YES! xD
My valiant, crazy plan to become a social butterfly is slowly working!
Today I spent the evening with a girlfriend, Jane, and we saw the amazing movie (500) Days of Summer. We then walked around and ate Ben & Jerry's ice cream, before shopping for a solid hour together in the unique stores at our town's pavillion. To be honest, Jane was quite surprised to receive a call from me two days ago, asking if she would like to hang out with me, since I've been in Vancouver for the past two weeks. And I myself was quite nervous about how tonight would play out, since we've never actually done something out of school together, just the two of us. It seems like a stampede of friends would always be with us, blocking the chance of making this idea possible.
But I found tonight quite an accomplishment. Being in BC for the past eight weeks, I've been living with my three older, and extremely social cousins. One of them, the only girl of the three, is actually the most amazingly outgoing and social person I've ever met in my life. She has the envious gift of easily becoming the life of any party, no matter how low or high her competition might be there. She's never had an awkward moment, and is the easiet to talk to. Over the weeks, I've taken careful notice of how exactly she has mastered this amazing skill, and made useful mental notes on the subject as well. And tonight I unleashed them on my first experiment! I was a more outgoing, talkative, cheery, and easy-going person than I had ever been in my life in front of Jane. Not only do I think I was different in front of her than ever before, but I know it: as I dropped her off at her pristine house just half an hour ago, she hugged me, and said, "Wow Alina, I had so much fun tonight, I don't know why we haven't done this before!" Her saying made my evening, if not my day, and has given me a small, tiny margin of encouragement to continue this quest to become more likeable.
Overall, today has been a lovely day, really. I simply can't complain. It's yet another day in which I go to bed in peace, knowing the ones I care for dearly are near me and in acceptable health and temporarily good-tempered. I woke up with only five hours of sleep in the early morning to tutor my adorable tutoree, was paid twenty dollars for my work, watched television (a luxury to me), spent time on the computer (a LOT of time, really), straightened my hair, and prepared for Jane's. I did have a short arguement with my parents (more my father, actually) about whether I should continue piano with a teacher or at a Music Academy, spent a good half-hour to forty minutes battling familiar tiny ants that had flooded the bathroom floor, and.. well that's about all I could weakly complain about. My mom's in a bad mood right now though, so I guess that could be a tiny stain on my otherwise clean t-shirt. But maybe her bad mood's really not that bad, maybe I'm reading her wrong... or maybe not. Literally, since I have no intention whatsoever to go confront her about her current emotions, only time will tell.
Alright, I'm going to stop here. I'm not very tired, but I have to go rot my brain on other internet sites, you see ;)
Until next time..
<3
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Returning From an Absurdly Long yet Highly Typical Break..
So guess what?
I've been having one of THE best summers of my life so far! Why? Because I was lucky enough to live in West Vancouver, BC, for the past two months! It doesn't sound that exciting, and probably wouldn't be to most people, including myself, but it totally was. Why (haha I ask that a lot a guess)? Because I got to live in the wealthiest part of Vancouver- the elite West region, where only the top of the top can afford to venture into. Have you ever heard of Lugaro Jewelers? It's one of leading Jewelry companies in all of Canada. And my uncle is the founder of it. So he makes a heck of a lot of dough, which any relative of his, whether by blood or by law, is extremely fortunate enough to enjoy when with him.
Basically, the past eight weeks have been incredible. I have had the opportunity to dine at the very classiest of restaurants in Vancouver, drive in some of the most expensive cars in BC, and spend a crapload of moolah on clothes I would never dream of even glancing at back in my home in the States. It's been unbelieveable, absolutely incredible, this experience. And though I went through some bad days of the fifty or so I had in WestVan, I truly am a believer now of the saying that money can buy happiness. Or at least, it's an epic contributer to it.
But please, please, PLEASE do not think that I have acted as a complete brat in the past two months, taking the large amount of money I was given and not being grateful for it. My extended vacation was divided into two complete parallels: if I wasn't shopping with cousins in the gorgeously decorated boutiques around me, I was playing a huge role in the growing Armenian community that represented all of Vancouver. I spent two weeks being a counselor for an Armenian dance camp, doing everything from cooking the ridiculously complicated meals for the children to creating newsletters, designing t-shirts, and making calls for the camp itself. Immediately after that, I teamed up with my three older cousins to help form HYBC, or Hye Youth of British Columbia, an Armenian youth group in Vancouver that had a purpose of joing all of Vancouver's Armenian youth together in order for them to become friends and form strong relationships, thus strengthening the alarmingly fast rate of Armenians who are drifting off and forgetting to remember their heritage. I hosted and organized one meeting and an impressively successful picnic for the club, and am the offical representative of the Los Angeles Armenian youth group that will correspond with HYBC to help our long-distance relationship with each other not falter. Truth be told, as pleasureable and relaxing many of my days were in Vancouver, an even larger margin of them were spent enduring these exhausting but rewarding days of helping out the Armenian community in Vancouver as much as I can.
Well, now I am finally back in the states. Day 3, officially. I spent all of yesterday staring at the walls, mindlessly playing on the internet, and watching as much tv as I could without being criticized as a couch potato (something I dream to be, haha). In a few hours, I have to tutor a seven year old with ADD, and then tonight I'm planning to see a movie with one of my best friends, whom I obviously haven't seen in ages. Hopefully, today will be a pleasant day.
I have so much more to say, but I have to stop, since I need to get some shut-eye.
Until next time....
-alyS<3
I've been having one of THE best summers of my life so far! Why? Because I was lucky enough to live in West Vancouver, BC, for the past two months! It doesn't sound that exciting, and probably wouldn't be to most people, including myself, but it totally was. Why (haha I ask that a lot a guess)? Because I got to live in the wealthiest part of Vancouver- the elite West region, where only the top of the top can afford to venture into. Have you ever heard of Lugaro Jewelers? It's one of leading Jewelry companies in all of Canada. And my uncle is the founder of it. So he makes a heck of a lot of dough, which any relative of his, whether by blood or by law, is extremely fortunate enough to enjoy when with him.
Basically, the past eight weeks have been incredible. I have had the opportunity to dine at the very classiest of restaurants in Vancouver, drive in some of the most expensive cars in BC, and spend a crapload of moolah on clothes I would never dream of even glancing at back in my home in the States. It's been unbelieveable, absolutely incredible, this experience. And though I went through some bad days of the fifty or so I had in WestVan, I truly am a believer now of the saying that money can buy happiness. Or at least, it's an epic contributer to it.
But please, please, PLEASE do not think that I have acted as a complete brat in the past two months, taking the large amount of money I was given and not being grateful for it. My extended vacation was divided into two complete parallels: if I wasn't shopping with cousins in the gorgeously decorated boutiques around me, I was playing a huge role in the growing Armenian community that represented all of Vancouver. I spent two weeks being a counselor for an Armenian dance camp, doing everything from cooking the ridiculously complicated meals for the children to creating newsletters, designing t-shirts, and making calls for the camp itself. Immediately after that, I teamed up with my three older cousins to help form HYBC, or Hye Youth of British Columbia, an Armenian youth group in Vancouver that had a purpose of joing all of Vancouver's Armenian youth together in order for them to become friends and form strong relationships, thus strengthening the alarmingly fast rate of Armenians who are drifting off and forgetting to remember their heritage. I hosted and organized one meeting and an impressively successful picnic for the club, and am the offical representative of the Los Angeles Armenian youth group that will correspond with HYBC to help our long-distance relationship with each other not falter. Truth be told, as pleasureable and relaxing many of my days were in Vancouver, an even larger margin of them were spent enduring these exhausting but rewarding days of helping out the Armenian community in Vancouver as much as I can.
Well, now I am finally back in the states. Day 3, officially. I spent all of yesterday staring at the walls, mindlessly playing on the internet, and watching as much tv as I could without being criticized as a couch potato (something I dream to be, haha). In a few hours, I have to tutor a seven year old with ADD, and then tonight I'm planning to see a movie with one of my best friends, whom I obviously haven't seen in ages. Hopefully, today will be a pleasant day.
I have so much more to say, but I have to stop, since I need to get some shut-eye.
Until next time....
-alyS<3
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