Arie Belle Blog

Here I come Provo, Today is the last day living on the East Coast for the next 6 months! I can't believe its already here and tomorrow is the beginning of my cross country road trip to Utah. You know life likes to throw you all sorts of directions, and the plans we make get torn apart and we have to reevaluate our lives and come up with something completely different then originally anticipated. Like this whole moving to Utah thing... not what I had in mind for my life right now. I used to say I will never move to Utah, I will never live in Utah, I cannot stand living in Utah. And what ends up happening? I choose  to move to Utah and not just Utah... but Provo, UT. The home of BYU, the land of the LDS. Everything I thought I would never want for a place to live ever, even if it was just six months. My life plan was to go on a mission, and you know I got pretty close to accomplishing that goal, I turned my papers in, I met with all the leaders that I needed to meet with, and I got

Best Beach Trip Ever

Even though you won't see this, or maybe you will if you creep on my blog which I am pretty sure you have never done before in your life. I just want you to know that you mean alot ot me and I am really going to miss you for the 6 months that I am going to be away in Utah. So I went to Duck beach the last 8 days of May, and I had my 19th birthday there. I left for the beach on Saturday the 24th of May, The Friday before was the last day that I thought I would see him again for quite along time. We technically broke up that night because we both agreed that long distance wouldn't work, and if we were meant to get back together when I moved back then things would work out. But even though we were both "single" after I went to the beach we texted and called eachother everyday. And one day he asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and my only answer was "I want you to be here with me". Its not like I actually thought that h

The other day on facebook, I was scrolling along just like I normally do when I am bored and end up clicking the little blue button on my bookmarks. As I was scrolling I noticed a facebook friend posted an article that was in response to a fairly recent youtube video of a young boy named Ryan who happens to be transgender. I had seen the youtube video the day before seeing this friends article which was judging the parents and the child for being transgender. It was hard for me not to want to cuss everyone out for being judgmental assholes for blaming this child's parents and for saying that being transgender is not real. I feel like a lot of people just have no idea what being transgender is, people are not educated about LBGT issues but instead keep themselves uneducated while judging from a stance that they have no prior knowledge about. Here is the post from facebook that I had to comment on. Here is the link to the 7 minute short documentary