I don't really know why I like them, but they do kind of boost my curiosity on the outcome of my choices.
I try to answer as truthfully as possible, and even though I never post the results on facebook (now, that I find just as annoying as people's candy crush results), I do copy and share with one or two I believe know me a little.
Last night, while doing nothing, I took a test asking "What are you ruled by?" A few of my facebook friends posted cheerful comments on being ruled by their heart, or head, and when I took the test I was so hoping for being ruled by something more poetic, like my heart, which was the option that seemed the most noble to me.
Anyway, I conscientiously clicked off the options on all the ten questions, and clicked "complete".
I have to admit I was a tiny bit disappointed:
You are ruled by your:
Hands: Ingenious and Creative
You are a highly creative person, with profound imagination, and an appetite for original thinking. Naturally, your brain has a way of figuring out how the things you see in your head should come about into the real world. Wether it's visual or auditory, all creativity stems from nature and you get your inspiration from it to create something that is truly marvelous. To you, satisfaction comes from truly expressing and bringing to life that which is already alive inside you.
Seriously? Ten options, and this is what I get? So I sent the result to a friend, and the response was: "yes, that sounds like you".
It would have been great to get a "gentle" or "kind and caring" in there somewhere, but I guess that's not really me then.
Thinking it through, though, I have to admit I am creative. My best hours are spent with a book, but in a really strong second place is doing crafts.
It can be anything from painting, papercrafts, sewing, knitting... anything to do with texture and colours. I just simply love it!
Not only that, if I can come up with an idea to bring out the best in me and people around me it makes me happy.
Kind of folds nicely in with "my new project".
It is common in Norway that the senior year in junior high, the students get to go on a class trip. A year ago my son's class decided to go to Poland, to visit Auswitch, the salt mines and a few other sites.. and do some shopping.
For various reasons they failed to raise money for the trip, so now I have gotten involved. We do voluntairy work: washing the home nurses' cars, we sell boxes of cookies and candy, we sell a kind of local pancakes in a store on Saturdays, and now we are going to participate in the city's Christmas Market. A four days event, where people sell whatever product they have to sell.
We have a lot of nice things the parents, grandparents and the students have made, and I have high hopes to the income.
One of the parents told me that "We were very frustrated, but it is very hard to be negative when you guys are so excited!"
Well, there are a few really energetic parents, who have chosen to get involved, all I did was to kick them started. They are creative, kind, engaged and really take their kids' adventures seriously. It is wonderful to work with people like that. I just created commotion, and gave them "permission" to start working towards a goal.
I have no executive powers given me, I just planted a word here and there.
Another thing they are greatful of is that I do not allow negativity to overshadow their efforts.
I also want thje students to feel ownership to the trip, so I expect of them to put in effort.
It wouldn't be too much to just cash in the tickets, but they wouldn't learn much from that, would they?
My goal is that the trip is to be fully financed by our voluntairy work; noone should have to stay at home because they can't afford the trip, or because they have parents who for various reasons don't care enough, or are unable to, make an effort. I am rather stubborn about it, and I believe it to come true. And that might be my strongest feature.
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