New Zealand!

Which I am very happy with! XD I know at least two people who will be completely envious with me!

What's great about it is:
Someone from Australia might come to visit me!
I get to see kiwis!
I'm going to the land where LOTR was filmed, with the amazing views and nature!
I'm going to wear an uniform and will probably go to an all-girls school!
Afterwards, I can go traveling in the region, so nee-chan, here I come! >3

What sucks about it:
13 hour time difference with the UK and 12 hour time difference with home, so won't see Ri-chan or my family on a lot. Darn it, I'll have to at least stay up late once a week! XDDD Ri-chan, you're going to make me so tired!

Leave a comment here and...

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. I'll wish something good for you.
9. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

Okay, you've had to do about two months without any talk about my love life, so you don't get to complain this time XD.

Went out last friday night and had a great time! The last half hour of my evening I danced with one and the same guy, who is completely gorgeous, charming, and, unfortunately, a player, the whole time. 'T was awsome, because he was probably the most sexy guy in the dancing.

The funny things are:
1. I used to go the primary school with him until he got expelled, and we loathed each other.
2. My most "hated" (not really, more like irritating the heck out of me) teacher is his father. Whom was there at the party, because he is class teacher of the class who held it. Was afraid he had seen me and his son dancing like that. Dude! That would've been embarassing.

But anyway, I kind of have a crush on the guy now. Which is not very good. Because he's a player. And he can get any girl he wants.
So my strategy? Playing hard to get. Which has never worked for me in my entire life, because I've never played hard to get before. I'm the obsessed, staring-at-the-guy kind of girl when in love. Not the ice queen.
But hey, I'm determined to stay in control this time. Show him I'm just as mysterious as he is. I'm flirting with him mostly for my pleasure and not because it's him (which is partly true anyway). And being the one girl that isn't so easy to get to stand out from the crowd of girls at his feet.

Ha, at least I know his past! And his ex-girlfriend was a blonde.

^^;;;

Haha, my AFS preparation year has finally started!

Okay, so now you're wondering, wtf is she talking about, right? XD Well, AFS is the organisation I'm doing my gap year with, and preparation year is this year.
And how did it start? With an introduction weekend, of course!

I got a letter a few weeks ago saying that I had an introduction weekend this weekend for a certain region of the organisation. The organisation is all over the world, but I'm talking about AFS Belgium, which devided Belgium into several regions for commitees. I was in the Brussels region, and went to this hostel for a weekend with other students from the neighbourhood and people who have already done a gap year and are in the Brussels commitee.

It.was.awsome! Basically, we all did these games to understand a bit of how our year would be like, we could ask the leaders all about their experiences (There were 15 leaders or so, and all had done a gap year already, so there was almost certainly someone who went to your country of choice). There were 10 other students excluding me, and because we all had one common interest, we got along really well! It's like doing an organised trip for summer vacation with a group of young people, only it's much shorter and your friendships are much stronger because you're going to have a somewhat similar experience.

We had lots of fun, laughed a lot, had a party (There were some hot and very friendly leaders ^. ~ XDD ahem...) and didn't sleep a lot. We spend most of our free time at the land corner, which was basically a room with information about every location offered, and pictures of the leaders' year.

I probably sound very confusing, but it was ubercool! x3 This morning, I had to write down my definite choices of country (you have to pick 3). Mine are America, Australia and New-Zealand. I don't know which country I get yet, because it's not with first choice or second choice or the like. The computer just picks one. I was told I have 50 % chance to land in America, 25 % in Australia and 25 % in New-Zealand, so we'll see.

Getting the result in December! ^0^

I am officially in love with my new LJ icons <3...

I know I've been concidering leaving TK a while back. But with 'Project Revival' starting, I was really motivated to stay.

However, Project Revival has come and gone, and it has left members disappointed. They had expected something more. Yet, I seriously wonder if they realise how disappointed they're leaving the moderator team and Elisa with their comments?

Well, their comments are making me concidering resigning my moderator position for a short period of time, and only lurk at TK in case of necesity. The last thing is nothing new, I have concidered it before with that pointless fight about the smileys. But never before did I concider giving up my moderator position, even if now it would only mean not bothering to do my moderating jobs for a while.

I probably won't do it, but TK has left me so disappointed lately. All of us worked our asses of on this project. Sure, like I said to everyone who asked, this wasn't really some big project, more rather like a refreshment. Still, there was a lot of work done behind the scenes. I worked all of last weekend on that darn Ultimate Claiming Topic, to update it, to clean it up and to put some things together. It was the first weekend in a while in which I could have actually relaxed. It left me totally stressed this week, but still, I did it. But now I have the feeling I all did it for nothing at all, which makes me wonder...

Why do I still even bother with TK, when not even our efforts are appreciated?

I'm very disappointed with the members of TK. In total, only Kuznetsov has said she appreciated the job we'd done. Well, if that's the case, it leaves me totally sad. And I don't know if I want to spent this month investing in such a thing again, while I actually should be bothered with more important matters like my last year of secondary school.

Blegh, now I'm close to crying. It's all the stress, presumably.

The application form for my gap year has finally been sent to AFS, the organisation which will organise it for me. XD In the end it took my one month, but hey, it's finished now, so no worries about that anymore!

Participated in a short story contest for CosmoGirl as well, although I don't expect to win anything. x3 My story is over the given amount of words anyway, which was 600. O.o That's like, so hard to do, and there was absolutely nothing I could leave out anymore. I ended up with 670 words or something.

I finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist, which is teh coolness <3333. Royai is true wub, so Istarted doing a 100 themes drabble challenge about them, which is harder than it looks. X.x
Now FMA is finished I can finally start watching Inuyasha again, which is strangely entertaining these episodes again ^^. I'm still only at episode 39 at the moment, but it's really good! Kouga just appeared and he brings a new facet to Inuyasha x Kagome. <3 Plus, Kouga x Kagome is cute as well. My dream pairing is still Rin x Sesshoumaru though, it's so cute!

I finished watching the 4400 just now, which is a short but really good TV series! <3 Much cuteness there as well!

We got this questionnaire at school, but I found it to be really cool, so I'm going to put it here as well!

1. Your most marked characteristic?
I crave being admired for who I am as a person and as an individual who's truely original and friendly.

2. The quality you most like in a man?
A sensitive side, intelligence, and the ability to discuss with me.

3. The quality you most like in a woman?
Women who are proud of themselves, of their qualities, and who are proud in being a woman in all its aspects.

4. What do you most value in your friends?
They have to have an interesting personality that appeals to me, and they have to be able to accept me for who I am, to be able to listen to me, and they have to have a sense of humour and fun.

5. What is your principle defect?
When I start something, I almost never finish it, and I can be very arrogant.

6. What is your favourite occupation?
I'd like to be a writer or a journalist.

7. What is your dream of happiness?
My dream is a very cliché one, but I'd like to have a nice job and find the perfect boyfriend for me.

8. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Not having met the people who helped me with my life.

9. What would you like to be?
A strong, spiritual and inspiring woman.

10. In what country would you like to live?
In a wistful thinking kind of way, I would like to live in a magical country, where fairytail romances are a fact and adventures are the most exciting thing in the world.
In a realistic kind of way, I would like to live in Peru, and otherwise nowhere but here.

11. What is your favourite colour?
My favourite colours are blue, purple, green and red.

12. What is your favourite flower?
Any kind of Lily.

13.  What is your favourite bird?
An Eagle.

14. Who are your favourite prose writers?
Meg Cabot, J.K. Rowling and Eoin Colfer.

15. Who are your favourite poets?
None.

16. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Howl, from Howl's Moving Castle, because he knows he's charming and uses it as an advantage, but he's a genuine person in heart.

17. Who are your favourite heroines of fiction?
Sayuri from Memoirs of a Geisha, and Elizabeth from Pride & Prejudice.

18. Who are your favourite composers?
Howard Shore.

19. Who are your favourite painters?
None.

20. Who are your heroes in real life?
My father and mother.

21. Who are your favourite heros in history?
Alexander the Great, because he lived such a grand life and was so famous, he became a legend.

22. What are your favourite names?
Florens, Rafael, Sean, Shaun, Alexander, Kobe, Braïn, Fabian, Killian, Lucia, Lily, Fee, Dafne, Frances, June, Morgan, Rose and Roxanne.

23. What is it you most dislike?
People who are better at things I concider myself talented in, people who are so pessimistic it becomes pathetic.

24. What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler, obviously.

25. What event in military history do you most admire?
I would assume that would be Alexander the Great conquering such a large area as he did.

26. What reform do you most admire?
The Enlightment area, when people finally started to think decently.

27. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
I would like to be as beautiful and destructive as nature itself.

28. How would you like to die?
When I'm old, in my sleep, I want to die a very beloved, respected and admired person.

29. What is your present state of mind?
I'm happy, because the sun's shining today and I had a good day.

30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Not being able to resist the finer things in life.

31. What is your motto?
"Don't ask to be comforted, comfort;
Don't ask to be understood, understand;
Don't ask to be loved, love."

I'm keeping a new diary as of today. I still have my old one, in which I barely wrote, but when I did write in it it was in the course of five years. And I can't write in that diary anymore. I'm having a sense of closure today. Those five years of secondary school have changed me, and many painful moments were written in that old diary, and I simply can't continue with it anymore. I needed to start writing in my new diary, because I want to make the next two years one of the greatest of my life.

Thank you!

Three more days until school starts, and I honestly can't wait for it! It's going to be one hell of an exciting, but tough year for me. It's my last year in secondary school, so I guess that explain a lot, doesn't it? XD
Firstly, I'm getting help from teacher a few hours a month to help me chosing the direction I want to go in at univerisity. =P Which is downright hilarious, since I already know I'm going to do a gap year, I'm going to settle this first thing when September comes around, and I have absolutely no idea what I want yet. Perhaps their help will help me, but it's also part of why I'm taking a gap year. Firstly, I already wanted it since I was 13/14; secondly, it really appeals to me, other cultures; and thirdly, I really need to figure out what I want to do later.
Then of course we have the 100 days system here in Belgium. The last-years have this huge party 100 days before their graduating exams start, it's a whole day and they dress up and get drunk and party, basically. To be able to buy our costumes, every single class has to organize a party to raise money. And since I know people in almost every class, that's going to mean lots of parties for me! XD I don't mind!
However, I also have to study hard this year, which is not very easy for me. I hope I'll manage though, concidering I have such a big thing to look forward to! ^^

I know, I know, I haven't given you all an update on my vacations.
My vacation to Spain was pretty awsome. X3 Went with a friend that drove me crazy at times, and whom I probably am never going on vacation with ever again, but that's beside the point! I met some great new people as well! ^^ And of course, there were lots of cute guys to behold as well! XD I'm not going to show pictures, even if I have them, but there were 3 extremely cute ones:
1. We were on a group vacation, so there were bound to be some great guys going as well. There was this punkrocker type of guy whom I only liked because he was so extremely cool and friendly. He offered to protect/protected me from evil men twice. <3 Who wouldn't like that? Okay, I could've probably taken care of it myself, but hey, if you want to, go ahead, ne? XDDD
2. Great-looking waiter at out hotel. He really was extremely good-looking, every single girl in the group admitted to that. But I think he found me weird. XD Anyway, he was handsome, that's the end to it!
3. Ubercool and smexy barman at the TMF Café. I didn't know who he was, but he was Dutch, and cool, so. <3 He kept on smiling and winking at me, and Lonnie was of course melting and drooling on the spot.
So yeah, I prefer guy number 3. <3333

I also went to Holland to visit Ninke, and I really enjoyed it a lot, because we reallllly needed some quality time together again, to tell each other our visions of the world and discuss important matters like world politics, Dutch politics, racism, anime, Gundam Wing, fanfiction, and how cute Trowa realllllly is! XDDD
So I came home with lots of anime. O.o Looooooots. Including: All of Inuyasha, all of Fullmetal Alchemist, all of Neon Genesis Evangelion, all of Tsubasa Chronicles season 1, the 2 first volumes of Hack./Sign, X the movie, the last 20 episodes of Rurouni Kenshin, all of Hanbane Renmei, all of Saikano, and a few episodes of Xxxholic and Tsubasa Chronicles season 2.
I'm up to episode 26 of Inuyasha right now, and up to episode 12 of Fullmetal Alchemist. ^^ Inyasha's pretty cool right at this moment, and Kagome x Inuyasha is ubercute. The fandom is deadly scary though, since there seems to be a hate community for every female character in the show! Sango is my favourite girl character, and I haven't figured out yet who my favourite boy character is. <3
Fullmetal Alchemist is probably going to end higher on my favourite's list though, because the story is much more a Lonnie story! <3 I adore it very very much right at the moment. Edward is ubercool! <333