The Life Of A Random Dreamer

Hey Guys, So today I found out that I'm not good at celebrating birthdays. Or, well, it's not so much the birthdays I'm bad at, but the birthday parties. When we celebrate birthdays in the Netherlands, we invite our whole (direct) family, all our family-friends and all the friends of the person whose birthday it is. Most of the time, the friends of the birthday boy/girl come over on another day as the family and family-friends. As I'm typing this, my stepsister celebrates her birthday, which means everyone is packed at the living room. I was there too, sitting on the couch, listening to all the stories that are told. But then it hit me: I don't belong in this crowd. All the conversations around me were about parties and stupid, drunk, decisions. First of all, I don't go to house parties or clubs, and second of all, I don't drink booze. Not because my parents don't allow me, but because I just don't want to. So listening to stories about bein

Hi guys! I just realized that I desperately need the Christmas Holidays. I am longing for those two weeks off! I can't wait for the moment the "days until the next holidays-counter" on my phone says 0. The fact that it currently says "11 days" breaks my heart. "Why are you so desperate for the holidays, Laura?" Well, aren't we all? Besides the fact that Christmas is coming, I think we all need some time for ourselves: no work, (almost) no responsibilities, just some time for yourself. Some time to watch films, read books and drink hot chocolate. Oh, and did I mention read books? I have so many books I still need, and want, to read! (Okay, some books are for school and I'm not particularly waiting to read those, but still)  Also I want to just be able to sleep 'till 10.30 or something (my body isn't able to sleep much longer than that, even though I really want to). And to meet up with all my friends and have movie nig

Hello lovely readers! So, it is officially December now, which means that Christmas is coming! I'm very excited for Christmas, as it is the first 'real' Christmas I'll celebrate with my family. Why is real in quotation marks you ask? Well, because we of course celebrate Christmas in the Netherlands, but never the  kind of Christmas with presents. In the Netherlands we'll have a nice Christmas Dinner and listen to Christmas songs, maybe watch a re-run of "Home Alone". I could hear your mind spinning: "Why don't they get presents on Christmas in the Netherlands?" you ask yourself. Allow me to explain. You know Saint Nicholas as Santa Claus, well we know him as Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas doesn't bring kids gifts on Christmas, no he gives them presents on his birthday: December 5th. So Dutch kids will already have had their presents when Christmas comes around. But this year, we have decided to celebrate Christmas instead of Sinterklaa

Hey! Before I will describe the drama of family trips to you I guess it might come in handy if I told you something about my family. So, my parents are divorced. My mum has had a boyfriend for about 6 years now and my dad has had a couple relationships but he is currently single. My step-dad has three kids and my mum has two kids, my little brother and my. So, in order of age, we have my step-dad, my mum, my step-sis Larissa, me, my little stepbrother Dylan, my little brother Marco and my little stepsister Elise. This amount of people can, of course, not fit in just one car, so when we go on a family-trip, my grandparents come along. Now, let's tell the story then. Today we went to the Apenheul, which is a zoo in the Netherlands that almost only has monkeys. It takes about an hour drive from my home to get there, which normally wouldn't be a problem, but with my family, it is. To be honest, I don't think my granddad should be able to drive his car on the highway. He h

Hi guys! So this week I have a lot of extra spare time. Why? Well in my school the students in their fourth year go on a trip abroad. They have a few countries/cities to choose from, like London, Paris, Berlin, Ireland or the Ardennes. Since I am currently in my fifth year, I went on the trip last year and have to go to school this week. But a lot of my teachers are also on the trip, because you can't just drop a bunch of fifteen year olds in a foreign country. This results in me only having about sixteen hours of class, instead of twenty-nine. So I have a lot of spare time, I even had tuesday off. But I have realised that the danger of this all, is the fact that I seem to postpone doing my homework even more than I usually would do. Also the fact that next week are the autumn-holidays in the Netherlands doesn't really help with that either. So I finally get why students have a certain amount of time that they would normally spend in class, because if they wouldn't ha

Hello everyone! So, today it hit me, autumn is here and until this weekend I didn't feel like it was autumn yet. But today the weather has been pretty gloomy so far and while cycling to school I realised that it is getting really cold. Above all of that is also the fact that it seems that all the leaves have suddently fallen of the trees while I looked away for a second. So, here's the thing about autumn: I like it, but at the same time I despise it. I like autumn because I can finally wear my beloved sweaters again and drink a lot of tea again (since it is too hot for tea in the summer). But I also hate autumn, because it feels like the world around me is dying. All the plants lose their flowers and the trees lose their leaves. The only bugs you'll see are spiders, so no more butterflies for another 6 months. And not to forget, the terrible weather! I know we seem to complain about the weather a lot in the Netherlands, but why wouldn't we? It is either way too hot

Hey guys! Sorry, it has been a while since I wrote my last post, but ever since school started again I almost have no time at all! And to be honest, the time I didn't spend doing homework the last few weeks, I spent reading! One of my friends made me read the Percy Jackson series, and I am glad she did! But reading those books brought up a problem I have been experiencing while reading books the last few months. Because while reading books, I get this feeling that I don't really belong in my family. I am kind of like Mark Baker in the film 'cheaper by the dozen'. Why I would think things like this? Well, I am the most quiet kid in the family and dare I say the 'smartest' in my family. I don't want to sound too full of myself, but it kind of is the truth. But with this 'being smarter than the rest' comes the fact that I don't understand my family at all. I don't get some decisions my siblings or parents make and find things they find logi

Hi guys! Lately I feel like time flies by! I feel like the summer holidays have just started yesterday and now they're almost over already! I often wonder where all that time goes and why time seems to go so much faster, but I never have the answer. When I was younger I always thought that time went by too slow and I was always disappointed to see that only a minute had passed, when I felt like half an hour had passed! Now I'm disappointed to see that half an hour has passed, when I feel like a minute has passed. Funny how things can change in just a couple years. I guess it feels like time goes by more quickly, because as we grow older, we develop a greater sense of time, and are constantly aware of the time. Which we obviously aren't when we were younger! Also I think I want to do more stuff in a smaller amount of time, so it feels like I have less time. So in a week I need to go back to school and have almost no spare time left, because of the ridiculously big amo

                                  "We'll never be as young as we are now."                                                        ~ Never be - 5sos The concept of ageing quite scares me, because you'll not only get older, but you will also look different and you might not be able to do things you used to do. Of course getting older and gaining life experience can be beautiful and a lot of beautiful things will happen, but I'm afraid that I will wake up one day and think: "I'm   old !" But that is not the only thing that scares me about getting older, not at all. I'm also terrified that I will not be content with my life and with the choices I made when I was younger! I'm afraid of being unhappy and not being able to fix that, because I'm not physically or mentally able to fix major mistakes any more.  I'm also afraid of 'wasting' my time by making wrong decisions and that I will hate myself for wasting that time w

Hi there! So today I'm going to share a random fact about me, which is: I just love looking at pictures of the universe! For some reason it just makes me feel calm and infinite! Although I believe that the universe must stop at dome point and that there is something even bigger than the universe, I also believe that the universe is so big that we will never know for sure if the universe really is infinite. As you might have read in The Fault In Our Stars  by John Green, there is an infinite series of numbers between 0 and 1: 0,1 0,01 etc. and there is an even bigger series of numbers between 0 and 2. But somewhere after millions and millions of numbers, there must be an end to all these numbers, because another number also exists. After 2 comes three, so also after 2,999999999999999. And yes, it's true, some infinities are bigger than others, but are things really infinite? Oh I need to stop rambling, you get me right? You don't have to agree, but I hope that you get why

Hi, my name is Laura, I'm 16 years old and this is my blog. I honestly have no idea what I'm going to do with this blog, and I made this blog without thinking it through, but who cares? Maybe something great will come from this! I hope you will enjoy reading my posts and I hope I will keep writing on this blog. However, I'm gonna have fun writing these posts and I will put my deepest thought in here. I also want to say that I'm terribly sorry if I'll make any spelling or grammar mistakes, because English is not my first language, and feel free to correct these mistakes