Movie Favorites Review | September

Hi everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful day and that you don't mind my absence for about 2 weeks now. I'm very sorry, just been very tired of all the tests that I had for about a month. I thought that I needed a little time for myself, I hope you understand. 

But, I'm not here today to give excuses again, I'm here to write my favorite monthly post, that is the Movie Favorites Review. This post is indispensable for me, because I love sharing with people movies that I enjoyed, specially when it involves Netflix, and because it is a great way to keep track of the movies I have watched. So this month I watched quite a lot of things, but I only gadered 5 movies/Tv show to recommend you this month. Well, I was looking through them again and just two of them are actually from Netflix, I'm sorry, but all the others I watched them online so you could propably find them and watch them too.

So let's start, shall we?

1. Phoebe in Wonderland

In my opinion this movie was amazing, although it doesn't have that many stars on Netflix. But I thought it was so unique, that I can't imagine someone rating it low. Well, the movie is about a creative 9-year-old girl named Phoebe and she lives with a syndrome called tourette. Her parents actually don't know that she has this syndrome until the end of the movie and neither does she. The movie revolves around a school play of Alice in Wonderland and the struggles that Phobe faces because of her syndrome not yet discovered. 

The movie is great I'm telling you, trust me. It is very inspiring watching Elle Fanning acting such a difficult and complex character like Phoebe. And the character herself is inspirational. I never heard about Tourette before and this movie taught me a lot about it. Is beautiful. Just watch it.

2. Love, Rosie

Oh this movie, let me tell you, I cried at almost every scene...not even kidding. I just loved it. It reminded me a lot of the movie One Day, but this one has a happy ending. You probably already know about what the movie is about, because it is really popular...I think. But I'm still going to give you a short summary of what it is about. 

The movie is about the friendship of Rosie and Alex and how a simple situation or mistake can change the whole entire course of your life. But in the end, if is destiny, there is nothing that can stop something from happening.

 And this is all I am going to tell you about this movie, because I don't want to spoil you. If you enjoey the movie One Day you will love this one, no doubt. It is just so real.

3. The Virgin Suicides

What a mystery! I don't have a clue of what actually happend with the sisters. This is not a spoiler ok? The title of the movie is The Virgin Suicides, so you already have an idea of what it might happend through out the movie. 

I'm very intrigued by it, that made me want to read the actual book. This movie is so different and enigmatic. I really enjoyed it. This is what I call a typical tumblr movie. Is one of those types that you always see gifs and quotes of it in tumblr, that's how I actually discovered it. I love tumblr movies haha... that is how I found out about Pulp Fiction too.

4. Narcos

Oh this was the highlight of the month. Gosh, this is one of the best Tv show that I ever seen. It is up there with Prison Break (that is my ultimate favorite tv show of all time), so you kind of can have an idea of how good it is. I really was surprised by the show, wasn't expecting much of it. But the story blew my mind, I never knew that all of that actually happend. And that, that was the beginning of the huge production of drugs and all the narcotrafic that stands till this day.

I really recommend if you like to learn a little bit more about history and how the drug world that we know now began in the 60s. Another thing that was very outstanding was the acting, it was just phenomenal. Wagner Moura, that is a brazilian actor, was awesome. He played the character of Pablo Escobar, who is probably the main character of this show. And the story is real guys.

You all have to watch it. I just want to warn you about the strong scenes that there are in the show, so just be aware of that when watching. If you don't feel comfortable watching those scenes you can always skip, like I did. And another thing, the tv show is like 80% in spanish. So if you don't have a knowledge in the language, you will have to read subtitles. I read almost all the show,but I kind of could get some of the parts because of it's similarity to portuguese, so it wasn't that hard. But the show is worth reading subtitles for, just saying.

5. Life Partners

I didn't watch this movie on netflix, but you can find it on the internet of course. I wanted to see this movie for a long time now, because it is with Leighton Meester. And I really enjoyed it actually, it is really funny. It is just a movie about friendship, but very inspiring too. It is a very light movie, so I recommend for a day that you want to chill. 

So I hope you all enjoyed this month's movie favorites post and that you are having a great day. And if you have any suggestions of movies or Tv shows, you can leave them down bellow,

Thank you all for reading,

Ana

What is ASMR? + My Favorite Channels

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Hi everyone. I'm so sorry for not posting last weekend,I was very busy studying for some finals. But sadly the tests are continuing until the end of next week. But the good news is that is almost October and summer is closer and school will ending in just a few months, so there will be a lot of post in summer time. 

Well, but I'm not here to talk to you guys about school and tests. Is actually the complete opposite of all that... Is about relaxation. In the beginning of the year I discovered this new ( new for me of course, because many of you probably already heard about it) method of relaxation that is going on on youtube for quite a while now. It is called ASMR. 

ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, being a pleasure tingling sensation in the head, scalp and back that you get in response to visual, auditory and  tactile. Well, I used the help of Wikipedia for the meaning of this one, because I could not explain it myself. But I hope you got the meaning of it, if not I will explain and describe it really informally so that I can understand and you guys too. 

So there are plenty of ASMR videos on youtube and they are basicaly people tapping, whispering, scratching, brushing everything. Yeah, when I first saw a video myself, I thought that was crazy too. The first video I watched was a hair brushing video and it was AMAZING! I never felt so relax my whole entire life. Hair brushing is one of my favorite triggers.

There are a variety of different triggers that you can't even imagine, so you just have to watch some videos to find out what suits you the best. I recommend watching videos when you want to fall a sleep, it helps a lot. Or when you are very stressed out from a hectic day and just want to relax. One thing that asmr videos really help me is to concentrate, I love watching videos while I'm exercising or studying.

So now that you know a little bit more about ASMR you can check out some youtube channels so that you can start watching some videos. Here are my favorite ASMR Channels:

LauraLemurex ASMR

ASMR Angel

Olivia's Kissper ASMR

ASMR Massage Psychetruth

WhispersRed ASMR

I just want to end this post off by saying that I, by no means, am a professional on ASMR or anything like that. I just wrote this post just to let you guys know, if you don't already, about it. So if you want more information on ASMR, you can always research professional opinions and people on youtube that make video. 

And for the lovely picture, I used for this post, is by Annemiek Van Der Kuil. She is a photographer and she has some of her work on Flicker. If you want to check it out, the link is bellow the picture.

So I hope you all are having an amazing day and that you enjoyed this post.

Have a great week,

Ana

Changing Your Mind About The Future Is OK

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For the past two weeks I've changed my mind probably 14 times about college and future life stuff. I'm not even kidding. I had a new plan every single day and I was driving my parents crazy, because of all the changes of mind. I was even embarrased about telling friends and family about it, because that made me seem like a very confused person and that I didn't have a clue about what to do with my life.Well, I am pretty confused, but I don't want people to know that I am. Do you know what I mean? 

I have to constantly remind myself that I'm only 17 and that I'm too young to be stressing out about the future. Or that I'm young and have infinite possibilities, so I can change change my mind from something to another any time. But then there is all this pressure, is not that people pressure me to choose a carrer, actually is not that at all. But I feel pressured. I see all these kids in my class and they all know what they want in life, or they think they do, but overall they know even if it might not be the right thing for them. And that makes me feel pressured and ashamed, I wish I could be more determined.

I'm writing this post for myself and for everyone who is confused about the future. You can be 17 like myself, or in your twenties, forties, whatever age you are, you can change your mind any time. It doesn't have to be about the future, it can be about a purchase, about having kids, having pets, wearing boots instead of high heels or even choosing between ketchup or mustard. Your mind is free, you can change it anytime, you just have to have the will to do it.

But who am I to write a post about changing your mind about the future, if I am pretty confused myself? Like I said before, this post is not just to help you guys, but for myself too. To remind myself that I can always change my mind without the feer of being judged and called fickle.

Yesterday I had the greatest idea ever for the future. Well, I know that the future is uncertain so plans might not work out that well, but I like to have a perspective just to keep me going and working hard for what I want. So I am considering taking a gap year before college. A year for me to find myself and discover what I really want in life. I want to work and study for the year, and of course continue my ballet class. And after a year, I want to go to college in a another city that has the degrre course I want, that is History. They have it here in my city, but the course is not that great, so I'm thinking of moving cities. I'm going to write another post, probably next week, about how I discovered the major that I like and I hope that helps you finding the major that you like as well. So stay tuned for next week's post.

So I'm going to end this post here by saying that is never to late to change your mind and that you can do it as much as you want. So I hope that you enjoyed this post and if you related to anything I wrote, you can leave a comment down bellow about your changes of mind stories.

I hope you all are having a great day.

See you next week,


Ana