Cropping
Rules of Thirds
Hate a Love
Leading Lines
Angels
Symmetry and Patterns
December – January
Marry Christmas, Happy new Year,…. I know I am a little bit late, but many things happened and my life changed drastically since the last few weeks. I always thought about to write, but there is always something to do. Right now I am siting in my photography class and have 30 min time to do what ever I want, and before I do nothing I will tell you about my life.
I will start from the beginning, my life change started in the middle of December. How I told you I had this long conversation with my first block teacher, it was about my problems in my first hostfamily. They are really nice people, and I really don’t want to make them bad, but it just didn’t fit and many small things happened I was unhappy with and you know how it is – it turns out to one big problem! Everything was really quick, I told her about everything on Friday and i already moved out on Monday, this was the last week before the holidays. At this time I didn’t had a family I could move in with, so I moved in with my ISC (the person who is looking after me) I lived with Sara and her small son for one week but the problem was she planned to drive away over the holidays, so they needed to move me. Nobody was around myrtle beach, the next woman (Sofia) who would host me lives in Columbia (1,5 hours away from my life, my friends, my new home). You can imagine how I was feeling, over Christmas and New Year forest to move in with a family you never talked to. The other thing what frustrated me , my friend, Kira asked me if I would like to go with her and her family to Disneyland over the holidays but the ef organization didn’t allow me that.
In the end Sofia and her 6 year old daughter Claudia picked me up, it wasn’t easy for me because Sofia was really sick at this time, with a illness what is a big problem in my family. At this point I really thought about just to go home, but I tried to see the positive and focus on why I am in America (it’s not about to have the best year in my life – I really hoped for that, but you can’t always have what you want; it was about learning English and more about my self, what I want in live, who I am,…). In the end it worked pretty good. And I am glad I went to Columbia because I met amazing people, they are friends for my hole life (in only 2 weeks). I was sleeping with Rita in a room, she is 16 like me. We were hanging out with 3 other exchange students Meggi from Italy, Sharif from Austria and Tobias from Bulgaria. They are amazing people, and I am so glad I met them on my trip to Columbia we went together to Charleston, to a trampoline land at midnight, it’s so much fun! We went shopping and guess what? I got my dreadlocks done.
My Organization finally found a home for me in Carolina Forest, it’s still in Myrtle Beach, only a different district, they transferred me to another school for the new semester but I can still see my old friends. So everything finally worked out.
My family is amazing, I am living with them since a month and they are really sweet. My house mum Katie, my house father Chris and my 4 small siblings.
Katie is more like a best friend or sister to me than a actually mother, I can talk with her about everything without getting judged, and she got to tell some crazy story’s about her life too.
Chris is a teacher for a collage and he is really smart, he knows more about the German history than me, he is a really lovely and educated man.
They have two boys, 5 years old, a girl she is 3 and a baby she is 8 months old. I am not used to so many small children, but I really don’t want to miss them in my life anymore, it’s so much fun to talk to them and to watch them how they play and grow.
Carolina Forest High School is much harder than Myrtle Beach High School, I actually really need to learn. I am not used to that. I have Algebra 2, Photography, Aerobic and Anatomy. The people are much nicer. I met some cool people, but it needs some time to figure out who you want to hang out, and this school year is over in 3 months so I am not sure if its worth it to make good friendships. I go back to Germany already in 4 months. Time flies.
My Birthday is in march, after that Prom and Spring break (I will go to New York City) and than I already fly home. But I am kinda happy about it I really miss Germany. It’s hard to stay away from your family, and friends for so long especially when there are so many ups and downs. When I come back to Germany I need to decide how my life should work out and I really don’t know what I want, I only know I don’t want that it’s like before. I will change schools, start new hobby’s (Playing Piano and start pole dancing), traveling, and hopefully find new friends and figure out what I want in life.
I am still modeling and dancing. What makes me happy and I want to continue this also back home. Maybe I will still write on my blog, it’s a good practice for English. My only problem is that I get lazy with those things and don’t find the time to just sit down and think about my life and write it down I never been good in writing diary, what is bad because I pretend to forget many amazing things I did, because so many things are in my mind and I am always in a rush and want to change. This is a really big weakness and I know it, but it’s so hard to change, it’s a bad habit.
16 Schoolweek
I had a awesome week!
On Monday I met my old ISC Marry-Ellen we had a really good time together and talked about lots of things.
I went two times to a hot tub with Kira. It’s so beautiful, we been on the top of a hotel and saw the sunrise. It was lot of fun!
I bake a cake for Shilo’s birthday on Thursday (she is my house sister).
On Friday I had a long conversation with my first bock teacher, she got a really special personality, I never met a person like her before, she is awesome. At the evening I met Charlie.
By the way I started talking to Jesus again. He just came over someday and started talking to me, it was really nice. We don’t act like totally idiots anymore…. lol
Saturday I stood up really early and went to a christmasparate with Deborah and her Mother. Later Kira picked me up and we tried Prom dresses on, they are so beautiful!
Later we went to the Nerd Bar, to a Christmasparty and met Vega there, I’m glad Kira and Vega likes each other! I slept at Kira’s place and we made some pictures at a bridge together. It was really much fun.
EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING
Your girls should be bad enough to get another mans attention,
but loyal enough to let him know he doesn’t stand a chance.
Summary about the last 2 months
My last post was over a month ago and I’m really sorry for that. Both of my computers broke down, and generally I don’t had time to write. I’m already in my 15 schoolweek in America. I’ll try to summarize the important things.
I decided not to get dreadlocks, it is not like I don’t like the idea but I didn’t found a hair salon who would do it and maybe it’s stupid but I really thought about to model when I’m back in Germany and my hair right now are much better for this business, in the end i dyed them dark red. I really like it like that.
Cubbi moved out of the house to Illinois because of her model carrier, I think this was 2 months ago. In this time two other exchange students moved in with us Chiara and Maria. They decided to change their family. Maria is 17 and from Norway and Chiara is 15 and from Germany. They lived with us for over 6 weeks and it wasn’t easy, we didn’t have so much place and privacy but I’m still glad that I met them. Maria decided to move back to Norway (she was 3 months in America), I can understand her in a way, how I said many thing were going on and when you are alone in a country and don’t know what is going to happen in the future, you get really homesick. Chiara knew a family in Texas and moved in with them, she is really happy now – and I’m happy for her. She is a special person. In Germany, she lives in the town where the girlfriend of my dad lives. So I hopefully see her again in Germany. Experience like this connects.
I’m not friends with Chelsie anymore, much drama was going on and lies, about her sister and her boyfriend… it was just silly. I wrote a whole paragraph about the story, because I was really upset with the situation at this time but I don’t care anymore, and it’s unimportant.
I don’t have contact with Jesus (Tk) and Jake anymore. Jesus was a good friend of mine but he got feelings for me and decided it would be the best not to talk to me anymore, and I respect that if he thinks it’s the best. Jake and me are not talking anymore because of many things it’s to much to explain but his (ex-)girlfriend didn’t like me, and it turned out in a big drama.
I started hanging out with a guy named Charlie, he is really much fun. We went on a river kayaking, watching movies, graffiti and we listened to ghost story about Conway – his family invited me.
On the art field trip with my school I met a girl named Kira, her family is also from Germany, but they life in America since 25 years. She can speak pretty good German and is also 16 years old. I gave her my number and she messaged me one day and we started hanging out, she is a really sweet girl and got a twin brother. She went also to my high school but changed now to a academy of arts. I stayed at her house over night and met some friends of her, who are on my school, they are really nice. We went ice skating, to a bridge and watched the sunset, shopping, and made a campfire.
The last week wasn’t easy for me because it was my Dad’s and Grandmother’s birthday, I also experienced my first thanksgiving, and I really enjoyed it but I just miss family time.
I could write about many other things but that’s to much right now, I hopefully find some time the next days to write. It’s not easy to write constant, but I enjoy it to write when I start. I will also search my phone about some pictures and load them up.
I’ll also start to post some picture what interests or inspire me. This blog will be not only about my live in America.
6th and 7th Schoolweek
In the last two weeks happened many things, and my laptop broke down, that’s the reason I didn’t write. In this post I will summary what happened in my 6th and 7th school week in America.
In the beginning you need to know, I need to stand up (every single morning) at 5:30 am because my School is too far away that no school bus would drive me, so Deborah takes me to her work, and I need to wait one hour until my school starts. But I love to sleep, and we got a big wan so I sleep in the back of the care and go to school… most of the time. On this special Thursday I didn’t heard my alarm so I woke up at 12am in the care and Deborah told me to come to her work. It was so much fun, she is working with 4 and 5 year old children together. Normally children annoying me (I think that’s because of my age, when I get older it change), but they were ordered and listened to things Deborah and the other teacher told them to do (it’s a special school, with children who got serious problems in their life, teenager parents, the parents got drug problems or are poor or are in jail,…). I really got respect for them that they handle their lives so good and don’t give up. I met really cool parents, they are not like you’re parents, but they love their children, of course I saw also parents who wasn’t that good and respectful to their children, but that showed me even more that Deborah’s work is really important.
I can’t remember so many things of this week but I went with Cubbi to the broadway and I had so much fun, we didn’t spend so much money, we watched the sunset and danced on the bridge (There no tourists anymore and you got the feeling everything is yours, and you can just do whatever you want). Later I met a friend.
In a few weeks is Halloween so I bought a Pumpkin with Cubbi and Deborah and we made faces in it. I love to do stuff like that, the problem was that I cut the face in the pumpkin and we needed to throw it away a few days later.
Deborah is also looking after other exchange students, they aren’t living with her like me but they can talk with her when something going on and two girls wanted to change the house family’s and the one girl moved in with us for a few weeks. Her name is Maria she is really cool! She is 17 and from Norway we went to the Tangeroutlet.
On Friday I didn’t go to school like normal I was on a fieldtrip with some other art students and it was something special because only the best were allowed to go with my art teacher. It was a festival a bit like Oktoberfest you can have different rides but we went there especially because of the art hall. There are pictures from people who send them to the organization and they pick the best one (from children garden to adults) it was beautiful. For some people it isn’t special but I could stay there forever. But after a while I went out of the hall and watched some other attraction. I was riding an elephant what was really special for me because they are my favorite’s animals. There was a wolf show and also a big house just for breast cancer and there was a wall where you can write names on it for people who got cancer. I like to keep occupied with that because it is a big thing in my life, and it always remember me to not waste my life and be happy.
On the next day me and Maria wrote with the bikes to Walmart, it’s about 20 min, but the problem was we bought a bit too much and it was that easy to transport everything back home but in the end we made it, after we searched 10 minutes after our house .
In the end of the week we grilles marshmallows with Deborah.
(I will add pictures later to my post)
Every picture got one story, that is my story to this picture. It shows Marilyn Monroe out of puzzle pieces. The Idea grow thru a picture I saw from a woman made out of puzzle and do you know the feeling when you see a picture and you could look at it forever? It was like that. But with the time the picture changed, I used dough for her eyes, nose and mouth and after a while all of the puzzle pieces where gone so I made her shirt out of cloth. I painted the last parts of her face with color (I don’t like it so much) and the problem was it was the last thing of my project and I was annoyed, after I while you want to start with something new so I didn’t made it really good, and I regret it now… I should tinker a frame for the picture… a picture take so much time and I see many thing I want to change.
It’s not perfect but maybe I will find time later to finish it how I would like to see it.
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