Wow. That is the only word in the English vocabulary that can describe my feeling as of today. I just can't get it through to my head that in one week, i will have to start waking up at 6 again. But its not like i am regretting my summer. I did so much in so little time. I read 3 Huge books, brushed up on my Spanish language, including hola and gracias, saw some of my best friends 4 life, but most importantly, i started my blog. It's scary to think how far I've come from that little idea i got one night to making a full empire made up of only words. I only have my friends and my loyal readers to thank for that, and i know I've said that so many times, but this is a real thank you card, and my next post is dedicated to my readers. First, i want to talk to you about my crazy-skillz friend Sage. She recently made up a website, who's link is on the bottom, of her pictures. I was so amazed when i saw her Pics, since they are so sharp and so delicate. She's given me advice on how to make my blog in "Tip-Top" shape, and im so gratefull. So Sage, I thank you!
Next, is my Green friend Jake. Whenever i would have the opportunity to see him, i knew that I would have amazing feedback. He is one of my most loyal readers, and encourages me every step of the way. Not to mention hes got a seriously cool girl friend ( NOT girlfriend i think!) Anna, who has also recently started to read my blog. It means so much to hear them say " your post was amazing, and i cant wait for the next one" So Jake and Anna, I thank you!
Last but not least is my first blog fan, Victoria. The first day i posted my first entry, she sent me and email asking me when the next post was, and could she be the first one to read it. Sure enough, i sent her the link as soon as i was done, and ever since, shes been an amazingly loyal reader. Its so weird to think that we became friends by hating one of our classes together, which i wont name due to paranoia, but i will say that our song " Under my Umbrella" sealed our friendship forever! So Victoria, I thank you!
On another note, i was extremely happy on Saturday, due to one thing. I know that i have mentioned that i don't want to be a materialistic person, and so that is why i bought myself an iPod shuffle! Its purple, and i love it even more than my old one, which had a very sad story with it. Anyways, this iPod cost me 60 dollars, since i had a coupon for Fred Meyers for 10 dollars, and i just LOVE IT! It's so nice to jam around with a thing that's not even as heavy as a toothpick hanging from my shirt. Plus, the battery will last longer, since i wont be messing around with it while im listening to songs. Another thing that is happening to me on Saturdays now is that i am going to a retirement home for my long overdue volunteer work. I have begun to appreciate the smaller things in life, even if i am playing the wii with all the residents. People don't understand how important life is, and one little mistake could lead up to your demise. At the same time, if you live life the way i live it, every day will become a journey, and don't take anything for granted! So, follow me, not in a cult kinda way, but in an advice way.
So, thats it for this week, i wont make a new post until a week, since im going to Seattle on Saturday, which is pretty cool! So, thanks once again! And i really do respect and love all my readers, but the ones i mentioned on top were just the ones who give me feedback all the time!
Nadir Ovcina
Link to Sage's website
http://sage-a-m.deviantart.com/
Monday, August 25, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Im not sure about the date today, so ill call it "today"
Hey everyone!
Wow, have i had a tough and busy week! I have started doing my Tae Kwon Do, and I'm super happy! Not just because i can punch things now, but also because my two trainers, 15 and 13, and from Bosnia! We speak the same language, and they're cool! So yea, every time i go, we laugh and talk and they are really awesome to be with. My main trainer has also said that he is super impressed with my work, and ill be in an advanced program really soon! Almost everyday i walk the 15 minutes to get there, which isn't fun. 2 Dogs always bark on my with a fiery rage, as if i were some human cat hybrid, and i always get freaked out. Plus, i just saw a movie about the Zodiac killer, and now I'm really afraid that someone will just come up to me and BAM, I'm dead. It's sad, but its so true. Talking about sports stuff, the Olympics are really good this year! The best thing I've seen so far was a volleyball match between Latvia and The United States, who were considered the best male team, but guess who won! Yea, Latvia did. It was so exhilarating to see them put everything they've got into one match! Sadly though, no Croatians have been shown so far. Im still hoping that we'll come out with at least a bronze, but you can never be sure.
Another thing that i want to touch up on is a book that all 8'th graders in my school are required to read. Its called The Book Thief. As many of you already know, i like it for many reasons, mostly being that it is a break for me of being so happy. The book is sad, touching, and it has a lot of dark humor. The thing that amazes me is the way the author made the narrator Death, the figure. Not only does it make it not Anne Frank part 2, but it adds such a deep and insightful character. If you haven't read it yet, totally do, because i cant remember another book that has been this original. Another book that I'd recommend for Book Buffs would be Vallhalla Rising, and Clive Cussler book. Although not the best of the Dirk Pitt Series, but it's a real guilty pleasure, and fun to read. So if your bored, and want to read, please read these books.
And Lastly, a sad day is coming up for many people... the last day of summer. But not for me! I can't tell you how happy I am! I get to see all my friends, all my Favorite teachers, and also, i get to have something to do, regardless if it sucks. I am going out of my mind waiting for it to be 5:30 so that i can go to my training, since I've got absolutely nothing to do, and its killing me! So, if any of you whoa re reading are feeling the same way as I am, please send me an email so that we could organize something too go somewhere! Please do it, because you will save me from becoming a vegetable.
Once again, thank you, all my loyal readers and feedbackers. It means a lot to me!
Any personal questions you'd like to ask the author of this article can send him an email at nadircroatia@gmail.com
Wow, have i had a tough and busy week! I have started doing my Tae Kwon Do, and I'm super happy! Not just because i can punch things now, but also because my two trainers, 15 and 13, and from Bosnia! We speak the same language, and they're cool! So yea, every time i go, we laugh and talk and they are really awesome to be with. My main trainer has also said that he is super impressed with my work, and ill be in an advanced program really soon! Almost everyday i walk the 15 minutes to get there, which isn't fun. 2 Dogs always bark on my with a fiery rage, as if i were some human cat hybrid, and i always get freaked out. Plus, i just saw a movie about the Zodiac killer, and now I'm really afraid that someone will just come up to me and BAM, I'm dead. It's sad, but its so true. Talking about sports stuff, the Olympics are really good this year! The best thing I've seen so far was a volleyball match between Latvia and The United States, who were considered the best male team, but guess who won! Yea, Latvia did. It was so exhilarating to see them put everything they've got into one match! Sadly though, no Croatians have been shown so far. Im still hoping that we'll come out with at least a bronze, but you can never be sure.
Another thing that i want to touch up on is a book that all 8'th graders in my school are required to read. Its called The Book Thief. As many of you already know, i like it for many reasons, mostly being that it is a break for me of being so happy. The book is sad, touching, and it has a lot of dark humor. The thing that amazes me is the way the author made the narrator Death, the figure. Not only does it make it not Anne Frank part 2, but it adds such a deep and insightful character. If you haven't read it yet, totally do, because i cant remember another book that has been this original. Another book that I'd recommend for Book Buffs would be Vallhalla Rising, and Clive Cussler book. Although not the best of the Dirk Pitt Series, but it's a real guilty pleasure, and fun to read. So if your bored, and want to read, please read these books.
And Lastly, a sad day is coming up for many people... the last day of summer. But not for me! I can't tell you how happy I am! I get to see all my friends, all my Favorite teachers, and also, i get to have something to do, regardless if it sucks. I am going out of my mind waiting for it to be 5:30 so that i can go to my training, since I've got absolutely nothing to do, and its killing me! So, if any of you whoa re reading are feeling the same way as I am, please send me an email so that we could organize something too go somewhere! Please do it, because you will save me from becoming a vegetable.
Once again, thank you, all my loyal readers and feedbackers. It means a lot to me!
Any personal questions you'd like to ask the author of this article can send him an email at nadircroatia@gmail.com
Friday, August 1, 2008
My "more of a rant post than a blog"
Hi everyone, again. I think that by next week, the "hi everyone" will change into something a little more... Exuberant. Well, this week has been like every other week, boring and lazy. My life in a nutshell is the song Longview by Green Day. If you haven't heard it, then you don't know 90's post-punk music, since that song rules. But listen to the unabridged version, its a LOT funnier. Anyway, enough about my ranting on music again, i want to share my experience with my friend Jake. As some of you might know, Jake is unfortunately moving to Seattle or something, and I'm very sad. Jake was always creepy funny, and just fun to be around. He said that I will get to go to his Birthday Party! Woah! So yea, we went to the pool on Wednesday, and i left my home at 12:00, even though Jake made the time for 12:30. Well, lucky for me, the pool opened at 1, so i had to sit outside for 40 minutes, waiting for Jake to come and waiting for it to be 1. Finally he arrives, and he starts telling me about his " lovva" Anna, who he met at a camp. So knowing this, in the pool, i went over to a 6 year old who was a real pain, since she was splashing me, and kicking me, and mumbling, and all these weird things, not to mention she was in all pink. I go over to her, and i tell her that Jake has been "checking her out" the whole time, and i ask her would she ever date him. Her answer was hilariousssss! She said " well, he is kinda hot!" Jake comes over, and that girl immediately blushes, and so we go out and i tell him what happened. He was SOOO mad! But after that, we had a fun, time, and then we went home.
Another phsyical activity that will be playing a part in my life will be " Tae Kwon Do"! I'm a little nervous about all the push ups and stuff, but finally, If another dude asks me if I'm a girl, my reply will be a cool punch or something. I got the uniform, and i look really tough in it, even though I've got the same flexing abilities of a bendy straw. That not a lot. The only downside is that the classes are at 6:40, and i would have loved to do something during the day, instead of what I'm doing now, which is rewriting my ENTIRE mandarin Notebook, and writing every character 5 times, which i wish i could be doing better things. I have also started waking up at 6:30 again, trying to get my mind into the fact that school is starting pretty soon, and i dont remember anything from the Pythagorean theorem!
My last and probably most controversial topic through this post will be drink corporations. Yesterday, i found a coupon for "jamba Juice" in the newspapers, so i decided that i would get a free drink. I enter the place, and it was so weird! There were all the "excersizingy" people ordering this wheat grass stuff. What the frick is wheat grass... I suppose its grass that a drink, but i don't see the point of all that money for a shot of grass. U might as well grow a lawn, and every time you mow it, collect the grass and blend it. Also, if i may add, and this will make a lot of people mad, but i like sharing my opinion to the world, so here it goes... Starbucks SUCKS. It s just a huge corporation that likes selling coffee drinks with who knows what else in them. I don't understand why people don't go to local coffee places, like in Portland, coffee people, and stumptown. These were coffee places that are Portland, and it's saddening to see that so many local places have been bought by Starbucks. My favorite motto in the whole world is "friends don't let friends drink at Starbuck" And with that, I bid you adieu.
Nadir Ovcina
Another phsyical activity that will be playing a part in my life will be " Tae Kwon Do"! I'm a little nervous about all the push ups and stuff, but finally, If another dude asks me if I'm a girl, my reply will be a cool punch or something. I got the uniform, and i look really tough in it, even though I've got the same flexing abilities of a bendy straw. That not a lot. The only downside is that the classes are at 6:40, and i would have loved to do something during the day, instead of what I'm doing now, which is rewriting my ENTIRE mandarin Notebook, and writing every character 5 times, which i wish i could be doing better things. I have also started waking up at 6:30 again, trying to get my mind into the fact that school is starting pretty soon, and i dont remember anything from the Pythagorean theorem!
My last and probably most controversial topic through this post will be drink corporations. Yesterday, i found a coupon for "jamba Juice" in the newspapers, so i decided that i would get a free drink. I enter the place, and it was so weird! There were all the "excersizingy" people ordering this wheat grass stuff. What the frick is wheat grass... I suppose its grass that a drink, but i don't see the point of all that money for a shot of grass. U might as well grow a lawn, and every time you mow it, collect the grass and blend it. Also, if i may add, and this will make a lot of people mad, but i like sharing my opinion to the world, so here it goes... Starbucks SUCKS. It s just a huge corporation that likes selling coffee drinks with who knows what else in them. I don't understand why people don't go to local coffee places, like in Portland, coffee people, and stumptown. These were coffee places that are Portland, and it's saddening to see that so many local places have been bought by Starbucks. My favorite motto in the whole world is "friends don't let friends drink at Starbuck" And with that, I bid you adieu.
Nadir Ovcina
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