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 …

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 …

How I Organize My Agenda

Thanks everyone for voting on the blogpost on my Instagram! I will be doing the weekend at Disney as well because of the amount of votes for that! I love to plan my days & organize my life in agendas. They really help me stay on top of things and keep myself on track. I …

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 …

Tips for Effective Studying

As a student and an athlete, I need to be on top of my school work. In order to do that, I've found out some ways that make it easy to study or compete my homework. Today I'm going to share them with you guys. Tip #1: Shut off your phone or set it in …

Back To School Necessities

Today's blogpost will be a "Back To School" themed post along with many more to come! I'll be blogging about what I use at school. I am going into 8th grade this year, and I have a grasp on what supplies I have needed throughout middle school. Let's get started! Waterbottle: 1.     I …