I feel so aged

 In reality I feel like I'm either wavering or living on both ends of any given spectrum.

I just feel so aged.

Today, I went about fulfilling my duties as a third wheeler for my roommate. These days I am started to realize that third wheeling is an art. The mediator between the two, and I understand they don't want to make me feel uncomfortable but I want them to understand that they should enjoy each other and not worry about me. So I do that thing where I make them stand together and take numerous photos of them and make them sit together on rides and in the bus. And I'm sort of glad I did.

Because on this quickly crowding bus, this guy approached my empty seat. And I soon learned that he was Filipino which would explain why he was so friendly. Talking to strangers is the best. Nothing means anything but it means everything. We talked about the world, and growing up and meeting people from everywhere. What it was like to see the world through the eyes of a different person. And we talked about travels and cultures and the stars.

'So how old are you?'
'why don't you take a guess'
'When I first saw you I would have said 14, but now I think you are 28 or at least 25 years old'
'Why is that?'
'Because of your travels and the way you see the world'

Your high school life and who your parents are really defines you to an extend I would have never comprehended. Education and the world at our fingertips. I feel so ridiculously lucky to have what I have. To have all my experiences and my views of the world. and a lot of that, most of that came from my high school life and mainly, from you guys.

And he was 21 and he has never been out of the state. And I was 18 but I grew up sleeping on planes and watching stars from the train windowpanes.

And it's ridiculous of myself to talk about my own views and goals to these people because it's not an opportunity they were given. They weren't told to dream but to stick to anything worth living, to hold onto the sour reality laid out by society. Growing up in sheltered homes and strolling down a written path. So we talked and talked and he would ask me about where I've been, the people I've met, the systems I've lived through. The perks about talking to a stranger is that you can talk about anything because it won't matter. The only thing we have of each other were out names and even that I have forgotten.

As the bus rolled into the next stop, he got up and began to leave. But before he spoke that one last good bye, he told me he felt that he knew a lot more about the world just from our conversation.

And as much as that makes life worth living, it also made me feel.. so.. aged..

>that feeling where awesome host sister leaves for Uni

Man it ain't easy on the parents, and I know I probably won't be anywhere near as missed as she will in the house and the family (being the oldest daughter and all, me being at most temporary), but for now I'm still a part of it and once we've both left this family will be heaps fucking different, in 4 people instead of 6, with the only kids being the little girl and the moody teenage bro

Fuck change it seems every time I hop on a plane things have changed and the family I leave ain't the same and won't be ever again.., what a shame what the fuck

((Man i can't wait to come home but it's gonna be so weird coming home to a family without my mum in it))

Anyway she was awesome and went to Sydney and shit on exchange last year, and always took me to discotecas, took me around north Italy with her, spoke near-perfect English and made my time here great especially in the summer when I changed families after school had finished so I had no chance to really make my own friends for the most part so I borrowed hers... She of all the people here probably changed me the most, since after a certain point she told me what I needed to do to be better at this and it was only hearing it from her that made me make me push myself to really try talk like I do in English in Italian, push myself to everything everyone etc.

I gave her my vegemite
She rocked it's sad to see her leave

In other news 5 days till I leave Sardinia, meaning a week till I arrive in Australia

People at work

Hey, I just wanted to say that it's weird how people remind you of other people. Like one guy at my work today was acting a lot like Liam and a new guy looks a lot like Passas. It's pretty cool.

oh ok ill post some english stuff now

checking out nz hip hop
it aint half bad, wait until 1:36

this is a very fucking good italian rapper

this guy is from sardinia, from the capital cagliari (there are 3 major cities on the whole fucking island... ha! we have 7)

holy shit i'mma translate for y'all the lyrics some time it's so fucking good... but not now

the start is
hey everyone it's been a while since i measured my dick, but last time i did it was about 50 cm...

in diameter

and the hook is
'when i say schiuma [foam/bubbles], you say party
schiuma party schiuma party
when i say schiuma, you say party
my cannon fires schiuma you can use to wash yourself'

...cause its 'lavarti' which rhymes with 'party'
get it

dis iz da drum kit i use in the building

 
It's all broken and stuff. but its nice tho. juss wanted to share L.o.l.

Ey sup guys im just waiting for my bus at school so i am on the computers and listening to chill music and i thought i might have a spill to you guys. 

Its crazy. Just being in another society is insane. Its just funny how humans are just humans, and its fact that im not gonna ever meet every single one in the world- im not even going to understand everything about other people in my existence probably....but in that, i managed to meet you guys hey and i dunno i guess im thankful about that.

Most people now a days are pretty chill, so alls you gotta do is talk to someone and they will most probably talk back to you given they are not in a rush or busy of some sort. And i love that. Especially in Japan, because just like in a game you will probably be given something like a souvenir or something because you are not Japanese and they openly think that every non Japanese is hot. Haha i kinda take advantage of that hey... 

They hate dirty things here, everywhere is insanely clean, except when they gotta do something they will dive into it and do it no matter what it takes. Thats the good thing about Japanese people here, they love to try their best, hence rather than saying "goodluck", you say "try your best!", and in reply you say "Ill try my best!" I love that.

Right now Japan is in conflict with china, korea, and russia over 3 different islands. Its funny, japanese really dislike chinese, and chinese really hate japanese. I think its a hate thats been going on for centurys, and its insane that these two countries, despite all their wisdom and lessons learnt from past wars, continue to hate eachother. Thats another thing, as history continues people keep doing what their descendants wanted them to do- like they were always right.

Im gonna change that.

Its time this world changes for the better, rather than killing the earth, we are just killing ourselves. Nature can adapt, it always will exist...but humans have set needs and its more than just sun and water. 

Where do i start though... There are way too many people, and they are all way too comfortable to move. 

Damn the governments that is now. Tch...

Also one fact of today, Japan and Russia have no peace treaty. They have fought countless times, and who knows whats gonna happen next.

Also why is Russia so big?!?!

Peace

Ch..

Aight religion is fucked.

My pakistan half friend here at school just showed me a video,  with a grin on his face, of a ritual of his religion in which he will perform/participate in next month.

Type this into youtube and see what you get

camel qurbani

The sardinian mentality

Can be defined in 2 words: echo chamber

Like seriously
Everything they do is crazy patriotic for this island
They speak Italian but they make a point of speaking Sardinian even if it's just the words 'aju' and 'eja' to the point where I've barely heard anyone at school respond to a question with 'si'
They pride themselves on being themselves, they a choose to go to Cagliari or sassari, the 2 big universities
The equivalent of the southern cross tattoo, either the 4 moors (their admittedly bad-ass flag) or a nuraghe (ancient towers), at least one of these will be on everyone who has a tattoo
They talk up 'la sardità' (sardinian-ness) so much that often they forget they are a part of Italy... Until Italy does something well like win a big soccer match
They all aspire to serve their fucking island and that's it! First question they ask me, every time: 'oh, sei australiano? Ma ti piace la Sardegna? E bella, no?' (oh you're Australian? Do you like Sardinia? It's really beautiful isn't it?)
They all are fucking obsessed with their traditions, their dancing, this one event called the sartiglia... Like, obsessed. Which is okay but at every public festival, political rally etc all there will be a group of traditional Sardinian dancers because that's what works
None of them want to leave the island, for them the whole world is Sardinia, and even when they go travel around Barcelona, luxemburg, London, wherever else... They always say Sardinia is better (which is objectively untrue, I travelled around north Italy for a bit and everything is fucking beautiful as! Mountains, bilingual road signs, europeanness! That was what I wanted to go on exchange for! The Sardinian landscape is too similar to ours...)

All that is okay I guess, I mean it's their home and they are proud to be part of a group of people with such strong traditions

Yet all the Sardinian people I've met who've gone on exchange have had their horizons expanded or something? Literally every single one of them has said something along the lines of

'I have to fucking escape this island'

If that's not indicative of some deeper problems idk what is

...ok cool I just had to get that off my chest thank you all for listening

Dead Bodies on Mount Everest

http://www.buzzfeed.com/toddvanluling/dead-bodies-on-mount-everest

Sort of morbid, but interesting as hell. Imagine your fate is to end up an unidentifiable body, left as reminder to those who will climb after you in the decades to come the horrors that could potentially befall them...

this guy tattooed himself

Why do native americans have such cool names

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Fire_Thunder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Two_Bulls

Heres a picture of a native american

semi - way - back friday

Hey guys this is my new segment of the blog. It's called semi-way-back-weekday where I will post some sort of clip or video I have. Because I seriously have all these random clips of people doing dumb shit and i dont know what to do with them. This one features paddy~

this happened to me today

Skipping school cause the class is religion and it's not compulsory (not that there's any consequence at all if I skip school at this point)

A guy and a girl, awkwardly being the third-wheel exchange student for their weird friendship-romance

They are talking about club music, girl goes to 'clubs' heaps but the guy isn't into that kinda shit, doesn't even know who eminem is, I'm just texting the other exchange students

Girl is showing him songs

'hey you might have heard this one, it's korean'

I look up from my phone

Listen intently
Suddenly, GANGNAM STYLE EVERYWHERE

I couldn't stop laughing, I think they think I'm retarded or something now... Like seriously why was that so funny
Thanks guys

just found out that this exists

This giraffe related zebra thing called Okapi.