New Years Resolutions - 2015

Happy new year, I hope your year is filled with joy.

2015 is here, Christmas is in the past, it's time to start the year. 

I want this year to be different. I want to be happier, see more of the people who make me happy, spread the joy and feel overall more confident within my own skin. 

One thing I'd like to do this year is read more. This is probably quite a popular thing that people say but for me, starting my GCSEs, it's a quite important one. Last year, I kept starting books but then get distracted, and never seemed to finish them. So this year I would like to try and read at least 10 books or graphic novels. I've already bought my first book of the year, The Art Of Being A Grown Up by Grace Helbig.

The next thing I'd like to do is "redecorate my life". By this is mean change my surroundings and the things I wear. I'm definitely becoming a lot more confident in my own skin and I would like my outfits to reflect this. I would also particularly like to try and redecorate my room, or at the very least, declutter as I am a huge hoarder.
  

As I am officially starting my final year of GCSEs, I should probably start refining some skills and studying. As well as reading more, I'd also like to start writing more and hopefully that's what I can use this space for. Even if it's just the odd person reading my posts I would like to be more creative. This applies to filming and photography too. This will help with my media studies but it's also something that really interests me.

Here's the cliché "I want to be fitter this year" but I honestly do. I would like to lose some weight but that isn't the essential thing. 

Finally, I would like to see more of my friends. By this, I don't mean my school friends as I have no choice about seeing them, and I'm kind of stuck with them until I leave secondary school. I mean my internet friends, that I adore. This year I want to meet more of my internet friends, which I have already started when I met Alex and Kay on my birthday, and keep in touch with others. 

Here's hoping I can stick to these plans and make his my best year yet. Good luck with all your resolutions. 

Jonna x

Year in Reflection: 2014

So many exciting things have happened this year and it has honestly been the best year of my life, so far that is...

The thing that really started this year off with a bang was completing my New Years resolution and making a new YouTube channel. On January fourth, a day after my birthday, I uploaded my first video to my 2 subscribers.

I've met a lot of people this year online and even met some internet friends in real life. I became very close with my friend Vicki and despite the universe throwing us away from each other. We finally met in April and have seen each other many times since. I'm honestly so lucky to have found someone like her.

This now leads me on to meeting Emma Blackery, LukeIsNotSexy and BriBry! Vicki kindly found me tickets to go to upload tour one day before the show and I got to go my first YouTube event. One of the things that makes this even more special is that I met Vicki through Emma and her fuck you Google plus song.

Later in the year, my friend Zara added me to a Google Hangout group chat for a quick five-minute joke but they were so lovely and kind, they welcomed me in and now I am an official member of The Rabies Babies. I love them so much and I couldn't imagine life without them. I also went on to meeting another internet friend from this group, Zara. 

This year I have managed to meet quite a lot of celebrities, including Aston Merrygold from JLS, Olly Murs, Room 94 and Union J. YouTubers aside, these people are all my idols and the people that inspirer me to do the thing that I do. It was such an honour to finally get to meet them even though I might not have been able to say much to them. I will never forget any of these times.

Thank you for the love and support you have given to me throughout 2014. Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Role on 2015!  

The Fault In Our Stars | Review

Like most people recently I have seen the very popular film named The Fault In Our Stars, also like a lot of people I read the amazingly written and heart breaking book by John Green. With many films that have been made from books, there is always things that they miss out. Sometimes it's only small things that don't really matter and sometimes it is big things that matter to the story and/or the reader.

First thing first I loved the film it was amazing, brilliant, heart warming and heart breaking. I cried and cried. All I wanted to do was hug Hazel Grace and bring back the love of her life. Yes the book was even more emotional but unlike the film when I wanted to cry, I could put the book down step back and breath but you can't do that in the cinema it happens all at once and hits you right in the face. One thing that didn't help was the couple violently kissing next to me... 

The Swing Set.
In the book, there is a whole bit where Hazel is crying and rings Gus a tells him that she is staring at the swing set and its upsetting her because she can't use it and it's just sitting there. He rushes round and together out a very cleverly word advert up for someone to take the swing set. In the film you see Grace ringing Gus not as sad as she was in the book and then it's the next scene. By the end of the film after Augustus passes away her and Isaac are sitting in her garden next to where the swing set was but it was gone. There was no explanation to why the swing set was gone and to people who haven't read the book, they will never understand the true value of the swing set.
UPDATE: This scene was filmed and is included in the DVD extended version.

Isaac  
Obviously, this film is made to mainly focus on the romance between Gus and Hazel but this results in less Isaac. You don't get to see the true friendship between Isaac and Augustus, you just see what happens when Hazel is there. Also, you don't get to see him truly struggle with his new blindness and the kindness of his friendship. His best friend had just died and yet he is trying to be strong, it focuses on Hazel's sadness but doesn't show the pain Isaac has to go through too.

Peter Van Houten
Everyone who has seen the film and read the book knows that this guy is a real douche pants but his true douchiness was not brought out very well in the film. Yes, the actor was good and there is no fault to him or his acting but to the script. In my opinion, his dialect and actions were not as mean as they were in the book to make us really hate him. I don't know if they had to tone it down because the film is a 12A or they thought it wasn't appropriate but I felt he should have been meaner.
                         
A film if never going to be perfect if you've also read the book, but for what it is worth, this film did pretty well.

Jonna x

Nice to Meet You!

Hello!

So a good thing to start off with is my name, I'm Jonna Rogers. Let's get this out of the way now... My name is pronounced as Yonna because my name isn't English, but my parents didn't think to change it.

You may have caught there that I am from the great country of tea, which however I do not like. Unlike what most people expect from any British person I do not have a fancy posh accent and meet with the Queen every week. I'm from that other place in England that isn't London! Wow, that really exists?! Yes, there is more places than London, like Manchester, in which I live.

My interests, I would say, are quite a strange combination. This ranges from cheesy X Factor boybands and many, many YouTubers. Speaking of YouTubers I have an unhealthy obsession with two British emo guys named Dan and Phil. I'm basically a professional fangirl est 2008.

I also love video games especially Nintendo. I've got some kind of weird obsession with it, it probably goes back to when i was younger and got my first DS (DS Lite) and ever since I have always saved up to get the newest model of the DS. Well apart for the 2DS but that thing shouldn't have been allowed to enter the Nintendo Family.
So that's basically me in a nutshell.
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                           Jonna x