Painting for holiday fun

By Arnia Kiara Oosthuizen

What do you do when you get bored? You get creative (sometimes).

This year, I will have my own room at my residence and it will be a lot bigger, so I need to decorate it with more things. But decorations are expensive and not exactly what I want, therefore I decided to buy and paint my own decorations with my favorite color: Blue, especially turquoise.

Adventure: my word for 2015

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure."- Christopher McCandless

This is my motto for 2015. I simply want to have fun and adventures. Read about it here.

Happ(y)iness: My word of 2014

My motto and word for 2014 was: Happiness and the motto: Happiness is an inside job. I had an extremely happy year and it was because I chose to be happy. Read about it here.

I am impressed with my attempts at painting! I will take orders (ha-ha).

We all are winners

By Arnia Kiara Oosthuizen

Today, we went to go and watch my sister running at her school's athletic event.

Sister and me

She was very upset when she didn't win (or even close), she was third last. Just after she finished running, she already had a sad face and said that she lost. How do you explain to a 5 year old, that winning isn't everything?

Children grow up believing that it is very important and it's not...
I, also never won. Our family is not really athletic. We have the brains! One day she will win other kids in grades, whereas they will in sport. Everyone wins in their own way and every person is unique and no one else can be the same as you.

The awesome blue team

We all are winner, just in different ways!