Simplifying School: Ways to Get YOU Through It

School consumes most of my life. It's a lot of time management, discipline, and hard work. In fact, I am sitting in a coffee shop right now which I came to so I could study for the SAT. Most of the year, I enjoy school. Enjoying school?!?! Haven't heard that one have you? Yes, I …

Freshman Year Recap

Welcome or welcome back to my blog, sunshinestatejulia. In today's blogpost, I will be sharing my experience during freshman year of high school. Continue reading to learn about my experience and make sure to follow me on Instagram @sunshinestatejulia for daily snippets. To begin the year, I tried out for varsity volleyball which I had …

Turning 15… 15 Things I’ve Learned

Today's the day. Today I turned 15!  Over the 15 years of my life, I have learned quite a few things from learning to share in preschool all the way to learning to type a formal essay. In today's blogpost I will be sharing 15 things that I've learned over the years.   1. It's …

Uninspired & My Social Media Slump

Hi to all my new readers, oldest and most loyal, and my supporters; today's post will be a bit more personal. As you can tell by the title of this post, I have been feeling unmotivated and uninspired to produce fresh content and photos. Unfortunately, I've been getting these feelings lately about blogging and interacting …

How to Manage Your Time

I've been getting a lot of questions recently asking how I manage my time between volleyball, school, blogging, and having a social life. Unfortunately, the answer is not easy explanation. First off, I want to state that I love blogging, volleyball, school, and spending time with friends. It's obviously hard to do all of these …

Just Be Nice.

Today's blogpost is a very important one to me. I've been noticing things lately, not directed at me, but to others, and wanted to put out this message. This is mostly for me, but also meant to be shared. Recently, I have found that people are trying to hurt others. Is it fun to drag …

How to Change A Bad Day

A few weeks ago was not my best week. It was just a no fun, down-right, bad week. All of it. And I gotta say, I really hated it. The stress of school, sports, and friends just hit me like a train wreck. I usually love school, volleyball, and everything else, but last week was …

Get to Know Me: Q&A

Hey everyone! I thought it was important for my readers and followers to get to know me better, so I asked for questions on Instagram for a Q&A blogpost! Thank you to everyone for asking questions! Q: What’s something you consider as a preppy essential? A: Definitely a positive attitude. Trust me, I’m not always …

Conquering My Biggest Fear

Today, I conquered my biggest fear. Horseback riding. I had been before but I had a horrible experience because my horse took off running down a hill and got my foot stuck in a fence. Today in Costa Rica, I needed to ride on a horse in order to get to the waterfall which we …