Which blog?!

Hey guys so I've noticed many people are still following this blog. This leads me to wonder if I should come back to posting on this blog as apposed to my new blog (www.kissingtherain.com). Leave a comment and let me know what you think... :) xx

goodbye blog

hey everyone! so i am moving my blog to another domain, i will no longer use this as my blog. BUT, be sure to follow my ew blog (its the exact same thing) by following www.kissingtherain.com :) love you guys and hope that you will follow my blog still. xxx

a lil' bit of me-time

Soooooo….  As you all may know, its summer in the USA right now. This means, long hot hot hot days! Shorts, tanks, bikinis, and a whole lot of sun tanning :) The kids are at summer camp every day from 9-4 so I get a nice break in the day and the summer so far has been super relaxing.

I have taken this opportunity to have some me time. So far I have been reading, scrapbooking, and working on my songs! I finished a song by the way J its like a worship song, ah so happy about that! I also have no choice but to have me time because my two best friends have finished their au pair years! :( boooo….but its been fun!

I will show you guys some of my scrapbooking and maybe I will record my song and put it in a post for you guys to hear if you want, maybe :) oh and I’m teaching myself French with this all audio course thing (http://www.livinglanguage.com/products/french/)

Some other things I want to do this summer:

·         Study (I’m doing an au pair course on the 20-22 July)

·         Travel (going to Niagara falls next weekend)

·         Travel some more (maybe Ohio to visit my friends)

·         Find suitable clothes to wear to Christina and Andrew’s wedding

·         Finish at least 3 books (this sounds little but it’s a huge thing for me!)

·         Master French (yea right)

·         Relax and soak up the sun….

Ok I love you guys, thank you again for following my blog! I’m looking to upgrade to a better blog site soon so it’s exciting and I’m gana make my blog bigger and better. Big hugs and kisses, xxx

good-bye Nitti :)

Ah the time has come to say good bye to Benita, she left for her travel month yesterday morning...so sad. These are some pictures of only a few of the best days of our lives.... (in sporadic order...)

here when every store was closed we roamed home depo...

we were always at Starbucks, ah our second home...

We had a rad little farewell party at cheesecake factor :)

mc donalds and its 20 nuggets for $5 deal was also one of our second homes, loved those times when we were like the only people in the micki dee's at like 11 30pm

my first party experience in the city was with Nitti :) those were fun nights...ah the red top and turquoise skirt :P

and guys hitting on us till we lost count :D

we really bonded over play dates, the park, our basement, and then some more park :)

i remember this time i got lost in the city, but i saw you so it was fine :)

and then like a huge american highlight, SUPERBOWL!! :)

We had the best times ever and i know that one day we will be able to have many more memories together! i love you Benita, as you move on in life, don't forget me :P and be safe!

and get together with UNNI!!!! haha, 

i love you sweet friend :)

xx

So many adventures!

I know I haven’t written in over two weeks, I feel so bad, and so much has happened! Ahhhhhh, ok I’m ganna give ya’ll a crash course style update on my life for the past 2 and a bit weeks.

Ok first cool thing is I went kayaking with some friends at this magnificently beautiful lake, and I met some more American friends. The one friend David who I’m pretty close with plays piano and he and I are working on writing at least one song by the end of the summer. It’s so cool, I feel like such an artist! I love it! I will most certainly upload it on my blog once it’s done :)

Then last weekend I went out partying for the first time in 4 months! I went to Webster hall in New York City, and it was so so so amazing! It’s a 19 over club and it has like 3 floors and it’s relatively clean and was just so much fun! Met some more American’s and just had a blast. (http://websterhall.com/)

Then last week was Jillian’s graduation from pre-school, so we did that on Monday and went out for lunch. Oh I took some pictures of the mall in case anyone wants to know how regular American things look :P

Then this past weekend I went out with a friend to her friend’s house, met some more new people,  and we just hung out. Then Saturday I went to Webster hall again cuz it was my friend Benita’s last weekend in the city so we had a long awesome night of dancing again! Then Sunday I was supposed to go to the au pair meeting to a baseball game, but I way overslept! :( oh and i saw the naked cowboy in times square! its this dude that walks around singing in his undies! :P

So yea those are my adventures so far, still loving the US!

I have a few random things I wanna tell you guys though. Firstly, I always have such happy and exciting blog posts, and life here is exciting, and I wish for everyone in the world who can, to take this opportunity like I did, but I feel like sometimes I don’t share enough real things like hard situations. It’s difficult to do though, talk about the sucky things, cuz I don’t want anyone to get the wrong impression of me. But what I will say is, life is tough here. You have to make all your own decisions, do everything for yourself, no one waking you up in the morning, no one helping you find a bank, you get lost, frustrated, you feel lonely and exhausted and there are days, yes, everyone has them, where you just want to go home! I want people to know this so they don’t expect the American au pair life to be all roses and fun. It does get hard sometimes but I can promise you one thing: it’s so worth it!

Second thing I wanna say is does anyone know how/ have suggestions as to how I can make my blog better? I wanna have like I wall type thing where all your messages can go and I can reply to them cuz the more my followers grow, the harder it is to follow what’s going on in the au pair room page, it’s looking a bit crazy right now.

And lastly, I wanna encourage you all to stay following, I love knowing that my life and my stories can help or inspire or just make you laugh :) you guys are the best! I love you all!

xxx

about time...

hey all, i am so sorry its taken me so long to get you guys this video, but this week has been crazy! i love you guys, thanks for the patience and support. let me know if you like the video :) xxx

life tastes good

This week was a really weird week; i felt really down and run over, like i wanted to give up on things. i was losing confidence in my ability to do this year, but then i thought to myself, even if i don't feel like I’m doing a good job at anything right now, let me just keep going, keep trying. So that's what i did, even if i didn't feel like my life was productive or good, i just kept going and didn't give up. i started organizing my life with budget, goals, and schedules...it felt good to get things sorted out a little, and by the end of the week i felt like my confidence was raised :) 

In terms of work, the kids were the best they'd ever been this week, which was really nice for me. i did like fun stuff with them, like painting, a little treasure hunt thing, and just fun playing around with them. i think after 3 months, I’m getting so much more used to everyone, and everyone is getting so much more used to me.

I hung out with Qarla more this week, we went to a Texas Mexican restaurant in freehold with her two friends, and i had real Mexican enchiladas which were very cool, i always have fun with her. The week before we had Chinese food in freehold and i tried new stuff there too. i find myself being so much more adventurous this year, like trying everything before i say i do or don't like it. It's actually lots of fun being crazy and adventurous.

Our "date nights" hehe

metro cafe:

Texas Mexican restaurant

I also bought my plane ticket to Missouri this week, which felt cool. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought a plane ticket for myself anywhere!!

i found a really cool thrift store in freehold called second hand rose, http://freehold.patch.com/listings/the-second-hand-rose, and bought some really nice, inexpensive clothes.

today was mother’s day and i went to church feeling a little sad and bleak cuz i missed my family back home, and my family here was having like a big lunch with all their family around, which to me felt like Christmas, so i missed being with family. But at church i met amazing people and Godly woman who were just so friendly to me and so loving and generous and inspiring, so that made me feel a lot better.

Like i said, this week was a bit crazy but overall it was a good week.

Oh my gosh, almost forgot to tell about the baseball game i went to! I went to a Mets verse Arizona something team, it was AMAZING to say the least. There were like thousands of people, in this phat ass stadium, loud and buzzing and just such a vibe. i know nothing about baseball so i'm not sure how the actual game was but it was an unbelievable experience! enjoyed it so much. 

Love to you all!!! xx

Its the weekendddd baby!

Sooooo.... last week was really cool, i got my drivers on Monday, it was really easy! Then i got some birthday gifts in the mail which was nice....but my weekend was the best. On Friday I went to the movies with my German friend Nassim, and we watched the lucky one (which was really average), and went to the mall. Nassim is really cool, I like her a lot. Then on Saturday I woke up at like 2 40pm :P my bad….and I went out with my Brazilian friend Emile, we went for like Italian food, and then went to this cool outlet type store, ahhhh I’m ganna save money just so I can spend it on all the cheap stuff there.  Then on Sunday I went to church and Karla, my Mexican friend, came with me. After church we went to this amazing park with like a lake by it and we had a mini picnic and photo-shoot and we just sat by the lake pretty much all afternoon. Then we walked around freehold downtown (a very pretty town) and then ended up having sushi with Karla’s friend Johan (also Mexican), and lastly we went to café 360 for chai lattes. What a great weekend right?

Nassim and I

Emile and I

Karla and I at the lake

Sitting by the lake on Sunday got me thinking a lot about life and how the beauty of life is really in the eye of the beholder. So many girls just want to leave home and come to America to follow the American dream, and then when they’re here they just want to go home.  I believe very much that America does hold the dream that you can be whatever you want to be here if you work hard enough. Like simple things like travelling for me is so easy (well easier than back home), and maybe if someone want to become famous they could do it easier here than back home. But I think that it is important to always be happy where you are. I feel  like if I just stayed in Jersey and visited dc and nyc the whole time I was here I’d be happy, cuz for me the fact that I’m in America is enough for me. I just love knowing that any part of America is good enough for me. I feel like as long as I have great people around me who make me laugh, I’m happy and content with life. And sure I miss home, but this is where I wanted to be and this is still where I want to be.  Sorry super random blurb :)

And my latest thought is if today was your last day, what would you do with it?

I love all my friends and family back home, who read my blog, and to all my new friends here, you make being away from home doable, and to any new followers or random readers, I hope you enjoy reading and keep following :) Don't forget any questions, just post them in the Questions page. xx