Sunset in New Zealand

Hey guys!

How are you all? I hope you're just absolutely spiffing! 

Anyway, not so long ago it was my birthday and I got given Canon DSLR 600D camera. I had heard many people say that it is great for beginners. So I put it on my Birthday/Christmas list (because my birthday is on the 15th of December) and now I have the camera! Yay! It is the most fantastic thing that has ever happened to me. My camera is my baby. Who needs real babies when they have cameras.

It is honestly the best present I have ever gotten. I love capturing things in the moment so that I can remember them forever. I think the thing I have loved taking pictures of the most is sunsets. They are so incredibly beautiful.

I was at my friends house for dinner the other day and I was so happy that I thought to bring my camera because that night the most impressive sunset I had ever seen appeared in the sky. So I quickly ran to grab my camera. I thought someone might like to seem them. So here are the two best pictures...

Doesn't it just have the most gorgeous colours in it.

Hope you have a lovely day!

Bye

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Start of Something New

Hey everyone,

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! 

It's that time of year again where we can start a fresh, have a new beginning, and for me to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I love starting a new year because it's a chance for me to start again and change things in my life that I believe need changing. But in order for things to actually change you have to be able set goals or resolutions otherwise things never really change. I saw a quote I really liked that highlighted this. Turn your dreams into wishes, your wishes into goals. Your goals into reality and your dreams will some true. 

I have been told by many people that you should only pick three resolutions in order to complete them. People have also told me never to set the bar too high. I learnt that lesson last year. One of my resolutions was to go for a run everyday... That failed for me after just one day. But who cares, that was last year. What matters is what I decide to do with my life this year. 

I have thought long and hard about what my new years resolutions should be so without further ado here are my three goals.

1. Be nice to everyone! Think more about others before I think about myself. That also includes listening to people more and letting them tell me their stories. I talk a lot and so I often forget that other people like to talk too.

2. Compliment people more. I am not quite sure why I don't do this very much now, it just doesn't seem to cross my mind. But it should. It is so easy just to tell someone that their hair looks lovey today or that I love their skirt. I love seeing the way a compliment can brighten someones day. So this year, friends, be expecting a flow of great complements coming your way!

3. And number three. Drum roll please. I left the hardest till last. My third resolution is to be healthier and fitter. I know, I know, impossible to do when chocolate exists, but it has to be done. At school this year we have swapped uniforms and I have to wear this horrible pencil skirt that shows off every part of you that sports a couple more pounds. So if I could just shrink my bottom a little that would be fantastic.

I really do hope that these resolutions aren't to hard to accomplish.

So, what are your New Years resolutions? I'd love it so much if you left a comment down below telling me your goals for 2015.

Good luck!

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I'm Only One Girl

So hey everyone!

I have tried to write a diary several times and me being the type of person that I am gave up on that after one day. I just think it's kinda lame. (I'm sorry to everyone that does actually write a diary. It's just not for me.) I know that it's a great way to get things out and that when you look back on it when you're old it can teach you a lot of things but I just don't get it. So I thought that maybe I could write it here. Then it sort of has a purpose because somebody might read it. I don't know if that makes any sense but I hope you get me. 

Lately I have been having a lot of trouble sleeping and when I have trouble sleeping I think. I just think and think and think. The most common topic I think about is that I am only one girl in billions. I am one person living in New Zealand with some great friends and a family. I have an awesome life but I can't help but think that it doesn't really matter because I am only one person. Like if I die tomorrow (hopefully I don't) only a handful of people would be affected but the rest of the world would keep going the same as always. I don't know why that scares me but it does. A lot. I don't really know exactly how to explain it but I want to make a difference to the world. I want to leave some sort of postive mark even if it is small. I want to be remembered not just by my parents and my friends who will then also die and then I'll be forgotten but by a larger part of the world. I want my story or my life to somehow teach there's something or affect others somehow. Okay this is making me sound like some sort of sycho that's desperate for attention. Trust me I'm not. I just want to try and make this world a better place. I don't know how yet but I will. Even if I am just one girl in billions. 

Another part of only being one teenage girl in heaps is that I always think about all the things I haven't seen and all the people I haven't met. New Zealand is so small and you can almost live as if there is nothing else out there. I know that there are heaps of starvation problems all over the world but how can I really sympathise if I've never actually seen it. I know that Ebola is killing heaps of people that really don't deserve to die even if they are only one person. But how can I make a difference when I'm only one person. It just scares me, the concept of being this tiny little speck that can just be smudged out or erased. That my life really doesn't matter. It's has no meaning.

I have no idea if any of that made sense or if normal 14 year old girls think things like that but I have to admit that it does help to write it out. So anyway if anyone is reading this, I hope you have a lovely day. 

Bye!

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