"Oops, we did it again..."

THE RUMOR IS TRUE.


WE ARE BACK.

I am glad you care.

It is so weird to think that I started this blog when I was 16. Now I'm 19, I don't feel older, I feel younger and wiser. My life has done a complete 360 while not changing at the same time. It is an unusual sensation. I'm glad to have the blog start up again because I think that when people are bored or can't sleep, they need something random to read to make them think. And Adam and I are ready to make you think, make you not think, whatever it takes for you to look at this blog. Ya see, some blogs I really don't want to read because they are people complaining about things and they think that they are the only people who go through what they go through. The human race is living together, weird I know. We're never really alone in what we're going through. Thats where blogs become cool, because when you write something from the heart, people can relate. Its nice to read that you aren't the only one. Its nice to read something so different from your life, to escape the daily grind.

Thats why this blog is beautiful, because Adam and I have very different lifestlyes. Maybe you can relate to one, maybe you can't relate at all, that's okay because you are STILL READING THIS.

A quick schpeal about me so you can understand why I write what I write:

Why'll most everyone around me in highschool was going one way, and the adults in my life had their eyebrows raised, I decided the "risky" choice to not go to college right away. They say its hard to go back to school if you don't go right after highschool. I say, bullshit. If you want to do something, do it. As I said, a lot of skeptic teachers looked at me at school and other adults put in their two cents about my future but I ignored them and listened to (believe it or not) my parents. My parents said follow your heart. So I did. Crazy shit, listening to my parents.

So in August I packed my world in my volkswagon beetle and moved out to the West Coast in Southern California to be apart of the Young Americans. The Young Americans is a performing arts group that teaches singing and dancing workshops to kids at highschools all over the world. To be able to tour and teach these workshops, I first spend a year in California training. I take classes at their non-accredited college every week night and rehearse every weekend for any upcoming shows. I've learned textbook lessons and harsh life lessons over the past 6 months, met incredible people from all over the world, but most importantly I've looked deep into myself to discover just what it takes not to survive in this life, but to love, excel, and live this life. I think I'll save specific situations for later blogs, I just wanted to give you the brief overview of where I am in my life right now. A bit hippie and existential feelings.

I don't really want to make this blog like my journal or something, I don't want to write all about me. However, these things that I go through I think need to be shared because they are situations that not everyone has the oppurtunity to experience. So, I want to share my hectic, stressful, beautiful lifestyle with anyone who wants to read, hence the rebirth of "The Other Side of the Coin...."

Living pay check to paycheck
flying by the seat of my pants
yet keeping my feet firmly on the ground as I spread my wings and soar
I'm inspired by my california life
driving with the windows rolled down and music turned up
I'm in awe of my friends, their laughter is my medicine I learn from them and them from me and we find we're wiser than we thought.

Sometimes I get tired but I keep going...with the helping hands of those who have faith in me.
No IDEA where I'll be next year or month but I'm always going somewhere
Not sure what I'm doing with my life, just know I'm living it,

loving it,

learning, teaching, hoping, praying, believing that I'm on my way....