Today is Monday, November 28th. Yet again, it has been quiet sometime since I have sat down and blogged. I don't know if it's just me being lazy or really it's just me running out of ways to put things that I experience into words. It is about to be three months since I have been in America, weirdly and cheesy enough I can't remember what home feels like. The desire to actually want to live in America and be there has almost completely faded. I love it where I am at and quite honestly counting down the days till I go home kinda makes me sad. Don't get me wrong, I miss my family and friends but they will always be there, now here in this moment, the people and moments around me will only become memories soon enough and that will be it. I have my whole life to live around the things I once knew but this, this is something that I will probably never experience again.
So not skipping chapters in life or anything like that, but I must finish my applications for college like... this week. Me just you know being Liz of course has waited till the absolute last minute to get all this done, and what a horrible time at that. just a heads up i am really thinking about doing atleast one video blog so expect that. But back to where i was going with this blog.

I was sitting in conversational English class two weeks ago, and an article popped up about Steve Jobs. Yes, the rant on about the man who invented Apple, and that's probably all people really know about him. I have found that really he is one of my inspirations in life, period. It wasn't actually an article, but a speech that was printed out. I read it, was just completely just in aw about this speech. I loved it and right then it there it completely just changed my outlook on things even more than just for one being in Italy. Obviously, I didnt need to be in Italy to see this or realize this or even to be able to read this article but to me I feel like if I were in the states, I probably wouldn't have thought twice on really even picking it up. This man never graduated from college. He dropped in and out of classes of his choosing and even though to the point he was content with what he was doing he didnt really see it as success or the right thing to do until afterwards. He dropped out of college because he didn't see a point in what he was doing, spending his parents money on a college that was just as expensive as Stanford was for something he couldn't see himself doing, and then became a drop in for quite sometime. In the most random of classes. I know at this point you probably think I am saying we should all just drop out of college and do something we love to do no matter what that is, but really its not. By the time he invented Apple, he had turned in cans and bottles for the 5 cent deposit and slept on friends dorm room floors for quite sometime but all of a sudden, he invented something that the world knows as a constant.. taking into consideration that those that dont have Apple products, Windows copied the Mac so... really Steve Jobs was a creator of things in our life. Now look at the situation.. he was a drop out he didnt graduate and then what? He invented what we all love. And even then he didnt quite invent it, he just realized it's potential and created something unforgetable. But moving along, this isn't to promote him but he says something that is completely just beyond true, a few things. He was diagnosed with cancer. But should it take being on our death bed to realize that we need to push to our full potential in everything that we are and that we can do in life? "I look in the mirror everyday and ask myself is what I am about to do today, what I would want to be doing my last day on earth?" Now is this so rational to the point that we have to live every single second up to the fullest? No. But it is a reality check, because I mean is sitting on my mothers couch till I find out what i am good at or find something to do something i want to do for the vast majority of my time on earth something i really want to be doing? Even though not taking the worn path is crazy and somehow could go completely wrong from time to time it isn't something that should be over looked. You can't connect the dots looking forward but you can connect them looking back. Now what does that mean to you? Even though we are not taking the worn path it doesnt mean that its wrong. We can take any path that we want no matter what is happening in between, no matter if it's right... and just because it isn't easy, just make sure it has meaning and make sure in the end it is what you want to do. Knowing that you are going to die some day should be the reason that you avoid the trap of thinking you really have something to lose. Because we have one life and one life only, so really if it isn't life itself, then what you really losing? Some day this will really all make more sense, but until then take it how you want.

Enough with the blabber, things happening with me:
Boxing is going awesome.
Italian is improving, slowly but surely.
All is well, although I have a cold. -_-
mmm yeah :)
have a great day or week or whatever everyone!:)
<3 ciao! Elizabeth.