I Am Going To Do It! May 1, 2008

 

    Hey there my lovely readers! I know I have been pondering about what I should do for a new or upcoming blog that will be some what interesting. I have been racking my brain for ideas. Lots of things have come up for me to write about, but I don’t want to write about something just to write. I want my writing to have some meaning, or atleast things that are atleast important to me. As people know I love the Earth, and feel the need not only to make this planet cleaner, but I also care for the people that live on it. Okay, and lets not forget the Sea Turtles. I feel people should at least have house, clean water, and some kind of education. Education meaning acidemics, common sense, and life skills to survive. I would love to just bring food and clean fresh water to tribes in Africa and other countries. But you can’t just do the work for them and then when you are not there they not know what to do. You not only have to teach them let them do it themselves, and then maybe telling them a quicker and better way of doing it. Just give them the experience, giving the gift of knowledge is the best gift anyone could give.

 

I am known as a “Hippie” or “The Hippie” which I think is cute and all, but really that is not what I am. You might be wondering what I would consider myself; first of all, I do not labeling what so ever it is wrong. It gives people big egos, and it can do serious damage to others, and sometimes the people with the BIG egos are the one with serious mental damage. Since they don’t know how to grow up and know that they are not always going to be right, and they will never be the coolest; someone else will have beaten you to that title no matter how hard you try. So personally I say ban labels, but you really can’t, so if you must put me under one little category and label me only as one thing the big thing everyone would say would be “Hippie” or I prefer Enviromentalist. Not a Hippie, hippies do drugs, protest over wars, and have silly quotes. I would be what you might consider an Environmentalist.

 

So now we have gotten that behind us, my bigger problem is I love to travel. If you really personally know me, you know that well I am dieing to go to India, Africa, and other parts of the world. For myself, to travel make friends, and well whatever comes my way. I don’t know, I have fallen in love with little children in other parts of the world living on their own. I do dream of adopting less unfortunate children when I am ready to start my own family, but just adopting two children won’t make a big enough impact. So I was debating with myself how in the world will I ever be able to afford to travel to different countries, and at the same time make an impact in this world. I figured get sponsored by some people, but then that still won’t be enough. This put my in a pickle, I needed to figure out what exactly type of game plan I can make. My dad the genius he is, suggested “Peace Core” I figured that means I will be weighed down with commitment to them.

 

So, I researched a little bit about the Peace Corps. they ask for a two year commitment. I thought it isn’t a bad deal, you get to stay in a exotic or whereever you want place for two years doing something that you love and can move on to another place for the next two years. I haven’t done full research, but there are alot of things teens can do, since you have to be 18 or older to join Peace Corps. I think it will be a fun experience. So I figured they prefer people with college degrees or at least some kind of education. So I am now starting to plan my life the way I think I will love and be best suited for.  Maybe not the route my parents invisioned for me. I think it is quiet funny, some girl who wanted to persue business and go to Harvard Business college now thinking of becoming part of the Peace Corps.

 

Right now I feel somewhat satisfied, knowing what I should be looking in to more and things of that nature.  It just makes me well extremely happy. I don’t think I have been this sure of what I wanted to do in and with my life before. Now I feel some sort of weird sensation of peace with me inside, like almost my heart telling me that I have to do it and I am going to do it, it is something I will enjoy doing.  So now, I just need to do extensive research and hopefully figure out everything while I go along.

 

The song for this blog is……..well a little more exotic in honor of my first Peace Corps. blog…………..”Din Din Wo” by: Habib Koite` and Bamada.

Family April 8, 2008

 

Family is a big part of my life. Even though they might not be all that sane some times, or even concur with me. They have always been there for me and always will be. In the picture above, it is a picture of my cousin and me on my parents boat. We went on a short little cruise for spring break, and well let just make this as simple as ABC.

My cousin Nicky and I go way back. Ever since I can remember, we have always been in some silly argument like who gets the remote, what we watch, what game we play, what movie to watch, and this list can go on for miles. On this trip we had so much fun even though all the parents hear is “your such a cheater. CHEATER!” “I am not the cheater, Cheater, your the cheater” never play ‘uno’ or any kind of card game with the two of us.

 The truth is, even though the parents hear our argueing we are actually pretty much inseperable when we are together. We sing, dance, laugh *at each other*, talk about nonsense, take pictures, and well always look out for one another. No one else but me can mess with Nicky, we are there for each other no matter if the other one likes it at the time. Being raised in a family where family is everything the backbone to life, I can’t see not loving my cousin as much as I do.

I know some families barely communicate or never see or talk to each other. But if I didn’t have my family I don’t think I could survive. After coming back from a family friend’s brother’s funeral I realized how much family is. No, I didn’t have Nicky with me, even though I missed him and wanted somebody to bug. I think everyone should mend their ties or bond with their family no matter what. If you don’t have family, create one. That is the best family you can ever have, you can actually choose your family. Friends are also a good thing because after the years of joy and tears they become like family.

Family should be the most important thing you can ever have. Because, no matter what, they will be there with you.

Shout-out and random things that come to mind. March 30, 2008

   Today was fun, I also want to start out by giving a shout out to one of the coolest people I know and you wish you knew. To my little cousin Nicky! It is his sweet sixteenth birthday today. Fun kid, we are closer then bubble in bubblegum yeah. If you are around when we are together, we will probably be arguing about something pretty silly. Even though we love each other so much we are more like brother and sister then cousins. Even though we have some good memories together like our vacation to Madera Beach for Labor Day weekend. That is one of my favorite memory with him, we saw a wild manatee in the ocean which was like 5 feet away from me in the water. So shout out to my home boy Asiababasia! Happy birthday Chicken!

We went to Dave & Busters and played video games for a good two hours. We surprised Chicken at D&B since he thought me and my family wouldn’t be joining him for his birthday. I did bake him some Brownies, well lets just say sitting in a hot car for a few hours over baked them and well they were hard as rocks. I now have to bake him another batch of brownies that is not rock solid. Also, fun news Nicky has Spring Break this coming week and my parents might be going on a trip on the sail boat. So, Nicky might come with us for a few days on the sailboat, that means I have someone to talk to. You might be thinking, but taK-tiK you and Chicken always fight. True, but we always have fun when we are together.  I will take a gazillion pictures which will drive him crazy, and he will keep poking me or tickling me the whole time. That is pretty much how it will work, we will have oodles of fun.

Also, I have been in extremely good moods if you have noticed lately. It is because things have been going pretty good so far. I am just pondering about how exactly I can try to change the world and or give back to the earth. I am trying to think, would it be THAT hard like everyone thinks it is or have they ever even tried? I mean how can you know what you can and can’t do if you never try?  Think about it, if everybody tried something that they thought they could never do but only in their dreams, what impact would they make? What if someone thought up of a theory and never tried it, would it have made a difference or would have it made it one closer in discovering something brilliant and never thought of before. I think more people should live in a state of mind in trying everything they can and are able to do. Even if you are not “able” to do it, still try to do it. (Please don’t take my advice to any extremes, I am not liable if you do. Think on your own, use the most powerful thing you can ever have which is your head.)