The Trip That Never Happened

So I should have been arriving in Aruba right now but I'm not, I'm at home. What happened? Visas happened. Before you stop reading let me explain, so during fall break a Peruvian couple came to visit and stay with us. They're like my parents long lost friends or something. So the plan was that they would get to tour around here and then today (Thursday) we would go to Aruba. It was all going great, we packed and left home; there was a little traffic on the way to the airport because of the rain so we called a lady to start the check in. She asked for our passport numbers, names, birthday and everything else needed. But then she asked what the visa number for our guests was. Everyone sort of panicked at the same time but we still went to the airport to try. No luck. Turns out a new law was set on October 10th saying that Peruvians needed a visa to go to Aruba from that time on. Bummer. So yeah I'm not going to Aruba anymore. Were trying to see if we can go to a beach tomorrow but I don't know how that's coming along. I hope that works but if it doesn't... Well at least I didn't have to go to school this week :)

L.A. Candy

So I read a novel, which turned out to be a series, called L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad. Some of you might recognize that name that’s because she is pretty famous or at least well known. She became famous from a TV show, The Hills. Well anyways she is mainly an actress however she wrote a trilogy and she designs clothes, I guess that keeps her pretty busy. But back to the book, it’s about two BFFs who move to L.A. but not to become famous, Jane (sweet, blond one) goes to inter with a party planer Fiona Chen, her friend is Scarlet (brunette, apparently drop dead gorgeous but has a sour mood) she’s in L.A. simply to go to school. In their first few weeks in Los Angeles they are discovered by a TV producer who wants to make a reality based on their lives which start out average but later on turn into something film worthy. I think this book is good; considering it was written by an actress with no past experience it’s very well written. However it’s very simple, the vocabulary used is easy, the characters are plain and don’t change much. Basically I don’t think this book would be known if it weren’t because the author was already famous. Nevertheless the idea is interesting since the reader gets to know how realities work behind the scenes. I would recommend it to anyone who likes watching reality shows since this book is similar to watching one. If anyone wants to give this book a try just contact me!  

So I was Looking Around...

Today I was in the salon getting a haircut and as I washed my hair, I looked around. All I saw was women replacing their natural beauty with something artificial. It was stunning to see women with beautiful curly hair spend hours there just to get it pulled and straightened in order to look like the women on magazines. Seeing that made me wonder; what happened to wanting to be unique? I mean if there were only one color in the world things would be pretty boring right? So why is everyone trying to look the same? Recently some big companies such as Dove have been trying to promote this same idea by not editing the pictures they use in their advertisements and using average looking people for their TV commercials. I strongly agree with what they are doing, I think women should be proud of how they look and go to the beauty salon to improve their looks not to completely change it. The marketing technique Dove uses should be used more often because it not only promotes looking natural but it also makes the customers more comfortable with how they look. There should be no reason for women to think they have to spend hours in the beauty salon to look good.

For those who havent seen this yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

Every girl should feel beautiful!! :)