Hello! Mika here. 18, vegan, trans, full-time student, and massive bookworm

Hello whoever’s reading this! My name’s Mika, I’m an 18 y/o IB student, and literally half my life is spent on social medias.
I’ve been doing youtube videos on and off for over 2 & 1/2 years now. Not that people watch it, but I enjoy making them!
I just discovered this website, through the amazing person Henya Mania, who posted about it on her instagram story.
Throughout my life I have been trying to write blogs, but never really been able to stick to it, so now that I found out that Steemit is a thing, I wanted to give it another go!

Yeah, so, as I said, my name’s Mika, and here are a few facts about me!
So I do the IB, and for you who don’t know what the IB is, it stands for International Baccalaureate, and is a 2 year study course you can do in High School, to prepare yourself for university. It’s kind of like A levels, except you have 6 subjects to concentrate on instead of 3. I’m currently in the second half of my second year, and exams are coming up in May, so I’m kinda a busy bee at the moment. However, I would like to post maybe 3 or 4 posts a week on here, if I can manage and people actually read them.

So as the title of this post suggests, I’m vegan! Been so for two years now, and I’m absolutely loving it! I’ve never been a big meat eater, and I pretty much grew up on my aunt’s farm, so I’ve always loved animals. Though, it wasn’t until I was about 14 I made the connection between the animals we pet and the ones we eat, and I therefore went vegetarian at that time. A year and a half later I did some more research, and pretty much went vegan overnight. For me, veganism is about a lot more than just the animals, although they are a big part of it. Being vegan doesn’t only help the animals, it also helps the environment and is amazing for your health! So yeah, veganism is a big part of my life, and it always will be.

And hey, surprise, surprise, I’m a tranny! I know a lot of people find the word tranny offensive, but I don’t, and I therefore use it about myself, hope that doesn’t offend anyone. So yeah, I’m transgender, which means, in my case, I was born female but I identify as male, and trying to live accordingly. Therefore it would be very nice if you referred to me as he/him, as those are my preferred pronounces.

I LOVE BOOKS. Yes, I’m a massive bookworm and I’m not afraid to admit it. I’m telling you this on my post here as I will probably be doing book reviews. At the moment I’m reading three books, one for school and two for my own enjoyment. The two books I’m currently enjoying are: ”A Storm of Swords, part 2: Blood and Gold” by George R. R. Martin, and ”Turtles All The Way Down” by John Green. I would highly recommend both books, as they have amazing writing, and the one by John Green also tackles mental health issues, which is very important.

Of course, like every other human, I enjoy music. But my taste may be a bit different from the norm, as I absolutely adore heavy metal and screamo. Yes, I listen to very heavy music where most people can’t even hear the words that are being sung. I don’t know why, but I really enjoy this kind of music, and it gets me into a good mood. So there may potentially be some music posts on here as well, if people are interested.

Who doesn’t like to travel?! Personally I love it, and I have made it my life goal to visit AT LEAST 100 countries before I die. I have currently only visited 14 countries throughout my life, so I really need to step up my game and explore the world more! I know I won’t travel a lot in 2018, as I have exams in May, and I start university in October, but I have made it a goal this year to visit ONE new country. I don’t know which country this is going to be, but I know it’s going to be one in Europe. I’m thinking either Iceland, Finland, Italy or France, but we’ll see! Hopefully you want to join me on this journey, as even though I’m not visiting any new countries in the nearest future, I am going back to my beloved Spain in mid February, so stay tuned for posts then!

Ignore the very short shorts, it was before I came out

But yeah, that was just a quick (and a bit long, oops) introduction of who I am and what I enjoy doing, Hopefully you found at least SOMETHING interesting among my personality and hobbies, and want to read my other posts I got planned. If you have any questions, like: where I’m from, or how I found out I was trans, leave them in the comment section below! I will try to answer them to the best of my abilities.

Have a nice day/night, and I’ll (hopefully) see you in my next post!