# 20 Write a letter to yourself in the future.

Dear future self,

 how are you?

 I don't know if you ever get to read this letter but I really want to know if you finally got over yourself and your fears, it's no problem to fail sometimes and it's no big deal to not be the best, to be less creative, to be less active.

I really hope that, in the future, you finally realized that your life has much more to offer than studying and crying over small mistakes. You might go to university by now, do you study what you want to study? Did you move away from the city you hate the most? Did you travel a few more times, took photos? Is your cat still with you? Is your love still with you? What's your current favourite song?

I'd like to hear all these things.

 Please write your new future self a letter also.

 I'm glad you made it until now!

Keep going.


 your past self.

# 19 Read a story out lout to a friend

Since it's hard to ... show you how I did I'll just let you know what kind of story I read to her.
It's one of my favourite fairytale called "Snow-white and Rose-red" by Brothers Grimm. When I was a kid I always told my grandmother to skip the "famous" fairy tales so she can read this one to me, over and over again.

Here is the story:

There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses. She had two children who were like the two rose-trees, and one was called Snow-white, and the other Rose- red. They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two children in the world were, only Snow-white was more quiet and gentle than Rose-red. Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and helped her with her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do. The two children were so fond of one another that they always held each other by the hand when they went out together, and when Snow- white said: ’We will not leave each other,’ Rose-red answered: ’Never so long as we live,’ and their mother would add: ’What one has she must share with the other.’ They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them any harm, but came close to them trustfully. The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf out of their hands, the roe grazed by their side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew. No mishap overtook them; if they had stayed too late in the forest, and night came on, they laid themselves down near one another upon the moss, and slept until morning came, and their mother knew this and did not worry on their account. Once when they had spent the night in the wood and the dawn had roused them, they saw a beautiful child in a shining white dress sitting near their bed. He got up and looked quite kindly at them, but said nothing and went into the forest. And when they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further. And their mother told them that it must have been the angel who watches over good children. Snow-white and Rose-red kept their mother’s little cottage so neat that it was a pleasure to look inside it. In the summer Rose-red took care of the house, and every morning laid a wreath of flowers by her mother’s bed before she awoke, in which was a rose from each tree. In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung the kettle on the hob. The kettle was of brass and shone like gold, so brightly was it polished. In the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: ’Go, Snow- white, and bolt the door,’ and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun. And close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its wings. One evening, as they were thus sitting comfortably together, someone knocked at the door as if he wished to be let in. The mother said: ’Quick, Rose-red, open the door, it must be a traveller who is seeking shelter.’ Rose-red went and pushed back the bolt, thinking that it was a poor man, but it was not; it was a bear that stretched his broad, black head within the door. Rose-red screamed and sprang back, the lamb bleated, the dove fluttered, and Snow-white hid herself behind her mother’s bed. But the bear began to speak and said: ’Do not be afraid, I will do you no harm! I am half-frozen, and only want to warm myself a little beside you.’ ’Poor bear,’ said the mother, ’lie down by the fire, only take care that you do not burn your coat.’ Then she cried: ’Snow-white, Rose- red, come out, the bear will do you no harm, he means well.’ So they both came out, and by-and-by the lamb and dove came nearer, and were not afraid of him. The bear said: ’Here, children, knock the snow out of my coat a little’; so they brought the broom and swept the bear’s hide clean; and he stretched himself by the fire and growled contentedly and comfortably. It was not long before they grew quite at home, and played tricks with their clumsy guest. They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back and rolled him about, or they took a hazel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they laughed. But the bear took it all in good part, only when they were too rough he called out: ’Leave me alive, children, ’Snow-white, Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?’ When it was bed-time, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: ’You can lie there by the hearth, and then you will be safe from the cold and the bad weather.’ As soon as day dawned the two children let him out, and he trotted across the snow into the forest. Henceforth the bear came every evening at the same time, laid himself down by the hearth, and let the children amuse themselves with him as much as they liked; and they got so used to him that the doors were never fastened until their black friend had arrived. When spring had come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: ’Now I must go away, and cannot come back for the whole summer.’ ’Where are you going, then, dear bear?’ asked Snow- white. ’I must go into the forest and guard my treasures from the wicked dwarfs. In the winter, when the earth is frozen hard, they are obliged to stay below and cannot work their way through; but now, when the sun has thawed and warmed the earth, they break through it, and come out to pry and steal; and what once gets into their hands, and in their caves, does not easily see daylight again.’ Snow-white was quite sorry at his departure, and as she unbolted the door for him, and the bear was hurrying out, he caught against the bolt and a piece of his hairy coat was torn off, and it seemed to Snow-white as if she had seen gold shining through it, but she was not sure about it. The bear ran away quickly, and was soon out of sight behind the trees. A short time afterwards the mother sent her children into the forest to get firewood. There they found a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and close by the trunk something was jumping backwards and forwards in the grass, but they could not make out what it was. When they came nearer they saw a dwarf with an old withered face and a snow-white beard a yard long. The end of the beard was caught in a crevice of the tree, and the little fellow was jumping about like a dog tied to a rope, and did not know what to do. He glared at the girls with his fiery red eyes and cried: ’Why do you stand there? Can you not come here and help me?’ ’What are you up to, little man?’ asked Rose-red. ’You stupid, prying goose!’ answered the dwarf: ’I was going to split the tree to get a little wood for cooking. The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk. I had just driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed wedge was too smooth and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is tight and I cannot get away, and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh! Ugh! how odious you are!’ The children tried very hard, but they could not pull the beard out, it was caught too fast. ’I will run and fetch someone,’ said Rose-red. ’You senseless goose!’ snarled the dwarf; ’why should you fetch someone? You are already two too many for me; can you not think of something better?’ ’Don’t be impatient,’ said Snow-white, ’I will help you,’ and she pulled her scissors out of her pocket, and cut off the end of the beard. As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he laid hold of a bag which lay amongst the roots of the tree, and which was full of gold, and lifted it up, grumbling to himself: ’Uncouth people, to cut off a piece of my fine beard. Bad luck to you!’ and then he swung the bag upon his back, and went off without even once looking at the children. Some time afterwards Snow-white and Rose-red went to catch a dish of fish. As they came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to leap in. They ran to it and found it was the dwarf. ’Where are you going?’ said Rose-red; ’you surely don’t want to go into the water?’ ’I am not such a fool!’ cried the dwarf; ’don’t you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?’ The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him. He held on to all the reeds and rushes, but it was of little good, for he was forced to follow the movements of the fish, and was in urgent danger of being dragged into the water. The girls came just in time; they held him fast and tried to free his beard from the line, but all in vain, beard and line were entangled fast together. There was nothing to do but to bring out the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small part of it was lost. When the dwarf saw that he screamed out: ’Is that civil, you toadstool, to disfigure a man’s face? Was it not enough to clip off the end of my beard? Now you have cut off the best part of it. I cannot let myself be seen by my people. I wish you had been made to run the soles off your shoes!’ Then he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and without another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone. It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the two children to the town to buy needles and thread, and laces and ribbons. The road led them across a heath upon which huge pieces of rock lay strewn about. There they noticed a large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them; it sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far away. Immediately they heard a loud, piteous cry. They ran up and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaintance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off. The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go. As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice: ’Could you not have done it more carefully! You dragged at my brown coat so that it is all torn and full of holes, you clumsy creatures!’ Then he took up a sack full of precious stones, and slipped away again under the rock into his hole. The girls, who by this time were used to his ingratitude, went on their way and did their business in town. As they crossed the heath again on their way home they surprised the dwarf, who had emptied out his bag of precious stones in a clean spot, and had not thought that anyone would come there so late. The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and stared at them. ’Why do you stand gaping there?’ cried the dwarf, and his ashen- grey face became copper-red with rage. He was still cursing when a loud growling was heard, and a black bear came trotting towards them out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then in the dread of his heart he cried: ’Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying there! Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow as I? you would not feel me between your teeth. Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy’s sake eat them!’ The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again. The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: ’Snow-white and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.’ Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome man, clothed all in gold. ’I am a king’s son,’ he said, ’and I was bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who had stolen my treasures; I have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until I was freed by his death. Now he has got his well-deserved punishment. Snow-white was married to him, and Rose-red to his brother, and they divided between them the great treasure which the dwarf had gathered together in his cave. The old mother lived peacefully and happily with her children for many years. She took the two rose-trees with her, and they stood before her window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red.

Did you like it?

# 18 Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them

Her hair is long, goes over her shoulders, all brown with a soft reddish touch which looks quite beautiful because it fits her pale face, some freckles even, her dark blue eyes seem to be a nice contrast to her pale skin, she has very long lashes, her eyebrows are very thin, as dark as her hair. She seems to be very tall, her legs are super long, she wears an oversize shirt and leggings, boots and a big leather bag. A thin golden necklace around her neck and that's it, no other jewelry.

# 17 Describe your favourite room in detail.

My favourite room is my own room of course. All furniture are white, my walls are peachy. I got two windows which I never had before in all the rooms I lived in. I don't have many posters up but the few posters (of my favourite bands) were put up in frames, I got a big shelf filled with Manga, CDs and books, sorted by size and colour (I'm a freak like that) my desk is so huge, I can't reach the other side, even if I really try. I got a huge bed, which is the softest bed I ever had in all my life.. It's really hard to get up in the morning. I got a make up table full of stuff girls like, nail polish, make up, necklaces, perfume and so on.  Next to one of my windows there is a wardrobe with two doors only but that's enough for me because I really don't have many clothes (and I don't mind) I actually don't have much decoration around but I got myself a little Eiffel tower from my trip to Paris which makes me all proud. Thanks to my cat being silly I never leave stuff outside and whenever I leave my room I check if all the stuff is gone (like sheets of paper, scissors, pens) because my cat would throw it around or eat it... /sighs

# 16 Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday.

bought it yesterday 

that's how it looks so far

# 15 Draw the sun.

....creepy 

# 14 Write an entry in code.

H_y!

my n*m__ "s /y*s?m;; *ppl_,

t"d*y *t w"rk ;; g"t v_ry _xh*?t_d b*c"§us_ y_st_rd*y 9 p_*pl_ g*v_ b;;rth t/ th_;;r b*b;;_s!

;;t w*s ;;ns*n_!!!

th*nk g?d ;;t's ?v_r s??n!

*m t*r_d!

x?x?

"s /y*s?m;; *ppl_


(I actually got a concept for that :D)

# 13 Write a list of all the things you do to escape.

01. Listening to music (very loud)
02. Listening to music with my iPod
03. taking a loooong bath, falling asleep in the bath tub even.
04. Taking a long shower, doing some *beauty* stuff, using body scrub and a face mask, painting my nails.
05. Sleeping
06. Going for a walk
07. Calling my dad.
08. Reading a short story
09. Watching a movie I already saw.
10. Having a huge cup of tea
11. Wearing a biiig sweater which makes me feel all tiny.

# 12 Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.

01. Fruits (Melons, more melons please)
02. Water
03. Minttea
04. "Wreck this Journal" book
05. Masking tape (for my selfmade journal)
06. "Map the sound of Tokyo" DVD
07. Cat food
08. 0,3 mm pens for my journal

That's pretty much it :D

# 11 Write about your relationship with your washing machine.

My washing machine is one of the most important things here. I don't own many clothes because I don't like shopping so I wear my clothes more often. Lately it has been quite hot so I changed clothes more often and without my washing machine I wouldn't make it. I'd be naked which would be the most awkward thing ever. It's quite old already and when I moved out I bought a "cheaper" one because I thought I'd get a new one someday soon but I still have it for over 5 years now and even tho I thought it would die it always got back on tracks and always kept me well dressed, thank you sweetie. Please never ever leave me.

# 10 Draw all of the things in your purse/bag.

...ever told you I can't draw? Well I tried.

# 09 Create an image using dots

# 08 What were you thinking just now? write it down.

"What is this all about?"

I'm having pretty heavy moodswings today, that's why I think such things, haha.

# 07 List ten things you would like to do every day.

10. Laughing, like.. really laughing
09. Drinking 3 l of water/tea/juice which I NEVER do, sadly
08. Read a few pages of a book
07. Leaving the house to take some pictures
06. STUDYING
05. Talking to someone special
04. Listening to music
03. Not using the computer
02. Write an entry in a journal
01. Having healthy food

# 06 List all of the places you've ever lived

This one is sad and easy. When it comes to 'lived' as in where I actually had a apartment it's just this one city in the south of Germany, there is no other place I moved to.

Short list, hu?

# 05 Read a book in one day

Kiera Cass' the Elite. I really read it in one day because I was so excited when I got it finally. I can totally recommend it! 

# 04 List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)

10. Best book ever; The fault in our stars - John Green
09. Journal with pens
08. Perfume by Vivienne Westwood
07. Keys
06. Make-up
05. Pocket Mirror
04. Wallet
03. iPod
02. Necklace by Vivienne Westwood
01. my iPhone 5 (not on the picture since I had to take a picture with it lol)

# 03 List 10 of your habits

This one is quite easy!

01. I bite my nails.
02. After washing my hair I keep my hair in a towel until they are dry because I hate wet hair
03. I need to check the mirror before I leave the house
04. I'm need to create more chaos before I can tidy my room up
05. I check the mailbox every time I leave the house even if I just checked it a few hours ago.
06. As soon as I come back home I tie up my hair and change clothes
07. I check my cellphone at least once in a hour.
08. When I drink something with milk I need to finish the glass right away, I can't drink a bit and leave it like that for a while.
09. I need to reply to my penpal's letters before I can do anything else (which sucks)
10. I drink tea everyday!

# 02 Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.

This one is the poetry I want to respond to:

My reply:

The pain might be essential

and yet it's easy to forget.

Nobody thinks about the rainy days,

when the sun is shining brightly,

why would they?

Isn't it what makes us human?

When we forget the things which will break us?

Isn't it why we're so fragile? 

# 01 draw your bike

I'm sorry but I suck at drawing, I hope you'll like it anyway.

start

Hello,

this is oyasumiapple from swap-bot and here I'll post all the things I did for the "100 Ideas - Keri Smith Inspired" at swap-bot. I hope you'll enjoy it! ^-^