In the snow of Moscow!

You, guys, should be jealous (is that how you spell it?). Right now I'm in Moscow, Russia, at my Grandma's. If you don't know what Moscow is I'll tell you. For me, because I visit Moscow in winter, mostly, it is a land of coldness, endless snow and dirty frozen cars. Doesn't sound like a nice place to you, right? I know. But it's better to celebrate New Year here than in my Swiss apartment.
I'm sooo excited to meet Vasyok! It's so unfair that she still has school on these days (till the 30th of December. Can you imagine that?). I'm also looking forward to watch "Kikoriki: beginning". With Vasyok, of course. Aaand going to Tarasovka is, surely, going to be fun. So much fun stuff at this muddy place, right? Depends how you look at it!

I have two things to say.

It was the last day of school on Friday. It was raining all day long (no snow!?). I was jumping around (I nearly killed Mme.Roussel) and shouting that school was over (Mme.Roussel was almost killed again). Later, Franny and I went to Franny's house to celebrate the "best" day of the year. After, we went to my house, by train, and bought our lunch on the way. We decided not to go shopping (of the terrible weather and the broken umbrella) so we stayed at my house, watched Ratatoille and made clay creations.
Here are some pictures:

 Welcome to Facebook! The umbrella broke!

 Do you like my gloves?

Go clay!

I'll talk about the other thing later.

So... Yeah! We had a lot of fun! Life is never boring with your BFFs.

Wha-wait-what!?

Vacation? Already? Seriously?
You have to be kidding me! What? Moscow on Monday? Wait-wait-wait...
Slow down...

Time is running quickly. Way too quickly. And I'm not the only one, who noticed that. Before, Summers used to be very long. My cousin, who is in second grade now, linked it to school. When she didn't go to school, summers were very long. For me, all summers were long except this one, so it's not only my cousin's impression. Starting from this year time began to rush like a race car. Before, you had to wait ages till the first school period ends and now you don't even blink and it's lunchtime! Something is wrong with this world. Don't you guys agree? How is it where you live?
And the seasons are all very late (or very early) this year. It snowed today! Today? On the 15th of December? And it wasn't even snow. It was stupid sleet!

Grrrrr!!!! I'm furious! What's up with this time rush?  

The three wishes.

Today in Art Ms. Campbell wasn't there so Mini-Perron (or Fleure) was our substitute. She was just sitting there, on her computer, doing something, so we had the whole class time to ourselves (as long as we are quiet). Franny and I were talking to each other in our secret language and Yasmin was thinking that we were talking about her all the time. We talked about Katja, how we wanted to meet her and how the three of us would be best friends again. And we also talked about ipdiipching ipyasipmin. Comprendo?
Dr. Why? asked us that if we had three wishes what would they be? Franny said that she would wish for peace in the world and no dying babies. After a while she said that she would want Katja to be back too. Dr. Yaz said it was wrong because it would be smarter to wish for an infinity of wishes. Smarter? Zoom in! Who is smarter? Dr. Why (where you born)?
Wishing for peace in the world is a bit dumb too. Depends how you mean it. If you mean "nothing bad in the world" than you haven't thought about it. There obviously can't be only "good" things in the world. Some people consider arguing a bad thing, but arguing is what we live for. Our life is a battle. Some babies should die because that's how it was "written" at the beginning*. We fight for our survival without us noticing it. Somebody lied to us? Someone betrayed us? We fight. We try not to give up or we argue to protect ourselves. That's what sins are for. For living, yes!!!

" 'Imagine you had two cows, but one of them was very weak and gave less milk than the other one. You had to kill one. Which one would you kill?'
'I would kill the weak one.'
'Why?'
'Because if the weak cow had a baby it would be twice as weak as its mother, but the strong cow's baby would be twice as strong as its mother.' " - Sophie's World

*I took the word "written" from "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. It's such a good book!

It all began suddenly.

It's the first day of winter and something weird is happening to me. In French we just finished watching a movie called the "Les Choristes". We're also going to sing a song from that movie for the concert (Voir sur ton chemin). Today I wanted to watch something so I went on the website where I usually get my movies from. At the bottom of the page it said "New soundtracks" and bellow that there was a list of new soundtracks. The third one was "Les Choristes". I didn't know what to watch, so I went on Yandex and typed in "the best movies you have to watch" and bellow the picture link there was a photo of M.Matheu and Morhange from "Les Choristes".
Is it stalking me?

And you know what happened yesterday? I was listening to a song on my ipod and it suddenly stopped. A new song started. It was "Wondering" (my best one). Don't you find it strange?

Waiting for New Year.

Only a few days before winter starts...
It doesn't feel like winter though. No snow, nothing. I feel like sitting at home, drinking tea with Vasyok and refreshing our memories from the summer.
Only a few weeks before New Year...
The winter concert is the only thing that makes going to Moscow exiting. And Grandma and Vasyok, of course. I have a feeling that it is going to be the best New Year in my life. We are starting to prepare now. We learn songs on Skype and think about decoration all ready. We even decided where to stand on our imaginary stage. It's going to be the first New Year that we are going to celabrate at Vasyok's dacha. We spent our summer there (before and after going to Montenegro).

My mind is full with memories, wishes and thoughts and suggestions for the winter concert. I even forget about the present. Everything in my mind seems better than the present. Oh! How I want it to be New Year now! I don't want to see the brownish leaves on the helpless trees anymore. I want to see the shining snow, I want to hear the shouts of joy around the neighboorhood that would unite everyone and make them forget all their worries...

Annoying

She sounded like a pig in French class, fell of her chair, "laughed", oinked, etc. When the teacher came up to her to tell her to calm down she told me that she liked her perfume and was repeating it during the rest of the lesson.

I really want to finish my project. It's not a school project, it's just a project I decided to do on my own. Guess what it is!
Since I haven't quite finished it, I can't go to my planet yet. I have to plan every detail, talk about every living creature living there. Then I'll illustrate it in detail and then... It will become a real place. Trust me.

Purple never lies.

Would you like it if somebody invited themself to your house just because you invited that person many times? If somebosy said "my house is beautiful" or "maybe we can do it at my house" would you count it as that person was inviting you over? Do you like it when other people think of you as somebody who you can easily trick?
"I got that tatoo and I thought that it wasn't real, but it actually hurt when I got it." "Stop it, Kuathina! Aaah! So first we're gona go to the restaurant and try that Moscow dish and then we'll go to Montenegro and..." "It's just that my mum want's to talk to your mum and stuff..." "My sister's tooter is here and she knows Mme Jaquet. She would like to talk to you." "Yasmin's mum called Mme Jaquet and she said that I can be kicked out of bilingual and we were like, 'No! It shouldn't happen!'" "Our experiment costs over 200 francs." "Kusthina and Katja are from Le Rossey and they're going to stay at my house for a few days." "I asked Mme Jaquet if we could use straws and she was like, 'No! You don't understand!'" "Mme Jaquet told me that last year there was a student who didn't participate in the experiment and she gave her an F in her marking period grade."

It doesn't sound like it's one of the climaxes of my life. It sounds more like a rising action. What will happen next?

On my planet it's all very different. Especially in the right hemisphere.

I belong somewhere else.

I remember, in 4th grade our teacher made us watch "HOME" (paying with the money we had earned from the bake sale). We were very mad at her then. Today, by accident, I found its trailer and decided to watch the movie.

Sometimes you feel ashamed of being a human.
But what else can we do? Leave Earth just for the planet's sake? Come back and live like in the prehistoric times?

I want to go to my planet and visit all these countries that I've created. Become a "human" like them... with pale skin and dark, straight hair. Live in the "right hemisphere".
"People" who live there are very lucky because they know the planet's "price".
And just for you to know, That planet actually exists.

Sonya's world.

At lunch time I go to the library again. The weather is still cold (WHEN WILL IT BE SUMMER AGAIN?).
In the library I search for "Sophie's world". The computer tells me the shelf number and the name of the author. I borrow it.
Hugging the book, I go downstairs to find Yasmin's bag next to the Saleve entrance. And I think of Hilde! I look around. Yasmin is nowhere to be seen. I quickly put the book in the bag and walk away.
"What the heck?" whispers Yasmin in English class, while opening her bag. She reads the title and looks around the class. She stops on me. I smile.
"I told you I would get it for you!" I whisper to her.

Real things.

Sometimes you feel like you need a friend. I have many friends, even best friends, but I've got no good friends.

I put my bag on the bench, thinking about friendship. What's friendship? People would say that a real friend is the one who would listen to your problem, give some advice, the one who's interested in what you're interested, etc. That's what I used to say before.
Still influenced by last afternoon, when I was rereading my old blog, I think of Katja and Peter. Katja was a friend I had always trusted. But we've never shared problems and never gave advice (I mean "friendship" sort of advice) to each other either. We were always "fine" or "good" or "I'm ok and you?". I tried to act "ok" in front of her. I've learnt from her and she learned from me. But was it because she was born with the same interests as me? Was it because we were supposed to be friends from the very beginning?
I need friends who can change to be like me, but a little better. People who want me to change are no good friends for me. I'll change if I feel like it. (For example I don't want to dislike classical music like Franny, but I may want to know so much interesting stuff like Yasmin.)
Now Peter. He had been my first best friends who was a boy. Then he became my boyfriend because people kept calling us a couple, so we were getting annoyed of refusing to them. I kind of miss those "I love you" notes and these "hugs and kisses" texts on skype. When I was with him, I wasn't being myself. I was trying to act better and...
So, basically, friends are made for you to change yourself in a good way. And since I don't want to change right now, I don't have any good friends.

Lunch time. Satisfied with my answer, I go to the lunch room. I don't want to talk to anybody. Where can I go to hide from people? Suddenly, I think of the library. It's a calm place with a few people and it's quite warm there. I "climb up" the Cervin stairs and meet Franny and Yasmin on the way. They've just watched something about vegetarians and Yasmin cried. What did she cry about? Killed animals or something that can convince you to be a vegy?
In the library, I try to find somethin about philosophy. "Biology, Chemistry, History..." I whisper while looking through the shelves. On the philosophy shelf I see a bunch of fat books with serious titles. Philosophy books are mixed up with astronomy books (while on the astronomy books shelf there are astrology and ufology books). "The third eye", "Oxford philosophy dictionary", "The history of philosophy," I read through the titles. There's nothing interesting for me. I don't need dictionaries or school books.
So I go to the "Adult books" section and choose "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho.
At least something...

If you don't find enough purple in life, look at me.

Why did vacation finish?
Why?
I try to make my life more purple (by drawing random purple things in my agenda), but it doesn't help! I hate it!
I finished reading my philosophy book (Sophie's World). I cried at the end, but I still reccomend it to you. I'm really sad that it finished... I wanted to read MORE.

Something totally amazing!

I think that Franny got mad at me today because I don't want to hang out with her on Monday. But I don't care. There's something more important than that. Today the Bolshoi is opening after a 6 year old reconstruction. For me, the Bolshoi is something grand and marvellous. In my imagination it's like a place where all the fairy tales come true. I've never been there (not counting the time, when I wasn't born yet). But during most of my life it has been on it's reconstruction.
There had been a big fuss about the Bolshoi opening. On the news, on the TV... everywhere! there's something about it. In the afternoon they showed the opening ceremony on the TV, demonstrating its greatest arts. My favourite one was a part from "The swan's lake", a ballet I watched last winter. It was amazing! It was the most beautiful thing in the whole world! The connection of the music and the movements where so... I don't even have words to describe it! Amazing! Marvellous! Super-duper-duper-purple!!!
This winter I'll be going to Moscow again and I'll watch "the Nutcracker" (not in the Bolshoi, unfortunately). Too bad, my cousin won't be coming. The music is very good. (I listen to it almost every morning on the bus.)
I want my cousin to become a ballerina. She does gymnastic and she's really good at it. It seems like she was born for it. That's why I wanted her to come too, so we could watch the ballet together.

So, Franny, it doesn't matter if I don't want to come! Find the video of the ceremony and watch it! You'll surely be amazed!

Something good (FINALLY!!!)

For me when vacation starts, real life starts. Even though vacation started a long time ago (on the 22nd) I'm talking about it only now.
The way these holidays began didn't please me at all. First of all I felt very sick before they even started. It was very cold and windy and, since I went to bed late the night before, I was about to fall asleep. I started to feel like I caught a cold during Biology (2nd period). To check my temperature, I went to the nurse and... started to feel VERY sick. So I went HOME!!!
Going home on the last day before vacation is a fail. Especially when it's Pizza Friday and the Fun Day (not counting the bakesale and the delicious desert for lunch). For Fun Day I chose charades as an activity and I LOVE charades! All this was fail number 1.
Franny, Miça and I were planning to have a sleepover on Friday (at Franny's house). I was dreaming about that day! And as you see, I missed it too. Wasn't it a fail???
I got better the next day. Right now I'm healed.

I still can't believe this! It's VACATION time! I mean I'm not that happy. I'm confused and disappointed. Can you  imagine that Summer ended 2 months ago and that it started 4 months ago? For me, just a few days ago, I was dreaming about my future summer holidays in Montenegro, at the sea, with my cousins and Snezhanna at her hotel. It's hard to believe that swimming in the swimming pool and listening to "Children's radio" was such a long time ago! In my heart, I'm still somewhere in the mountains of Montenegro, at Kolasin [pronounced Koh-lah-sh-ee-n], looking down at the gulf of Kotor. I can talk about it forever...
It will never be the same, will it?

CLAY!!!

So...
Don't know what to start with.
Today was parent-teacher meeting, so I didn't go to school. It wasn't really a parent-teacher meeting. It was a parent-teacher-student meeting because in our school it's... just like this! Our principal, Mr.Gilbert said that meetings like this will make us more mature. He also said that in the future we'll have just teacher-student meetings. I think it's the most stupid idea.
While I was at home I made more stuff out of polymer CLAY!!!
I love clay (but I love purple more). Here are all my clay creations so far.

It's all very bad quality. I'll try to make a better picture some day. Today I made these:

See you later, alligator!

So unpurple!

Did my biology project on chickens. Turned out very cute.
No more news. Only a lot of unpurple stuff.

Right thing!

YAY!!!
I did the right thing for bio!!!!

Wrong thing...

Today we went to a field trip to a museum (Natural History Museum). I liked it very much. As an exercise we had to choose one of the "challenges". I chose "Challenge E" on the crustacès. I think I worked very well, but I'm not sure that I did
THE RIGHT THING...
Again!!! I never do
THE RIGHT THING...
I always fail in understanding even if I can understand every word and the meaning of every sentence. But maybe I did
THE RIGHT THING...
I'm not sure.

We also had our photos done today.
And on Tuesday we usually have sports.
I didn't come to school in my sports clothes, instead I brought some change, but I forgot to bring my pants. How could I do sports in jeans when we were about to start my favourite topic (hockey)??? I asked the coach what to do and he gave me some spare pants. It was so kind of him! I was very happy!
Now guess what Yasmin did? She didn't take her sports clothes on purpuse and kept talking about science. How can you dislike sports? I don't get it.
Since I was absent last Monday, when we had our physics test, I had to stay after school to do it. It was very easy and M.Dalache was very kind to us (but he smelled of fish).

No more events in my Purple World...
Bye!

I see the world in PURPLE!!!

Yesterday there was a bird in our class. It was SO stupid!

These are the pictures from Saturday (when I went shopping with Yasmin and Franny).

• Yasmin is the one that looks a bit mental.

Me showing off!

"Dunno whata chooose..."

Yasmin's best face.

Still taller than Yasmin!

"Stop it! It's not a toy!"

Us drinking "Tropical Taste".

Yasmin doesn't know how to behave herself.

Franny behind the Swarovski stand. Not allowed to go there!!!

"Money, money, money!"

"What? I'm not ready for the picture yet!|

Something that ruins my life...

Homework sucks. Especially "weekend problem solving". I call it Problematic Promlem Solving because it really causes a lot of problems. One problem is that it takes you your whole weekend to do at least one question so you have no freetime at all. The second problem is that you have to write out each question before you start your working (thanks to Ms. Dixon for that 8-).
French homework is easy, but annoying. Do you like writing out the verbs of 1er group and 2eme groupe? Neither do I.
Today, I watched "Pay it foreword". I thought it would be a movie for teenagers (and when I say that I mean "not boring"), but it turned out to be a boring-adult one. The idea itself is very nice, but the way it's presented sucks. Crazy mum, unlucky child, weird teacher + more random stuff...
That's it for today.
See ya! ;-P

First post!

Hey guys!
I don't know when you're going to be reading this or if there's anybody who's reading it right now.
I should've started it from the beginning of the year or at least from the beginning of my summer vacations, so now I wouldn't have to tell you everything about my school.
Well... Propably you have no idea who I am, so let's talk about that.
I'm Sonyash. It's not my real name. My full name is Sofiya, but friends call me Sonya at school. I prefer to be called Sonyash.
I'm 12 years old, my b-day is on the 26th of March, so write it in your calendar right now or I will get very mad at you!!! And I'm in 7th Grade. I to an international school in Switzerland.
I'm Russian and I speak three languages: Russian, English and French. I also learn German at school.
Enough of showing off!
Before I had another blog. It was in Russian and not everybody could read it. Before that I had a diary (or a journal). When I read it now I find it really stupid.
When I grow up I want to be a watches designer, but I also want to be a writer, but not when I grow up. I want to become a writer now. I write many stories in English and in Russian. I hope that I will publish them soon, but just now you can read them at my website (https://sites.google.com/site/sofips26/).
That's it for now!
See you later!