Australian Adventures

let the adventures begin

You won’t believe it!!! This little German potato went once around the world to cuddle some koalas…

My family took a one month trip to Australia. It’s the first and probably last mayor trip we have ever done. Just telling you the route we took will be pretty boring, so I’m just gonna tell a few Adventures…

Stary nights

We spend 3 days in the desert. Being the Adventurer I am I literary slept under the stars. There are those sleepingbags made out of tent matirial and it’s actually way warmer in them than in a normal tent. So we went to sleep next to the fire place and enjoyed the millions of stars out there. It was seriously the best few day I had ever spend and also the most memorable nights of the whole trip. Not only the desert had beautiful stars. Later in the trip I took this picture. By then I finally figured out how to do star pics.

Diving for the first time in my life

Well the heading says it all!! I was scared to bits but I always wanted to do it. And I can only recommend it to anyone who can. I only went diving for a few hours including the introduction into the whole equipment. On the dive I met my new bestie Nemo. We keep in touch through our secret shell-phone…

I look like quite the crack head… But it’s the only one I have.

Kangaroo breakfast

At one camping site a ranger fed wild kangaroos at 5 in the morning and although it was crazy early and cold it was really beautiful… Those animals are one of the most fascinating ones I’ve ever seen.

Like giant rats at the beach

Thats it for starters. I might update this post and add a few more adventures…

Spread love …

….just an ordinary girl dwelling in holiday memories

Why do we have all those structures?

There’s something I realized a while ago… Time flies away soooo fast ! And I asked myself how that happened, how sometimes, when I look back, I can’t remember what i did for days… It’s like life gets blurry and all faded out. Nothing really interesting happens.

It all has to do with the structures we have in our daily life. We wake up, eat breakfast, go to work/school/college eat lunch get back to what we’ve been doing before eat dinner and maybe do something with friends/husbands/wives/boy-/girlfriends etc. and we go to bed. The next day everything starts again…

Just sometimes, when we break that pattern, we do something remember able and we look back to that moment. Why don’t we just do this all the time? Experiencing something new and exciting every day. So our lives don’t get blurry and faded..

Go out there and make memories!!!

Go and seek the Great Perhaps! -John Green

If we don’t wanna go under in today’s society and mass of information we need to change something!

Break the structures, break the pattern and live…

I wanna be part of Eleanor and Park

Imagine us three reading comics and listening to music together. The making out is all theirs but I wanna be part of the friend clique with Eleanor and Park…

The story itself is beautifully written and just so cute. It’s a book you finish in one sitting… Let yourself be inspired by the love those characters share.

The lovely story about first true love being found despite abuse and bullying. They conquer the world and are truly the reason I read…

Stories like that make me believe in humanity again. Despite all the wars and suffering going on in this cruel world there are still some things that make me dream again. This book is so important and relevant, because it also deals with parental abuse, bullying and so on. But the characters survive it because of love and a mutual understandings for each other.

Just a simple thing like sharing a comic or giving someone the other end of your headphones to listen to good music can make someone’s day better. Next time you see someone that might be sad or less fortunate than you share a little thing.

It is worth it…

…just an ordinary girl

Dancing till the sun explodes

If I could time travel I probably would go to the 50s or 60s just to dance! Going out in a nice new dress with your girls (and some handsome guys) just dancing till the sun explodes (or my feet will stop moving)! It’s a dream I had since forever…

And a while back I found out that once a week there’s one place in the next biggest town (45 min away) where u can dance like old times (just with modern music)!! It’s sooo fun and I love being there and living the dream! The people there are like one big and loud family… but they are so accepting and open and loving! I just can’t anymore… when I dance I’m free! I don’t have to pretend I’m someone else, so people like me! Till then I only danced alone, in my Ballett school there are no boys so we never did those freaky lifts but I love it anyways! And now I can be myself with some other people.

Don’t get me wrong… I love dancing alone and really using all my emotions. But dancing with others is so much fun. It makes you feel so special and safe. I feel at home.

live loud and boldly and never stop moving…

…just an ordinary girl

“Hidden Figures” should never be hidden again

Mary, Katherine and Dorothy

Well… I’ve wanted to write about this movie ever since I’ve watched it in 2016, but I did not know how to write about something this important without screwing it up. So here it comes…

First of all I have to say that Hidden Figures is a fantastic beautiful movie, which should have won all 3 oscars it got nominatiated for. The story is set in 1961 in Virgina and the segragation is a huge aspect of it. It is based on the novel by Margot Lee Shetterly. Margot’s father worked at NASA and told her about African-American women working as computers there. Back then computers weren’t machines. They were women who did all the calculations for NASA projects. She then talked to a few of them. Wanting to learn more about that part of history she never heard about. She talked with a few of those women including Katherine Goble.

Katherine is the main character of this movie/book and worked at NASA as a colored computer alongside Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. But she didn’t just do simple calculations. She got assigned to work at the Space Task Group and helped work out how to put a man into space. She was the first African-American female mathmatician working in that room. Mary Jackson became the frist African-American female engineer at NASA. And Dorothy Vaughan was the first African-American female Supervisor. They all wrote history and hardly anyone knew about it.

I know that there are a lot of stories no one talks about, but that just means that with the internet and the modern age we have developed a platform to share those stories, so maybe someone gets inspired by it and realises that they can do anything they put their mind to.  And to be the first..

…just an ordinary girl

 

Wanderlust..

… it is an amazing word.  In German you can just put two words together and you create a new one. For example wanderlust… “Wandern” means hiking or traveling and “lust” means a desire or great pleasure. Therefore wanderlust means having the desire to travel (or wander).

Recently I have felt this great desire.  All I want to do is pack my bag and hop on the next train. Not even with a clear destination. All I know is that I want to learn trough first hand experience about other cultures and other people… I want to get to know them and maybe I will find myself along the way.

But here I sit, in my room dreaming about the world out there, imagining a life I could lead and wandering if that is my fate… Being out there helping and loving others. Excepting people for who they are and learning from them instead of forcing my beliefs on them.

I want to be out there and just be me… Not having to think about what I’ll wear to school tomorrow, so our society won’t judge me. Not having to think about all the pages of history I need to remember, so I will get a grade, so I will get good results on my A-Levels, so I can study at a good university to later get a good job with high wages and I can support my future family and maintain a high standard of living.

I need to break this circle to do what I want and not what others expect of me…

This quote from Jojo Moyes in her marvelous book ‘me before you’ just got stuck in my head. It deeply touched me and reminded me of who I want to be…

You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible

Live your best life without destroying others and fill your heart with love

Just an ordinary girl

The city of dragons

Have you seen ‘The Hobbit’ or ‘Game of Thrones’? No?!? Where have u been living?!? Probably on earth… Well the most important part of them are the dragons!!!

Well at least in my opinion…

A lot of cultures had them even before they met and you wanna tell me they aren’t real?!? Well I’ve been to the city of Dragons! It’s in the middle of Europe. In Slovenia to be exact and they made it their capital!

 

Ljubljana is a very delicate and beautiful city! It has amazing architecture from this one guy who is like the Da Vinci of buildings, but don’t ask me cause I really have no idea about that kinda stuff! All I know is what the tourist lady said and what I saw (and that was frigging beautiful!!) So apparently the legend says that this mayor had a pretty huge problem in form of a dragon and promised his virgin daughter to whomever wants to kill that amazing creature. So some dude, who became saint later on, searched for an adventure and went up the hill to the hiding spot of the dragon and fought with him for a while until he pushed his spear down the animals throat into the heart (don’t really know if that’s possible) and killed him. Fortunately at that moment the earth opened and the dragon fell down a hole after that it closed again so no one saw the dead dragon. That saint guy didn’t wanna marry a virgin cause that might be boring so he went on and did some other amazing stuff and became saint of something.

 

That city got a few other dragon myth leading back into the roman era so that’s pretty awesome and they still have a fountain of that time standing in the castle… Now it’s being used for some cables so they got energy up their but who cares. I mean it’s just over 2000 years old and still intact!

In general what I noticed is, that in Ljubljana live a lot of young folks, so the club scene is huge! Along the river are a lot of bars and stuff and at night it looks so magical with all those lights! Aaaaaand they are fabulous at making gelato (fancy Italian name for ice cream) and cakes and coffee and just sweet things in general! They have this really cool food marked every Friday evening, where all the local restaurants have their own booth and you can taste food of all those different cultures in one place.

 

In a nutshell I LOVE IT!!!!! And I’ll definitely gonna come back with my gurls to party!

See you soon and share love

… just an ordinary girl

We are all beautiful

And you don’t have to change a thing
The world could change it’s heart
No scars to your beautiful,
we’re stars and we’re beautiful

I wish that every young kid grows up with that message Alessia Cara put out in this world with her amazing song!

 

http://www.twistmagazine.com/posts/alessia-cara-dishes-her-top-3-makeup-tips-68200

As I grew up, I always found a way to put myself down, because I don’t look like the modern beauty standards. My mum tried to raise me without the pressure of society, but when I got to middle school it changed. I was insecure, cause boys told me I looked like a pig, I’m too fat or too short. And my hair looks like a hurricane went trough it. Now I should know that I’m beautiful and perfect the way I am, but I still catch myself looking into the mirror and wishing I looked different, more like a Victoria’s Secret Angel. It’s so embedded in our mind, even though it should never even gotten into there. I am so thankful for Alessia for putting out this message and showing us, there is another way, a better way to treat ourselves and each other

 

I have hope, that their will be a generation without those struggles, where everyone is accepted the way he/she is! A world where we all love our beautiful…

 

Save space

The truth. Just 2 words and so many feelings behind them. I never really thought about it in a deeper sense. I always thought of myself as a honest person, I never lied to people on purpose. But that was just about simple things.

A while ago I suddenly had the urge to tell someone how I truly felt. But then I realised that I don’t know who I should tell. With my best friend I never really talk about deep stuff. The person I talked to before doesn’t talk to me anymore (more about that in No good in goodbyes). And the girl I see more as a sister than a friend, has her own problems and every time I want to talk to her we end up talking about her. It’s so frustrating! I wanna share but I have no one to share it with! So I lie. I tell them I am just fine and bury my feelings deep inside.

So I thought about this blog I started a while ago and kinda abandoned. It was meant to be an inspiration to love but what if I could make it a save space for everyone to load their feelings of and find help and love…

Everyone who wants to can write their honest feelings and problems in an email and I will answer and share it.

Share and love…