Blogging

I really truly dislike blogging because I can never really think of what to post, what to write about. I could invent things but when I sit down to do the blogs I am never feeling imaginative, that’s a lame excuse but I guess it is an excuse because writing things to post kind of bores me. It was something new that I hadn’t done before but after the third or fourth post I knew it wasn’t my favorite thing to do and if my teacher Miss.B wouldn’t grade us on this I probably would not be writing this right now, but I think it is definitely something to experience even if you dislike it because it was interesting. The best part about blogging would have to be checking the stats to see how many people have read your blog and where in the world are most of your followers. That encourages somewhat but, at least for me not completely.

Finals

   I am going to die. Finals. They are sooooo stressing and I hate them. They are going to kill me along with all of my friends because of the stress. This year we learned that stress is bad for you. But learning that fact completely contradicts having finals. We should take care of ourselves and not carry to much stress right? Wrong, at least when we have finals. Today is Wednesday and a week from today we will be completely done with finals and everything that has to do with them for I while and I wish I could fast forward to that moment. Having three essays, a map and multiple choice all in one day with a period of four hours seem reasonable. Except that my hand in going to cramp up and it is going to hurt L apart from that memorizing everything in biology and then taking a test all in French (my third language) will be a little better. And with math, I am sure some of us might cry. I might be exaggerating a little bit but I can’t wait for all of this to be over and I am sure the rest of the high school is with me on that one. Now I am going to study some more because truly, I don’t plan on failing.

My things look a little like the picture, except I have A LOT more papers!!! Yey!

Saying Goodbye, Again

The bad thing about being in an International school is that people are always moving, which means friends are always moving. And this year, my best friend F is moving and I can’t believe it. I mean she has lived in Venezuela her whole life so I thought she would stay here, at least until we graduated; she is leaving to a boarding school. I don’t know what next year is going to be like without her. I know that new people will come to school and all that, but it won’t be the same. Definitely not. She leaving the Friday after we finish finals and I think the last day I will see her is Wednesday at her goodbye party. I am not sure how I’m going to be able to say goodbye. I know that she is irreplaceable. I want to see her during the summer, living together like we did during spring breaks and our October break, there are so many memories and laughs that I won’t forget. We have been friends for two years but best friends since the end of last year, we became best friends really fast, but I guess that was for a reason. I moved to Venezuela two years ago, when I was going to enter 8^th grade and I left all of my best friends, my friends I had known since I was 6 or 7 and it wasn’t easy. Now two years later I have to say goodbye to my best friend and it really sucks. Saying goodbye to friends is the hardest thing I’ve had to do. But this time I’m saying goodbye to a sister, she is part of the family and we do fight, often but then three minutes later it is like it never happened, just like a sister. I am going to miss F a lot.

Driver's Permit

So I am 15 and because I have an American passport I can officially get my permit. The problem is I haven’t been to the US in a while so I haven’t been able to get it which really sucks. Another problem is that I will probably fail the written test so I would have to study for it, during summer. But I think it is probably worth studying in the summer because I hate that my friends and I can’t commute to where ever we want because our parents are too lazy to take us, or just simply don’t want to. Getting my permit would be heaven even though I would still have to be with someone over age it would be better than having to wait for my mom even my sisters. So I have decided that this summer I am going to study and get my permit in the states because after that I come home and after I turn 16 on November 30^th I am going to be able to get my license here which I am looking forward to very, very much. 

SUMMER

There isn’t more than two weeks left of school, and truly I can’t wait. Even though my best friend F is leaving I want a break. This summer I’m going to an acting camp with my sister and a friend. We get to stay in a hotel and that is pretty cool. We are going for three weeks and after that we are going to Alabama, which I have to say, will probably be very interesting. I’ve never been to Alabama before but I think that we will have fun, there are a lot of water parks and amusement parks there so we are definitely going to those. After that in going back to Miami and I can’t wait to see my friends from there; I lived in Miami before I came to Venezuela. I also can wait to get my drivers permit!! Most of my friends from here in Venezuela are also going to be there so that means we will have something to do, but I wish I could have gone with my friend F to Spain, to Mallorca. We have planned on going there all year but it never really happened and that’s a bummer because I wanted to spend summer with her since she is moving. I am going to miss her. So two weeks left of school and waiting for it to end, it great, except for Finals.

Angry Birds

Angry Birds is officially the best game in the world. I am completely obsessed with the game. I play the game all day, I downloaded it on my Ipod Touch. I don’t know who created this wonderful game, but if I did I would fall in love with the instantly. The point of this game is to make little green animals that look like pigs explode. The game gives you birds that you fling so they fall on structures and break also breaking the green pigs. The red birds are normal birds that don’t do anything special. The blue birds break into three birds, the yellow birds smash into wood very quickly. There are also black birds that are actually bombs and white birds that drop eggs from the sky. There are three levels in the game with different stages and I am currently in the third level on the second stage and I am finding it impossible to pass. But still I love this game and recommend it to anyone who wants to be entertained for hours and hours at a time.

April 1st

April fool’s day is on April first as all of you know but it is also the birthday of two friends of mine. That must be a horrible thing. I know that my friends always try to joke around and pull pranks on April fool’s day. If I didn’t know them as well as I do I wouldn’t believe that their birthdays were actually on April first. It must suck to tell someone that it is your birthday and having them not believe you. Making jokes like it is your birthday or something of the kind is so common on April Fool’s that no one would believe you. It sucks, but I still love them.

Two Sides

Most of my friends don’t believe me when I tell them I like to read. It gets irritating sometimes, but, I guess it’s my fault. I am the friend that is loud and is never shy. I am always doing something, it might be singing, jumping up and down or anything else, I hate sitting still. Most of my friends now that side of me, but I am also the girls that likes to read to relax, to be quiet. At school or at parties I definitely am not the same person that I am if I am alone at home. Right now I am reading a book called “Thirteen Reasons Why” it is about a girl who committed suicide and she recorded that thirteen reasons why.  Reading this book really made me think of how little things that we do, things that at the moment don’t mean anything to us can hurt someone. It made me realize that when all those little things add up to something big and how they can make someone feel bad enough about themselves to make them think about hurting themselves. Anyways apart from that book my English class is reading another one called Animal Farm about the Russian revolution which I also thing is very interesting. Learning about it and reading what actually happened is unbelievable and super interesting. I can honestly say that English is my favorite class, even though that might surprise some of my friends.

DREAMS

So the other day I was in one my classes, more specifically ancient civilizations. We started talking about dreams. He told us that most people have the same reoccurring dream sometimes, I know I do. We talked about hos when we get the feeling that we already done something, that it had already happened, that dasa vu felling it is because we’ve dreamt about it. He told us that his dream or nightmare as he put it was that there was always this big rock that was about to squash him right before he wakes up, I thought it was kind of funny. We also talked about how there are certain dreams that make us wake up when we feel we fall into a whole or off a cliff or jump into water, and we all agreed it sucks.  So my super awesome ancient civ teacher taught us about dreams that class and I have to admit it was interesting. Some of the things that I learned in that class I still think about before I go to bed sometimes. Even though it was super interesting to learn about that, it was also weird and creepy.

CHAIN REACTION

Lately the people of some countries have been revolting against the leaders. Most of the countries that have gone through this have gotten rid of their leaders. All of these rebellions started with Tunisia that revolted and got their leader out of the country. Since then more countries are following their lead. Egypt did this getting rid of their leader of many years; his name is Mubarak who had been in power in Egypt from 30 years. After this Libya started to protest and is now in the middle of a civil war. The majority of the country wants their leader of 41 years, Gadhafi, out of power. Gadhafi said that if they wanted him out there would be war, and as promised there now is. International air forces are helping the people of Libya to fight against their leader bombing military bases. Everyone is against Gadhafi, the only person that might help him is Chavez, the president of my country, Venezuela. French and American planes have completely destroyed Libya’s air force with bombs.   Even with this civil war going on in Libya Syria has the courage to start protesting, this is some revolutionary where the people of a country are fighting against the leader and the armies of their own country for what they want. It has been a chain reaction, one country after another. One interesting thing about these rebellions is that the countries that this is happening in are Arab countries. This is definitely a chain reaction that is causing hope by showing people that their leaders are no invincible.

Games, Games, Games.

Have you ever noticed that people like to play games ? It doesn’t matter how dumb it sounds or how unnecessary we think it is, people like to play games. I don’t mean games like black ops or monopoly; I mean games as in messing with other people. With time I’ve realized that some people like to mess with other peoples heads, give them ideas, make them think, keep them interested. I have to admit that I too like messing with people, but I’ve realized that these games are only fun for just a little, after a while they might get out of hand. Humans like to play these games because when they are winning they feel like they are controlling the other person, they feel powerful and liking to feel powerful is in human nature. Human beings are cruel even if we don’t want to admit it. Sure, we know how to love, but we also know how to hurt; most of the time we hurt people rather than love them, even if we don’t recognize what we are doing. 

Fun huh ?

My Little Sister

My little sister.                                                                                                                                             She gets everything she wants. I personally think it’s unfair. My mom always favors her, for everything, even if she is guilty. She can do anything but IM the one who gets in trouble. She always hurts me, always, of course I get mad and strike back, she doesn’t get in trouble, I do. There are so many things she does that would get me into so much trouble, I mean why?      Why ? Why ? Why ?                                                                                                                                       It just doesn’t make sense, it makes me feel like…like they love her more. I just don’t get it, she hits me, it’s fine. I poke her and it’s like they are calling the police on me, seriously, not okay, at all.                                                                                                                                                                       I don’t let her borrow my clothes, i get in trouble. I don’t let her mess my room up, I get in trouble. I defend myself, I get in trouble. I tell her she is chubby, I get in trouble. I don’t let her take food from my plate, I get in trouble. I brush her hair, maybe pulling a little too hard, she cries, and guess what ? I get in trouble.                                                                                                 She is only like a year younger, not much, and still she is always on the pedestal. She should get in trouble, maybe shell learn how it feel, but my mom will never yell at her and if she does, a couple of minutes later, she there apologizing. All my “beautiful little sister” ever does is bother me. It is like her hobby, I mean if it was a sport she would go to the Olympics. SHE IS SO ANNOYING and of course she get away with it.                                                                                       My mom probably had her just to make my life impossible.                                                                 It is like she always there breathing on me, it makes me want to scream. I tell her to get away from me and it is like she is deaf. After that, the breathing gets heavier.                                                 Like I said before it is like they prefer her, but do they?........i think they actually do, they actually do like her better and it is like I am just there. I mean sure I am the old one, I am the mature one, I am the one who has to behave. She doesn’t have to, no, she is mom’s baby, she IS the baby. And she will always get spoiled. If I get a present for my birthday, she gets one on the same day even though it I s not her birthday. If she gets a present for her birthday, I don’t get one that because “it’s not my birthday.” She gets whatever she wants, whenever she wants because she is the favorite, I was the favorite once, for a year, yeah…..not anymore.                I’ve thought about it, I always think about it and I have my conclusion she is the favorite and always will be. I can’t believe it, I mean I am so much smarter than my little sister, grown-ups think I don’t notice they like her better, but I do. I have known for a long time, and because she is always first, before me…………it is proof that she is the favorite.                                                   She is more loved than me, that is not okay.           

LOVE

DAVID he is the love of my life, always has been, and always will be. Even before I met him I loved him. We are in 9th grade and he already asked me to marry him. I said yes. Sometimes David and I fight, but lately we’ve been getting along great, no insults, just laughs. We have had some interesting discussions about a variety of things, and we disagree sometimes but we still love each other, even when we say we don’t. Last year we fought like crazy, but his new year’s resolution was to be nicer to me, we haven’t fought since. You want to know how we met? Well, we were in Aruba on the beach, and I was drinking a pina colada…virgin of course and he was drinking a cuba libre (also virgin). So, David rented a jet ski…he asked if I wanted to ride with him, and I said yes (it was a cool jet ski), we bonded. Later that day we went back to the hotel, and had another drink, we fought…that was the first of the many fight we would have. We are waiting until we are old enough and go to college to get married.

One day we’ll live happily ever after.

Remembering Summer

So we are finish second quarter, and we have a lot of work, turning in work and midterms..or finals are coming up soon. We have to write more blogs. I was reading one of my friend’s blogs; I realized that one of the posts they have written about is something that I already did. He wants to skydive. Now if we get down to it, I didn’t exactly go skydiving because I didn’t jump off a plane, but I did go indoor skydiving this summer. Indoor skydiving means going in a little room where the walls are covered with a soft layer of….something. There is a fan on the floor and you lay on it; later, the person who controls the fan starts it and you start flying. At first, I’m not going to lie, it’s scary. Once you have started to fly a couple of times you get used to the feeling and start having fun. The best part of the whole experience has to be when the person that is teaching you to fly, grabs your hands and feet as he starts spinning in circles. One day i'll go skydivinf for real, and i'll take my friend with me. J

Friends

There are some people that we have relationships with, where we trust them enough to tell them every different detail of our lives. We sometimes call those people best friends. A best friend to me is someone that I can completely trust. That person has to be someone that I know; a person that…even if we fight ill trust that person enough to know that they won’t tell anybody the details that nobody knows. A best friend for me is someone that I can be completely stupid with and that person won’t judge me. Some one that will tell me if I’m doing something wrong or embarrassing myself or doing something stupid that I would not want anyone else to see. I would have to be able to talk to this person all day or for at least three hours straight on the phone, and not run out of things to talk about. When something bad happens I could tell this person and completely trust their advice or if they don’t have any they would sit with me listen and hug me. it would be someone that was like a sister; a person that you could eventually consider to be your family.

The Night of our Lives.

It wasn’t a concert, it was a night club. We had all thought that we were going to a concert on Saturday night to watch Flo-Rida sing. We watched him sing, we even took videos, but it was no concert. We were staying on a boat, when we went into town we saw that he was in town and decided that we wanted to go. We got the direction of the place where the “concert” was going to be held and just when there the night of. We bought entrances and went inside realizing that it was no concert, it was a club and he was coming to sing at the party. We were four, my sister, two of my best friends, and I. we didn’t know what to do…it was a party and we didn’t know anyone except for two people. We waited until 1 am which was when we got tired of just standing there, so we danced. At 2 am all the singer got to the party and sang until 3 am. We were in the very front row so we were even able to touch these people, my sisters and one of my friends also got autographed towels. We danced like crazy, we pulled an all-nighter. The same night at about 4 one of my friends had to leave for the airport and that same day we has to travel as well. It was a night I’m sure we will never forget. 

Tubing

We say it is fun, but we thought we were going to die. Sure we when tubing before but never like this. When we when tubing before it was fun…it always felt like we were going to fall off, sometime we jumped off just to scare the people who were driving the boat. We were in Dominican Republic because we had October break and it was the day before the last day, we weren’t very happy than the trip was about to be over so we tried to make it the best day that we were going to have. When 3 of my friends were on the tubes, I decided to drive the speed boat and I made the fly off the tube because I stopped then started so fast that they could not catch up with the speed, making them fly off backwards. When one of my friends got tired of being on the tube she switched with me, but she let the sailor drive the speed boat instead, my sister my friend and I we sitting on it and suddenly it starts moving. We got off the sides of the waves so many times that we started to sleep then we weren’t even on the water anymore, we were in the air. The tube stood up completely sideways, I ended up under water and my friend who was on the other side, she fell off, while my sister stayed  in the middle completely perfect and laughing. This was something that I believe scared us for life and we will never forget it.

Trips, Something Always Happens.

The Bahamas, Years ago

A couple of years ago, my family and I went on a boat to the Bahamas. All of my cousins including myself and my sister were pretty young, but we will never forget the day that it happened.  We had been going to beaches that were empty, the only people there was us. My cousins my sister and I were hiding things in the water close to the shore at one of the tiny, clean, and beautiful beaches. We had been wanting to see manta rays since we got there, but we had had no such luck. My closest cousin (that is three month younger than me) and I saw something dark in the water. We got scared so we ran out of the water as fast as we could. My sister on the other hand decided that she wanted to see what this dark thing was, she was so happy; believing it was a manta ray. But it wasn’t. Our aunts and uncles realized what this animal was and started screaming for the rest of us to get out of the water. My sister didn’t listen. She got closer and closer believing it was a manta ray, once she was close enough she realized that this animal in the water was not a manta ray, it was a shark. On her face you could see the panic that overtook her. To this day I don’t understand how she got out of the water so quickly. 

The Book im Reading!

The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman

                Right now I am reading the book The Story Sisters. This book is very interesting. I am about 150 pages into it, and so far I like it. The book has three characters that are sisters and I think it is kind of weird because they have like their own little world called Arnelle, which also has its language. The sisters didn’t make the language up, they just knew it. I didn’t know who the main character of the story was, but as the story advanced the main character became Elv. Even though the other two sisters, Claire and Meg are still there the life of Elv and what she is going through is explained in more depth. This book is somewhat inappropriate because there is ugly language in it and because some parts are very vivid. Over all I think this book shows that Elv is a teenager that just when out of control and got sent to a behavior school. Meg isn’t very fond of her but Claire on the other hand loves her. They became inseparable the day that a man tried to kidnap Claire but Elv saved her. The man ended up kidnapping Elv, but she managed to escape. If we get to the point I am in (the middle of the story) I like this book. It is something that entertains me and believe it or not, I actually read it when im not in English class. I would lend this book to friends once I'm done reading it, but because I know my friends I would also tell them if they would like it or not. Its their choice to read it.

A New Beginning

A blog…..this is something that I would have never done if this were not my assignment. I don't think that people will read this blog because there are so many out there, but anyways I will write about what happens to me in my everyday life.

To begin with, I am currently in ninth grade. This is my second year at my school (which is international) and I thought that I was going to have trouble making friends, but I was wrong. Things that you should know about me are that I am very social; and even though I don’t like to do my work I take it very seriously. I am a person that has problems like any other person but I always try to make the best out of it. I like to listen to music, a lot; most of the time I have my ipod with me and when I can, I listen to music. My sister has a dog that I really dislike (because it is evil) even though I really don’t dislike dogs. Traveling is something that my family likes to do; we have been to many places even though we have only lived in Florida and Venezuela. We have been everywhere from New York to Singapore. I really love all of my friends and I always say that my sisters are so annoying, but I love them too.

I don’t really know what I want to write about in my blog yet, but it will probably be about my experiences. In my entries I think I will talk about crazy things that have happened to me or my family; most of what I will talk about will be my trips that I have taken, some with friends and some with family. I would also write about things that happened in school, it could be a class that was fun and that made me laugh or it could be about something that friends do that made me smile. I will write about things that are happening or that I find out about and if I agree or disagree with what has happened; if sometimes I am really stuck on what I want to write about then I'll use one of the topics that my English teacher will provide for my entire class.