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if you’re nice,

              I’ll let you buy me a slushie.

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boys’ voices are. so nice. I love the sound of boys speaking and yet???? why do they Always say such rude and ridiculous things

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Adam Savage from Mythbusters has made “The Duck Bomb”

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will i ever enjoy my life

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“Clowning around” / Gregory Nolan.

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THIS IS AN OLD VIDEO BUT ITS THE MOST BRITISH REACTION EVER AND I CANT STOP LAUGHIMG

#POH MY GOD #FAVE

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#I HAVE NEVER LOVED FROGS THIS MUCH

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Marina Nery by Paul Morel

(via thesocietynyc)

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10 facts you should know about Vincent van Gogh

1. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Holland. He was named after his grandfather and his stillborn brother who died one year before Van Gogh was born.

2. Van Gogh was 27 years old when he painted his first piece.

3. When Van Gogh first began painting, he used peasants as models. He would later paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay the models.

4. Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures.

5. In a short period of ten years, Van Gogh made approximately 900 paintings.

6. During one of his seizures, Van Gogh attempted to attack his friend Paul Gauguin with an open razor. This ultimately resulted in Vincent cutting off a piece of his own ear – but not the whole ear as is often rumored.

7. Van Gogh created his most famous work The Starry Night while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.

8. Vincent Van Gogh visually depicted turbulence, an incredibly complex (and still unsolved) mathematical principle in several paintings during a particularly chaotic time in his life.

9. Vincent shot himself in a wheatfield in Auvers, France, but did not die until 2 days later at the age of 37. His brother Theo, at his side when he died, said that Vincent’s last words were “La tristesse durera toujours” which means “the sadness will last forever.”

10. Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime and only became famous after his death.

Happy Birthday, Vincent van Gogh.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The unexpected math behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” - Natalya St. Clair

Animation by Avi Ofer

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“Nzinga Of Ndongo And Matamba was born in what is now Angola in 1583. By the time her father died in 1618, the Portuguese were slave-trading their way all over Africa. Nzinga’s brother took over as leader, but he gave the invaders everything they wanted. When the Portuguese started ripping people from their homes and sending them to be worked to death in Brazil, the Mbundu tribe turned to Nzinga to save them. So she did what a kickass lady needed to do: She had her brother killed and took over. Then she started fighting back. This was insane, since Portugal was one of the world’s biggest powers, but she led her armies in guerrilla warfare and held them off for 40 years.”

-Kathy Benjamin for Cracked.com

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America and New Beginnings

I was born and raised in Mexico City and moved to New Jersey to study on August 20. I am trying out this new thing because since I graduated high school in 2014 I have not found a place for me university wise. 

I had a good life, a great life in Mexico and now I’m here…

Don’t get me wrong! I am happy here! I am closer to my family than I have ever been and I am finally studying something that makes me feel like it’s what I am supposed to do :).

It’s just…

Adjusting here is so SO hard. I feel like a fish out of water…if the fish had to quickly learn how to breathe air and make other air breathing friends that are trying to eat it…

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America and the White Mexican Complex

Here’s the thing…we are all taught to stereotype people by the country they’re from, specially if you can’t see them so I don’t blame you if you think I look like this…

Or like this…

But the thing is…this is me…

…lol not really 

Although I may look NOTHING like Doutzen Kroes, I look nothing like the Mexican you have in your head either. 

For the students at my College this is a HUGE struggle

They always ask me the same questions:

“Where Are your Parents from?”

Mexico 

“Did you live there because of you parents’ work?”

No 

“But…you’ve lived in the US for a while now no?”

No 

“Maybe you got blonde by living here?”

…No 

Seriously?! There is something called genetic diversity that mixes all of my heritage that means I don’t have to look like this…