LITTLE ABOUT ME:

Hello!!

So I am just your average, normal everyday girl who loves to dream and live out those dreams. I grew up in a small town with huge family. I have normal, brown, wavy-ish curly, hair and dark brown eyes.

I love FanFiction because it allows amateur authors let their ideas and voices be heard.

-- HOW I LEARNED ABOUT FANFICTION --

In 2013, during my senior year of high school, my life changed completely and not in a normal way.

I grew up with five older siblings, crazy, right? Especially when two of those siblings are twenty years older then me! Oh, well. That's my life. One of my siblings was so much like me, or I was like him, but either way, we were female and male versions of each other. He was my older brother by a couple years. He was geeky, loved playing magic and dungeons and dragons, loved playing anything on a computer, but most of all, loved life. He was truly an amazing older brother and he was the person that showed me FanFiction.

Now you might be wondering why I'm using the past tense, well that's because he died in a car crash in November of 2013. For the entire year it felt like it did happen, still it doesn't. But it wasn't until I went to the University of Kentucky, that I felt it. I was finally around people that really wanted to hang out with me. That would invite me to do things and such. It was truly amazing. I was able to really open up to people and I knew that after my brother died, my life really was just starting.

I still feel weird sometimes, but hopefully in things work out my way, I can have a life that he would be proud of.

But most of all, a life I would be proud of too.

My Website:

Age: 20 (as of 2015, haha sort of)

Gender: Female

Birthday: August -- LEO!!!

Favorite Anime/Manga:

- (favorite of all time) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (no room for explanation-- AMAZING ALL TOGETHER)

- Majestic Prince (awesome, new, and so addictive. A must watch for mecha fans)

- Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (cute character relations with awesome action scenes. Great storyline that always leaves me laughing. A must watch)

- Sailor Moon (Cute heroines and characters you will never forget)

- Attack on Titian (whoever hasn't heard of it, you have no life)

- Aquarion Evol (great mecha combinations, awesome powers, and cute couple relationships-- Eren from Attack on Titan's voice actor is the main character!)

- Chihayafuru (great characters to love and a sweet game turned awesome)

- Total Eclipse (great action, international and great mecha)

- Kiddy Girl-AND (loved the powers and cute characters)

- Glass Mask (Theater lovers check out both anime and manga)

- Fairy Tail (do I have to explain)

- SKIP BEAT (show business/acting lovers -- check out anime/manga (goes further then anime) / and Taiwanese Drama (pretty interesting) )

- The IDOLM@STER (Music/show business/idols lovers and cute/funny/interesting characters and storyline)

- Sword Art Online (Fantasy/Gaming/romance -- really cool and cute anime at the same time)

- AKB0048 (Music/Mecha/Idols lovers -- good combo)

- Kirarin Revolution (Music lovers and cute romance lovers)

- Lemon Angel Project (made for people who love music and idols, short but sweet)

- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Awesome mecha lovers)

- Macross Frontier (Music and Mecha lovers)

- Yumeiro Patissiere and Yumeiro Patissiere Professional (Food lovers and cute romance lovers)

- Senki Zesshou Symphogear (Music and Mecha lovers)

- Uta no Prince-sama (Music fanatics and funny romances)

- Fullmetal Alchemists (no need for explanation -- plain awesome)

- Bleach (plain awesome- used to hate-- now LOVE)

- Prince of Tennis and Prince of Tennis 2 (Tennis lovers and interesting characters)

- 07 Ghost (awesome, extraterrestrial battles)

- Fullmoon wo Sagashite (Music and cute/sad story lovers)

- Pretear (fighting, magic, and romance lovers cute characters)

- Angelic Layer (awesome interesting fighting fun/cute characters and storyline)

- La Corda d'Oro - Primo (Music [classical] and cute/funny characters)

- Shugo Chara (magic, cute/funny storyline and characters)

- Kachou Wa Maid-sama (funny/awesome/cute characters and storyline)

- Special A (funnny/cute/interesting characters and storyline)

- Tokyo Mew Mew (cute/funny heroines)

- Fruits Basket (twist on Chinese Zodiac)

-- There are probably more but I forget!! --

Favorite Ways to Create Stories:

- anything with the Zodiac (Astrology/Celestial)

- magic (any form)

- music/idols/entertainment industry type

Favorite things to do when I am BORED:

- LEARN JAPANESE

- write FanFiction

- Create story ideas / character ideas

- draw my own or favorite characters

- read about Japan

- SING (in Japanese or English)

- Watch favorite movies/TV shows/Anime

- read Manga

WHY I DO WHAT I DO!!

Have you ever had a dream, that has become your goal, and essentially you want it to become your reality? I do. Here is my story:

In November of 2011, I was looking around at the many random YouTube videos and noticed these exchange student videos. I watched them and got immediately engrossed in them. It made me want to become an exchange student. A student for Japan. I looked up to see if I could apply for my Junior year, 2012-2013, and I was too late. I still had time, though. As an exchange student, you have to be eighteen to eighteen and a half a month before you leave. If I chose to do the exchange after graduation, I would not apply. I turn 19, 2014. That is the summer of which I would leave for the after graduation, so I can't apply.

I chose Rotary because it was the cheapest around and very careful with taking care of their abroad students. This would mean I would have to wait a year to apply for my senior year (2013-2014). I made sure that by the end of the year, I would become a scholar of my state and would only be short two or three credits of graduating. That was by the end of my Junior year. This meant I would taking Physics: Conceptual, Chemistry (double on Sciences), and Anthropology (turned out to be a really cool class). It isn't hard, but interesting. I will definitely not forget the Scientific Method ever again.

Then, to help my parents pay for the exchange, I got a job right away. Out of all the places that was hiring, it just had to be McDonald's. I always thought to myself, "Japan, Japan. This job is to get there and nothing else," but that was also at first. Since I can multi-task, I was put in the Drive-Thru window and that meant taking orders and paying out at the same time. I got used to it the first day I was able to work on the cash register; it does help to have a semi-photographic memory. Then when I am not taking orders or waiting for cars to pull up, I have to wash dishes. I have met some great friends there and only have to work the weekends. Working the weekends also means I have to do the five a.m. shift, that usually ends around eleven or two o'clock. It isn't that bad, once you get use to waking up at four a.m.

Also, in preparation, I am teaching myself Japanese. I don't use Rosetta Stone or other programs, but with many books and apps on my iPad. I watch anime and have a ton of Japanese music on my iPod. These are mainly for helping me pronounce the words correctly. They do not help, however, with sentence structure, but I do love to watch them.

Now in September 2012, I sent in my application for the Rotary of my mother's town. I had my interview and I found out that this Rotary accepts two students. This was amazing, but another catch came into play, there were three applicants this year. I already knew that one of them was a year younger then me, and the other I didn't know. The day after I got a call from the Rotary. They said I would make an excellent exchange student, but that there were two slots and I three candidates. I wasn't chosen.

I tried to search for other programs, but I couldn't find one that was cheap enough for my parents. This didn't mean I was going to let my goal go away. I would push further and achieve this because I know in my heart, that it will be true.

Now I'll try at my University, or hopefully after college. I just know that it is all going to fit back into place.

QUOTES I LOVE

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” -- Bill Cosby

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” -- Bill Cosby

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” -- Leo Tolstoy

“When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.” -- Unknown

"Dreams aren't just for those who have talent, but for those who dream" -- Dream High 2 (Korean Drama)