Obligatory Snow Video

Winter Impressions. It was nice and cold. My friend Hannes filmed this in Hallein, Austria. The *ähhhm* artistic editing is my work.

Short video

Uhh I'm excited! I finally managed to create my first HD video clip. Just a very short one though, about a boat trip through the Oslofjord. At least there are some animals in that 'film'. 
I'll make some more, as soon as I get the charger for my camcorder back. Unfortunately it is in Salzburg at the moment :(

You can compare this with a non HD video:

Yet, this is quite good quality!

This is Hildur by the way, some Icelandic celloist.

This one here is pretty poor quality:

Seabear at Sódóma, Reykjavík, Menningarnótt 2010.

Teenage bloggers questionnaire evaluation

I spent my whole evening making graphs yesterday. Then I tried to properly arrange them in Word 2007, still don't really know how to do that best.

Just thought I should post the statistics, for anyone who`s interested. What I liked most, was the fact that the blogging community is quite friendly and most bloggers did not receive negative comments and those who did, often ignored them. See, all you over-worried teachers and parents, your child is not very likely to hang itself because of cyberstalking. Yet, one guy and a girl reported cyberstalking, and again they ignored it. Just make use of the delete button and don't waste your time with offensive and rude comments that are anonymous anyway. (in most cases)

Also today's teenagers often see themselves as technichal experts and they even know how to type HTML! Wow, I'm impressed, we never learned that at school, Germany is very old fashioned anyway, they rather teach Latin! than ICT.

Ok here are the graphs: 

43 teenagers (there were two late comers, I'm sorry)f rom 11 different countries replied by the way. Aged 13-23 (<- they looked really young!)

Source: my own statistics, make with Create a Graph.

Hmm, just notices that some of the text is a little bit small, well I can't be bothered to change that.

And this is Berlin

 Youth 1

 Lefty

 Phototime

 Youth 2

 My photographic skills

 More youth

 I don't know who they were admiring there

Wandering around

Some photos of Hamburg

 Underground feeling

 Museal inspiration

 Rote Flora Interview

 So disgusting: it's art!

 My favourite shop-assistant

Me playing around with a shadow-wall (some theatre thing for kids) at a museum.

Ranting, grrr!

Good afternoon to everyone

Yesterday, I wanted to post my beautifully wrapped parcels  with Deutsche Post and they complained about 28gr too much for the cheapest price category, so I hav to pay quite a lot. I asked them about the packaging, if I could put it into a bigger, but lighter bag, or just wrap it up in paper. 'No, we're sorry, the big bag, is too big; that would also be the next expensive price category and parcels that are just wrapped in paper have to be oblong.' 

Well, I payed, because I had already sold the stuff on e-bay and it would have been extremely IMPOSSIBLE to ask for an extra-extra packaging price. I didn't lose any money, however I didn't gain as much as I'd have expected either. 

Today I'm going to sell more things on e-bay. I've dug deep into my wardrobe and found a few branded clothes I don't wear anymore. I think I can aslk for more money this time.

Besides from these annoying news, I'm pretty satisfied with yesterday; I did everything on my checklist. And I got to more responses from young male bloggers, from Denmark of course, they're the nicest.Therefore, I'll link them now:

Christoffer and Hr. Johansen.

I started making graphs with all the data I've collected so far. Designing a chart is very simple, really. I'm horrible at maths, but I found something very useful on the interent. It's actually a homepage for school children, the tool helps them with their presentations, essays whatever and I recommend that page to anyone who quickly needs to do statistics and has no mathematicla understanding, or is too impatient to learn about it. Here's the website: Create a Graph 

Also, I have 37 answers already! Yay, I'm going to stop this thing as soon as I have 40. 

Ok, what else is going on? This Saturday I've got a riding lesson again (after ca. 2 months!) We hardly ever go, because I need a lift (imagine I'll be 23 soon and I haven't got a driving license) And the girl who usually takes me, recently moved to Munich and her boss always changes the work schedule. So, the only days in the week that we both have time is Saturday and Sunday, but there are no lessons on Sundays. Moreover, recently we had to cancell our lessons a few times, because our organisation does not work at all: she answers her e-mail bloody late and another time she signed me up for a lesson and only told me afterwards, unfortunatelly I didn't have time then.

But the most upsetting thing about this riding business are the  owners of the horse farm itself: they are extremely rude and impatient and they treat their customers very unfriendly. I really don't feel like going there any longer, but the problem is that we could only by a card with ten lessons and we still need 5 I think. But now comes the best part: The owner said that our lessons will expire! And we need to come in 8 days in a row, if we want to keep up this hobby! Hello, what sort of an idiot is he? I wonder if he's like that to everone, or only to two 22 year old girls, who just do this occasionaly! We don't intend to become professionals, why do they care what we learn? This is just a meaningless, voluntary little hobby. AHHHHHHHHHHHH, I HATE them!!!

I need to calm down with a nice song:

It's the new Fleet Foxes single, unfortunatelly their album won't be released before May :(

Enjoy and have a nice day!

Dinner's ready!

Here they are my lovely quiches:

The crust is not as well-shaped as the one in the image, but I'm a beginner in quiche-making.

Also, I left out the bacon, because I don't eat meat.

Now it's time for the Linguistics essay...

Morning song and today's agenda...

Very dreamy song by Dalida. You might recognise it from Kill Bill Vol. 1 (but that version was sung by Nancy Sinatra) I prefer this one, Italian is the perfect language for music.

Aha, I just read my text messages: No clarinet today and next week. :( 

Well, at least I'll have plenty of time to practise. It's a bit complicated this time. I feel like tying a knot into my fingers. 

Also, I have to work more today. Yesterday was my lazy day, really. The problem is the weather; how can anybody write essays if it's that wonderful and bright outside? 

About the essays: I've got one that needs serious proofreading, because I have to hand it in... like tomorrow :D It's about the Salem witchcraft and Arthur Miller's The Crucible. In that essay (which is 16 pages long, puh!) I researched the historic background of that play and compared it to the plot. There were a few differences and my task was to find out why. An obligatory, unhappy love-story and a tragic suicide were the two main themes I focused on. I wasn't as interested in the play, as I was in the witchhunt part to be honest. It turned out to be a very ethnologic essay, which, in my opinion,  is brilliant. Yet, I'm always unsure about the language; especially this time, because our lecturer was an American and I'm not a natve speaker of English.

The other paper is totally different. It's for English Linguistics, the title of the course I'm writing it for was: Same Old Story? Exploring the patterns of storytelling across media. That seminar was so interesting, I was sad when it was over, can you believe that?!

So, I'm writing about teenage bloggers; why they blog, what they blog about, how they interact with others and I'm enbedding these questions into the allround-concept of multilinear narration in hypertexts. Basically, this means: How can you tell a neverending story that can start at any point.

Moreover, I chose the blogs of teens, because I read an article about 13 year-old Tavi Gevinson, who gained immense recognition for her fashion blog, not only by peers, but finally also by the fashion industry. I could hardly believe that! I looked at the pictures on her website and her style reminds me very much of carnival. It's hilarious how the fashion industry celebrates her as the new it-girl, a huge inspiration and seriously includes her into the business. Hello! She's just an average kid, not a style prodigy! What if she's 'out' tomorrow? How would she deal with that? I feel like the companies only play around with her, but if she's having fun, why not. I just find her more amusing than seriously influential.

I created a 10-question questionnaire that I sent out to...maybe 150 teenagers so far. I started it last week and I already have 32 answers! I think that is a pretty decent quota. But, only two of the male bloggers I wrote tow replied. Both very stylish guys from America. I found these kids on Lookbook. The boys have very elaborate profiles and blogs, where they write about their love for fashion, photography and lifestyle...

Here's Blake and this is Edward. At least they don't spend all their they playing computer games.

I found out that the 14-17 years old girls from Denmark and the UK, were most happy to write back. Surprisingly, I didn't recieve that many replies from the USA.

Well, if you were one of those who answered me: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

And todays agenda is as follows:

1. Take my new glasses back to optician and have them fitted.
2. Buy some tape and wrap and dispatch the things I sold on ebay

3. Buy some Gruyère for the quiche which I am going to make later

4. Practice the clarinet

5. Finish chapters 4.1. and 4.2. of my blogging essay

Yes, yes, yes... this will be enough for today.

A welcome message from Mezeinee

Hello dear reader

this is not my first blog, actually it's my third. But for some reasons I abondoned my first one and the other one is just a fun project I set up with a friend.

Please, have a look and don't take anything on that site seriously:

L Eau de Salmiak

As you can see, I'm very fond of weird titles. This blog's title refers to a character from my favourite book when I was little. Mezeinee is a sheep actually :D and it is also the Hungarian word for Mrs Meadow. I really recommend the book, even if you don't know any children (who like to read).

By the way, the title is "Uncle Remus Tales by Joel Chandler Harris".

Oh I just noticed, there is a whole homepage on the author and the book. 

Uncle Remus

Now you know what Mezeinee is, but you don't know who I am, right...so

My real name is Annemarie andI'm 22 years old.I live in an incredibly boring town called Augsburg, which is at least quite close to Munich. I'm in my final year at the University of Augsburg, where I study English, History of Art and Ethnology. I really enjoy it, but I don't think I want to pursue the history of art business any longer, it sort of isn't that exciting any more. I figured out that I'm very interested in migration and intercultural communication, as well as CMC communication. Oh, and Victorian culture and literature is also very nice.

Yes, I also do other things than studying :D like photography and videos, 

(have a look at my youtube channel: Mezeinees Youtube) (clarinet), learning unusual languages (Icelandic) and TRAVELLING (mostly to Scandinavia). I think I will post some fashion stuff here I'm an average 'post-teenager' (or what ever age group I belong to).

In general, I can't really tell yet what the goal of this weblog is going to be. I'm excited about how it will turn out. 

Let the wonderful story of the daily life of Mezeinee begin...

Yep, this is me, visiting a castle somewhere in Baden-Württemberg.

bye

Anne