My Favorite Sport...

Alright, don't get me wrong it has to be football or soccer as you say in the US, but there is also another sport I really enjoy doing besides football...

People watching!

Oh, please laugh, feel free! No judgments, I'm laughing at myself as well! I'm sure you weren't ready for that one! Such an intriguing sport!

A few years ago, I was talking to an Italian who happened to introduce me to the sport. He had come to California for a couple of weeks, enjoying his time, himself as he was alone. 
I was sitting on the bench, next to him with a book in Italian. One that I actually love since the day someone special bought it for me! 
Curious, he asked me if I was Italian. I told him that I have Italian blood, but I was born elsewhere! We discussed my life in California as he was interested in knowing how different it is from the European lifestyle if I ever miss Europe, home! 

And we came to the subject of football. He was of football as well, not a Juventus fan but an A.C Milan one. Obviously, not my team, I knew about the team, though, so we discussed that for a good amount of time. Then, he asked me if I enjoyed watching other sports. I answered and he came out saying, "You know the people watching sport?"
I looked at him weirdly, wondering what he means by that so he continued, "You never like to sit down, somewhere and just watch people pass by, imagine what their lives are all about?"
When he is back home in Italy, he walks around his town and sees how many people are interested in other's lives. He watches them watch others as they walk by. It's rather funny to hear that type of thing, but it's apparently interesting and fun! Now, I can say that the second sport, Italians like to do is watch people talk, walk, run, have a life. Another hobbi that you should try sometimes, you will be surprised at how much you learn from just observing!

Funny thing is I do that quite often. Seriously, though!
You should try it, sit down at a coffee shop and look outside, observe people walking, passing by in a hurry to either get to work or a date!

You see so many different faces, various clothing style... Actually, the one that always surprises me is the way tourists dress! They can be spotted a mile away! Now, there is obviously the locals, the ones that don't care how they look. The hairstyle I see throughout the day is unbelievable, from green hair to purple hair to half shaved. Nothing crazy I would be able to do, but it's still working for other people. 

When you sit down at a coffee shop, you see students on their computers trying to get their studies done, you see some who are in a hurry to get to work, ones who are here to read the newspapers, the couples who kiss as they in the line... Sometimes, if you daydream, you'll see yourself in a movie "Café" starring Daniel Eric Gold, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Hubbel Palmer. It's an odd movie, surprising in many ways! You should see it, get to know a bit more about the movie... 

"I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen."- Tatiana Maslany

~Bella

What are you? A Bookworm..

Welcome back to little me...

Last week was Thanksgiving, hopefully, everyone had a good time with their family.

As I've mentioned a week before, I needed a tiny break from posting, to gather some articles that may be enjoyable to read, and yesterday, out of the blue, before going to work, I had this idea!

If you do not know already I'm quite a bookworm. I love reading, I love escaping the real world to get into a completely imaginary one, not mine yet an amazing one! When I read, I tend to imagine some scenarios, the setting, the characters. Seeing them in my head makes me be a part of the story. 
I bought a few books, read all of their last paragraphs or sentences, and fell in love with the books... You would think nothing is wrong... But... Sadly, there is...

I cannot read any book! 

I've tried to get into books, I've tried, but I always end up putting each book down. This situation has been bugging me, giving me some issues for a couple of months now. My last book was a novel in French called "Le dernier voyage du Valentina" or "The Last Voyage of the Valentina" written by Santa Montefiore.
Amazing plot, wonderful character descriptions, extraordinary writing, and a full mind-blowing story! At least to me...

The setting is based in London, but later on in Italy where the protagonist has to learn about family secrets, mysteries involved in the whole plot. 

I'm not going to go into details, but I absolutely fell in love with the book, with the plots, with the characters! I couldn't get enough, read it in one setting, and when I finished the book, I didn't let go easily! Since then, I haven't read anything, no books, and it's not because of the lack of them, I've got plenty! No lack of books whatsoever, I just cannot get into one, and it's becoming a real issue! My hopeless romantic side always gets me, always make me feel like I've read an amazing unforgettable book, but this time, this novel hit me hard, very hard that it is always on my mind. I don't believe it's the story, it's more the characters that made me realize a lot about life, about human reactions and believes. Since then, I've got the issue of not getting into any books, even the ones I find interesting or the ones that intrigue me. 

Bookworms are people who are fans of reading, getting into someone's imagination, to learn about someone's point of view. They also have some issues, some problems that only book lovers can understand!
Here are some...

* When someone asks us what is our favorite book, we don't know... We've got plenty of them, don't ask, please. It's uncomfortable, I would know, I never really give an answer. 

*When books become movies and the plot changes from the novel. When they get everything wrong, it's just awful! Get it right!

*When you start liking someone and they tell you they don't like to read, don't like books. It makes you think about starting a relationship twice! 

* You forget to eat or drink, go to the bathroom or ignore everything and everyone around. If you are reading a novel in one setting, you forget your real life, you are involved in the book, you live in it, so the rest comes after. 

*That moment when you thought your favorite character will live forever and dies on you all the sudden and you pretend that they are still alive, but obviously it's not the same... Hate that moment, the box of tissue is needed! 

*Reading these bloody awful reviews on the novel you love gets you mad, your happy smile disappears! 

*When you finish the first book of a sequel but you have to wait another year to get it... It's frustrating. But it could be worse, some authors just stop the series and then it's just not frustrating anymore, it's murder! Finish the bloody series, don't let us hang! 

*When someone looks at you and says "You read too much." Well at least I'm getting smarter, I'm making my neurons work not like the others who don't even pick up a book! 

Anyways, hopefully, I will get into a book that I enjoy reading soon because I miss having my alone time with a good novel. 

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." -Stephen King

~Bella

What Alice Forgot...

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Let's just start by saying the man who seats across from my work every morning and night, we will call him Peter, came in the store one morning and suggested a novel. He has seen that I always had a pen and notebook on me, always my laptop to type, curiosity rushed in, and he couldn't help but ask if I was also a bookworm... Do I look like one?

So we ended up talking about books, one specifically, the one he was holding in his left hand, the one which looked like it was about to be finished. What Alice Forgot is a novel written by an Australian author, Liane Moriarty. When Peter talked to me about the novel, you can tell he was in admiration towards the author and how she write. The author lives in Sydney Australia with her family, getting her books translated into multiple languages. She is #1 New York Times Bestseller author of books like The Husband's Secret as well as The Hypnotist's Love Story. 

Peter reads a lot, it's obvious, so when he suggested the book, I couldn't help but to buy the novel as well as two others. 

Here is what the back of the novel tells us...

" Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, Nick, and pregnant with their first child. 
So imagine Alice's surprise when she comes to on the floor of the gym (a gym! she HATES the gym!) and is whisked off to the hospital, where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over: She is actually thirty-nine years old, has three kids, and is getting a divorce.
That knock on her head has misplaced ten years. 
Now Alice must piece together the events of the lost decade, and find out if it's possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She needs to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she's become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. 
Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse- and how to start over..." 

When you read something like that it makes you want to know what happened during these ten years. It makes you want to understand how she became what she is. 
Before reading any book, I read the last paragraph. If I like the ending, if I find it interesting, or if I get curious. So I thought I'd shared the ending with you...

" They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream- excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory."

It doesn't make much sense we didn't read the book, but it does get you curious! 

"Reading a good book is like taking, a journey..." - Emma Gulliford

~Bella
PS: I'm not going to post anything next week as it is Thanksgiving one week vacation. I will be working and spending time with my brothers whenever I can... But make sure to come back the 28th of November for more posts! Enjoy your time with family! 

So long...

Have you graduated from High School yet? Well,  I have, a while ago now.

High School, for many of you, is an amazing experience, popularity, sports, clubs, love experiences, thinking of universities... For others, it's a bit different!

My experience wasn't as amazing as most of you, far from good. Many downfalls, revelations, hard moments, insults from other peers, difficult time concentrating during class, family issues were always on my mind keeping me preoccupied most of the time at school...
Indeed, it taught me great lessons like never let anyone make you feel worthless, or stay true to yourself, if someone dislikes you, it doesn't mean you have to change for them! Taught me that people change over time, that you can't trust you own friends because some will turn their backs on you!

It isn't easy, it can be tough, and we all go through this moment in life in different ways...

Some will say that High School is a learning experience, a time to start mature up, start thinking responsibly, and to be a young adult!
When I look back at photos of kids I went to school with in 6th grade and them, now... I'm just like "They have changed! A lot."
High School usually makes people change, but for the ones that don't like me, you get left out. I mature up, but I was already more mature than most kids my age. If you ask people from my past, they won't say "Oh, she changed so much throughout the years! Went through so many phases!"
Indeed, I made certain mistakes (falling in love with the wrong guy did make me think twice about things), but other than that, I'm still the same old me! Since, well, forever...!

Life makes you change, mature up, more experienced, wiser, but the High School stage plays a big deal!

A month ago or so, I was walking down the street when I came across someone I knew from high school. He was a year or two older than me, but his face was rather familiar. Took me good couple minutes to remember correctly. I saw a guy with a cardboard saying "Anything helps", dirty, ripped clothes, and a smile on his face. Seeing someone on the street is already sad, and uncomfortable, to me it's heartbreaking, but seeing someone you knew back in High School years... Being on the street, smiling and not caring about what people say. I didn't even know what to think! The guy is around my age, we went to school together (I remember faces well enough), I had a class with him, I had common friends (mostly one), and seeing him on the street isn't alright! It doesn't feel right. I had to take a step back and time to process it all. It might not seem important, but when you compassionate and want to understand what's going on, it's difficult to see and accept what you saw!
The back story was made clear later on with a friend of mine that used to know him as well. My friend explained the whole situation, and even though it's the guy's fault that he living on the street, it doesn't make it right! It makes me helpless, I want to help out, but from what I hear, the guy doesn't want any help, he got into too many drugs, no rehabs doesn't accept family support. He cut ties with everyone, almost. It's rather depressing!

So when I look back at my High School years, the way that I was treated by many girls my age, it shows that we are living under an unacceptable life! Social media takes over generations, young kids, life is becoming more stressful! I hear 8 years of age kids saying they are stressed! I'm still a 90's kid, but the new generations, right after mine, they are a piece of work! No more respect, no more worries (mum and dad will pay for them anyway), and instead of playing nicely at home with dolls or cars, board games or the first Nintendo, or even watching Disney movies and eating popcorn with friends... They go to the mall with their purses and credit cards. I don't know how many times I served 8 to 13 years old little girls with makeup on and credit cards, thinking they are better than you! And they aren't even in High School yet? What's going on with our world? With our society?

I can say I'm lucky on where I am right now, where I'm standing at the moment.

 I'm currently writing a novel, keeping a blog, working, helping my family... Still no interest in makeup or brushing my hair, not that it needs to be brushed anymore, I could have gone down such a wrong path like that old peer of mine, or ended up being like the rest of the "girls" because with complete honesty, even at 20 or 21, they are still acting like girls instead of women!

To me, High School was the big "deal", made me realize who were true friends, who were enemies, what I wanted to do later on in life, made me stronger each step I took in that school... I've seen old peers, I've heard stories, some are pregnant with no dad around, some work, others never grew up. Some went down on wrong paths, others succeeded at being popular enough in their universities. Thanks to Facebook for the delightful pictures that I want to forget about, don't need to see half of the people I knew  naked or doing knows what...

If High School helped you shape the person you are today, helped you through tough times, see the best in you, then you can be proud of you. If you haven't gone the wrong path or ended up in jail, be proud of yourself. Not many people can be proud of themselves, of what they are doing. I'm seeing so much, and even the ones in universities, half of them don't study, they spend all their time partying or getting arrested. If you are doing something for your future, be proud of yourself!

"After High School, you realize you were only friends with some people because you saw them five times a week." 

~Bella

Living Nightmare...

Election... It's that week!

Can't just avoid talking about it, when so many Americans are protesting against the popular vote, Trump. Can't deny the fact that it is making countries afraid of the consequences of such actions! Sad, but true!
When you look at all the countries reacting to the news of Trump being president, they are either afraid, shocked or completely in denial! The fact that England left America to be independent, to let them choose what's best for the nation, and seeing the result...
The 2016 election proves us that America isn't ready to be an independent country!
How did anyone let this happen?
What are we going to tell our grandkids about the 2016 election?

"Oh, it was 9/11, all over again! A catastrophe! People going insanely shocked and lost!"

This will mark another shameful moment in history! The time a racist, famous, billionaire became president of the United States. Next time, Kim Kardashian will run for the presidency. It proves anyone can run to rule this nation! 

This is one bad thing about this country, anyone can be your boss, even if that person doesn't have any experience in running the type of business. Look at Trump... 
The brainwash that he managed to do during his campaign in beyond explanation, promises that won't be kept, treats, manipulation and let's be honest here, he pretty much destroyed himself while he was public speaking. Putting his own people down is an amazing way to show everyone how much you care for your country!  But that no one will admit it, no one will admit they elected an insane number two Hitlers. 

Politics are in general just a bunch of bullocks, lots of manipulations, corruptions, lies... Indeed, I'm concentrating on Trump at this moment, but that's because it was a shock, it was surprising to see how a racist white rich guy with no politic experience got elected! Clinton isn't clean either, no president was anyways. We are human, we make mistakes, but some presidents made too many of them, too dangerous ones! Clinton at the opposite of Trump doesn't attack people, doesn't act like a dictator! 

Having a difficult election like this... Like 2016 election... It is just a shock for an entire nation, for the world. Everyone was watching, everyone heard, everyone was shocked! A shame for the country! 
What else is America holding back from us all? What will happen next? 
Is everyone actually planning on leaving, fleeing the country, running away from their president? Is anyone going to pay their taxes to make a statement because Trump didn't pay his for 8 years when Obama was in office?

You elected a man who only cares about himself, who only cares about money, fame, glory, power. A man who only wishes to see half of the United State disappear by expulsing everyone. 
I don't think you realized what you just signed up for! You, rich people with gardeners, maids, nannies, underpaid workers... You can say goodbye to them! They won't be here anymore to clean up after yourself. No more hard working Mexicans to do your dirty jobs, the ones you are incapable of doing yourself! These so-called "Americans" are going to be forced to pay extra money for other "American" to do their jobs! The economy is going to crash! 
Let's get back to our textbooks for just a second...

A long, long, time ago, before Europeans came in this new world, " Native Americans" were on this land! These new arrivals, killed, tortured, destroyed everything in their passage, made slaves out of these people. 
Then time moved, England has no more power over "America" over "The United States" ---- This new "Americans" still have slaves, have a civil war, then the KKK, white folks who think they are full "Americans" because of their skin color. Bloody hell, you are all a mix of a lot of different culture, different backgrounds. 
None of you are 100% American unless you have Native American blood in you! 
Yet, you deport people out, destroy families, and now elect a dictator who acts like Hitler? Because you want America great? Alright! 

Let's start with the pipelines going through Native American land.
Let's start stopping racism against colored skin people or the gender. 
Let's start helping out Europe because without them you wouldn't exist! You think you have a history? Look again in your textbooks! The only history you've got starts at European invading the land, to Thanksgiving (you are celebrating the fact that you murdered Native Americans), to 9/11, to now this terrible election. 
Oh, but let's elect Trump as president, let him rule this country, let him scare the entire world! 
This country has disappointed me! No lesson was learned, between the slavery, the KKK, 9/11, Bush as a past president... You only want attention, you got it! You've got it! You've got the fame. You want a medal now? Like a kid after wining a spelling bee contest?

None looked at the consequence of this election, none! 
After all this time in California, I'm actually proud to say I'm European. Indeed, we have our faults, mistakes, we make errors, but we learned not to have a dictator ruling countries!

It's a shame to be American nowadays! I'm sorry, but electing such a man is just disappointing! 
I'm afraid for this country! 

~Bella

Election week...

Traumatic experience! 

On an earlier post, I talked about both political side, and how I disliked political subject in general... Sadly, as I'm writing this post, it is, in fact, the day after the election. Candidates were Clinton and Trump. As you already know,  I wasn't for any of them, but I'm getting nervous on knowing that Trump won and how many supporters he has! 
No, I didn't vote, I ain't an American citizen, yet, and sadly, now it's more for a protection than anything else.

Trump won! Trump became the next president! No, I'm not happy! How can anyone be happy? It's a catastrophe! It's Hitler number 2! How can anyone vote for a man who doesn't care one bit about his own people? Don't you see that manipulation is around, that all his promises will be off the to-do list? 

When you look at all the voters, you'll see and understand why they voted for a dictator! The ignorance is beyond explanations! 

I'm on social medias such as twitter, and EVERYONE is afraid of the result as it isn't as pretty as so many of you declared before the election!

Some tweets go like this :
"To all those US tweeters telling us Brits to "worry about our own country." Well, we left you to take care of yours and look what you did!" 

to 

"At least we will get some insane episodes of South Park because of this"

to

a bunch of people as well as me saying we all have to leave this country! It's a living nightmare! 

Politics should be explained to everyone like we do to kids, maybe people need to review what it is and what politicians do. During the course of the elections, candidates promise things that they will do to their countries. Don't get me wrong, some promises are great to hear, but let's be honest, they usually don't do half of these promises. They make it seem like they will have complete power over the entire country, but in fact, they don't. Liars, manipulators who buy everyone to get their ways!
Presidents aren't at all great! Why giving the right to one person to govern an entire country? Belgium doesn't have a president and the country does well. 

Anyway, short post, I'll write more on Friday after I know more! 

Keep that hope up, or move out the country! Canada is going to be overpopulated soon! The United States isn't at all UNITED!

~Bella

The Book of Symbols 6...

Flower

The ancient Greek counterpart to Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, was named Chloris, meaning "green." Zephyr, the gentle west wind, enamored of Chloris, pursued her, and as he overtook the maiden, flowers spilled from the lips, and they were subsequently married.

Mayan whistle depicting most probably Xochiquetzal

or "Flower Feather," goddess of love, erotic pleasure

and spiritual transformation. Ceramic, ca. 550-850,

Jaina Island, Campeche, Mexico.

Flowers are the hallmark of springs. There is no surer sign of renewal in the world, of awakening and rebirth. The young, budding shoots of violets, snowdrops and crocuses push up even through the impacted earth and late snows of winter's end. Delicate, fragrant cherry and apple blossoms signal anticipated fruits; other flowers are themselves vegetation's radiant, culminating bloom. Their ephemeral blossoms have associated flowers with all the brilliant forms that quickly fade. The transitory soul, for example. Or Kore, the divine maiden who, picking flowers, was herself plucked by Hades and carried to the underworld to become its queen. Or the lovely, short-lived mythic youths of antiquity: Narcissus, who wasted away, spellbound by his own reflection; Hyacinthus, felled by Apollo's misguided arrow; Adonis, for whom the briefly petalled anemone memorializes the blood of his mortal wound from a boar. Yet flowers are, in truth, remarkably resilient. Their aggressive roots invade rough, inauspicious soil. They assert their bright growth on the rocky banks of highways and out of asphalt cracks. Wildflowers gloriously latch onto walls and railings and fill jungles, deserts, and woods. Rare species of orchid thrive in swamps.

Possibly a figure of one of the Graces, Thalia (bloom)

evokes springs; virginal, feminine beauty and all that is

 lovely and fleeting. Primavera, painting from a 

bedroom of Villa Arianna, 89 B.C.E.-79 C.E., Stabiae (near

Pompeii),Italy.

All of nature is enticed into the flower's proliferation. The stamen forms golden pollen grains that produce male gametes. These sperms are transferred to the stigma or tip of the pistil and burrow down through the pistil to ovules at its swollen base. In the fusion of sperm cell and ovule a seed is formed. Most flowering plants are hermaphroditic, but some have either a stamen or a pistil. Cross-pollination of flowers is provided by bees, wasps, butterflies and moths, birds, bats and other mammals, water, and the fructifying wind: "There's April in the west wind and daffodils," said the poet John Masefield. Color, fragrance and sweet, golden nectar in the cup of the flower invite and guide the many pollen carriers.

Is anything more sensual than the flowers? Its green sepals forming the calyx, its shy buds unfurling to reveal a corolla of velvety petals, its heady perfumes, the edible and cosmetic essences of rose, jasmine, lily, freesia? In Pampore, India, the lavender-blue crocus sativus that flowers for just two weeks in October is plucked at dawn and the stigmas carefully removed to make saffron, that costliest spice with which the Hindu deities Krishna and Radha were traditionally anointed (Bharadwaj, 36-7). Flowers are incorporated into ritual and sacrament the world over, as emblems of eros, beauty, perfection, purity, fertility, joy, and resurrection. The simplest form of the flower with a radial shape is a natural mandala linking the flower symbolically with the wheel and eternal, cosmic movement around a mystic and orienting center. The flower's hermaphroditic qualities suggest the joining of opposites in self-becoming. Visible above yet rooted in the invisible below, the flower symbolically bridges the manifest and unseen worlds, realms of latency and potentiality and those of active generation. The poppy, for example, associated with the grain goddess Demeter, combines bright, many-hued blooms with narcotic properties inducing painlessness, slumber or death. The four-petalled "blue flower" of alchemy signifies both the darkness of the prima materia, as the shadowy, unknown self and the quadratic, unifying totality of the lapis.

Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers. Primavera,

detail, by Sandro Botticelli, tempera on panel, ca. 1482,

Italy.

We flourish in concert with the flower. It is an emblem of the hidden "seeding-place" within ourselves, supported by multiple, participating energies. The Holy Spirit makes itself known in the secret redolence of flowers. The lush rose intimates the presence of Aphrodite and the Virgin Mary. In Buddhism, the lotus signifies enlightenment and the "golden flower" of Chinese alchemy the achievement of the "diamond body" through the interior circulation of light. A European alchemical text describes the synthesis of the four elements, the hoped for unity in multiplicity of nature and psyche as the goal of the opus: It is " as if it were a meadow decked with colours and sweet- smelling flowers of divers kinds, which were conceived in the earth by the dew of heaven" (CW 14:389).  

~Bella

Sidemen: British YouTubers...

Since October 18th, 2016, I have been reading the Sidemen Book! Yes, I got it as soon it was out! There's always something good happening on the 18th. This time, the book came in the mail! The excitement that consumed me entirely, the luck I felt was indescribable! I know that I ain't the only one that got it, but I still feel special! Don't crush my dream of being one special person! Pretty please with a cherry on top?!

If you don't know the Sidemen, well it's a group of YouTubers back in Great Britain! They are most likely to do FIFA videos, but I just adore watching them, they are rather hilarious. Each one of them is different: Simon (Miniminter) being my favorite, JJ (KSI) being the famous one who raps and get in movies, Tobi (TBJZL) being the "hat" type of person, Josh (Zerkaa) being the odd one, Ethan (Behzinga) being the hilarious one who has a contagious laugh, Vik (Vikkstar123) being the Minecraft player, and finally Harry (Wroetoshaw) who cannot keep his calm, broken chairs, and controllers! 

Each one of them has different stories, and the book collides all of them. We learn quite a lot about them, about their routines, about their favorite games, and honestly, it's rather surprising!

When we hear YouTube, we think about the funny videos, but we don't think how much time and energy they put in their videos. Obviously, I'm talking about the YouTubers that want to be serious about it. Don't think they aren't doing anything! That they can do as they wish... Most of them are asleep during the day, working at night time, editing, creating, making more videos. The Sidemen for example, even if some live with each other, they barely see each other! 

I enjoy reading about them, the book is rather nice and creatively well put! So I thought I would share a bit with you right now:

"THE SIDEMEN RANDOM TRIVIA PAGE
I bet you think you know all there is know about us/ Yeah we spend a lot of our time making videos, telling you guys all about our lives, but here's some stuff we've never revealed before, until now...

1. JJ can't straighten his little finger after his grandmother slammed a door on his hand as a child. 

2. Tobi has a silver tooth.

3. Simon has OCD. Everything always has to be at an even number but even though it's odd, he can handle the number 5. 

4. Vikk used to have a pet duck called Chocolate and a pet chicken called Speedy.

5. Josh is ambidextrous.

6. Ethan is claustrophobic. He freaks out whenever he is in an enclosed space.

7. Tobi owns over fifty hats.

8. Simon is a shareholder in Domino's Pizza! He gets a cheque for 11p every month.

9. Harry has at least four showers every day.

10. Josh used to have two pet rats, George and Stuart (after Stuart Little).

11. JJ has a scar on his right elbow after he ran into a tree.

12. Vikk has a star named after him (The Vikkstar).

13. Ethan had a skin graft on his arm after he accidentally tipped hot water from a kettle on himself as a child. 

14.  Tobi can play the drums and the piano.

15. Neither Josh nor Ethan has ever drunk tea in their life. 

16. Harry has had an enema, and he kinda enjoyed it...

17. Simon has the title of "Laird" after someone bought him a tiny plot of land in Scotland bu he doesn't like to talk about it...   "

After receiving the book, I got the chance to get one of their sweatshirts, the burgundy one. I know I'm starting a new addiction, to be fair, I would prefer being addicted to YouTubers than drugs like some!

As I was saying at the beginning, it's about a group of YouTubers, and honestly, they know how to make me smile, Simon (Miniminter), especially! 

It's great to know a bit more about the people I watch almost every day. Definitely an interesting book, for sure, you should check them out if you enjoy following YouTubers. The Sidemen mostly do FIFA but they also have other channels where they play random games. You might be surprised by how much they do!

I'll make sure to keep a few passages for later on. There are some moments in the book that I'll make sure to write down, some of their recipes... 

"Choke on rice! Slip in the shower!" - Ethan (Behzinga) in his "Mega Ramp Rage" GTA V video.

~Bella

He Broke you...

" I'm sorry he broke your heart. I'm sorry you didn't see the jerk in him. I'm sorry you made him seem better than he really was. I'm sorry he moved on so quickly. I'm sorry he's flirting with your friends. I'm sorry he avoids you. I'm sorry you cry most nights. I'm sorry you feel worthless and used and sad. I'm sorry that you feel in love with someone not worth this pain. I'm sorry he left. I'm sorry you can't help but wake up in the middle of the night and think of all the memories. Believe me, I'm sorry you have to go through this. But don't turn bitter from it, or you'll start pushing away the one boy that'll come and try and save you."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/verymuchso/17-songs-for-every-stage-of-a-bad-break-up

~Bella