If there was one thing these kids DIDN'T do, it was keeping calm andlearning German If you've been following this blog for a while, you might have noticed that I didn't do my monthly College Experience post last month. If you're new here: Hi! Hope you find something interesting to read! Anyway, I didn't post last month because I didn't have time to write a post. I was also in a state of shock near...

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Today I want to introduce you to a new concept here at Picking up the Pieces. No, it's got nothing to do with Thomas Sanders' Story Time Vines. My Story Time originates from my love for mythology. Mythology has this great way of showing us bits and pieces of what society was like and of what people believed and valued back when these stories came to be.  However, sometimes they're oozing with stupidity, or they're...

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When I turned eighteen last July, I got a little more than a cake, a new stereo and a friendship bracelet. I also received the right to drive a car without an adult in the passenger's seat, the right to drink myself into coma with all the heavy liquor I want and, scariest of all: the right to vote. Here we are, nine months later, on election day. Today I'll be a first-time voter. It...

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Either you've lived under a rock for the past three years, or you've heard of Fifty Shades of Grey. With every female on the planet freaking out about it, you're bound to have a conversation about it some time. Even though the movie was realeased just a month ago, I started suffering in November. Some girls in my class were already trying to get tickets for the movie. They were all fangirling, until I said:...

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You may know her as Catalina Blue, Kanra Khan or @RudikoRain. However, it's the person behind these names that counts and that person is awesome! Catalina blogs over at The Lunar Descent and is one of my best blog buddies. Back in November she wrote an amazing piece for my writing contest. I feel like I've known her forever and decided she should be the one standing in Picking up the Pieces' spotlights today! Sometimes...

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Once upon a time in the dark days of 2012, I started a blog. It's the exact same blog your reading today, but if I showed you a screenshot of what it looked like in December 2012, you wouldn't recognize it. You see, Picking up the Pieces started out as an online diary. I wrote about my very easy high school life and the occasional outbursts of drama and trouble I encountered. I wrote posts...

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Not too long ago, I posted a first chapter of my story A Vampire's Mistake. I was reluctant to share it, since I wrote it in Dutch, than made a very rough translation. The response was overwhelming, though, and since a lot of people were positive about chapter one, I decided to translate chapter two too. If you haven't read chapter one yet, click HERE, read and hopefully you'll come back to this post for...

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