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I have decided that this summer will be the best in my life! Well to be honest I do that every year but I have a good feeling about this summer so it might work out this time actually. Last year I spend almost the whole summer in USA with my family which was awesome, of course, but I didn’t had the time to do so much other stuffs. So this summer I’m not going to travel anything with my parents, I am instead going to do shorter trips with my friends. One of the trips I’ve planed is to the festival “Piteå Dansar och Ler”. I visit it last year with my friend Ellen and we met a lot of nice Norwegian that we are going to meet up with again this year. A couple of days ago I also found out that my absolutely favourite band, kent, is going to play at the festival. I have listening on kent for about two years but this will be the first time I see them live. I am so going to cry when they play since I almost cried just finding out that they were going to perform. Ellens favourite musician, Lars Winnerbäck is also going to play. So it will be a lot of great music, nice people and hopefully good weather. Can it be better?



I am also going to “kirunafestivalen” with Felicia, Gabban, Mattias and Inez which will be really fun to. I just checked out which band that are going perform on that festival and it turned out that kent is going to play there to! Hm, I randomly chooses two festivals (well not completely randomly, but with no thoughts considering the music) and it turns out that kent is playing to both (!) of them.

Alexander Fleming was a British bacteriologist who is generally considered to be the finder of penicillin.

Fleming was born the 6^th of July in year 1881 in Scotland. He graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in year 1906 and started shortly afterwards to search for anti-bacterial substances with the intent to find one that wasn’t dangerous for humans. Under the First World War Fleming was on duty in Royal Army Medical Corps but he continued with his research under the whole duty and when the war ended he returned to his old school to become a professor in bacteriology.

The most fascinating part of this story is that he made the discovery of penicillin by a mere chance. In 1928 Fleming was analysing staphylococci. He went for a short vacation with his family and accidentally left a culture of staphylococci on a bench in his laboratory. When he was gone a spore of the fungus Pencillinium notatum blew in from another laboratory and landed in the culture. Since London was going through a cold period at the time the fungus got a chance to grow and when the temperature rose again the staphylococci bacteria grow. The interesting part of this course of events is that the bacteria spread all over the culture except for the spot where the fungus had grown. Fleming noticed this when he came back from his vacation and he made the conclusion that something in the unknown substance was stopping the bacteria from growing. He realized that this could be useful within medicine.

Fleming didn’t actually create the penicillin, it was instead two English biologists, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, who manage to isolate a chemical substance (penicillin) out of the fungus. This fungus had a bactericidal effect and was shortly afterwards used as a medicine. Fleming, Florey and Chain got the Nobel price in medicine in year 1945.

The penicillin had a big penetrating power which isn’t so strange seeing that you before the penicillin was invented could die from a small cut or burn that had been infected.

The rest is, as you say, history.

We have to do at least two formal posts in this blog and since I’m reading Japanese as a school subject I think it would be funny to write a little fact about Japan.



Japan is an island state which is located in the Pacific Ocean a couple of miles outside Asias east coast. The country´s closest neighbours are Russia, China and North- and South Korea which are situated on the other side of the Sea of Japan.

The archipelago contains over 6800 islands and the four biggest are Honoshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. On Honoshu Japans capital, Tokyo, is located. Tokyo is the biggest city in Japan and with a population of 30 million residents it makes it the largest metropolitan area in the whole world. Japan has a population of 128 million people which put it on the tenth place on the list of the worlds largest populations.

The official spoken language in Japan is Japanese and they write in three different scripts, katakana, hiragana and kanji. Katakana is mostly used to write names and foreign words while hiragana and kanji are used for the remaining words.






(My name written in katakana)

hello!
This is my first post on this blog as you can se. I doubt that anyone exept Frida and Indra (and our teacher ofcourse) is going to read this so I don't have to tell you why I'm writing on english.

hm, what should I write about?

Today it was my dads birthday, he has now reached the mature age of 51 and from now on it's only going down (meaning; he will be younger and younger each year). Of course had I forgotten to buy him something so I went to Ica for a last minute gift. And I found the perfect present... a blodsausage! Okej, perhaps it wasn't the perfect gift but it was cheap he likes it. At least he laughed!

Btw, do you really say blodsausage? I tried to translate "blodkorv" on Norstedts Ord but they wanted to translate it into black pudding and that's "blodpudding" right?
I'll have to do a little research on that!

But now I will sleap
byebye!


Update!

If you search for "black pudding" on google it cames up pictures of "blodkorvar" so I guess that Norstedts was right.



Funny fact by the way. If you search for "black pudding" you'll get 3 190 000 hits to compare whit the 1 540 000 hits you'll get if you search for "macaroni and cheese". I guess that black pudding is more popular than i thought!