Random Facts About Me

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My favorite color is and always has been yellow, but pink is the prettiest and navy blue is my favorite to wear as of now. My favorite show for all of middle school, into high school and even to this day is Dance Moms. My other two favorite shows are Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Gossip Girl. Currently I’m watching the Real Housewives of NYC. When I was little I loved Dora and my favorite Disney princess was The Little Mermaid/Ariel.  My favorite sport is volleyball but I don’t really like playing anymore because it’s just upsetting. Up through my freshman year I played competitively my whole life and high school softball that one year. I used to play catcher when I was younger but my knees couldn’t handle it anymore so I became a third baseman. I was diagnosed with diabetes at the end of 6th grade. I repeated Kindergarten because I had a hard time reading and it was “highly suggested that I repeat”. In first grade I was in an afternoon reading program called “Reading with the Dogs” to help me try to catch up and get some extra practice in. I’ve never broken a bone. I’m a middle child. I have a sister who is 17 months older and a brother who is 17 months younger than me. I’m closer with my brother than with my sister. My family puts scratcher lottery tickets in easter eggs for easter egg hunts. I got bit by a dog in Ohio the summer going into Junior Year and had to get stitches through my lip. If I could meet one person alive or dead I would want to meet my mom when she was my age. I love heights and have always wanted to go skydiving. I bought an inflatable cow costume for an AP European History class presentation about pasteurization in my Sophomore Year. I like having late night conversations. My favorite ice cream flavor is coffee. I love pickles.

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I Hate Blogs

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Every week for journalism class, we have to write a blog. It is actually getting a bit annoying, and we are only on Blog #5. I know some other people actually really like the blogs, but I feel like I always have a hard time coming up with the topic of the week. My ideas are either way too broad and boring or way too personal. Also, I always forget about the blogs until around ten or eleven on Friday night. This is really scary because I have to quickly go through the process of writing an entire blog and go through the struggles of choosing a topic in the span of about twenty minutes before it turns twelve. In conclusion, I hate blogs, and I’m going to make this exactly 150 words to spite the word minimum. Thank you for listening to my speech, and have a wonderful night.

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Sleep

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Since school began this fall, I have been so sleep-deprived and I don’t know how to give myself enough time to sleep and get everything else done. I find myself taking short naps in the middle of the day because of my exhaustion. My issue with my lack of sleep is that I stay up late doing homework but because of how late I stay up and how tired I am, I don’t process anything as I’m doing it. When I’m in class the next day, I’m always too tired to focus. It feels like a never-ending cycle that I’m hoping will end soon. I try drinking energy drinks at night and during the day, but it just makes me feel even worse and grosser. I need to find a way to stop procrastinating and get work done as soon as possible because I won’t be able to live like this much longer.

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Treasure

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I have a very wonderful friend. She is always on my side. What I like about her is that I feel comfortable with her. When I first came to study abroad and saw her for the first time, my impression of her was that she was cute and kind. I didn’t understand English at all, so when I went to breakfast, I always wanted to be her friend so I tried to ask her, “Can I sit next to you?”, which I had checked with a translator beforehand.
She had a lot of friends and was a high-class person to me. It was at the end of 9th grade that I became closer to her. In 10th grade, we became roommates, and I got to know her better. She usually works very hard in her studies, but when I put on music, she sings and shares the good times.
I have known her for three years now, and we are so close that I consider her a childhood friend. I feel safe to talk to her about anything, and she accepts everything about me.
I have many memories with her, but I really enjoyed her visit to my country this summer.
She is so important to me that I cannot imagine my school life without her. I am very thankful to her for being my best friend. I want to make many memories with her in the future. And I wish her a wonderful life from now on.

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Places I have lived

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In my 16 years of life, I have lived in four different states. Florida, California, Louisiana, and Arizona. Living in these places has taught me many things, especially how different environments can affect you. I was born in Boca Raton, Florida, and I had only lived there until I was two and a half. The main things that I remember from living here were the extreme humidity and the really loud toads outside of our house. I know that is not much that I can remember, but I was very young when I lived here. I last visited Florida many years ago, but let’s just say I do not have much of a desire to return.

After living in Florida, I moved to Los Angeles, California. I have lived in California for most of my life, and I definitely know and love it most. Los Angeles is not always as glamorous as it looks in movies, (especially central Hollywood), but I still really have a love for it. There are so many spots in Los Angeles that just spark memories for me. It really is a special place that will always be in my heart no matter where I move to in my future.

I lived in Louisiana for 5 months every year for three years, and I moved there because my brother was cast in a TV show. Although I did make some great memories, I would not want to live there again. There is a lot of fried food there as well. I remember that I had refused to try crawfish the entire time that I lived in Louisiana, but unfortunately, on my last month living there, I realized how good crawfish tasted. I’m still sad about it.

Living in Arizona did not feel real to me at all. I lived in Scottsdale starting in 2017, and oh my gosh was it hot. I can just remember stepping outside and feeling like I was drying up from the heat and sun. There was also a dust storm when I lived there, which I found really cool as a ten-year-old. I do remember living in fear of jumping cacti, though. Whenever I went on a hike, I would try and get as far away from any cactus that I saw, which is really difficult in Arizona because they are everywhere. Arizona is a really beautiful place with great locations to visit, and I am very grateful that I got to live there for nine months.

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sitting on the raft

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I vividly remember sitting on the big green raft on the Colorado River. It was the last day of the honors trip, and I was ready to take a shower but not ready to go back to school. Mr. Farmer was rowing and let the rest of us sit and talk on the raft. 

Mr. Farmer told us his life story, while we ate the remaining camping snacks- M&M’s, yogurt, and gummy worms. Below the raft, the water was a bright blue-green, and cliffs surrounded us on the left and right. There were no man-made structures in sight, just rock; no school or stress, just water and a cool breeze. There was nothing to do and I loved it. The sun shone above, warming our faces. We sat on a large foam sleeping pad, and I could hear the steady sound of the oars hitting the water. This was one of those moments, I thought, that I wish I could live in forever. 

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My love

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I don’t think I could live without my phone. It’s genuinely so motivating. The first thing I do in the morning is check my phone, and the last thing I do is check my phone. There is nothing I spend more time on throughout the day than my phone. My mom is making me turn in my phone at 10:30 now because she says I’m a “screenager,” what she doesn’t understand is why I use it so much. I honestly don’t like people at my school very much there are a few good ones, but overall, most of my friends are out of school, and a lot live in Ventura. The people at OVS are just not similar to me, and I’ve never had a large group of school friends. I go to school and do my work and then go home, and that’s it. This is besides the point, my screen time, my most used application is Snapchat. I use Snapchat seven hours a day on average. The majority of my time on snap, I am communicating with my friends, and this is something that is extremely important to me. As a person who lives in Ojai and has no weekday free time, texting is what keeps my outside-of-school friendships alive. My weekly screen time average is 13 hours, and that’s probably an issue, but I love my phone. I can not live without music, and my Spotify screen time is one hour. My phone keeps me going, and I don’t know what I would do without it. I hope my mom forgets to take my phone.

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My favorite quotes (in no particular order)

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“ tell me all the terrible things you’ve done and let me love you anyways”

-Edgar Allen Poe

“And I had a bad, bad feeling that if this girl said the word please, I would give her anything she wanted”

-Nico

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

-David Viscott

“We are most alive when we are in love.”

-John Updike

“And now my biggest weakness walked outside my body with soft brown eyes and long black hair”

-Nico

“If I ever see a flaw of yours, I’d say my eyes were the flawed ones.”

-Mahmoud Darwish

 “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

-The Little Prince

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“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.”

-William W. Purkey

What I’m into these days

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My latest addiction is acai bowls. My image of them was that of stylish LA girls eating them for breakfast. Acai bowls are full of nutrients and are known as a superfood. Acai also contains three times more iron than liver and 30 times more polyphenols than red wine. Therefore, it is effective in preventing anemia, aging, and lifestyle-related diseases. I first ate it in Hawaii when I was in the fourth grade of elementary school. At that time, I did not realize the appeal of shallow bowls. When I studied abroad in the U.S. in high school, near my school, acai bowls struck a chord with me. They are the healthiest of snacks, cold and happy.
My favorite toppings are strawberries, bananas, blueberries, granola, and honey.
These days I stock up on acai bowls every time I go out for the weekend. The number one drawback to these is that everything gets all tickly and hard in the freezer. But more than that, I’m a sucker for acai bowls. My dream is to visit different acai bowl stores while I am in the US.

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and it ends with

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I think I have wished away too much time. I think about it all the time, and yet I keep looking forward to when my life is gonna be “better”. I know that it’s never gonna get better because when I was six I wanted to be seven because that was my lucky number and when I was seven, I wanted to be nine like my friends. When I was nine I wanted to be ten because it meant I would be double digits and I could hold up all my fingers when someone asked how old I was. When I was ten I wanted to be thirteen so I could be a teenager. When I was thirteen I wanted to be sixteen so I could drive and go to parties and be independent and get time away from my mom. Now I’m sixteen and I can’t drive but I do live alone and I need my mom more than I ever thought I would. I’m sixteen, thinking I’m old and wishing I had the time I wished away back. But I’m still wishing the time away. I wish I was eighteen and graduated high school. I wish I was 22 and done with college. I wish I was traveling and getting married and buying a house and having kids. I’m sixteen and wondering what it’s like to be old. I wonder what it’s like to feel so close to death or being told you’re gonna die any day. Do they feel ready? But I don’t have to worry about that until I’ve wished all my time away.