It's very strange for a girl my age to love reading. A lot of people wonder why I do. I'm not exactly sure, maybe it's because I'm good at it, that's probably part of it, but not the majority of it. The main reason I like reading is because it's a way to get lost in another world, to completely loose yourself in the action, adventure and romance. My life here in Bryn Athyn is increasingly repetitive and boring, but in books, that doesn't happen. Okay, that was lie, books can be like each other and a lot of books can be incredibly boring, that's why you should let me help you pick out your next book to read, to look at my favorite books and see some book recommendations, click here. 
My personal favorite type of book to read is Young Adult Action/Adventure Romance. Seriously, put together blood, fighting, betrayal, death and romance and it's the perfect book! 
Going back to why I love books, it's an unique experience, like you're living through the characters. It's not like that for some people, but for me, that's how reading is and I enjoy it immensely. Sorry my posts on this blog have been so short lately, I've been busy and have had nothing to talk to you guys about. Oh you wanna hear how sat week I got an infected spider bite in my leg? Oh or how I got sick this week? Oooo or maybe you want to hear about how I'm playing Field Hockey now, actually I might make a post on that sometime lol. See you guys next time 
xoxo, Anji. 

On my literature homework, one of the assignments was to smile and say hello to everybody at school. I took this to a different level by being peppy, happy and cheerful all day and being kind to everyone. This, took my classmates by surprise, quite obviously because I'm never peppy. I may not be glum all the time but I don't grin and hug everyone and say "I love life". It was actually pretty fun because all my classmates freaked out, since I'm never peppy they had no idea what was going on with me. George actually asked me if I was high at lunch when I was jumping up and down in the boys' classroom saying "It's so pretty out today you know I saw a bird flying in the sky it was beautiful I love school Life is so awesome Oh-my-gosh isn't it such a nice day? I love it!" I said it over in different ways and with one breath every now and then, I'm sure it did probably look like I was high. When I wasn't getting a headache from my own peppiness I was enoying scaring people with how happy I was. It actually was a really fun experiment, you should try it out sometime. 

At BACS if you're a girl and in seventh grade you get to make a doll. It's a lot of fun, really. The hardest part would probably be sewing the doll together/connecting the head to the body. I remember when I was sewing I stabbed myself in the thumb and got blood on my doll's face.... Yeah that upset me, but luckily I was able to get most of it out by using a tide stain stick. Like I said before, it was really fun making the doll, I was thinking about buying two more kits to make my doll's brothers, Jace and Alec but I decided that making all the clothes and the hair and stuff would take too much time and energy when I could be doing something else more useful.... like reading and writing blog posts with multiple grammatical mistakes. I should probably apologize for my spelling and grammar mistakes now, it's just I never actually read over these beforeI post them so, I'm really sorry for all the stupid spelling mistakes and stuff you'll come across on my blogs. 
So for my doll I made everything by hand, from the doll to the clothes. I spent like seven hours straight on the clothes, actually. At the end of spring break I was at my grandparents so my grandma and I spent all day sewing the dress, shoes and jacket. The necklace was harder to make because I had to find a jewel that fit the description. I had finally began to give up on making the necklace when I found the perfect red stone for it. Then getting a, I forget what it's called, the circle thing to connect to the chain I'd put together (Just wrapped a chain around my wrist then put the connecting things on it) and sticking it on was fairly easy. 
If you didn't know, the doll I made is Isabelle Sophia Lightwood from The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, my favorite book series. It was the series that got me into reading and as Fiona says 'ruined my life' haha. Isabelle is my favorite female character out of all my books because she's strong and can handle things for herself along with a lot of other things though, I don't feel like mentioning all of them right now. I didn't know what to think of her at first, but by the end of the first book I liked her and by the end of City of Fallen Angels she was my favorite character. She has some great quotes that I enjoy reading and quoting...

Anyway, making the dolls was really fun. I enjoyed it, anyways, I don't know about other people. If you couldn't tell I didn't really have anything to say..... Okay well I'll see you guys next time. 
Xoxo
Anji

Ballroom dancing was so much fun! I really enjoyed it. At first I was really scared and nervous, I'm not really sure why, oh yeah, it's because I suck at dancing. I was afraid I would break somebody's toes or something. I literally stated hyperventilating before the first dance. It's not actually that bad. Like I said before, I really liked it. It was really fun, and anyone who was there when I slapped Fiona- I DID NOT SLAP HER THAT HARD THE SLAP JUST ECHOED! Okay now that we got that through. My favorite dance would have to have been the last dance, it was longer and really fun. Though, some people were more fun to dance with than others. *Cough* After the last dance Yates, Coleman, Layne, Winston, Fiona, Camryn, Faith, Emma, Dara and I went to Nifty Fifties for milkshakes and stuff. I'm pretty sure Yates freaked out our waiter a little too  much. 
Tip for all you people going to ballroom dancing- don't use baby powder. Everyone says to, I don't know why. One you'll probably get white handprints on the boy/girls outfit and I'm not sure how the boy would take it but I can tell you the girl won't like it. Also both of your hands are going to sweat. Deal with it. The dress shopping was really fun too. I got most of my dresses at Forever 21. They have really nice dresses for only like $22. Now here's a tip for all of you who say you can never find anything good at Forever 21 (Females) that is the biggest BS I've ever heard. You just really have to look through the racks, sometimes the good clothes are hidden in between things and stuff. Not all the good clothes are on display. Seriously, that store would have to be a lot bigger if everything was on display. The funny thing is, if you're freaking out about how you look, no one cares except for you. Another tip for ballroom dancing is to brush your teeth before you go or/and use breath mints or something. You really don't want to be dancing with someone when you have really bad breath, it's just not a good experience for either of you. ALSO talk. It doesn't matter what you talk about, but it's a whole lot less awkward dancing if you are talking about something. If you're a horrible dancer like me and a naturally shy person just bring up something like the weather. Haha just kidding, that's just grasping in thin air and it's obvious. Maybe talk about how bad you are at dancing, or something. 
The first week was really frightening for me, Fi and I got ready together that week and Zia did my hair in a heart braid. If you looked at the top of my head you'd see a braid in the shape of a heart. Like I said before, I was FREAKING OUT before that dance. The second week we got ready for dancing I got ready with Care and Fi. Care was nice enough to curl my hair, look at the picture, isn't it pretty looking? I wish my hair was naturally curly. She also was nice enough to do a waterfall braid. I love Care, she's so good with hair, make up, nails and everything beauty. Unfortunately she had to rush to get ready so she never again went anywhere to get ready.  I remember we were all sitting in a row, Care blow drying my hair, and then me blow drying Fi's hair while Care curled my hair and then me straightening Fi's hair while Care continued to curl mine. It was a rush but fun. 
The third week I got ready with Dara and Ursyboo. We.... uh.... locked Ursula under my bed for like a half an hour. My bed has drawers, so yes, that's possible. The pictures were difficult because in almost every picture Ursy was doing something weird. For week four I just got ready with Fi. She didn't want to be in a picture so..... I'm with Zia... Week five was so much fun except for I left those five idiots in my room for a half and hour and they SEVERELY messed up my room. That may not be a big deal to all of you, but I'm a clean freak, Care even calls me on her phone Anji OCD Cooper. So I freaked out, especially when I found MELTED CHOCOLATE on my bed, Ursula. 
The last dance was SO much fun. I loved how much longer it was and dancing with the eighth grade boys was a lot of fun, too. 
I would write more but I have to study for a test tomorrow, study some French and then other things to do(Secret Sister gift). Sorry guys! Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow! Xoxo 
Anji

As my first post I talked about myself but I'm bored so I decided to make a more about me post because I'm sure you all want to know. My full name is Anji Mei Cooper
pronounced On-ji May (I'm from China hence the weird name.) 
I was adopted from China by my parents David and Sherri on March 17, 2002. The only reason I remember that date is because it is also St. Patricks day. You see, I'm good with dates like book and movie releases and my friends' birthdays but I can never remember my parents' birthdays or my house address. I have one sibling, Zia Mei Cooper, we share a middle name, how awkward. Zia is two and a half years older than me, she's currently in her sophomore year of high school and we're complete opposites. Where she likes sports I like reading and writing, where she prefers netflix I again, like reading more. She also has no idea what a blog is and I own like twenty three blogs so if I didn't know what one was there would be something supremely wrong with me. Where I'm more concentrated on my academics, she's more interested in sports, stuff like that. Zia and I also don't get along very well, we get into arguments a lot. I have two cats, Nix and Lily, they're siamese cats which is what my mom had when she was a kid. I don't have that big of a family compared to other people, where some people have hundreds of cousins I have seven, mom and dad's side. I have two cousin's on my mom's side, Austin and Andy, I don't really know them that well since there's a pretty big age gap. On my dad's side there's Anders and Ivan Croft, Meagan and Ryan Cooper and Ethan Cooper. Again, don't really know Ethan that well because of the age gap. Meg is a year younger than me ad Ryan is like two or three years younger then me, I can't remember. 
Anders is Zia's age and Ivan's my age which is really convenient, we go camping with their family every year and spend Thanksgiving and Christmas together. There isn't really much contact out of that since Anders and Ivan never really seem to text back. 
I went to preschool at Apple Cheeks and had three best friends there, Amelia, who was a year older than me, Colin Drennan who is my age and Timothy Moxey who is also my age. Colin and Timothy were actually my two best friends in preschool since they were the same age as me, but Amelia and I were good friends and I was really sad when she left preschool. I remember Colin always liked to brag about he was a whole quarter of a year older than Timothy and I. I'm not in contact with any of them anymore which is kind of sad but, well, can't really do anything about it. I remember having a crush on Colin when we were little. Yes, four-year-olds can have crushes. I was friends with this girl named Brooke, too, she was my shadow in preschool, I remember she liked to follow me around a lot and copy me, which annoyed my four-year-old self sometimes. 
For my kindergarten year my mom had a sabbatical in Maine, so for my first year of school I went to it in Maine. My best friends there were Amanda, Laney, Sophie, Nyx, Lillie, Tristan, Isaac and Cooper. Cooper Hogan, it's funny because his name is a combination of Fiona and my last names. Please ignore the fact there was a Nyx and Lillie. Ah Maine was a fun year. I remember Zia and I went slug hunting, I took a ceramics class, a glass making class along with other things. We lived on Oars Island with a massive amount of property. The beaches around where we lived were rocky ones, but I didn't mind. There were some really bad snow storms in Maine, but they were used to it, so our school had a gigantic generator, we had hardly any snow days. Once a storm was so bad we had to leave our house in the jeep, drive out into the woods around the road and stay at a hotel. I remember it snowed near Easter time and I made a snow bunny. The snow wasn't really snow man (or bunny) material, it was an icy snow that was better for sledding. So whenever I stuck an ear on the bunny, an eye fell out and whenever I stuck the eye back in somehow the ear fell off.  In Maine I was on every sports team a kindergartener could be in, which was cross country and basketball. My favorite was definitely cross country, I loved it. 
First Grade was kind of hard for me, it was in a different school, in a different state, with completely different people. The boys were insane, loud and rowdy and the girls were very... different from the ones in Maine. I was the 'new girl' in first grade even though I had lived in Bryn Athyn before Maine. I stuck by Ursula a lot of that year because I knew her. I also became friends with Camryn Buss, Emma Reuter, and Sophie Bostock that year. Camryn turns out was that person who lived down the street from us with the bikes always in the driveway. When our parents first tried to introduce us at the Bryn Athyn Pool we were both so shy we didn't want to talk to each other. But later, Camryn was staring down at the pool where her torpedo was and I ask her if she wanted me to get if for her and our friendship blossomed from there. I'm not exactly sure how I became friends with Sophie and Emma I just remember it happening. 
Not exactly sure when I'll continue this very stimulating story of my life but stay tuned! ;)