A Celebration You Can Help With.

Amandla Stenberg. October 23rd. 14 years old.

If you ask me, October 23rd is one of the biggest days of the year. Yes, it is the darling Amandla Stenberg's 14th birthday. Fourteen, that just seems so grown up! Even though I'm already 14 and am still very much a kid...

Anyway.

Yesterday I cam across a tweet about my hero's birthday, and it got me extremely excited, fangirl mode, if you will.

THIS. A girl on twitter, @maddy_merz is making a birthday video for Amandla. I just love the idea of this, because if Amandla sees it, SHE MIGHT ACTUALLY SEE YOUR FACE. Oh my gosh.

And because I love Amandla very much, I wanted this girl's video to be the best it can, so, that's where you come in. 

Now, I know that not everyone will actually know who Amandla is (if you actually read my blog though you damn well should), but those of you Tributes most definitely would.

If you are a fan of Amandla, what are you waiting for?! Send in a picture!

There's some more information for you here, if you need it.

Happy early birthday my dear Amandla, and may the odds be ever in your favour.

UrbanNerd.xo

Hunger Games Cast Appreciation Day.

So today I was helping my friend with some homework she had. And it sounds really funny, but I was actually enjoying it. Why? Because it was on The Hunger Games! After she'd left I thought, I really want to watch it now. So I did. And I realised how absolutely amazing all of the actors and actresses in it are. 

I thought they all deserved some appreciation, they deserve a blog post. 

I have to start with Amandla Stenberg. Her performance as Rue was absolutely phenomenal. When Rue was killed I actually cried. She was that good. And if people think that Amandla wasn't absolutely perfect, they should probably go eat some Nightlock.

Alexander Ludwig. Alex did such a great job as Cato. He portrayed the character in so much depth and even though Cato was quite evil, towards the end we saw another side of him. I really loved this and I thought he was fantastic.

I don't think anyone would make a better Thresh than Dayo Okeniyi. Some of my favourite scenes in the movie were ones with Thresh. I loved it when Cato's knife got stolen, and he took it out on one of the other tributes, but then we see little Rue hanging up by some straps on the roof and she has it. But the thing I love about that scene is when Thresh sees her up there and gets this cheeky little grin on his face, it just makes me go 'aw'!

For a 12 year old, Willow Shields is such an amazing actress. She portrayed Prim so perfectly, she was just so innocent and seemed genuinely scared. I just couldn't help but adore Prim and I'm sure I'm not the only one that felt so many different emotions when her name was reaped. When she was saying goodbye to Katniss it was just so so sad. Willow was amazing.

Isabelle Fuhrman was absolutely perfect as Clove. And when I see perfect, I mean perfect.  The scene in which she almost kills Katniss is one of my favourites in the whole movie. She just seems so evil and cunning, I really loved it.

I loved Jack Quaid as Marvel. He was just so goofy, in a way, and it was like he brought a lot of himself to the character. The snippet we see of Marvel's interview was my favourite out of all.

Thanks to Jackie Emerson, Foxface is now one of my favourite characters. Even though she didn't have many scene in the movie, when she was on the screen she was perfect. 

Josh Hutcherson was an amazing Peeta. No matter how hard I try, I can not imagine someone else being Peeta. He portrayed the chemistry between Peeta and Katniss perfectly.

Jennifer Lawrence. Flawless. There are no other words for her. There is no way anyone else could ever be Katniss, she is the one and only. There is just something about Jen that just makes her so likeable. She just brought so many different emotions to her character. I loved her so so much as Katniss, words can simply not describe it.

I love ALL of The Hunger Games cast. Every single on of them. Even the ones I didn't name, I still love them as much as the others. Leven was a perfect Glimmer, Elizabeth an amazing Effie, Woody was a hilarious Haymitch, and Lenny such a serene Cinna. All of the cast is so wonderful.

They all deserve some simple appreciation.

UrbanNerd.xo

Thankyou Amandla.

So, a while ago I wrote a post about my role model, Amandla Stenberg.

Yesterday that post reached 100 views, and I was absolutely over the moon.

I tweeted to Amandla saying that it had reached this milestone and that she inspires me very much, and guess what?

She retweeted it!! This was super duper exciting. When I went onto twitter and saw it, I was so pleasantly shocked. 

Since then, that post has received another 75 VIEWS! Which I think is absolutely amazing. It never would have happened though if it weren't for Amandla.

So, I want to THANK YOU AMANDLA. For not only retweeting, but for being the inspiration behind the post, and also my inspiration in life in general. I couldn't ask for a more perfect role model.

I'm hoping that her retweeting my tweet means that she might have read the post. This would be a dream come true, so I'm going to be an optimist and say she did.

If you want to take a look at the post, click here.

and if you want to check out the special tweet, click here!

Thankyou Amandla.

UrbanNerd.xo

No Kid Hungry.

So yesterday I heard of a thing called No Kid Hungry.

No Kid Hungry is an organisation in America that is working towards stopping child hunger.

Currently, 16 million kids in America are at risk of hunger. Every child should be able to eat a meal three times a day, seven days a week. But that's not that case. 

Even though I am not from America, I still think that this is a great cause to get behind. Children all over the world should be able to live their lives on a full stomach.

From the 6th of September to the 9th, wear orange in support of No Kid Hungry. You could wear an orange ribbon in your hair, orange socks, or even head over here and buy an orange shirt and some fabulous orange sunglasses.

There are many young celebrities helping to promote and get behind No Kid Hungry, one of them being Amandla Stenberg. That's how I found out about this whole thing, Amandla posted something on twitter.

And other people won't know about it either, unless you help out and spread the word. Visit http://nokidhungry2.org/ and @nokidhungry on twitter and let everybody know.

This is such a great cause to get behind. I hope you all do take a look.
#GoOrange for no kid hungry!!

UrbanNerd.xo

Amandla Stenberg going orange for No Kid Hungry.