Blog Post 8: Isabel Bandoroff

Fears- burning alive, drowning, being kidnapped, my loved ones dying

Annoyances- when people pretend they don't care what happens to them, girls who try too hard to get noticed, when my parents (usually my mom) bother me about school, 9/11 and holocaust jokes

Accomplishments- my grades, my soccer career, my singing, I don't know.. I don't like this topic

Confusions- why do all my friends and I live in nice houses while many people around the world don't have access to clean water?- diffusion of resources.  

Sorrows- Freshman year I lost two friends: Tanner Duke and Jalen Byrd, last year I lost my best friend (she is still alive but we aren't friends anymore), and next year a lot of people I love are going to college. 

Dreams- become a psychologist then teacher, adopt a baby (and have a couple of my own), travel the world, go back to Haiti and hug all of my friends there, See Mednightson go to college.

Idiosyncrasies- I mess with my nails when I'm anxious or upset, my sneezes, unusual love for sour foods.

Risks- I want to skydive, going to Haiti and surfing in Costa Rica I guess ://

Beloved Possessions, Now and Then- blankey (then), music, friends, family (now)

Problems- anxiety, uncertainty, insecurity 

I am going to expand upon my annoyances, so here they are:

1. My first annoyance applies mostly to boys because they often think they're above rules and they can't get in trouble, that they're invincible and it doesn't matter what happens to them. WRONG. THIS IS YOUR LIFE, IT MATTERS. Here is an example of a reckless teenage boy who thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants, last weekend one of my friends got a DUI, and that will likely haunt him for the rest of his life. So does it matter? absolutely. You can still have so much fun in high school, but be smart, and care about what happens to you and your future. 

2. I realize that number 2 is probably a result of girls' insecurity, some women feel the need to wear lots of make up and be really flirty to get with guys. And in their defense, I get that flirting is fun and sometimes it's nice to feel pretty.... but I think you have a much better chance if you don't act like a bimbo and are just yourself. You don't have to wear make up every day and boys thinking you're pretty is not the one thing that this world depends on. 

3. Somehow, my mom knows absolutely everything about my school work. She knows about my tests and quizzes and assignments before I even know about them. At one time it had reached the point to where 90% of our conversations were about school, which if you don't know, is excruciatingly boring. To her credit, she has gotten a lot better, I think she is finally beginning to realize that if I had good grades, it was okay for us to not talk about school every waking hour. 

4. Lastly, number 4. This is one of the things that, as Hannah Freibert would say, really grinds my gears. I think there are plenty of funny, appropriate and inappropriate things people can joke about - 9/11 and the Holocaust are not one of them. I don't think people realize how unbelievably insulting it is to the people who died and their families. My dad is Jewish so the Holocaust jokes I take on a personal level, both events were horribly tragedies that should make us sick, not make us laugh.