Busy as a bee

Helloooo it's been a while! I am currently standing in the middle of my room holding a frame for my new bed that we're putting.up! It takes 5 people to put up a bed :p I've been extremely busy lately what with my part time job, volunteer work and school! We had a 2 week holiday which was really nice, tiring though! It included lots of parties and late nights :D
Watched Inception on Friday, it's so good.but so confusing! :o And I went to the cinema to watch Gravity which was also very good :) I freaked out at one point though...

What else? Did I write about my birthday? Well anyway I got a totoro onesie, a rice cooker, some amazing tea with a thermos and a whale tea strainer and several other cool things :3 

I should.probably help with the bed.... Till next time! :p

More Majamba fun~

It's quite cool working for Majamba, it's a really interesting concept and we're trying to find ways to get people more interested. The problem is it's been 20 days (out of 100) and we've only got 4 boosters.... We need many many more! Even just boosting 22 francs would be a big help.

Let's make music free! :p
Imagine being able to go to a concert as a reward for doing volunteer work, or even using the hugs you earn to start your own project or buy fairtrade gifts made in India!

When we were working at the Paléo Stand in Nyon for the Paléo Festival then we had these amazing bracelets made by women in India to get some money, we would love to help them.

And imagine if you could support 1'000'000 artists with this musical platform. There are so many talented people out there just waiting to be discovered :3

So please spread the word about Majamba and give us feedback! :)

MAJAMBA :D

 Here is a little something about the social network called Majamba. Let's make music free by doing good in the world! :)

 

 

A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA TO MAKE MUSIC FREE AND GIVE ARTISTS A FAIR DEAL.

Majamba and Universal Music will offer the best music experience via the Majamba Music Network to everyone who discovers and promotes new artists, authentic artisans and inspiring entrepreneurs.

Why? Music has always been a force for good. More than forty years ago, Jimi Hendrix said “If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music”. Today, there are millions of artists, artisans and entrepreneurs waiting to be discovered and get a fair deal for their creativity and talent.

“Majamba proposes a new network community, where the users will access and enjoy the music they love wherever they are. As active member, people will not only “do good”, but will also contribute to sustainable artist creativity which drives our industry since decades. Universal Music is – therefore – very proud to be part of this social & cultural adventure”. – Ivo Sacchi, Managing Director of Universal Music Switzerland.

“Getting goodies by doing good is the essence of Majamba. Today thanks to Universal Music the “Goodies” just got much, much bigger.” – Rajiv Srivastava, CEO & Co-Founder of Majamba.

What? The goal of Majamba Music Network is to offer everyone the opportunity to discover and promote new talent and in return get the best music experience – music concerts, “Money Can’t Buy” experiences and exclusive music downloads – for free!

How? In order to finance the search for talent worldwide, Majamba is launching a crowdfunding campaign on 100-Days.Net. During the next 100 Days, everyone can support the Majamba “Make Music Free” campaign with as little as 22 Swiss Francs. Gifts for supporters include T-shirts, Music+ gift cards, Exclusive and Limited edition CDs, concert tickets, VIP pack from Universal Music Artists, for example: Robin Thicke, Maroon5, Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stones, Bastille, OneRepublic and many more. All rewards will be announced on the campaign blog: MakeMusicFree.Org

Roll Out Plan: Majamba Music Network will be rolled-out starting December 2013 in Switzerland, India, United Kingdom and the United States. Majamba Music Network will promote, distribute music and authentic products around the world.

Links:
http://www.makemusicfree.org
http://www.100-days.net/en/projekt/let-s-make-music-free
http://www.facebook.com/OneMillionSparks

Contacts:
Universal Music // Adrien Garrault // adrien.garrault@umusic.com // +41 (0) 43 444 41 11
Majamba // Jeannine Srivastava // jeannine.srivastava@majamba.com // +41 (0) 21 691 9818

Your support is crucial as it will help us get off the ground faster and give a voice to amazing new talent. Thank you very much!

 http://www.100-days.net/en/projekt/let-s-make-music-free

 

 

Nao's News~

Hello~ ~ ~ ~

I hope everyone is happy :3 I am!! Even if I should be working at the moment...
I've been at school for 2 weeks and the atmosphere in the class is not bad at all, we even went and had lunch together by the lake one time. So cool! >w<
I went swimming haha... Only me... T-T But it was really nice and refreshing.

Anyways~ I'm listening to Step-Vampire Weekend at the moment-> LOVE IT *^*

I just went to a YFU re-entry weekend and I don't know how to describe it... we were only there for 24 hours but by the end I had a group of friends I felt like I'd known for ages! It was epic.
We shared our experiences from our exchanges and it really felt good to talk about how we felt and how to reintegrate and stuff. It was strange for me cos I've been back for 8 months and they just got back a month ago but it was still cool~~ Olivia was there too :3
And Janine! She just got back from America so yeh.

We played a bunch of crazy games and I think I won't go into much detail because they were really really crazy!!!

I've got a Spanish test tomorrow... and I need to read a book for Tuesday
 :O

High school~

I've started gymnase! I'm in 2nd year without having done the 1st year so I'm still rather confused but it's super cool here! My class is really nice :) Sometimes the school days seem reeeaaally long but oh well, that's life :P
I need to concentrate on my studies so that I don't fail my year and my exams etc..
Oh yeh, today I started chinese! It seems like a fun class hehe! The teacher is epic.
Don't really know what else to write so I guess I'll write more another day :)

I need to dedicate a whole post to Majamba (where I'm working) I think!

Ja ne!

PS

Oh yeh and I got the job from 2 posts back! ^__^
It's only once a week so I don't get payed much but it's better than nothing! I need to get a real part time job soon...

Hallo hallo hallo~

Hello everyone! It's been a while. Hope you're all well, I certainly am hehe!
So I have been on holiday for a loooong time now and I haven't done that much.... but I'll talk about the things I have done!
So last week for example I was working at Majamba (a social network where you get points called hugs if you do volunteer work and you can use the hugs to get concert tickets, to start a mission of your own or to buy goods!) at Paléo with my sister. It was exhausting, but a good experience! It was the first time I'd done anything like it so yeh.
We got 2 shifts of 2 hours and 2 breaks of 2 hours everyday until midnight so we got to go to quite a lot of concerts which was AWESOME!! That was also a first for me seeing as I've only ever been to free concerts (apart from seeing Katie Melua once with my parents).
We saw Phoenix, Alt-J, Arctic Monkeys, Santana, Blur and many others.

The week before that we went to the montreux Jazz festival, I wasn't a fan of the free concerts there.... but Meri says she saw George from AlunaGeorge so that's cool I guess :P It was fun anyway~

We had a friend over from Kenya the week before that and with her we went on walks, picnics, shopping trips etc..
And before that... oh yes my sister Phili was here! She's in Germany now but she'll come back soon :3

I've been recovering from last week and so I've done nothing but watch Yumeiro Patissiere (Yes, again. Yes, all of it.)  :P Yesterday I did do a lot of cleaning in the house....
Nananaaaaaaaaaaaa what else? I've been looking after Aya's cats for a week and watering her plants! Kinda scary at first cos I didn't see one of the cats until the third day!! And there was a storm so the flowers got a bit destroyed.. and then it was boiling so they dried out a bit. T-T
I had to dehead (?) them and water them a lot! But now it's fine I think :S Bref!

What else.... I really am writing everything about my life now aren't I! Oh yes, I chatted to David on Facebook on Saturday and he's made it to Nice!! Impressive indeed :3 He put up a lot of photos which is cool, and he seems really tanned!!

I think I'll shut up now. I need to write letters. Oh yeh a guy called Arno from Majamba was really cool :) He speaks Japanese! We talked a bit about anime and stuff in Japanese...




Oyasumi les amis! ^-^

Responsibility

So today I was talking to a friend and I asked her how it felt to be 18 and she said that you had to think a lot more about taking minors out with you because you're responisible for them. I wonder if I'll find it very different when I turn 18....
And I guess you can get a driving license too. I was trying to imagine how it would feel to be with someone younger and for something to happen to them, how would I react? I had gone into town to eat lunch with Anne and Selina and we talked about loaaaaads of things!
Later on I went to YWAM which stands for youth with a mission which is really cool, the worship was amazing, we even sang in korean at one point haha! :D
The BCC (bible core course) group had come back from a trip and they presented it with plays, rap and funny sketches!! What they'd done was study certain bible passages in the actual place the events happened! So they went to Egypt, Rome, Turkey etc... So cool! I would love to do something like that.
I went with Beatriz and 3 other friends :)
What else.... Oh! On Wednesday after meeting Brian at bubble tea to do japanese I went to Youthplanet with Bea! It was a special night with lots of announcements but it was still really good. I then said goodbye to Tessa who flew back to Canada today... I'm gonna miss her! I didn't know her for very long but it was always fun talking to her! And she gave me her red wellies, I'll always think of her when I wear them!!
So I said goodbye and it turned out the whole of skylab was there and they invited us to go get a drink with them so we did... They got 5l of beer!!! Mad...and we actually finished it! It was cool chatting and just being there.. :)
Tomorrow I've got to meet a lady called Laurence and her 2 daughters for a kind of interview! I'm trying to find a job so...hopefully I'll get it!! And then after that there's skylab, Bea should be coming.
I'm exhausted now so good night!! :)

New phone

I got a new phone! At last! Haha :) It's a samsung galaxy pocket but prepaid so I don't have to spend 30 francs a month......
It's really cute! I downloaded whatsapp, fb messenger, kindle etc.. so yeh! It's so nice having something to read while I'm in the train or the bus.
The last post must seem very random..... so what happened is seeing as Johnny finished his GCSEs on Monday we thought we'd stay up all night, talking to eachother on facebook etc... We only lasted till 3.30 but it was good fun hehe. And I told him about my blog...and wrote Johnnnnyyyyyy!! lol :P


Anyways, I went to youth group today which was cool, we did the last 2 chapters of Découvre Dieu so it's the end of that and the youth group will go back to normal next week I suppose.. not really sure what it's normally like though!
I honestly have no idea why I'm still up.... I should be in bed, dreaming wonderful sweet dreams about lovely people, crazy cats and scary manga characters....
Speaking of manga, did I mention that I finished naruto? In a week! :P This is kinda bad but I'm quite happy with myself for reading it so quickly haha..... manga sure does consume A LOT of time though! I finally understand when people talk about naruto though so that's a plus. I also read Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) and it's FREAKY!!!!! I didn't really like the look of it but it was just.... so.. intriguing!! So yeh, read all the chapters there are so far and it's pretty exciting.

Another thing I did today was walking Ella in the woods and just sitting down, shutting out all outside noises and distractions and just having some quality time with my daddy :3 (I mean God btw....) It was just so amazing! I felt really at peace and I could just pray and speak of my troubles and they would be lifted from my shoulders instantly.

Listening to Whom Shall I Fear ... I should listen to more worship music, there's some really cool stuff. I'm learning how to play By Your Side on the guitar :) And also Big Black Car and a few other songs...
I've been told to learn how to juggle by Johnny... so that's my challenge for tomorrow.. and he has to make sushi haha :P I need to dig out my violin from inside the chaos that is our storage room downstairs....... it's madness. You literally have to climb ontop of tents and chairs and strange things that look like lumps of wood...........
What was  I talking about again....? Gahh my mind wanders too much! On the bus on the way back home I bumped into Felix! :) He was in my class in 7e and 9e but was in China in 8e.... but yeh, he's half american (I believe) so we spoke in English :)

I should stop writing. I'm tired ._. Nighty nighty fellow birds

Jesus Culture-Your love never fails <3 <3 <3 Love this song!!

No wonder I can't bring myself to go to bed.. the music is so good I want to stay to listen to it....

Peace and Tea <3

Nao :3 Nyan! Gn!

Johnnyyyyyyyyyyyy

Hellooooooooo! How are you little juggler Monny? hope you're not too exhausted? :P I wonder if we'll manage to stay up all night......
Well done for finishing your GCSEs and have fun doing random juggling, guitar playing and cycling for 3 months!

Peace and tea ♥

Fun stuff

I just dyed David's hair blue! :D
That was fun, the way back home was not so fun though! I changed trains at Lausanne and the intercom came on saying that the next stop was Palézieux which is not where I wanted to go! I was ready to jump off the train and get another but it came on again saying the right stop!

Bref :) Yesterday YouthPlanet was cool aswell! There was a girl from school who came and we all played table football. Fun fun fun!

Okay so it's now Friday. Well it's actually 1 minute past midnight so technically it's already Saturday.... enfin bref.
Hummm so I just got back from Skylab which was just amazing! Everyone is so nice and welcoming! I helped organise the games and we did 2 games, one was 'your ideal man/woman' so you had to cut out parts of the body and stick all the bits together to make the ideal person...
The other game was 'Have you ever...' so we would say things like have you ever dressed up as a prince or a princess and if the answer was yes then you could stay standing and answer the next question. If your answer was no then you just sit down. And so the last person standing is 'the perfect man/woman' lol :P We put some really funny questions in!
We also made cupcakes :3 Om nom nom nom nom nom nommm

I'm so tired .__.

I was gonna write something really cool. But I forgot. So yeh, you'll just have to imagine something really awesome and that will be what I was gonna write.

Nyan! Gn my friends! ^_____^

Nao

I think I should just get everyone to call me Nao... I have never really said it's my nickname but 2 people called me Nao today!
Apart from that, I had a lovely day today, despite the rain, wind and hail. I thought it was Spring?!
So anyway, I went into Lausanne with my lovely little friend Aya and we spent our day looking at random stuff in the shops, eating quiche and drinking bubble teas :)
I found a shop called Uchitomi and it's full of Japanese things! It was so fun just going round looking at all the little snacks and weird seaweed toppings... ^_^
A bit expensive though!!

I got a matcha and calpis bubble tea and unfortunately it was ice cold so not very comforting when it's pouring outside! It tasted.. interesting to say the least! A peculiar mix.
We decided to get the train back quite early because of the rain and then Aya got a message from Lucien, a friend who is in Zurich on a short term exchange, saying he was in town for the weekend and did she want to meet him at Balzac, an awesome hot chocolate café!
So we went there and I actually went for a coffee instead of a hot chocolate because it is rather expensive... I wasn't disappointed though! It had cream and Indian spices in it and also a hint of chocolate I think! It was called café charmant. :)

I must point out that when we got back to our town, it was SUNNY! My appreciation for the place has increased. (I just wrote augmented and then had to think for a second to work out if it was even a word in English and when you would use it but decided against it and went for increased :P Apparently you use augment in financial situations?)

I should stop writing about random things now :) Time to tidy my room and make plans for the summer! My 3 month one that is ;)))))  Haha I'm so happy! Maybe I should go on a little bike trip around Switzerland! Or go to Germany or Spain.... All the possibilities!! *^*

YAY

I just got a letter from the gymnase saying that I have passed my exams and there is no need to do the orals! I'm feeling ecstatic!!! :D
So to explain it briefly, I had 6 exam marks and I had to get an average of 3.5 (out of 6 that is) to get through to the orals. If after the orals I had a 4 average in all of my subjects I would pass!
But, if you manage to get a 4.5 average (27 points in total) in the written tests then you automatically pass without even having to do the orals! :)
I got:
French: 4.5
German: 3.5
English:5.5
Spanish:4
Maths:5
Physics+chemistry: 5.5
Total: 28 points
I'm so surprised  about the physics chemistry one!! I thought I'd get a 1....!!!

So yeh! That's that. I now have 3 months of holiday.  YAY! ^___^

French exam...

Today I had my French exam!!! I don't really know how it went.. I didn't fully understand the text and the whole test  was based on it! So hopefully I got atleast some things right.. and for the argumentation I really don't know.. :S I wrote a lot of random things!! And uhh.... I don't actually know how to write an argumentative text so I was just making up most of it :P

Tomorrow I have German.. I've been revising for about an hour since I finished my French exam but I just feel like doing nothing now ._.
Johnny has his GCSEs at the moment so he also had a French exam today! (And at the same time too haha :P) I hope his exam went well :) And I guess all my friends from when I lived in England will be doing theirs too!!! Good luck everyone C:

This is gonna be the best day of my liife~ (American Authors)

MaybeI should go outside, it's nice and sunny ^____^

Have you ever heard of a dreamer girl? ♥

Another Asa song!! Dreamer Girl... :)
Love it!

My tests both went terribly... in my chemistry there were loads of things I hadn't covered and in the physics one it was just extremely confusing @___@
Gaahhh (x__x) *dead*
I'm glad I don't have to do any more physics or chemistry for a few months!
Next up is French (on Monday!) So I need to study a lot. There's a lot of vocabulary and grammar stuff and then an argumentation that I'll have to write!
(No. I don't know how to write an argumentation!)


Baby baby
Close your eyes
Life's a dream
Maybe someday
One dayyyy~♪ ♥

My friends are having a BBQ at the lake tonight... It's for a friend's birthday so I should go but I don't feel like going out T__T

Some other friends are on a camp to train to become youth leaders (I think!) and apparently they'll have a bunch of challenges to do...  sounds fun haha :)

Why can't we be happy? ♪

Chemistry

Wow.. I really should have looked at all of this more carefully! I'm trying to understand isomérie and something or other topologique in the last hour I have ..xD
Atleast I have about an hour in the car to look at it aswell... .____.
And I don't understand moles and the Avogadro number or whatever it is..








*PAF* 

NoooOOOoooOOoooo!!

And disaster strikes!!
I'm supposed to bring all sorts of material with me which I don't have cos I haven't been in the swiss schooling system for over a year and so I seem to have lost everything....
I managed to find some fountain pens after who knows how long and it's a good thing I thought to wash them cos at the exam you write in either blue or black and my pens had umm... pink and purple ink in them! ^.^ Oops! :P
So yeh, now I just need to find another calculator incase they accuse me of using a calculator too advanced or what not.. And also an 'équerre' ! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
My exam starts in 3 hours.. I wonder which one I'll do first, chemistry or physics..?
Butterflies in my tummy... and ink all over my hands.

Pfft, silly me. 

All that's left is to go for it and hope I understand atleast the questions.. :P

Gaah

Oh dear! The information booklet says I should have received a periodic table of the elements??
I hope it all goes well tomorrow.. :S
I don't like exams.
I should probably go to bed soon so I'm not exhausted for the exam.. but I should try and do more work! :O mleh T-T

Exams

My exams start tomorrowwwwwwwwwww!!! :O
And I'm only beginning to understand chemistry and physcs now :P I hope they give us a nice and easy test but as one would say "Ahh let's give them an easy test so they don't all fail" said NO TEACHER EVER.

Bref.
You will be my man, and I will be your woman everyday~ ♪ (Be my man-Asa)
I really need to work and stop thinking.. and daydreaming.. and remembering exciting adventures!!!

I'll put the lyrics to that song:

My mama used to tell me girl it ain't that cool
To see a man you love
And start to act the fool
Tell me what's a girl in love supposed to do
Tonight, I'm breaking mama's rule

Baby there's alot of thing's I want to say
I'm in love with you its driving me insane
I know am sounding stupid but is it ok
To be your woman everyday

you will be my man
And I will be
Your woman everyday

Ooh baby we can take a walk araound the park
And I can cook you dinner, it won't be so bad
Or we can laugh and talk about the friends you've had
And all the ones that made me mad

Ooh baby baby, we can stay up all night
We can argue, we can even start a fight
And I can laugh and say i love the way you smile
and everything will be just fine

You will be my man
And I will be
Your woman everyday. ♥

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNUgJMDsOuY

Favourite song of the moment ♥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bt-FHaFVH8 Red Hands by Walk off the Earth. ♥
Love it!

I'm terrible at physics and chemistry..!! Can't believe my exam is in 2 days already T____T Aaahhhh!

Today Ella got chased by a cow.... seriously! It was pretty funny :P But I put her on the lead to make sure she didn't go too near it!!

What else.. oh yeh I went to Skylab on Friday and then afterwards went to Balelec with David which was very exciting!!! :D And painful and tiring and all sorts xD I  got home at 5 am O_o Slept at 6, got up at 7 and went to clean up a park for hours the next day! No wonder I'm so tired haha :P