Yay

Hello!

I won't be on the computer much because I have loads of stuff to do and I need to study.
But here's a blog entry before I do anything else.

My cousin had a birthday party yesterday, and when buying his gift on Saturday I got to visit Arkadaş Kitapevi. I directly walked to my little corner of 'fantasy books' only to see that the order of the books had been changed. So I walked around until I found the new location of the shelves. They had books I always see there, but they had the Mortal Instruments series too. I started reading the series last year and read the latest book 1-2 days after it came out (I got it in New York) last Spring. The newest book is coming out soon and I'm pretty excited about it.
The series is about these warriors called Shadowhunters who hunt down demons. They're somehow related to angels, and they carry swords which shine when their names are shouted. The story takes place in NY and includes awesome werewolves, vampires, warlocks and faeries.
I like the concept and the idea. At first I hated the main character and loved this guy called Jace but as the books continued this opinion was flipped upside down.
Honestly, the books are frustrating, devastating, and make you think "This is just so awkward, why am I still reading it?"
Why did I read it? Because I wanted to know what was going to happen. Because I liked the concept.
Anyway to the point, there's this other series by the same author called the Infernal Devices. It takes place 2 centuries before the Mortal Instruments. I saw the first two books of this series in the bookshop, and I decided to buy the first one.
I've only read up to the 50th page so far because I'v awfully busy, but I like it so far. The only problem I have with the book is the fact that the main two characters (Tessa and William) remind me of the main characters of the Mortal Instruments (Clary and Jace). Oh well.
Müfit says the book is terrible.
I don't know if he's just being destructive or if the book actually is terrible...yet...

Another thing I want to talk about is this dream I had this weekend. I saw two, one was about me being this expert fisher but I want to explain the other one. This one was on a huge cruise boat, but everything was older. The first thing I thought of? Steampunk.
I saw a family: a tall father with dark hair, a teenage sister, and a little brother. The one who stuck to my mind was the brother. He was around 8 years old. He wore a white shirt and a jacket and boots, but most importantly, white gloves. The father and the sister lost the boy on the ship, and they found him in this cafe sitting with a creepy old lady. The lady pulled off the kids right glove, revealing his steampunk prosthetic hand. It was actually pretty cool. But then the lady started talking about the kid using his talent and stuff and the kid got frustrated and ran off. The sister followed him. She found herself on a sidewalk by a bridge (wait, what happened to the ship?). Then she had her little adventures. But the kid was so vivid. I can still see him staring at me with his childish anger.

Yay English class tomorrow! More Julius Caesar!
This deserves an emoticon. ^_^

I like Foster the People. Yup.

That's it for today.

.

I'm having such a terrible week.
I'm trying to stay happy.
My problems are a grain of sand compared to other peoples deserts.
That should cheer me up.
I have to force it.

"House come to order!"

Hi!
I was writing an entry about our trip to Istanbul but since Ezgi summarized our first day on her blog, and I don't want to explain every day, so I'll just talk about certain occasions.
My first time at our committee was quiet and exciting for me. I was in the Environment Committee (EC), made of about 75 delegates. We were supposed to be in a hall named the Bubble but since our opening dinner was going to be there, we were packed in a small hall. I was representing Germany. Next to me was a girl (Georgia) and a guy from Palestine (Ghana). Our chairs were named Paulina, Joy, and Gürcan. Paulina's eyes closed when she smiled and Joy reminded me of a stereotypical German girl but with ginger hair. Gürcan had a red nose. That's my first thoughts about them.
We did icebreakers, which are basically little games to break the ice between the delegates. We did one where we all wrote a question and put it in a box where everyone one by one picked one and answered it. I asked "If you were famous, what would you be famous for?" I think it's a more interesting question than "How many siblings do you have?"
The girl who answered it said "Swimming." See? If there are any swimmers in the house they might go chat with her about it and new friendships made!
I picked the question "Who let the dogs out?"
Our second icebreaker was a cliche: 2 truths 1 lie. The chair picked a delegate to tell the truths and lie and another delegate to guess which one was the lie.
My sentences were:
I love drawing.
I'm a tumblr addict.
I love pasta so much I spent 4 days in Italy eating it.

I'm sure everyone here knows which one is a lie, but the guy who was guessing said "The first one!"
This of course shocked me, and that day they all learnt something they would discover throughout the conference: the delegate of Germany likes drawing.

That's pretty much it about the first day. I mean, Ezgi's said it all.

Day 2? It was lobbying day. We wrote our resolutions. I think my situation was pretty hilarious. I picked a topic about nuclear energy, because Germany is against nuclear power. When the groups were gathering, there was already this huge circle of about 20 people supporting nuclear energy, and I was left out of it. So when I was frowning and just standing there awkwardly, a guy I'd seen before in MUNESCO said "Oh you're against nuclear energy too?"
So we formed our own group. We tried to make our resolution not against nuclear power, but limiting it.
I honestly thought it was a bad resolution from the start, but oh well. I met cool people like Dilara, Aymir, Nergis, etc. (Nicaragua, Ireland, and Bolivia respectively)
While Nicaragua and Ireland were running around looking for signatures, I was doodling a dragon in my notebook. A girl approached me and asked if I liked anime (Japanese cartoons). I said "Yes."—which is partially a lie—and we had a conversation about animes we liked. She said she liked drawing too, and she drew something for me in my notebook. Then she gave me her deviantART username, and we kind of became friends. She's such an awesome artist. I mean, AWESOME.

Anyway, we went to the hotel after that. Ezgi asked to use my computer to blog—and I would never let her even touch my computer if I didn't love her and trust her so much. I took a surprisingly quick shower and Ezgi didn't get much time to blog. I don't remember what else we did that night.

Third day was short. We started debating and the day ended around noon. So we changed into comfy clothes and...went to Büyükada! On the ship, we ate food, took photos, saw awkward stuff floating on the sea. I especially pointed out the jellyfish.
With Cem we fed the seagulls. It was such an amazing experience for me. I'm fascinated by birds, and seeing them fly by your hands and playing "Catch the Food" with them is just so much fun. Cem held out pieces of the simit or açma we had and one of the seagulls came so close to us we backed away. One of them actually hovered in the air until it got its piece. Then everybody else joined us and it was just...fun...

We all bought flower tiaras at Büyükada (every one a different colour. mine was blue of course). Ezgi and Bade disappeared in the first few minutes, so we hopped on a horse carriage, made a deal with the driver, and took a short tour. Cem and Boray joined us soon on their rented bikes. We saw ravens, cats, horses, donkeys and cows. I was very tempted to jump off the carriage and ride one of the horses. I miss riding horses. I miss horses.
After we got off the carriage I went and petted the horses for a while before following my friends.
After finding Ezgi and Bade and buying ice cream, we went back.
We took the metro to Taksim and walked around for hours. It was interesting and amusing.

Fourth day? Debating, debating.
I didn't make any speeches but I kept asking questions which resulted in the speaker repeating his speech. Awkward.
I think it was today when we had the boat trip. The first half an hour was horrible for me. Everyone was jumping around, stepping on my feet or crashing to me. I was upstairs for the rest of the trip with my shoes off.
When we got back to the hotel we learned that Cem and Boray had ordered McDonald's for all of us. We sat on the top floor and ate our food. Nom nom nom.

Fifth day...We finished up debating. Our resolution failed (I knew it would, but I still had my hopes up). Eh, the rest was kind of boring. We had the closing ceremony. It was very emotional. The students giving speeches were crying and talking about the end of their MUN journey...Unfortunately we had to leave before it ended. Then long bus trip again.
This time they had movies on the bus, so I watched Spy Kids: Game Over. I loved the movie when I was small, but now I realize how bad the effects are and how awkward the movie is. Oh well.
Bade and I had a little adventure there too. The bus stopped for 30 minutes for a break. We went to the bathroom, and when we came back there were 2 busses parked there, and both of the same company. We kept going inside both busses trying to decide which one was ours. One of the busses was filled with people who seemed rather religious and on the other bus a woman covered in black was praying and it was a little scary since the bus was completely dark too. After a while we realized the bus with the praying woman was ours.

I got home around 2:30 and directly fell asleep. I woke up around 12:00 on Sunday. Then I visited JMUNESCO and it was pretty fun.

Meh meh meh I'm sleepy now.

Yayeeeayeeyay

Ezgi D. let me borrow her Julius Caesar. Thank you!
In art class we designed an adventure with her, which I might draw on my way to Istanbul tomorrow.

I have to finish my resolution. But I'm still distracted. Thanks to a 'friend' who apparently enjoys being away from me for 3 weeks. Haha, funny, dude. Is this a late April Fools joke?

Anyway, for the bus trip tomorrow, I'm planning to read, draw, write (my book!), play on my Nintendo DS, and study for RCIMUN.
I think I'm going to get to see my childhood friend in Istanbul, so that's another reason to be excited!

By the way, Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod :)

"May the odds be ever in your favour!"

Hello!
We watched the Hunger Games with a rather large group of friends on Friday.
This won't be a review of the film, but just my opinion.
I liked it. It was a successful interpretation of the book, but I think the book was so much better.
I liked the camera and filming, I liked Jennifer Lawrence and her acting, I could keep going on because the list is long.
Something that crushed my hopes and dreams was how some of the characters looked, because that was just not how I saw them when I was reading the book. Haymitch, Gale, Peeta, and Rue too. In the book Katniss said Rue reminded her of Prim, so I thought Rue was a tiny blonde girl. I think they did an awesome job on the people of the Capitol and Effie—although they did miss her pink and orange hair. Oh and Cinna was just like I imagined him.
I was also bothered by how they changed some of the scenes, like how Katniss got the mockingjay pin (Ezgi said she didn't mind, but for some reason it bothers me), some other scenes, and then the last scene in the arena. In the book scene, there are more than 3 dogs—about 13-16—and they all look like one of the tributes that died earlier on. I remember very clearly Katniss describing one of the dogs which reminded her of Glimmer—green eyes and blonde fur. I think Thresh (the male tribute of District 11) died in that scene. And also, Peeta's leg was in extremely bad condition. So bad that after the games they had to replace his leg with a metal one. In the book every single scene was more intense. The book was from Katniss' perspective and there was almost no dialogue except between Katniss and Peeta or the Carriers during the Games. It was all Katniss' thoughts and descriptions. That way you learn so much more about everything in the book. Because of that, Rue's death is sadder in the book.
I think that was all that made me think the movie was great, but not perfect.

-----------
I finished most of my homework today. I'm happy about that.

I realized the Wrath of the Titans was out. I want to see it with friends who like Greek mythology, but one of them doesn't seem to like me anymore—he's been acting different and keeping his distance from me—and I'm going to Istanbul next week, so I bet they'll see it without me.
Oh well, I guess.

I'm sad I'm going to miss every single English class next week. I really enjoy reading Julius Caesar. And I'm probably going to miss the act I'm most excited about. Fffff.

I went shopping. I don't do that very often, and I don't enjoy it either. But I got some new stuff (pants mostly).

And I met some really cool people. I think I want to hang out with them more. :)

La la la la

“I’m glad you’re finally here, now ingest this fruit and we must leave.”

I love my character, Oran. If all the main four characters represent one part of me, Oran is definitely the bad, mean, and emotionally struggling side.

He's a mixture of fire and earth.
Kael is definitely water.
Claudia is air.
Isadora is air and water.
I think that really explains their personalities.

I read over the first chapter of my book...and I don't like it. Nope, I only like the first bit where Adrian is telling the story.
I know everything that happens, but I can't put it into words.

Anyway, today we talked about the four elements and the four humors. This entry is mostly about those.
I'm very interested in these stuff because I've always liked the idea of 'four elements' and everyone having an element.

In 7th grade my friend called me 'airhead' because I was a 'daughter of Zeus' and I called her 'pork' because she was a 'daughter of Ares' and we were 'demigods' but the point here is: airhead. When I heard the word today I got very excited but I'm sure no one else cared. In 7th grade my element was definitely air.
Now I think I'm sliding to the fire side. But I'm somewhere in between.
Air has always been my favorite element. It fits my star sign too: Gemini.

Enough about that, the four humors are choler (fire), sanguine (air), phlegm (water), and melancholy (earth). I think it was believed that when a person was healthy they had equal amounts of all the humors.
I was going to do more research about it, but I'm very sleepy and I can't explain these.

Another random reason why I was very interested in these humors was because I had a story about four characters who each represented one of the elements. I really liked them and their story, and I still do. I liked their conflict and how they solved it.
Khyno, the fire girl was short-tempered, liked hewing (hehehe), and was angry with everything. So I think she fits choler.
Drunt was the air dude, but now that I look at it, it seems like I've switched earth and air, because Drunt was always rather quiet and sad.
While Frank, the earth guy, was cheerful, flirty, etc.
Trianwa was the water girl. She wasn't exactly 'mellow'. She was arrogant and narcissistic. Oh well.
And their colours are rather matching too. Coincidence!

I have to dig through my locker again, to find Julius Caesar. :)

Quick Post

Hello!
I was writing a blog entry about my trip to Italy on Sunday, but I got distracted, and I also talked about it in class.
So I won't post anything about Italy yet. But it will come.

We're reading Julius Caesar in English class and today we came across the word 'Erebus'. Brutus said it, talking about how even Erebus couldn't conceal the aims of the conspirators. Mr. Dale said Erebus was the god of darkness, and I said "Isn't that Nox?"
I checked it out: according to Wikipedia Erebus is the sibling and husband of Nox/Nyx, and Erebus is the god of darkness, but Nox is the goddess of the night. She gives birth to a bunch of dark characters like Thanatos (death), Momus (blame), Moros (doom), the Fates, Nemesis, etc.
But she's also the mother of Hypnos (sleep) and a lot of other gods.
Some other sources confirm this too.
I think she's really cool.

On the other hand, the Wrath of the Titans is coming out soon (sometime in April?) and I'm very excited about it, because it's about my all time favorite Greek mythological character—not Zeus—PERSEUS! But I'm also worried too, because of how they completely ruined the myth in the Clash of the Titans. Oh well.

I want to see the Hunger Games! I was the second person to read the series in our class and last year when no one knew about it my friend Ezgi (D.) and I were walking around the science fair with character names written on our hands. And everybody says the movie was awesome.

I was going to say something else too...oh, yes.
I loved Avatar the Last Air Bender when I was smaller, and a new series named The Legend of Korra is starting! The first two episodes were leaked and I watched them, and I'm absolutely in love with a character named Mako.
I think I like dark, tall and handsome. And pyromaniacs. Yay.

Now off we go to the concert!