Culture of Alaska/USA

From my point of view, i can see big differents between my culture from back in germany and here in Juneau, AK. 

In germany it's absolutely no problem to enjoy a beer in the afternoon, even for us students after school. Drinking is allowed at 114, if your parents/guardians give it to you. At the age of 16 you can buy it on your own, but just beer and "low" alcohol drinks. At the age of 18 you can finally buy "hard" alcohol a.k.a. wodka, wine and other stuff.

Here in america, every kind of alcohol is strictly prohibited for people under 21. It's still allowed if the parents give it to you, but the most adults I've met here are very conservative, often even really behind the time.

The consume of drugs like weed and other stuff seems to be higher in the USA than in Germany, even it's exists over there. I've never met high people in Germany, not to mention in school. Here in Juneau Alaska, I've already met them in school.

I like the "car-policy" here in the USA. Because the people-per-squaremile in the entire USA is way lower than in Germany and Cities and Towns tend to be very large, a car, often 2 per family, is required. And since that, people are allowed o drive at 14, with one adult and on their own at the age of 16.

In Germany, you can make your license at 16, use it with one adult at 17 and drive on the own at 18.

About the topic conservative...

In the USA, it seems like the parents are strictly against sex or other sexual actions about the children. It's even "hard" to just have a movie night with a girl. In Germany on the other hand, no one cares about that and thinks that (if they are 15 or 16) they are old enough to take care of themselves and pick the right partner. Parents would have no problems with the son/daughter having sex in his/her room (as long they use protection).

There are other differents in the cultures but too much to explain them :)

How you feel after something bad

To take something as bad depends of the point of view of the person/s. To be taken as bad can also be just a part of something. The rest can be fine, fun, good, whatever. But because the bad is more memorable for us humans, we think about it more. Maybe we are over-thinking it. But it's a matte of fact that bad things, or the thinking about it, goes along with or thoughts, even we might be in a good mood. Even it's nothing that bad and will be forgotten in a few days. Then we try to say "sorry" and are likely to get into greater trouble because we are 'excited' and act even weirder. Some people stay back, to be alone. Some try to write down their worries, like me. It feels good, maybe I should do it more often if I have a problem again. And then, if I had to face the same problem again, I could read how I solved the problem before and would have less worries.

Road to happiness

Fast write 1/9/12

Today I'm writing the first time on my new tab for school. It's interesting and yeah it weights a lot less :-)  also it's easier to correct mistakes because you just need to tap on that word and you can completely rewrite it or just one letter. But this is not the topic I want to write about in my fast write.

If you are sad and see happy people, you mostly get even sadder because you just want to be happy. But if your are happy and you see happy people then you mostly get even happier because you are glad that also other people know how to live life... but when you are someone who is both from time to time, and you see people that are always happy, then you begin to wonder "why is he/she always that happy?". Then you go to that person and ask it for the reason of the happiness. Like I did. And if you ask many people and combine their reasons and opinions about life, you can build you own, even bigger opinion about you're life and how to handle mistakes and sad times. And a part of my opinion is, that you have to find the luck, even it's so tiny, in everything you do, did or will do. It helps me a lot, but in my inside I'm hard on myself so I didn't find the ultimative formula of happiness yet, but it brought me closer to my goal.

And honestly, I'm not sure if I shared with you if I found it. Everyone should find his own.

Bad thing

This bad thing
Is not that a big deal
Not for you
Because everyone already did something wrong
You say everyone
But who is everyone?
Everyone is the group of people you think to know their opinions
But what if your "group" are just boys?
Then you say everyone
But don't know the girls' point of view
About your fault
About the world
But we know
Girls are complicated
No man can feel the way they feel
And think the way they think
They might think your fault is heavier
They might have a more emotional point of view
Then you try to find out
Why your fault is such a big deal for girls
But then you realize
That you don't care about the mass of girls
And you don't wonder anymore
Because you know why THIS girl cares that much
You want to talk to her
About what you've done
But after the first failed tries
You think it might hurt her to talk about that
Think you try to look into her eyes
In the hope
To see what she thinks
Inside of her
About that
And when you finally did it
Looked into her eyes
You see her pain
And then you see you
You see yourself in her eyes
With the face of a demon
And you realize
That everything depends on the individual person
If you say "you're mum I a slut"
That might hurt the most people
But people, who don't care about their mums,
might agree with you

Watch your language. Make it individual. We are humans, everyone has his own mind. We are not produced in a fabric, not the same. We are different. We are humans. We have FEELINGS!

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That was fun!

You are laughing
As well as your friends are
Y'all have fun
But what happened?

You dissed someone
Now he's sad
And you are satisfied
You have fun to put who else down
Oh, you didn't want to?
Just a joke?

When did you ever think about
That your diss
Might not be the only one
That this someone ever got
You think "It's not a big deal"
But what if
if your "joke"
was the one too much?

"Was just a little joke!" do you say?
Yeah, it was a little one
But if you sum 10,000 of that little "jokes"
What then? See your jokes as ants
One ant can't do much
But 10,000 of them can eat you
One joke is fun, 10,000 are dissing
Think about it. Treat others the way
You want yourself to be treated

The things around you

If you look ...
around you.
What'd you see?
Shapes? Materials?
Everything you'd see ...
would be common, right?
You'd know it?
But what if ...
you think about ...
how it's made?
Who made it?
Why is it here? Is it necessary?
Do you need it?
What is the one and only thing ...
that EVERY creature needs on this planet?
Something, that helps ...
to make sure, that a race ...
lives on that planet ...
like you and me right now ...
through out all ages
forever. It's a feeling,
that makes everyone feel safe ...

makes feel to be at the right place ...
that gives you THE one
single sense in your life ...
that makes US humans.
You'll desire it, because you need it.
To be a human, to be a creature, to live ...
It has 4 letters ..  and is the
most spoken word in everyone's language ...