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”A game is the foot!”

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Save Our Seas

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Last week I had to run to catch the train. It was packed and I forgot that I had put my slightly wet, freshly washed hair into a messy bun and when I turned around I smacked this tall girl square in the face with it.

I WAS SO EMBARRASSED!! I started to apologize but she looked so confused and suddenly leaned over and smelled my hair. She literally SNIFFED MY HEAD and everyone was so weirded out. She said she loved my shampoo and that started a conversation about my personal hair care that resulted with my hair ending up in a perfect french braid (she didn’t even asked - I had to hold on so I didn’t fall and she just snatched my hairband out of it and started braiding it...). When I had to go she patted my hair, sniffed one more time and thanked me for making her day.

To this day I have no idea what went through her head, but I’m always sad not to see her at the train again, because that was ONE PRETTY BRAID!

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In the span of 45 minutes I heard the following phrases uttered by the same kids:

“Oh, wow, they really need to set payment straight in India. It’s not fair for some to earn that much money without doing any actual work and others not being able to feed themselves or their children even though they work their asses off!”

“It’s not fair that WE need to allow so many refugees in our country! They are taking away our food and jobs!”

“Why isn’t our government doing anything to help making education possible for children in Africa or India?”

“We should have the right to say no, when so many kids are brought into our schools and destroy our system. They are not even speaking our language!”

“But I don’t understand why those that have so much money and clothes and food aren’t thinking about those that need all of that! We are giving everything we want and need and others don’t even have wifi!”

“Those refugees are just coming here, because they want us to pay for them and because they are too lazy to earn anything!”

Let’s play a game now: who can seperate their own instincts from their parents views?

This is what happens when you don’t educate yourself and your children. You have everything you need and more? Well, good for you! You want others to help others? How about starting in your own neighbourhood and showing the guts that you stand for what you preach, even if it knocks on your own door!

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That moment when you manage to pack three weeks worth of hiking clothes into a weekend bag.

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My mother just announced via text that she’s going to stay at my place for about a week. Starting tomorrow. And I haven’t done any washing or window cleaning since she left three weeks ago.

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Yes, I had to google how to make a screenshot using Windows 8, because there is no MS Paint anymore. Why do they do that? That’s like Sims without pools. Oh. Wait...

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SO!

I noticed there is this guy taking the same train route as me every other day. Nothing special there. Lately, I have been reading manga again while travelling and so did he. Someone sneezed and we both said “Gesundheit” at the same time. (I’m usually the only oddball who actually does that when a stranger sneezes.)

TODAY he sat beside me, someone sneezed, we both said “Gesundheit”, we took out our manga at the same time and read in silence. When it was time to part ways he opened the door, gave me a piece of paper and fist-bumped me.

I’M 27 YEARS OLD AND NEVER EVER DID I INTERACT WITH SOMEONE WHO DOES THAT! I’VE NEVER FELT SO COOL!

The piece of paper was actually a list of manga that he thinks I might like.

WHEN DID MY LIFE BECOME A RAINBOW ROWELL NOVEL???

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Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Paradise Lost - John Milton The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain White Fang - Jack London The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Call of the Wild - Jack London The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum Don Quixote — Miguel De Cervantes Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak The Cat in the Hat — Dr Seuss The Giver — Lois Lowry Inkheart — Cornelia Funke Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri Macbeth — William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare The Child Called ‘It’ — Dave Pelzer The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank Night — Elie Wiesel Les Misérables — Victor Hugo The Odyssey — Homer The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne The Brothers Karamasov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Eragon — Christopher Paolini

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Quick question: does Hogwarts count as High School?

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Awww :-D on my first day at working with elementary students, the kids drew me a picture and gave it to me saying: "Not bad! Smile a little more often and we will give you an A!" :-D