I, me

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I, me myself
My Autobiography

• My name is ..
• Im 15 years old and I was born on March the
  27th (1992)
• I live in Finland and my hometown is Turku
• Find out more about me at the following
  pages! ?

Me at the tivoli on 22th of April 2007
Me at the age of four.
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The way I am
The way I look
I look quite ordinary. My hair color is reddish
brown (Im going to dye my hair to pretty dark
brown) and I also have a long hair. My eyes are
green and they also have brown and even yellow. I
have weird eyes, but I like the colour. Im not
skinny but not fat either, or thats what I
think. ? I am pretty short, too short maybe. c
Only 158cm (about 52), but its OK. My shoe
size is 37. I wear normal clothes. The color of
my clothes is often black, but I dont know why.
Maybe I should try to buy more colorful clothes..
Especially now, when the summer is coming and you
just cant wear black at summer! My favourite
color is green and it also shows at my clothes. I
think that I have like fifty-fifty black and
green clothes. D Of course I have also something
else than black and green but you know what I
mean.

• It's pretty hard to describe yourself, but
  Ill do my best.I am quite normal girl of my
  age. I think that Im pretty nice person. Im not
  aggressive or anything like that. (D)
• My fundamental character isnt very
  outgoing. I may seem even a bit quiet and shy. I
  am a little bit shy with people that I dont know
  so well. But with friends Im laughing, laughable
  and loud.

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My pets
I have always loved animals, but I have never had
many pets. I love dogs the most, but
unfortunately I dont have one. (Read more about
this dog-thing from My hobbies.) I have one
fancy rat named Åke. Shes a girl, even though
she has a boys name. Åkes color is English
Lilac agouti. I think that Åke is quite typical
rat. Shes pretty old already in the rats age
(2-y), but she still keeps going. Her favourite
food is water melon. ) My previous rats were
Siru and Oona (in the picture) and they were
absolutely wonderful pets. ? And they were my
first ones. Siru and Oona were sisters, they were
from the same litter. I guess that their
favourite food was roasted rice. Sirus kennel
name was Zayas Silver Cholite Ursa and Oonas
was Zayas Chocolic Ulothricious. Siru and Oona
were very intelligent like fancy rats usually
are. Fancy rats are great pets and Ill have
more rats someday (thats for sure)!
Siru Oona, my first pets ?
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My friends
I have only a few friends, but Im totally OK
with that cause those friends that I have, are
the best. ) Im not very good at making
friends.My friends are quite similar comparing
to me. I guess thats why we are friends. We have
many things in common, but also just enough
differences, so we dont get along too well. D
My best friends are at the same class with me,
so I see them almost every day. Of course we see
each other at our spare time also. I have one
more friend. I have known her about 11 years, so
I know her pretty well. D I have had many
friends in my life, but unfortunately our paths
has gone to different directions.

My friends in Helsinki
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My hobbies

• I dont have many/any real hobbies,
  but who defines whats a real hobby and whats
  not? I think that a real hobby is something that
  you have to pay for. I mean the membership fee
  etc.
• My hobbies are reading, postcrossing,
  music, cycling and Im also a 4H-dogsitter.I
  used to do scouting and I played piano, but got
  fed up with those so I quit.My latest hobby is
  dogsitting. Its really fun, rewarding and thats
  my biggest dream to take care of dogs and I just
  love being with dogs and go for a walk and so
  on..!I also enjoy reading. I read all kinds of
  books. Im reading Harry Potter and the
  Half-Blood Prince right now. I started to read
  the Harry Potter -series at the beginning of this
  year (2007).One of my favourite books is called
  Sannan jenkkivuosi. Music has a huge place in
  my heart, even though I dont go to any
  instrument lessons anymore. I just love singing
  and listening to music. I still play piano at
  home, but not so much.I really like cycling and
  I often cycle to school even though I have about
  7 kilometres to school.
• Postcrossing is pretty fun too. The
  thing is that first you got to register to
  http//postcrossing.com/ and then youll get an
  address and then you have to send a postcard to
  that person whos address youll get. Find out
  more about postcrossing from that same internet
  address. ?

Me and a dog named Vicky. I took care of
Vicky when her family was gone for a day.
Me as a little scout- girl (year 1999)
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My interests

• Im into couple of things and I'll list
  those here..
• - languages - travelling - dogs
  - music - decoration - reading -
  friends - photographing - surfing at the
  internet and chatting via
  messenger with friends

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My home

• I live in Turku. My home is a rowhouse/
  terraced house. It has about 100m2 .We have two
  floors. We have four rooms and a big kitchen. We
  have two toilets and the shower is in the
  upstairs toilet. We have small yards in the
  back and the front of our apartment. We have also
  a big balcony and patio in the backyard.

This picture has been taken from our front yard
last summer.
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My room

• My room is quite small and its always
  messy. Im not very good at keeping my room tidy.
  And as a matter of fact I find my things better
  when everything lies on the floor. I have two
  windows, wardrobe, desk and a bookcase. I have a
  parvisänky (I didnt find that word anywhere),
  its like a bunk bed, but without the bottom
  bed.I dont have a computer or TV in my room,
  but I have a radio/CD-player and thats just fine
  to me.

I dont have any picture of my room, so this must
be ok. D I have collected cow stuff and these
fellows are definitely a part of my room
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My school

• My school is old and it has had many names
  before this one. First, back to 1928, when my
  school was founded, it was called Turun II
  Suomalainen Lyseo. Nowadays my schools name is
  Puolala school, but before the primary school and
  the secondary school was united, my school was
  called the Puolalanmäki school. So now when the
  whole comprehensive school is together, our
  school has a lot of pupils! Maybe about 900? My
  school has many buildings, but we have lessons
  only in the main building, S-building and home
  economics in Eskeli. My favourite subjects are
  English, Swedish and home economics.

An old picture of our even older main
building ?
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My future

• I dont really have any idea what Im
  going to do on the future. I think that most
  teenagers of my age do know at least what they
  are interested of. Well I know it too, but not so
  clearly, I guess. D First of all, I do know
  that Im going to the gymnasium, but Im not even
  sure which. Maybe I stay in Puolalanmäki, but I
  wont go to the music class. I have also thought
  about going to IB-school, but Im not sure if Im
  good enough. (Particularly with maths, cause if
  you go there you have to be pretty good with
  it..) My future occupation is not clear at all,
  but Im interested in something where I could
  speak English (and/or some other language) and
  interior decorator would also be amazing.

My future. Me and my friends with
student caps
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English chapters from my view
Key English 8
(9A) My Finland (10A) Travelling (11A)
Vehicles (12A) Comparing two cities
(13A) Shopping (14A) Four Seasons (17A)
Bullying (18A) Heroes
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My Finland
(9A)

• Finland is a quite small country situated
  in the Northern Europe. Finland is often called
  the country of lakes and forests cause about
  250 000km2 of Finlands area is covered with
  forests. Finland has about 187 888 lakes. Finland
  is quite flat. Finlands population is about 5,3
  milj. Thats not much, but just perfect for me.
  The weather is very different in a different
  season. In the summer it may be 30 and in the
  winter it can be even -30, but that happens very
  rarely. But Finland isnt just all about
  forests and lakes. It produces stufflike Nokia
  mobilephones, Iittala-glasses and Marimekko is
  also Finnish invention. I love Finland and
  (almost) everything about it. (Turku is the best
  town )) The midnight sun is amazing, even though
  its sometimes hard to sleep.

Typical Finland-view
Everything that Finland is famous of(DD)
Nokia-smartphone, Lordi and Iittala (Aalto) Vase
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Travelling
(10A)

• I love travelling abroad.I have been in
  (Finland,) Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, Germany,
  France and Switzerland. Thats not very much and
  Id like to go anywhere. I have flown with an
  airplane only once, to Paris. First I was even a
  bit scared, but soon it turned out to be very
  nice and not scary at all. Turku Airport was
  really small, but I knew that Charles de Gaulle
  (International Airport) is going to be so much
  bigger. Going through the customs was a new
  experience to me. The custom inspectors emptied
  my cousins backpack, even though she was carrying
  only some stuffed animals. D When we went to the
  baggage reclaim, we heard that all the baggage of
  some flight has gone to a wrong place. We were
  lucky that that wasnt our flight and soon we got
  our baggage.

Me and my cousin at the airport, trying to
get to our gate.
View from the window of the aeroplane
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Vehicles
(11A)

• Vehicles are very important factor in our
  everyday life. Long journeys are easy to drive
  with a car, its fast and like I said, easy. Car
  is a really good invention. Anyway, nowadays I
  prefer a bicycle or a public transport. Bike is
  also a good invention, cause you can go with
  pretty high speed, its a good exercise and it
  doesnt pollute the environment. Public transport
  is also good (mostly buses to me) because they
  carry a lot of people at the same time, so it
  doesnt pollute as much as if everybody in that
  bus would go with their own car. And a bus ticket
  is really much cheaper than gas.

Our car, Fiat Punto
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Comparing two cities
(12A)
the breakwater of Pärnu

• My first impression of both of the
  cities was that they are amazing and very good
  tourist locations.Pärnu is Estonia's summer
  capital and everybody can see it. It is very
  good summer location because it has a huge beach
  and very good sea that you can swim in. I didnt
  get to know a Pärnus public transport, cause we
  spent most of our time in the beach and if we
  went somewhere, we took a taxi. Taxis were OK.
  The drivers were nice and they understood
  Finnish. Food was good and of course very similar
  to the Finnish one.Stockholm is not at all like
  Pärnu. It is a capital of Sweden and there are
  lots of historical buildings and the changing of
  the guard is nice and very official. It was easy
  to communicate with Swedish people in English (I
  couldnt speak any Swedish by then). Food was
  good. We ate smörrebröd even though its a Danish
  invention. The taxi drivers in Stockholm were
  very quiet and they didnt speak much.

Stockholm's changing of the guard
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Shopping
(13A)

• Normally I don't like shopping, but
  sometimes its OK. I like to shop alone and
  without a rush.I buy my clothes from a normal
  stores like HM and Seppälä, I guess. I like big
  shopping centres, but we dont have many of those
  in Finland. But Mylly is a big one to me. D You
  can get everything there, so its a good place.

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Four Seasons
(14A)

• I love that fact that we have four
  seasons in Finland. You dont get so bored with
  the weather. There is something good with every
  season.Sometimes the winter may seem a little
  bit too long, but its OK, when you see the first
  birds of the spring. I like the snow, but
  sometimes its too cold. It is very dark, thats
  not good. Spring is the shortest season in
  Finland. Its when the snow melts away and
  everything starts to grow.Summer is my
  favourite season (in addition to spring). Its
  very warm and its about 18-28C all the time.
  You can do everything at summer and you dont
  have school! Thats definitely the best thing.
• The autumn is never nice, because then
  you have to go to school and everything starts to
  wither. There is one good thing with autumn
  there is amazing colour in the nature so youll
  get good pictures of it!

SPRING
WINTER
SUMMER
AUTUMN
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Bullying
17A
18A
Heroes

• Bullying can be either physical or mental
  and both are very bad. I think that maybe mental
  is even worse. I dont know why someone likes to
  bully, but its really stupid. Maybe the bullies
  have a low self-confident and they have to bully
  someone to get more self-confident. Some people
  get bullied because of their looks, skin colour,
  but I dont understand why. Different people make
  this world complete. Bullying isnt fair and if
  someone is bullied and you know it, you should
  tell to a grown up who can help!

I dont really know how to define a hero.
Everyone is a hero in a way. I dont have any
special hero. I think that doctors (nurses..
etc..) and firemen are a huge heroes, because
their job is to help people and save
lives.Everyone who helps someone who is close to
them is a hero.
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My Sunday
Portti-
Projects

• Usually at Sundays I sleep as long as I
  want. So I get up about eleven o'clock. 'D I
  dress up, eat breakfast and watch TV, I think.
  Sometimes I go somewhere with my friends, but
  last Sunday, which was yesterday, I didn't do
  anything 'cause weather was bad and I read to the
  exam of English. Usually I don't do anything
  special... I listen to music and read. Maybe I
  check if I haven't done some of my homework yet..
  Most of my time I sit in front of my computer.
  n_n I chat at MSN Messenger with my friends.
  It's fun and time flies. D Eh. ____

Ive collected my comments from every single
project to here so you can read what I think for
example about James Bond! DD Im starting from
the old ones..
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Yep, that was it. My Sunday and those other old
projects are really SO old that I dont even
recognize that Ive written those cause I dont
write that way anymore.

My Sunday. D Well thats not me, as you can see,
but you know what I mean.
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Globe- trotters

• I haven't been abroad so many times, that
  I could tell you something interesting.. I've
  only been in some Nordic countries and Middle
  Europe, and their culture doesn't have very many
  differences comparing to us. One thing, that I do
  now know, is that for example French people are
  much more polite that we are. That doesn't mean
  that Finnish people are impolite, but being
  polite just isn't natural to must of us and for
  example cheek kisses are not a part of our
  culture.I just love travelling and I hope that
  some day I have enough money to travel where ever
  I want. DFirst locations that I want to go to
  are (among others) Thailand, England, USA etc.

Switzerland, Kanderstegsummer -05
Me trotting the globe! ?
Paris summer-06
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Keeping Up Appearances

• I havent done this project (I suppose
  because I didnt know what to write), but Ill
  try to write something..I liked watching
  Keeping up appearances at our lessons. It has
  weird British humour and it was fun to watch a
  British sitcom series and learn at the same time.
  Some of the characters are very funny, especially
  Hyacinth, because shes the main character.
  Hyacinth is very bossy women who desperately
  tries to be a part of the upper-class (even
  though she is very middle-class), so she answers
  the phone "The Bouquet residence, the lady of the
  house speaking. I cant really name my
  favourite character, cause they are all so
  funny/good actors, but still, Elizabeth is one of
  my favourites. She is afraid of Hyacinth and she
  always spills her coffee/tee to Hyacinths
  precious carpets. The best thing in this show is
  just everything. The situation comedy is so
  amazing. ?

Part of the Keeping Up Appearances
gang.(Onslow, Daisy, Richard, Hyacinth,
Rose.
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My letter to Santa Claus

• Dear Santa,
• First, I hope that you have time to read my
  letter. I think I've been kind enough this year.
  I have been working hard in school this autumn.
• I think that you should bring lots of
  presents. Even thought I admit, my room is a real
  mess and I haven't cleaned up in a while. I
  should do that, I know.
• I hope that there would be a lot of
  snow this Christmas, but I think that that is too
  much to ask, 'cause there is about 7 degrees and
  only about two weeks to Christmas. There must be
  snowing, huh?
• I'm going to spend my holiday just
  relaxing and in the Christmas eve I'm probably
  with my family and/or friends. I don't like the
  most of Finnish Christmas foods. For example the
  food called 'rosolli' is disgusting. What foods
  do you like?
• Sooo, as I said, I wish for white
  Christmas, but something else also. iPod would be
  nice. I don't know what else to ask, but I count
  on you!
• Have a great Christmas and don't get too
  tired going around the world in only one night!
  )
• With love, Little-Em.

Me and Santa. Christmas 1996
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Britney and Kevin
On the other hand I agree with Julle. I
mean if Britney really has a depression ( the
alcohol problem), they should leave her alone and
let her recover. I'm not so interested
what Britney does 'cause she isn't really my
closest friend, you know. )
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Yep, I agree with you all (/two D) !
When I said that I'm not so interested what
Britney does, I really didn't mean that it would
be the same to me if she died or something. Of
course she should have a happy life like
everybody else. And like Klaara said, she
must be REALLY tired! She has had a huge career
already and she is still pretty young.

• I don't really have any opinion of Britney
  or/and Kevin's marriage/divorce, because I don't
  understand why it is anyone else's business than
  Britney and Kevin's and their families. But
  still I can tell my opinion of Britney. I think
  that she is a good singer and talented, 'cause
  she has started so early. Her music isn't even
  near of my taste. I don't like her image. I
  don't know anything about Kevin Federline, but I
  don't like him either. I don't like rap and I
  don't know him, so I can't tell anything good
  about him! D
• Britney's New Look Is Bald!
• Haha. I think that Britney has really
  lost her mind this time. But I don't know. Maybe
  media is just making it look that way.

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Beauty behind the make-up?
Dove has made really good job with doing
those videos, 'cause hopefully it makes people to
think. (Klaara, I want to ask you
something how do you define "normal"?)
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AND I want to add one more thing to
this.. I really think that that girl/women was
pretty before she got all that make-up on her.
She was looking normal! Afterwards she was
looking very unnatural and not very beautiful.

• In this project we were supposed to make a
  conversation about two videos made by Dove. (You
  can watch the videos in Portti.)
• Heres what I thought
• Uhh, I found the first video even a bit
  scary. She was changing so fast and the
  photoshopping-part was so weird.
• Media is photoshopping commercials and
  other things all the time! I think that's sad,
  'cause natural people are usually the most
  beautiful. That's what I think.
• The other video is really sweet. I've
  seen it couple of times before so it was familiar
  to me.
• I think that people (mostly girls/women)
  shouldn't worry so much about their looks.

" No wonder our perception of beauty is
distorted."
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IKEA
My opinion about that Find your
style-video has changed from that and now a
think that its pretty good. And it sells, I
think. It is a good commercial. ?Still I
havent visited IKEA, but I do have one thing
from there! D My sister brought me a soft animal
which is called Minnen råtta.

• In this project we were supposed to tell
  our opinion of two IKEA-commercials (and also
  about IKEA).Here is what I wroteBoth
  commercials were good in some way. D
• First commercial (Find your style,
  woman changing heads) wasn't really my style. I
  mean that didn't like it so much.
• It was even a bit weird. The idea was
  good, but I didn't like the result.
• I had to watch that video a couple of
  times 'till I really understood it and had
  something to say.
• I loved the second video! That dog is so
  cute. Quality of that video is also better so it
  was nice to watch. The dog seems to be so smart
  and humanitarian.
• I have never been to Ikea, but I would
  want to go. c

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Idol-competitions
I agree with Siiri. But I would say that
some people go there, 'cause they want their
"five minutes in the spot light". I mean that
even if they know that they can't sing, they just
go there for fame. I don't like Anna
Abreu. I don't really know why. She's just too
young. Her voice is ok, but I still don't like
her. My favourite is Mia Permanto. I don't
know why either.. She just has great personality
and she has an amazing voice! -------------------
------------------------------- Yep, my
favourite idol 2007 is still Mia and I hope that
she will get a recording contract soon! ?

• This projects idea was that we make a
  conversation about Finnish Idols and The American
  Idol-competition. You can see my comments here.

Finnish Idols I like to watch Idols,
but I would never go there. DD I don't
like the judges 'cause I think that they don't
know much about music business. Well of course
they know, but I just don't like them.. Nina
Tapio is stupid. I think that in the
finals judges shouldn't say their opinion, 'cause
it effects a lot for the watchers. I mean it's
almost the same that judges would decide the
winner.
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• American IdolI like to watch American Idol,
  'cause they have so many talented singers. But
  still, I wouldn't say that American Idol is much
  better than the Finnish one. USA's population is
  about 57(?) times bigger than Finland's, so of
  course they have also more talented singers. I
  agree that American Idol is very different to the
  Finnish one. Judges are better and usually they
  make the right decision.
• Ryan Seacrest (the host) is a good host
  and also quite cute. ))

Kelly Clarkson first, and the best American Idol
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James Bond

• I haven't seen any Bond-movies, so I can't
  really tell you who is the 'real Bond'. But
  still, I have seen many pictures of Bond and I
  think that Pierce Brosnan is the real-one, 'cause
  he just looks so 'bondish'. If you understand
  what I mean. D If someone says "James Bond", his
  face just comes up to my mind. I dont think that
  James Bond is a big hero. D Because he is so
  unreal. He always solves all the problems and
  survives every time (except this Daniel Graig, or
  thats what I have heard). He is more like
  womens hero.

Pierce Brosnan James Bond 19952002
Daniel Graig James Bond 2006-?
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Stereotypes

• American people
• My stereotype of Americans is something
  like this if someone says "Americans" it
  conjures up images of (like someone has already
  said) fat and lazy people. On the other hand, the
  US is so big that there are many stereotypes.
  Hollywood is full of famous and rich people who's
  life is wonderful and perfect. There the most of
  girl-students are beautiful cheerleaders and the
  boys are athletes. But then they have also a few
  nerds who always get bullied. Then some place
  else I see a lot of poor people and slums. In
  these areas the kids are very rebel and so on.
• And.. USA makes a lot of reality-shows so
  it makes us think that Americans are crazy when
  they are willing to go to that kind of shows and
  humiliate themselves. But maybe they are crazy, a
  little bit.. D

Uncle Sam. He is a national personification of
the USA.
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Finnish people

Stereotype of Finnish people is that they
are quiet, timid and even little bit morose. They
dont usually smile and they are not good with
social contacts. Finns love the nature and they
often have a summer cottage middle of nowhere.
And when they are in sauna they just slap
themselves and other people with a bunch of birch
branch (it is called vasta or vihta). Maybe
some people think that Finns are Eskimos and they
live in igloos.
Finnish Maiden, the national personification of
Finland.
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• THE END