my life 

Hi, my name is Sima, I’m 14 years old, and my birthday is on May 29th, which makes me a Gemini. I have 2 sisters an elder one, Celine, and a younger one, Sophia. My dad is an architect, but he also is a professional kitesurfer, and my mom is an elementary school teacher. I have a German shepherd, he is 2 years old, and his name is vitto, which is Italian for food. He is the love of my life and I will never give him up for the world. My favorite thing to do is to play with vitto. But my favorite sports are swimming, kickboxing, and mountain biking.

I chose a sunflower as my photo for  3 reasons, 1st cause it’s my favorite flower.2nd it is my favorite color which is yellow. 3rd cause it brings positivity and happiness to me when I look at it, and it also represents my personality. I loved sunflowers for my whole life. Actually, as a baby or toddler, my mom used to dress me as a sunflower.
“I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me, that’s because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that’s such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.”
Helen Mirren

Whenever I look at a sunflower you need to hear jazz so it can set the mood. Jazz is my favorite type of music. It always calms me down and brings me to a happier place. Ever since I was a child it was my dream to play the saxophone or a trumpet. When we would listen to music in the car I would always pretend to be playing the saxophone. So now I started to learn how to play a baritone sax, which is like a saxophone but way bigger, to accomplish my goal. “A Jazz musician is expressive, intensely feels, fervently articulates & adventurously journeys into the unknown to create their world.”-Anonymous

When I was little my dad used to put me on his shoulders and ride the waves every weekend. And that’s when I fell in l with kite surfing. The feeling of wind going through my hair as you are riding a wave, and when we jump you could see the whole world as if you are in outer space. When you land mist hits your face no words can describe that feeling. So when I got back to shore I would set up my training kite and start practicing on land just how to control the kite. I had to do that for 2 years, then I could finally start body dragging. Body dragging is when you lay on your belly on the surface of the water and you let the kite pull you. I was so excited to try it, and the first thing we did was to go and get brand new equipment like a harness, and a kite. After that, we took off to the beach. I attached my self to my dad, just so I wouldn’t fly away if I lost control, then I took off. It was way harder than I expected, I couldn’t even control the kite the wind was too strong. I lost control and I flew like 8 ft above the water and landed on a huge belly flop. Luckily I was connected to my dad or else I could’ve flown to the other side of the country. I really wanted to give up after that, but my dad didn’t let me. So I trained more on land while lying on my stomach. I got more used to it I was ready to try again. I got into the water with my heart beating so fast. I couldn’t even catch my breath. I look up and my kite starts to fly. I am ready I tell my self, and I did it I am body dragging. I couldn’t believe my eyes it was like a dream come true! but it didn’t last long, my dad fell off his bike and broke the neck of his leg, which is the bone that holds your foot to the rest of your body, he took that well but when the doctor said that he couldn’t kite surf for the next 20 years my dad took that really badly. And of course, that meant I couldn’t kite surf either. First, because I didn’t have a teacher anymore. Second, I couldn’t do that to my dad. 3 years later we moved to Canada, and there isn’t even a good beach to surf in over here. But inside of me I still really want to surf that’s why I picked this link. It is about kitesurfing in Bali , which is on my bucket list by the way 🙂

http://www.bali-indonesia.com/surfing/kitesurfing.htm