• finished 11th grade!
• got to talk with saskia, hannah and luca :D
• am working towards getting more money for my tuition for next year by catsitting for a family in ma neighbourhood for a good 4-5 days!
• it's summer! :)

• midnight in paris
• some history channel aliens in ancient and modern-day culture society show on dvd
• tales from earthsea
• volver
• bridget jones' diary

• Cat Power
• Pink Martini
• Ani DiFranco
• The Shins
• Madonna

• Kafka on the Shore
• After Dark
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
• The Fifth Sacred Thing
• Girlosophy
• Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the world
• South of the Border, west of the Sun
• The Hobbit
• Norwegian Wood

• Waldorf
• College
• clothes
• beeswax candles and homemade clothes materials

• mar adentro
• volver
• and when did you last see your father?
• a single man
• tales from earthsea
• lord of the rings

• Meg
• Jessi
• LucaPearl
• Saskia
• Siobhan
• Emily
• Anna
• Naomi

• after dark by haruki murakami
• norwegian wood by haruki murakami
• candide and other stories by voltaire
• one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
• the stranger by albert camus
• the hobbit by jrr tolkien
• the lord of the rings by tolkien
• south of the border, west of the sun by haruki murakami
• hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world by haruki murakami
• of mice and men by john steinbeck
• ender's game by orson scott card
• the fifth sacred thing by starhawk
• titus andronicus by shakespeare
• 1984 by george orwell
• the dubliners by james joyce
• the canterbury tales by geoffrey chaucer
• frankenstein by mary shelley
• to kill a mockingbird by harper lee

• The History of the Kings of Britain
• Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes
• Any book of Jungian/analytical psychology
• a few books on Astrology and Divination in detail~ like a "complete book of" or something to that degree..
• make merry in step and song
• next murakami book to read: Sputnik Sweetheart (it's supposed to be focused on dreams and the un/sub-conscious! fascinating)
• By Oak, Ash, and Thorn
• Anthroposophy in Everyday Life by Rudolf Steiner
• Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy by Robert Allen Bartlett

For Art Degree, these are the places i want to apply to: Suny Purchase Pratt Parsons School of Visual Art in NYC Suny New Paltz Etc, Etc...

And For Waldorf Teacher-Training 2-year course of Anthroposophy and Teaching the Waldorf Way: If the center for it is set up at HVS by the time i've graduated art school in 2016, then i'll definitely do that. If not then at the Mountain Laurel waldorf teacher training school :-)

• Mar Adentro (the sea within)~spanish (spain)
• L'argent de poche (small change)~french
• Volver~ spanish (Spain)
• le choristes (the chorus)~french
• la vita e bella (life is beautiful)~italy
• zwartboek (black book)~german
• das leben der anderen(lives of others)~german
• persepolis ~french
• diarios de motocicleta (the motorcycle diaries) ~spanish (argentina, chile, peru, brazil..), quechua, mapundungun
• laagan ~indian
• la science des reves~ french
• un prophete~french, arabic, corsican (takes place in france and italy)

• bomb-maker (my grandma)
• professional housewife (my other grandma)
• a midwife (my mom)
• an acupuncturist (my dad)
• an IBM technological/film guy (my uncle)
• an art therapist (my uncle's wife, mia)

Books:

• Love in the Time of Cholera
• The Unicornis Manuscripts (by Michael Green)
• Goddess to the Core
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard
• The Lost Books of Merlyn: Druid Magic from the Age of Arthur
• Kafka on the Shore
• After Dark
• Sun Airway's new release "Oh, Naoko" :)
• palmistry 101 book

Other things:

• Candles
• pillows (bedpillows and big floor pillows too)
• christmas-y twinkly lights
• vegan mascara and vegan mineral eyeshadow & coverup
• weleda wild rose body oil and lotion

• junior year of highschool
• me being 17
• ib art
• starting ice skating again soon
• going thru a lord of the rings obsession
• getting into herbal lore
• listening to celtic and classical music and sometimes rap/soul/jazz too.
• sleeping a lot
• mood swings,, but for the most part i'm doing great.
• branching out, talking to a lot of folks
• being myself

• samwise gamgee in lord of the rings
• orlando bloom in lord of the rings
• gael garcia bernal in the motorcycle diaries & in le science des reves
• johnny deep and orlando bloom in pirates of the caribbean
• mr. fox in fantastic mr. fox
• that brazillien guy in eat, pray, love
• poppy character in happy-go-lucky
• emily mortimer as sophie in howl's moving castle

• waking life
• vicky christina barcelona
• where the wild things are
• into the wild
• persepolis
• metropolis
• lost in translation
• never let me go
• avatar
• fantastic mr. fox
• the motorcycle diaries
• le science des reves
• somewhere
• wake up
• a scanner darkly
• lord of the rings (the extended versions)
• devil wears prada
• eat pray love
• les choristes
• v for vendetta

• Aix-En-Provence
• Paris
• London
• Berlin
• Munich
• Amsterdam
• Copenhagen
• Dublin
• Stockholm
• Sydney
• Marseille
• Lyon
• India
• Japan
• China
• Russia (via the Trans-Siberia Rail)
• South America
• New Zealand
• Canada
• Alaska
• Hawaii

• Oktomberfest in Germany
• International Short Film Festival in Aix
• Jazz Festival in Aix

• like all of haruki murakami's books
• anthea paul's girlosophy series

• matt monarch
• angela stokes-monarch
• andrew schlacter
• anthea paul
• starhawk
• haruki murakami

• lord of the rings: the fellowship of the rings...the EXTENDED version (it's so much more completed and amazing..ahh)
• new york, i love you (erotic but great)

• lord of the rings
• big fish
• brothers' bloom
• defiance

(goodness...there are so many more, i just can't think right now.

• meg
• siobhan
• andrea
• anna
• sebastian
• luca
• steve
• julia j.
• andrea r.
• leah
• katrina
• ricky
• miles
• diana

• the diversity
• being human
• i look forward to future relationships
• different cultures
• the cities around the world
• nature
• sunsets
• thunderstorms
• seeing the night sky
• dreaming in reality
• all the illusions
• all the magic
• all the love
• all the joy
• fashionable people!
• organisations such as charities
• attraction and desire
• sex drive/lust/love
• human and individual potential
• dreaming
• travelling

• it's a rainy day!
• i'm listening to madonna! I love her! haha it's so funny
• i'm wearing dad's orange hvs cap AND my topaz necklace and my pretty-new Toms shoes! :D I love what i'm wearing
• i'm glad i got my chemistry final FINALLY out of the way!!
• I had the VERY BEST organic pb and j sandwich a few hours ago
• I feel good in my self right now
• I feel sooo girlosopher-ish right now! LOve iT ;D <3

• Anthroposophy
• Waldorf education
• Native american spirituality
• aix-en-provence
• barcelona spain
• edinburgh scotland
• Philosophy
• folktales
• travelling
• pythagoras
• plato
• natural remedies
• alchemy
• herbology
• love
• knitting
• transcendentalism
• community-supported agriculture
• art
• dream-analysis
• existentialism

• Midnight in Paris
• The Sea Inside
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• And When Did You Last See Your Father?
• Tales From Earthsea
• The Fifth Sacred Thing Film
• The Lord of the Rings
• Memoirs of A Geisha
• Volver
• Bread and Tulips
• Carne Tremula
• The Art of Travel
• Into The Wild
• Before Night Falls
• House of Flying Daggers
• Chocolat
• Blackbook
• Biutiful
• The Lives of Others
• Vicky Christina Barcelona
• Hannah And Her Sisters

9th grade: ~being in english class with andrea, julia k & meg<3 ~lunch with meg everyday ~becoming friends with julia that summer before 10th grade

10th grade: ~met sibohan and became friends with her ~met alfred but didnt like him it was temporary our friendship... ~was alone in winter, then lost julia as a friend ~in spring and into summer i was hurt from julia friendship but i gained it back up

11th grade: ~autumn: i fully got into paganism and started practising pagan holidays~ mabon was the first one in september

~october: celebrated Samhain along with the regular hollowe'en day. learned origins of paganism and the holiday of samhain~ felt truly "witchy" and in my element in the fall~I still do.

~November: met jorge on the last days. felt very solid the whole month through

~December: met jorge a little bit more at...

• my family
• my friends
• bella, my dog
• my mexican blanket
• stormy weather in summer
• all the seasons
• being into paganus ways for just about a full year now!
• watching beautiful films
• listening to foreign music
• going to Hawthorne Valley
• meet rare stars in my life
• making new friends
• walking places on my own~ I love this
• journalling
• making food
• being out with nature in the garden
• running in a thunderstorm
• swimming in lakes or the sea
• going to Native American sweatlodges
• being immersed in a Murakami novel

• saskia
• siobhan
• mrs. burrows
• ani difranco
• anthea paul
• mrs. shultis
• my family
• colin firth ;) (but aLWAYS)

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (I have this one on my bookcase but have yet to read it!)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Republic by Plato
• Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
• The Castle by Franz Kafka

• anthroposophy
• transcendentalism
• analytical/Jungian psychology-philosophies

• rudolf steiner
• haruki murakami
• gustav mahler
• alexandra david-neel
• j.r.r. tolkien
• colin firth
• immanuel kant
• beethoven
• henry david thoreau
• anthea paul
• percy bysshe shelley
• javier bardem, his philosophy of acting
• woody allen (his brilliance)
• roberto benigni (<3)
• walt whitman
• william wordsworth
• carl jung (love his 'analytical psychology' twist on things!)
• ralph waldo emerson

• meg
• siobhan

• Mr. Colin firth <33333333333 (fucking love that man) I sincerly love that guy :D
• my favourite author, haruki murakami
• asian people in-general
• javier bardem...alwayss
• that antonio guy i saw in an art magazine who took a polariod shot of himself.. it was surprisingly very attractive. then i learned he was spanish...and then i wasn't surprised in the least bit! ;P
• some older guys sometimes..
• that asian waiter, lol ;P <3
• joao gilberto even though he's so old, his music is what i have a crush on
• mr. fox...as ALWAYSS <3
• the man who looks like mr. fox...it's not really a crush~ more like an agreed continous interest and admiration-thing goin' on.. <3
• that cool guy with the sun glasses i once saw in a car on the highway when i was o...

• Volvos!!! <3
• Saabs
• Coopers
• Any German or Swedish car :)

• crystal ball
• black cloth
• materials for making a cloak
• various crystals
• dried herbs
• storage containers to house my crystals and herbs.
• a good wand
• materials for making a Witches' broomstick (ash staff, birch twigs, and willow binding)
• Runic stones and velvety pouch to house the stones
• the llewellyn tarot deck of cards
• candles, many different colours and sizes
• essential oils

• javier bardem (always! :D )
• leonardo di caprio
• johnny deep
• gael garcia bernal
• russell crowe
• daniel craig
• george clooney
• meryl streep
• ellen page
• orlando bloom
• roberto benigni
• joseph gordon-levitt
• steve martin
• queen latifah
• jean reno
• sean astin (SAMWISE GAMGEE!!!!!!!)
• cate blanchett
• ian holms (BILBO BAGGINS!!!!)
• ian mckellen (Gandalf <3)
• Elijah wood (frodooooooooooooo)
• sean bean (boromir in lotr)

• kafka on the shore
• south of the border, west of the sun
• the fifth sacred thing
• eat pray love
• norwegian wood
• where the wild things are
• after dark (by haruki murakami...)
• dreaming in french
• the ancient one
• the secret
• girlosophy: a soul survival kit
• girlosophy: real girls' stories
• girlsophy: the oracle

• that brazillien dude in eat, pray, love
• like all the cool dudes in murakami's books
• kostas from sisterhood of the travelling pants

(haha this is such a funny/weird/odd list!

• my surroundings
• culture
• books
• llewellyn.com
• omega wellness institute
• waldorf school
• girlosophy books
• foreign films
• eat pray love film

• sinterklaas celebration!
• candle ceremonies
• H.V.S. Yuletide/Christmas Festival
• make cookies
• take lots of long walks
• burn incense inside a snow-igloo (lol)
• knit and journal
• take lots of winter photos
• take up ice skating again! (!!!!)
• skiing
• light candles in my bedroom in the darkest of nights and feel comforted.
• be jolly and make merry for the season of yuletide

• world
• gaelic/celtic
• folk
• classical
• indie
• r&b/soul
• rap/hiphop
• french chanson
• brazillien music

• capitalism: a love story
• sicko
• fast food nation
• the september issue
• king corn
• the corporation
• food, inc
• picture me

• blackbook
• le choriste
• angela
• small change (dir. by francois trauffaut)
• chocolat
• coco avant chanel
• the motorcycle diaries
• le science des reves
• happy-go-lucky
• lagaan

(i'll write more later)

• Aix-en-Provence (this is where i want to live actually)
• Berlin or Munich
• Dublin
• Copenhagen
• Stockholm
• Lyon
• Marseille
• Venice
• Florence
• Sydney
• Santa Barbara

• luca pearl
• emily
• brendan
• christian
• suzanna
• anna
• alexis
• iona
• indianna
• rosa
• andrea

My B-day is September 10th

Here's some events....

• Colin Firth was born on September 10th 1960~~ We are soul-sistas! haha me and colin foreverr. he was born in hampshire england and i was born in hadley, mass. And he's 34 years older than me! :D hahah

there's no other interesting things that happened on sept10th...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XESyCDh...

• I'm comfortable with myself
• I give myself self-love
• I encourage myself
• I am my own best friend
• I love my independent
• I have strong visions for my future
• I am whimsical and practical
• I love a variety of things
• I love the world
• I am a humanitarian
• I am kind and humble
• I am self-giving to others
• I'm not obsessed at all about my image~ unlike a lot of girls my age! I'm only 17!
• I find courage everyday by digging deeper
• I surround myself with beauty and love
• I am an ecstatic being
• I'm also a: writer, gardener, pagan-y sort of persona, linguistics-lover, philosop...

• Rudolf Steiner
• Leo Tolstoy
• Jan Vermeer
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Helena Blavatsky
• Haruki Murakami
• Anthea Paul
• Starhawk
• Alexandra David Neel
• Jean Sibelius
• Woody Allen

• Penelope Cruz
• So many i just can't think right now :X
• A certain girl.... not saying! ;P

• England: Colin Firth
• Spain: Javier Bardem
• Germany: Sebastian Koch

(in no particular order..)

• saskia
• jorge
• siobhan
• naomi
• canaan
• emily
• hannah (o.)

• A Single Man
• I Love You Philip Morris
• Before Night Falls

• Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
• Walden by Thoreau
• Civil Disobedience by Thoreau
• The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake
• Parzival by Wolfram Von Eschenbach
• The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
• The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• ‎"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself."

~florentino ariza (el amor en tiempos del colera)

• "You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person will not be found: You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." - Siddhartha Gautama, the Enlightened One
• "We have been telling the people that thi...

something involving art travelling and waldorf

• get a rug for my bedroom
• buy new longer curtains
• purchase a new platform bed
• land a job so i can make some $$
• buy more candles!
• shop for more fruits and definitely that awesome lemon organic iced tea!
• save up money for clothess <3
• good lace lingerie from urban!!

• Celtic Dragon Tarot Deck
• Elemental Tarot
• Tarot of the Celtic Fairies (fae)
• 2012: Tarot of Ascension
• Wheel of the Year

• 'faces', in north hampton
• urban outfitters
• american apparel
• h&m

• fever ray
• bebel gilberto
• joao gilberto
• cults
• neil young
• fleet foxes
• frank sinatra
• gato barbieri
• au revoir simone
• capercaille
• me'shell ndegeocello
• flight of the concords
• millionYoung
• lissy truille
• the smiths
• 1 giant leap
• talib kweli
• mos def
• gustav mahler
• wax tailor
• angus and julia stone

• burts bees chapstick
• 2 discount cards for barnes & nobles
• a gift certificate with 8 bucks on it
• 100 dollar bill
• 9-ish bucks (in 1 dollar bills)

• organic lemon iced tea
• chardonnay red wine
• white argentinian wine
• brown kick-ass ale
• pumpkin spice latte
• cafe mocha
• hot cocoa
• amazake almond shake
• steaz teaz
• sarsaparella
• cream soda
• pomegranate juice
• orange juice

• starbucks' pumpkin spice latte @ barnes&nobles
• a blueberry muffin from barnes&nobles
• an h&m olive green cargo jacket (it's amazing)
• jeggings from h&m (they fit amazingly)

• haruki murakami
• anthea paul
• nancy arrowsmith
• silver ravenwolf
• starhawk

• chocolate cherry garcia
• mint chocolate chip
• strawberry
• cookie dough
• neopolitian
• chocolate
• vanila

• the country mouse and the city mouse
• zeus and roxanne
• milo and otis
• the little duckling
• madeline
• chitty chitty bang bang
• the sound of music
• shall we dance? (fred astaire film)
• swing time! (fred astaire film as well)

• steve t.
• meg z.
• siobhan r.
• anna a.
• luca p.k.
• julia j.
• andrea r.
• sebastian a.(definitely sebastian...)
• andrew s.
• katherine d-s.
• emily o and emily d
• indigo o.

• I am really into discovering spirituality for myself and i am really starting to get more and more interested in earth-based spiritual beliefs and practises as old as human civilization itself! Fascinating stuff!
• I keep a dream journal
• I have around 11 journals and started journalling when i was 9 years old
• I have been drawing ever since i was little
• I am a little Portuguese & Brazillien...(i don't look it)