Reasons and My Story

Saturday night, April 13. On the couch, as the amazing taste of Penne Pomodori flows through my tastebuds while Paramore is playing on the speaker. As I'm reading other blogs, I really started to think why I want to do this. There's reasons because of school, culture, and growing up, and I'm going to divide the first two reasons into paragraphs, and say my story but in greater detail (that's in part 2)

School

There's the diversity aspect of school and the typical teenager drama stuff

Diversity
So my school is about 90+% caucasian. There is very little diversity in my school which I really don't like, Everyone looks the same, it's kind of ridiculous. Europe, while yes it's caucasian mostly, actually has culture. Italians have so much culture compared to kids of the USA for the most part.

Typical Teenager Drama Stuff
I hang with a group of kids. They're the artsy kids. I love my friends in that group to death. However, there's some kids in that group that are just catty, rude, judgmental, and bring such a negative aura into the room. They just annoy me a lot and there's more to it but I'll stop now from sounding like a typical angst-filled teenager.

Culture

Ever since I was little, I've always been fascinated with different cultures. When I was little (around 2nd grade) I was in LOVE with Japanese culture! I learned basically everything there is to know about Japan and started to learn Japanese. I got a Japanese picture book and a dictionary. I got into sushi and everything Japanese, I completely immersed myself in Japanese culture and it went so well. Now I know Japanese and I can answer anything about Japan and say any fact about Japan! Japan is wonderful. In fact, this year I had to do an oral on Japanese culture and I didn't even write it. I did everything off the top of my head and I got an A! I still love Japan, not as much, but that flame is still there.
Over time, I started moving towards European culture, and specifically French culture. In 7th grade, I had to start a language. Originally I was going to do Chinese, but yeah that wasn't going to turn out well. So I did French!... much to my parents' dismay since they wanted me to learn Spanish, since my last name and all that fun stuff. Now I know some Spanish! I still take French, but I also do individual outside studies and I consider myself near-fluent if not fluent.
Anyway, then there was this amazing opportunity to go to Europe in February 2012! I took that opportunity and counted down the days since 5 months before, and before I knew it, I woke up with my dog on me, put a scarf on her and hopped in the car to LAX where I would go on an 11 hour nonstop flight to Paris with some of my best friends. We then took a 2 hour flight to Rome, where 10 days later we would return to Paris. It was such an amazing time being there, and from there, I had such an urge to go back, and I got kind of depressed seeing how boring Los Angeles was. I really started to realize how uncultured LA was! It was such an eye-opener to me, and I couldn't thank God enough for opening my eyes to this. I just love everything about Italian culture so much. It's so beautiful! The language, THE FOOD, even the air there. When I was there, the air felt so fresh and it smelled really good too! Oh and the women but I won't bore you with those details.

I didn't want to make this too long, so check out part 2!