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Hallo Aus Berlin

you are probably wondering where i have been all this time, and why i just said hello from berlin because you already knew i was in berlin. well here is your answer.

I was in dresden from tuesday to friday (today) that is why you haven't gotten any posts.. YAYAYA

Don't worry dresden was fun and although i did mis you it was ok because i had a good time without you. :D

In dresden i had spagetti eis and ate at some yummy restraunts and also played on fun placscapes. time for me to do something else cool :P bye bye

PARTY PARTY PARTY

My first weekend in germany. It's actually a 3 day weekend. We went to a party that night at Celestes partners house. I'm tired so you guys don't get anything really about today. Sorry :)

School Day

Today we went to the school and followed our partners through school until it was time for us to give our presentations. Kerry and I were presenting on LASA high school. We really just went up and talked and I think probably bored the students... but thats ok :P

one of the teachers split up the students and the americans so we could talk to them in small groups. One of jacksons groups asked him if there were a lot of hispanics in Austin. Jackson responded with yes and the kid said that there must be a high crime rate then.

Also one of my groups asked me is Jackson was a Satan worshiper.

Side note: One of the classrooms in the school had smart board. It was so cool!!!! we should have them at LASA :)


Why I like LASA: i can understand everything that the teachers say

City Excursions

Today we went to different famous sites in berlin and the 10C german class (berlin students) explained different places in berlin. It was cool in both senses of the word. Yesterday i wore jeans and was really hot so i decided to wear shorts... not a good idea. it was SO COLD!!! gahhh. but it was still fun. i borrowed Celeste's jacket.

Then we were all exhausted but the berlin teacher said we HAD to go on the boat trip. I was ok with it but some people not so much. We took the german tour so we wouldn't have to wait which meant no one understood anything :P it was fun to be on the water and wave at other boats though. so i guess it was ok except that it was even colder and windier (is that a word) on the boat.

Atleast i get to sleep tonight. sadly i have to wake up early tomorrow to go to the school.


weather: cold cold cold

first day of travel

Day 2 in germany!
Woke up early and went with Dana (one of my exchange partners) to the school. The schools are built up not wide so there were TONS of stairs. We took public transportation to get there which was cool but if i went alone there would have been a 100% chance i would have gotten lost. We went into one of the rooms and had a welcome breakfast thing. The principle came and said hi and we got to try different german foods.

then the germans went to class and us americans went on different tours. we went to the unter den linden, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (the parliment building)

some guy there told us about german government and stuff. was interesting but i was still tired from all the traveling yesterday. Thats ok though

We got rained on a bit so i bought a 2 euro umbrella. Not very good but it did it's job quite well

Also in Berlin we saw the TV tower. a little hard to miss because it's REALLY BIG!!!/tall

2 plane trips and a long time later

If waking up at 4:30 in the morning isn't bad enough, try doing that, meeting up with a group of teenagers, and waiting in a security line that goes on FOREVER at the airport. I mean seriously. It was 5 am and the airport is packed. Who wants to fly at that hour? i know i didn't :P
But after about 3 hours i made it into Newark, New Jersey. The airport was nice, had walking sidewalks (i mean moving sidewalks, most sidewalks are used for walking) and was pretty clean. But waiting there for 7 hours... it just turned into a long time. but it was ok because i only had one plane trip yet. In the layover time we played killer bunnies, ate pizza and tried not to annoy each other before the next plane trip.

Next plane trip
Only 8 hours and i'd finally be at destination. On the plane there were tons of movies, and games and the tv was touch screen. Pretty cool. The first hour went by quite quickly and it was really cool. until i look at the clock the next time and it had only been 10 minutes in what i thought had to be at least 2 hours. This did not make me so happy and thats what it felt like for the rest of the plane ride. Atleast for a couple hours we were flying along the sunset so there was a forever long sunset which was super pretty.

Finally we get into Berlin, Germany. YAY YAY YAY
and it's only 8:10 am on tuesday. ahhh that means i need to stay up the entire day to fight jet lag. that night we had the welcome dinner. I was so tired i couldn't even tune into the conversation i was just there. then sleep... sweet sweet sleep.

Flights taken: 2
Books read: 2.5
Hours awake: 32

Hello mah peeps

May 1
That's today...
i thought about hopes and dreams. The things i wish i could change. and then i realized, if i changed my life, that would change me. I wouldn't be the same and i don't want that...

Blog every so often in April

so the Blog every day in April... it failed. Last week is a blur. I was in what seems to me to be a coma but not the next time. I won't ever repeat it but... it happened and this blog hit the very bottom of my list of stuff to do.

Tomorrow i have no school and hopefully i'll get to put a long blog post...

see you guys tomarrow

me failing

so it is BEDA day something... i don't know :P
and i should be giving you incite into something but life moves forward and i lose time. so this is all you get tonight. my apologies.

Sorry for no blog post yesterday. Fail on my part. Im going to bed now. Night

Almost forgot!!!

BEDA day 13? you guys are lucky i remembered... i almost didn't
I thought about it when i got home from school but i was writing a song and i was going to give you guys the song and then i got stuck and did homework and... i never got around to doing this. So now it's late and this post will be short... I will get you a song example eventually. Hopefully this one and then someone should critic it and give me feedback on what to change.

you know what... i really want to learn guitar. someone should teach me yes?

well i just showered so now its time to think about bed. told you this would be short. I'd say tomorrows will be longer but that may be a lie.

Oh i just got the Hunger games Trilogy in the Mail :D

In my Lifetime

BEDA day 12 shall relate back to BEDA day 11. I would also like to say that I don't cheat on my BEDA posts and have some prewitten for later days, all are created the day they are posted.

In My Lifetime(what i hope to do in my life)
1) Be able to say I changed the lifes of many
2) Fall in Love
3) Make true friends that I can tell anything to
4) Visit other countries
5) Learn an instrument I can sing to (like Guitar or piano)
6) Produce a song entirely on my own (own lyrics, editing, everything)
7) Figure out the meaning of life (very philosophical i know :D)
8) Get the Courage to not care what other people think (that's not really courage but whateves :) )
9) Learn to forgive someone even when they have caused me pain
10) Be someone I can be proud of, and be happy that I can say, "Yes, that's me"

Due to the reason stated earlier this blog post is short even though it seems like a pre written something. It actually took me forever to write. be proud of me? *wink* see you tomorrow (yes i'm a stalker and i'll /see/ you tomorrow) love me?

Dear Future Ariel,

Yes it is BEDA day 11. I don't know why I feel the need to say that at the start of all my posts like that but I do. After staring at this computer screen for a half hour coming up with something to write, debating if i should take a shower and think about it, i have come up with a topic. Be proud of me, very proud. I will tell something to....

FUTURE ARIEL!!!

Not that i'm going to remember i have this blog post in the future, but just so I have if for now and if i do come across it i have it and can be like, wow i was a weird girl. So let us begin the letter.

Dear Future Ariel,
Who knows when you're reading this. Tomorrow, a year, maybe even 10 years down the line (though I doubt it) But whenever you do choose to read this, HI!!! I am currently 15 which means i'm a Sophomore at LASA High School. But this is boring stuff and I'm really not a boring person. I hope you're not boring either. I hope you keep your weird random charm, and that you're as original of a person that you are now.

At this moment in time I'm hoping to be a Doctor of a vet when i grow up. I wonder what i'll really be *ponders* The thing i really hope i'm doing with my life is helping people. I want people to be able to look back at me and say, "wow, she really made a difference in my life" Not just a, she was my friend *thumbs up* but a true difference. Whether it's being a doctor and saving lives, or something else that generally helps people. I don't want to work in a cubicle and when i die i won't be remembered for something great. I really want to leave my mark on this earth. I don't need to do anything spectacular but just to be able to say i helped people would be enough for me.

I try to look at the bright side of life as much as i can. Yes there are days when everything seems to be blowing up in my face, and there doesn't seem to be a bright side. But i do try my best to see a half full glass of life as much as possible. I feel that even when you are really down just putting on a smile can help your mood. Or it'll just fool people into thinking everything is okay, both of which aren't bad things.

Well I hope life is good and I love you!!!

<3 Past Ariel

A clean room!

So whos ready for BEDA number 10. I'm not sure i am! Lets start with what i've done today. Not that that's interesting but it seems like a good thing to mention. I cleaned my room all of today. It was about a foot deep in random stuff... and was getting annoying. So i woke up at 10:00 am and decided, i will clean my room. Yeah maybe it was a dumb idea, and an awful way of spending a perfectly nice Sunday, but now my room is clean. Which is a good thing. I also had a flute lesson, but that's really not an interesting thing to mention. While i was cleaning, i was just about to give up, because i hit the point where everything just looks worse than when you started. Luckily i pushed through, and got to a point where it was cleanish and i really wanted to be done. No one would understand how much i WISHED it was done. I listened to ALL CAPS, Alex Day, and Charlie McDonnell on repeat during my cleaning. I have no regrets about it :D

I was thinking today about all the dreams i have, and everything i wish for that never comes true. There are days when all i want is to find something i've lost, or find a boyfriend, or find a best friend, even just a true friend. Sometimes these wishes come true, but more than not, i'm just left wondering if they ever will. Sometimes i wish for people to see me for me, or to know my purpose in life, but if i knew the purpose in life what would the excitement be. Me being the curious, stubborn, weird person i am, i ponder these things A LOT. And of course when you ponder something and don't get an answer, you get annoyed. So someday i'm annoyed only because I've been pondering these unanswered questions all day, and yes i'm aware that that's weird. (but i did say i was a weird person earlier now didn't i?)

I also ponder the concept of True love quite a bit. I've never been in love so i wouldn't know what that's like, but i'm always curious if there is someone out there just for me. Maybe dating other people is just so you get practice knowing who's not right for you, so when you find the right person you know. Maybe i'm crazy for pondering things like this, but i just do. I always have tried to figure out things that i either don't have the background to figure out, or there isn't an answer. Whenever i come across a question about my life i always try to tell myself that only time can tell, but is that true? Will time ever tell me what i want to hear, or teach me about myself. Maybe when i'm older i'll be able to answer this. But for now I guess i should just say i'll see you guys tomorrow.

↓Well Goodnight Alot↓

My friend Celeste sent this to me a while ago and i feel it would be fun to share. Enjoy Alot.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Super long

Im sorry about yesterdays super short blog post. No worrys though cause its beda day 9 *cue intro music* crazy dance party!!!!! Let me start by saying that right now im exausted. As i said yesterday i slept over at saras house, and yes, we actually got sleep. Supprising i know. We woke up 7 30 ish and headed to kolache and then off to the barn. I rode at 9 and toward the end of the lesson i was really feeling Texas weather. It was the instructers, sons, birthday.. So after all the lessons were over (around 1) we headed up to the house for a celebration. Waiting on people to finish riding / watching people ride, it was really windy and dust was flying EVERYWHERE. By the time we headed up to the house i was caked in dirt.

For the birthday party a bounce house was rented. It was so.much.fun! It had a slide and little puncching bag things. It was awesome!!!! Oh it was an elmo themed party so the bounce house and everything was Elmo. We also got a visit from cookie monster!!! :D Well this is only the beginning part of this post because this is being sent as a text. Ill be back later!

Added at 9:42 Told you i'd be back, and look i didn't lie! You should be so proud of me. It's not that late here, but as i was earlier, i'm EXHAUSTED. For some reason today i feel like using caps. Maybe it's because i didn't ALL CAPS (get it? probably not, ALL CAPS the band hahahahahah whatever) BEDA up in the first paragraph. (now you're checking to make sure i'm not lying)

My favorite part of this blog, is honestly, the fact that i'm writing it for myself. No one else reads it, at least not as far as i know. But it's a good place to document my life. I thought about doing Video blogging but i just don't want to be found by people i know, because what if i look dumb. At least here if i do something wrong, no one will find this unless i tell them about it. Or the chances of them finding this are slim. I'm ok with this risk, and i'm sure it's the same as on YouTube, but still. I guess i'm just weird.

Is this post long enough yet? I really want to go to bed :D

TIME FOR IMPORTANT LEARNING LESSON OF THE DAY
did you know one billion pounds of pasta would need approximately 2,021,452,000 gallons of water to cook it? This is equivalent to 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools!

wow, wasn't that amazing!!!

^See look what you get when i'm tired.^ tired of reading me ramble yet? huh? huh? huh?

the more tired i get the crazier the things i get are. Oh i also get super emotional. And while i'm pouring out my heart and soul i'll tell you something i think only 2 or 3 people know. I write songs in my free time. I don't know how good they are, because i don't show them to anyone, but i write them. Which i guess could be weird but i think it's an exciting thing to find out about me. What do you think?

Who cares what my invisible audience thinks? it's not like they're real anywhere but in my head... what whateves. Goodbye invisible audience. Time for bed. Night night, sleep well, don't let the beddy buggies bite (that is an EEEE sound B T Dubs) i am a weirdo. Adios Amigos!

Super short

So its BEDA day 8. Another super short blog cause id sending this from my phone and i'm at saras house and she wants to go to bed. (not saying i don't) I promise a long post tomorrow. Love yah.

Stupid homework

Everyone ready for BEDA day 7? cause i know i'm not. I am working on Precal homework and all i can say is it's dumb...

I am sitting looking at my precal homework and i'm not really sure how to do it. Well more or less slightly confused but i'll figure it out. Sadly because i need to work i really can write a long blog post. I actually can't really write one at all. and i don't know whats going to happen tomorrow so hopefully i can have a long blog post tomarrow but that'll probably come on saturday. we'll see i guess

Attempting to cook and other stuff

ARE YOU READY!!!
It's time for BEDA day 6!!!! YAY!!! WOOT WOOT
Officially 6 days in, and i'm not dead! (always a plus)

So Charlie (Charlieissocoollike) Made a video about making brownies. Me being me decided to make this brownies, no a bad idea. But it gave the oven temperature in Celsius and i did my conversion wrong. SO i was cooking my brownies at 450 degrees Fahrenheit not 350. OOPS they were only a little crispy. They were very good but the inside wasn't cooked but thats ok :D

I happen to enjoy cooking. Maybe it's for the cooking aspect, or the eating aspect. Either way cooking is fun. The only not enjoyable part is cleaning. Come on, cleaning just sucks, which may explain why my room looks as it does. Tomorrows BEDA will be better. Night see you tomorrow.

My life

Today it's time for BEDA day 5. Yes that means i have gotten through 5 days!!! YAY!

I don't have any idea what i'm going to write about in this. I gave this the title my life, and that's where i'm going to start. I guess to truly talk about my life we should talk about where i was born. I was born in Coral Springs, Florida on Friday, July 14, 1995. A little baby girl born to Audrey and Rick, with an older brother named Max. I was born jewish, and i plan to stay jewish. When i was 6 months old my parents got transfered to Austin, Texas, which is where i am now. I had a great childhood. Got to try new things, i really got all the opportunities i could have wished for. I did dance up until 9th grade, and started playing tennis in 2nd grade. In elementary school i also played soccer, like most kids did when they were little.

My older brother Max went to the magnet middle school in my area. That's just an advanced learning school. It is a public school but you have to apply to get in, so it's selective. Me being a little sister, i did anything my brother did. For a while he was my idol and my role model so i followed him to the magnet middle school. I'm actually really glad i did because it was there that i found out my love of learning. Middle school wasn't the best time for me, but I learned a lot about myself in that time and i'm glad it happened how it did. To be honest, i wouldn't change it. I feel that if you change the past, you change the person that you become and the person that you will be in your life. I'm not perfect and i make mistakes, but if i learn from them i believe i will make it through. I have no idea how i made it onto this tangent to i will just move on to high school.

From this magnet middle school, i moved to a magnet high school. I am only a sophomore (i spelled that right first try woot woot!!) so i still have 2 more years to go. They say High school is a time to grow up. and i most definitely have. I have found myself and learned who i am. I'm not perfect, and i don't want to be. I try my best and I try to fit in, but sometimes i just don't. I enjoy being alone, it's a very peaceful feeling for me and there is nothing wrong with that. I also love the company of others, which is why i'm grateful that i have friends who care about me (even though sometimes it feels like some of them get caught up in the drama of there own life a lot) High school, sense we are being honest here, i don't particularly like it. Sometimes i just want to click the fast forward button and get through my life. I don't want to sit here and learn all the lessons. I just want to know them and get to the important part of my life. But life is short so i should savor every minute of it. It is here in high school that i have figured out what i want to do with my life. I don't know 100% yet but i'm getting closer. Maybe sometime when it isn't 2 minutes to midnight i will tell you what i want to be when i grow up. But for now, i just want to say goodnight and i'll update you tomarrow

Mondays

Time for BEDA day 4!!!!
so todays Monday. You know what, i really hate Mondays. I find them very depressing (i've used that word i believe 3 times in 4 blogs. I'm doing good :P) well regardless. You've just had the weekend, no school, maybe some homework or studing, but overall you're free. And then you are expected to wake up and show up to school. No complaining, no nothing. Just show up and pretend to enjoy it. To start, i don't enjoy school in the first place. I love learning and trying new things. But school, being forced to learn, and not learning in an overly fun way, truly is boring. So i've just had the weekend where i can work on learning anything i want and poof, suddenly i'm expected to just go to school, sit in a tiny desk behind someone who could potentially be gross, and listen to a teacher ramble on about something that may or may not be important to my life. Yeah sure, sometimes school is a blast. I can be in a class and love whats being taught. But i'm sure we all know the feeling of sitting in a class and just being bored out of our mind. Wishing SOMETHING interesting would happen, anything and having to get this feeling after being free for 2 days, is more depressing then feeling it after you've already felt the feeling the day before. For all i know this is just me, but *sigh* Mondays, oh how i hate you

Being sick

Today is day 3 of BEDA. and sadly i'm extremely sick. Last night was awful. I was on Benadryl and i still couldn't sleep. I couldn't lie down because it caused me to cough like a maniac and feel like i was choking, so not fun. This meant i had to make some way to make myself not be lying down. For a while i sat up in my bed and fell asleep that way, but word of caution, it's not comfortable. I tried but it wasn't working. Then i suddely thought of pillows. I happen to love pillows because i feel they are an amazing concept. I know that's really weird, but i just find them fascinating. No i have no idea whats so great about they but they are. So back to sleeping. I had about 5 pillows under my head and finally fell asleep that way. YAY!!! Luckily i finally got to sleep and i guess that's the first step to recovering. Last night after getting back from Winterguard State in Houston, it was 2:30 am. Way to early/late for me to be up. and not being able to sleep when you're that tired really does suck. It's when you're just to tired to sleep. So you're exhausted and you need sleep really bad, but nah, your body decides it doesn't want to let you sleep. Well eventually i did sleep and i'm here now so, YAY!!! Time to get on with the rest of my day. Talk to you guys tomorrow!

Winterguard State

So, today is April 2. Day 2 in my quest of BEDA. It is also Winterguard state. I woke up at 5 am to get to school by 5:45 so that i could get on a bus and drive to Houston. That is about 3.5-4 hours from where i live (AUSTIN). Winterguard is spinning flags, rifles and sabers. Like you see in Marching bands, but without the band. So we had the state competition and it really was great. The bus ride up was fun and hanging out with all the awesome people in winterguard was fun. I got really nervous before i went on so i didn't do as well as i would hope, but i'm still very happy with what happened. We performed in a Middle School gym, and we all know how small those are. From the edge of our floor there was about 6 inches until the first bleacher. That's really close. Because it was so small we didn't have as many people watching us, which was depressing. I really like the crowd and the feeling that you are making people happy. That people are enjoying what you're doing. Maybe i'm just weird to like those things, but i do. For that couple of minutes you have their undivided attention and to hear that they enjoy letting you have their attention is fabulous. I just love feeling like i'm changing someones life. Ok i'm not making a change in there life that will ever mean anything in the future, but it's nice to feel people say wow. To think that you're doing something i wish they could do. If i inspire one person, that would be great only because i love changing lives. I love helping people, and i love being part of something bigger than myself.

April Fools!

APRIL FOOLS!!!
So i decided i would try BEDA. Which is blog everyday in April. I'm doing it entirely for myself, because to be honest, who will find this blog post and who read it. I don't plan on telling my friends i'm doing this, so it's just going to happen.
Today was fairly depressing. It's April fools and i saw no good pranks. None were played on me. To be honest, none were played on anyone. There are days in your life when you just want excitement and april fools usually holds that. But not this year. It was just the same as every other day, except that i had this feeling that something exciting should happen at any moment. That something amazing should happen and i'll just laugh. Truly laugh, truly be happen. Even if it's only for a moment. I am in no way a depressed person. I love to laugh, and to be happy and have fun. But my life is a cycle of repeating the same thing everyday. I wake up, go to school, sit through classes, come home, go on the computer, sleep. My schedule rarely changes. Some days it's nice just to have a variant. I guess this is life, i will figure out my life.

Lets talk to our self

I doubt anyone will read this, and if they do thats a little weird. I'm on spring break! YAY!! I'm a little more excited about it than i probably should be but school just gets old after a while. Its nice to get a break from schoolwork and everything even if only for a week. Its our last long break of the year :( but that just means i'm getting closer to summer, and the end of sophomore year. One would think by now i'd know how to spell sophomore without looking it up, but they'd be wrong. (i guess thats another plus on why it should be over) I have no idea what i should say in this, so i'll just end this post here. Who knows when the next time i post is, :P