Spring is in the air, or is it love???

It's almost summer, well, spring anyways=)

I love spring, it's like everything is coming back to life again.
The trees are soon becoming green
I have seen the first flowers of the year
And I can actually feel the sun warming again!

Isn't it great?

Everyone around me seems to be so happy
Happiness is contagious
So I'm happy too=)

Isn't that great?

People are falling in love around me
Everywhere I see I see couples
Everywhere I go I see couples
All the time
It's annoying

Isn't it great?

well, I don't think so
I'm happy for them, sure
But it sucks for those who keeps wandering alone doesn't it??

I still love spring though
And I'm still happy

On the tram

some pics I took the other day on my way to dance class...

...

I've been walking around all day thinking, I think I have a problem I think I think too much! I seriously do. And these last few days have been like that, thinking, thinking and even more thinking. Thinking about the most stupid things., completely wasting my time and energy thinking about stupid and useless things...

And as I'm sitting here in front of the computer, desperately trying to get some of the tons of homework that I have done, I start thinking again. You may think that thinking is a good thing when you're trying to get your homework done. But no, not for me. My mind just keeps wandering of and it don't want to concentrate on what I really need to concentrate on. I keep thinking about how I'm looking forward to the Easter holidays, how much I'd rather would want to be outside then to be stuck here. I'm thinking about how I miss Africa and would like to go back as soon as possible and how much I would like it to be summer. I'm thinking about my finger that hurt cus I burned it on the stove earlier. I'm thinking about how desperately I want chocolate right now (I'm a chocoholic!!!) and how much I would like to just don't do any of the papers I have to give in soon!!! That's just a few of the useless thoughts that's spinning inside my head right now. Complete waist of time! So is this post. A complete waist of time and space. But just had to do something else than just to sit and stair at the paper that I can't manage to write....Angry, Angry, Angry.

Lamp posts in the dark...

I have a tendency to carry my camera with me everywhere I go and as I walked home from my dance class the other day, I took a few pictures of a lamp post...Don't know why, just felt like it. Here's the result!

how to save the world

The other day I bought a book that's called "50 ways to save the world". The more I get to know about how unfair the world is, the angrier I get, and the more I wanna do something to change it! When I went to Tanzania and actually got to see the big differences in the world with my own eyes, they got wide open, and have stayed open since. Seeing it does something to you as a person, you change, and you'll never go back to being who you used to be. After having seen people starving because they don't have enough money to get the food they desperately need. Meeting a population where a whole generation is most likely to die of aids in the years to come because an American company has taken a patent on the aids medication, making them so expensive that the countries that need them the most can't afford them. Seeing the slum areas and the big differences in countries where a few people have all the capita in the country. Seeing what the economy led by the WTO, USA and the EU have affected the poorest countries in this world, making the poor even poorer and the rich richer then what is good for them. Seeing how big international companies privatized the most basic needs of people in development countries like schools, hospitals and even clean water!!! Knowing that Norway has earned millions by selling oil to the world and polluting our planet without the smallest attempt to clean up after what it has done. Knowing that it's the world riches countries that sits with the power in this world, the power to do what they want, the power to "abuse" the poorer countries, but also the power to change the situation in the world. It's the last fact that makes me so extremely angry, makes me see red and wants to harm all the people sitting with the power to change the world for the better! Because they don't! They don't do a thing!!!!! I can't understand how anyone can live with themselves knowing that they make money on other peoples misery! It beet's me...

But all of this makes me wanna do something, help changing the world for the better. The only problem is that I have no idea what little me can do to change the world, so I thought that buying this book could help me out. And actually it did=) According to the author, Annicken Vargel (she's Norwegian), the smallest things can change the world if only it's enough people doing it! Annicken have in her book listed 50 things that you can do to "save the world" as she says. She gives good explanation to why you should do each of these things, and what it may change. I thought i should list some of her suggestions, maybe someone else would start doing some of it too, maybe someone else would help me saving the world a bit before it's too late...

• shop less, go to a restaurant instead.
  
• give a part of your self, donate your organs when you die.
• recirculation of glass, plastic and paper
  
• turn of the light as you leave a room
• turn of the water while brushing your teeth
• buy feartrade products
  
• use the car as little as you can
• give away your old clothes instead of throwing them
• take care of one another, be a nice person
• don't carry guns and don't have them in your home
• volunteer
  
• go to www.thehungersite.com and help feed the worlds hungry people
• engage yourself in politics
• don't smoke
• eat less meat
• don't buy products made by mahogany and other wood coming from the rain forest
• plant a tree
• don't talk about dieting
• be a good example for others=)

I sincerely hope that more people will engage in what is going on our world, that more people will stand up and help fight injustice everywhere, that more people will realize that what they do actually makes a different! The society is made by women and men, and women and men can change it. We just have to stand together, stand up for our rights and let the world leader know when we think that something is done the wrong way!

Why I hate the post!

I hate the post! Not the post you get in the mail, but the post office, I absolutely truly HATE the post office! Well, maybe not the actual office, but the people working there...First of all, they work in a place where they have to relate to people, meaning that they should smile, say hello when its your turn, be friendly and helpful. But no, the oh-so-mighty post workers are nothing like that, and I mean, absolutely nothing like it at all!! They are slow, they're so not friendly, actually quite rude if you ask me, they speak so low that you can hardly hear them through the glass window that's in front of them and then they get mad at you and give you even worse service if you say "pardon, but I can't hear what you are saying", they work so slowly that you could fall asleep while you wait in line before it's your turn, and even though there's like 20 people waiting in line, they still take their time. Oh no! For gods sake, don't hurry, because we, people waiting in line that actually have a life and something more useful to do than being in the post office, have all the time in the world!
Can they hurry? Just a little bit? No they can't...And does it bother me? Does it bug the hell out of me and turn me into an annoying, mean and evil person? Yes it does! I try to pull myself together, I try to be nice (even though they're not), I try not to be sarcastic, I try to be cool and calm and I try to keep my self from bursting out with something really mean. But do I manage to be a friendly non sarcastic person?? No I don't...I'm almost as bad as the people working there, but hey, it's not my fault that they get on my nerves, I'm not forcing them to be slow, rude, unfriendly and so annoying! Okey, I'm going to stop talking bad about the post people, I'm sure they are nice, friendly, loving and hard working people, when ever they're NOT at work. So if a post worker happends to read this post, I have one thing to say to her/him: at least try to make it look like you're having a good day, like you're a nice person and that you're actually making an effort to get your job done!!!
Thank you and good night from the girl that hates the post workers=)

pics from my trip to Kenya and Tanzania

green hills

the dessert is spreading

admiring the contrasts, black and white

some maasais at a cattle market...

kids outside the Mosque

Batilda and Rasmus outside the school

kids from a school in the Mathare slum in Nairobi

gathering around our car as we were leaving
two kids we met at a pottery in Usangi, Tanzania
class roomThe street in Usangi