The sound of music

Hey!

I can't believe how fast these past two months have gone by! Especially now that my last exam is coming soon I can take my life back finally. I won't need to worry about school or exams I will just take it easy and relaaaaax! In almost a week I am going back to Greece and I am so excited to see my friends and family again! One of the hardest things being from two countries is having to say goodbye to people all the time which is something that I am still not used to. I always cry like a baby when I have to leave from Greece.

I thank God that I have amazing friends who make life easier. I was touched when my friend Salla surprised me the other day by coming to my house with some pizza (which was really good!).  I like it when people are spontaneous and they don't organize their everyday separately. That is why I don't own a day planner! 

Salla got really excited when I played "set fire to the rain" by Adele on guitar. She was like "Let's sing it together!" and I was like "why not!". To be honest it didn't exactly turn out as we thought it would, but at least we had a great time! I am not a good guitarist, but music isn't about singing or playing an instrument perfectly. You can play an instrument very well and still not enjoy it, what's the point of that?

Here are two videos of our attempt to sing "set fire to the rain". It got really high at some point as you can hear :P Gosh I couldn't stop laughing of how bad it sounded, but at least it sounds better on the second video. Enjoy! :D

 

Karolina

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

Hey!

I am sure most of you have had difficult times in the past or you are going through some hard times at the moment. Well if it helps at all you are not the only one who is suffering in this world. I believe that  99% of  the world's population has had at least once in their life one hard moment and the 1% is just lucky.

On the other hand, having an easy life can be boring. Imagine if nothing wrong happened, things would just stay the same. I believe that difficult times change people and make them understand some things about life. You can't always have things your way...welcome to the real world, shit happens!. You can either ruin your life complaining all the time about how bad things are OR you could just learn something from those bad moments. 

I have had some rough times in my life. Especially after I had this depression last year I have changed in many ways. I would never want to go through the same thing again, but I don't feel bad that it happened because it made me stronger. Now that I have my exams I wish they were over, but unfortunately it something that I have to deal with at the moment. :( 

Anyway...this is for you. I have been hearing this song everywhere so why not put it on my blog as well! :P

Goodnight everybody!

Karolina :)

Sweetheart

Hey!

I have been thinking that I need to change my blog's name... when I first made it I put karpalo because nothing else came to my mind at the time. Now it's time for a change, but I have no idea what to put. Please if you have ANY ideas I would be more than happy if you could help me choose a name or a phrase :)

So these past few days I have been talking with my friend about diets... I have never liked being on a diet and I am sure that most people hate being on a diet :P  To be honest I have now learned to be more happy with my body even though I still complain about it. But I am not going to get any taller or thinner the more I complain about it so why not just be happy they way I am? I eat healthy, I exercise and I take care of myself...I don't see what's the point of starving myself to death just to be skinny. Skinny people are overrated anyway! :P I am sure if TV or magazines didn't exist, people wouldn't have so low self esteem.

Actually for me it's hard to stay away from food because I LOVE IT! I don't eat unhealthy stuff all the time just once in a while. I love to bake but I try not to do it too often or I would probably gain 100 kilos in a short period. Well to be honest I prefer baking more than eating what I make. Even though I have made all sorts of cakes and desserts and I have tried so many recipes, my favourite one is tiramisu. I could eat it every single day of my life and not get sick of it :D

So here are some of the cakes I have made so far.... I have to say that I am a perfectionist! Every time we have a birthday or a celebration  it is me who makes the cakes. I love doing it and it is one thing that I am actually good at!

So all I am saying is enjoy life once in a while! Don't count every single calorie just eat and enjoy!At least that's what I do...hihi

Karpalo :)

Change the world!

¡Hola chicos!

So today was my first examination in finnish and I am not as desperate as I thought I would be which is a good thing! :D So today I went for some shopping...oh yes! So this is what I bought today...I don't care if you don't like it...the minute I saw it I fell in love with it!<3 I had to cut off my head from the picture though because I looked more like a zombie than a human. hehe...

Now to something more serious...I watched this video on the blog of a friend of mine and I had to share it with you guys! Please watch it, I am sure you have 30 minutes time to do it. I had no idea about this until I saw the video. It's horrible to know that one person can make people suffer so much! This is the link if you want to sign to support the international effort of arresting Kony:
http://www.kony2012.com/

Goodnight everybody! :)

Karpalo

The joy of reading :D

Hello!

As I have said many times earlier I'm a bit of a book freak. So I thought I would write about my favourite books today! Wohoo! :D If you don't like reading...please try at least one of these books, I am sure you are going to love them as much as I do! :)

One of my favourite books this year was The Island by Victoria Hislop. My sister recommended it to me and it is a really good book. I read it in greek, but I am sure you can find it in many other languages as well. It is about a girl who wants to find out about her mother's past so she decides to go to Crete where her mother was raised. It's a mysterious book and I couldn't stop reading it! I am not going to say what happens :P hehe, but trust me this is good stuff!

Okay the next two books that I recommend are true stories. The first one is the Desert flower by Waris Dirie which is about the life of Waris Dirie who was born in Somalia. When she was twelve she was forced to get married with an old man. To escape she walked all the way to Mogadishu from where she was sent to England. There she was found by a photographer and that's how she became a model. I have to admit that it has been a long time since I read it, but it was really good! There is also a movie about it, but read the book first and then watch the movie.

The second true story is The hiding place by Corrie Ten Boom. It is a really old book, but it is very interesting. The story takes place in Holland in 1940 when the Nazis invaded Holland. Corrie Ten Boom and her family used to hide Jewish people in their house during the holocaust. It's amazing what these people did and I have no words to describe it, I got goose bumps reading it!

Last year I had this thing with Cecelia Ahern's novels and I read them all. I can't say that all of them were extremely good, but I loved these three.

By Sophie Kinsella I recommend these two books. When I want to relax, I prefer reading something that is going to make me laugh and these two were really something! :) I haven't read all Kinsella's books yet, but I want to.

Last but not least, these are the books that I am reading at the moment. I can't tell you yet whether they are good or not, but as soon as I read them all I am going to give you a full review! :)

Hope I didn't bore you to death! hehe 

Tomorrow is my first examination and the fact that I didn't sleep at all last night didn't help much :P

Anyway, have a good day everybody! :)

Karpalo <3

L O V E

Hello, hello!

Do you ever get this feeling that you are not going to find anybody in this world? I am referring to all you single and lonely people out there. :P To be honest, I have had that feeling a couple times, but for some people finding somebody becomes an obsession. What is so bad about being single?

Personally, I would rather wait for the right guy than go from one relationship to another. I enjoy being with my friends, having a good time and doing the things I want. For some people though being single, freaks them out in a way that I can't understand. Of course, it is nice to be in love and have somebody by your side who loves you and respects you, but let's face the facts...the love of your life isn't going to appear just because you want so. The worse thing people do is go find somebody in a bar...em...I don't think that's a good idea. Mostly because people just act differently in a bar and secondly that doesn't sound very romantic. "-How did you guys meet? - Em...in a bar, we were both drunk though, so I don't remember much." :P Okay, that went over the top, but still.

On the other hand, I am not an expert in this "love" thing. To be honest I am very clumsy with guys, I giggle like a thirteen year old and act stupid which can be really embarassing sometimes! When I get nervous I always say something stupid and then things get awkward...no wonder why guys avoid me now that I think about it! I am a bit of a freak, but what can I do about it, that's who I am! Plus I don't quite get men.

I wish things were simple. Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, both are happy, end of story. People just find it hard to tell about their feelings, there are always these questions like "does she/he like me?" or "Should I ask him/her out?" and so on. Instead of wondering, why can't people just ask straight away what they think? If you don't do something, how can you know how things will go. There is the chance you might get rejected, but that's life. You get over it and you move on!

I used to have a friend who was so afraid of being single that she couldn't break up with her boyfriend, even though he treated her like shit. Either people like to be treated badly or they just believe they don't deserve better than that which is very sad. A good relatioship shouldn't make you feel bad about yourself. If somebody doesn't respect you, the best thing to do is kick him/her out of your life and find somebody who will appreciate you.

Well, that's all for now!

Karpalo

Oh no! D:

Hello!

I know that I am not writing as often as I used to, but I am so busy that I don't have time to do it. Also, my life is so boring that I don't have anything interesting to write about. Maths has been my life the past three weeks and I am starting to get sick of it...

At least, I know that this is not going to last forever and I know that I am smart enough to pass my maths exam, but I have to admit that after reading all those 1500 pages it feels like my brain is going crazy. I am so hopeless... When I am done with all this I am going to have the most amazing three weeks in Greece. I won't need to stress or study anything, just me and the sun! :P I am so glad the temperature here isn't below zero and we don't have that much snow anymore! YES!

Last week wasn't too bad as I got to meet some new people, actually one to be honest, but still. I bumped into a friend of mine at the library and she was there with one of her friend. After talking for a while with her friend we found out that her mother knows my mother. It is strange how small the world is...or actually Kotka ( the town I live in ). It is always fun to meet new people, but in Finland it is so hard to make new friends because people are so shy. In Greece things are so much easier and people are more social...maybe too social sometimes, but that's not a bad thing.

Life is so stressfull right now and I am super sensitive about everything. I feel like I am a ticking bomb that is going to explode. There are so many things that I need to figure out. I have always wanted to please other people and I have never thought about myself. It is a good thing to be selfish sometimes, at least in a small amount.

Anyway...I have to study maths now! wohoo :(

Have a good day everybody! :)

Karpalo