The Kite Runner - the start

I've just started reading the famous book "The Kite Runner". For me it's well-known as an extraordinary book, and I've been wanting to read it after i read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" a couple of years ago.

In the start we meet a man who gets a phonecall from a friend of his past. He doesn't seem very happy about this call, and he starts to think back at his childhood after hanging up.

He starts to tell his story from the start.. He tells about his house, which for many was the most beautiful house in Kabul, and the life he lived there with his father. He and his father were Sunni muslims. They had a man working for them, Ali, and he had a son, Hassan, who is Amir(the main character's name) friend. Hassan and his father are Shia muslims.

One thing out of many they have in common is that neither of them have a mother around. Amir's mother died after giving birth to him, and Hassan's mother ran off with travelling singers and dancers less than a week after his birth. This bother Hassan a lot, especially since his mother was well-known for beeing kind of easy(...)

Hassan and his father Ali live in a little shack just outside of Amir's big house.

This is pretty much as far as I've read so far, looking forward to read more in this book!

Rikke

Facebook

After reading the article "Facebook hits exams result by 20 per cent" I began to think about how much time I actually spend on the worldwide phenomenon "Facebook". I truly believe that young people, like myself , who use facebook often, maybe use more time on Facebook than their homework etc. At least much more time that they should. A lot of people prioritize Facebook over school work such as for example studying for a test, and of course then they get lower grades than those who don't spend a lot of their time on the web. But I don't think that if you use Facebook you automatically get lower grades, it's all about how you chose to use it! And i believe that no one can blame Facebook if they don't achieve what they want, the only one you can blame is your self.

Rikke

"we want you!"

Erin Brockovich - the movie

I've chosen to write a little about the movie "Erin Brockovich", because I found it very interesting since it's based on a true story. The movie is about a single mother struggeling to make a living for her children and herself. After a trial that went wrong for her, she managed to get a job at the law firm, which worked on her case. After working there a while she discovered something interesting about an energy company called Pacific Gas and Electric company. Without any experience or education Erin is one of the leading persons in this big trial against the company.

This story tells a little about how one person can make a difference, in a world so big. Erin had a lot of adversity on her way, but she never gave up, fighting for the right to those who had been mistreated by this company. She sacrificed a lot during her way to justice, she was much away from her children and new boyfriend, who was kind enough to take care of them while she was gone. But her story tells us that nothing is impossible as long as you just keep believing and fighting for what you want, and even a woman with no education can fight a big company as that down.

- Rikke