would be the earliest possibility to raise children.

It is a very difficult question and at the moment I decided to look forward step by step and everything what's coming when I'm 30, I won't think about these questions right now.

[CE] Kidnapped French woman dies in Somalia

My third post responds this week on the current event : Kindnapped French woman dies in Somalia 

When I read this current event, I was so schocked...  An innocent, old laddy was at the the beach of a Kenyan Island Resort and got kidnapped. Actually it wasn't a lonly place so usually there wouldn't be a reason to worry or to imagine about such a horrible thing.
I'm always asking myself why people do that to other humans... I mean, it is obvious that they weren't interested in money because when the French woman told them that they could take all the stuff from the house, they just ignored what she was saying. They only took her away.
The article says also that it was planned, targeted attack, according to witnesses because we can see on the way how she kidnapped her that it was not important for them to hide the kidnepping from other people.
I think this current event shows us again that you can never take enough care of yourself but actually there will never be a garanty for totally safety. That scarres me a bit because the old laddy from France didn't do something wrong... I think that is also very hard for her family because it's nobody's fault. It is not the case that she brought herself in a dangerous situation and I think that is the most difficult part to accept, that it's nobody's fault...

Some French authorities tried to get the medication she needed to her and the place she was located. She had cancer so she needed her medecine to survive. The saying goes that she died because she didn't get her stuff...
Everything what I can say about this event is that it's horrible and I think there was no chance to save her...

[CE] Bhutan celebrates royal wedding

I choose to write about this current event because I'm actually a big fan of royal weddings.
You can see in the video that people from Bhutan have a totaly different way to celebrate their weddings. Clothes, traditions and the whole ceremony is different.
The King saw his future wife when he was 17. At that time she was 7 and I think it was kind of weird for him to see his wife when he was so young.
Honestly I'm against previewed weddings because I think people should choose their own partner because they have to live with each other at the end, not the person who matches the couple.
On the video both of them don't look very in love and that is missing. Smaller ceremonies are maybe not so big and decorated nice but it has a natural beauty because you can really see that the couple loves each other and that's actually the reason why people should get married.

I think its very cute that all the people are rushing to congrate the royal couple for their wedding.
It's always a big event in the whole country when the royal couple gets marry but I think it's not very fun for the couple. They are very stressed because a whole nation is looking at them and all the videocameras are there. The King's wife doesn't look very happy and I think that's too bad. Actually it should be her special day but she doesn't get the chance to enjoy it because all the people are staring on them.
For example at the royal wedding in England, people were talking about the royal kiss and I think you can not enjoy at all the moment were you get married when everybody is just waiting to see a mistake to have new gossip to talk about.

[FREE] Scuba Diving

 It's getting harder and harder to find every week a topic to write about in my free post:) So this week I wanted to write about something I always wanted to try in my life but never got the courage to make it real.

Something, I always wanted to try out is Scuba Diving. Friends who went diving told me that's so amazing!
The fact, that everything is quiet around you and you can watch the different kinds of fishes is a great feeling. When I see all these pictures, which were taken by people who went scuba diving, I'm aways thinking that I would love to try it but actually I'm too afraid to dive under the water surface.

Maybe it's the case because when I was younger I had bad experiences of diving.
I would really like to try it but always when I'm deap under the water surface, I'm feeling pressed...  It's weird, I know:)
3 years ago we went to Jordan, next to the Red Sea. My parents went scuba diving and my sister too but I couldn't join them because I was ill and diving is dangerous when people are sick. 

I think I'm going to start to learn it first in a swimming pool, before I'm going to the sea because that takes me the fear of the depth.
During the Thank's Giving Break I'm going to Hawai with my hostfamily, so I hope I will have enough courage to overcome my fear and make my dream comes true.

[RE] I wonder what the person I'm going to marry is doing right now

I decided to write a respond post on Sharon's free post about her future husband

I think the questions which Sharon was asking herself are very interesting and I've never thought about it in that way.
Well, so what is my future husband doing at the moment while I'm writing my free post in English right now? How old is he? Where does he live? When I started to think about all these questions, I started to get more and more curious.
Actually, we have often situations where we recognize that one year ago we could never imagine how things would turn out one year later...
So I'm sure that when I will be marry, I can remember the days where I was thinking about how and who my husband would be... I think it's funny when people are standing at a point where you have all the answers of the questions we asked ourself a few years ago.

When people have boyfriends in high school or college they always imagine to stay with them forever, raise children etc... but actually when we look over that in a realistic way is it hard to stay forever with that person. In life we will meet a lot of peopl so the risk, that we meet someday a person who matches better with us, is big.

But that's not only the case when you're young. Even when you are an adult it can happen that you meet someday another person which you like more. That makes me a bit nervous and so I'm not sure if I want to marry a person. So here we get the next question. Will we ever get married or is it enough to have only relationships nowadays?

Sophomore Biweekly Column

''Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart''

I agree with Job's advice because I think it's nice when a person can follow his heart for a last time before his death, without being afraid of the consequences. There is nothing to lose and that is what gives the people courage. That's it what people are missing, the courage to follow their heart because to do that, is not always the easy way, on the contrary. It's a shame that certain people only act in this courageous way because they know that they have nothing to lose anyway and that is what I don't like about Steve Job's advice.

I think everybody who reads Steve's sentence agrees with him. To open ourself is a great feeling, but why do people wait until there is the situation where the time has come where they are going to die?

To imagine such a situation shows us how we would act when we would stand before death. So when we think it's good to follow our heart at the end, why don't we do it from the beginning?
People are too coward to take the hard way.

I think it's wrong ONLY to follow our heart when there is nothing to lose because then people make it again easy for them and actually the point about following their heart is, to act in a way, no matter what the consequences are.

Someday it's time to say goodbye, that's a fact and most of the people don't know when the day is there. I think many people would like to know when they are dieing to have the chance to open their heart for a last time. Otherwise they were never enough courageous to do it. What if you don't know when you are dieng? That's a think what you can not plan...
You should ask yourself every evening: when you would die tonight, would you be satisfied with your life or what would you like to change? And when you can answer with: I'm satisfied. I would do everything exact as I did it even when there were some very hard times but I followed my heart all the time and so I know that I didn't lie about myself.  I think that gives you the safety and takes you the fear of death. When you wouldn't be satisfied and recoginze that you have never actually followed your heart, you should change something... Researches tell us that our heart is always stronger than our head so we shouldn't act against the natural.
What do you get from following your head when you're not happy at the end...?

Example:

Two people love eachother but the guy was never courageous enough to except that because he knew that to enter in that relationship would be very complicated. He died someday in a carcrash without telling the girl how much he actually loved her. One the one side it doesn't change something on his statement because he is dead but he will never ever have the possibility to tell the girl again how much he trully loved her. He missed the chance to be honest to the girl and to himself because he didn't follow his heart.

[CE] India creates world's cheapest computer

India invented kind of an I-Pad for people who don't have enough money to buy computers by themself. They sell this new invention for 45$ and since now, students from India have the possibility to make reasearches and use technology.

I think that it's a wonderful idea to create a cheap computer because in our world live more poor people than rich people. Education is one of the most important things but many people don't have the chance to learn or study because they don't have the money. That is one of many factors we have to change!

To give students the possibility to use the internet to find out what's going on in the world is a great thing because that gives the world the chance to give everybody an education.

It reminds me a bit of the time in the Rennaissance when Gutenberg invented the printing press. A large public education started because people got informations about many things and so they got smarter and smarter and that is what happen in India now.

I went to India with my family this year in April and I remember that we met a lot of children who had to work instead of going to school. When we asked them if they are not going to school, they told us that there is not enough money left to pay for education.
Now, people can save money to buy themself this new computer. It's much cheaper than paying every month for school and schoolstuff and they have a chance to get an education, teach themself things which they can learn with the help of the internet.

[FREE] Movie: Kokowääh

For my free post this week, I will write about my favorite movie, ''Kokowääh''.

The movie was made in Germany and was nominated as the best movie of the year of 2011. 4,3 million people watched the movie in Germany. 
Til Schweiger, a German actor who played also in ''Inglourious Bastards'' directed Kokowääh and shared the biggest rule with his daughter Emma Schweiger. Everybody who saw the movie was fascinated.

The title refers to the way a small child might mispronounce "coq au vin", wich is a Frensh dish and means chicken in wine sauce.

What is the story?

Henry Lehnbach ( Til Schweiger ) is a screenwriter but since he broke up with his girlfriend Katharina, he wasn't very sucessful. His whole life doesn't have a real sense because he doesn't have any goals and so he doesn't reach anything.
Suddently he get the chance to write the screenplay of his ex-girlfriend's novel but to work with Katharina is not the only challenge. Someday a 8-year-old girl, Magdalena ( Emma Schweiger )  is standing in his doorway with a letter from an old one-night-stand of Henry. In the letter is written that the little girl is Henry's daughter and that she has to live in his house for a couple of weeks until her mother and her mother's husband decided how everything should go on.
Henry is completely overwhelmed and has first trouble to reach the situation but after a while he gets into his role as a father and starts to love his daughter. For the first time he has the feeling of responsibility.
The conflicts between the biological father and the not bioligacal father turn out to a partnership to make it as easy as possible for Magdalena.
Henry's life starts to get more organized and it seems that even his girlfriend gives him a second chance.

It's a wonderful movie for the whole family!

[RE] Friendships are never-ending

I'll respond on Jennifer's post about her never-ending friendship with her friend.

It seems to me that Jennifer has very strong friendship with Brianna and that reminds me of my friendship, I have with my best friend Julie. She is also on an exchange in Canada at the moment. We are very close to each other for already 7 or 8 years, so we experienced our whole childhood in which we grew up together.
I think that brings us so close to each other because in these 7 years a lot of things happened, her parents got divorced for example, and we were all the time next to each other and made these experiences together.

Even if we are both very busy at the moment because we have to settle down in our new life in America and Canada, we know that we are there for each other. Usually we talk everyday to each other because she is in my class in school, we go together to dance and she lives next to my street, so it's the first time we haven't talk to each other for a couple of days or weeks.

I think that Jennifer is right when she says that such a strong  friendship can never end because Julie and I, we experienced so many things together that we will always have things which connect us and that makes our friendship unbreakable.

When the chemistry between two persons is simply right, you can feel it pretty fast after spending little time with her or him. Julie is also like a sister for me because she simply knows and understands how I feel.