Divergent

       Divergent by Veronica Roth is a book and movie about love, making the right decision and surviving.
It is located in Chicago after the war and split in 5 factions.
 Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, Candor and Erudite. The 16 year old girl, Beatrice (Tris),in the movie played by Shailene Woodely, has to make the decision whether she wants to  transform from her faction Abnegation to another, or stay with her family her whole life. The result of her aptitude test, which should help her decide and tells her to which faction she belongs to, was shocking. Tris is Divergent, which means that she belongs in more than one faction and that it is dangerous.
It is also a love story of Tris and Four, in the movie played by Theo James.
       The movie and book are pretty similar, even though the movie did not show us many scenes. Anyways, the scene where they had to jump of the train and roof where really similar. The description of the book was reflected in the movie, and to be honest, my imaginary of the roof and jumping out off the train was almost the same as in the movie. Another pretty similar scene was the scene when Tris got her first tatoo. They explained it really nice in the book and the movie set was just perfect.
        But there were also differences of movie and book. One example is the fight with Molly, first of all the first fight was not with Molly and second of all, Tris won against Molly. The movie kinda messed the scenes up because when Molly and Tris fought, I thought that the movie is almost over because the actual fight with Molly was pretty much at the end of the stages.
        There was also a simulation of Tris where, in the book, she killed herself because she did not want to kill her family, but in the movie she killed a member of her family. It was kinda confusing because you knew that she was gonna shoot herself, but then she shot her family.
       All in all it was such a great experience to read the book and watch the movie. First I thought it is gonna be pretty boring but as I was reading it I realized how awesome the book is and I really got into it.
To be honest I like the book better than the movie, just because there was so much more description in the book than in the movie. Though, I really like the actors in the movie and I am glad that we watched such a great movie like this.

                             

                            Money can't buy you love (or friends)

    I chose this lesson because it is true, money just cannot buy you love or friends. When you think about the things which make you happy, family, friends love or luck, is there something you need money for? No, it makes you happy without money.

   Just imagine a situation at school, everybody is wearing designer clothes and talking about their expensive vacations they are going to and you are the only one without designer clothes and awesome vacations. But you are the only one who just needs love to be happy. They will probably make fun of you because you are different but  just do not care, they do not know what real happiness is.

    If you are allowed to pick one of two guys, one totally rich with a huge house and everything, and the other one kind of poor but so kind-hearted and lovely, which one would you prefer?
I would pick the poor one because I have love and he does not have to give me expensive presents to impress me or make me happy.

    Have you ever tried to impress somebody with your huge house and pool, just so that the person thinks you are cool because you have everything? Maybe you try too hard to impress him or her and forget that love is the key for a good relationship, make him or her something to eat, or write a cute letter, it just means so much more then a 1000$ necklace.

     As a conclusion I would say that love is so much more worth than money, you can be happy without spending money on something and just be yourself and if you want to have money, work.

The blog, I like, is a scuba  diving blog. I am a scuba diver and I love to get more information about diving and underwater stuff. The site is about how people dove many, many years ago and what it felt like to be underwater. At that time the outfit was called ''Deep Sea Diver'' outfit and consisted of a big helmet and a suit.
You can also visit a museum with old diving equipment and many pictures. It will give you an idea how live was like and how people became diver.
It is always interesting to read diving blogs because as I said  , it gives you information and you can get an imagination of the wonderful underwater world.

http://historyofdivingmuseum.blogspot.com/

Harrison Bergeron

The book and the movie about the handicapped Harrison Bergeron are pretty similar. I personally think that the movie is easier to understand than the book. Because the book is written in a kind of hard language, I barely could understand the basic story. But  I was able to notice a few different things though.

In the end of the book Hazel was crying but in the movie, she did not even realize that her son just got killed by the security. 

In the movie, the TV sometimes switched to stand by, while in the book it was running all the time.

Because of watching the movie, I know  what is happening and what  the basis of the story is.

Changing

                 Today I am going to talk about “Everyday Use” and my Foreign Exchange.

The main point is about Dee, when she comes home after college and how she has changed.

She became independent from her family and so do I, I am changing right now and mostly in a good way.

                 A  few days ago somebody said to me that i have changed,  in a good way, I became more confident and talk active, and feel  more comfortable to be in a conversation with somebody.

The best part she mentioned: “ Your english has improved”. First I could not believe it because I did not feel the same way, but when I was thinking about it I realized that this statement is totally true.

At the beginning of my Exchange Year I did not even understand what people were talking about but now, now, I almost understand everything.

             Another point, not only your language gets better but also your self-confidence.

You are independent from your family and you have to work out problems without any help of people you know really well. No, you have to do it by yourself. It is not always easy but it will work, somehow.

            The next part is similar to the others but anyway, you get stronger. When something is bad or somebody dies and you are far away from your family you cannot do anything. Two months ago a family member of mine died and it was such an awkward feeling not to be at home, but I worked it out, somehow, no I did not. You are here and you just cannot realize, but then you realize, but in reality you cannot. What I did was just keeping up my life, try to think about something else and because of the people here and the encouragement from my family, I kinda worked it out.

           You also learn that you have to accept things the way, they happen.

I have a good example. On a boring day I was sitting in front of the computer when suddenly my organization called me and told me that they have a host family for me. I was so happy and I almost cried but when I heard that I will come to North Dakota, you could see the disappointment in my face. But why was I so sad? Because of my expectations, they were way too high. So I was more disappointed but by the time living in the nowhere, meeting so many friends, I realized that California or living in a better state is not everything, the people are everything, you can live at your dream place and you do not have any friends, or you can live in the out in the  nowhere with many  friends. And honestly, I really love it here.

           The last point is a point I am really sad about. Before my big adventure began, there were so many preparations to do and so much stress. I personally think I made the time before the departure a horror time for my family because we as exchange students are so excited to go abroad, to go to America that we do not notice how much we hurt our family and friends with counting the days left  and stuff like that.  The excitement is too high so we just think about us, how we feel, how excited we are and we just talk about leaving all the time. It must be hard for our family and friends, because for them, nothing will change, everything is the same just without us. They are not jealous,no, maybe friends, but they are going to miss you like crazy and if talk about going away, living your dream, all the time is much harder.

I did not have a good start in my year because of a few problems and that made me feel homesick. I always skyped with my mom and told her how much i miss her and just did not realize how she felt. She was sad too but she did not want to show me it. And now when I am thinking about it, it was a big mistake to tell her that I miss her, sure you can tell her, but not all the time. It has been a while till I noticed it but I did, and I will never do this again, because i learned, I learned that missing somebody should not ruin your day or time abroad, you should try to be happy and keep up doing your best, and it gets better, for sure.

            And what I wanted to express with my speech is that I changed, I changed in many ways and I am really proud of doing this, of doing this big adventure because it helps me in my future. I am also changing right now, I am changing the whole time and at the end there will be some people who like me like this way and some who do not like me anymore, I really do not care about it because I learned not to think so much about  what other people think about me, so I will see and  definitely keep up doing the same as now.