Gender Stereotypes

From the moment we are born we are put into gender stereotypes based off of our genitals: boy or girl. We expected to live our whole lives in a category assigned by a doctor, by a stranger, before we are even born.

If you're a girl, like myself, you are shoved into pink, pretty, room and put in skirts and dresses. You are expected to have long, beautiful, hair and a well made up face. From our earliest ages, we are given toys, such as Bratz and Barbies, that focus on fashion, makeup and hair. Girls aren't expected to play outside or play sports. It is almost like we're expected to look up to a Disney princess and want to be them and find our Prince Charming, our knight in shining armor, rather than to aspire to be something meaningful to the world and stand on our own two feet

And yes, I do have long hair and, I do wear make up and, I do wear pretty floaty skirts, but I don't do this because I was put in this category by a doctor or because society expects me to. I do this for me because this how I want to look. Don't be pressured into a category that you don't feel comfortable in and that you don't want to be in. If you don't want to be a girl, that's fine. If you don't want to be a boy, then that is fine. If you don't want to be either, that is also fine. Just don't be pressured into an identity that isn't really you.

Jonna x

My Top 5 Games

Over the years I have played many games over many consoles and many different genres of games, the following games are my favourites.

5. Grand Theft Auto 5
This is quite a recent game (late 2013) but already I love this game. My love first grew for this game when I brought the original Xbox with GTA Vice City and ever since I've enjoyed playing them. With every new game of Grand Theft Auto there are major improvements. This being the newest GTA and the most advanced game probably explains my love for it. My favourite feature of the game is GTA Online. Unlike most I prefer just to mess around than do mission and doing this with friends is a lot of fun! I also enjoy watching gamers (such as: Vannos and I AM WILDCAT) which says a lot about the game if you love watching others play it just as much and playing it yourself.

Console: Xbox 360

4. Roller Coaster Tycoon

Nobody will ever understand my love and bond with this game. It was probably my most played game from when i was younger. I remember sitting on the families huge crappy PC that didn't have wifi and being told off by my mum for spending so long on the computer (which I think my love for technology started) then pretending to go to bed just to sneak back on the computer. The point of the game is to create a theme park and meet the objectives you are given. My park were always, in my opinion, running smoothly. I recently re-brought the game to work on Windows 7 and even though it is an old game it still is amazing to play.

Console: PC

3. New Super Mario Bros
Mario includes some of my favourite video game characters ever! Every Mario game i have played, I have enjoyed all of them but this one has to be my all time favourite. Even though I sucked at this game I never gave up. I still never completed it though... I got up to world 8 i think and this one level i just couldn't get pass, I asked all my friends to help and then I'd run out of lives. I was even worse on the Wii version. To this day I still love Mario and I am cosplaying as Mario at Comic Con this Saturday, with my friends as Luigi and Peach!
Console: DS Lite

2. Animal Crossing: Wild World
This game was all i played with my friends when I went to Wales in a caravan and it (always) rained. My town was weed free, all my villagers loved me, I had every fruit the game had and I had rare flowers everywhere. We would spend hours exploring each others towns and i would always steal some fruit and flowers. Nintendo made a new AC for 3DS last year, which was the reason I brought a 3DS but although it was a fantastic game, the original will always hold a place in my heart.
Console: DS Lite/DSI

1. The Sims 3

When I first bought this game I got it for Nintendo Wii, which I now realise isn't anything compared to PC version but it was good enough for younger Jonna to play it non stop and run out of the room when one of my sims died... I liked it enough to make me save up and buy The Sims 3 for PC and then Pets, then Late Night and quite a few more... Even though I'm sure this game was the reason my laptop broke and now can't even manage the small job of playing YouTube videos, I still love it.

Console: PC

Jonna x

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!