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Hey guys :)

My topic this time is a movie/book recommendation. I have to share this with you guys because I haven’t seen such a good movie in a while! I am sure some of you have already seen this movie as it is new in theaters and some probably have already read the three books (this is what I am doing next!). I have seen the trailer for the movie about a 100 times in the gym (but without sound) and from the first moment on I knew I have to watch this movie.
It is called DIVERGENT. It is actually very similar to the Hunger Games (which I love as well by the way) because of its similar themes and target audience. The first book was published in 2011 by the American novelist Veronica Roth.
It is about Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior who explores her identity within a society that defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with five different factions. These are Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), Erudite (the intelligent), Abnegation (the selfless), and Candor (the honest). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote for the rest of their lives. They don’t have to choose their original faction. First they have to take a placement test that tells them which faction is right for them according to their personality. According to this test Tris belongs to three of the five factions (namely Dauntless, Erudite and Abnegation – her original faction), which they call divergent. This makes her a threat for the whole faction system so she has to keep her result a secret. On the selection day she chooses Dauntless as her new faction, as she always admired their fearlessness. Throughout the novel, the Dauntless demonstrate their fearlessness by jumping on and off trains traveling throughout the city.
Of course there is also a romantic subplot between Tris and one of her trainers in the Dauntless faction, nicknamed Four (you should at least watch the movie because of this good looking man!!).

As I urge you to watch this movie, I won’t tell you the end of it – although there isn’t really an end because there are two more books. This movie lasted two and a half hours and it was thrilling for two and a half hours! This should be enough reason to get up and watch this fantastic movie!

I am going to start reading the first book now.. Still excited even though I have already seen the film!

Here the movie trailer: ENJOY!

Eating insects? I did it!

Hey everybody, I am back with a new blog post! I know my last post is a little while ago, however, now I found a topic that I want to share with you guys. FOOD. I think this is a topic everyone feels invented to. I can’t think of any person I know who doesn’t love food?! Food is just one of the best things in life!

I always say that one should try out new things who one hasn’t tried before. But to be honest, I am a picky eater myself. I especially don’t like seafood. No mussels, no shrimps, no prawns, no calamari. It’s just something that really puts me off. I don’t want to see eyes looking at me while I am eating. What’s more, I don’t like the texture. Mussels are too “slimy” and calamari taste like rubber to me. Anyway, when I was in Thailand for nearly four weeks I tried “things” I never thought I ever would. On our first day a Thai woman was talking to us. She was selling scorpions – roasted scorpions on a skewer. My friend and I felt a bit adventurous on that day so we just bought one and tried it. Well, I have to admit it wasn’t even that bad. In fact it was a bit tasteless. I ate the head and the claws while my friend was eating the butt  :D A few days later we went to a food market in Bangkok where they sold tons of different food. We stopped to look at all the roasted insects when an old Thai woman bought a small bag full of grubs. I guess she saw our faces staring at the insects wondering if they would actually taste good, so she offered us a handful of them. Surprised by her generosity we suddenly knew we had to eat them. INSECTS. I would have never ever thought in my entire life that one day I will eat insects. Well, I did. And I liked it. They kind of tasted like peanuts. 

roasted scorpion

 

To sum up, sometimes you just have to try things before judging especially when you are visiting other countries.