Teräsbetoni: Metallisydän - Metal heart

Metallisydän                                                            Metal heart

Pimeys on nyt laskeutunut.                                           Darkness has now fallen.
Sammunut on tuli viimeinenkin.                                    The last of fires has died.
Sydänyönä aika tullut on,                                             At the heart of night time has come,
Käydä yksin taistohon.                                                To go into battle alone.

Kun yksin oot,                                                            When you are alone,
Eikä toivoa näy.                                                           And there is now hope in sight.
Oot voimaton ja raskaaks taakka käy.                         You are powerless and burden becomes heavy.
Et luovuttaa saa,                                                          You must not give up,
Sillä rinnassasi hakkaa,                                                As the pounding in your chest,
Sydän metallinen.                                                         Heart of metal.


Katson tähtitaivaalle.                                                    I look at the starry sky.
Puhun kaatuneille sankareille.                                        I talk to the fallen heroes.
Veljet! Tulen luoksenne.                                               Brothers! I’ll come to you.
Mutta moni vielä kuolee vuoksenne.                              But will still die for you.

Kun yksin oot,                                                             When you are alone,
Eikä toivoa näy.                                                           And there is now hope in sight.
Oot voimaton ja raskaaks taakka käy.                          You are powerless and burden becomes heavy.
Et luovuttaa saa,                                                           You must not give up,
Sillä rinnassasi hakkaa,                                                 As the pounding in your chest,
Sydän metallinen.                                                          Heart of metal.

Metallisydän.                                                                Metal heart.
Sydän metallinen!                                                          Heart of metal!
Metallisydän.                                                                Metal heart.

Kun yksin oot,                                                              When you are alone,
Eikä toivoa näy.                                                            And there is now hope in sight.
Oot voimaton ja raskaaks taakka käy.                           You are powerless and burden becomes heavy.
Et luovuttaa saa,                                                            You must not give up,
Sillä rinnassasi hakkaa…                                               As the pounding in your chest…

Metallisydän.                                                                Metal heart.
Sydän metallinen!                                                          Heart of metal!
Metallisydän.                                                                Metal hear.
Metallisydän.                                                                Metal heart.
Metallisydän.                                                                Metal heart.

Self-evaluation:

This one is a little bit easier than the other one.

+ ok

- grammar

Heidi Kyrö: Kevät - Spring

Kevät                                                                    Spring

On siis kevät                                                         So it is spring
Kuljen Hakaniemen rantaa                                   I walk along the beach of Hakaniemi
Tuuli ei tuule mutta sade kyllä jaksaa                 Wind no wind, but the rain really be able to
Kevät                                                                      Spring
Pystynkö mitään enää antaa                               Can I give anything more
Konkurssin koin en haluu enää maksaa             I experienced a bankruptcy, I don't wanna no longer pay
Kevät                                                                       Spring
Kuljen Hakaniemen rantaan                                  I walk along the beach of Hakaniemi
Sydän ei tunne mutta jalat vielä kantaa               The heart doesn't feel, but legs still carries
Kevät                                                                       Spring
Pystynkö mitään antaa                                          Can I give anything

Sinä tarjosit salmiakkia                                        You offered salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmö panin peliin koko elämän          I was a fool I put in the game for whole life
Vaikka tarjosit vain salmiakki                              Even if you offered only salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmö panin peliin koko elämän          I was a fool I put in the game for whole life

On siis kevät                                                          So it is spring
Uskoin vakavaan valaan                                       I believed in serious whale
No pojat on poikia ne lupaa mut ei palaa           Well, boys are boys, they promise but they don't return
Kevät                                                                      Spring
Kaiketi taivas vielä kestää                                   Probably the sky still endure
Pilvet jo luin                                                            I already read in the clouds
Ei sadetta voi estää                                              Can't rain prevent
Kevät                                                                      Spring
Sinua ihmistä pelkään                                          I am afraid of you person
Minä olin hölmö                                                     I am a fool
Otin turpiin ja selkään                                           I receive hit onto my face and my back
Kevät                                                                     Spring
Tosiaan ihmistä pelkään                                     Indeed, I am afraid of people

Sinä tarjosit salmiakkia                                      You offered salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmä panin peliin koko elämän        I was a fool I put in the game for whole life
Vaikka tarjosit vain salmiakki                            Even if you offered only salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmö panin peliin koko elämän        I was a fool I put in the game for whole life

On siis kevät                                                        So it is spring
Kuljen Hakaniemen rantaa                                 I walk along the beach of Hakaniemi
Tuuli ei tuule mutta sade kyllä jaksaa               Wind no wind, but the rain really be able to
Kevät                                                                    Spring
Pystynkö mitään enää antaa                             Can I give anything more
Konkurssin koin en haluu enää maksaa           I experienced a bankruptcy, I don't wanna no longer pay
Kevät                                                                     Spring
Kuljen Hakaniemen rantaan                               I walk along the beach of Hakaniemi
Sydän ei tunne mutta jalat vielä kantaa            The heart doesn't feel, but legs still carries
Kevät                                                                    Spring
Tosiaan ihmistä pelkään                                    Indeed, I am afraid of people

Sinä tarjosit salmiakkia                                      You offered salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmä panin peliin koko elämän        I was a fool I put in the game for whole life
Vaikka tarjosit vain salmiakki                            Even if you offered only salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmö panin peliin koko elämän        I was a fool I put in the game for whole life

Sinä tarjosit salmiakkia                                      You offered salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmä panin peliin koko elämän        I was a fool I put in the game for whole life
Vaikka tarjosit vain salmiakki                            Even if you offered only salty liquorice
Minä olin hölmö panin peliin koko elämän        I was a fool I put in the game for whole life

Koko elämän                                                       Throughout the life of
Koko elämän                                                       Throughout the life of


Self-evaluation:
A little difficult.
+ nice pictures
- grammar
- not very nice

The evil roommate

Once upon a time there was little girl Jill and her new roommate Samantha alias Sam. Jill had decided to move to another place to study. But she hadn't been able to afford to live on her own. Her only option was to move to a shared apartment with a roommate. She was very excited, because the new roommate would be very nice. And studying in the new school would be very nice, and there weren't controlling parents, so she could do what she wanted to.

Jill had just moved in her new apartment, but she was searching for a roommate. One day she went to see her roommate, Samantha. She found Sam on a website, when Sam was searching for apartments and roommates.

They met at a nearby café. Sam was polite to Jill and she treated Jill a cocoa. Sam and Jill talked for a few hours and they decided that Sam could move in Jill's apartment.

Sam brought all her stuffs in their home the next day. Jill wanted to be friendly and she made food for her. They talked about many things. Jill made Sam feel nice, because she cleaned, made food, she wanted to be nice and kind.

Sam began to feel at home quickly and she spread her stuff everywhere in their apartment. She was shouting at Jill if Jill moved her stuff. Sam taunted Jill's food, because she said it is tasted bad. Jill always did everything wrong, and she had to hear shouting every day.

One day Jill went her friend and she came back home late in the evening. Sam was sitting at home fretful, and she was hold a frying pan in her hand. Jill hadn't made food for her and she had came home too late.Sam shouted too hard!

After this day Jill comes home at six at the latest and she can't move her own stuff. Everything is Sam's, and if she see a wrong move, she shout very hard. Jill can't go to the toilet at a wrong time and she can't a wake up too early or too late, because Jill should make for Sam. Jill can't do anything if she doesn't have a permission from Sam.

Jill thinks this is worse than if she lived at home with her parents. And then she wakes up. Fortunately, everything was just a nightmare!

It is a horrible nightmare!

Self-evaluation:

This is difficult for me.

- short

- grammar

+ idea

Agility

My hobby is agility.

Tunnel with my sister's dog Stella

At first, agility or more closely dog agility is very nice a dog sport, where handler's aim is to direct the dog through a variety of obstacles or an obstacle course without any faults in predestined ideal time. Handler direct dog without leash or food or toys as incentives, and the handler can't touch dog or obstacles. Consequently the handler's controls are limited to voice, movements, and various body signals, requiring exceptional training of the animal and coordination of the handler.

Tire jump with me and my dog Ana

Me and my dog Tauno

Marja and Viri

 The dog agility has got the idea from same type horse sport in England year 1977, but the course has been changed to suit to dog. Agility was half time activity in horse races.

Now agility is so popularity and the popularity is growing all the time and it is official competition around world.

Ana

Weave poles with Viri

At least in Finland our agility course include about twenty obstacles. We have many different obstacles, and them share about four groups, and they inter alia are contact obstacles: A-frame, dogwalk and seesaw, and tunnels: open tunnel and closed tunnel, and jumps: normal jump, wall, long jump and tire jump, and other obstacles: table and weave poles. Rarely in the agility course has all of these obstacles same time. There are two agility course types: jumping course and normal course. Jumping course hasn't contact obstacles. The agility course carry out in number order and this is sometimes very hard because dog is so fast an the course is so twisty.

Medium wall with Tauno

Large long jump with Ava

There are three classes depending on the high of the dog in agility and they are small, medium and large or in Finnish they are mini, medi and maxi. In addition there are also three different level classes to dogs in Finland, so that every dog starts to competing in the first class and when the dog have got enough good results and placements the dog will move up to the next level. Third class is last class.

Small jump with Mila

Medium jump with Ella

Large jump with Stella

About everyone can be interested in agility, about every dog and every human. Agility requires speed, coordination ability, cooperative etc. Also the dog must be good condition because agility is physically hard. A dog is human's partner and their ability to communicate will be good.

Dogwalk with Ana

Dogwalk with Ava

Agility is so fun hobby for me and my dog, and it is also joy for spectators. I started agility when I was many years younger. My dad and my sister were going agility and I lost my soul to agility. In the beginning I got to know agility secrets, and how we training our dogs, because I didn't have own dog yet. Now I have one own dog Ana and the training dog Tauno, who lives with my aunt.

A-frame with tunnel with Stella

Seesaw with Tauno

I like agility, because I like dogs and agility is so diverse. We have a lot of fun, even though we don't always succeed. I have many friends in agility people. They are so nice and fun persons. My reasons are my dog and myself activation and comfortable together. I like it! Sport + dog + maybe outdoor activities + fun together = my love!

Medium jump with Ana

Tunnel with Ella

We have training times once or twice a week and them duration about one hour, but the dog training and they care take a lot of time. A dog is commitment, they take you life. Agility in Lappeenranta cost a lot compared to other cities. It is about seventy euros per three months.

I recommend to agility all dog people, because it is so fun!

Clear winner course with Ana

Self-evaluation:

This is nice to do and I like this one.
+ video

+ some pictures

+ idea

+-0 short or not

- grammar

- too many pictures

The silent town

There was a little sunny farm town next to New York. The town had been terrorized by a murderer for many years. His name was Bad Rex. Bad Rex had come to the town many years ago because his sister was very sick. Rex's sister healed quickly but on one Tuesday night everything changed. Someone shot at Rex's sister, and she was badly wounded. She never got back to normal. She was bullied because her face was maimed. Finally, she died of her injuries.

Rex's anger grew inside him. He hated everyone in this town. When his anger grew, he began to plan for the so-called people's pruning. First he shot his sister's murderer, and then he started shooting at random people. His anger grew every time he shot something. His blood lust grew every day, and finally, he shot almost every oncoming human.

The citizens increased resistance to wards Rex. They began to plan, how they could get rid of Rex. Everyone in this city feared and hated Rex.

On one very normal sunny morning, Rex was standing in the middle of the town with a gun in his hand. The situation was quiet and tense. Rex was ready to shoot all of these people, like almost every day. Rex didn't fear anyone. Rex didn't notice that someone was watching him.

This morning was very unusual because now one man was standing with a gun in his hand. He was a very mysterious and silent man. All the citizens were so quiet and they were holding their breath. One moment later  that mystery man shot at Rex. BOOM! And Rex feels to the ground. All the people stayed silent about the incident. Bad Rex's story had ended.

Self-evaluation:

+ ok

- short

- grammar

- unimaginative

A new beginning

Hi! I'm Pinja and I live in Lappeenranta, Finland. I have lived in Lappeenranta for six years. A new beginning started when I started upper secondary school.

My last years at school were terrible. Teachers and other students teased me because I'm different crazy animal woman! Nobody is like me. All despise me.

A few times I was happy, but often I was sitting alone in the midst of gloom. I was full of anger and I vented my angry feeling to other people. I couldn't change this situation. I hated this feel.

Now it is time for a new beginning!

My first school day was very exciting in my new school. I was so scared because I didn't know any people in the new school. There were many of us new students, but almost all new students had friends in this school.

On the first day I was late because I didn't know where I was supposed to go. I got a freak stamp on the my forehead. Luckily my classmates seemed so lively and nice. The first day I was alone a lot of.

This morning (second day) started very happily because my classmates came to talk to me and maybe I got a few new friends! And the teacher is so nice. I'm so happy! Maybe this is a nice new beginning.

I have found many new friends and almost all teachers are so interesting persons, and I would like to talk more with them but I am scared of it and I think that hardly any teacher wants to be a student's friend, except in the obligatory time in their lives. We students are nothing to teachers.

I am very happy and a little bit unhappy in my new school because everything bad instead of good is confused in my head. I found super nice teachers in our school, but they hardly want to get to know me better because I am a student and so young. This makes me very, very sad! I have some friends in our class.

I thought about a switching to another school, but this school is the best school and everything will work out some day, I hope so!

Self-evaluation:

I have idea for that one.

- idea

- short

- grammar

+ ok

My four-legged friend

Fannimer Anastasia also known as Ana is my best friend forever. Ana is a six-year-old Kromfohrlander female. She has very many nicknames as Antero, Anselmiina Kalervo, Janatuinen and Ansi.

Ana came to us almost six years ago in the summer. She was a small, cute puppy, but she wasn't a kind puppy. She was a little termite. She almost ate anything, even cigarette butts. She got a new nickname: Tobacco dog.

Ana and her brother Gromit and her friend Luna

Ana is a very active dog, and she loves agility and everything that we do together. She sometimes climbs up a tree when I ask for it. Fast and furious describes her very well because she is very fast and agile. She can jump very high and she loves to run hard.

Ana clims up a tree!

Why Ana is my best friend? Because she sincerely loves me, and she is ready to comfort me every time. When I'm sad, she brings her nose on my leg, and she looks puzzled. Then she licks my face. She tries to delight me. She seeks her toy, and she brings it onto my face. They smell very awful, but she tries too hard, and this delights me. She runs and throws her toys, and she jumps like a clown, she has her own clown jumps! She delights me every time! She is also a good listener. Ana helps me every time I need it. My dream would come true if some day I could study with Ana in the school, but that is maybe impossible. She is my support and refuge, and she helps me. She has brought me a lot of courage and new acquaintances.

Of course, because she is my best friend, we sometimes fight. We shout very loudly if something goes the wrong way, and then we agree our arguments, and then we are friends again. Our fights are so sort.

He is the smartest animal ...

... at least almost :D

She has a great personality. Her best friends along with me are our bunnies Biitu and Hilla, and of course our dogs Tauno and Choco. She is afraid of gerbils, but she has a very big ego. She is very boisterous and energetic, and she loves her own voice, but she hasn't got a very beautiful voice... She is a very interesting dog!

Biitu and Ana

Ana, Biitu and Choco

Choco and Ana

Ana, Choco and Tauno

Choco and Ana

Stella, Ana and Retos

Retos and Ana

Stella and Ana

Choco, Ana and Tauno

Choco, Biitu, Tauno, Hilla and Ana

We usually run across the green fields, and we rest on beautiful flower meadows. She sleeps next to me, and she warms me. Sometimes she is concerned for me or we face some difficulties, but together we cope at all times. And that's why she is my best friend forever! I love this dog!

Yes, she is my best friend!

Self-evaluation:

I like a little this one.
+ some photos are nice

+ idea

+ Ana

- grammar

- short

- too many pictures