England Travel Diary #2 - Brighton

Hello beautiful people,
since I've wanted to go to Brighton for a very long time now and we are have a flat in Hastings for two nights, I convinced my family on going there.

I woke up at about 8 o'clock since my room is on the sunny side and the curtains are made from a very transparent fabric. On the one hand I was a little grumpy because I could have slept about an hour longer until my alarm would have gone off. On the other hand though it was nice becaue I like waking up to the sun shining in my face and there are much worse ways to wake up.
Right after we had our breakfast we got in the car and started our way to Brighton.

If you think about going to Brighton by car then here's what we found in our guide book:
Park at the 'park and ride' at the Withdean Sports Complex and take the bus from the, it's number 27, I think. This bus will take you directly to Brighton and you don't have to worry about driving in a crowded town or finding a parking lot. That tip saved us plenty of time and also stress because I know how fast we can get bothered by driving in crowded cities.

Brighton itself was just as pretty as I had imagined it. Okay, truth to be told, it was even better than I had imagined. I couldn't stop smiling the whole day because I was so happy to be there.
First we went to the Brighon Pier, just because our bus stop was right next to it. There was music playing everywhere and so many people. We only had a little walk on the pier since we had other stuff on out to do list.

After a little time of walking into the wrong directions we finally found the Royal Pavillon. This is definatly a must-see. Even though we didn't go inside we had a great time in the park around it and also had a little picnic there, just enjoying the sun. And that was probably one of the best things today: It was warm and the sun was shining. That made everything much better.

As the time went by we had finished our little lunch in the park and went to the lanes. I was told by Rachel that the lanes are one of the places you should visit in Brighton and she was so right. So thank you for that tip.
The lanes is a part of Brighton with many old, little buildings. There are very cute shops and you can see something new, pretty or funny everywhere. I can't even expalin it really, but if you go to Brighton you should definatly go there and if you been there you prabably know what I mean.

For the end of our daytrip we went along the beach. There were musicians, bars and children playing at the beach. This wrapped up our perfect day in Brighton and I'm stil really happy that I've been there.

I hope to hear about you experiences in Brighton and will talk to you soon,

Norina xx

England Travel Diary #1 - Canterbury, Hastings

Hello beautiful people,
so after a very very long day I finally found the time to blog about today. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will probably know that I'm currently in England with my parents. We are doing a trip all around the south of England. This gave me the idea of doing a diary about our jouney. First of all this is a diary for me so that I can see what, where and when we saw or did something. But this is diary is also for you. If you like I'd like to take you with us on our trip through England and tell you about everything that happened to me. Maybe these posts will give you some inspiration or you just want to see some pictures of England. Whatever it is that kept you reading until this line, I really hope you enjoy this posts.

3 o'clock.... Yep, that's the time I had to wake up this morning. I know not that awesome, right. But the thing is that we had to leave our house at about 4 o'clock in order to get to the port at the right time. Since there were some problems in Calais, where we had originally booked our trip, we had to drive to Dunkirk and see which ferry we could take. Gladly, we were able to get on the next ferry so that we were in Dover at about 12 o'clock. (Okay,so I just realized that I was in different time zones. The 3 o'clock was German time and the 12 o'clock in England.)

After our arrival we first drove to Canterbury. I've been to this town once before but only for a few hours, so that I had begged my parents to go there with me.
Actually we didn't do any (real) sightseeing there. We walked a little in the centre and looked at some of the shops aand old buildings. Even though we were just walking and looking, I really enjoyed it. The town centre is really pretty and all the buildings are so old and beautiful. (Maybe you should know that I really love looking at different houses and especially old buildings interest me very much.)

The place we are staying at for the next two nights is in Hastings so that we drove there afterwards. We booked the flat over at airbnb so if you want me to write a more detailed post about ou experience with this then make sure to leave a comment. Also if you have ever traveled via airbnb or you are a member. This post is not sponsored though, this is just new for me and I'm excited to hear about you experiences.

Even though Hastings wasn't my first choice I really like it here. We kinda live on top of a hill and I can see the oceans from my window. What else do you want, I mean I love England and I love being at the ocean and now I got both thing combined. After taking a little nap we went down the hill into the old city right at the ocean. Even though it began to rain a little and was kind of cold we decided to go on a little walk before deciding where to eat. Everything here is so small and I think the flat we are in is the maybe the smallest one I've ever been in. But I like that and I don't think it is bad in any way.

Today hasn't been very eventful, so I didn't have many things to write about. Hopefully tomorrow we will do and see some more exciting things. Even though this post could have been longer I really hope you enjoyed reading it and that you now kind of know what my day looks like.

Tommorow I will hopefully upload a post about Brighton and also some more things about Hastings. I hope that you'll come back tomorow and that I didn't bore you.

I'll talk to you soon,

Norina xx

P.S.: I took all those photos myself so please don't use them and if you want to then message me.

Homosexuality (2) - LGBT Adoption

  

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Hello beautiful people,
a few days ago I had a long discussion with my parents, which dealt with LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) adoption. After the news from the USA latley, you will probably all know what LGBT means. If you haven't watched any news, I will shortly explain what happened. The USA declared same-sex marriage legal in the whole USA. This was a huge step for the equality of same-sex couples and I can say that this made me very happy for all couples that are now finally able to get married.

One thing though, that is still not legal everywhere for LGBT couples is to adopt children. It is currently legal in 21 countries and also in some small terretories.
Personally I think that this is already a huge amount of countries, but in my opinion more countries should legalize the LGBT adoption. In this post here I'm going to share my opinion on this kind of adoption with you. I really hope that you agree with me because in the end we are all the same and the world should get more tolerant.

Whenever I had this discussion with friends or family, one of the arguments against the adoption was that the children could get bullied. Also the parents from the other children could forbid their children to play with this child because of the parents.
Okay, so I partly agree with that. I also think that there are people who wouldn't want their children to be with kids from LGBT couples. Some people are just not that tolerant and would have someh´thing against those couples. On the other side this would teach kids from a young age to be more tolerant towards people that maybe seem different. I don't think that this argument should be the one to stop legalizing the LGBT adoption.
For sure it could be that the kids get bullied. But if I could e.g. choose between living in an orphanage, in a violent family or in a family that loves me and cares about me, I would choose living in a loving and caring family.

Those families using domestic violence are (mostly) allowed to have children but not the ones who would care about their kids, just because they aren't "normal".

This is probably what bothers me the most about this whole situation. Who says that LGBT couples would be bad parents. Or more specific: Who says that they would be worse parents than any other couple. In my opinion they would be better parents than some others. I don't say that all of them would be better or something, I just don't think that all of them would be worse. (I don't know if you understand what I just said. Sometimes my sentences can be a little confusing. Sorry.)

My opinion is that this adoption should be legalized everywhere. I wouldn't mind living in such a family and I don't think that it is wrong in any way. Maybe some people say that the world is not ready for this, but we will never know if the world is ready for this if we don't try it.
There have already been so many changes in the past years and we should all agree that we are all equal. There is nothing wrong with who you love and just because you feel like living in the wrong body or because you're homo-/ or bisexual, nobody should see you as different. We are who we are and we can't change that.

Love who you love and don't let people judge you because of that.

Well, this is my opinion on LGBT adoption. What do you think about it? Do you agree with me or do you think it shouldn't be legalized?
I would love to have a discussion with you down below in the comments.

I will hopefully talk to you very soon,

Norina xx

 

P.S.: This post contains my own opinion, which doesn't mean that it is right or that it's not okay to have another opinion on this topic. If there are any important informations I haven't mentioned then be sure to tell me in the comments. Also if any of my sentences sound kind of 'wrong', I'm very sorry. I didn't want to offend anyone by what I wrote. I would love to get some feedback about your opinion.

Do more of what make you happy (6)

Hello beautiful people,

It's time again for another 'Do more of what makes you happy'. For this month I've asked one of my friends again and gladly she said yes. She is thinking about starting a blog, so show her and this post some love and hopefully that will convince her. Okay enough from me, now on with what she wrote:

1. Family, friends: I think the most important thing in life is to have the right people around you. People who you can trust  and share your problems with. 

2. Travelling: I love to see other countries and learn more about different cultures!

3. Music: I really can not imagine a life without music. It doesn't matter whether I'm happy, angry or sad. I always have to listen to music.

4. Watching series: I could watch my favourite series the whole day and i also prefer watching series more than watching movies.

5. Food: I love to be in the kitchen and cook or bake. Whether it's with my friends or my sister, I really like to spend hours and hours in the kitchen.

6. Summer: To be honest, I can't understand people who don't like the summer. For me it's like the best time of the year.

7. Learning new languages: I like to learn new languages and be able to apply what I've learned in some books I read or you tube videos etc.

8. Make-up: I love to experiment with different and new make-up looks.

9. Making other people happy: In my opinion one of the best things in life is to know that you've made someone happy. Whether it's with presents or just some nice words.

10. Being lazy: Life is often very stressfull. Because of that I love the days where I can just lie in bed all the time and relax, read books etc.


As always I want to say, that I post these lists every month and I would love to get more of you involved in it.
So if you want me to publish ten things that make you happy or that make you smile then send me an E-mail: nonomue6@gmail.com

This is everything I have for today. I really hope that you like my idea. And also I would love if you could write some comments on why my friend here should start a blog. Maybe all together we can convince her.

Okay. I will talk to you very soon,

Norina xx

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