Muscle-cars and fitness

What is the coolest? Driving a big muscle car with a V8 engine, or driving a trendy, small, green, environmentally friendly car without any emissions? –The green car of course. How awesome isn’t it to drive a car that proves the industry wrong, that you don’t need to spend half your income on fuel? Or, if you want to be greener, go by bus. You can also walk or take the bike. It’s healthy and isn’t including any emissions, it’s definitely the best way to go. You stay fit and look cool, but don’t forget your helmet! But if you insist driving you dirty old fuel drinking vehicle, (Toyota Prius is an exception, it’s greener than your lawn!) collect you friends and car-pool.

Have you also thought of having one car in your family instead of two or three? Maybe some of you have like four cars in one family. Of course, a large family needs more vehicles, but have you consider that your parents also can take the bus to their jobs? They can also walk, run or bike. I guess that your parents would answer that they don’t have the time to walk or take the bike .But they can actually kill two birds with one rock, because they don’t need to go to the gym after work when they already had exercised on their way to and from work. An intense walk for 30 minutes burns 170 calories, that’s the same as a hard 15 minutes gym-pass and 34 grams of chocolate!

So be green, be healthy and fit!

Electric cars

Electric cars are good for the enviroment because they don't produce any carbon dioxide and since normal cars who runs on gasoline and diesel produce a lot it would be a great improvement! They are not just good for the enviorment, they also make a lot less noise than cars driven on fossil fuels which contributes to decreasing the overall noise in larger cities. Today the world is highly reliant on fossil fuels that one day will run out. So eventually we'll have to go over to alternative power sources and the sooner we do it the better.

Right now electric cars suffer from the technology of the day, the capacity of the batteries is limited and take a long time to charge. Unlike a gas driven car, you can't simply drive to a gas station and fill your tank because it would take too long. This means it's harder to drive distances longer than the battery time.

After all, you do need a car, because one can't simply walk into Mordor.

/Oscar, Kenny and Jesper

Recycling

Plastic and glass

One of the things that we recycle in Sweden is plastic. When we for example recycle bottles we get a reward by money. That is a good way to make more people to use it. At the same time that we got paid for it the companies got more material to work with and they can remake new bottles and other things where you use plastic. The process become more sustainable for our environment. We also recycle glass, like bottles. We sort the glass in two different containers depend on which color it is. You can choose between colored and colorless glass.

We also throw things away in containers. There we sort the plastic in different sections depend on which kind of plastic it is, soft plastic or hard plastic.

Cardboard

In Sweden we recycle cardboard and paper. You can for example submit your newspapers and other magazines. This rescues a lot of trees and is good for the environment.

Metal

We also recycle metal in form of cans, caps, tops of some kinds of cans and small things. In addition to that we recycle big things, like cars and airplanes. During that process we can save and extract materials like metal, plastic, glass and other dangerous substances like mercury. This is a good way to prevent dangerous emissions.

Mimmi and Johanna

Save water = save energy!

Close your eyes and imagine this scenario:

It’s early in the morning and you have been up late and worked on your school project the entire night. You feel like taking a hot shower to wake up and feel more alert. You use very hot water and you don’t turn the water off when shampooing your hair. After 20 minutes waste off hot water you step out of the shower.

Now, think about how much water you have used, and how much you could have saved if you had turned off the water every time you put products in your hair. In Sweden we are pretty good to reuse our water with the help of sewage treatment works, we don’t know how you do in Italy but that’s how we do in Sweden! Unfortunately, this takes a lot of energy and it would be much easier and we would save a lot more energy if you just turned off the water when you shower.

Turn off your water when you shower, fill up a pan with water when you do the dishes.

This is our suggestion for a little step forward to a happy world! :D

/Alida and Emma

Ecological Products

When you buy and consume ecological products in form of soaps and detergents, you prevent the discharge of dangerous chemicals into the environment. When you buy ecological, environmental-friendly products you can be sure that they have been produced without any unhealthy chemicals or materials. The product-letters that have been controlled and approved by a third, independent part are especially trustworthy.

Here in Sweden we have a lot of different types of product-letters, but only a few are trustworthy and approved by a third, independent part. Example given are “Svanen” (The swan mark) and “Bra Miljöval”(Good environmental choice).

/Katarina and Malin

Windmills

There are a couple of projects in the northern parts of Sweden; the biggest one is outside of Piteå. It’s a good method, but not the best place to build it on, because we have enough power sources up here already, it can seem like a bit of waste of resources. The reasons to why it’s not so great is mainly because of the waste of energy when we transport it to the parts that need it, but windmills are a great energy source because it doesn’t pollute and it can provide a good deal of energy. So they should build more windmills, but only where we need more energy. However windmills are a better source than the sun, we need more windmills but not in the northern part.

We have a proposal that you can go together with people in your neighborhood and build a small windmill and distribute energy equally between the people like a big jolly family. That would make the world a better place and if more people did like that we wouldn’t need a lot of investors to build huge parks of windmills. This could make it cheaper to buy electricity for everyone.

We believe the world is important and the energy resources are limited so we need to invest in things such as windmills.

The Vikings - over and out.

Joel, Anton and Isak.

Locally produced and seasonal food

We try to buy a lot of food which is produced near us. For example, we buy dairy products from a dairy located in Luleå instead of a dairy in the south of Sweden. This is very good for the environment because there is less transport emission. This is because the transport is so much shorter than if the dairy products were to be transported from the south of Sweden. This makes sense, right? One week every term our school buys only locally produced products. This is a good thing but it would be even better if they bought locally produced food more often. The diary products are always locally produced and that is very very good.

Another thing we try think about is to buy vegetables and fruits according to season. For example, during winter we have a lot of snow and well, obviously, it does not grow a lot here then. So if we buy strawberries during winter (which would feel terribly wrong since most Swedes considers it as a summer thing) the strawberries would have been transported from a country far away, like Spain for example. But during summer we have strawberries everywhere and they are so delicious. It would not be an option to buy Spanish strawberries for us then. Not only because of the environmental issues but because the Swedish strawberries are fantastic!

Amanda and Denise

Ted Talks: a cleaner, greener Earth...

Fredrik

heej.

my name is fredrik, but I also go under names such as Frezd, DeFrezd, Frederick O'Sterman and so on. The main reason why I'm posting this is because I was made to, no offense - I'd love to have a pointless chat with anyone of you guys - but, I'm not very fond of writing stories about myself anymore, I've done it a dozen time, least, without exaggerating.

For you who don't already know who I am, or what I've done - I am a dude. The dude.

I'm playing guitar, singing and writing music in my band - that's pretty much what I do when not wasting valuable feasting time in school. Yes. you heard me. I'm feasting all the time.

Beside being one of the "Lessaste" men on earth, I'm quite of a happy person. Or no, I'm not actually. But as every person on this planet, I have my moments, so to say.

I'm glad you've taken time to read this rather crappy presentation - I hope it says something meaningful to you.

PS. I'm well aware of the fact that the verb "feasting", in the dictionary means having a feast, as in eating good food with your friends etc - man, I'm not in to that queer shit - to me, the word has a whole different meaning, an abstract one. I don't expect you to understand. DS.

Alida

Hi! I am a seventeen year old girl who lives in a small village far away from civilization, literally. But me and my friend Malin are going to move into an apartment in Luleå in a few months. I’m really looking forward to this! No more early mornings and long bus rides. Hate to ride the bus, but I’m not the only one I guess.

I like spending time with my friends (who doesn’t?), read and write. I also like to dance, which I have done for two years now. I like to practice figure skating. Not that I am any good or so, I have only been doing it for a year. I started as a fun thing to do together with my friends, falling around together with seven year olds, who was in the same league as we were. But I got stuck, and here I am now, trying to perform a lutz, flip and spin – without helmet, risking my life (seriously) three times a week. But the feeling when you manage to perform a hard step or a jump is so amazing, and you never want to get off the ice.

I have a sister who recently moved out. I miss her very often, because she is just as me, in looks and personality. I live with my mum and dad at the moment (love the “at the moment” part), in a yellow house. I have blond medium length hair, I get freckles at summer and I wear contact lenses every day.

I guess we will be talking more to each other, so bye for now!

Gustav

Ciao!

My name is Gustav and I´m 17 years old and I live in Luleå, Norbotten, Sweden. My parents are divorced and I live with my dad, I also have an older brother who is 18 years old. I´m around 190 centimeters tall and athletic built and I have blue eyes and brown hair.

I spend the most of my spare time of doing homework, playing pc games with my mates, and working out at the gym.

I have always been interested in sports my whole life I have played everything from basketball to Ice hockey, but my newest passion is bodybuilding. From all the sports I have played so far, bodybuilding must be the most demanding of them all.

Sebastian H

As my fingers move along the violin's neck, a beautiful melody emerges. The right hand is gently moving the bow back and forth. The sound of the violin is one of the best things in the world and to play the violin is my favourite sparetime interest. I'm 17 years old and I have been playing the violoin since I was ten. I love music and I also play the piano and the guitar. I can definitely see myself as a musician in the future, but I don't know if that's my true path. There are so many things I would like to do before I decide what to work with. I would love to study french in France but I will let the future decide.

The word dreamer describes me very well. I often find myself thinking utterly irrelevant but interesting thoughts. I like to think about my future, about what will happen later in life. I have many visions and ideas and I enjoy speculating in how to fulfill them. Outgoing is another word that descibes me well. I love to socialize among different, new people and spread intelligence and discuss one's similarities and differences.

I live with my mum, dad and my little brother. I love beeing with them, we all have the same weird humor and our conversations often loses the plot! All of my closest friends also share this crazy humor with me and those who don't know us must think that we are a bit crazy

Kenny

I am seventeen years old and live outside Luleå, Sweden.

Lengthwise I’m pretty average at like 180-182 or something like that. I’m not that physically active, although I’ve begun exercising a few times a week just to try and get into shape. I might also join some sport in the future if I feel like it.

I like school for the most part, and I am moderately serious about my grades. Not to brag, but I consider myself rather good at English, math, the sciences, and adequate in the other subjects.

In my spare time I either play computer-games or guitar. I’m quite a nerd actually. When it comes to guitar I’m not that good; I’ve been playing for about nine months but I haven’t tried that hard to learn, mostly because I don’t have the time. I listen very varied kinds of music, but I mostly listen to rock, hard rock, metal, symphonic metal, symphonic rock, symphonic death-metal, metalcore, heavy metal, thrash metal, some gothic rock, industrial metal, industrial rock, power metal, alternative metal, alternative rock, progressive metal, progressive rock, punk rock, possibly Viking metal. You get the picture.

I also like reading. Like I said I’m quite a nerd, and it’s reflected in my preference of books. I prefer fantasy and sci-fi, but it should preferably have a bit darker atmosphere, not high fantasy where it’s “Light vs. Dark, mythical hero comes along, Light wins, the end,” and that kind of stuff. Most of my weirdness-craving is satisfied by manga, that stuff’s always weird! But sometimes I read books too.

Au revoír.

Jesper

Oh hi, didn't see ya' there!

My name is Jesper and I've gone seventeen - almost eighteen - laps around the sun. And I too live in Luleå. It is a small town in the northern regions of Sweden.

I am a very creative person. I like to draw, write and play music. I mostly play guitar and drums, in all kinds of ways. I always try new ways to play and different styles to play in. And as sure as i play whatever comes into mind, I also draw whatever! If I get an idea that is good, I have to draw it, I just can't not do it. I have plenty of rather silly drawings of everything from cartoon animals to portraits to buildings to portraits of cartoon animals on top of buildings. It's the same with music. If I come up with a nice melody, I try to mold it into something which I write down and save on my computer. I have tons of stuff there! Oh golly is there music aplenty in the ol' can!

If I said I like all music I would be lying, but I am closer to it than anyone I know. Rather than naming all genres I would just like to name some of my favorite artists in some of the most extreme.

Jussi Björling - a renown Swedish opera-star.

Abba - If you don't know Abba, then shame on you!

Metallica - One of the biggest names in metal music.

Mumford & Sons - Incredible acoustic music. And when I say incredible, I mean incredible!

Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys - Irish inspired rock/metal.

Falco - Austrian 80's-pop at it's finest.

Dream Theater, Rush, Tool - Three of the most fantastic bands I know. They are all very innovative and exiting. Just blows me away every time!

And the list goes on..

Another artist worthy of mentioning is Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Con te partirò - genius!

And I greatly abhor the Twilligt series.

Isak

Hello everybody!

My name is Isak Lundberg, you have probably heard of me ;) I’m 17 years old and live in Kallax, Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden. My parents and I moved to Luleå about 5 years ago. Before that I lived in Boden, just google it and you see what a shithole it is… I have two brothers and two sisters. All four of them are older than me. So, my childhood was pretty tough. But I survived. All four have moved. Both my sisters live in Boden. Karma.. My oldest brother lives in the capital of Sweden - Stockholm. The younger one works as a ski-instructor in Tärnaby.

You probably wonder what I look like. I’m approximately 186 cm tall, I have blue eyes and I’m blond – like a true Swedish viking!

What do I like to do in my spare time? – I spend a lot of time thinking I should do my homework assignments, instead of doing them. It’s stupid, I know. When I don’t think about doing my homework, I usually watch movies or TV-series and if I’m in a good mood I cut the lawn. Sometimes I feel creative and sketch or write something. I simply do whatever I feel like doing.

I don’t like soccer or anything involving some sort of ball. So, I have had a hard time finding a sport that I like, but eventually I found one. Of course it’s archery I’m talking about! There is no hard ball and if you fail you have just one person to blame – yourself. Almost no feeling can outmatch the one when you stand with the gold medal in sight! Nowadays I don’t practice archery. I still think it’s fun. I just don’t have the time. If you want to be best, you have to put down an awful amount of time practicing. If you don’t have the time to be the best, why practice? That’s my philosophy.

Goodbye for now!

Malin

Hello!

My name is Malin, I´m 17 years, two months and one day old to be precise. I live in the snowy, blowy and cozy Luleå, a city north of Sweden. There, on the small country you´ll find me, my little sister, my parents and our great yellow house with white corners, surrounded by the neighbors horses, and with my dad´s old Volvos on the parking space, in which you in the summers can find the most delicate raspberries growing through the engine in the passenger seat.

Well, besides my little sister I also have three older, and two brothers too, but they all five now live in different places like France, Canada and south of Sweden. And if things turn out to be splendid, I will be out of the house too till the end of the year; Me and my classmate Alida are going to rent an apartment in Luleå city, so I don’t have to wake extra early every single morning to run after the school bus. Or well, I do not often have to run. Just go extra fast.

Okay, but short about me, is that I’m a really creative person. Since I go my second year in upper secondary school, with focus on science and environment, I can sometimes feel a little lost among these very ambitious and in dark times soooo much cleverer than me, classmates. I really like to write, philosophize, paint, illustrate and click with my beloved camera. I also have some kind of unexplored dream about me learning how to do sewing, and make my own clothes. The problem maybe is that the sewing machine hates me and refuses to collaborate. But, this has made me a champion on unstitch things which I hope someday will make up for the bad relationship with technique.

Besides being creative and hated by the sewing machine (and everything else running on electricity), I really like exercising. Like running and figure skating. I also, if you have noticed, have a thing for really long and complicated meanings.

I at least hope my friends agree when I say I’m often in a good mood. When I’m not I’m quiet till i know i´m no longer a danger to those around me. So many people don’t notice my bad temper. I guess having many sisters and brothers has made me realize that the possibility to ever get happy again is substantially larger if you don’t provoke the innocent people around, and therefore i absolutely do not say what i'm thinking when i'm mad.

So, that’s a bit of the mysterious me, hope I didn’t scare anyone off. Byebye!!

Mimmi

My name is Mimmi and I am a 16 years old girl, turning 17 in December. I have blond hair and blue eyes like a ordinary Swedish girl. I live with my family in a village named Sunderbyn which is situated outside Luleå in the northern part of Sweden. I live with my parents, my two little brothers and my little sister. My brothers are 15 and 5 years and my sister is 2. I am studying my second year at the upper secondary school with focus on natural sciences. One thing in science I really admire is the space. I think the space is a beautiful and endless place, there are so much to learn and discover.

I have played tennis in almost all of my life, since I was 6 years old and I am still playing it. I also like to spend time with my friends, draw, listen to music and shoot photos with my Canon 450D camera. When I was a little child I wanted to become a parachute jumper when I grew up, now it is just a thing I want to try and are going to try next summer, I hope and I can’t wait! I have been thinking of what I want to become in the future but I really don’t know.

Emma

Hello!

My name is Emma and I'm 17 years old and live in a little town called Luleå, in the northen part of Sweden.

If you want to know how i look i can say I'm tall, slim, blond and have brown big eyes. I go to school in the center of the town with focus on mathematics, biology and chemestry. In my spare time i usually do homeworks so i guess you could say that i dont have any spare time.. But when i have time left over i like to be with my friends (like everybody), listen to musik and be with my family.

In sweden or in Luleå we have winter almost the whole year, or it's not summer a very long time, so there are many wintersports here. I and a few friends go figureskating three times a week. I feel like a little ice-princess and it's really hard but fun!

I live with my family in a house about ten minutes outside the city. I'm the oldest of three children, it is me, my little sister Sara and my little brother Erik (but he looks like he is older than me). My mother, and father also lives with us, obviously. My family is the best in the world, we always do funny things together. My father loves Italy and he is trying to learn the language by wathing italian movies like everyday and go to italian courses. He wants to go to Italy next summer and then we are going to be there for a month in a small village outside the town Senigallia.

I really love boys, clothes and everything a girly girl loves. I'm not got at sports and i think the balls wants to hurt me everytime I play something!

I don't know what more to write so let's say I'm done.

Kiss and hugs from me!

Anton

Hello everybody. My name is Anton Drugge and I come from the northern part of Sweden called Norrbotten, in a city named Luleå. I’m a 17 year old guy, turning 18 in January. I live with my parents, my 20 year old brother and our cat and snake in a small village far in the north (most people think that snakes are slimy but really, they aren’t), I like all kinds of animals to be honest. It gets really cold in the winter and getting to school is usually annoying, especially if it’s winter and you are waiting for the bus.

I have a few interests, for example I like to listen to music, and I listen to all kinds of music whatever genre they may be, rock, pop, hip hop. I also like to work out. Mainly I bike, run or go cross country skiing, worth to mention, I also like pasta. I like to watch movies, mainly scary- and action movies. I’m not too tall, got brown-reddish hair and my eyes are blue. I’m often easily amused and I’m pretty simple.

I go to school in Luleå, in the upper-secondary school focusing on science. It is often going fine but sometimes it can be really stressful. It’s quite different from the other programs such as the construction program for example. At the same time I’m studying and learning for my driver’s license, so it becomes time consuming. However when I get it I don’t have to be bothered with the bus anymore.

Johanna

My name is Johanna and I am a girl who was borned in May 1994, which means that I am seventeen years old. I live in a village outside Piteå called Pålmark. I live there in a red house, which I share with my mum, my dad and my fourteen year old sister. We have some animals. We have two cats, two lizards and a dog. Some things that I like to do on my spare-time are to spend time whit my friends and we like to do things that are fun. Some another things that I like to do is to go downhill-skiing and to take a walk with our dog. Right now I go the second year at upper secondary school and have chosen the science program, with focus on science.

Joel

Well, hello. Didn’t see you there, how are you doing? Personally just fine so let me introduce myself for you. My name is Joel as the headline states and I’m a seventeen year old guy who lives in a village called Råneå, situated 35 kilometers outside of Luleå. This means that I have to go with bus to school every day and unlike Denise I don’t really think that I’m having the time of my life doing so. I have written quite a bit, so far into this post and you probably still don’t know much about me so let’s change that.

My general interest are football, floorball, music and nerdy stuff like computers, PC gaming and such. I’m 186cm tall, fit, I have blue eyes and I’m blond. I’m a pretty happy and positive person but I can have a bit too realistic view at life sometimes. My life is also pretty hectic right now with upper-secondary school being such a bitch and all of my floorball practices taking up my precious time. But when I’m free from school and sports I spend my time reading a lot and listening to music. If I’m not sitting in front of my computer screen working on the nerd tan. My greatest interest in life is something a bit more athletic, skiing. During the winter I’ll do it as often as I possibly can. It gives me a feeling of freedom and joy that can’t be outmatched by anything. Sadly enough, for me, it hasn’t start to snow yet and the ski season won’t start for a couple of months. So that is who I am.

A joyful Swedish chap that is.

Josefin

Since I was born, I always been strictly organized. I planned everything in detail. But along the years I realized that it's better to just let things happen. I am the only child and that's why I sometimes see my closest friends as family. Born January the 17th, green-blue eyes, clumsy, outgoing, screwed up – that's me. I have long tangled hair that gets curly in the rain and often changes color.

I have a really bad patience and being alone for more than 24 hours makes me restless and fussy. I cry when I'm angry and how I wake up in the morning strongly affects my daily mood. I often find myself wondering why I'm living in a part of the world that can be so cold in the winter, but I guess that's why I love being being abroad. I'm dreaming of moving out and have my own cozy penthouse apartment. I can't wait until we graduate, can do whatever we want and go wherever we want. The future doesn't scare me as much as time does.

I spend my life trying different jobs, sports and hobbies. I have more interests than I can count on my fingers (and toes!!), but I haven't found something that I'm really passionate about. I study at the upper secondary school with focus on natural sciences. I like school, but only when it's easy to manage. Otherwise my bad-patience side intervenes and nowadays it happens too often. My spare time is full of jogging-tours, funky cooking with my family and coffee-meetings with friends. Recently I've started to train seven-year-olds in basketball, together with my friend Amanda. Otherwise I'm a pretty normal seventeen-year-old, trying to figure out the big mysteries in life.

Katarina

I am a seventeen year old girl who soon will become eighteen. I live in Luleå and am studying my second year at the upper secondary school with focus on natural sciences. I live with my parents, one of my brothers, our two dogs and our cat. My brothers are nineteen and twenty-one years old and the elder one lives and studies in another city. Together with my parents and my brothers I have lived in India for about five years which was a cool experience!
I have green eyes, distinct eyebrows and blond/dark-blond hair. I have a big passion for music and I love to sing, both solo and in choir, and I like everything from classical music to hip-hop. On my spare time I practice street-dance and figure skating and I like to run the year around and ski in the winter. To spend time with family and friends, cook food, paint, play tennis or football and go horse-riding are other things that I like to do.
I am a down-to-earth person and my body and soul feels good when I’m surrounded by birch and pines with brisk air in my lungs. After a busy week with days overloaded of school and training, it’s nice to spend a weekend in my family’s cottage which is located 50 kilometers north of Luleå. To make a fire in the cottage’s stove, light candles and have a sauna in the evening by the river is relaxing and very cozy now when the autumn’s dark and cold has come.

Magdalena

The first thing you should know about me is that I hate the cold. Ice cream is ok, but everything else that’s below freezing point makes me tired, depressed and generally irritated at the world. The reason you should know this is that this project will be going on during the winter. Which means it’s cold all the time. So unfortunately, I’ll probably be kind of annoyed during this whole thing. So, in advance, I apologize for that. I’ll try my best to be nice. Maybe buy a warm sweater to wear just for when I write blog posts.
Anyways, it’s not winter yet so I’ll stop bitching about the cold and tell you some other things about me. I tend to have love-hate-relationships with pretty much everything in my life, such as my guitar, the bus, my plant, my bed, school, computers and grass. Monday I love my plant and try everything to bring it back to life. I have poured liters and liters of water into the pot, even though it’s deader than Elvis Presley. Tuesday on the other hand, I hate the damn thing for dying even after my huge efforts to take care of it and I just want to throw it away. Of course I don’t, Wednesday I’ll love it again and miss it if I’d throw it out. That’s just how it works. Buses are great until they are 25 minutes late, grass is heavenly to just lie on until you have to cut it, guitars are so soothing as long as they sound like you want them to and computers are amazing until you get bored or they decide to launch a cryptic error-message and shut down.
Then of course there are things I have a 100 % loving relationship to. Like the sun. It’s warm, bright and makes plants grow. What’s not to like? Sleeping, body lotion, trees, books, candy, Harry Potter (the books, not the movies) and white furniture are some other things that I just love, never hate.
By now, I’ve realized that this presentation is kind of long and doesn’t say that much about me. So I’ll do a summary of “this-is-me”. My name is Magdalena, I have a mum and dad that I like and a little brother I’m not sure if I like. We live in a yellow house on the countryside outside Luleå. I like it, it’s close to the river and if I feel like it I can pat cows or chop down a tree, things I never do but unlike people living in the city, I could do it. I usually like school, especially mathematics and history, maybe two of the most traditionally boring subjects, but I love them. When I’m not in school I like to cook, run and write short stories. Although, I usually spend my free time studying or waste it on something stupid like watching crappy TV or thinking about cleaning my room. I love listening to music; old, new, popular or weird. I’ve recently installed an old record player in my room and enjoy lots of time listening to my parents’ old Beatles-records. Now I really don’t feel like writing anymore so I guess that’s it. Cheerio!

Amanda

Who am I? That’s one thing that I actually don’t really know, bizarrely enough. Some things I do know, though. I live with my family, my mum, dad and four years older brother. I sleep in a huge bed, with sixteen pillows and two quilts. Writing this, I’m still sixteen, and kind of longing for my seventeenth birthday. Not really, I am fine as it is but just a bit bored of always being the smallest and youngest. Now in later years, I am actually no longer the shortest one. I use my stunning 172 centimeters every day, wandering around in upper-secondary school. Mostly, though, I have use for them when I play basketball. I do this very often and have done for eleven amazing years. Three times a week I train with my team, twice a week we have a game against some other team, and once a week I train my (soon, just a small path from there) best team in the world – seven years olds. When I train those small girls, I do it with Josefin, who goes in my class and is one of my best friends since a long time ago. While I love the game, the feeling and everything it brings to me, the thing that mostly keeps me on the court is my team. So, I go to school, I play, practice and teach (and yes, live and breathe too) basketball. When I get some time over I tend to study, read books, drink tea and socialize with my dear friends. Reading this, I have to say my life sounds kind of mediocre, mainstream and boring, agree? Well, regardless what you think or not, it isn't! I live in this (often) happy and unshaken, could you say bubble? Okay, enough of this babble. Another thing I love is to read books. I read every day and definitely thinks that it is too little. I often think I have spent to much precious time reading the Harry Potter series over and over again when I could have read more dissimilar books. Though, I do not regret a second of it. I like winter, snow, people, school, life, basketball, books, laptops, tea, autumn, weekends, summer nights, iPhones, and loads of tons of more. Love!

Denise

My face is covered in freckles and I tend to bite my nails. I drink my coffee and tea black and walk fast. I am sixteen years old and I live in a small village called Klöverträsk. I spend most of my time at school. I try to understand the odd and difficult parts of biology and I happily read about the kings of Sweden. I dance through the hallways and use the elevator to avoid taking the stairs – one of my bad habits. I go to school by bus and I spend approximately one and a half hour in a bus every day. I enjoy it. I really enjoy stepping into a warm bus when the autumn breezes return to our village and I love exchanging some words with the bus driver or one of the passengers before I start reading my book or go back to sleep. After those hours with biology and history and all those other subjects I take my far too heavy backpack and leave school. I usually go to the library to borrow some books or just to chat with the librarians. There is something extraordinary with libraries. I do not know if you have ever thought of it but there is a very special scent in libraries. Every time I take someone with me to the library I tell them to inhale, not only the scent but also the atmosphere at the library. That scent of books, unbeatable. I spend a lot of my free time studying, I am afraid. Upper-secondary school demands a lot of studies and especially if you have the science focus, as we have. When I do not try to understand those extremely confusing subjects, such as physics and biology, I enjoy knitting and taking long walks. I obviously read quite a lot as well. I like dresses, letters, rain, documentaries on the radio, jazz, laughter, Jesus, mental maps, british accents, autumn, riding my bike, my flowery apron and dictionaries. I think Earth is far too beautiful to ruin.