Backside Floaters

Have you ever been at some place recognizing everybody's face until you realized that there was no one there you knew

2009-04-28T21:00:00.001+02:00

Hey there =)

Haven't updated in a while, sorry for that...I'll do that now (duh).

Easter break is over, our hockey team won (yes!) and the weather is getting better and better. We had sunny warm temperatures over the last weeks but it started to rain today, just a little.

Today I'm so tired it's crazy, I came home from school and fell asleep..that's because I worked on a presentation about "sentimentalism" (german literature) until 0:30 am last night, yes, I know, my own fault because I was too lazy to finish it until Monday =)

The presentation was a success, and now I'm trying to stay awake, otherwise I'll just wake up in the middle of the night.

So I'm doing my english homework (apart from now, of course, as I'm writing here) while I'm watching Thunderbirds (2003), a very trashy Sci-Fi movie which is just perfect to do homeworks at the same time because I don't have to concentrate on the movie and still know what's going on.

There's three kids and I still don't exactly know what they're up to, but right now they're going through a jungle and they went through burning tunnels and fired with big slime machines to fight the bad guys. I think they're kinda trying to save the one kid's dad...something like that. The science kid is funny, he has allergies =) Ugh, now one has got a huge scorpion on his shoulder. Gross. Traumatic memories! Uhm...the girl just moved away the scorpion with some magic force using her eyes - they turned yellow.

That is what I call a good movie!

Today's title: Have you ever by The Offspring

We've been on the run driving in the sun looking out for number 1...

2009-04-13T10:14:00.000+02:00

Best High School Musical parody =D (Saturday Night Live)

How was your easter break? Mine was great. Even though I worked almost every day, I spent lots of quality time with friends and family, and went to hockey matches every now and then. Today is THE one, if we win this, we'll finally leave Oberliga behind...

Today's title taken from...guess =) It is really easy!

They got the mouth - we got the soul

2009-03-31T14:00:00.002+02:00

Here is a video of/about my favourite hockey team. We made it to the play-offs, it's "best of five" and so far the series is 1:1. Today is the next big match, in our town, and I'm nervous already!

You have to know that it's not the average hockey club. Once you go there, you're never gonna let go. It is very emotional, because all the fans support their team and they support you. The atmosphere is like no other. The video only shows a tiny piece of what is really going on during, before and after a hockey match of the Indians.

Today's title taken from: Stand up by Jet.

Because Jet is more than "Are you gonna be my girl".

So much for the street lights, they're never gonna guide you home

2009-03-24T15:10:00.001+01:00

I went home after the second lesson today because I didn't feel very well. I had a rugby 7's tournament on Sunday, and the weather there was very changeful: We had sun, rain, warmth, terrible cold...that was strange. And yesterday I went to my rugby training and we had a hurricane warning (don't think of a big hurricane here, in Germany there normally aren't such things) and it was raining and cold and, of course, windy (but not as bad) and I think my sickness is the result of that.

What am I doing now? I have been sleeping until like half an hour ago, and now I'm watching a concert DVD of David Bisbal, a spanish singer. I don't like all of his songs, but Silencio is very catchy and puts you into a good mood. He's the typical summer-music-maker, and right now he's performing a song with this typical spanish guitar in the background and outsde it's stormy and dark haha. A friend of mine lend me this DVD, and she also gave me copies of the two albums Sam's Town and Hot Fuss by The Killers. I haven't listened to the first one so far, but Hot Fuss is great. It includes hits like Somebody told me, Mr. Brightside and Smile like you mean it. I can't remember where or when I heard of The Killers first, but I think I saw them in The OC. Anyways, they're great, and if you still haven't listened to them (which I doubt, because Human and Spaceman are huge at the moment) you definitely should try =)

My mom bought me a Hibiscus as a "Get-well-gift" =D I was really happy about that...all

the buds are still closed but my mom says its yellow with red in the middle so I'm looking forward to finally getting to see it!

As you might already know, I LOVE Hibiscus, it's my favourite flower (closely followed by the tiare flower). I bought one two weeks ago, here you can see the flower that is open right now:

The last thing for today: David Bisbal knows how to sing, but he obviously doesn't know how to dance xD

Today's title taken from Big Sur by The Thrills

2009-03-17T21:05:00.001+01:00

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Too bad for you, you just can't find the right companion

2009-03-12T14:36:00.004+01:00

I don't really have time to write much, but here's a funny video from the All-American Rejects. It just came up on my "suggestion" list on youtube. It is a cover/parody of Womanizer by Britney Spears and even though it sounds kinda annoying I thought it's hilarious. Watch out for the guy with the bottles in the back!

And when the worrying starts to hurt and when the words feel like graves of dirt.

2009-03-11T20:50:00.003+01:00

Today I wanted to write a rather happy post but then I turned on the TV, MTV to be exact, and there was this news bar and it said "because of the tragic incident in Winningen there is a change of programme. In memory of the victims etc." and I was like "wtf" so I quickly looked it up in the internet and read that there was a man/boy running amok in a town called Winningen in the south of Germany. And then again I remembered what I heard on the radio today, that there was someone running amok in Alabama, too, and I wasn't only shocked because of the fact that many had been killed but also that I had heard the news in the morning and forgot about it soonly afterwards. I mean, how scary can that be?

Of course you can't always be caring about people dying somewhere in the world, I think I would be deeply depressed all my life, but still...that made me think.

On youtube there are some parodies about amok and that made me angry. It is in fact ridiculous to blame video games and Marylin Manson, but it is not an issue to laugh about. Two amok runs on the same day - crazy.

I remember a few weeks ago there was a threatening letter from a girl who pretended that she wanted to run amok (that was at the school across the street) but it was fake and she was expelled, of course.

I did a presentation about amok once, and I read a book about it, well it was like an interview with fake persons and they retold the whole story. I also watched "Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore (love him) and read everything I could find about the Columbine High School Massacre. Just watching the camera footage from the cafeteria in that High School while listening to all these emergency recordings where you can hear the shots in the background makes me cry (again see the Moore film. I tried to convince some friends to watch it with me, but they wouldn't. Guess it's just not something you wanna spend your free time with.). Not much fun to do, but extremely interesting. You should at least watch Bowling for Columbine once or read the book "Give a boy a gun". I have it in english and in german so if you know me feel free to ask me for borrowing either one (or both).

Now MTV is playing music videos which is even better than their "normal" programme, and they just played "Song to say Goodbye" by Placebo which I think is one of the best and probably the saddest music video ever produced.

I have to continue working on that essay thing for school, so talk to you later.

Today's title taken from Shut your eyes by Snow Patrol. Good one.

That's why I'm easy, I'm easy like Sunday morning

2009-02-28T10:07:00.002+01:00

Sorry for the long pause...Somehow, I just didn't find the time to post anything.

Well, there's a lot to tell!

Jason Mraz is coming to my town for a concert! I found out last Sunday in the internet, his concert is on March 12, quite strange because whenever there is a concert they announce it everywhere in the radio and on posters in the city. So on Sunday there still were tickets, but when I had asked some people in school if they wanted to come and I had a look at the page in the afternoon, all tickets were gone! I kinda freaked out but didn't lose hope because my dad works in this (music-) business and he phoned a few people but he doesn't know anybody who works at the Jason Mraz tour...yeah so now I'm gonna call the concert company of my town if there's any chance of buying tickets at the cash box in front of the concert hall. It would be so sad if I missed that concert! =(

I can almost oficially say that my surf camp is booked, only that I haven't booked it yet because I wanna do it together with my parents because of some contractual stuff. I'll try today. But I'm definitely going and SOOO excited!

I'm also going to Dublin with my english course which I'm kinda looking forward to but still not a 100% convinced about. There had been a lot of discussions about it in the past because it was/is too expensive, but we're trying to collect money to alleviate that a bit.

The weather is still S-H-I-T. We had 1 or 2 days of sun, inmediately followed by rain. Whenever the sun is out, if only for an hour or two, everybody's quite happy. The worst point was on thursday, when I had my rugby training and it was raining and cold and the wind was blowing without mercy. We ran around a bit, practised some moves for the match on Sunday and my mood got really bad. I just can't wait for spring to come, actually I want summer, but spring's still better than this "can't-decide-if-I-wanna-be-autumn-or-winter-or-spring"-climate. I hope it'll be a hot summer as the winter was extremely cold (for german conditions). I want my tan back ^^

I already told my mom that, as soon as the sun and the warmth is back, I'd be the first to hang out by the pool in some lido.

Oh, and I almost forgot: A DVD which I actually got for christmas (but it wasn't available) has finally arrived: The Endless Summer 2! Wohoo. I watched it as soon as I had unpacked it and love it! I must say that 1 & 2 are both really good, some say 2 is even better but I like the first better, can't say why. In the second they visit new spots as well as some the ones from the first ones had surfed and there are some surprises about it...the second one shows of course a lot of advanced surfing and stars like Kelly Slater, but one thing I loved about The Endless Summer 1 was that it is from the 60's, when in the biggest part of the world nobody even knew what was surfing and they still had those huge longboards with no leashes or anything "high-tech". And still they had some fascinating skills and maneuvers.

I gotta go now, we're having breakfast...I think I'l watch The Endless Summer 2 afterwards =)

/Edit/: N E W S F L A S H: *Oh happy day* I just wanted to book the surfcamp together with my mom and I filled in the form at the computer and she read "optional extra week" and asked me if I didn't want to do 2 weeks...what a question, I mean OF COURSE! We made a deal about the payment and now I can say that I'm not doing 1 week of surfcamp (which I would have been perfectly happy about, as you know), no it's two freakin' weeks!! WOOOOHOO. I could scream out loud. Can't wait! I'm gonna work even more so I have enough money to pay everything! Yea well I guess it's good to go for 2 weeks as my next trip will probably be next year...when I'm going to Costa Rica to visit my host fam. Just wanted to let you know =P

This is who I am and this is what I like: GC, Sum and Blink and MxPx rockin' my room

2009-02-07T09:26:00.013+01:00

Try to include the videos in between to make the text work =) Have fun!

Do you know Lilly Truscott? Or Emily Osment? No? (Say) What?

Let me introduce you to the one and only tomboy-girlie-girl-skater-surf-nerd-cool-kid Lilly (Lillian) Truscott, played by Emily Osment. She's a character in Hannah Montana and thanks to my little sister I got to "know" her about two years ago. Say what you want, Hannah Montana

(okay, does it sound weird to you now, too?) can really be funny sometimes (as well as lame for the rest of the time) and Lilly is responsible for about 70% of the funny parts.

But it's not only the things she says or does, it's what she wears: Colorful, skate, surf, but still not too tomboyish - that's what I always wanted. Okay, you really can't describe my "style" as colorful, but I'm working on it =)

Let's have a look on some of my favourite outfits of her from Hannah Montana Season 1:

Some more facts about Lily: She's Miley Stewart's a.k.a. Hannah Montana's best friend, together with Oliver Oken. She also hangs out with him a lot, doing "guy's stuff" like playing ice/street hockey, bodyboarding, surfing etc.

With Miley she likes to go shopping, talk about boys, go to the beach and help her get out of/into trouble. When she's with Hannah Montana, she dresses up as Lola Luftnagle (to keep the secret), always wearing different colorful wigs and some crazy outfit that goes with it, trying out new styles (80's, 60's, funky, goth a.s.o.). Even before she knew her best friend was a popstar, she had been a huge Hannah Montana fan, her mum is played by Heather Locklear

and she's always up for a joke with Miley's dad, Billy Ray, former country star (...seeing Billy Ray on TV: "Mr. Stewart, you were amazing! What happened?!!)

My favourite scene is when her dog ate her contact lenses and she runs around like a blind fish:

Emily Osment did quite a good job on performing, I'm no big fan of her though...you might also know her as the mean little girl from Spy Kids 2 & 3 who could fly by using her pig tails, but you have to know her older brother Haley Osment. He was the protagonist in "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis (great movie by the way, with throwing-up little Mischa Barton as "dead" guest star! =P)..If you haven't seen it...then watch it - within 5 seconds xD

Yep, that's pretty much the whole movie xD

So thumbs up for Lilly Truscott - here are some of her best moments:

Today's title is from Grow up by Simple Plan. (Special video today because of today's topic :-P)

Don't suppose I'll ever know what it means to be a man, something I can't change, I'll live around it

2009-02-05T16:15:00.002+01:00

I'm back from my ski-trip, now I will tell you all about it (So if you don't wanna know about it scroll waaaaaay down or just ignore this post =P). While reading you can listen to this song (and to know more about this song scroll down):

Friday: The bus left at 8pm from our town, it was a double decker, and there already was a class from another town in it. The interior of the bus was kinda strange, it had neon-green light and transparent rails xD. We really had fun for the first few hours, me and two friends of mine wasted our time by singing along to music, making a music quiz by guessing what the others were lip-syncing, dancing, talking a.s.o. At midnight we called a friend because it was her birthday and sang for her. The rest of the journey was spent with sleeping, if possible, because the driver stopped every three hours and wanted everyone to leave the bus for half an hour so that was pretty annoying - and cold.
Saturday: We arrived at 5:30 in the morning, the driver unloaded our luggage and left. There we stood, on the parking lot, with our luggage in the cold in front of the hostel at 5:30 am. Our first welcomer was some drunk student who thought and shouted we were albanian-germans (wtf?), he could barely walk. In fact, nobody could, because there was so much ice. Our teacher told us that the other class still hadn't left their rooms and that there were too many people in the dining hall so we had to wait. After a while we could go into the dining hall, leaving the luggage and three of us outside to watch it (We changed every now and then, of course). We had some breakfast and waited a loooong time (again trying to make time go by faster by playing cards etc), until 12 or something, had lunch and could finally move into our rooms. In our room we were five pupils and had 3 loft beds. After having taken a shower I felt like a whole new person =)...Since we still had the whole afternoon to be filled with activities, most of us decided to take a walk through the village where we lived. When my friends and I passed a bus stop we spontaneously decided to go to Innsbruck, that's a city in Austria a little bigger than the town I live in. With the help of many super-friendly Austrian we made our way to Innsbruck (by bus and by train), went shopping there (more for food than for anything else), had some coffee and went back.
us in Innsbruck
That trip was really fun and definitely a good idea because Saturday was our only free day and nobody made it to Innsbruck afterwards.
The next day was our first skiing day, we got up at 7 am, changed into our skiing clothes, had breakfast, got the ski-shoes and the skis they gave us the day before and took the bus to Kaltenbach, the skiing area where we woud spend the next 6 days skiing. Our first tries on skis were kinda easy, everybody was able to more or less do the first few maneuvers so we divided into groups (1 advanced and 3 beginners-groups) and headed to something the skiers call "the idiots-hill". It's not a real slope, but steep enough to move forward =). We stayed there for the whole morning, tried ot different types of lifts and had lunch (gross). In the afternoon our group went to ski on our first real slope, a blue one (it's like levels: blue="easy"; red=hard; black=really hard). We were all excited and a little scared at the same time but I think we all did a good job for our first time being on skis. At the end we went down another blue slope and there I had my first fall: Going straight forward, I had to much speed, way too much speed for my taste (on the first day), and there was a skier in front of me, going reeeaaally slow. Not really knowing how to change direction, I hectically decided on hitting the wall of snow next to me. I don't know how I fell, I just know that I was lying there, skis next to me stuck in the snow and the skier who was in front of me lookind down on me from above and asking me if I was okay. I had to laugh so much, it really felt like a movie scene! That wouldn't be my last fall, of course...
Monday we stayed in our groups, this time we went straight to the blue slope, practising turns, curves, dragging and slowing down. Everybody learned pretty fast, but as we were going in one line, like a caterpillar, it was one falling down = the one behind him falling down. It didn't hurt but must have looked hilarious!
Tuesday we devided into new groups. Again we had the advanced ones, same people, then we had the advanced/beginners-group, and two more beginners groups. I was lucky to be in the advanced/beginners group, we were four people, and we had two teachers, the sister of one of our teachers and her husband, an american guy (so we ended up having bilingual skiing lessons). We started with a new blue slope which was a little steeper than the ones before and then started with our first red one. The aim was to keep the skis parallel, because as a beginner you start moving with the tips of the skis turned towards each other (that makes you go slower). The two were great teachers and we had small groups of two, imagine how good it was to learn to ski like that. We spent all day like this, takind different lifts to different red slopes.
Wednesday we had the same groups and while going down all these red slopes which were partly steep, partly a little flatter I had to concentrate so much that I didn't even realize how steep it actually was, so when we stopped in a row at the end of a steep part, the american guy (I won't say names here) suddenly said "Hey, look what did guys just went down!" So we loked up and saw this really steep part (at least it seemed so, for us as beginners) which as black-red! I think we gained some more ski/self-confidence during these two days. After dinner we went sledding...we were all excited and looking forward to this fun-activity, well, we thought it was gonna be fun! We took a sleds in pairs of two and started walking to the sledding hill (it was an extra sledding-track). And we walked, walked and walked...every once in a while our teacher said "Ten more minutes to go!" He went on like that for an hour...in total maybe 1 1/2 hours...1 1/2 hours of pure torture! With aching muscles after a 6-hour-day of skiing we made our way up...most of us kept their mouth shutt, others got really angry and started to complain loudly - that was really annoying. I took snow form firs every few metres because I was so thirsty. When we finally arrived at the top everybody burst out in whoohoing and shouting xD Going down was fun (especially when you have to go in curves but you don't know where the track and where the abyss is ^^), but the walking was not worth it. Having reached the bottom of the hill, one teacher started a snowball fight, the only good part of our trip. Somehow, this teacher was so fast none of us could go after him for revenge, he just disappeared somewhere in the dark. When he came back I surprise him by hitting him with a fat snowball in his face, with the consequence of him throwing himself onto my back down in the snow and pushing loads of snow in my face - ugly feeling, I couldn't even breathe xD. But my ski-mates were already there for revenge. We continued the fight for a while and when we ended I was all white =)
Thursday was tyring as we felt the walk from the day before in our muscles and in the afternoon the teacher (who started the fight) took us to a whole new slope, in another skiing area actually, with a red slope being so steep it wasn't fun anymore. In the afternoons the slopes are all undulating and icy so you just slither down sideways sometimes. I was so done that, on one steep part my legs just crocked up. It's good that snow is so soft =) My friend even managed to fall, do two loops without breaking anything - looked scary and hilarious at the same time. I think at skiing you can have the most amazing stunt-fall.so-it-yourself-practise without (mostly) having serious injuries xD It just looks worse than it feels.
Friday was the "big" exam, which was going down a red-blue slope with the teachers watching us. After that we were free to go anywhere we wanted to. SOme friends of mine went to some easy red slopes, one had borrowed a snowboard on Thursday and now taught himself how to snowboard - learning by doing. He fell pretty hard sometimes but always got up. In the afternoon we went down to te valley and into some aprés ski bar, you know, the ones with the horrible music xD It was so much fun, we were dancing and singing along and just having so much fun. We went to a disco/bar later that evening, in the village, we were like the only ones dancing there...and went to bed at 2 am.
Saturday was our journey back, that meant getting up at 6 am, having breakfast at 6:30 and waiting in the diing room again until 10 am. The time in the bus was boring, exhausting and tyring, but we still had our laughs.

So...that was my ski-trip, I enjoyed it really much and I wouldn't have thought that skiing is so much fun. Next time, I'll try snowboarding! =) I'll upload the phots seperately because blooger is traing to upset me right now X/

Today's title is taken from Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls, which you've already listened to (above). It's one of my favourite songs and it has been ever since I found my dad's Goo Goo Dolls CD. I love the CD, I love the band and I really love this song.

This guy made a pretty good copy...I don't like his mimics though ;-)

You tell the fucking punchline before you have told the joke - Sorry sunshine, it doesn't exist, it wasn't in the Top 100 list

2009-01-11T16:09:00.004+01:00

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Hey guys, I won't make it to do another post, I'm still busy packing my stuff and we're leaving in 1 1/2 hours!

I'm sure this is gonna be a lot of fun, keep visiting this blog from Sunday on (or as often as you want to, of course) to be updated about my ski-trip and other surf, skate or snowboard news!

I wish you a great week!

Today's title was taken from Teddy Picker by Arctic Monkeys.

Who knows what could happen, do what you do just keep on laughing, one things true: There's always a brand new day

2009-01-11T16:00:00.006+01:00

This is only an Update Post because I don't have too much time these days:

So as you can see I haven't been blogging for the last few days, it's because schoo started again and it's 3 books I still have to read and there's homework to be done and I have to go to my rugby training...I know, sounds like a super-full schedule but it isn't that bad actually. My goal (remember?) was to enjoy life more is being achieved until now, I meet friends more often and I see things a little more relaxed. This week has been stressful though, because I'm going to Austria with school on Friday and I'm busy tyding up my room, packing my stuff aso. I also had to get some material for skiing, like special glasses etc. I'm sure we will all look totaly hilarious, wearing several layers of clothes...Some have been asking me what shoes I'm gonna wear, because they only have sneakers, well, I will wear my mom's moonboots because even though I don't like how they look they're the only shoes that will really keep my feet warm and dry and that's what it's all about!

Furthermore, I went to a birthday party n Friday which was fun, and we didn't leave until 2 am and the metro would leave at 2:30 am so we just walked to the city centre and lasted 30 minutes. We were 4 persons and I definitely wouldn't have walked through those streets alone...there were some strange persons walking around!

On Saturday I had a "celebration"-thing (it really was an X-mas party, late!) with my rugby team and we played a game in the forest and we were running around for like 3 hours until we were reeeaaally tired, we went to a restaurant in the zoo, after that I went straight home (which was around the corner, haha!) and landed in my beloved bed, half-dead.

Today is a big soccer match, Hannover 96 (thats "us") vs. AC Milano. That means David Beckham, Ronaldinho, Kaká and Co. I'm going with my family, friends of the family and a friend of mine, we're 8 or 9 people in total. That's going to be so much fun. Before that I have sports, the last two lessons of my skiing classes (I know you can't teach skiing in a hall, we're inline-skating and running around instead :-S).

So that's the update, and so I won't forget here are some things I wanted to blog about:

Surf's up movie
Surf's up OST
The Endless Summer
The one and only bagel-slicer xD
my new hoodies, haha
Hook me up - The Veronicas
My ski-trip to Austria
There's nothing left to lose - Fo Fighters
Dizzy up the girl - Goo Goo Dolls
The better life - 3 Doors Down
How to...Plan a surf trip

a.s.o....oh, yeah, the Bush-nightmare is over, I hope, Obama has already blocked and undone some of Bush's latest laws (which weren't legal yet). He stoped many Guantanamo orders...we'll see how he'll do with his new job.

About the surf camp...my mom really allowed me to go! YAY! But I did some research and I think I'm not gonna go to Vieux Boucau, but t Moliets, that's near. After getting information from the camp organization, it seems that the people at Moliets have more experience and that there will be more people going there than to Vieux. So it's Moliets! Wohoo! I do have more plans about that, I'll tell you next time!

To be continued...XOXO (I feel like Gossip Girl hahaha)

Today's title was taken from Who knows by Avril Lavigne. I was a huge fan of her back than, my friend and I even counted down to the release of Under my skin. I still like her (who cares about her changing by the way, everybody changes!!) but I'm not a fan anymore.

Don't think that you can ignore us, don't tell me that we're to blame. Don't pick our future for us or act like we're the same.

2009-01-11T15:55:00.007+01:00

Weekend's over, again. There were many things to be done and I had a great time these days =)

On Friday was my dad's birthday, my sister and I made a cake for him but lasted too long so we decided to not eat it until Saturday. In the evening I went to a friend's and we had a karaoke session which was very funny.

On Saturday we finally ate the cake, it was delicious (it had to be as my sister and I really suffered doing it - there weren't any chopped hazelnuts so we had to roast, peel and chop them...), then I went to the city centre. I spend 4 hours shopping and wandering around...tyring but fun at the same time. I really enjoy to go shopping on my own because I have the freedom to look around as long as I want without boring anybody. I do like to go shopping with friends, too.

What bought was a hoodie, as you can read on the right hand side I like hoodies, and this one is funny. I didn't take a photo of it yet so I'll show it to you in the next post.

I also wanted to buy some shoes which were really cheap, brown sneakers, but my size was already sold out =(. I know, it's not the time for brown sneakers now, first of all because it's freezing outside and second because the new trend is colorful sneakers (have a look at nike.com and you'll see ;-P), but I already have some: My Vans (which are mainly black though), they have turquoise laces and skulls in all different colors on the sides and another pair (not Vans) that are blue and yellow. A friend of mine has Nike sneakers, they are so cool, and he designed them himself on the internet.

Today I met a friend for breakfast at our favorite café/bar, for the rest of the day I just hung out at home. I didnt't even get myself to the stadium to see tonights hockey match. I'm a bad fan =P

I played Singstar with my sister instead, an we decided on buying Guitar hero tomorrow. This is going to be so much fun!

On friday something I had been waiting for a week arrived:

This beautiful metal sign, called "Surf shack". You and me are already getting used to the mirrored images due to my macbook's photobooth-programme ;-) The roadsigns say things like "Newport", "Oahu, Hawaii" a.s.o. The colors and boards are so beautiful! This sign is going to have a special place in my room, I haven't decided on which one yet.

My mom's birthday present has also arrived on Saturday, I will show it to you next time. Now I'm just going to bed because I am really tired...don't exactly know of what I am tired, I haven't done anything the whole day!

Oh, I almost forgot: There was a big earthquake in Costa Rica, 6,2 strength...I saw videos on youtube and it really scared me, 15-20 people have died already, some are missing, over a hundred people are stuck in a hotel and on a mountain where there are houses. One highway broke and 15 km of i have just vanished. Some mountains look like cut and many houses and bridges broke. I tried to reach my hostfam but they wouldn't answer the phnoe. I really hope this is only because they went out or maybe theres no electricity, that often happens. I'll keep thinking that nothing has happened to them because they live in a quite save region. But whats save for an earthquake? I hope they answer my emails soon.

Today's title was taken from Thanks for nothing by Sum 41 from my favourite Sum 41 album Does this look infected?.

I'm gonna make it bend and break, say a prayer but let the good times roll, in case God doesn't show

2009-01-07T20:08:00.008+01:00

First day of school in 2009 is over. I only had 4 lesseon anyways, 2 of English and 2 of Spanish. Both were quite boring. Our new topic in English is "The American South" which I think is interesting. We're going to talk about "from slavery to civil rights" and about "the new South" which is about today's life in the south of the USA. In Spanish our topic for this semester is "Él y ella en el teatro español" (He and her in spanish plays)...that is uh...not so interesting. We'll see.

When I got back from school I didn't feel my fingers and toes anymore and I looked like Rudolph (the reindeer) because it still is very cold outside. The ice hasn't gone yet and you have to be careful as hell to not fall down. Anyone going by bike these days might either not have been in Germany for the last 6 days or he/she has gone mad.

Then I went shopping with my mum, I bought 50 blank CD's and a note pad for school because I liked the look of it.

It is mirrored again, but you can still see what it looks like.

We also saw an oversized universal remote control, the buttons were as big as the finger tip of a thumb! There was also an oversized frog toy, and a cool ghetto blaster which had like a case to put and plug your mp3-player in and you can also listen to the radio or to CD's. It wasn't expensive but I already have a nice hi-fi system.

As you can see I updated my profile. Most of the text was inspired by one of my favourite books: Surf Girl Roxy. It shows many fotos of the Roxy surf-team but also contains texts, interviews and stories. The book helps me everytime I miss the warmth and the sun and the sounds and the smell of the seaside. The photographs make you feel a little closer to the beach.

So I took that text which characterises the whole team and (mostly) modified it and added things so it fits my person. The last part of the text is from the song "Pocket full of stars".

Here are some more of my favourite lines in Surf Girl Roxy:

"But the honest truth is, the ocean scares the shit out of me. I don't trust myself to hold my own against something so...omnipotent. All those mysterious currents and swells and riptides and rocks and reefs... And that's only half of it! What about everything swimming around you (unfriendly locals, bodyboarders, tourists, kids, old men in Speedos...) and underneath you (sharks, stingrays, jellyfish, sea snakes, giant squid, runaway kelp, poisonous...things)? Surfing may be fun, but it's hard and scary and dangerous, too. [...] These girls are the most fearless versions of themselves. They make me want to become a more fearless version of me. [...] You don't necessarily have to surf to learn something from them. We can all seek a little more danger in life. We can all take more pleasure in simple moments. And we can all test our own waters, seeking a connetion to, a lesson from, something larger than ourselves -Natalie Linden (she isn't a surfer but wrote the texts in the book)
"The ocean never lets you down. It might surprise you, or frighten you, or challenge you, but it's always there for you. [...] You can get to know it, but you can never 100 % predict it. Some days the swell will come up faster than you could ever imagine, and you'll have to battle your way outside. You'll take waves over the head over and over again, barely able to catch your breath. You'll be scared and tired, but you can't give up. If you give up in the ocean, you'll never walk out of it. So you keep paddling, keep thinking, keep moving. You find your inner reserves. And when you make it up to the lineup, you've never been so grateful. You have accepted what the ocean has offered you, and you've proven yourself in the process. It's a metaphor for life."
"There are so many different boards, so many different waves and everything, it's like, it's always a new rush. Every morning, I'm just so stoked to get out in the water. Jumping out of my skin. I surf until I can't paddle, or think of doing anything else. Then I go in, relax, chill out, and count down the hours until I can go do it again. That's how it is. I'm an addict. I love it so much it's crazy."
"Just be active. Care. Smile when you mean it. Fight for what you love. Doesn't matter if it's surfing or soccer or painting or Greenpeace. It'll show."
"There is so much freedom in letting go of fear. On one trip, VK and Rachael took the Jet Ski out for a spin. VK had never driven one before, and she gunned it. They were going so fast, they looked like cartoon characters, cheeks flapping and legs flying everywhere. They hit a swell, ate shit, but they were laughing so hard they almost drowned. [...] You can see it right away in a person: that they're not afraid, or at least not enough to keep them from trying something new."
"If the surf is up, we're out three times a day, and spend the rest of the time laughing. If there aren't any waves, we spend the whole time laughing."
"The ocean always keeps you on check. Whenever you get cocky, you can count on Mother Nature to slap you in the face and say "Hello, I'm the boss, in case you forgot". [...] Ultimately, I just think life is all about the moment in front of you. I can only get to my future by living through everything in between, so I might as well make the most of every second. Love it as much as you can, or hate it as much as you have to, but just experience it for what it is."

Hope you like it!

Today's title is taken from Thnks fr th mmrs by Fall Out Boy. Funny video by the way.

It came with the surf it came with a bang, and all across the board my friends felt the same

2009-01-06T16:30:00.007+01:00

Today is the last day of my winter holidays, which is sad and great at the same time. Everytime school starts again after New Year's Day, I feel like the year is really starting right at that moment because my everyday life is just getting back to me.

I'm spending the day organizing my school stuff, cleaning my room while drinking Chai (my favourite tea) and copying music into my itunes - At the time I bought my new macbook I already had most of my CD's packed, and now I finally have some time to copy it all into my itunes. Until now I have 1550 songs, thats 201,4 days of music or 5,77 GB. And there's still a lot of music I didn't copy yet =) I also have a lot of old CD's in a box from when I was younger, I'm thinking about copying it into my itunes, but I guess I'll just take a few songs because most of the music I listened to sucks.

I also did myself a favour =P and bought the Surf's Up OST on itunes today. I bought it there because I only cared about the actual soundtrack and not the package - that's a lot cheaper. When I buy CD's of my favourite bands I like to have the original ones though.

So...I gotta say that this soundtrack was absolutely worth buying, not just for surf-fans but for everyone, it has 15 tracks of great music!! I can say that I have like 10 new favourite songs from now on and I'm not kidding! I love them all so much! Be prepared to read about and listen to the soundtrack soon and read, as I promised a looong time ago, the review about the Surf's up movie.

I also got the new The Veronicas album "Hook me up", I borrowed it from a friend. They really changed their sound a lot, you've got to get used to the electro-dance beats and their new "language" but it's actually not bad. Since the first album (which I like better) was more rock-pop, and the second is like pop-electro-dance, I wonder what the next one will be like. Too bad nobody knows them in Germany.

That's enough updates for today, tonight my friend is coming over and we'll go to the hockey-stadium to see a match. It's her first time ever to see a hockey game so I hope she likes it. It's not only about the sport but also a lot about the atmosphere which is amazing, I work there quite a lot and we're all like a big family, I'm always happy to see these people every week. But today I don't have to work so I'm taking my friend - we'll (try to) walk there (I live close to the stadium), hope we don't fall down like I did yesterday (haha) because this ice is e-v-i-l, let me tell you...;-) -Cross your fingers!

Today's title was taken from Reggae got soul by 311. It's one of the tracks of the Surf's Up OST.

-

2009-01-02T21:24:00.005+01:00

Life is so ironical. I have just written a paragraph about the hawaiian guy who was so generous and fun we met in Costa Rica, and I went to the WOW surf (that's the surf shop we alway went to) website today just to see if anything had changed. It had:

Lorenzo Bird has passed away. I don't know how or why, but it shocked me pretty much. I didn't even know him well, we met him only twice, but that was enough to know that he was such a great person. One of the very few people that make you have a great time and that let you know they help you anytime.

Now I will never be able to ask him.

I will go back to that shop as soon as I get back to Costa Rica. And when I have enough money I will buy a board there. And show it to Erik in Puerto Rico!

R.I.P. Lorenzo Bird.

I swallow a lot when the pressure is up and the feeling I've got is I'm not gonna stop

2009-01-01T18:12:00.010+01:00

Happy New Year to all of you guys!

I hope you had a great time celebrating. 2008 was ok, the first half of it was amazing and I hope 2009 is going to be even better. I have a good feeling about that. I even have some goals for 2009 and I might even be able to achieve them because it's more or less up to me:

Surf Camp! In my summer holidays. I'm desperate to be out in the water again and I already know where to go, France! That's the cheapest place to go to for surfing I guess. Anyone wanna join me? I don't want to go alone ;-)
Continue (and improve my) skating! I think there's another skate course taking place this month. First, I should go the the skate hall and practise what I've learned last time though.
Improve my grades! My grades weren't bad at all. Still, I know I can do better. And I want to have the prove, on paper =P
Enjoy life - cheesy, I know.

2008 was a year of extreme situations.

It started out with a problem which made it really hard for me to be so far away from my family, but it was solved soon.

Right after that I went to surf camp which was one of the best events in my life (so far) and especially in 2008.

I met the most amazing people there, and I couldn't have learned more about surfing and about myself in one week. This camp kind of opened new doors for me.

After that I was stoked, so I went to the beach with friends pretty often, trying to make them surf, too, and it worked, all the time. Playa Jacó was always a blast. Good surf, great weather, funny and special people. More about them later. Oh, I love and miss the beach so much.

In May, I went to Panama City. The canal was impressing! Cheap clothes, huge malls, mini-Manhattan-skyline.

My time in Costa Rica was going to end and was at its best at its best at the same time. We had school president's elections, a big thing, we watched the European Championship all together and my class and I even skipped lessons to watch Germany play and, gosh, how I had to suffer when we lost against Croacia, everyone was like: "Hey, she's from Germany, let's get on her nerves!" After the match I went to classes and the whole school knew that I was german and that Germany lost and I didn't even care that much but they were all shouting and pointing at me as if it were a big deal. I did have some supporters, haha. I also went on vacation with my host fam, we visited several beaches, la casona, too, we had an amazing time. My class made a farewell party for me, Germany beat Portugal meanwhile and I got back at them all ;-)

My host sisters made another surprise party for me at home with our closest friends. It was a girls' sleepover and we had so much fun.

I got back at the end of june, summer holidays were about to start. I was so happy to see all of my friends and family again, it was overwhelming and confusing to be back and after a few days I had a little nervous breakdown but that was only for a few hours =)

At the end of summer holidays I went to Italy for two weeks with a friend of mine. We had big shopping tours in Firence, spent one day in Milano, refreshed our tan on sunny island Elba and recovered all the talking we didn't have for one year :-P

School started again and I was psyched, it was all new and different but soon I got really stressed and didn't enjoy life at all. I hardly had a life. My anti-stress-drug was playing Rugby, that helped a lot.

In November we moved from our old house to an apartment which I love, I really like my new room much better than my old one.

I also met really great people this year:

I met this Hawaiian guy, Lorenzo (Ok, people can't choose their names ;-P), who works at a surf shop in Jacó Beach and he always took me and my friends to the other end of the beach with his car when he had students to teach and he gave us water and pineapple and surfer-sunscreen and told us all about surfing in Jacó and the places around. The best was his accent, we spoke english because his spanish wasn't that good. I'm still asking myself one thing: Why the heck would he move from (surfers' paradise) Hawaii to Costa Rica as a surfer? Me and my friend came up with that question when we were back from the beach and we never went back afterwards so I never had the chance to ask him. When I get back I'll ask him - He will still be there, for sure.
Jason, an American guy who my friend and I met In Jacó at the cabinas where we stayed. On this trip, we stayed there for 5 days and he did, too, and since you can't really go out in Jacó at night because it can get dangerous, we often stayed at the cabinas, chilled in hammocks and rockers and talked about all different kinds of stuff. We always had a lot of people to join us, but they were always staying for one or two nights. My friend, Jason and I were always there (during these 5 days) and Jason made everybody laugh and talk - he has a talent for that. He's from Florida but lives in Panama City due to his work. He has a little daughter back in Florida and he teaches her spanish (he has this funny american-panamanian accent), and he was on a 1-week-surf vacation in Costa Rica. On the same trip, we also met a german couple, an old American man who had been a missionaire until he and his wife got divorced, two girls from New York, 2 guys from Vancouver, Canada, one girl from Switzerland and one guy from Colorado, USA. On the last evening we went out all together to eat something at a restaurant. One Austrian guy made us fake tatoos on the wrist (I got a lizard). He had learned that in Guatemala from an Indio tribe, they use semen from a tree to make the tatoos. They vanish after 10 days. That trip was fun.
My next trip to Jacó, with another friend of mine, was just as great, we met german people, american people, canadian people, australian people. We went to see a surf contest with them at a beach near by. A german woman, hadn't been in Germany for years because she travelled the whole world: Asia, worked in China and India, worked in Uganda, worked in Dublin, travelled Latin America. She wanted to work in Chile or Argentina and go to Australia after that. One guy, Erik, was from the USA but lives in Puerto Rico and works there as a surf instructor. My friend and I were happy to hear that, but he told us he didn't want to teach anybody in Jacó because he has to do that 7 days a week in Puerto Rico and wanted to enjoy surfing himself in Costa Rica. But when he heard that I got so much into surfing he was trying to talk me into buying a board inmediately. He explained me every single board in a catalogue and marked the ones that could be mine, in categories: "If you buy it an sell it when you go back to Germany", "If you move to Costa Rica and stay", "If you wanna surf in Europe and go on vacation-surf trips" "If you wanna become a longboard-girl". I still have that catalogue ;-) Lorenzo joined him and wanted to write my parents an email with arguments about why I should buy a board xD
There were loads of other people there, and they all had their own story to tell. I met all of them in Jacó whichis definitely a big point for this little beach town.
In Germany, I didn't meet that many new people, but many known beloved people who I am happy to know and proud of being their friend <3

Edit: The german woman who travels aound the world was in a group with one Canadian and one Australian guy. One month later, I met them again in Panama City. That was creepy =) The world still is a small place ;-)

Last but not least: I don't care as long as you sing by The Beatsteacks.

and I don't care as long as you sing

and I don't care as long as we swing

and I don't care as long as you sing

I get everything right and I want you to

I get everything right I'm not playing rude

I get everything right I get up and swing

you make me sing

so here we go it doesn't pay

it won't protect me no more

when I get up I break it down

I'll double back and for sure

I go back to zero

I get up

I swallow a lot if the pressure is up

and the feeling i've got

is I'm not gonna stop

we are back in the early morning

so here we go it doesn't pay

it won't protect me no more

when i get up I break it down 2x

I'll double back and for sure

I go back to zero

and I don't care as long as you sing

and I don't care as long as we swing

I don't care as long as you sing

I get up

so here we go it doesn't pay

it won't protect me no more

when i get up I break it down 2x

I'll double back and for sure

I go back to zero

So here we go now

I get everything right and i want you to

I get everything right I'm not playing rude

I get everything right I get up and swing

Well open up your mind and see like me, open up your plans and damn you're free

2008-12-29T17:26:00.004+01:00

2008 was definitely a year of quite good music. I can't really decide on one song being my favourite song of the year...But I can tell you which one is my favourite video 2008: I'm yours -Jason Mraz.

It reminds me so much of Costa Rica, it really looks the same!

When I heard the first few chords, I was like "Oh please, not another Jack Johnson-double!"...but the song is just great and catchy and the lyrics match with the sound. It does sound like Jack Johnson, but listen to Make it mine or Geek in pink and you'll see, he kinda has his own sound.

itunes is giving aways music goodies from 26 december - 6 january, if you have an itunes account, you should definitely take advantage of that. They already gave me two music videos, Hot 'n' Cold by Katy Perry and That's not my name by The Ting Tings, one episode of a german TV Show and a package of three music videos of Jason Mraz: I'm yours, Geek in Pink and The Remedy (I don't worry), which I'm really happy about. I don't really care about The Ting Tings, neither about that episode, but hey, it was for free.

How do you like the video?

Today's title was taken from the same song's lyrics.

I wanna be the one to walk in the sun, oh girls, they wanna have fun

2008-12-28T13:27:00.006+01:00

Yesterday I watched my new DVD Surf's up, but after a while I decided to go outside because the sun was shining and the sky was so blue it was practically asking me to come outside =)

I took my two skateboards and tried out the ground right in front of our apartment house. It's not that good, to be honest, not for a regular skateboard. It's plain but it has many little stones sticking out of the concrete. It's possible to ride it, still it is totally uncomfortable. I tried the street then, which felt a little "softer", but has to many holes and bumps and cars =) (No, I'm not picky!)

The sidewalk on the other side was okay. So I went forth and back, down the street (which is pretty long) and back again, tried the revert, which doesn't work as good as in the hall where we learned it of course, and after some time I just got tired of going down the same sreet again and again. So I too my longboard. Due to the big, soft weels it's no problem at all riding over rough or bumby bottom or even one with little holes in it, but as you can imagine its not really exciting going forth and back with it, either. I tried to go full speed with it, alomost bumped into a biker, then practised turns and figured my next longboard should have a bent tail so I can turn more easily. Then I was thinking about The Endless Summer because of the longboards, back then they only had these huge boards, and the thing you did (and still do today) most of the times was trying to walk on it while riding the wave. I wanted to try that on my skateboard since it was pretty long and very flexible =) It worked! After a few tries I managed to walk to the front and back again. I did a Hang Five xD, if that exixts in skate language ;-) I think I will continue improving that on my longboard.

Here's the next whiz kid, Quinn Sullivan. He's six and he's a guitarist. Watch him play Twist and shout by the Beatles! I found another video of him playing on stage with Buddy Guy.

And I guess where today's title is taken from is not that hard to figure out ;-)

X-mas Part 2 and other stuff

2008-12-27T12:42:00.008+01:00

Here's part 2 of my Christmas report.

I also got the The Endless Summer 2 DVD, but my mom ordered it and it still hasn't arrived yet...can't wait to finally see it! The Endless Summer 1 was awsome, and people say that 2 is at least as good as the first one!

The little sparkling box on the left side is from my aunt, she put money in it. The bottle is filled with sweets and I got it yesterday at the hockey stadium.

This is what I got from a friend of our family yesterday, it's the movie Surf's up (YAY!) and a funny hot-water bag that kinda matches with the flask, don't you think?

Next, I want to show you some amazing kids that I saw at the Ellen DeGeneres show, they're so talented that I'm starting to ask myself about why I haven't discovered mine...I mean, Ellen's got the talk-talent, the kids...well, see yourself, and I...just have to keep trying. We'll see. I just think to start at a young age is an advantage =)

The first one I want to show you is Jalen Testerman, a breakdancing kid...he's only six, Chris Brown should better watch out for him! I don't know why nobody recruited him for the youtube-dancebattle?!

Jalen says that it's important to look fresh. We'll take that advice! =)

X-mas Part 1

2008-12-26T15:53:00.020+01:00

This is the first part of my X-mas report ;-)

Christmas Eve was as always, but still not the same because last year I celebrated it beneath palm and mango trees, sitting around in shorts and a tank top, having fun with fireworks with my host sisters, -brother and -uncle, Santa Clause far away and more or less depised by the rest of the family.

This year, I was back home again, it was (not that) cold outside, we ate the same thing we always do, Raclette, after we had our presents.

Then we played Sing it, a game my sister got, until 1 o'clock in the morning.

The next day we went to visit my dad's family, great lunch (I could eat that all day), exchanging presents, talking, eating again, other parts of the family I didn't even know I had arrived, ate again, talked, I found out we are related somehow, talked, ate again... I felt sick and tired at the end of the day.

Today, 2nd day of Christmas, I didn't do anything so far, watched TV and tonight it's hockey-time again =) My mom says I still get one gift from a friend of ours there, I'm anxious to know what it is!

So, here are the things I got, I took the photos with my macbook so don't be wondering about the inclined angles and mirror-inverted writings ;-)

A red blanket and 2 red pillows for my room. My old room was yellow, and I had yellow and green pillows and blankets. My new room has one dark red wall so I wanted to have these to match with it.

This really cool thermos flask says "Sweet drink of mine" =) In the back (right) you can also see this beautiful box, it's another christmas present from a friend of mine, it was filled with sweets and a photo of the two of us.

YAY! You probably can't read it but it's Friends Season 2! I already have 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10, now I have 2, too! I watched 3 episodes yesterday night and laughed really hard. As always. Friends is the funniest TV Show on the planet. In german it's lame, that's why I never watched it, but in Costa Rica they showed it in english and I'm in love with it ever since. If you're in a bad mood, watch friends. If you're in a good mood, watch friends - you'll laugh even more than before.

This bracelet is from my aunt who lives

in Greece =)

From Cate: This purse. You have to touch it to really know how wonderful it is. It's so soft! Thank you!!!

I got this on December 6th (Nikolaus) a perfume from Roxy. It smells like beach, flowers and fruits all together. I love it!

This is a longsleeve shirt from Roxy

Actually, I didn't get this for Christmas, but my dad brought it for me from the USA and he arrived a few days ago so it's practically a Christmad present ;-) It's an Ugly Doll (that's actually the brand name!) and I always wanted these. In Germany they're quite expensive, in the US they're cheap...the one I want so badly is OX, but this one is also very cool, it's called Peaco. I'm going to do an extra post on Ugly Dolls some day.

Cate post #2: Cat fight

2008-12-25T22:59:00.002+01:00

Ok, so to put the story to an end, and so we all know all about disney girls xD, I'll post these two videos to show you the cat fight. Shame on me. Next time I post on disney girls I should shut down my blog xD

Hmmm...who's worse. I think they don't hate each other as much as their fans do now, IF they even hate each other. One word: promo - youtube is huge now.

Guess who

2008-12-24T12:15:00.000+01:00

Extra post for Cate: Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. But who's who?

Still don't see the difference? Yeah, me neither. So let's have a closer look:

This is Miley Cyrus. 100%. I googled it.

Demi Lovato. The Camp Rock girl. I'm sure you recognize the, how you called it "SHOWALLOFYOURTEETH-grin" xD

Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus together. Now that really makes it hard again =D

The other girl, Selena Gomez, is not that hard to differenciate I guess. She looks more latino-like. But: I think Demi Lovato looks just like Hilary Duff when she was younger. Tyra Banks once called it "freaky, Disney!!" You are so right. Somehow, I still love Disney and I hope I'll get the Surf's up!-movie for X-mas so I can write a review for you guys.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU, hope at least some of you have a white Christmas!

PS: My dad lives so next door to you! It's 35!! *yay*

Quote of the day: "Ew, he's crushing on someone old enough to know the Beatles!" -"The who?" -"Them, too!"

Drinking wine and killing time, sitting in the summer sun

2008-12-23T11:52:00.003+01:00

An impressing video I found on youtube. I'm still wondering how they did this. It can't be green screen, because you can't even see the shadow of the boards...It's called Invisible Boards (duh!)

I was also watching the Ellen DeGeneres Show on youtube and I'm a huge fan now. She is totally hilarious! I wish I had this ability to always know what to say. Watch her argument with McCain about gay marriage. He looks pissed!

Today's title taken from: Seven Days in Suny June by Jamiroquai. Love the song!

Somebody push it away so all that I can hear is a simple song

2008-12-15T16:43:00.007+01:00

This is actually kind of weird...I bought a christmas present for my sister, Miley Cyrus' latest record (Breakout to whom it might be interesting), because she loves her, and of course I copied it into my itunes because I have all the music that exists in our home in my itunes =) I listened through it and as I expected it was, lets say "not my taste" of music, but then this song came up and now I've got a confession to make: I LOVE IT! It's called Simple Song and I really like the lyrics and can't get it out of my head. I never thought that Miley Cyrus would ever do that to me, haha.

So here are the lyrics. They're not even profound or something, still, it fits me pretty good right now. Don't you wish you would be able to turn off everything for a minute and get rid of all the crazy thoughts i your head and of all the noises around you?

LISTEN

Wake up, here I go, cram it all down my throat

Stomach so full that I wish I could choke

Seven a.m. my head's already in a spin

Just as soon I'm out that door, bam!

Hits me like a ton of those red bricks

Can't dig myself out of this highest ditch

This madness

I swear sometimes I can't tell

Which way is up, which way is down

It's all up in my face, need to push it away

Somebody push it away

So all that I can hear

Is a simple song

Sing along now

La, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la

Midday sun beatin' on the concrete

Burnin' up my feet

Too many cars on the street

The noise, the red, the green

It makes me wanna scream

5 o'clock knocks

Bumper on bumper on bumper horns honkin'

Nobody's lookin' but everybody's talkin

It's another day on this highway

I swear sometimes I can't tell

Which way is up, which way is down

It's all up in my face

I need to push it away

Somebody push it away

'Cause all I wanna hear

Is a simple song

La, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la

What I'd give to turn it off

Make it stop, make it stop

Gotta make it stop

So all that I can hear...

I've been tagged!

2008-12-08T15:41:00.004+01:00

...by Cate. She invented a new tag nd I'm proud to say I'm one of the persons that has been tagged to do this...tag (can you say that?)

So first of all, here are the rules:

1) Link the person who tagged you
2) Post the rules
3) List 13 random things you find on your desk and explain a little about them
4) Tag three other bloggers.

1) Cate

2) Above

3) -Toffifee =): Hey, it was Nikolaus this weekend! ;-P

- An MP3 - Mix a friend from Costa Rica made for me. I stored all the music on my new computer.

- My Skullcandy headphones - YAY - I LOVE THEM! I got them for my "abo" of Goldenride Magazine.

- Some photos of my ancestors: My grandma has send me photos and information about my ancestors some time ago...when I unpacked all my stuff (we moved) I found them again. I have to talk to my grandma this christmas to get more information, because its totally interesting. She and her mum had like 4 nationalities one after another because of WW1 & 2

- book - just a blank book to take notes. I always have a bunch of books to write down all kinds of stuff.

- scissors

- phone. since my mom was kinda annoyed about people calling me later in the evening, we put a phone in my new room with its own number. It also rings when someone calls on our "normal" number.

- lamp - you need a lamp on your desk!

- a puncher: Cate gave it to me for christmas in like 7th or 8th grade - I still have it! =)

- letter paper - i have to write some letters to my host family

- stickers from PLUSMINUS and Chiemsee =) I found them in the city centre (for free of course) and put one on my skateboard. If you want to have one contact me!

-loads of pencils a.s.o.

- post its =)

Im tagging angbu, Vaios and Raspberry!

Take my picture by the pool 'cause I'm the next big thing!

2008-12-05T20:38:00.005+01:00

Wow! My very last exam in 2008 is over, no more presentations, nothing...I was even planning on skipping maths today but I ran into my teachers arms so I had to go xD But I had a blast, these were the funniest two math lessons I've ever had.

A movie review is soon to come, I saw the movie "Surf's up"a few days ago, you know, the animated one with the surfing penguins. I didn't believe my sister when she told me that it is totally hilarious, but I admit...I love it! I will watch it one more time though to give you a good review.

I also went to see Madagascar 2 today, because I loved the first one, but it was kinda disappointing even though I didn't have high expectations - everybody knows most 2nd parts of a successfull movie are lame...

There were good parts though, for example - SPOILERS!!! - that Marty, the zebra, has like a million identical twins and the penguins get together with the two intelligent monkeys to repair a plane, it ends up with a bunch of monkeys protesting and marching for maternity leave (there were only male workers) and the penguins as the bosses claiming that they just wouldn't let themselves be overruled by some stupid communists. Good one =)

So be prepared for "Surf's up", right now I'm watching the terribly bad "Camp Rock" movie, I can even say that it's much worse than High School Musical. See yourselves:

Somebody please tell the guy his pants are too tight...

PS.: Title taken from Beverly Hills by Weezer, love the song!

Wunschzettel

2008-11-29T16:24:00.009+01:00

Ich geh durch die City und hör das Glockenspiel,
die Leute sind in Bewegung und alle shoppen viel
der Schnee bedeckt die Straßen wie ein weißes Tuch
ich schreib nen Wunsch auf meinen Zettel, so als seis genug
Ich wünsch mir viel, doch was sind Wünsche wert?
Ich mein Frieden auf Erden wär wenigstens wünschenswert
Ich wünsch mir, dass nicht mehr geschossen wird,
dass beim G8-Gipfel was Sinnvolles beschlossen wird
und ich wünschte für jeden, der Arbeit sucht wär auch ne Stelle frei
und dass Bin Laden und Bush die gleiche Zelle teilen,
dass die Menschen in den Krieg müssen, die Kriege beschliessen
die andern feiern zusammen und können den Frieden genießen
und dass wir für Aids endlich n' Heilmittel finden
und mehr Geld in die Forschung geht, das würde einiges bringen
wenn alle Menschen dieser Welt nicht mehr als einen Wunsch hätten
dann stünd "Wir wollen leben" auf dem Wunschzettel

Welcher Wunsch ist es wert, erhört zu werden?
Ich würd es dir gern sagen - es ist wichtig zu verstehen
es wär wünschenswert (so wünschenswert) nie aufzugeben
und ich schreib es auf meinen Wunschzettel
und ob dann Träume in Erfüllung gehn....

Ich wünsch mir, dass jeder der gutes tat, in der Erinnerung lebt
und dass kein einziger Mensch sich mehr an Kindern vergeht
und am Ende des Tages stünde jeder da mit vollen Händen,
die Kirche würd beschliessen all ihr Gold zu spenden
ich wünschte wir wärn zufrieden mit nem einfachen Leben,
dass wir endlich lernen mit der Natur in Einklang zu leben
und ich wünschte jeder würd die Wahrheit sehen wie Al Gore
wir könnten den Planeten retten und noch wär nichts verlorn
und alle könnten sagen und machen, was sie wolln
alle hätten genug zu essen und die Taschen voll
und dass alle auf das hörn, was ihre Herzen ihnen sagen,
dass Israel und Palästina ihre Schwerter begraben
ich muss was Gutes auf die Liste da schreiben,
es könnte Christen, Juden und Islamisten vereinen
und ich weiß, Menschen kann man nicht allein mit einem Wunsch retten,
doch ich schreibs trotzdem auf den Wunschzettel

Welcher Wunsch ist es wert, erhört zu werden?
Ich würd es dir gern sagen - es ist wichtig zu verstehen
es wär wünschenswert nie aufzugeben
und ich schreib es auf meinen Wunschzettel
und ob dann Träume in Erfüllung gehn....

Ich wünsch mir, dass alle am Weihnachtsabend eine Heimat haben,
dass es Flüchtlinge nicht mehr gibt, dass jeder sich verliebt
und ich wünsch mir, dass man Versprechen wieder hält,
denn alle fünf Sekunden verhungert ein Kind auf dieser Welt
es ist die Zeit der Liebe und ich wünsch jedem was Gutes,
man muss dem Bösen widerstehn...ich versuch es
es ist ne eisige Nacht, doch sag mir wie und ich mach daraus ne heilige Nacht

Welcher Wunsch ist es wert erhört zu werden?
Ich würd es dir gern sagen - es ist wichtig zu verstehen
es wär wünschenswert nie aufzugeben
und ich schreib es auf meinen Wunschzettel
und ob dann Träume in Erfüllung gehn....

Write dwn your wish and help. http://www.der-laengste-wunschzettel.de/

These are headstrong crazy days when your mind's made up and the music plays

2008-11-23T11:15:00.009+01:00

I had my English exam today, that was 3 hours of writing a summary, an essay and a letter, so I'm actually tired of writing much right now =)

That is also the reasonfor why I'm going to post my travel-special later, instead I'll show you something very cool I found in the internet yesterday and it might interest all of the surfer- and/or skatergirls out there or those ho just want to try it out some day.

First of all, Carissa Moore's online journal is online again. When I was bored I just typed in her site to see if anything had changed - and there it was. She is not with Roxy anymore! Sad. I love Roxy and I love Carissa Moore. But one has to make changes in life and she had been with Roxy for like forever, her whole surfing-career, which is 8 years (and she's only 16!), and now she signed up with Red Bull and Nike 6.0 - not that bad either.

Second, I had a look at the little symbols on the right side, and found: A skateboard designed by her! It's a small longboard actually, and have a closer look: Do you see the trucks shining through?

This is so cool - a transparent skateboard deck! I've never seen that before!

The colours remind of her surfboards...

One day I am going to design my own board haha =)

Edit: I almost forgot - today's title was actually inspired by my sister because she listens to it so much I already know the lyrics: Headstrong by Ashley Tisdale. It's a catchy song, you listen to it once and it's stuck in your head.

Reaching for something in the distance, so closet you can almost taste it, release your inhibitions

2008-11-21T14:55:00.002+01:00

I have already written the whol article, but it was all deleted. And I don't have enough time now to rewrite it. Sorry!

Hey hey now, can you take it, and we all cry when they all die blonde

2008-11-18T15:58:00.001+01:00

Hello!

So now we finally moved, I am almost done with unpacking my stuff so I have time to post again - even though I still have some exams to pass (at least I hope so) but I can't really study or prepare myself or them because it's Ethics, English and Spanish...

Last Saturday I went to take these skating classes I told you about and it was really great. I learned a lot!

When we got there, we kinda felt embarrassed because they were all so much younger then we were, and our "coach" was younger than us I guess, maximum as old as I am...

But soon we got "over it" =P, put on helmets and protectors for anything you should be protecting when you learn to skate, that's head (as I said, helmets!), elbows, knees and wrists. Well, as we had to find out they were really helpful, despite the fact that we looked pretty funny =)

So we started with things like how to stand on a board and just pushing/moving. Then we practised to turn the board around 180° without letting the wheels go up in the air. Nobody was able to do so at the beginning.

After that we went to the first ramp, we lined up like 3-4 metres in front of it and each had to move towards the ramp, go up the ramp a bit and then come back, roll a bit and do the 180° turn to get into the right position again (because, imagine going up the ramp, and you're standing with the left foot in front, then you come back and roll backwards, the wrong foot is in front, so you have to turn the board around). During the first tries we got help from our "coach" to grab confidence and then he let us try alone. We did that for a pretty long time until we managed to to the 180° turn more or less.

After achieving this, we went to a thing, I don't really know how to describe it...just imagine a ramp, just going straight up, with a height of about 1,5 m, then a straight platform for 2 m, a mini ramp (1 m) again going straight up and on the top there was enough room for all of us to stand on it. First we only went down the first ramp, which was faster than before of course, and I was a little scared, like everybody, so we got "help" again (they we're runnig down next to us in case we fell down - that helped a lot, really!). On the opposite side there was another ramp after about 2-3 metres, so with the speed we got from rolling down we had to go up that ramp, roll back again and do the turn. One coach (who taught the other group) told us that this 180° turn is called revert. So I can proudly say that I learned my fist trick that has an actual name: Revert ;-)

This is the best video of a revert I could found on youtube. It's a simple trick, but it's a trick =)

After having grabbed enough confidence and going down the ramp without help, we included the second ramp, too. Same thing, you just had to slow down a bit after going down the first one to not lose the balance because of too much speed. That was really fun, and while we waited until it was our turn again we practised the ollie (jumping) on the top of the ramp-thing (podest/platform/whatever). But nobody could X/. I have to practise that!

The last exercise was another straight ramp, but it was about 2 metres high and not as short as the other two...we were all totally scared and when the guy told us to bend our knees properly because the metal "edge" ramp on the opposite side (which we automatically had to go up using the drive of the first ramp) was a bit out of shape, nobody wanted to be the first to go down. So he picked the little boy with the big ego xD and then we all went down. And it was so great! I fell down once, but it didn't hurt because I was totally protected ;-) I just didn't wanna stop going down that ramp...but time was up, which didn't mean that we had to leave, but it meant that the hall was officially opened and suddenly full of inline-skaters, other skateboarders and BMX-people (especially they, who of course used the whole hall at once because you can't just go into one halfpipe with a bike). So we continued practising for another hour, trying to not get in the way of anybody, which was difficult though and then went home.

When I was home I realized that I had just been skating for 4 hours without having had a break and my legs and feet hurt like hell. But I learned so much and I really lost my fear of ramps (at least the ones up to 2-2,5 m XD) - they are like a rollercoaster: at the top you get this scary feeling, but as soon as you go down you feel totally happy and full of adrenaline.

It's a bummer that it has been raining every single afternoon since Saturday and I haven't been able to practice (the hall is so far away from my home!)

Well...can't wait for summer to begin (okay...winter hasn't even started yet =P)!

For the next post I have been planning to do a travel - special about surf trips, inspired by Surfers Magazine (Germany). Keep reading!

PS.: Today's title is from Stacked actors by Foo Fighters. Take a look at the lyrics!

So little time, so much to do...

2008-11-04T21:04:00.003+01:00

As you might have noticed, I haven't been posting for a little while. That is because I (my family) am moving and the process is very stressfull and nerve-racking. So I guess I'll just wait a bit longer until all this is over - after it, you will get many new and interesting reports about surf, skate and Co., I promise! ;-)

See you then.

Title taken from So little time by Arkana. There was a show some years ago with the Olsen twins, which I really liked back then. It was called "So little time" and this song, was, of course, the theme song.

P.S.: The Bush-era is finally over! Make a toast on it, throw a party, scream out loud, say "HAHA!" or whatever to express your happiness - or you don't care at all, which I don't really think. I hope the american population has taken the right choice and no manipulating takes place! We'll see tomorrow. Cross your fingers.

Youtube-Dance-Battle!

2008-10-23T17:34:00.004+02:00

You all use youtube to watch your favourite music videos, get infos about your favourite actors/singers,watch other people/animals/whatever doing funny/stupid stuff or even upload your own videos...some people have even become famous through it.

But have you heard of the biggest dance battle in (youtube-) history?

It's the ACDC vs. the M&M cru.

John M.Chu, director of the movie Step up 2 (the streets) and Adam Sevani (playing Moose in the movie) form the Adam/Chu Dance Crew, ACDC, and challenge the Miley & Mandy show, which had been going on for a while on youtube. So they post their first video, the 1st challenge, with very impressing dance moves and stunts, asking M&M to accept the challenge:

The rules: There are no rules. You can "recruit" any person you want to. Which made the battle even better, as you will see in the following videos!

So, M&M set up a crew - which I guess wasn't difficult because Mandy is a professional dancer. The response was posted 3 days after the challengers' and features Step up 1 stars Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan.

For the next video, ACDC even made a teaser to announce themselves.

As promised, they release their fight-back. This video is insane, and they took the chance to let people such as Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Adam Sandler and Chris Brown have their sequences. Even the famous Jabbawockeez dance crew joined. ACDC has gotten its own shirts and makes it pretty hard for M&M Cru to keep up with them. I love the Mario-element in 4:22 XD

Next, M&M announce their 2nd response with a teaser, but that video can't be found on youtube anymore. Who knows why.

Maybe you have seen the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, I have, and I was laughing about the dance battle Mike Myers and Chris Brown were having in one part. Now I know where the inspiation came rom: This youtube battle! Look at the colours, Mike's shirt (It's like Adam's!) and as I read, many dancers participating in this show are either members of M&M cru or ACDC.

So here's the response. The number of M&M cru members has definitely increased, Ryan Seacrest and the Step Up 1 cast joins.

With a final video, ACDC announces a live battle and tells M&M to get more ice cream ;-)

And here is the final battle at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards. The M&M cru won, due to the applause of the people in the room. Hm. I don't think that was a fair decision, ACDC was better, not "even" LL "Cool" J helped. What do you think?

"The battle is over...but the war is not!". ACDC challenges M&M cru once more: Who sells more T-Shirts? All profit has to be donated do a charity of their choice.

Watch it here.

All in all, this was really fun to watch and shows us once again that youtube has gained a certain power. You might start the next skateboarding contest there! =)

And I wouldn't be the one to kneel before the dreams I wanted

2008-10-22T15:02:00.005+02:00

This is for all the ones who care about the climate change and your environment (the german-speaking ones):

There's a website where you can answer questions about any kind of stuff (movies, nature, math etc) and the more questions you answer right the more money you get. The earned money is then used for various projects, every month it's a different one. This month's project is to save bats.

Since you all want to surf/skate/snowboard and live in a clean environment, I think this ould be a good, fast and economic (you don't have to pay!) way to help.

Go to http://dein-wissen-hilft.de

Today's title is from "Sympathy" by The Goo Goo Dolls. I love this band, I love their usic, and this is one of my favourite songs. It is also a part of the OST of "A Cinderella Story". You might know "Iris" from the Goo Goo Dolls, it is quite a well-known song =) If you don't know Sympathy yet, shoud definitely listen to it now!

If I could be like that I would give anything just to live one day in those shoes

2008-10-17T11:56:00.004+02:00

As you can probably remember I recently posted about kite-surfing classes I was going to take. Well, they are finally over and I can only say - for sure - that I'd rather stick to wave riding, skateboarding and maybe snowboarding if I ever got the chance to learn it.

We started on Monday, there was a little wind coming up, but safety's first, so our teacher told us everything about how the kite is built, how to inflate it, deflate it, how to not get confused with all the strings a.s.o. He talked on and on for like two hours, and it was really hard to keep everything he said in my head.

Then we went up and got changed, into the beloved wetsuits (did I mention I really like warm water so I don't have to wear those things?) and ran down again to the lake. The wind was really weak - still, we went out. So, the teacher got the kite up, and he asked each of us to control it and to not let it fall down. We all let it crash =)

So the next step was to go get a kite and practise in groups of two. That's pretty much what we did for the rest of the time (including the following day). Sometimes I had it up in the air, but mostly not. That also depended a lot on the wind, which wasn't present all the time.

In the evening I was tired, like the everybody, we ate, then some of us sat down by the huge TV they had in the shop, and watched a kite-surfing DVD. It was on for like 1 1/2 hours, and we all got bored and everybody was running around in the shop looking at all the boards (they really look like wakeboards!) and shirts and stuff. I even found a few surfboards standing around, one, the coolest one, was hanging from the ceiling...yeah.

Then I found a better film, "Young guns 2" by Quiksilver, haha, so I just put it in. It was great, but short. After that we went to bed, I was in a room with a few girls that also took kite-surfing classes, but they were more advanced.

The next day there was no wind at all, we went down, checked, no wind, so we built up the equipment. Went up again, had our theory lesson, did a theory test, went down and tried to mock the non-existent wind =) It didn't work. But I learned how to do a relaunch! And I know all of the theory.

The sad thing is that I didn't even make it to the board, only one of the group who had taken kitesurfing classes before - he for like 5 metres.

As you can see, kite-surfing is kind of (even though the guy said kiting was the easiest, and wave riding the most difficult of all boad sports) hard to learn, at least it was for me and my group. The fact that there was no wind made it even harder. I guess it's much fun when you finally get to ride the board...but I think I will just continue improving my surfing and skateboarding skills. I don't have to be good at everything.

But at least I tried it out, and now I can say that I don't wanna do it and I have arguments for that ;-) (You guys should try it out though, you might be an undiscovered talent!)

Today's title is taken from the song "Be like that" by 3 Doors Down. The album "The Better Life" is one of my Dad's treasures =)

You can see the Surf-Movie Quiksilver Young Guns 2 in parts on youtube here.

And now I've been gone for so long, I can't remember who was wrong

2008-10-10T15:26:00.005+02:00

Since I have nothing new to tell you (and still haven't found the answer to my question), I will just show you a video I made like 2 years ago, it also hast to do with a "skating" sport, just that it is not on a board. It's ice-skating: hockey.
I love hockey and the ones who haven't gone to see match yet, should definitely do that soon. The season has just begun!

Today's title is taken from the song Walking Disaster by Sum 41 from their lastest album "Underclass hero".Watch and listen to it here.

I've gotta roll the dice - never look back and never think twice

2008-10-07T19:11:00.007+02:00

So - I got the longboard! After I picked it up I went home, and on my way I always have to go down a very long street, so I tried out the board (you know, riding a board that I never stood on, I thought it was better to just go straight at first).
As soon as I made the first push, I was totally amazed! Riding on a longboard is just awsome...you push once and you feel like you're moving at least 100m! Of course, it is not like that, but it was really fast. It is totally easy to maneuver, much easier than my "normal" skateboard, and you can hop on it, it cushions and the wood is also really elastic.
To put it short: I love my new skateboard!

Now to the facts to expand our knowledge ;-P:

Longboards are skateboards with a longer and mostly wider shape and cannot be used like a normal skateboard when it comes to tricks. As far as I know, there are very few ones that make Ollies (jumping) etc. possible, but even with those the capability is limited.
The softer wheels make it possible to adapt to rough streets as well as many other terrains, the fact that the wheels are much bigger than usual ones provide speed.
Longboarding is often said to be like surfing on the street, well, I think it is at least much more similar to surfing than skating on my smaller board - the shape and design of the board of course reminds me a lot of a surfboard.
Wikipedia tell us that longboards have a length between 90 and 150 cm. Mine is 105 cm long, and I have to say it is long enough/just right. I wouldn't know how to manage a 150cm-board =D
If you have a closer look, the board I got looks pretty used, it has colour stains and the grip tape is already disappearing. But the used look is one more reason why i like this board so much. It just the same with jeans =)
You can also see that the nose (the front part, you can see it on the left side) is bend down towards the ground,

I don't know why that is because neither the surfboards nor normal skateboards I have seen have this shape. But the solution of this question is already in process so keep looking for my response in ne of the following posts.
If you know me personally, you might also try my new board out as well, it is fun!

Todays title is taken from the theme song of the wrestling show WWE. I'm not a wrestling fan at all, but the song was on a CD one of my classmates in Costa Rica gave me and I really like it. You can listen to it here.

Hurray

2008-10-06T22:06:00.004+02:00

Ok I must confess I never wanted to post such an idiot-title, but sorry, I can't help it, oday was just great. Since I was already home from school at 10 am, I went to "IKEA" (guess you know it, if not, Google!) and there was a totally stylish room with a "skate/vans off the wall" theme, and they had this really cool idea to even give an ugly accomodation for shoes just the best look, but it wasn't actually used for shoes, they put surf and skate magazines in there. I guess you can hardly imagine what it is supposed to look like, but I may be using that idea for my new room so you might soonly see what I mean.
Second, I'm getting a longboard! For free! Not a surfer's longboard, it's a skate-longboard, I always wanted to have one. A longboard costs like 200 € so I'm pretty lucky a skateshop-owner said I could have his'. I'm taking it up tomorrow afternoon, take photos and tell you all about it.
Oh happy day... ;-)

Music

2008-10-05T11:10:00.004+02:00

Today I will show you some songs that you might not have listened to yet. I put my itunes on "shuffle" and chose the best ones. Here we go:

Young for eternity - The Subways - great band, great song!
It's over - Donots - one of the best songs of their album "We got the noise"
Crazy times - Jars of Clay - I found that song on one of my Dad's compilations from Rolling Stone Magazine and I absolutely love it.
Stockholm Syndrome - Blink 182 - One of the songs from the album Blink 182
Hooch - Sum 41 - from my favourite album "Does this look infected?"
Celebrate youth - H-Bloxx - maybe you have already forgotten about this great cover version...

Ok, so that's it for now. There are over 2000 songs on my itunes, so I guess I'm not going to run out of songs to show you =)

Loards of the Boards

2008-10-04T13:55:00.001+02:00

A snowboard clip, looks pretty cool!
Song: Loards of the Boards - Guano Apes

Tandem surfing

2008-10-02T17:04:00.003+02:00

Yesterday, I posted some videos about big wave surfing, and in the third one, you can see two guys riding the same wave synchronously. So Cate asked in her comment if something like "synchronal surfing" exists. I think that there isn't such thing, especially because most waves only breaks into one direction, never heard of it, but that doesn't count as a response, so I searched it in the internet - and didn't find anything. So if anyone has infos on that - please tell us!
But, there is another form of surfing that has now been oficially accepted by the international olympic comitee: tandem surfing!

Big Wave surfing

2008-10-01T19:08:00.007+02:00

Hey guys,
since I am having a politics test tomorrow and I have to study, I will just show you a few videos of big wave surfing today.

When I started to watch this one, I was like, "woah, that wave is gonna be huge.". Then, when it came up, I thought, "is this animated?" and when there was only white water on the screen "he's dead." but he wasn't, he was even still standing on that damn board. woah.

Laird Hamilton. The man is great. These waves look insane, especially the one in 0:35. Look at the speed he has!

Talking about big waves one shouldn't forget about Pipeline! I wouldn't wanna wipe out out there...o.O

Sum 41 - Half hour of power

2008-09-30T18:23:00.007+02:00

I already told you that I am also presenting you music on this blog, so I am going to start with my favourite band: SUM 41.
Sum 41 was "founded" on July 31, 1996 which is 41 days into summer - that's where the name comes from. Current members are Deryck Whibley (Bizzy D), lead singer and guitarist (you might know him as Avril Lavigne's husband), Jason McCaslin (Cone), bass guitarist and Steve Jocz (Stevo 32), drummer and lead singer of Sum 41's alter-ego band "Pain for pleasure". He also played drums for Avril Lavigne's album "The best damn thing". One of the former members but, I guess, the most famous one is Dave Baksh (Brownsound). He was the lead guitarist. Now he is in a some metal band he formed himself called "Brown Brigade".
So far they have released 6 albums, one of them is a concert record.
The first one I am presenting you is the first one that was published (in 2000) - Half hour of power.

Grab the devil by the horns (and f*** him up the ass) is kind of the intro, a short (1 minute) instrumental. Normally, I only listen to the intro of a CD once or twice, but this one is actually fun to hear!
Machine Gun - well...I guess this song doesn't have a very deep background or something like that... It's just about how he makes his day after a drunk night. You could also add that it's very fast-going so you should probably not listen to it at a high volume having a day like described in the song.
What I believe is one of my favourites of this album. It's fast, and is fun to sing along. The interpretation is left to every single listener.
THT (Tables have turned) is quite short, fast, and not easy to understand. So I just decided to show you a live version - it's kind of the same referring to the easiness of understanding ;-) Good to listen to it when you're really angry at someone!
Makes no difference was the first song to be released and there are many versions of videos. First, the "normal" one, starring Sum on a private party. I think that one is pretty boring and main-stream. Then, there's a second version which was actually the first video for that song. It's a compilation of parts of short films the band made for fun, e.g. stealing pizza armed with water pistols, shooting people with water pistols while riding in a car etc. Sum 41 also filmed themselves dancing a choreography to that song on a public parking-lot. You can see that on one of their bonus-DVD's. or just click on my link ;-)
Summer can be found on 2 albums: This one and "All Killer no Filler" (the 2nd one). Like many other earlier Sum 41 - songs, it is fast, not that long, but still great and I still listen to it a lot.
32 ways to die begins with the last word of "summer" and then breaks out into a drummer solo, later on supported by guitars, showing Stevo 32's skills. (look at the song's name, then look at Stevo's name)
Second chance for Max Headroom - hm...I was always wondering what the name "Max Headroom" has to do with the text, so I finally searched it in Google and found out that Max Headroom was a character in a "science-fiction-fantasy" TV show, that has been set off very early because nobody watched it. Unlike in the title of the song, they didn't give it a second chance.
Dave's posessed hair/What we're all about are two songs in one song. Dave's possessed hair - I really like the politics-critizising text, but what the hell happened with Dave's hair? "What we're all about" makes much more sense - each song member presents itself. The song has its own video, which is really funny, but, like a youtube-watcher said, "it is amazingly BAD - in a good way though." Maybe the fact that they're playing upside-down is a "small" hint to Spiderman jumping through this video ;-)
Ride the chariot to the devil - another instrumental
Another time around - Sometimes, I am asking myself exactly the same questions mentioned in the song. I know thinking about it doesn't change anything, but I still do. The rest of the almost 7 minutes of the song is just silence to make the HALF HOUR OF POWER complete ;-P

So, what's up with you, what's up with me? Did you like it? If you are living near me and if you know me and if you did like the album I will be glad to "lend it to you" to express it legally, you know what I mean =)

I love Sum 41 and describing and presenting this album made me love this band even more, haha. Or is it their videos? Or is it their sense for logic ;-)?
"What I do is what I chose, which makes it my decision." Ok, now that is logic...

There are more than only one dream to dream of

2008-09-29T14:51:00.006+02:00

I have the desperate need to surf...just one single wave would be enough to get the stress out of my head...since that is quite impossible until next year (earliest would be spring o.O) I found a different way to board in some way =)
First, I will take kite surfing classes in vaccations (autumn). That'll be two days, but all day long and at the end you do a test and if you pass you get a licence. You can only kite-surf if you have that license in Germany. Yeah, that's Germany. It kinda makes sense though. Is it like that in other countries?
Second, I'm taking skateboarding classes in november. I wanted to do that much earlier (like 2 years ago) but was never able to because there were to few people. Seems like that problem is eliminated as other board-interested people have been found ;-)
Actually, I was never that interested in kite surfing, but when a friend asked me to take the classes I was just like "Whatever, you never know"...and last but not least, it's a sport that incudes a board and water, haha!
And skateboarding, well, I kinda have a certain "history" in that sport, let's just say I wanna improve my skills - a lot.
So I'm totally looking forward to these courses and I hope that I will soon get together enough money to buy a surfboard so the only problem will jsut just be to travel around to spots. But that shouldn't be a big problem, living in Europe. France is near! It is just about the money, like always! =)

PS.:In GoldenRide Magazine (I already told you about that) there's an article about the Les Ettes snowboard-teamriders Anne-Flore Marxer, Jenny Jones and Lisa Filzmoser. They went to a surfcamp in Biarritz, France and they really had fun. So, to all the snowboarders out there, try it out! Same goes to you, surfers.

Breakdown

2008-09-28T10:43:00.001+02:00

This is Jack Johnson's video Breakdown. The only Jack Johnson-CD I have is the OST from Curious George, I have never seen the movie though.
If I wasn't saving money all the time to buy a new computer because this one is just hopeless, I would just go to my favourite CD-store and buy all of his albums. Well, I'll just have to wait until next year!
Anyways...just watch, listen to the relaxing song and enjoy ;-)

Shimmer

2008-09-27T23:23:00.000+02:00

"Shimmer" is a surfer film by Roxy / about the Roxy surfers team and perfectly shows us surfing, lifestyle and the quality of life surf brings to you. I love this movie. If you don't have enough time, just watch it in parts or at least watch the last parts with the juniors (minute 19:20) like Carissa Moore. She is great and you are definitely going to hear a lot about here in the future (not only on this blog).
Amazing takes like in the very beginning make me wish to converte Germany into a carribean island with sea, beach, sunshine and palm trees <3
If anybody of you guys know where to get the soundtrack please comment - I want it so bad =)

CLICK

New Concept

2008-09-26T22:51:00.002+02:00

Or should I say that there finally is a concept ;-)
From now on, this blog is gonna be all about boards: surf, skate, also snowboard and others like kite surf etc. Depends on what I learn in the future time because I won't tell you about stuff I don't have the knowledge about.
Connected with these sports and this blog are music, books, magazines, videos, photos and clothes.
I hope you enjoy!

GoldenRide Magazine

2008-09-26T19:32:00.008+02:00

I am really happy to say that i finally found the (almost) perfect magazine for me.
It's called "GoldenRide - all girls boarding magazine" and includes surf, skate, snowboard and the style being connected to it. Apart from snowboard, I more or less practice these sports (as "much" as I can/cannot), but snowboarding is about to follow, that's just a matter of time ;-)
I really like the way of dressing that is mostly connected with these sports, and brands like Roxy, Rip Curl, Vans, O'Neill, Volcom, Etnies, Element etc are like paradise for me - an expensive one.
That is actually the reason for why I still haven't bought all of their clothes.
But back to the magazine: This month's issue was mainly about snowboarding, as the temperatures are decreasing rapidly. First, I was kind of disappointed about that (snowboard-thing), but then I decided to just keep on reading everything because, who knows, next year I might already be looking out for everything that has to do with snowboarding and just can't let go of it - just like surfing.
I don't know why, but any kinds of board sports totally fascinate me.
The issue also covers articles about a big skate event in Prague and one in Basel, and about Joy Monahan, a longboard surfer who made it to the top without the support of sponsors - which I thought was rather impossible.
The part I liked most about this issue is the parts showing the clothes. Unfortunately I don't have the money to afford them...

Here are my favorites:

Vans Slip-Ons. I really like the colours on the black background. In the magazine, they put them together with brown clothes which I think looks very good.

"Jameson" by Etnies. Love them. It's a shame that in my town almost nobody sells Etnies shoes, and when they're sold, it's boys shoes.

Vans again ("No Skool 2 Mid"). I actually saw them in a store in the centre, but I just don't have the money to buy any pair of shoes right now.

"Data" by DC. It's a snow jacket. As a snowboarder, I guess this one would be part of my "snow-jacket-faves-list"

The things you see here are mainly shoes, because I just couldn't find the hoodies, jackets a.s.o. in the internet to show it to you. Maybe I'll connect the scanner to my computer some day to make this happen...I'm kinda tired of typing in clothes name into Google =)

Style USB Sticks

2008-07-23T22:06:00.004+02:00

I found a funny new version to save photos, music and everything else from my computer. USB Sticks that look like small surfboards! Until now I found two websites, one of them german, here.

If you aren't that much into surf, you can also find skateboards, snowboards, animals, pizza, burgers and: SUSHI! :D

Ella ella eh eh eh

2008-06-21T00:54:00.005+02:00

...okay, you all know it: Umbrella. And most of you are sick and tired of it. I am, too, by Rihanna's version. But recently, when I watched "The Hills" on MTV, I heard a new version and I loved it. I searched more on youtube and found another one. Both are great, but I like Marie Digby's best. What do you think?

This is Marie Digby's version. She put this video on Youtube and got a contract with Hollywood Records.

and this is Alejandro Monzano's (from Boyce Avenue) version, I didn't know this band before, and haven't heard any of their songs yet, but this one is good.

By the way, "the Hills" is a series on MTV, if you watched "Laguna Beach: The real OC" before, you can now see how Lauren's life continues (The Hills is a spin-off of Laguna Beach). It has 5 seasons so far, and if there isn't a 6th season following, there is another spin-off planned! Love it =)

I've been tagged!

2008-05-31T21:57:00.003+02:00

...by Cate
The rules are posted at the beginning. At the end of the post, the player tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leave a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

1) What were you doing 10 years ago?
Hmm...I was 7 years old, I was in second grade and pretty much enjoyed my life. I remember that I had fights with my "best" friends about saying BAD words to each other, like "stupid cow" or something like that ^^

2) What are 5 things onyour to-do list today?
a) buy two bikes from the money I had collected
b) give the bikes to the kids later this afternoon
c) get rid of all the copies and school stuff I don't need anymore
d) check my e-mails
e) plan my last month in Costa Rica

3) Snacks you enjoy.
the caramel-popcorn they sell here, M&M's (with peanuts), smarties, "chiky" cookies, american cookies...

4) Places you have Lived
Uhm, wo different places in Hanover, Costa Rica

5) Things you would do if you were a billionaire.
start a charity project/or give money to it
re-design my room
study abroad
travel to all the places I wanna see
buy loads of clothes etc.
go see hockey and rugby matches in the states, canada (hockey), england, australia and new zealand (rugby)
invite all my friends to a huge roadtrip through australia
invite my family to come with me to all the places I would travel to...
and sooooo much more!!!

6) People you want to know more about
everybody I know, including me (friends, family a.s.o.)

so...I guess I did my job!

I'm tagging:
my mom
vaios
annika
tasya
jothescrapaddict
vanessa

Final: Circuito Nacional de Surf / Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica

2008-04-28T23:48:00.006+02:00

New Features

2008-04-24T17:09:00.003+02:00

I added something new to my Blog...look to the left an dscroll down! ;-)

I proudly present: PXNDX

2008-04-23T18:44:00.003+02:00

PXNDX - spoken Panda - is a mexican alternative rock band. As far as i know, they made 3 albums, could be that there are more...
Last month I bought "La revancha del principe charro" and the new one "Amantes Sunt Amentes".
Like Green Day, the had their "punkrock"-phase a couple of years ago, as you can hear in "La revancha...". Now they changed into common Rock, Alternative, PopRock aso...though, I do like the songs a lot and I've totally fallen in love with the new album.
I got to know Panda in Costa Rica, watching MTV in the surfcamp (at night). They played their new song "Procedimientos para llegar a un común acuerdo" and I couldn't get it out of my head ever since.

La revancha del principe charro

Christina
Claro que no
Hola!
El Chango de los plátanos
Corazón de un cuento roto
Doble Gracias
Quisiera no pensar
Ya no jalaba
Córtame con unas tijeras pero no se te olvide el Resistol para volverme a pegar
Señor payaso
Ando pedo y ella está aquí
Ilasha
Amiguito
Maracas

My favorite: Amiguito

Amantes Sunt Amentes

My favorite: Narcisista por excelencia

Klick to see and listen, as always. I didn't link the songs from the first album because I didn't have enough time. Klick on Amiguito ;-)

¿Cómo vas a saber si nunca surfeastes?

2008-04-21T21:43:00.003+02:00

Como vas a saber lo que es el placer, si nunca corriste una ola.
Como vas a saber lo que es dolor, si jamás te cortaste con un coral.
Como vas a saber lo que es la poesía si jamás vistes la caída del sol desde adentro del mar esperando la ultima ola.
Como vas a saber lo que es la humillación, si jamás un local te robo la ola perfecta. Como vas saber lo que es la plenitud, si jamás pegaste un tuvo como vas a saber lo que es el pánico si jamás te agarro un set, te revolcó y pensaste que no salías jamás.
Como vas a saber lo que es morir un poco, si nunca te ha importado alejarte de la playa por unos meses.
Como vas a saber lo que es el insomnio, si jamás te despertaste esperando un swell y no había amanecido.
Como vas a saber lo que es sacrificio si jamás remaste por una hora para poder entrar.
Como vas a saber lo que son las metas, si jamás trabajaste por unos meses para comprarte tu tabla.
Como vas saber lo que es la preocupación, si jamás se te rompió la cuerda y tuviste que ir a buscar tu tabla en las rocas.
Como vas a saber lo que es el perdón, si jamás le dijiste “esta todo bien” al rookie por el que caíste.
Como vas a saber lo que es la soledad, si jamás viajaste solo para correr esas olas que siempre soñaste.
Como vas saber lo que es la decepción, si jamás en tus vacaciones el mar estuvo flan por una semana.
Como vas a saber lo que es la amistad, jamás surfeastes con amigos.
Como vas a saber lo que es la vida, si nunca surfeastes.

Links

2008-04-17T17:04:00.002+02:00

Today, I'm going to present you some websites I really like:

Retrolifestyle - My friend Cate's blog. She writes about almost anything, mostly about fashion, but also about music, movie's...etc. Take a look at it, I really enjoy reading her blog and you get to know a lot =)

Villa Kunterbunt - My mom's blog, about anything you could think of!

Vaios' Blog - Take a look at Vaios' life! It's the blog I got a lot of ideas from...e.g. the musical horoscope ;-)

Kopfschuettelblog - Hilarious conversations between women and men....

UPEACE - The university for peace, created by the UN

It's movie's night: Blue Crush

2008-03-25T22:55:00.003+01:00

Blue Crush is a girl's surfer movie. Huge Waves, a lot of surf, a lot of fun. Watch it if you still haven't, even if you're not that much into surfing. Belive me, you WILL BE afterwards ;-) Song: Cruel Summer.

10 Basic Rules of surfing (from SURFOS)

2008-03-19T02:04:00.005+01:00

Here are some very useful rules picked up from Surfos, a surfer's magazine from Latin America - Costa Rica). They made a special Costa Rica Surf Guide in English (the actual magazine is in spanish). But I think you can use them at anywhere in the world, not only in Costa Rica. A big part of surfing is respect. You have to show respect and you have to earn respect, no matter how "new" you are! So here we go:

If you decide to go surfing with your friends and the break seems somewhat crowded, do not enter the water all at the same time, but go out separately. Don't make it look like an invasion. Don't paddle out straight to where everyone is, instead wait on the side for a while and take your time.
Once in the line up, do your best to say, "hello", to the others, even if nobody answers back. Remember that what really counts is your intention.
Wait your turn, do not paddletowards the inside for priority. If you look like you want to catch all the waves don't be surprised if others drop in on you. Don't be aggressive.
When you paddle for a wave...catch it! If you refuse to go without a good reason, the locals won't give you another chance. Remember a wipe out is always better than missing a virgin wave. The really good waves don't appear every second.
Respect priority! The surfer who stands uo the closest to the peak has priority (even if you stand up the closest to the peak has priority (even if you stand up first because you have a longboard). If you drop in, don't just disappear, make sure to apologize with respect.
When you paddle back to the line up, be aware of the others. The ones surfing the waves have the priority over those paddling in. If you have to change direction, always paddle towards the white water, it's the only means of leaving the way clear for those surfing.
Don't yell after catching or loosing a wave. And don't keep calling your friends while in the water. The majority of the surfers like to concentrate while waiting for sets and the shouting can be distracting.
Leave sme waves for the others. Do not abuse of your priority, even more important to remember when you have the advantage of a longboard, evolutive board, bodyboard, etc.
When you are about to get worked by a set and have to let go off your board, be really careful that you don't hurt someone around you in the water.
Make a ritual of picking up a few pieces of trash before or after each session. It's a win-win situation and you will probably get somebody else thinking about doing the same thing.

So these are the ten basic rules, if you didn't get the meaning of some waords just comment it and I'll try to explain to you!

Wonderwall Boulevard (DJ Ramo Remix)

2008-03-07T14:08:00.004+01:00

I found this really cool song-mix on a CD my classmate Kenneth gave to me...It's a mix of Boulevard of broken dreams by Green Day and Wonderwall by Oasis. At the end: Eminem ;-)
It's like a totally new song and I love it so much! Enjoy!

Surfing Costa Rica

2008-03-04T23:11:00.003+01:00

Going with the Flow Trailer 1

Going with the flow Trailer 2

...admit it. You can have so much fun on a longboard ;-) Enjoy Costa Rica!

I proudly present: A beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars

2008-02-29T21:23:00.005+01:00

Attack
A beautiful lie

The kill

Was it a dream?

The fantasy

Saviour

From yesterday

The Story

R-evolve

A modern myth

New Surfspot: Boca Barranca, Puntarenas

2008-02-07T23:49:00.003+01:00

A really great spot. Point Break, direction:left. Ground: plain rocks and sand. As you can see on the photos there are a lot of waves to surf at the time. You didn't get the wave?Just take the one behind! Since there are many locals you should be watching out for the surfers in the many waves that could hit you, and don't forget NOT to take too many waves as locals ALWAYS are first ("Voy YO!). If they let you take a wave, don't think, take it and surf all the beach long: the waves are up to 1 km long (see big photo). You can easily find Boca Barranca, it's near Puntarenas City and located on a river mouth, so watch out for crocodiles ;-) The ugly thing is that you have to enter through the river/walk over rocks and stones ( the dark brown parts you can see) that cut you feet badly (my experience). I suggest to bring a pair of cheap Flip Flops (yes, they should be cheap because the won't last much time alone on the beach!). Always be friendly to the locals, they will be glad to tell you where to pass =)

The latest & the greatest (copied from MTV Hits)

2008-02-07T23:38:00.003+01:00

The Latest:

The Greatest:

This time: Simple Plan. I recently saw their new video on MTV and kinda liked it. I didn't know what to put for "greatest", because there loads of songs I like, so I decided to show you the very first song, I'm just a kid. It's the song that made me curious about Simple Plan and i heard it the first time in the movie "Cheaper by the Dozen". Enjoy!

New Surfspot: Montezuma, Puntarenas

2008-01-18T03:06:00.000+01:00

Location: Montezuma, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

The Beach I saw, was kinda full of rocks, so i guess the Beach of Montezuma wasn't exactly the beach they surfed on, but i asked some people and they were telling me about Playa Grande and Santa Theresa...which are located very close to Montezuma and Cabo Blanco.

2007-12-24T17:45:00.000+01:00

M E R R Y X - M A S

Hat Freak

2007-12-11T21:11:00.001+01:00

I proudly present: The Goo Goo Dolls

2007-12-03T15:37:00.002+01:00

Heute erzaehle euch heute von einer Band, die mich schon vor einiger Zeit in ihren Bann gezogen hat und nun zu meinen absoluten favourites gehoert. Die Rede ist natuerlich von den Goo Goo Dolls (wie der Titel schon sagt). Ich hoerte das erste Mal von ihnen, als ich in meiner totalen Avril Lavigne - Phase war. Das duerfte so in der 7. oder 8. Klasse gewesen sein. Damals erzaehlte mir eine Freundin, Avril's Lieblingsband waeren die Goo Goo Dolls. Ich hab den Namen nie ganz vergessen weil er so komisch war... Eine ganze Zeit spaeter fanden wir dann beim Durchstoebern der CD's meines Pa's ein Album, Dizzy Up The Girl - von den Goo Goo Dolls. Ich hab mich gleich erinnert und kopierte sie am naechsten Tag in mein iTunes. Seitdem liebe ich dieses Album heiss und innig. Auf einer anderen CD, der Soundtrack zu "A Cinderella Story" fanden wir dann noch ein Lied, "Sympathy". Auch in Costa Rica stiess ich dann wiederholt auf diese Band, durch den Film "Transformers" den mein Gastbruder bestimmt 6x sah. Titelsong: Before it's too late - The Goo Goo Dolls. Auf meinem MP3 Player laeuft staendig "Slide", noch ein empfehlenswerter Song. Also, wer die Goo Goo Dolls noch nie gehoert hat, sollte es einmal versuchen. Wer's nicht tut hat selber Schuld ;-)

Happy Hill Shirts, Converse All Star

2007-12-02T00:21:00.000+01:00

Habe eine neue T-Shirt Marke entdeckt --- hier 3 erstandene fuer sage und schreibe 4000 colones

ausserdem, dunkelblaue Jeans und weisse Chucks

btw cate i didn't wanna copy you =)
@all this blog ain't just gonna be about the clothes i bought ;-)

Backside Floater

2007-12-02T00:15:00.002+01:00

Hier seht ihr ihn, den Backside Floater =)