Sometimes It Helps to Forget (week 4)

Hello! It's the Friday blog post! Are you excited? I'm excited. And I've also gotten less than 7 hours of sleep so I'm a bit beyond insane at the moment :)

This week was my third week of high school. Things are getting normal. I'm getting the hang of it, more or less. However I'm not in the mood to talk about the homework, the teachers, my English partner, etc. Instead I thought I'd talk about something else. An escape.

I've had a friend of mine from Germany stay over for a month and a half, and this past weekend was her last weekend here. She's four years older than me, but she's a bestie. Hey there Mitra, if you're reading this:)

She and I went to a beach on Sunday. (When I was younger I despised beaches, but no worries, I've learned to love them.) It was her birthday, and it was purely delightful. The sand was littered with sand dollars, and the water took them away and then released them, again and again. The sky was amazing, the weather was perfect, and I didn't have to think about anything.

We walked along the sand taking photos, playing tag with the waves, and searching for the perfect sand dollar. We talked a lot at times, but some of the best moments were the silent ones, with only the waves as the background.

I realize I've gone insanely poetic on you, I'm just trying to set a scene:)

We must have walked over a mile, but the distance was nothing compared to the ocean and the amazing scenery. The sky was also feeling artistic that day, in case the picture above doesn't display that enough.

We completed our day eating a giant pizza with my family, and chilling at home. Not even the sand in my hair could alter my immense happiness. It's amazing how doing something so simple can make me so happy. Try that sometime. I promise that it helps.

In the end, we collected a huge bag of sand dollars that we washed and decided I would put in my room. It's a reminder of the day I was able to forget everything and enjoy myself. It doesn't happen too often.

However, a few other nice events occurred this week, here's my favorite:

On Friday Ash and I practiced soccer together. It was really fun, and one of the best parts was this little eight year old boy who decided to coach us towards the end of practice.

Barefoot and smiling he approached us, and told Ash to shot with her laces. He said it would help her score. He then decided to stand in goal and play goalie. How cute is that? (I thought it was adorable).

Throughout practice Ash and I got to catch up a bit, and I realized just how much I had missed her. I'm so upset about us going to different schools (although it's middle school all over again), but at the same time, not seeing each other too often makes me really value the days when we do get together.

I'm learning that life kind of does what it wants to do, and that you have to take charge, set up times to go on adventures, schedule a day to meet in a cafe, so on, so forth. If not, life will go on, and you won't have a say. That doesn't work for me, because talking is my forte.

Overall, I'm so glad I got to hang out with two of my closest friends. These little things get me through the tough week, and I probably wouldn't make it very far without them. Thanks little things. And thank you, for reading this. You make my week better, too:)

Alright I hope I didn't get too philosophical on you, I'll let you be now. Thanks for reading down to here, although I know it wasn't too far. I'm still working on writing like this. I'll master it someday.

Go ahead and check out some of the pictures on our Instagram, we took some snazzy ones at practice. I've also got a few in this post, cool eh?

Okay okay byee!

xx

Ana