"10 Day You Challenge" - Six Places

Hello again Muggles,

 first I would like to thank everyone, who still hangs on and is interested in the "Ten Day You Challeng" - remember you can do it on your blog, as well! ;D

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Six Places

1) England <3

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2) Australia

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3) Japan

4) Scotland

5) Iceland

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 6) Hogwarts!

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I hope you liked this (maybe a little unconventional) six places challenge. :)

Leave a comment and I would be happy if you did the challenge on your blog, as well. Leave the link in the section down below. ;)

See you next time,

Hermione

"10 Day You Challenge" - Nine loves

Hello Muggles,

it's time for another part of the "10 Day You Challenge"! :)

9 Loves

1) My family

I'm especially talking about my boyfriend and my dog Baylie because I live with them and I am surrounded by them every single day.

This obviously is not my dog and my boyfriend but my dog and my Mom's cat Lizzie... after I  caught them red-handed sleeping in my old bed! :D

2) England

I just love the language, England as a country (sadly I've never been to the rest of GB) and the little things about the english culture. Take the beautiful cottages and gardens for example... although I'm probably a little too tall for those tiny houses I would love to live in one! :)

3) Harry Potter

Seriously, what is there to say? I already did several Blog posts about my passion for Harry Potter. You can read about my Harry Potter history here or have a look at what I think about the Harry Potter Audio Books (UK Version) over heeeere. ;)

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4) Spring / Summer

I already feel my winter blues coming. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I don't feel very good on cold days. Although I don't like to be in the bare sunshine because my skin is quite sensitive I definitely need sunshine and warmth! This is why spring and summer are my favourite seasons and although summer just ended I can't wait for the first day of spring when the air smells flowery and warm. :)

5) Sweets

 I'm not a good role model at all... because I eat more sweets than other "grown ups" in their whole life. I can't help it but when people ask me about my favourite food the first thing that comes into my mind is "Cake!" (followed by salad, which is way better ;)) You can't say that freaking cake is your favourite food? How strange am I? Or better say: What did sugar turn me into? o.o I smell a conspiracy over here!

Oreo cupcakes I made for my brothers birthday. :)

6) Animals

Who doesn't love animals? They are the most pure creatures in the world and don't do anything to harm anybody - if a lion kills an antilope it is only natural because it's a cat of prey. (Human beings are, in my opinion, not allowed to kill animals because we don't live in a world where it's all about hunting for surviving. It is also proven that the human set of teeth is not for eating meat but vegetables, grain and seeds!) My favourite animals are Koalas - I love them since I can remember. Probably because I always watched a show called "Blinky Bill". Is this popular in the UK and the rest of the world as well? :)

7) Books

It's time for me to say that this is in no specific order because I love books a little more than sweets for example. ;D Well, what fascinates me in books and literature is the fact that you are able to "be another person" while reading because - in the best cases - the author "pulls" you into the action and you experience everything through the characters of the story.

I don't have a favourite genre I like to read but my favourite books in general are: Harry Potter (as you all know now) and "Der Märchenerzähler" by Antonia Michaelis, who is a German author. I definitely have to do a Blog post about it although it's German because it changed something deep inside of me. It's quite rough and hard to read but beautiful at the same time. :)

8) Children

Although this may sound strange but I think with children it's similar to what I wrote about animals: they are pure. Childhood is something beautiful I think. Everything is new and exciting and you are allowed to create your own opinions about everything and in the best case you don't have anybody standing next to you saying what you should think - children should be free. They should be able to form their free minds themselves and childrens free spirits are what I love. :) I always wanted to work with children and doing English but couldn't figure out a way to do so except for teaching and I now know that this wouldn't be my thing for 100 %. I think it's better for me to have my own children one day - and I'm super excited for this time to come! :)

9) Freedom

I think there's not enough freedom in our society at all although everybody is always proud of how "free" we are in Europe. Would you like to hear what I think about it? It's the biggest lie ever. Probably the majority here isn't happy because they feel they have to do things like go to work 5 days a week from 8am - 4pm, buy a house and a nice car, have two perfect children etc. I would like people to be theirselves and do what they really want to do - to be free and not to change theirselves to fit in this strange world. :/  Difficult topic to talk about, I think!

I hope you enjoyed that little "view into my life". 
Leave a comment and have a wonderful day!

See you next time,

Hermione

"10 Day You Challenge" - Ten Secrets!

Hello Muggles, 

recently I saw this challenge on Haleys blog (Water Painted Dreams) and I thought it's veeery interesting, so of course I had to do it as well. :)

The title is a little bit odd I think. Is "10 day you challenge" proper English? I don't know.
The idea of posting 10 days in a row scares me a little because I really don't want you to be bored - but we'll see how it ends up.

I hope you like the general idea of it - feel free to join in and do the challenge as well! :)

As you can see on the picture, it all starts with 10 secrets and the majority of them is not a secret in general but it is for you because my time in blogging-world just started a few months ago. ;)

1) I'm addicted to Nutella. Not good at all, I know but I just have been loving it since I can remember!

2) Darkness and silence scare me to death - this is why I often sleep with a little light on listening to audiobooks... like a child. :'D

3) I've never ate an Avocado o.o

4) I always have to get rid of spiders because I'm the only person in my surroundings, who is not afraid of them. I actually wanted one as a pet... but I decided not to get one because I wouldn't be able to feed it cockroaches and things like that because I think cockroaches are the most disgusting things in the world. Sorry to say that because they are animals and general beings on our planet but I freak out thinking of them - urrrrgh! 

5) I'm still with my first boyfriend ever - and we're together for about six years now. :)

6) I can't drink tea without sugar. 

7) I'm not a religious person because I just can't fit into any religion I know. Maybe you can say that I'm spiritual but not religious. The actual thing I wanted to tell you is that I believe in reincarnation and karma. I for myself believe that you can choose your next life after dying.

8) Don't know if this really is a secret but I just started being interested in beauty and stuff in December 2011 - because of a German Youtuber called Reni (www.youtube.com/user/xKarenina).

9) In January 2012 I stopped eating meat after doing a project for my art classes in school where I had to find out things about  industrial livestock / factory farming - I'm still more than shocked about it. I never ate much meat and when I was about 15 I didn't eat any meat for a year but somehow I started it "a little" again and I honestly don't know why. :(

10) I was quite obsessed with Hilary Duff. I still "like" her because I think she is very sympathetic, lovely and just a nice girl. :) And she is BEAUTIFUL!! *.* (But yesterday I watched her film "Beauty and the Briefcase" and I think it was horrible! :D)

I hope you liked that. 

Please leave a comment - especially if you also do / did the challenge on your Blog and if you like Hilary Duff! :)

See you next time,

Hermione