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BEDA #1: Long time no see!

2010-08-01T23:45:00.002-04:00

Hello there!

I'm back, well at least for this month and BEDA. As usual, I'm late, and I only have fourteen minutes to write this post before it's the second. So here's a quick list

- I just came back from a week in Canada, and I loved the country. It was gorgeous, and it reminded me so much of Europe. I loved everything about it. The trees, the architecture, the little streets, the little shops, everything!

- I loved the World Cup! It was definitely not the most gorgeous display of football that I've seen, but it's the best sporting event in the world and it makes me happy. I just wish that Germany had won it! My allegiances to countries is a little messed up because I support both England and Germany, but I don't care! But I really do think that Germany played the best football and deserved to win the tournament.

- I miss Manchester United and club football.

- I read so much in Canada! I'm almost done with Lord of the Rings, which I love. I started Little Women, I finished a book for school (The Kingdom of this World), and I started another book for school (Facundo)

- I've also started watching Star Trek, and it's just as good as I expected it to be! I haven't watched that much of it, I'm still only on the first season of the Original Series...

- I leave for Oregon on an international IB conference on Sunday and I'm super excited (but I probably won't be able to blog while I'm there...)

Happy New Year

2010-01-03T18:42:00.002-05:00

Hello there. I haven't posted here in a while, but I thought since it's a new year I should do one of those cheesy posts about what has happened to me over the past year. (Even though I should be practicing a guitar piece...)

- I fell in love with football, the sport has practically taken over my life now

- I fell in love with Manchester United

- I found out I have the most amazing friends in the planet

- I found out I kind of hate school

- I started to wish that all of this school crap will be over

- I continued to love books, and still read like a maniac

- I went to some of the most amazing concerts ever

- I went to some of the best parties

- My obsession with YouTube people decreased, which is good because I can live my own life

- I found out that boys are stupid

- But I still like them....

It's been a pretty uneventful year, and hopefully the next one will be better :D

What I've been up to

2009-11-21T18:37:00.002-05:00

Well hello there, long time no see. I'm still alive in case you are wondering, here's what I've been up to:

Went to the most amazing Boys Like Girls concert ever and as a result developed an obsession with a band called A Rocket to the Moon.
Got my first B on a report card.
Saw New Moon and didn't like it.
Read a book about football.
Watched a lot of football.
Cried over a football match.
Listened to "I've got Nothing" way too many times.
Started looking forward to going to school because that meant I won't have to do as much work as I have to do at home.
Wrote a 10-page paper on Don Quixote
Shit, I'm about to be late for a study session...

Gaby and the Killers

2009-10-04T00:24:00.002-04:00

Today was the most amazing day I've ever had. I don't think that anything could have ruined it. So many things went wrong, yet everything just ended up being amazing. I had to wake up at six, but that was fine because I spent the time until one at an awesome Key Club convention, where I along with other overdressed people pretended I knew what I was doing. I didn't know that we weren't allowed to wear sandals, and I had a mental break down in the car, while I was driving and almost ran over several bicyclists while I was trying to call my friend. Shoes were discovered and I ended up at the conference wearing the most adorable pair of high heels ever. I also now have an idea of an awesome service project that I want to do. It involves soccer which is amazing.

Manchester did not win their game against Sunderland, they drew 2-2, but I don't think that it has hit me yet so I'm not upset. They are still top of the leader board and Berba scored an amazing goal.

During the convention I found out that my best friend did want to go to the Killers concert that I had tickets for, but I found an awesome girl to go with.

The concert was the most amazing experience of my life. We took off our shoes the moment the music started playing and we did not sit down until the end. The people behind us who frowned as we covered their view could not tamper our mood. The slippery, alcholoh covered floor did not matter. All that mattered was the music. I sang as loud as I could, ensuring that I won't be able to speak a word tomorrow. The stadium was full of sweating, screaming people as we chanted the words to Mr. Brightside we waived our hands as if we were one person, because for that moment we were. There was nothing that made me happier, I was smiling from ear to ear. Not caring about my Chemistry test, or math homework, or community service, I just cared about the music, and it was amazing.

Perfection

2009-10-02T19:48:00.002-04:00

There was an article in this month's Teen Vogue (yes, I read it, don't judge me :D) about what perfect girls. I realized that my friends and I fit into that category, even though we are not all girls. The four of us are top of our grade, we have never received Bs on our report carts, we are involved in too many extracurricular activities, and we are known as the nerds of the school. People pretend to like us because we are nice to all of us, but I know that they don't actually because every single teacher loves us. We are the kind of students who when given a simple homework assignment will create amazing artwork, we are the students who set the curve.

Other people expect us to do well, and we usually do. But when we don't do well we get made fun of, and you can see that people are happy because we have "failed". An example of this was when I was working on a problem in my AP Chemistry class. I got the problem wrong and a kid corrected me, when he realized that he was right and I was right he started being all "OMG you were wrong, I can't believe I just got something right and you didn't." I was actually really upset that people take so much pleasure in my failure. Another example was in my Pre-Calc class. We have the toughest teacher for that class and I was the only one that got a 100 and 120 on the first two quizzes and then got a 110 on the first test. I had never gotten a question wrong in that class, so the other day he asked me a question and I did get it wrong. Everyone in my class proceeded to stare at me because this was the first time in his class that I had gotten a question wrong.

I also realized that while I struggle to be perfect at school I don't do it for myself or for my parents, I do it for other people. I love helping people, and I guess I love the feeling of being smarter than people. Being perfect is not always easy, I've sacrificed many things to gain that title, my friends and I classify as the people who have no lives, and we put food and sleep second in our priorities, after school.

Because people expect me to do well on everything I also began to expect the same thing from myself. The other day I had a presentation for English, which I had worked on really hard. I am artistically challenged and I was able to draw a person that was as tall as me and it actually looked well. I got a 90 on that presentation and when I saw my grade I started crying, because I saw that as a failure. I now have a 90 in the class, I don't think I've ever been this close to getting a B in English and it makes me really upset. I know a B isn't a bad grade, but I see it as a failure.

Priorities

2009-09-21T21:34:00.003-04:00

I haven't blogged on here in a while, so I thought I would deprive myself from some studying and several hours of sleep in order to write this. I don't even know what I'm going to write about...

School has been going pretty good. The teachers are definitely giving us too much homework, but I can handle it, so far there have been no projects which is good. I did write an essay for AP European history which I thought was pretty good, and I did get an A :) If you read this far, then I'm very proud of you, here is an imaginary cookie, and a Ronaldo *hands over*

I've recently noticed a shift in my priorities. (wow that's a change of topic). Last year it used to be school, friends and then other random stuff. Now it's sports, school, and friends. It's kind of funny because I deprive myself from studying in order to watch sports, which I've never done before. Not only that but I spend more time watching sports than I do with my friends outside of school. It's kind of weird and I know that most of my friends don't understand it, but football is just so amazing and it makes me relax and forget about school and everything else. Over this weekend I watched six soccer games, and I was going to watch more but I had to take a break and write a four-paged essay.

I don't really have anything much to say here, so I guess I should leave the internets and get some sleep.

Lots of Wishing

2009-09-13T01:22:00.003-04:00

I haven't blogged in a while, but even though it's almost two in the morning, I'm exhausted, and I'm not really feeling well I'm still going to write this. School has been pretty tough the first three weeks. Tenth grade is a lot different from ninth- they started giving us homework the second day of school. The second day... AP Chemistry is really tough and I think I'm actually going to struggle a lot in that class, but I hope that I make it. Anyway, I don't want to talk about school here.

Last week I went to see Depeche Mode live when they came down to Miami for a concert and they were amazing! I think that must have been the best concert I've been to so far, and we were sitting pretty close to the band too, which was awesome. I wasn't really feeling well throughout the whole concert because something really weird happened. They started playing one of their songs, I can't remember which one, and it had a really hard core bass going on, the kind where you can feel everything shaking. For some reason I couldn't breathe because of the base so I had to walk out of the concert and I almost passed out, but then they started playing my favorite song "Enjoy the Silence" so I had to run back in there even though I wasn't feeling well.

So this week my parents decided to drag me to Sea World with them. I wasn't really excited because that mean that I would have to do all my homework while I was at a crappy hotel and that I couldn't watch most of the tennis matches, and no soccer. I missed my first Manchester United game since around April, and it happened to be a great game which they won. But going to Sea World was actually really fun. I got to watch dolphins and whales do cool things and even though I still have two English tests and a project due on Monday I'm happy I came. Tennis wasn't a huge issue because all the matches have been delayed and I got to watch the big tennis drama tonight.

While we were driving to Orlando from Miami I was talking with my parents about soccer. They were telling me about the Great World Cup of 1994. I call it the Great World Cup because it was the only team that Bulgaria did well in a World Cup, by well I mean we got fourth place. My parents were talking about how we almost didn't qualify and then how we lost our first match to Nigeria and then we beat Argentina and France and Germany, and many other great teams. I was surprised by how much my parents remember about that World Cup. They told me how we scored a our goal in the last minute in Paris to win the match 2-1 and how during that match God was Bulgarian and we qualified for the World Cup. They told me how the French stadium fell in complete silence as their chances of going to the World Cup were thrown out the window. Until this day the French still hate us for that win.

I wish I was there when that had happened. Well technically I was, but I was too small to remember, I wasn't even a year old. My mom told me I started crying when Bulgarian eliminated Germany and reached the semi finals and the entire country cheered so loudly. I wish I had cheered with them because just listening to my parents talk about it gives me goose bumps. I wish that I remember when Bulgaria was good at something other than volleyball. I wish I remembered the Gold Generation.

I wish a lot of things, too bad they can't happen.

Classes

2009-08-30T02:33:00.002-04:00

Well hello there :)

First week of school is over, and it was pretty bad/ good. I love being with all my friends every day even though it is school. But the waking up at six part is the one that sucks. That and the fact that my classes are definitely not going to be easy. Here's how it goes:

English- for the first time ever I have an actual English teacher. I've never learned grammar before, so this year will definitely be interesting. As of right now I love the class even though it is definitely not the easiest.
Pre-Calc- my old chess teacher is my Pre-calc teachers, which means he loves me already which is good because that will probably be one of my hardest classes.
AP Chemistry- I think this will be my hardest class even though the teacher is amazing.
AP European- the class that I'm most excited for. It's not going to be that hard because I'm good at history, but I'm a little worried about the AP test
Spanish II- that class is a joke
Guitar- well, I can't read music so we'll see how that goes...

Also, I miss soccer, I've been watching all the games, but it's not as fun when I'm stressing about school at the same time.

The Adventures Of The Dinosaur Cookies

2009-08-26T20:00:00.004-04:00

School has officially began, and so have the homework assignments. In English we are studying sentence structure and one of our assignments was to write a story using simple, complex, compound and compound-complex sentences. I found my story rather entertaining, so I think I should post it here:

I baked dinosaur cookies. Nadine and Maya helped me too. I placed the cookies in the oven and waited. I checked on the cookies and they were baking. We took out the cookies; they were not ready. Suddenly they came alive; we screamed and Nadine ran under the table. Eventually we came out of our hiding spots, I looked at the cookies. The dinosaurs were eating the kitchen counter while we stared. The counter, when we looked closely, was made of chocolate brownies. While we stared, the cat appeared in the room and she sniffed the dinosaurs. She started hissing at the cookies, as they diminished the kitchen; we feared they would get into a fight. The dinosaur cookies scattered all over the floor, and they ran out the open door, because of that we never saw them again.

School

2009-08-22T23:23:00.005-04:00

starts on Monday.

I'm excited because:

I get to see my best friends every day, have almost every class with them.
I get to share lunch with everyone while making perverted jokes/ throw food at each other.
I get to take European history.
I get to learn how to play guitar.

I'll definitely miss:

the fact that the most important thing in the world was what soccer player got transferred to what soccer club, and the fact that Manchester was winning games.
staying up until 3 o'clock and reading soccer news
waking up at 2 in the afternoon
waking up at 10 in the morning to watch soccer and then going back to sleep
watching tennis all day
watching soccer all day
singing Manchester United's song on the top of my lungs because I have nothing better to do
reading books for fun
getting to see my best friend almost every day
googling pictures of soccer players for hours
making schedules of sports that I have to watch
blogging at three in the morning
watching YouTube videos for insane amount of hours
blogging almost every day
not giving a shit about anything

Sports writing

2009-08-15T02:22:00.004-04:00

Ever since I was little I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. After watching too many episodes of a cheesy TV show about policemen with bikes I wanted to work for the police. After I watched Legally Blond I wanted to be a lawyer, the lawyer thing went on for a while actually, until in fifth grade I realized I hate public speaking and you kind of have to be good at that if you want to be a lawyer. Since then I knew that there was only one (or two) things I am good at: science and math.

Since fifth grade I decided that I was going to be a mathematician (but not a teacher), physicist, or some other kind of scientist. Basically, I wanted to go into serious study business. Until about a month ago...

My obsession with sports began in 2006, but that was only during the World Cup in Germany. My real obsession with sports began last year. Sports is just the one thing that relaxes me, the one thing that I really like to talk about, and write about. And last week it hit me: I want to be a sports writer or a sports journalist. I'm too old to play any kind of sport, so that is my only chance to actually do something that I love.

I decided to create a new blog where I can only talk about sports, and see how that goes. As of right now it's going really well, and I love writing about all the different sports I watch. I realize that having a career as a sports journalist won't be as easy as creating a blog online, and sitting in front of the TV watching sports, taking notes and eating ice cream.

I know that my parents will not approve of my new aspiration, but hey, who cares, I love sports and maybe this will be the thing I want to do!

Here is the blog, in case you want to read it: http://shetalks.sportsblognet.com/

BTW, premier league season starts tomorrow and I iz excited!!!

Glory, glory, Man United!

Best Friends, Scarves, Backstreet Boys and Bubble Wrap Conversations

2009-07-30T23:28:00.005-04:00

My best friend Maya is finally back from England and I'm really happy. (I really had no idea how to start this blog, so I just got right into it...) She was gone for three weeks and I really missed her because the two of us are usually inseparable. We went to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince because even though she was in England when the movie came out she did not go see it! Can you imagine that? She was in England and she did not watch Harry Potter??! Anyway, it was still an awesome way to spend our first day together. Then we went back to my house and sat around the freezing pool for a while and then watched some Friends episodes, because Friends is the most amazing show ever.

Anyway, I turned 16 while Maya was away in England and she told me that she had bought me a gift there. Of course I was excited because, well, who doesn't like gifts?! (Well Bella from Twilight, but she likes it when vampires stalk her...) I wasn't really expecting much, but the gift I got was amazing! It was a Manchester United scarf! I mean seriously, I am probably the only serious soccer fan in the world who does not own a team scarf, but now I actually do and its AMAZING!

After she gave me the scarf and after I drooled all over it we sat on my bed and started listening to some music... By some music I mean the Backstreet Boys.

I don't care who you are

Where you're from

What you did

As long as you love me

How can you not love them? It was on Sunday at 2 o'clock in the morning that I re-discovered my love for them. I was sitting around, wondering what to do and then BAM:

Tell me why

Ain't nothing but a heartache

Tell me why

Ain't nothing but a mistake

Tell me why

I never wanna hear you say

I want it that way

I was dancing around by myself in my pj's until around three in the morning when I collapsed on my bed to this:

All you people can't you see, can't you see

How your love's affecting our reality

Every time we are down

You can make it right

And that makes you larger than life

You can't tell me that you are not singing along right now, and if you are not, then shame on you. Oh and I won one of the Suite Scarlett giveaways, and I'm really excited to get the book! Anyway to close this off here is a conversation I had with one of my guy friends today:

Me: Maya got me a Manchester United scarf! I didn't know who else to tell...

Him: Did she get it in Manchester? And I don't know who else you would tell either. And I'm jealous (if I liked scarfs).

Me: Yeah she got it from Manchester (she didn't actually, but Maya told me to tell him she did). And I'm not a fan of scarves either but I get to hang it in my room

Him: That works. Tell Maya that I'm upset she didn't get me a scarf.

Me: Well you are not important enough and also it wasn't your birthday.

Him: Happy birthday. Now I feel bad I didn't get you anything. And I guess you are more important.

Me: Get me bubble wrap!

Him: You got it. But why do you want it?

Me: Why wouldn't you want bubble wrap? And it was Maya's idea... Figures

Him: Well I can make it happen. I guess you're right, who wouldn't want it

I love bubble wrap!

Partying the Bulgarian Style

2009-07-20T23:46:00.004-04:00

I happen to really like my Bulgarian family and friends, well at least most of the time. We are all kind of like the family from My Big Fat Greek Wedding but not as sober as they are. They all like to party a lot and drink, and eat, and do a lot of Eastern European things. Usually I get really bored because I'm not really friends with any other Bulgarians that are my age.

Anyway, once a year we have this gathering in the same park, and I usually spend the entire day hiding under a tree with my only Bulgarian friend, and trying to avoid all the annoying little kids. This time my friend wasn't there, so I spent the day with an eleven year old girl (I think) who is gymnast, she is about half my height and beat my dad (who happens to be quite muscular) in arm wrestling. I had a soccer ball with me and our parents made us go to the field and play. It was kind of awkward, considering that I was wearing a dress, and all the other Bulgarian teenagers kept giving me weird looks. But it was also fun, I enjoyed just kicking the ball around and pretending to be a little kid in my tie-dye dress.

Of course the horrible Miami heat got to us and we were forced to hide in the shade again, while our parents danced to Bulgarian songs, which was pretty awesome because Bulgarian dancing is really cool, but I can't dance it all, but my mom is really good. The girl went to dance with her mom and she picked up the steps pretty quickly, and I was sitting there trying to remember why I stopped dancing. The day ended with my parents and me singing Bulgarian songs and having a random dude draw a cartoon of me for ten dollars.

I think I like being Bulgarian much more than I'd like to admit <3

Needles and Half-Blood Prince

2009-07-18T01:02:00.004-04:00

I just realized that the title of this blog contains the thing I hate the most and the thing I like the most. So I think I should start with talking about the thing that I hate (needles) so I can get it out. I should probably be a. sleeping b. reading Don Quixote or c. watching Buffy, but I think I should continue.

So I had to go to the cardiologist because I've been getting a lot of chest pains lately. I'm not really afraid of doctors or going to the hospital or stuff like that, but I do have a phobia of needles. I don't like needles, AT ALL. As I walked into the doctor's office I didn't expect them to have to use needles because that's what my dad told me, and they were just going to look at my heart so they wouldn't need any blood, right? Of course I was wrong, and when I heard the word- or words- blood work, I almost died. The nurse walks in and she is all smiles and stuff and I'm sitting in there in one of those stupid paper gowns looking half-dead. Then she ties my arm with one of those rubber band thingies and she starts slapping my hand with her fingers so that she could find the vein, but of course they can never find my vein. She poked me with the needle, and then took it out because no blood was coming out and she said she would have to take it from my wrist. The moment she said that I passed out, literally. The last thing I remember was staring at the little hole in my arm that the needle had left and then it was all dark and then I had this really horrible feeling, and then I was fine. But I hate fainting, and I hate needles. The last time I passed out was again caused by a needle, because I am just so freacking terrified of them!!! I know why too, it started when I was really little and I got dehydrated and I had to be taken to the hospital and they had to hook me up to an IV or something and they couldn't find my vein so the nurse kept poking me over and over again, and she had this little yellow needle with little wings, and I think I was two at most and I still remember it. But I've always had trouble with people taking blood from me because my veins happen to not be very visible and well it sucks. Anyway, I've rambled enough about this, now I want to talk about cooler stuff, like Harry Potter.

I've seen it twice now, I saw it on the day it came out and today I saw it again. The first time I really liked the movie, but I didn't like the fact that it was so different from the book, which happens to be my favorite book in the series, and my all time favorite book. But overall I think that the movie was really good, so here are some things I liked:

- The first Burrow scene, with Mrs. Weasley, Ginny, Hermione and Ron, it's just adorable.

- Dumbledore. He was much better in this movie than in the other ones. He definitely wasn't as spastic and didn't try to kill Harry like in Goblet of Fire. I just couldn't understand why he wasn't wearing his glasses, and why he kept sitting on the floor in his office, doesn't he have a chair?!

-Bellatrix. I love her, I think she is just so realistically insane, I mean just look at her! She is perfect, she is just like a little kid, but she is so... well... for the lack of a better word- insane

-Hermione. I think Emma Watson was wonderful in this movie, and I loved her relationship with Harry. The canary scene was perfect, and she was just great.

-Ron and Harry. Oh, they were just lovely to look at! The scenes with the love potion are just brilliant, they are both such good actors. And the one at the Burrow with the pies- again brilliant! Of course one of my favorite parts of the movie was the

Harry "She has nice skin." Ron: "So you think Dean is dating my sister because she has nice skin?" scene. They were just so natural, I loved it.

-All the Pensieve scenes were epic.

-Draco was amazing! And super hot

-The next-to- last scene in the movie, the one where they all point their wands at the sky. That's the part that made me cry, it was amazingly made.

A couple of things I didn't like:

- The kiss with Ginny. It was horrible. I mean you can't call that a kiss! She just kind of bit his lip...

- The burning of the Burrow. That was just weird and random, where is the wedding going to be in the 7th movie if there is no Burrow? I don't know I didn't really like that part at all.

- Ginny. Bonnie was just really awkward throughout the entire movie, I didn't like it.

- There was no "Dumbledore's man through and through"!

- Dumbledore's death. I didn't like the slow-mo thing.

I think that's it, I'm about to fall asleep typing this, so goodnight :)

Hormonal Boys

2009-07-11T23:03:00.002-04:00

Ah so there is one thing about 13 year old hormonal boys that is just so very amusing.

So today my parents invited our friends for dinner and they brought along one of their childern's cousins who happens to be 13. He had the whole I-just-became-a- teenager-so-I'm- cool attitude and he was trying to talk to me and stuff and he thought that he knew more about sports than I did. Ha, no 13 year old boys knows more about soccer than I do (OK,maybe some do, but those are rare). It was funny cause he thought that he was going to impress me while I was sitting there with my blank expression staring at the boring soccer game that they were showing on ESPN. And then we were playing pool and I just sat there watching because I could give less shit about pool and he was all trying to show off and stuff. And then, yeah there is more, my parents were discussing going to a barbecue with them tomorrow and he turns to me and tells me that I should bring some of my friends along, but bring myself too. Then I told him that all my friends happen to be about three years older than he is, and he just smiled and said he likes older women. AND THEN, his aunt was telling me how much he waned to go to Hooters and watch the girls there. A thirteen year old boy at Hooters?!

I will leave you at that.

Obsessions and Tennis

2009-07-05T22:46:00.004-04:00

If you haven't realized yet I tend to obsess with things a lot. Especially in a time like this when I have nothing to do. Here is a list of things that I am currently obsessed with/ have been obsessed with for a while:

1. Harry Potter- this has been going on for the past eight years, so nothing new

2. Soccer- this started in 2006 after watching every single game in the World Cup, but the obsession level has been especially high this year since I discovered my love for Manchester United

3. Tennis- this one is pretty new, it started at the beginning of this year when I was bored and decided to watch the Australian Open and then every single game of the French Open and Wimbledon. I believe that Roger Federer is God.

4. Reading- nothing new...

5. Other things that I don't feel like talking about right now

So, I wanted to focus on my tennis obsession right now since today was the end of Wimbledon. Oh, what an end it was. The game was four and a half hours long, which surprised me because, well let's face it, no one believed that Andy Roddick would be able to pull of a 5 setter. I mean he is good, but if you want to beat Roger you have to be amazing. I woke up at 9 to watch the entire match and when Roddick broke Fed's serve for the first time I went into shock, I basically stood in front of the TV for about an hour and a half (or until the epic fifth set) in complete shock. My mom was actually trying to talk to me at one point and I completely ignored her and kept staring on. And since I mentioned the epic 5th set of that match, I have to talk about it. I mean that set alone was longer than the entire women's final (which was really disappointing), and it took Federer 30 games to win the match. I think sometime after the 10-10 game I started pacing back and forth just waiting for the game to end. At that point I didn't care who won, I just wanted the game to end. Of course when it did end my hero won, even though it took him 4 and a half hours, 5 sets and 30 games in the last set.

I felt really bad for Federer's wife while she stood there watching him struggle. I was freaking out in front of the TV, and I don't even know the guy, but she is his wife and all, she must have been freaking out... And then there was Andy, oh poor Andy. I think this is the 5th time that he lost to a Fed in a Grand Slam Final. Poor thing, I felt so bad for him, because he came so close, and he played so well, but he just couldn't do it.

But I am very glad that Federer is again the number one player in the world (the only player to ever lose the number one rank and regain it), has the record of 15 titles, and can officially be called the greatest tennis player that ever lived.

I think that I have rambled for long enough now. Some last words: This Wimbledon was epic, definitely looking forward to the U.S. Open in August :P

Bye <3

Buffy, Books, Sharks, Soccer and Tennis

2009-06-29T00:08:00.000-04:00

This blog post comes to you in five parts.

Part 1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This is a show that I randomly stumbled upon while I was flipping through the channels while in vacation in Bulgaria a couple of years ago. I happened to like it quite a lot even though I'm not a huge fan of supernatural kind of shows. I've also heard Alex Day (nerimon) talk about it, so I decided that I would give it a try since I finished watching all the episodes of The Office. I'm almost done with the first season of Buffy and I still like the show. I thought that I would get bored of it considering that all they do is kill vampires, but I guess that's not all they do. It can be pretty freaky too especially the last episode I watched had a very creepy clown in it, and I'm very, very scared of clowns... But now I know that whenever I hear the creepy music something "scary" is going to happen or something is going to jump out at you. So yeah, I wanted to share with you the fact that I like Buffy. Yay!

Part 2: Books

I went out to breakfast with my parents today and my mom decided to get a pedicure afterward so my dad and I went to a bookstore just to pass the time (isn't this exciting?!). Of course the moment I walk into a bookstore I have to buy a book, so I headed over to the teen-lit section because I had already decided what book I wanted. I'd decided that I finally had to get myself a Maureen Johnson book. After checking all the John Green books for nerdfighter notes, and not finding any I looked for the J's and they had two of Maureen's books there. One was Bermudaz Triangle and the other one 13 Little Blue Envelopes. Now, I've heard how good both books are, and it was a hard decision and after contemplating for 15 minutes I decided to get 13 Little Blue Envelopes. So this was my great story about buying a book :0

Part 3: Sharks

My best friend Maya and I went to volunteer at the state park across the street on Saturday and we happened to be a part of the strangest thing... So we get there and the ranger that we usually help gives us some boring office work to do, we finish it, and then he gets a call from someone telling him that they found a dead hammerhead shark. He asked us if we wanted to tag along and see the shark and Maya and I of course jumped out of our seats. We went to see the shark and I have to admit that it was pretty disgusting. It smelled like death (duh, it's dead) and it was disintegrating. The rangers decided that they should cut off the head so that they could hang the skeleton somewhere, so we watched them as they cut off the head of a disintegrating shark and put it in the bag. Then Maya and I rode in the back of the truck with a shark's head next to us, and we occasionally poked the bag. We decided to name the shark Fred the Head. The sad part was that our friendship with Fred was short because we had to hang his head from a tree so that all the meat and disgusting stuff could decompose and the skeleton would be left. It was pretty disgusting and we smelled like dead fish for the rest of the day...

Part 4: Soccer

Today was a pretty big day for American soccer. I mean America made it to their first ever FIFA final. They beat Egypt 3-0, and they defeated the Spain, the team that is currently ranked as number one in the world (and has some very cute players! Have you seen Torres?!). I was very excited to see how they would play against Egypt, and I was pleasantly surprised. They played very well the first half and they defended amazingly. America had at least six men in their for most of the time, and Tim Howard is an amazing goalie, his saves just blew my mind! And America did accomplish something remarkable, they managed to score two goals against Brazil in the first half. I was amazed, and pleasantly surprised, even though I like the Brazilian team better and wanted them to win (my only reason was that I am in love with Kaka and Pato). The American defense did disintegrate a little during the second half and they allowed Brazil to even out the score, and eventually lead, and win the game. But the match was still great, and the U.S. team should be very proud because they played fantastically!

Part 5: Tennis

For the past week I've been watching and following Wimbledon nonstop, literally. I love watching the Grand Slams, and I've watched all of them this year. I've been very pleased with Federer's performance so far. He is my favorite tennis player and I think that he deserves to win this one so he can prove that he really is the best. I will feel sorry for the Brits is Murray loses though because he is a very good player, but I just don't think that he is good enough to beat Federer, but then again I could be wrong. I'm looking forward to the Federer- Soderling match tomorrow, and I hope that Fed can win it in three sets :D

If you read all this you get a hug from me, because I just realized how long this is :o. I'll go read 13 Little Blue Envelopes now, goodnight <3

Il Divo

2009-06-26T23:44:00.001-04:00

I'm exhausted right now, so this is going to be a quick one. I was falling asleep about a minute ago but I decided to blog about today, so I'm writing this half asleep from my bed.

I went to see a "band" called Il Divo today and all I can say about them is that they are amazing! They are four guys that sing operatic pop, I think that's what they call it. It's basically really famous songs that they sing in opera voices... Here have a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yay4W9hkJJM

Oh and I forgot to mention that all of them happen to be very, very, very good looking (especially the American and Swiss one). Their concert was awesome and I really enjoyed listening to them sing. I mean their voices are just sooo powerful it kind of scared me at times, and let's not forget that they are lovely to look at :D

I'm literally falling asleep on the key board so goodnight. And before I pass out have a picture of them:

Tweets for Iran

2009-06-18T23:17:00.001-04:00

I like to tell myself that I am a rather informed person and I tend to sometimes give a shit about what's going on outside my own little perfect world, and it is at times like these that I start to worry that the perfection in my own little world might be ruined by the shit in the outside world. I remember during the summer when Russia invaded Georgia I stayed up until one or two in the morning watching CNN and reading news online, trying to figure out what the hell is going on, while most of the world was engulfed into the magnificence that was the Olympics. Since the whole Iran thing started I've been watching CNN on mute most of the time, and reading tweets from Iranians. While I was amazed at the fact that so many people have become involved and have tried to show support for the Iranians during these hard times, the the ignorance that some people are showing sometimes makes me lose faith in this world.

For anyone that uses Twitter you might have noticed how some people's icons have turned green in support for Iran. One thing that caught my attention is that some people have, let's just say complained, for lack of a better word. They claim that there is no use in turning your picture green, that won't end the protests, or the violence, or fix the election. This is all true, but that one picture shows these thousands of people that someone out there actually cares about them, it shows them that somewhere, very far away, one person gives a shit about them, it shows them that these protests are not pointless, and their voices are heard. I live thousands of miles away from Iran and I can't do anything for these people except spread the news about what's going on, and if that is the only thing I can do I want to make sure I do it.

The fact that just by putting a hash tag of #iranelection in one of my tweets and someone from Iran can come across that message and maybe it will show them that someone out there cares, and it will give them hope to keep fighting. I can't even get close to imagining what it would be like if something like this happened here and wrecked my perfect world, but I know that I would like someone to care about me.

Someone posted this on Twitter today and it really moved me: We are all Iranians now.

Here is a link to a post written by John Green, this is one of the best things I have read in a

while:

http://www.sparksflyup.com/2009/06/end-of-one-islam-lie.php

Not so great: gaby's rambling about bad days, Iran and friends

2009-06-16T19:03:00.000-04:00

There is one good thing about today, and it’s that I’m not sick anymore. Yahoo! Just to warn you, this blog will contain a pissed off and whiney Gaby. Proceed with caution.

First thing that happened today is I woke up too late. I hate waking up late because then you feel like your day has been wasted and you can’t really do anything. I woke up around 12, and I usually wake up around 11, and after I woke up I had a horrible headache, the kind that you usually get after sleeping too much. Then I decided to watch P.S. I love you. It was an amazing movie, don’t get me wrong, but it was just sooo depressing, I started crying about 15 minutes in the movie, and I didn’t stop until 15 minutes after the movie. I know it kind of had a happy ending, but still…

After this I got really excited because my friends wanted to have a game night at someone’s house, and I volunteered my house because we rarely hang out at my house. At the end the plans didn’t work out because I lived too far and no one’s parents were willing to drive here. This made me mad because whenever we hang out somewhere I have to drive down for about half an hour to get to that destination. Most of my friends’ families have only one working parent, while both of my parents work and have to get up early to go to work. My dad has driven me around almost everyday this week just so I can hang out with my friends. I love my friends, but it makes me mad sometimes that I will take the time to drive for half an hour just to see them almost every day, and they have never been to my house because “I live too far”.

I’ve also been watching CNN most of day, because I’ve been trying to follow the developments in Iran, and that made even more mad at myself, because here are these people whose country is on the verge of a revolution and all I care about is the fact that I can’t hang out with my friends today. But, since the thing with Iran began I have really started to appreciate the power of the internet, and especially Twitter. I stayed up until midnight reading tweets from Iranian student s and reading articles about the crisis in Iran. I mean the things that are going on there right now are seriously disturbing and someone needs to do something about it, or it’s going to become another Tiananmen Square.

On top of that one of the shelves that I have on my wall fell yesterday because I tried to change one of my light bulbs, but I was stupid enough to climb on my rolling chair and I slipped so I held onto the shelf and it fell. Now I have four holes in my wall, and I fell really bad because my dad has to fix it.

Writing about all these things actually made me feel better. Oh well, on the bright side Manchester still has a future, because they are trying to get Torres in their team. He is amazing, and he can kick Ronaldo’s ass any day.

That’s all I have to say, sorry again for this whiney thing.

xxx

i can haz a sick gaby?

2009-06-13T22:13:00.001-04:00

I'm currently sitting on my couch and watching a really boring soccer game while my parents and their friends are talking about religion and politics, their two favorite topics. I'm extremely bored and sick, which is not a good combination. I wasn't sick until yesterday, and I thought that it was just an allergy reaction to bug spray, but then I got a fever, so I'm pretty sure it isn't. I didn't get to go out with my friends tonight and it was our last fathering before half of them leave for camp, so it was rather sad. I've been sitting on our really ugly yellow couch since around one o'clock and it's ten right now. I really don't have the strength to get up. But I did finish an entire book in those nine hours.

My mom decided to invite our friends over today, and it really wasn't a good idea 'cause I was really pissed and didn't feel like getting off my ass just to move to sit to a chair and pretend to be a part of the conversation. I was probably very rude because I didn't utter a word to the children of my parents' friends, but I really don't care right now.

I'm about to get off the couch and go pass out on my bed.

Goodnight xxx

Super Mario?

2009-06-08T22:12:00.000-04:00

I have officially rediscovered my love for Super Mario. When I was little my dad and I would play all the time and I haven't played since I was about eight. I was really bored today so I decided to play a today, and all my old feelings toward that game came back. I mean it is just so great! I'm not as good at it as I used to be, and it's taking me a while to get used to playing it on the computer, but I still love it.

That's it for today :D

xxx

Today is awesome

2009-06-07T23:05:00.001-04:00

Basically I've had an amazing day, I mean summer is finally here and there is nothing to worry about. So here is why today is awesome:

1. Federer won the French Open

I did have to wake up at nine o'clock in the morning (which is insanely early for me) to watch the final, but it was so worth it. Federer is the one athlete that I really do respect. He is just always so calm and he is just simply amazing. I was really excited that he won his first French Open title, and now he has a career grand slam, and tied Pete Sampras for a record of 14 Championship titles. (It's 11:11 make a wish). Sorry you had to go through this, but I'm really happy that he won :)

2. My friend and I planned a surprise birthday party for one of my friends

I've never planned a surprise birthday party before, and this was amazing. The party was supposed to be Harry Potter themed, but Party City had no Harry Potter merchandise, which made me really angry, but I did get her a tiara and a wand. The wand had a picture of Cinderella on it, but I printed a picture of the Harry Potter trio and taped that on top, so my friend was a magical princess. The surprise worked out very well because my friend did not suspect at all, and when she walked in it was as if someone had pressed pause because all of us just kind of stared at her for this one awkward moment before we screamed Happy Birthday. We had also put a bow on her boyfriend (get it? He was her present) and hidden him in the closet, and when she walked in he walked out of the closet (lolz he walked out of the closet) and she freaked out. It was pretty amazing. We had an awesome time, involving volleyball, watching He is Just Not That Into You and eating insane amounts of cake.

3. DFTBA album

I got my DFTBA album in the mail on Saturday, but I didn't get to listen to in until right now. (I'm actually listening to it while I'm writing, and Exterminate, Regenerate is on) The album is amazing, I mean I wasn't expecting anything less, but it really is awesome, and all the songs are great too :)

4. My room

I got a lot of new furniture for my room on Saturday, and it was kind of just sitting in my room, and I was planning on getting it all together on Monday, but when I got home today my mom had fixed all of it and now my room is all nice and stuff.

5. Plans

My friends and I decided to make a list of movies that we have to see together, and the list is about one page long. Every movie from The Lion King to Titanic to Ocean's 13 is on there. What we decided to do was rotate houses and watch all the movies on that list. The first movie we are watching is Forest Gump at Maya's house (remember her? My BFF) on Tuesday, and I'm excited. (I'm listening to the Absence of Christmas now :D)

So I'm currently completely exhausted. I shall go read and sleep.

Goodnight

xxx

Long time no see

2009-06-01T20:38:00.001-04:00

It feels like I haven't written a blog in forever... As you can obviously see I couldn't blog every single day for the rest of my life, but if you really did believe me, then well, go jump in a hole :D

School is finally over, I mean I still have to go until Thursday, but all my tests are over and I'm happy with my grades, I got only one B on a final, and that was for volleyball and I actually didn't study for any of my finals!

I went to an amazing surprise party on Saturday and I had a lot of fun with all my friends, we basically spent an entire day stuffing our faces and sitting in a hot tub, it was amazing! On Friday I'm hoping to go see Up with my friend, and on Saturday I'm going over my friends' house, oh and either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I'm sleeping over my friends house even though it is a school night.

Argh! I'm trying to write this and text at the same time and it really isn't working. I've also been tennis obssessed the last couple of days, which always happens to me when there is an important championship going on like the French Open (Roland Garros) right now. I'm a huge Federer fan and now that Nadal is off the competition I am super excited because now Roger has a real chance at winning his first French Open title. OK, no more sports talk, I don't want to kill you guys :D

Goodnight

xxx

Soccer (what an original title)

2009-05-27T16:51:00.001-04:00

Warning: as this title says the following blog will contain A LOT of soccer ramblings. You have been warned.

If you haven't figured it out yet, soccer is the one sport that I am really passionate about, and I really love it. (Some of my friends say that I am obsessed, but don't believe them). So today was the Champions League final, and it was Barcelona v. Manchester. As you probably know Miami has a large Hispanic population, and therefore a lot Barca fans, which are currently really happy that Barca won the game. I have to give this one to them, because Manchester played horribly. They played so bad that I didn't even finish watching the game, which rarely happens no matter how badly the team I like is losing. I mean this was SO bad I had to mute the TV and read a book so I didn't have to watch. I don't understand what was wrong with Manchester, they had such a good season, they got the Premier League title and they have been undefeated in the Champions League, but this was really bad. I won't try to defend them because they definitely did not deserve to win this game and Barca was just better, they covered Rooney so well and Messi is just amazing.

One thing that makes me really mad about Manchester is Ronaldo. I mean he just makes me MAD. I have to admit he is good, but he has to tone it down a little. He gets way too mad whenever the referee calls on him and even when he gets called on offside. And this game he made way too many mistakes. And don't even get me started on Berbatov (the Bulgarian player) he didn't do anything. I can't believe Ferguson let him play center, that should have been Rooney, I mean he is much better than Berbatov. Berbatov really needs to get his game on and start moving around that field, and not just hang around the center. Oh well, there is always next year.

Anyway, right now I'm watching the French Open and Maria Sharapova and Petrova are playing and it's freaking me out. I really don't like watching girl's tennis because they sound like they are being tortured. Sharapova is making these really weird noises right now, and they are kind of creeping me out. I love watching guys tennis though, Federer is definitely my favorite :D I really hope he wins the French Open.

And if you are still reading, (which I doubt you are) have a prize in the form of a picture of a hot soccer player:

I should probably go sleep now since I went to sleep at like one last night.

Bye

xxx

BEDRML?

2009-05-26T17:57:00.000-04:00

In case you didn’t figure out what that stands for its- Blog Every Day of the Rest of My Life. Sorry for the overwhelming amount of blogs that I have been posting lately. Actually no, I’m not sorry; I don’t have to apologize for writing in my blog. Anyway, today was pretty awesome because my best friend came to shadow me at school today so I hung out with her all day; I actually got home like 10 minutes ago. We had lots of fun at school, because my school is about four times the size of her school (we have about 2,000 students, while her school has about 500) and she freaked out about getting lost. Then we took the metro bus together, and it was my friend’s first time, but she enjoyed it. Oh, and also all my teachers and some of my friends that haven’t met Maya (that’s her name) before kept asking us if we are sisters. We’ve had this problem before because in our middle school the teachers confused us all the time, and I don’t think we look alike at all. Here's a picture of us on halloween

and us rocking on our air guitars :)

Anyway, everyone thought that I looked really tan today, which is true because I got a sunburn on the boat that went on yesterday. Even my legs got burned which is kind of weird and painful at the same time, and I also have a horrible shorts tan. I have to go study for my chemistry and Spanish finals tomorrow (wish me luck)

Adios!

xxx

Days left of school: 8

Bursting Bubbles

2009-05-25T20:57:00.000-04:00

You know those rare moments in life where everything is good and you feel completely content, but at the same time you know that this happy period will soon be over and you will have to go back to reality? Today was one of those moments.

As I said in my previous blog, I was having a great time with my family, which rarely happens. At the beginning of this vacation I made a promise to myself that I will not fight with my mom and I won't get angry at her. Surprisingly I was able to fulfill this promise, and it made me quite happy. I knew that this "bubble" of happiness and peacefulness would be over the moment we cross into Miami, and I was correct. I mean, the moment my parents and I walked into our apartment my mom started yelling at me for texting too much and not cleaning my room, and pop my bubble was gone. On top of that I just had a disgusting peanut butter Lind chocolate, I really despise peanut butter, and I thought it was caramel, ugh.

So, it's back to normal again, my mom and I fighting every five seconds, and my dad trying to keep the peace.

Sorry this blog has been so.. um... what's the word? Whiny?

Goodbye

xxx

A much too long list about too many random things

2009-05-24T22:20:00.002-04:00

As you already know I like to make lists, so here is one:

1. I have a new YouTube obsession, and he has officially become my second favorite YouTube artist. His name is ed (eddplant) and he is AMAZING. Here's one of his amazing songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1s5Lu3EuY&feature=channel_page

2. I have been bribed to go on a vacation with my parents. You're probably wondering how they bribed me (or you're not wondering, but I will tell you anyway). I really didn't want to go to Tampa (Which is where my parents decided to go) so my mom got a hotel on the beach and was all like: "Come on I know you want to come, imagine just walking out of the door and you're right at the beach" so I had to agree and here I am in Tampa. *insert imaginary picture of cool view from my hotel room here*

3. I'm actually pretending to be typing my Spanish study guide, but I'm doing this instead...

4. We got lost around three times yesterday. My dad kept getting out on the same wrong exit, which was the airport exit, so we've been to the airport like twice in the same day. Then he missed his exit which was conveniently the last exit before a giant bridge that takes you to St. Petersburg which is 10 miles away, so we had to drive to St. Petersburg and then make a U-turn and drive back.

5. We went to Busch Gardens today (it's an amusement park in case you didn't know) and it was kind of cool. I mean as cool as it can get for three people that are not fans of roller coasters. Neither my parents, or I like roller coasters so we only went on the water attractions, which we love and we watched the funny animals).

6. We also went to the Dali museum which was really awesome! Salvador Dali was a fucking genius (pardon my language, but it's true)

7. I saw that Sarah has posted a new blog and I really want to read it...

8. I'm just rambling now if you haven't noticed

9. I have 85 math problems that I have to do today and I really don't want to...

10. MANCHESTER UNITED ARE CHAMPIONS... Since we are talking about Man. Ud. one of my friends is amazing! He randomly texted me to ask me when my B-day is, and I told him, and then I asked why and he told me that he was at a soccer store and he saw a Manchester United jersey that might fit me and he wanted to buy me one :) I was so happy 'cause I've been looking for a soccer jersey that's not huge, but I told him not to buy it.

11. I'm in the process of reading Sarah's blog and umm... what's boob tube?!

12. I'm reading two books My Sister's Keeper and The Last Book in the Universe. Both are really depressing and have a person that has leukemia, which is making me really sad 'cause my mom's brother died from that when he was only 14. But I really, really like sad books for some reason, and both of them are amazing, and I recommend them :)

13. I should really go do homework now.

Goodbye

xxx

OMG ur so hot

2009-05-19T19:14:00.001-04:00

Something weird happened to me today, I mean it's not really weird, but it's just that stuff like that doesn't usually happen to me. To get to the point, a guy in one of my classes told me that I was hot. First he was like "How tall are you?" and I was like, "Five seven" and he was like, "and how much do you weigh?" and I was like, "120 lb", and he was like, "OMG (he didn't actually say OMG) you're hot". This was probably one of the awkwardest (is that even a word?!) moments of my life (I might be exaggerating). I was just like, "umm.. thanks..." and I walked away. I would much rather be called pretty than hot, it just sounds better and, I don't know, I don't even know why I'm writing about this.

Oh, so here is something interesting, I'm going to an awards ceremony tomorrow at my school and I'm really excited 'cause I have to dress all nicely and stuff and then I get to get an award, and who doesn't like awards?

Goodbye

xxx

Rawr

2009-05-18T22:17:00.001-04:00

I just broke one of my nails and my thumb is currently bleeding. It hurts.

Goodbye

xxx

Weekend awesomeness

2009-05-17T20:17:00.001-04:00

I feel as though I haven't written a blog in a while, so I am writing one now :) I had a really relaxing and nice weekend, so I am happy now that AP exam is over. I don't think I did that bad, I wrote all the essays, and even though I did write a lot of BS I think it will work. My friends and I decided to go to the beach on Friday to celebrate, and we walked there from school which was awesome. At one point before we left this guy from my chess class was going to tag along, which is OK because he is cool, but the only problem is that all my friends think that he has a crush on me and I kind of just wanted to spend time with all my good friends, but at the end he couldn't go, so I was fine. We had lots of fun at the beach even though the waves were huge and I was terrified because I can't really swim. One of my guy friends was trying to convince me to go in deeper and he stood in front of me and told me that he was going to keep the waves away, but it didn't work and I still refused to go in. The rest of the time we spent playing volleyball, soccer and Frisbee, basically it was awesome :) Then my two best friends and I went to see Angels and Demons (it was good) and one of my friends slept over my house the entire weekend.

We baked cake (and then we ate it by ourselves) went to the pool and watched movies. One of the movies we watched was My Best Friend's Wedding. That is one of my all - time favorite movies. I've seen it about seven times, and every time I see it I cry and sing along to "Say a Little Prayer for You"- the movie is just amazing. The other movie we saw was "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", I've never seen any of the Monty Python movies, and I loved it, the movie was just pure awesomeness. And because at three in the morning we decided that we were bored we went on YouTube and looked up the hoedown throwdown and we learned the entire dance... (I know that's really sad, but it was fun). We were still not tire afterwards, so we looked at MusicFromBlueSkies' videos and fangirled all over them. My friend doesn't watch YouTube videos and stuff, but she definitely liked him (I mean how can you not?!)

Basically, I had lots of fun this weekend :] (I really have to stop using smiley faces)

Oh and I forgot to mention that Manchester got their 18th premier league title, which is more than anyone has ever had and I was really excited and happy. Here's a text message conversation I had with one of my guy friends today:

Jason: MANCHESTER!!!

Me: Did you just find out?!

Jason: Yup, they drew 0-0

Me: I know, it was kind of sad, but now at least Liverpool can suck it :)

Jason: ....

it’s going to be OK, right?

2009-05-13T22:07:00.000-04:00

I have an AP test in 9 hours and I really, really, really hope that I do well. I mean, I got the highest grade of all the people in the entire grade on the 2002 AP test. So it’s going to be OK, right? And I think that I have pretty memorized the entire history of the entire world in the past 10,000 years, so it’s going to be OK, right? And I have a horrible pain in my neck that reminds me of why I quit ballet (that and weak ankles) and I can’t really turn my head in any possible direction, or lean forward, but it’s going to be OK, right? I mean I can totally write three essays in two hours, so it’s going to be OK, right?

I’m going to go read a real vampire book now (by Anne Rice) and attempt to pretend like I’m not nervous or worried or like I don’t feel like crying because my neck hurts… (Gosh I’m such a complainer/ baby)

Goodnight

*dies*

Miley Cyrus and other unimportant stuff

2009-05-11T18:20:00.001-04:00

I haven't bought new music in a long time so I decided that I would do that instead of study for my exam which is on Thursday. So I was looking on the songs on iTunes and I saw a couple of Miley Cyrus songs, now I really don't like her. There is just something about her that drives me insane, and makes me want to rip her hair out of her head. But I was listening to the previews on some of the songs and I actually ended up buying one of them. I have sold my soul to the devil...

On a completely unrelated note, I finally got to watch the 100th episode of Grey's Anatomy, and I cried throughout the entire episode, and I'm not even kidding. That's not saying much since there hasn't been a Grey's Anatomy episode in which I haven't cried, but with this one I started crying two minutes into the episode. Anyway, I should probably go back to studying.

xxx

untitled

2009-05-10T21:50:00.001-04:00

So I'm basically having a mental breakdown right now. I'm freaking out because I'm taking my AP world final tomorrow and I'm not going to do well. Now, you are probably thinking that I'm just saying that because everyone says that, but I have been taking like 100000 practice tests and I can't seem to get over a 70 on any of them. I mean, I studied my ass off (literally) and I still can't get all the answers right. So basically, I'm giving up and I'm going to see what happens tomorrow, I just don't want to study anymore, and the AP test is in three days.

On a lighter note, I went to see Star Trek on Friday and it was amazing! I mean I loved it, and I have never seen Star Trek, and I was convinced that I wouldn't like it. My favorite part? The adorable Russian guy :]

xxx

Dreams, Break-ups and Chess?

2009-05-05T20:59:00.001-04:00

Hello world :D

Well, this feels weird, it's like I haven't written a blog in four hours... So I follow this > http://tyrannosauruslexxx.blogspot.com/ blog, and the past couple of day lex (the girls whose blog it is) has been writing about her dreams, so I thought I would share a kind of weird dream I had last night. So basically, I have been really stressed about my AP exam the last couple of days and I guess that has impacted my dreams... So, in AP World we do these quizzez every day where you have to do five things which are define key terms, identify people, locate places, and write two thesis statemenents. In my dream my teacher has told us that we weren't taking a quiz that day, so I didn't study, but she decided to give us a quiz, and I freaked out. I was looking at the smart board and the regular definition thins came up, but the one thing I remember was that we had to identify how Angelina Jolie died.... I mean wtf? The other thing that we had to do was write a compare and contrast thesis statement on Obama, but it didn't say who we were supposed to compare him to, so basically it was really weird... Hope you enjoyed this and now let's move on.
Today one of my guy-friends, Tyler that I have known for a while broke up with his girlfriend, Lauren, who I am also friends with. Tyler and I met in seventh grade 'cause he was friends with a girl that is now my best friend, and we immediately became really good friends. We became such good friends that in eight grade we dated for three months, but it didn't really work because we were such good friends and it was just kind of weird, so we broke up. We are still really good friends though, and I consider him one of my best friends, we talk all the time and he tells me everything. Since he started dating Lauren I didn't talk to him as much 'cause I didn't want to get in the middle and make her hate me or something. Yesterday they got into some kind of fight and Tyler came to talk to me and he told me that he wanted to break up with her, and he was asking me how he should do it, and OMG it was so awkward... I was about to say not to do it over the phone, but then I remembered that I broke up with him over the phone so I just told him to try and work things out with her. Obviously I don't want her to think that I broke them up or something, but yeah basically what happened was he talked to her after school and he broke up with her. Phew, I wrote too much for such a short and obvious story...

Oh, and my chess teacher really loves me, and that is amazing because he will be my pre-Calc teacher next year, and I'll be the only from my class that knows him so it will be awesome! Like today this guy in chess was telling me that JKR only writes stupid childrens books, and I got really mad and statrted yelling at him, my teacher heard what we were talking about, and he took his water gun and sprayed him in the face for dissing Harry Potter, it was awesome! (Our groups in the different chess tournaments are named after the Hogwarts houses). And then he was supposed to give me a B because I lost a game against him, but he gave me a 100 instead :P.

I will go study for Chemistry now (and continue my argument on facebook about whether or not Man. Utd. are better than Arsenal).

xxx

Yay!

2009-05-05T16:51:00.001-04:00

Just one thing in this blog: MANCHESTER UNITED IS GOING TO THE FINALS. Yep, they just kicked Arsenal's ass big time :P

Goodbye.

xxx

ps. Proper blog is coming sometime tonight

lulz, people are just jealous,

and I really don't like kittens.

Stuffs

2009-05-03T17:28:00.001-04:00

I feel really guilty for not writing a blog in two days so here is a short one. Basically right now I'm taking a short break from studying, which I have been doing all weekend, except when I went to see Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (not such a great movie, but it was OK). I've been reading my Princeton Review book for world history and it tries to make history easy and "funny", so I though that I would share some of the more amusing headings that they had:

Egyptian Women, Hear Them Roar

Charlemagne: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars refrences ftw)

Can't Get Enough of China? Go to Japan.

The Playground Isn't Big Enough for Two Bullies: Crusaders and Jihad

In Search of Natural Resources: Stealing Is Cheaper than Dealing

The Treaty of Versailles: Make the Germans Cry

The League of Nations: Can't We All Just Get Along

East versus West: Let's Point Our Weapons at Each Other

China Looks West: Likes the Money, Not So Sure About the Freedom

Division of Korea: The Cold War Turns Hot and Now Possibly Nuclear

Vietnam: The Cold War Turns Ugly

I just realized tha unless you know about most of these things the heading possibly won't make sense... Oh, well, I have to go study

xxx

This is obviously not a how-to.

2009-05-02T00:07:00.000-04:00

Hellos, so I did lie to you about making a how-to today, but I really don’t feel like writing one, and really if I do write one right now, it will be bad. So I’m currently watching the latest What the Buck video and a picture of Jacob from Twilight came on, and he is really cute. Anyway, it’s so weird now that I actually don’t have to blog every day, I still feel like I need to blog every day.

I probably won’t blog tomorrow cause I am leaving the Internetz for good* But I really have to start studying for history.

In volleyball news, I almost got my nose broken by a guy who attempted to pass the ball at me. He kind of hit the ball a little too hard and I didn’t have time to react and it hit me straight in the face, at least the soccer dudes in the class got a good laugh :]

*haha, I am so funny, like I could ever do that.

The day that Gaby died (Song is sang to the tune of American pie)

2009-04-30T23:32:00.002-04:00

Current mood: DAHDIAHSKJHKAJSDH KAFGD

To sum that up I'm freaking out right now. I'm having a complete mental break down. My AP test is in two weeks. TWO WEEKS and I'm going to fail. I don't know anything, arghhhhhh.

I have been carrying an AP Princeton review book with me everywhere (and when I say everywhere, I really mean it). One of my friends decided that it would be funny if he stole the book from me during Chemistry and I didn't notice and I freaked out because I thought that I had lost it somewhere and I was on the verge of tears and then he gave it back to me...

So, I don't want to spend my last blog talking about failing my AP test, so I shall discuss something else. BRB *freezes time and goes off to finish studying*

*particle man, particle man, doing the things a particle can. What's he like? It's not important." I love that song :) Well, I didn't finish studying but I was falling asleep on top of my homework, so I think I should finish this before I pass out.

Basically, today was I pretty good day if you don't count the number of times I freaked out about the AP test. We had an awards ceremony in my school and my friends and I (a total of six of us) got a special award for getting straight A's all nine weeks, and they were pretty cool-looking too. They looked like the cubes that they make with the 3-D black and white pictures in them. So I was pretty happy about that, oh and I got to miss Spanish class because of the awards ceremony, which was pretty nice too.

I just feel so unoriginal today, I mean I should be writing some great masterpiece thing, and all I can think about is how comfortable my bed is, and how I want to go to sleep. I promise that tomorrow I will write my how-to guide, and I hope that it will be pretty funny and make up for this so called "blog". Oh, yeah I just remembered that I was going to talk about swine flu. What's the deal with that? On CNN (yes I watch CNN, don't judge me, I love the news) the last time I checked the number dead was 257. I'm kind of worried 'cause I remember the panic that took over Europe when we had the mad cow disease over there, it was pretty freaky.

I remember that someone actually told me that gummy bears were made out of whale bones and you could get mad cow disease from them. I think I was in like 3rd grade or something, but I remember that I really freaked out and I didn't eat gummy bears for the longest time.

By the way they started selling Scooby Snacks at the vending machines at my school and they are amazing.

Oh and if you want to follow my real blog after BEDA, this is it: http://bulgarianmemory.blogspot.com/

Goodnight <3

Memes, Offices, Manchesters and Bananas

2009-04-29T20:55:00.002-04:00

As you can see from that title there shall be four things that will be discussed in this blog, after which I might go off and ramble about some other things.

Let us begin to discuss The Office shall we? *looks around at imaginary people nodding* I just finished watching the fourth season of The Office. I was supposed to be studying for a math test for tomorrow, but I'm good at math, so screw it. I was kind of disappointed by stuff that didn't happen, and stuff that did happen and quite disturbed by things that I never wanted to see happen *tries to stop from giving away spoilers* Ok, so basically Jim sees Pam and Dwight hooking up, and he gets Angela pregnant and then he decides that he is gay and jumps off a cliff.* I mean come on that is so not fair. I really have a thing for Jim, I mean he is really cute, and yeah he has big ears and a big nose, but he is completely adorable. (A Libertines song called Up the Bracket just came on iTunes and it starts really weird and I freaked out and almost dropped my laptop.)

I promised you a review yesterday, and I will give you one. I don't think that any of my BEDA buddies are soccer fans, so I will try to keep this short. Basically Manchester United had to play Arsenal for the semi finals of the Champions League (it's kind of a big deal). Manchester has been having a rough time the last couple of games, but they played brilliantly this time. Yeah, they did win by one 1-0, but their defence and attack was top notch. I was really happy because I was freaking out after watching them play with Porto, which was a very sad picture. They have one more game against Arsenal and if they win, or draw that game they will playing at the final(against Chelsea hopefully). Generally the game wasn't that exciting, but almost every soccer game makes me really excited so yeah :)

Crap, I just saw that we were supposed to write a how-to guide today. I'll do it ~~tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow~~ sometime this week.

Next thing is bananas. *pretends that this is not random at all* But I was just thinking about this today, and bananas are awesome! (no sexual innuendo intended) I mean, just the word bananas is so much fun to say, and type and write! Bananas should definitely rule the world, then we would all be yellow and cool-looking and we would dance to peanut butter-jelly time. That would be the most amazing thing ever.

And last thing was memes. This one was posted by Johnny Durham and I though it was amazing so you should do it too :P

DIRECTIONS:

- Go to Google image search.

- Type in your answer to each question.
- Choose a picture from the first page.
- Use this website (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php) to make your collage.

QUESTIONS:

1. What is your name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your hometown?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. What is your favorite movie?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What is one word to describe yourself?
10. How are you feeling right now?11. What do you love most in the world?
12. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Here is mine:

right click on the image and click open image in new tab to see the whole thing.

# of times I got hit with a ball in the head today: 2. This is like a new record for me, I mean usually I would be lucky if I can get away with three balls (ha,ha). Yay I just got a text message *feels special and looks at it* Ohh it was actually one of those cute friendship things <3 class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">goodie goodie (I'm not going to discuss that). I am the only one in my group that answers the questions and we always win. And now we finally started learning about Russian history and stuff and ever question that she asked me, I mean my group was about Russia. You are probably wondering why that makes me mad. See, when I tell people that I am Eastern European they immediately think that I either

a. an Russian or b. Speak Russian. Neither one of those is true even though I do understand Russian. I did answer all the questions that she asked, but come on did she have to ask me only about Russian history.

I think that I have rambled enough for today. Goodnight <3

P.S. *I need Harry Potter like a gryndilow needs water and as Saturday approaches my need grows* Yep, this song just came on iTunes, oh how I love iTunes shuffle.

*just in case you didn't catch the sarcasm in there, that did not actually happen. Or did it?

This is not a title.

2009-04-28T22:19:00.002-04:00

Hello peoples of the planet Earth! Today's blog comes to you with limited commercial interruptions, and it is in the form of a list, because lists are awesome.

1. Excuses

Well, I happened to miss another one of our BEDA chats :( I have an excuse, which is the fact that I only check my blog ones a day, so I didn't see the comment I got on page until today, oh and also I had to study for my AP World History test (what a surprise), which I have basically been doing for the past couple of weeks, and I'm basically freaking out *jumps off an imaginary cliff*

2. Review things

So, I was planning on writing a review of the Chelsea v. Barcelona game that was played today for the UEFA Champions League semifinals, but as you can see I am not doing that. I hoped that Chelsea and Barca would put on a good game, or at least something worth reviewing, but the entire game was basically Barcelona attacking and Chelsea defending. It ended with a stupid 0-0 draw *yawns and throws soccer ball at TV*

3. Winning things

I don't know if you remember but last week or something I posted a blog where I discussed me presenting a power point about social networking. That power point was entered into a Youth Fair competition in Miami Dade, and apparently I got second place. The prize that you get is money, and I got.... wait for it... *drum roll* four dollars. Yep, I spent hours working on that power point and I got second place and four dollars. Oh, yeah and first place winner got five dollars. I know we are in an economic recession, but come on!

4. Getting nominated for things

My Spanish teacher nominated me for the Spanish award at high school, which I think is pretty cool, and kind of weird. I kind of don't like Spanish at all, and I really don't want to learn it, and I'm really bad at actually speaking it. But the teacher likes me because I suck up to her and I do anything she asks me to do. Then my friend told me that my English teacher is considering me for the English award. That is AMAZING! My teacher is amazing, but her class is really hard, and even though I have a 96 in it (which I think is the highest grade in my class) I'm not really good at English. I mean I am a decent writer, and I really try my hardest, but I obviously don't have a very good vocabulary and my grammar is far from perfect considering that English is not my first language and I only moved to America four years ago. I mean I was really happy just knowing that she considered me for the award.

5. Done?

I think that this is it for today. I'm going to post my review of the Manchester v. Arsenal game tomorrow if it's worth to write about. I'm going to go study for AP World now.

P.S. you get 10 imaginary points if you can guess which surrealist artist inspired the title of this blog. Hint: his name is Рене Магрит

Goodbye

I want to Mrs. Weasley :P

2009-04-27T19:45:00.000-04:00

I'm sorry that I ramble so much for the first answer, I just tend to talk a lot if you haven't noticed in my previous blogs.

Oh, and I have officially decided that everyday I have volleyball I will try to keep a count of how many times I get hit with a ball that day and post it on here.

# of times I got hit with a ball today: 3

What are your favorite bands (and artists) and songs, and why?

WARNING: This answer may be long, boring, and may contain rambling. OK, so I have lots of favorite bands and for your enjoyment I shall list a few right here: The Beatles, Queen, The Killers, AC/DC, Blue Skies, The Fratellis, Julia Nunes, Boys Like Girls, ABBA, Foreigner, Coldplay, Hank Green, Jason Mraz, John Lennon, The Libertines, Marie Digby, Mhazz, Owl City, NeverShoutNever!, Plain White T's, and Red Hot Chili Peppers

Songs: Acid Jazz Singer, Chelsea Dagger and Flathead by The Fratellis, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something, Let it Be and Yesterday by the Beatles, The Show Must Go On by Queen, Mr. Brightside by The Killers, Remembering Sunday by All Time Low, Untitled, Happy Friday on the Moon, Another Day Another Motorway by Blue Skies, Dear Vienna by Owl City, Into the Sunshine, Balloons by Julia Nunes, I is for Igloo by Mhazz.

Now, I mainly want to talk about three bands, that I really like: The Beatles, Queen and Blue Skies.

The Beatles are just amazing, their music is so simple, but intricate at the same time. I started listening to their songs last year and I fell in love with them *sings along to Mrs. Nerimon which is playing in the background* and since then I have seen the movie Across the Universe about 12 times, I own all their albums, have their posters on my wall, and can sing along to almost all of their songs. *I want to be Mrs. Nerimon, so we can build a little house with a lawn...* Now, Queen I have liked for a really long time, I mean who hasn't heard of We Are the Champions?! Freddie Mercury has the most amazing voice ever (Ok, I have to stop italicizing things now) and the lyrics to their songs are amazing (thesaurus please?) and hilarious. I mean have you heard of Fat Bottom Girls? Possibly one of the best songs ever written! Blue Skies is the only modern "band" (even though it's made up of only one person, Dave) that makes my top three favorite bands. First, that guy is brilliant, and when I say that I mean it. Like seriously he can play the guitar, piano, drums and basically any other instrument ever invented, and he can sing, AND he is British! I mean all of this= a person that is made of 100% awesome. Oh, and the songs that he writes are brilliant, I mean they are actually deep and marvelous (totally went onto thesaurus.com to look up a synonym of amazing), and he has a lovely voice. OMG I just realized how fricking long this is... I'm sorrys <3

What is your Meyers-Briggs personality test result, and do you agree with it/what does it say about you that you agree with?

I scored ENFP meaning Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving. I guess it's kind of true because I am a very outgoing and social person and I love to hang out with my friends. I'm not very intuitive though, but sure I guess it's not very far from the truth. Btw, I love taking personality tests!

If you could go anywhere in the world during any time period, where would you go and why?

I would probably go to a dance club in the 80s. I have a big thing for the 80s, the flashy clothing, the weird hairstyles, the awesome music... I mean come on you get to wear lime green tights with a Blondie T-shirt, have purple hair, and dance to Dancing Queen and no one will think you are weird!

If you could be any character, from any book, who would you be and why?

I would want to be Hermione. I know this is kind of like a stereotype character to chose for any Harry Potter fan girl, but I just really like her. I mean she is insanely smart (people have told me I remind them of her when I go insane in history because I know all the answers and I look like this:

Anyway, I really do like her, and she is a loyal friend, and although she is a bit irrational and bossy at times, she's still awesome. Oh and lets see , here is a list for you:

She is Harry Potter's best friend
She was Victor Krum's girlfriend
She gets to punch Draco Malfoy in the face
She gets to make out with Ron
She gets to MARRY Ron. I mean who wouldn't want to marry him?!

Ok, so this has been way too long... It's nine o'clock and I think I'm going to go to sleep because I haven't had a sufficient amount of sleep in the past two weeks.

Goodnight <3

Penguin dentists and such

2009-04-26T21:08:00.001-04:00

Today's assignment was to write a story based on a picture. My story is (again) an assignment that I did for English where we were supposed to combine words and write sentences describing the adventures of a penguin/dentist. So here is the story (note the obvious Kurt Vonnegut reference).

The peniguin siwaddled while reading his dendix. He wasn't paying attention and leddled into the door. Spassionately he kicked the door. The door swung back hitting the penguin who siledaisically was flung onto the petunias and was run over by a walnana. So it goes.

Glossary: siwaddle- silently+waddle

dendix- dentist+appendix

leddled-leap+waddle

spassionately- silently+passionately

siledaisically-silently+ lackadaisically

walnana- walrus+banana

On a more normal note, today I got a hair cut. I usually get a hair cut with this Bulgarian lady, and either my mom or dad are in the room so they are making small talk with her, and I don't have to talk at all. Well this time they weren't there 'cause they were too busy partying and I had to go by myself. So, I'm sitting there and it was this awkward silence because well, I have nothing to talk about, and I guess she wasn't very much in the mood to talking to me. So, I had to endure half an hour of the most awkward silence ever. That's all I have to say for today.

Goodnight <3

Hall of Memories

2009-04-26T01:39:00.002-04:00

Obviously, I have issues with blogging on weekends. It's not like I don't have the time, I definitely have that, I just... um... don't find the time to do it until 1:36 am. I always stay up really late on weekends and that makes me really mad considering the fact that I don't do anything else beside waste my time on the internet.

Anyway, so today I had an awesome day with my friend. We attempted to have a Harry Potter marathon, but we kind of just ended up watching the fifth movie. We were going to watch the fourth movie after but then we wanted to have dinner and then we were singing Beatles songs, and that led us to watching Across the Universe. I don't think I have mentioned this before, but I am a huge Beatles fangirl, I mean they are my all time favorite band, they are just made of so much awesome! Across the Universe is one of my favorite movies, I know that the plot is really predictable and shallow, but the music is sooo amazing (And Jim Sturgess is really cute).

So, today's challenge/ assignment thing was to write a creative story/poem thing (look at my great vocabulary!) So, me being the lazy person that I am, I will just post a story that I wrote for English this year, it's actually my first blog post on me blog on blogger (see how I used me instead of my? I totally want to be British). It's not a fictional story, it was a journal assignment called Hall of Memories where you were supposed to retell a memory as if it's a movie, so here it is:

I walked slowly through the misty corridor. A strange feeling passed over me. It was a feeling of familiarity, a feeling that I’ve been here before, but at the same time I felt as though I shouldn’t be here. Gray, office-looking doors appeared at my side. Instead of name tags they all had pictures on them, picture of a little girl as she stuck her finger behind a door, and the door was shut, a picture of a little girl dancing on stage and falling on her face, a picture of a six year old girl clutching a Harry Potter book, a picture of a not-so-little 11 year old girl as she rode a bike for the first time, and the last door had a picture of a smiling boy. It was a familiar picture; a picture I’ve seen way too many times, a picture that no matter how many times I looked at I felt the same melancholy, sad feeling wash over me. It was no different this time, as I stared at the picture and reluctantly reached for the door, opening it. For a moment I felt like Harry when he entered Dumbledore’s memories as I entered my own. As I pushed the door open I walked into a familiar room.

It was my grandmother’s house. A little girl was kneeling on the bed; her hair tied up in piggy tails, her tiny feet dangling off the side of the bed, she was staring at the same picture of a smiling boy in black and white. Realizing the little girl was the five year old me, I followed her closely as she stood up from the bed and ran out the room. The room was a step lower than the kitchen, which the girl had to cross in order to get to the other room. I watched the girl as she ran toward the kitchen and fell flat on her face as she forgot about the step. As if nothing had happened the little girl got up, and walking slower, continued to the other room. It was a room with an ugly bright orange bed cover, a room I had always despised for some reason, and in that room there was a picture frame with the same boy in it. Again as his picture hung on the wall; he smiled at me, his black and white smile, trapped in the black frame. I noticed how big his ears were. The picture slowly faded away and another one came into view.

A boy and a girl were sitting on the floor, ignoring the chairs next to them, were looking at a picture of the same boy.“Who is he?” the boy, my cousin (even though at that time we thought we were brother and sister), asked. “I don’t know,” the seven year old I answered, “but he makes me sad.”For some unknown reason both of us were afraid to ask our parents about the mysterious boy. Why was he in both of our grandmothers’ houses, why was he black and white and why did he never come out of that picture? The picture dispersed again as another one zoomed in.

A boy was sitting on an ugly orange chair and was flipping through the TV channels; a girl lay lazily on the bed, staring at a picture of a boy. When the boy, my cousin again, was finished flipping through all six of the channels on TV, he turned it off, disappointed as always. Both of us were much older now. I was thirteen, my hair was no longer black, but brown, and my cousin and I were no longer convinced that we were siblings. I was staring out the window at my grandma as she chased the chickens around the yard, trying to get them inside their little house. “We should ask,” my cousin said suddenly, turning to me. “Ask what?” I answered confused. “Who he was. The boy.” I didn’t say anything, as I watched my grandma walk in the house. She was an old, fat woman with a kind smile; she was the kind of woman that fed you immense amounts of food even if you say you aren’t hungry. I turned to her and finally asked the dreaded question about the boy in the picture. She looked at both my cousin and I before answering slowly. “This is Ivan,” she said as she sat down on a chair and looked at the picture of the mysterious boy. “He was your mom’s brother,” she continued, without taking her eyes off the picture. “Was? Wait, what do you mean was?” I asked, not sure if I wanted to hear the story anymore. “He was a nice boy, “my grandma continued. “He played guitar, he sang and he danced, everyone in town loved him. He was one of those perfect children, he helped old ladies carry their groceries home, and he was top of the class, always getting A’s, complete opposite of your mother. She was always mean to him, she was the young one, and she was the only girl. She always got him in trouble, your mother, she was of the evil kind,” grandma smiled, not taking her eyes off the picture. “Your mother, she was always breaking things, getting in trouble and blaming it on her brother, but he never protested, he never told on her.”

“What happened to him?” my cousin asked. “There was an earthquake in 1979, one of the strongest earthquakes Bulgaria has ever experienced. It happened on a really hot day in May. It struck at around four o’clock in the afternoon, both of us were sleeping, and your mother was out playing with your aunt. Everything started shaking, I didn’t know what to do, I jumped out of bed, screaming for Ivan. I woke him up, scared him to death almost. After the shock of the earthquake everything started. The constant headaches, the weakness that took over him, he wasn’t the energetic boy he was before. We took him to hospitals all over the country, and they told us there was nothing they could do. This was one of the rarest cases they had ever seen. He had leukemia, and two months after the earthquake, at the age of 14 he died.” The scene faded out and I was back at the misty corridor.

Midnight blogging

2009-04-25T00:47:00.001-04:00

Hi... um lets pretend that this blog isn't late *pretends*

So, I'm going to skip yesterday's theme about current events because that would take me a while, and I would have to do some research. Considering that I love talking and arguing about politics there might be a huge chance that I will get into an argument with myself (happens quite often...) and just ramble on for pages. Instead, I will just tell you about my not-as-hell-week-as-Sarah's.

I had lots of trouble with going to sleep this week, and I blame it all on The Office and the Internet. I mean I have serious procrastinating issues. Sometimes I know that I have to do work, and I'm telling myself that I have to stop watching The Office (or that amazing soccer game, OMG Arshavin, OK, I won't talk about soccer, I won't talk about soccer *explodes*) but I still don't do it. Like yesterday, I had to do math homework for two sections and write a lab report for chemistry, but considering it was early release I decided to go out with my friends at the beach. That was amazing by the way, I had lots of fun playing volleyball with my best friends <3 Oh, and some random dudes from Chicago walked up to our group and wanted to play with us, and they were hitting on some of my friends, but they didn't like me cause I had an attitude :P I tend to have a really big attitude when I'm talking to people that piss me off, or people that I just don't like. Anyway, so that was really fun, but I didn't go to sleep until 12:30 and I almost fell asleep in Chem today, so that wasn't such a good thing.

And my AP World History teacher is still giving us quizzes every day (that reminds me I have to study for the one on Monday) and we are still only going over the early Renaissance Era. I really like history, but I like more modern history, like the Cold War and Communism and the War on Terror are my specialities, or basically anything that has lots of politics involved (I like to argue with people a lot), so I'm not really into the whole Renaissance thing.

Anyway, so today after school I had to take the bus home, and getting from school to my house takes an hour and a half (including walking an waiting), and then I had fifteen minutes to get ready and clean my room and go and catch the same bus so I could go over my friend's hou play the steel drums at her school and it was really awesome, and then I got to hang out with her, and we had a fake pillow fight and then we made stupid Harry Potter references. Which reminds me that tomorrow I'm hanging out with her and we are having a Harry Potter movie marathon, and we're making cookies! Yay!

Oh, and I've been in lots of pain for the past two weeks, my problem is that I have a really high pain tolerance and I usually don't tell people that I'm in pain until I can't get out of bed. My neck has been hurting a lot, and sometimes the pain would stop and then I would feel like someone is stabbing me at the side of my neck and it would start again. I asked my mom to give me a massage today and it really hurt, but I didn't really help, it just hurts ever more, oh and I had a sunburn so that massage was really painful.

Sorry, if this has been really long and boring, but I kind of wanted to write about everything I cared about that happened this week *tries to contain herself from talking about soccer*... I actually really am considering doing BEDM because I like the whole blogging thing, but I probably wouldn't be able to do it every day 'cause my AP World history test is in three weeks *freaks out and hides under bed covers*

Oh, and my question for Monday is What's are your favorite bands and songs, and why.

Goodnight <3

I'm sorry I couldn't contain myself... But the Arsenal game against Liverpool was AMAZING. That's all I'm going to say, I promise...

Busy, busy, busy

2009-04-23T23:30:00.001-04:00

Sorry, that this is so late, and that it will be really short, but I had no time to write a blog today :/ I had an awesome day, though, I went to the beach and had fun with my freinds (more on that tomorrow)... Oh, and my blog tomorrow will be really late cause I'm going to my friend's concert, but I promise I will do the BEDA thing that we were supposed to do today and tomorrow.

I have to go finish a lab report and go to sleep.

Goodnights <3

And here because this is so short have a picture:

How to attract someone's attention in a few simple steps

2009-04-22T21:39:00.001-04:00

This how to guide was inspired by an incided that occured yesterday during volleyball class. I, being the amazing volleball player, hit the ball really hard, and it proceded to hit a guy right in the head, which is when this genius idea came to me, a guide about how to attract people's attention. You can be sure that all these steps will work, because they have been tested out by me.*

1. Throw a ball at their head, or any part of the body.

The object thrown at the person does not even have to be a ball, it could be a pen, or a small alligator if you have one in handy. So what you do now that you have the object is... you throw at the person! See, this will cause them pain, and they

will most likely look for the person that has caused them the pain, which will be you. When they turn around you can start apologizing and then, BAM you can talk to them, see how easy that is?

2. Throw food at them

This step works, just like the first one, but it is a little bit messier. Take a piece of food, preferrably something that is messy and will stain their clothes, but not something that you will want to eat, like chocolate. Once you have found the food feel free (that's three F words in a row :P) to throw it a the person, but don't miss 'cause then t

hings get messy... Once your target was hit and you have stained their clothes, you can be sure that they will turn their attention to you.**

3. Now, if none of the above steps work for you, this one is a sure attention grabber! You will need to serenade the person whose attention you are trying to get. The worse you can sing the more attention you can get! And if you can hire a Mariachi band to play along with you, then you will surely be on your way to getting all that wanted attenti

on. Once you have the band all you need to do is start singing near the person whose attention you are trying to get, and be sure once they hear your amaing singing they will notice you.

4. Now, after all this, this person has finally noticed you, and you are probably wondering what to do? Just say hi, poke them with a stick and run away. (If they forget about you, or ignore you, repeat from step 1)

*Maybe, not all of them, but two of them have been tested.

** Warning: people tend to get very angry when other people thr

ow food at them, so make sure the person whose attention you are trying to get does not have anger managment problems.

Tuesday?

2009-04-21T20:19:00.001-04:00

So I'm chatting with my BEDA buddies right now, and I just realized that today is not Wednesday, so I don't have to write my how to guide until tomorrow! My BEDA buddies are amazing, and I really enjoy talking to them, we are actually talking about pens from The Office right now, and Sarah went to go get chocolate and I'm jealous. *note to self: Next time I go to Target get Office pens. End note*

So today was kind of a boring day. I had chess class. So you are probably wondering why I have chess class. I'm not nerdy enough to choose the class myself, although I enjoy playing chess for fun (my chess teacher will be so proud of me for saying that), but I would never voluntarily take it as a class. See, I was supposed to take guitar as an elective, but I guess all the freshman wanted to take guitar, so the class was full and the only available class was Chess, so I got stuck with chess. My teacher is amazing though, and I'm his favorite student, but he sometimes decides to give us homework, which I don't like. Like we had to memorize a 20 move chess game for yesterday, and I hate memorizing stuff, but he did like my game, and I got a 100 :P

So I think I'm going to end here, because I am having a lovely chat with my BEDA buddies, and I would like to go back to it.

Oh, and I just remembered I wanted to ask you a quaestion. I don't know if any of you watch nerimon's videos, but he is doing this thing where he is trying to get rid of all his Internet distractions. Like he deleted his twitter, facebook and all those things and unsubscribed from most of his subscriptions on YouTube. He did all this just so he can get rid of all these unnecessary Internet things (whoa, what a genius vocabulary I have), and I would like to know what you think about it. Personally I don't like it, because I think that even though the Internet is a huge distraction it provides people with amazing ways to communicate, so I would not delete stuff like my twitter and facebook.

And here is a conversation from out little chat:

gaby: oh, and a random question: do you watch nerimon on youtube?

Melissa: YES. xD

gaby: ok good

Sarah: YES!

Melissa: He's loverly.

gaby: yay!

Sarah: hes amazing.

gaby: he is :P

The Review

2009-04-20T22:08:00.001-04:00

Dum dum dum... *pretends she is a famous movie critic and starts reviewing* I shall now review the movie 17 Again for you, my dear BEDA Buddies.

Although I went into the movie theater just because of Zac Efron's alluring hotness, I was not left hanging. Seeing Zac Efron wear skinny jeans with a leather jacket was one of the greatest moments of my life. My friends and I (well at least the ones of the female kind) were jumping out of our chairs when the sweating, dancing, basketball playing Zac came on screen. If you like guys, this is definitely the movie for you (but do not sit in front of a couple who, with complete disregard to the movie was making out throughout the entire movie, it tends to get annoying)

I should probably also discuss the plot of the movie, too. (don't worry no more spoilers than a preview). It was like Freaky Friday with a twist. Instead of switching his body Mike, who is about to get divorced, has the opportunity to re-live his high school senior year and pursue a career as a basketball player, but of course that is where the Disney in the movie comes in and Mike seems to be falling for his wife again. The plot is just as shallow as I expected it to be, although I did enjoy the Star Trek nerd, who was pretty funny, and kind of weird at times. And if you are a fan of the hit comedy The Office you will definitely enjoy watching Jan speak elvish (oh and she has long hair in the movie too). I would suggest, however to see the movie in a theater where 13 (or 15...) year old screaming fan girls rarely go. Unless you enjoy listening to their obnoxious giggles (or squeaks) every time that Zac Efron appears on screen.

Movie rating: 3 stars out of 5

Hotness rating: 6 starts out of 5

No title

2009-04-19T22:04:00.001-04:00

Hello <3

OK, today definitely did not go as planned... I didn't go to the soccer game because FIU called my mom and told her that the Bulgarian player that we were going to see play wasn't coming, so mom didn't want to go see the game anymore. Then, Manchester lost to Everton on penalty kicks!? I mean, WHAT? Manchester are amazing, and they're not supposed to lose to teams like Everton, they lose to teams like Liverpool, good teams!

So, because my mom didn't want to go to the soccer game I had to go to the Bulgarian Easter party. It wasn't really fun, and I didn't expect it to be. I really don't have a lot of friends in the Bulgarian community, because all the Bulgarians are kind of weird... I used to have two friends, but now it's only one because I found out the other one smokes, and well I really don't like people that smoke because my grandfather died from lung cancer. But the only girl at the party that I knew was the girl that smokes so I had to hang out with her, and she offered me to smoke like five times, and I kept telling her no. And she talked a lot about Bulgaria, I mean she goes there every summer and the moment she comes back she can't wait to go back. I don't really understand her, because I really don't want to go back. But she really did not adapt well to America, and I did, sometimes I think I adapted too well.

Oh, and after the party my mom took me shopping, which was awesome cause I really needed some new clothing and I got a couple of nice things to wear, so that made my day better. And at the store I saw the shirt that says peas on earth and omgmhazzrocks wore to one of her videos, and I really wanted to buy it but they only had in size XL.

Then when I got home I had to look for a stupid translation of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, and I couldn't find the right one online so I just read a random one, and I'm sure that my English teacher will be pissed but who cares.Then I found out I had missed my BEDA buddies chat :( so that made me sad, but I won't miss the next one, I promise.

Here are today's questions (the schedule thing that you girl made is awesome btw.)

What are some of your current obsessions?

Definitely soccer, although I think that started last summer. Also, Dave from Blue Skies (not the actual person, but his music). His music is amazing i listen to it all the time :]. England, which is the most amazing place on earth. And the obsession that never ends: HARRY POTTER.

What's your favorite book and why?

All the Harry Potter books top my list. I mean they are just amazing: amazing plot, amazing character, amazing world. Looking for Alaska is also one of my favorite books, just because it is so moving, and simply brilliant. And then there are the classics like: Pride and Prejudice (i have a secret crush on Mr. Darcy) Wuthering Heights (brilliantly written) Catcher in the Rye (i actually don't know why I like this one so much...) Ok, I should stop now, because I can go on forever

What's your favorite childhood memory?

Well this wasn't that long ago... With my cousin at my grandma's house when we used to sit on top of the garage and eat "dinner". Dinner consisted of a glass bottle of coke, a waffle, and a packet of sunflower seeds. This all would cost $1.80. Then my grandma would yell at us to come down because the garage was old and would supposedly fall apart.

What's your favorite quote and why?

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends"- because this quote is so amazingly brilliant and true at the same time.

"Private Property Created Crime"- I don't know, why but it just is one of my favorite quotes.

What's something you've always wanted to do, but have been too afraid to do?

Bungee jumping :P

Goodnight <3

April 18: I iz tired

2009-04-19T01:08:00.001-04:00

I know, I'm late, but this is the first time that I have missed a day since I started BEDA, and I kind of have a legitimate excuse for being late (well not really). I had to go to church because it's the day before Easter (well its Easter now) and apparently that's when you go to church. I was at church at like 10 and services start at 11, and I just got home at one. I tried to post a blog from my phone but it was being stupid and said that I have no Internet service available right now. So yeah, sorrys. But, I am really excited to get to know my BEDA buddies :]

So, church sucked. I hate going to church because I don't believe any of the BS that they talk about there but my mom wanted me to go. I decided to dress very un-churchy and I wore a really short dress with really high heels and lots of makeup, I got lots of dirty looks from the old Russian and Ukrainian ladies at the church, which was very entertaining. So I walked around the church a couple of times, then listened to some old ladies and men sing in a language I couldn't understand, oh and on top of that you have to stand up during services, which are like two hours long, so I was bored out of my mind.

I discovered that for some insane reason I have a really weird fear of churches. I mean, they creep me out a lot, all the icons and stuff are so creepy, especially the ones with the crucifix, I mean wtf, they are all so weird. I remember that my church in Bulgaria was also really creepy. It was built while Bulgaria was under Ottoman rule, and there was a rule that churches could not be taller that a Turk on a horse, so most churches are build underground, which means no windows. And the church is really old and freaky looking. Ok, so I don't want to bore you with my church talk anymore, so let's move on.

I went to see 17 again with a couple of friends today, and I really liked it. The actual movie wasn't that great, although it was pretty funny, but Zac Efron is amazingly hot. I decided that a guy that good looking cannot be straight, I mean come on! Oh, and tomorrow I'm going to my soccer game, so I am very excited about that. I'll blog about it tomorrow.

I'm exhausted, so I'm going to post this without proof reading it (sorry if there are mistakes) and watch another episode of The Office and go to sleep.

Goodnight <3

I don't like giving titles to things.

2009-04-17T23:30:00.001-04:00

Hellos :] I know that this is kind of late, but I still have about half an hour to write it before it is officially tomorrow, so I better hurry up. I'm in a good mood today and I have lots to write about. OK, right I have to stop distracting myself with twitter. So I got to go ice skating with my friends tonight, and I just got home, and I had a great time. I got to hang out with my best friend which was awesome 'cause I don't see her that often. We were actually a pretty big group of people, which is a first one, but just like usual it was a lot of girls and one guy (we don't have a lot of guys). I got to talk a lot about soccer with my guy friend and I was really happy because he actually listened to me, and he rarely does. So I'm currently listening to this song (Middle of Nowhere) and my computer is doing weird things so it freezes every couple of seconds, and it's making me mad. Rawr.

Anyway, so yeah ice skating was really fun :] Today there was also a student-faculty basketball game at my school, and the students got completely destroyed, it was kind of sad and funny at the same time. The game itself was fun to watch, but afterward as I was getting off the benches and into the crowd my friends decided that it would be very funny if they start to tickle me. I'm very, very, very ticklish and when someone tickles me I squeak and jump and freak out, and it's actually very entertaining. So they tickled me and I crashed straight into the guy in front of me, who came out to be this really good looking guy from my volleyball class, so I was really embarrassed when he gave me this WTF look. The point of this story is that it's bad to be ticklish.

There was one thing that kind of sucked during my day though, so I was talking to my guy friend about soccer and I was telling him that I really like the German team because they are really good, and because I said that he said that I'm a Nazi. This made me really mad because all my friends are Jewish (and I'm not) and I'm obviously not a Nazi. But also the fact that he would think that just because I like something from Germany means that I'm a Nazi makes me extremely angry.

To end on a good note, today in my English class we had to write sentences with six vocabulary words and in the sentences that my friend and I created half of them were with Harry Potter references, so we were very proud of ourselves :]

Goodbyes <3

BEDA April 16

2009-04-16T22:05:00.001-04:00

No soccer news for you today :D But, I do have to mention that I convinced my parents to skip Easter on Sunday and go to see a soccer game at FIU instead, which is amazing considering that I have never been to a soccer game.

So, I'm just going to tell you about my day now... It was pretty good actually. In the morning I got to make fun of a friend of mine who is obsessed with sports (not soccer though) and he was convinced that Manchester was going to lose yesterday, but obviously they didn't, so I had to take advantage of him being wrong. Then my first period pissed me off as usual. Its this pre-IB course, and the teacher thinks that she is so smart. She decided to give the class quizzes for AP World (that wasn't today that was last week) from this stupid test booklet that my AP teacher specifically told us not to use to study because it's really bad. Most of the questions on the test were just like in Han China, or in Africa, and it was shit. And the teacher was telling us how the AP test was going to look exactly like that. And then she told us that she was going to give us DBQ essays to write, and I don't think she even knows how to grade a DBQ essay properly. But anyway, so today I had to present my project that I turned in for this Youth Fair competition, it was a PowerPoint on social networking. So I stood up there and I'm talking, I'm not even reading from the smart board or anything. I finish and she tells me that I could have put less information on the PowerPoint, because it's only supposed to serve you as a helpful tool to present. And I started to argue, because I like to argue with my teachers, and I told her that it's supposed to be like that because I'm not going to be presenting it to the judges, and they will have to read it by themselves and use that as their only information tool, but she wouldn't listen to me, I still got my A though so I'm fine. Spanish and math were fine, they are just boring classes. In Chemistry I did a lab that was actually fun to do. There is this other girl named Gaby in my lab group, and she is sooo gullible. I have never met a more gullible person in my life, no kidding. I was able to convince her that gullible was not in the dictionary, and then I told her I was kidding, and then I convinced her that it wasn't in the dictionary again, and OMG it is the funniest thing on earth.

I couldn't go to volleyball today though. There was this thing for people that were part of the volleyball team this year (Even though I wasn't) that a friend of mine invited me to. I was disappointed because I had to study for history so I was going to get home too late. I finally did finish studying for history, and I'm gonna go watch the office today

Goodbyes <3

PS, I was just proofreading this, and I realized that I use "like" in my writing a lot, which pissed me off because I hate it when people say like all the time, and I know I do it, but I don't do it all the time.

angry

2009-04-15T22:39:00.001-04:00

Wow, how my moods change in the matter of half an hour. Wait, no let me correct myself: wow, how my mom manages to piss me off beyond belief. My mom is a person that is very difficult to understand. I mean she likes to be mad at people a lot. She can't ground me for not doing my homework (I do all my homework. I never ask for help, and if I do ask her for help in chemistry because she is a chemist she just laughs at me and tells me to do it myself), I don't get bad grades (I've had straight A's since 1st grade, and my GPA is 4.7222), I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't have a boyfriend that I can fool around with. So she decides to ground me for the stupidest reasons. See, whenever she grounds me it's always for the stupidest thing on Earth, so I get really pissed, and my really pissed is complete silence and ignorance of whenever she talks to me. That makes her feel bad because she can't stand people to be mad at her, and she usually lifts the punishment. But I'm sick of that, I mean come on! Want to know why she grounded me today? I'm making myself lunch in the kitchen and I see eggs ready for Easter, so I ask her if we're skipping Easter to go watch the soccer game on Sunday. She tells me, yes, but only if I let her get rid of the pimples on my face. I know it sounds gross but my mom works in the cosmetic industry she makes hand cremes, shampoos, anti-acne stuff. That process is really painful, so I tell her OK, tomorrow because I have a math quiz to study for. So she gets really pissed and is like, not I want to do it right now, and I was like well you know my math quiz is much more important, and she says ok then you're not going anywhere on Friday (my friends and I had plans to go ice skating). And I was like WTF?! I mean I made my friend cancel her other movie plans because I had already made plans to go ice skating, and she won't go unless I go because she goes to a different school than I do, and she doesn't want to go alone. I know this isn't such a big deal, but I don't understand why I have to get grounded over stupid things like that.

Goodnight.

I iz happy :P

2009-04-15T21:33:00.001-04:00

Yeah, so Manchester made it to semi finals, which I am very happy about. I mean, I was soo nervous the entire game because they were only up one goal, so I was basically freaking out. They didn't play that great, but their defense was certainly much better than their last game.

In other news, I got The Tales of Beedle the Bard in the mail today. I know, it's been out for like ever and I'm a bad Harry Potter fan, but i have a good excuse. Ok, I don't but I just got around to going on Amazon...

I hate how I'm starting to struggle to find things to write about... So today in volleyball we were finally playing a game, 'cause we usually just pass the ball around. I don't mind doing that because when we play the game with the guys they usually dominate everything because they are good, but it makes me mad that they don't realized that just because I can't spike the ball as hard as they can that does not mean that I'm not just as good as they are. Anyway, so we are playing volleyball, and I took the middle back as usual (cause we don't usually rotate) and this really big girl (who hits the ball really hard) is next to me. So first, she misses the ball and she gets angry so she kicks the ball and then it hits me in the stomach really hard. So, I kind of fell and then one of the guys playing soccer was running and kind of tripped over me, so that was pretty embarrassing. Oh, and then we kept on playing and I was about to hit the ball, but I missed, so the big girl hits it, and it whacked me straight in the head, and it hurt a lot... That's my little story for today :)

Byes <3

2009-04-14T21:39:00.002-04:00

CHELSEA!!! Yeah, you can see that I am pretty happy about the fact that they are going to the Semi finals. I mean I like Liverpool, but I just wanted Chelsea to win, and if Manchester can come back tomorrow, I will be extrmelly happy.

Ok, so I actually have no idea what I'm going to write about. Well today it rained for the first time in forever, and I was hoping that it would keep raining until I go to sleep, because I really like to sleep with the sound of rain banging on the window, it's just so peaceful. It kind of reminds me of Bulgaria too. I remember when I was a little kid I used to really like thunder, but I would pretend that I was afraid of it, so my cousin wouldn't think that I am weird. But, I wa terribly afraid of fireworks and people opening champaign bottles, kind of weird but that's ok. Oh, so my mom found out today that there is some kind of a soccer game this Sunday at FIU where old soccer stars are playing, and this really good Bulgarian player will be there. So, my dad and I really want to go, but it's on Easter and my doesn't want to go to a soccer game, although I don't see the problem, I would love to watch a lovely game... I hope we end up going though (And I hope Man. Ud. wins tomorrow *crosses fingers*) So that it for today.

Goodbyes

Listening to: Road to Joy cover by Blue Skies

yay :)

2009-04-13T21:34:00.001-04:00

So I'm sitting today in my English class as three guys presented amazing presentations on surrealists. Klein wanted a girl to go, and all the girls were pretending to be too busy, scribbling in journals... She called on Rachel, who wasn't here, she called on another girl who got away with not doing it today. And I was thinking “oh fuck” I’m not going to get lucky again, and yeah she did call on me next. I tried to suck up and get away with it, but she was like, “Come on you can do it”. So I went up there, I wasn’t shaking though, which is a good thing, because I was holding a poster, so it would have looked really bad. My voice gave away how nervous I was, though. It always gets really, really high pitched when I’m either very nervous or very excited. But, I did well and I said the entire speech without making any mistakes, and without saying umm too many times. Basically, the point of this story was to tell you that I got a 95, which is AMAZING!

Anyway, there was this one guy that I wanted to write about named H.R. Giger. He was a really weird dude, and when I say weird, I really mean weird. His paintings are soooo disturbing; he suffered from a sleep disorder, where he had constant nightmares. He used art as therapy, so most of his pictures mostly depict nightmares, and they are very scary…. Oh and he was the guy who created the Alien for the Alien movie.

School went well today. I mean English and history went really well, in volleyball I was kind of mad because the people I play with didn’t want to play the entire period. I never get enough sleep on a school night, but I’m always very energetic in volleyball because I like playing it, considering the fact that it’s the only sport that I’m actually really good at. Whatever, I’m still good at the sport, and I’m joining the volleyball team next year, so yay! Anyway, I can’t wait for this week to be over, and it’s only Monday, urg.

Oh, and kickthePj got featured today on the global page! Yay! You're probably wondering why I care, and it's because he is one of my favorite youtubers, and he is amazing.

Listening to: Acid Jazz Singer by The Fratellis

Ze listz:

· read Slaughterhouse Five

· read 1984

2009-04-12T20:27:00.000-04:00

Ok, so I completely forgot to do this, so I'm going to do it very quickly. I'm basically having a panic attack right now... I finished writing my surrealist speech, and I'm really nervous about giving it tomorrow. I'm a very bad public speaker, even if the public is just my classmates. I get very nervous, and I start shaking and saying umm, and uhh, and my accents gets worse, and it's just a very sad picture. I know that I shouldn't be nervous and I keep telling myself that, but it just doesn't work. If you haven't guessed yet, I'm going back to school tomorrow after spring break. I really don't mind going to school cause my friends are awesome and we have lots of fun :P but, I hate waking up at six. It's not fair though, because my Easter is not until next week, because I'm Eastern Orthodox, which sucks, cause I have to go to school on Good Friday. I'm not religious at all, like I don't even believe in god, but I definitely like not going to school. Anyway, I have to go take a shower now, so I don't look like shit tomorrow.

Listening to: Viva la Vida by Coldplay

List:

read Slaughterhouse Five

study classical Civilizations

read entire AP World History Book

communism?

2009-04-11T19:23:00.000-04:00

Ok, just a quick one about soccer today. I watched the game with Chelsea today, and they were playing really well, well except at the end I got a little scared there, but they might have a chance for the Champions League (probably not, cause all my predictions are wrong, but I still want MANCHESTER to get to the final at least...)

So when I first moved to America everyone thought I was Russian. My friends had this false belief that all Russians are Communists. Then they found out I wasn't actually Russian, but Bulgarian, but then they found out that Bulgaria was once a Communist country. So they all started making Communist jokes about me, and that didn't make me happy, because Bulgaria didn't really have a good experience with Communism, and I've heard a lot of stories, that I don't want to share on here, but I don't want people to think that I'm a Communist. In school I always end up writing, or doing a project about communism, once I had to pretend I was Nikita Krushchev, once I had to write a newspaper promoting communist from Karl Marx's point of view. Now, I have to write a speech about a surrealist artist/writer. I randomly chose a guy from a list the my teacher provided me with, his name was Tristan Tzara, and I was in the middle of researching about him, and then I read this on a website: "Tzara's career included other artistic and political movements, including Surrealism and communism." and I thought "Fuck, not again." So on Monday when I go to school and pretend I'm this guy I have to be a communist again, and that will bring in even more jokes...

And so I was procrastinating for writing the speech, and I was just staring at this billetin board I have in my room. I have these stickers that I picked up at Art Basel (this art convention) with my friend when I went to visit last year. So, I'm sitting there, and I'm reading the stickers and this one really big one that I really like says: Private Property Created Crime. Wow, Communism much?

Listening to: Read My Mind by The Killers

Yes, smaller and smaller :P

read Slaughterhouse Five

read entire AP World History Book

study Classical Civilizations

choose a surrelaist to write about

2009-04-10T23:01:00.000-04:00

I'm tired. I went to sleep at three yesterday because I was watching the second season of The Office, which has officially become one of my favorite TV shows ever! Well after Friends and That 70s show of course, which are both just amazing. I haven't finished watching the second season yet, but I absolutely love Jim and Pam, they are soooo adorable.

Something embarrassing that I did today: I went to see the Hannah Montana movie. I really, really, genuinely dislike Miley Cyrus and basically anything that has to do with her, but my friends wanted to go see and I was like, well what the fuck, how bad could it be? Yeah, it was really bad, but there was a really nice looking guy in the movie, so that was something to look at. The fire alarm went off right before the movie started cause some guy burned popcorn or something, so the building had to be evacuated, and that was very enjoyable.... Oh, and my best friend told me that she is likely going to England on this summer program for two weeks that we both got invited to, and I was kind of pissed. Not because she is going, but because I can't go. I'm actually very happy that she is going, because just like me she really wants to live there too. But the program costs around six thousand dollars, and my parents were saying how they can't afford that, and blah blah blah, and then my mom went and bought herself a perfume for a hundred dollars, but that's another story. So yeah, basically I'm very bummed right now, and I need a hug (oh an donations are acceptable too)... I'll stop here before I get any whinier.

Goodnights

Listening to: The Show by Lenka

No changes on the list today:

read Slaughterhouse Five

choose a surrealist to write about

read entire AP World History Book

study Classical Civilizations

Moving to England?

2009-04-09T23:18:00.001-04:00

Well, no sports new today for you my friend :D Although I have to mention a video that John Green linked in his blog to the final of the 2005 Champions League when Liverpool came back from 3-0, which is pretty amazing.

Anyway I am very disappointed to admit that today I woke up at two in the afternoon... I love sleeping late. but I hate sleeping this late. Then it feels like you've wasted your entire day, which you really have. And I had sooo much stuff to today, but I was like whatever, shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I did write my book reaction though, which I'm happy about. I have no idea what else to write about in here today.

Oh right, there is this girl that I follow on twitter, and I'm subscribed to on youtube (youtube.com/sophiebeard) and she posted a link to her blog on twitter and I read it. I'm not going to go into full detail about her blog but it was about her parents were looking for new jobs and how they might be moving so she has to look for a place to live. So I was thinking how I can't wait to move out with living from my parents. I can't wait to graduate, move to England and start university! I might not have mentioned it, but I kind of have an obsession with all English things... When I was around seven and I saw Legally Blond for some reason I thought that it took place in England so I really wanted to go live there. When I was around 9 I really wanted to live in America, and now I am, and I see that it's nothing special, and I really want to go back to Europe (not Bulgaria, or any other Eastern European country for that matter), specifically England. So yeah, my plan is to graduate high school in America, and then apply to college in England with my Bulgarian citizenship ('cause it will be much cheaper) and move to live there :P

I'm going to go watch the office now

Byes

A list:

read Slaughterhouse Five

choose a surrealist to write about

read entire AP World History Book

study Classical Civilizations

write a book reaction on The Human Story

2009-04-08T21:25:00.001-04:00

Right, first thing today: CHELSEA WTF?! Holy shit they played well. I mean, they're not such a great team, but beating Liverpool at their home stadium that was pretty awesome. I didn't really care about who won, but it was kind of awesome when Chelsea won. Oh, and what's up with Bayern losing to Barca 0-4, ummm yeah that sucked, and I really don't like Spanish teams, so yeah...

I actually found time to do something else other than look at youtube videos and go on Twitter. I finished reading one of my books called The Human Story, yeah the book basically covers the entire human history in like 450 pages, and it was pretty cool. I'm also reading 1984, which is really amazing, but I've only read 80 pages, so I'm not that far in. I don't think I've mentioned it on here, but I really love reading. I usually don't make new year's resolutions, but I made one this year to read 50 books, which is perfectly manageable, since I did it last year. I've only read 10 as of right now, but that's ok :P I just realized that I haven't talked about a lot of things on here, like Harry Potter and Nerdfighters...

So, Harry Potter, I first read it when I was six, it was more like my mom forced me to read it. I hated the book the first time I read it, just because my mom wanted me to like it so much. But then my best friend read it, and she thought it was amazing, so I was convinced to re-read it, and eventually fall in love with it. I remember when I first tried to read a Harry Potter book in English, it was the Half-Blood Prince, and I had a very hard time understanding it. Like I didn't understand half the terms in there, and I was basically like WTF throughout the whole novel. And I remember going to see the first Harry Potter movie in the theater, and it was the first time that I've gone to a movie theater. There weren't enough seats so my parents had to leave me alone in the theater 'cause I refused to leave. For some reason there was an intermission in the middle of the movie and I walked out looking for my parents, but they had gone out somewhere, and I freaked out thinking that they had left me in here, and will never come back for me. When the movie ended, I actually cried, you know at the part when Hagrid gives Harry the album with his parents' pictures. I mean it was just sooo sad... Basically, I'm a Harry Potter Nerd, I've seen the movies like 5123414 times, and these are the only books that I have ever re-read. Oh yeah, and you don't want to watch a HP movie with me in the room, because I recite all the lines, and it gets really annoying but I can't help it...

Moving on to nerdfighters. I iz a nerdfighter (A person that is not made out of bones, or tissues, but made out of awesome. We are fighting nerds that want to decrease world suck). John Green's books are simply amazing, there is just no other word that can describe them <3 class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska which is a good thing, because if I read a good book, no matter if it has a happy or sad ending, I always cry <(^.^)> Oh, and I've met John Green, and he signed both of my books, and my backpack, which is pretty freaking awesome :P

I realize that this post has become really long, so I'm going to leave you now.

Goodbyes

Listening to: Tonight Tonight cover by Blue Skies

Ze list iz getting smaller:

write a book reaction on The Human Story

read Slaughterhouse Five

choose a surrealist to write about

read entire AP World History Book

study Classical Civilizations

read The Human Story

Meme

2009-04-08T20:58:00.000-04:00

*This is not the blog :D

Basically, you choose an artist, and then answer the questions by using the title of a song by that artist. You also have to try not to use the same song title more than once.

Pick Your Artist: Blue Skies (includes songs he has covered :P)

Are you male or female: Lizzy
Describe yourself: Only Human
How do you feel about yourself: Come down dearest
Describe where you currently live: Middle of Nowhere
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Londonderry
Your favorite form of transportation: Keep the car running
Your best friend is: If you see her say hello
Your favorite color is: Time for Heroes?
What’s the weather like: Into the Sunshine
Favorite time of day: The Sun won't rise tomorrow
If your life was a tv show, what would it be called: Read my mind
What is life to you: Made up love song #43
What is the best advice you have to give: Days like this
If you could change your name, what would it be: Angeles
Your favorite food is: Only Human :P
Thought for the Day: Road to Joy (CHELSEA)
How I would like to die: Under the Bridge
My soul’s present condition: Links in the sidebar
The faults I can bear: Nothing better
My motto: Red lights indicate doors are secure

Fail Day

2009-04-07T19:05:00.001-04:00

So today, I basically just sat in front of the TV and watched soccer.... They were showing a replay of the Manchester United v. Aston Villa game, and of course I had to watch. It was horrible, Manchester was a disaster, and the game against Porto- even worse. I really thought they had a chance to win the Champions League, but after that disastrous game I doubt they will. Anyway, I can't decide who I'm rooting for tomorrow, Liverpool have had a really good season, but I really like Chelsea 'cause one of my favorite players is there (Ballack <3).

I tried to do my report on a surrealist, but that didn't work either, my creativity has completely disappeared. So yeah, basically for the rest of this blog I'm going to ramble about random things I wrote down under a list labeled: Blog.

The first thing said AP Stats, aaarrrghhh.

I really wanted to take AP statistics next year and not only Pre- Calculus. But my math teacher doesn't think I'm good enough. Well, excuse me, but that is not fucking true! I get straight A's in her class, along with a few other people. I mean, doesn't that show her that I'm good enough?! I get 100's on all her tests, and I'm still not good enough? Yeah, maybe I have gotten stupider in America, but I'm still really good at math. In Bulgaria I used to be very, very good at math, like I was really good at solving the complicated word problems that I can't solve anymore, and I used to do very good mental math. I think I still have my math in me, even though I'm not as good as I used to be, and yeah I am good enough! Whatever, I realize that I sound like a bitch who thinks too much herself, but I'm pissed!

On a lighter note, DAVE IS AMAZING. I had to get that out of my system :P I was listening to the songs on his myspace and his musical talent baffles me. I really love his song "Untitled", which has been stuck in my head all day, and I think he should definitely finish "Blackout" its an amazing song. He should make a CD soon, because I really want to buy his music :D Oh, and also he is the person that has inspired me to start learning guitar, even though I didn't get far, but I amtaking guitar class next year *crosses fingers*

Listening to: "One Track Mind" by Blue Skies

Ze List:

read The Human Story

write a book reaction on The Human Story

read Slaughterhouse Five

choose a surrealist to write about

read entire AP World History Book

study Classical Civilizations

~~watch Manchester win~~

2009-04-06T17:42:00.001-04:00

I very much enjoy watching sports.

I know this is kind of a random way to start a blog, but I really do. I'm currently watching Spanish soccer on mute, but it's not very in

teresting anyway. I love watching soccer, but sadly I cannot play it, the only sport that I can actually play is volleyball. I used to be a very athletic person, I've played tennis, soccer, basketball, rugby, field hockey, and volleyball, but now im just a lazy girl with a TV remote. Back to soccer, I can spend hours in front of the TV and watch soccer, and I do that almost every weekend. I'm a huge fan of English soccer, Manchester being my favorite team. I'm very excited for tomorrow's game against Porto, and I hope that Manchester can kick some serious ass, even though Berbatov and Rooney won't be playing. But Liverpool has been doing really well this year also, and I kind of like them, but not really. I've discovered that I actually like Torres. I'm not a huge fan of the Spanish team (because they beat Germany at the Euro Cup final), but I have to admit that he is kind of cute, oh and really good also.

Putting soccer aside, wasn't Murray awesome yesterday?! I mean at one point I really though that he had lost the game, but then he came back and I was like YES!

Sorrys if this was kind of boring but I'm procrastinating right now, and I can't think of anything else to write about except sports....

Oh wait! Julia Nunes, right, I started listening to her last night. I've heard of her before, and I knew who she was and stuff, but I never actually paid attention to her music (except Blue Skies' cover of "Into the Sunshine", which I love). I had nothing to do last night at 3, so i decided to check out her channel, and I have completely fallen in love with their music. Her songs are so amazing, and she is so funny and pretty :].

So, I should probably get back to finishing homework.

-G.

P.S. holy shit, did you hear about that earthquake in Italy?!

Here's a random list, just 'cause I like to make lists:

To do this week:

read The Human Story
write a book reaction on The Human Story
read Slaughterhouse Five
read 1984
chose a surrealist to write about
read entire AP World History Book
study Classical Civilizations
watch Manchester win

2009-04-06T02:46:00.001-04:00

It's 2:43 in the morning, and I really should not be doing this, but I just decided that I'm doing BEDA (blog every day of April). I know, I'm five days late, but it's the thought that counts, k?

Goodnights

-G.

Memory Hall

2009-02-20T23:09:00.001-05:00

This was a journal I had to write for English class a couple of weeks ago, that I just got around to finishing and editing. So here it is:

I walked slowly through the misty corridor. A strange feeling passed over me. It was a feeling of familiarity, a feeling that I’ve been here before, but at the same time I felt as though I shouldn’t be here, I shouldn’t be rummaging though the past. A gray, office-looking door appeared on my right side. Instead of a nametag on the door, there was a picture of a boy hanging on it. It was a familiar picture; a picture I’ve seen way too many times, a picture that no matter how many times I looked at I felt the same melancholy, sad feeling wash over me. It was no different this time, as I stared at the picture and reluctantly reached for the door, and opened it. I felt like Harry felt when he entered Dumbledore’s memories, as I entered my own. As I pushed the door open I walked into a familiar room.
It was my grandmother’s house. A little girl was kneeling on the bed; she looked like she might be praying. Her hair tied up in piggy tails, her tiny feet dangling off the side of the bed, she was staring at the same picture of a smiling boy in black and white. Realizing the little girl was the five year old me, I followed her closely as she stood up from the bed and ran out the room. The room was a step lower than the kitchen, which I had to cross in order to get to the other room. I watched myself as I ran toward the kitchen and fell flat on my face as I forgot about the step. As if nothing had happened the little girl got up, and walking slower continued to the other room. It was a room with an ugly bright orange bed cover, a room I had always despised for some reason, and in that room there was a picture frame with the same boy in it. Again his picture hung on the wall; he smiled at me, his black and white smile, trapped in the black frame. I noticed how big his ears were. The picture slowly faded away and another one came into view.
A boy and a girl were sitting on the floor, ignoring the chairs next to them, and were staring at a picture; a picture of a boy. “Who is he?” the boy, my cousin (even though at that time we thought we were brother and sister), asked. “I don’t know,” the seven year old I answered, “but he makes me sad.”For some unknown reason both of us were afraid to ask our parents about the mysterious boy. Why was he in both of our grandmothers’ houses, why was he black and white and why did he never come out of that picture? The picture dispersed again as another one zoomed in.
A boy was sitting on an ugly orange chair and was flipping through the TV channels; a girl lay lazily on the bed, staring at a picture; a picture of a boy. When the boy, my cousin again, was finished flipping through all six of the channels on TV, he turned it off, disappointed as always. Both of us were much older now. I was thirteen, my black hair was no longer black, but brown, and my cousin and I were no longer convinced that we were siblings. This must have been the first time I had gone back to Bulgaria since I moved to America. “We should ask,” my cousin said suddenly, turning to me. “Ask what?” I answered confused. “Who he was. The boy.” I didn’t say anything, as I watched my grandma walk in the house. She was an old, fat woman with a kind smile; she was the kind of woman that offered you food even if you say you aren’t hungry. I turned to her and finally asked the dreaded question about the boy in the picture. She looked at both my cousin and I before answering slowly. “This is Ivan,” she said as she sat down on a chair and looked at the picture of the mysterious boy. “He was your mom’s brother,” she continued, without taking her eyes off the picture. “Was? Wait, what do you mean was?” I asked, not sure if I wanted to hear the story anymore. “He was a nice boy, “my grandma continued. “He played guitar, he sang and he danced, everyone in town loved him. He was one of those perfect children, he helped old ladies carry their groceries home, and he was top of the class, always getting A’s, complete opposite of your mother. She was always mean to him, she was the young one, and she was the only girl. She always got him in trouble, your mother, she was of the evil kind,” grandma smiled, not taking her eyes off the picture. “Your mother, she was always breaking things, getting in trouble and blaming it on her brother, but he never protested, he never told on her.”
“What happened to him?” my cousin asked. “There was an earthquake in 1979, one of the strongest earthquakes Bulgaria has ever experienced. It happened on a really hot day in May. It struck at around four o’clock in the afternoon, both of us were sleeping, and your mother was out playing with your aunt. Everything started shaking, I didn’t know what to do, I jumped out of bed, screaming for Ivan. I woke him up, scared him to death almost. After the shock of the earthquake everything started. The constant headaches, the weakness that took over him, he wasn’t the energetic boy he was before. We took him to hospitals all over the country, and they told us there was nothing they could do. This was one of the rarest cases they had ever seen. He had leukemia, and two months after the earthquake, at the age of 14 he died.” The scene faded out and I was back at the misty corridor.