I have purple hair! I have purple hair!

So last night I was a bleach blond for about 20 minutes, before the lady put in the purple colour. I bet I almost looked Finnish.
‘Cept now I don’t.

Now, the way I look, well… there were these two little girls on the bus this morning who just looked at me

I think Arthur Rimbaud is really cool

Mom, if you’re reading this, you could get me a complete works of Rimbaud for Christmas next year, or for a coming home present 🙂
In English tho… he was French and wrote in French and such, but I haven’t learned French yet. Actually, better yet, a complete works of Rimbaud in French and English would be really cool…

Know what he wrote? He wrote this:

J’ai tendu des cordes de clocher à clocher;
des guirlandes de fenêtre à fenêtre;
des chaînes d’or d’étoile à étoile
et je danse.

(sorry this computer turns the french letters into cyrillic letters)

I have strung cords from steeple to steeple;
garlands from window to window;
chains of gorl from star to star
and I dance.

isn’t that beautiful?

I think it is

Rimbaud bio
Rimbaud’s Poems
Arthur Rimbaud
Rimbaud in French
the Drunken Boat

oh, this was rather amusing I remebered some of those rhymes I used to sing in grade school.
I was dreamin of a genie
with a ten foot weenie
and I showed it to the girl next door.
She thought it was a snake
and she hit it with a rake
so now it’s only five foot four…

I try not to let myself forget these things, and think that little kids are innocent. I mean, they mostly are, but you can’t assume that they don’t know about stuff, ’cause I think they usually do….
can’t say I slept much last night, you know, what with watching 4 movies (one twice) (and that guy in Studio 54 — very jummy!) and dying my hair at whatever godforsaken hour it was…
2.5 hours I think, and I didn’t drink anything but I really am having trouble remembering what happened last night, and why did I wake up next to the german girl?
no, actually, I remember going to sleep next to her too… at 4:30 this morning I dyed my hair ‘blush blond.’ well, actually, Meredith did, but I was definitely involved, and my hair is definitely blish blond now.
never dyed my hair at 4.30 am before.
Meredith’s parents went to Russia today, so not far into the dyeing process her host mom came in to take a shower

I was lying in bed this morning, and thinking. My birthday is on Tuesday, and I’ll be 17. But nothing much happens when you become 17. I mean, 13 you become a real ‘teen’ and you can fly without having UM (unaccompanied minor) branded on your forehead, 14 (in Alaska) you can get a learner’s permit, 15 is another nada much birthday, 16 you can get a driver’s liscense, 17 nada, and 18 you get to vote and enter those contests, and of course, go to those websites 🙂
And as I was thinking about this, I also realized that my sister’s, my little sister’s next birthday is her fourteenth. She will be 14. She will be able to get a learner’s permit, and sit behind the wheel of a car.
Scary. this morning my alarm went off, but I didn’t get up, and drifted back into sleep, and dreamt that I got up and took a shower, and then I really woke up and was nearly late. So I took a shower twice today… you know, I was in a chat with some of my friends who are still in the states yesterday and I noticed how many Finnish words I use in everyday conversation now 🙂
I met another American girl last week who’s been here for 10 months but doesn’t speak Finnish — she said. But she was on the phone with a friend who was supposed to be buying food, and also talking with a friend who was right there. She calls the guy, first sentence out of her mouth is ‘moi, missä sä oot?’ (hi, where are you?) and later she turns to her friend and says ‘ha! hän on rahaton!’ (ha! he is moneyless!) but she did speak mostly in english 🙂 hey, know what?
I was thinking of celebrating Ramadan again this year, but I just now found that it started on the 9th, and besides I think it is a bit better that I do eat.
oh well! today Marcela and I are having communication troubles… she woke up in portugese mode, or my english is rather far gone, or something.
she asked if I had money, and if I wanted to share a coke with her, and I thought she wanted to go into the city and have lunch at a cafe, so I told her I had a class and it was one I shouldn’t skip.
actually, it’s just kemia…

ouch, you know, this looks terribly crappy on this computer…
sorry, people with computers like this one… I did the design on a computer with a high resolution screen, and it looks really cool — on that computer I got my exam back form my history teacher.. he didn’t put a number on it, which is probably a good thing 🙂 Then he told me about the notes he had written on the paper, and was explaining about the balance of power, and how the king such and such and good thing I am used to not-so-great-English and realised he mean justice when he was saying justick and laws when he was saying love… I need to remember to contact Henna, because she’s supposed to have ordered the hair dye so I can have red and purple hair, but I don’t know if she has.
I think they need more punks here, with brightly colored hair and funky clothes. There are way too many goths here. Not that I have anything against goths, but I mean, it’s already cold and dark and it doesn’t make it any nicer when 40% of the population is dressed in black too. I understood TWICE in my history class when the teacher asked some questions. AND I knew the answers!!!
First she asked what coutries were at the Vienna Conference — England, Austria, Russia-Prussia, and France
And then she asked why did Europe want to have a route to Intia — Spices
Maybe there is hope after all 🙂 and guess what?
I have to go to history now. Well, I don’t have too, but I will, because I should This morning I opened the fridge to put my dirty dishes away. I should have opened the dishwasher, you know? But I opened the fridge. And on Sunday I twice opened the dishwasher when I meant to open the fridge and put away food. I see skies of blue
red roses too
I see them bloom
for me and you
I hope I hope I hope it will be sunny today… I saw stars this morning when I went to sauna to take a shower, really I did! But then I saw clouds when I was on the bus. It was so pretty… when I saw the stars I mean, when there were the clouds it wasn’t so breathtakingly beautiful.

03:24 p.m.
here, I just found a nice page that tells more. Actually several. Probably is better to get in the habit of doing research first, and blabbing later, ya think?
02:49 p.m.
I think maybe it would be nice to be straight edge. Like sXe. Not because I have a clue about the music (because I don’t, and I don’t know if I like, because I have really and truly NO clue) and from the clues I do have, I think maybe the music is as much a part of the movement as being drug free.
Okay, okay, I’m really clueless, but I heard that sXers are drug free, and alcohol free and often vegetarian, and I’m drug free, alcohol free and often vegetarian, so it sounded good to me.
01:29 p.m.
I need to find some info on atomic structure, because I’m fairly sure that’s what they were talking about in my Kemia class, but it was all in Finnish, and I have not been understanding a terrible lot, nor have I been remembering so very much from previous science courses I took. I’d ask my mummy to mail me my science notes from 9th grade, but they wouldn’t get here on time, and I burnt them anyway…
01:24 p.m.
I got email from my Mummy, and she says I should write to Katarina in Sweden, because she is my penpal, of sorts, and her birthday is next Tuesday. So is mine, actually, but I’ll be 17 and she’ll be 16. And that is well and good, because I should write to Katarina.
10:13 a.m.
now, I woke up this morning, and I thought ‘I have Russian, I have school, I need to go. I don’t want to, but I need to, because otherwise Nancy will be alone in Russian.’ So I managed to drag myself out of bed and not miss the bus etc etc so I got to school, and went to Russian — and Nancy wasn’t there!