Article - Belly Button Piercings

Belly button piercings – sexy or a silly trend?

Ever since I was 14 years old, I’ve wanted to get my belly button pierced. Not just because celebrities and everyone else had them, but because I don’t like my stomach that much and wanted something to make it look more feminine. Weird I know.



But I have very strict African parents who would have happily ripped it out if they ever found out. It doesn’t help that my mum is a nurse who has to deal with the people who don’t take care of their piercings and then run to her with infections and all sorts of horror stories.

That then got me thinking, what if I did get some horrible infection that messed me up forever? Maybe it was best that I gave up this silly dream and keep my belly button away from any needles. But despite my best efforts, I found myself still wanting to get it done

So I told myself that I would get it when I got to university. In my second term as a first year to be precise, because after spending all that time at home for Christmas I would be in no rush to go back and so my piercing could heal nicely by Easter.

But Easter has come and gone and my belly button is yet to be pierced. I admit that it is partly due to the fact that my parents would probably make my life hell if they ever found out but it is also because once again I have started to question whether I really want to get it done anymore. I’m not worried about the risk of infections anymore. I’m worried about the views of society.

It seems to me that getting your belly button pierced has become a thing that little teenage girls do, not mature young women. That could be a problem because surely I need to grow up and put all things teenage behind me.

So is belly button piercing becoming a teenage fad, with tweens getting it done because Miley Cyrus has one? Or are belly button piercings still nice regardless of what age you get it done.

Summer is fast approaching and I have a feeling I will finally give in to temptation, if i figure out how to hide it from my parents. Or will seeing so many other girls with thier piercings just put me off joining such a popular trend.

All I know is that I’m going get mine done someday, even if I end up taking it out an hour later. It is just something I have to do; I just hope it’ll still be socially acceptable when I eventually go through with it.

Published: www.multimediamouth.com

News Article - Pay to pray

Members of City Gate Church, Bournemouth were enraged to discover that they will have to pay to go to church.

New parking meters were placed on Gervis Road, Lansdowne, charging 60p an hour from 9am till 5pm, every Monday to Sunday.

The meters were put on the roads surrounding St Swithuns’ Centre two weeks ago, but had been covered with black bags saying ‘Not in use’, so members assumed that the meters would charge on Mondays –Fridays as most others do.

On Sunday 6th December, the members arrived to their morning service unaware of the new charge and had to be informed by the welcome team at the door so they would not be fined £60.

As some members can be at both the 9:30am and 11:30am service every Sunday morning, they will now have to pay an additional £125 a year just to go to their church. This could cause problems for those who have already been hit hard by the recent financial crisis as well as all the students and elderly members of the church.

Jurgen Kusel, 45, a regular member, states “I don’t understand why the council would put meters here and charge on a Sunday morning when they know that there is a popular church in the area”. He then went on to comment that maybe the council are exploiting the fact that the church members can be a regular source of money and he claimed that if that is true he would be very disappointed that the council think like that.

The overall concern from the church members was how this is going to affect their Christmas events. They feared that it would hinder the attendance levels for the carol service they were having the next week as well as the Christmas services later in the month.

We contacted the local council and they are yet to make a statement about the matter.