Aurora X

No, I’m not French. I’m Chinese, thank you very much. Although, I’m more American than Chinese, since I’ve lived in the US for more than, oh, four-fifths of my life.

I’m addicted to writing in journals. Well, not exactly, because I have a problem with updating them regularly. But I think that it’s pretty awesome to be able to write things down and later in life laugh at all of the crazy, teenage mistakes you made. I’ve been tediously keeping a traditional journal at home, and I’ve started a few blogs, but while the journal is still going (although it’s losing its light), my blogs keep diminishing. So I moved to WordPress to see if all of the pretty, attractive features it has will cure my no-blog-itis.

At the time of this post, I am a high schooler, although I feel like a college student thanks to this purgatory the school board calls International Baccalaureate. I’m constantly burdened by homework and plagued by my Crazy Asian Mother, so I have a hard time finding motivation to even get my butt up and stop lazily daydreaming about my personal paradise.

When I do have freetime (Which makes up less than five percent of my high school career), I enjoy reading and writing, watching subbed animes (not the English dubs, because they just… suck. End of story.) and the adolescent channels (Disney, Nick, Cartoon Network. Don’t laugh. I didn’t have much of a childhood.), and drawing. All my friends say I have excellent artistic talents, but my parents don’t see that, so I’m often brokenhearted over my artless future.

I also enjoy watching soccer (football, for all of you who hate Americanized terms), and I love the Internet. I don’t know what I would do without it (As many people would agree). I’m taking a personal effort to start learning HTML and CSS and all of those other internet languages again, because I’d definitely like to try designing my own blog.

I take ballet, art, and piano lessons outside of school. I absolutely detest piano, and have been for the last seven years, but my mom apparently thinks that my preferences aren’t important enough to just let me quit. Ballet is okay, because when I’m in the mood, I do love dancing and being active. I’m currently in my fourth or fifth year of pointe, and I would be a lot better than I am now, if I could get myself to practice at home.

Since I’m Ivy-bound, I do have another side of me that takes pleasure in perusing Time magazine, internet news, and history books. One of the main reasons I started blogging again is because I wanted to rant about news and politics, since I’ve been living under my little rock for too long now. But ranting on those two subjects only is way too boring, so I’ll rant about more compelling subjects. Like my school’s bathrooms.

(Just kidding, I won’t rant a lot about my school’s latrine system. I mean, who’s interested in that sort of stuff?)

I probably won’t update frequently. My friend Jess, who’s deprived of my emails, definitely knows about that bad habit. So don’t expect a lot.

Ciao!

Zoey Li