February 28, 2013
Happy last day of February!!! Today was a pretty great day for many of reasons!!! First of all, I planned on waking up at 8 so that I could go to a tutor meeting thing so that I can become a tutor. I turned my alarm off before 8 so I wouldn't wake Maritza up...but that meant I didn't wake myself up either, so I woke up at 8:30 instead. I tried to talk myself out of going to the meeting, but then I decided to just do it and get it over with, So I got out of bed and took a shower (finally). Then I went to the meeting. At first there was only me and the lady doing the thing, and it was super awkward because she was making eye contact with me while she talked, but then somebody else showed up which saved us from the awkwardness. Hoorah! The meeting was only about a half hour, and now I can tutor people! Woo! Then I went to breakfast. I just chilled in my room until it was time for me to go to German. It was still snowing out, but it was not as crazy as it was yesterday. My German teacher was back today, and I found out I got an A on my last test! Woo!
Then I went to earth science where a few great things happened. One: we were learning about earthquakes today, and since my teacher is a giant nerd, he has a seismic app thing on his phone that measures the movement that shakes his phone. He put it on a projector thing, and then he told us all to stand up and jump on the count of three, and we watched the seismic thing go crazy, and it was cool. Two: while we were still talking about earthquakes, we talked about different ways to predict earthquakes, and my teacher said that some people swear their cats act really strange before earthquakes happen, and then he said (imagine this in a British accent because he's British) "the only problem is that cats are weird all the time, so the problem is separating everyday weirdness from predicting earthquake weirdness" and I laughed because that seems to be all I do in that class haha.
After that, my weekend started!! I walked back to my room and tried to figure out what to do first. I was super tired, but I wanted to get something out of my life, so I asked Maritza if she wanted to go with me to pick up our stories for fiction writing, but she said no, so I went by myself. On my way, I found $20!!!!!!!! This isn't a lie! It was chilling in a hall off of my hall and it was faced down and folded, and I saw it and was like "that looks like a large bill", and then I picked it up, and it was a $20!! Greatest moment ever. Then I went to the place where the fiction stories were and they weren't there yet, so I was super sad :( When I got back to our room, I tried to tell Maritza the story of me not getting our fiction stories and then ending it with a "then I found $20", but I was too excited to pull the punch line, so I just told her hahaha.
Then I decided to take a nap. It was a wonderful, wonderful nap, except I woke up because people decided to build snowmen and have a snowball fight right outside my window and their screams floated through my wall and woke me up :( Boo. Maritza and I went to dinner, and people were handing out buttons for National Eating Disorder Awarness Week, so we got free buttons! Then I decided to start on my homework. I called Mom and we talked for a little bit at one point.
A long time later, I was in the midst of my German homework when I got stuck on a sentence that I was supposed to be saying whether it was true or false. I could not for the life of me figure out what it was trying to say, so I texted Kelley for help...but instead I accidentally texted my friend Mary haha. I asked her to translate something, so that's awkward :) You can see that exchange if you click on the button! When I finally did text Kelley, I sent her the sentence which was "Hans und Erwin sind gemeinsam in die Verbindung eingetreten." Which Kelley translated to mean "Hans and Erwin both joined the organization." If you would like to see the source of my confusion as to why I couldn't originally figure it out, you can click the button and look at the second picture which is what Google translate told me that sentence meant....? What?! Hahaha.
Then Kelley and I texted for awhile and so did Mary and I. And I did some of my homework, but now I'm getting real tired, so I think I'm going to study for a little bit and go to bed! Happy beginnings of March!
Then I went to earth science where a few great things happened. One: we were learning about earthquakes today, and since my teacher is a giant nerd, he has a seismic app thing on his phone that measures the movement that shakes his phone. He put it on a projector thing, and then he told us all to stand up and jump on the count of three, and we watched the seismic thing go crazy, and it was cool. Two: while we were still talking about earthquakes, we talked about different ways to predict earthquakes, and my teacher said that some people swear their cats act really strange before earthquakes happen, and then he said (imagine this in a British accent because he's British) "the only problem is that cats are weird all the time, so the problem is separating everyday weirdness from predicting earthquake weirdness" and I laughed because that seems to be all I do in that class haha.
After that, my weekend started!! I walked back to my room and tried to figure out what to do first. I was super tired, but I wanted to get something out of my life, so I asked Maritza if she wanted to go with me to pick up our stories for fiction writing, but she said no, so I went by myself. On my way, I found $20!!!!!!!! This isn't a lie! It was chilling in a hall off of my hall and it was faced down and folded, and I saw it and was like "that looks like a large bill", and then I picked it up, and it was a $20!! Greatest moment ever. Then I went to the place where the fiction stories were and they weren't there yet, so I was super sad :( When I got back to our room, I tried to tell Maritza the story of me not getting our fiction stories and then ending it with a "then I found $20", but I was too excited to pull the punch line, so I just told her hahaha.
Then I decided to take a nap. It was a wonderful, wonderful nap, except I woke up because people decided to build snowmen and have a snowball fight right outside my window and their screams floated through my wall and woke me up :( Boo. Maritza and I went to dinner, and people were handing out buttons for National Eating Disorder Awarness Week, so we got free buttons! Then I decided to start on my homework. I called Mom and we talked for a little bit at one point.
A long time later, I was in the midst of my German homework when I got stuck on a sentence that I was supposed to be saying whether it was true or false. I could not for the life of me figure out what it was trying to say, so I texted Kelley for help...but instead I accidentally texted my friend Mary haha. I asked her to translate something, so that's awkward :) You can see that exchange if you click on the button! When I finally did text Kelley, I sent her the sentence which was "Hans und Erwin sind gemeinsam in die Verbindung eingetreten." Which Kelley translated to mean "Hans and Erwin both joined the organization." If you would like to see the source of my confusion as to why I couldn't originally figure it out, you can click the button and look at the second picture which is what Google translate told me that sentence meant....? What?! Hahaha.
Then Kelley and I texted for awhile and so did Mary and I. And I did some of my homework, but now I'm getting real tired, so I think I'm going to study for a little bit and go to bed! Happy beginnings of March!
February 27, 2013
Today it snowed. Like a lot. I woke up at 10...which was great? I slept nicely, but that meant I couldn't take a shower. Boo. Luckily, my bed head wasn't all that different from my regular hairs, so I just pinned it back. Then I went to breakfast. By the time I got back, I had to go to class, so I did. It was snowing like rain outside! (If that makes sense). It was coming down so fast and there was so much of it!!! There were a bunch of puddles all over the place, and I wore my high tops in which the sole of the shoe is breaking away from the rest of the shoe, and I was so confused why my one toe was getting soaked...and then I got to fiction writing and remembered I had a giant gap on the bottom of my shoe haha. Maritza yelled at me for wearing those shoes today...but I wasn't thinking about it! Geez. Anyway, going back to when I was heading to German....I got to German just a little be snowed on than when I started. We had a sub again today, but she said it was the last day with a sub. Then I had to walk to fiction writing. No matter what direction I was headed, the snow was aiming right at me so that by the time I reached my class, the front of my black jacket was pure white...and so was the top of my head. Ugh. My hair was soaked in class...which I guess was okay since I didn't shower haha. After fiction writing, I went back to my room where I ate lunch...too much lunch. I was about to explode by the time I left for my honors class. While I was back in my room, I went to the bathroom, and I noticed that someone had taped the sign "wonder" next to the sign that says "women only toilet" so that it said "wonder women only toilet". It made me smile, but then I forgot about it.
We did more chemistry today in my honors class which was gross, but interesting. Afterwards, Maritza and I walked back to our room. I did some homework throughout the nigh, and eventually we got dinner. At about 1, I decided to take a picture of our bathroom sign because someone added a drawing to the aforementioned sign. There was also one on the shower, so I took a picture of that too. You can see the shower one if you click on the button!! Then we went to bed. Woo.
We did more chemistry today in my honors class which was gross, but interesting. Afterwards, Maritza and I walked back to our room. I did some homework throughout the nigh, and eventually we got dinner. At about 1, I decided to take a picture of our bathroom sign because someone added a drawing to the aforementioned sign. There was also one on the shower, so I took a picture of that too. You can see the shower one if you click on the button!! Then we went to bed. Woo.
February 26, 2013
I woke up at 10 today because I didn't feel like waking up at 9. Ate some cereal and I actually finished my milk!! This is very exciting for me because I always buy half gallons and I've never once finished them until today! It technically expired on Sunday...but we're going to pretend that I still finished it within the expiration date! So I took a picture with my empty bottle to commemorate this moment in my life :)
So I went to German today, and my teacher still wasn't there, but we had my old teacher so it was great! There were also only about 10 people in my class...so that was strange. I don't know what it was about today. Before Maritza went to class, she told me that it was supposed to snow, so on my way to class, it was actually snowing and it was coming down really fast and it kept poking my eyeballs.
After German, I went to science where we talked about things that weren't chemistry...so that was nice. We also had a quiz in the beginning of class, and the one question I didn't really know was scratched because the clicker system just wouldn't work for that question for some reason.
Then I went back to my room and decided to do some homework. I finished my fiction writing homework and then I did my German homework. After German homework, Maritza and I went to dinner. It was still snowing a lot outside, but Maritza really wanted a milkshake, so we decided to walk to Coldstones and she got a shake. Then we walked back to our room while she drank her milkshake in the snow...because she's weird. When we got back to our room, I decided to work on typing up an outline for our honors class so that I could send it to my teacher...so I did that...and now I'm taking a homework break that should have ended two hours ago...whatever. I think I'm going to start on some earth science reading though...yay?
So I went to German today, and my teacher still wasn't there, but we had my old teacher so it was great! There were also only about 10 people in my class...so that was strange. I don't know what it was about today. Before Maritza went to class, she told me that it was supposed to snow, so on my way to class, it was actually snowing and it was coming down really fast and it kept poking my eyeballs.
After German, I went to science where we talked about things that weren't chemistry...so that was nice. We also had a quiz in the beginning of class, and the one question I didn't really know was scratched because the clicker system just wouldn't work for that question for some reason.
Then I went back to my room and decided to do some homework. I finished my fiction writing homework and then I did my German homework. After German homework, Maritza and I went to dinner. It was still snowing a lot outside, but Maritza really wanted a milkshake, so we decided to walk to Coldstones and she got a shake. Then we walked back to our room while she drank her milkshake in the snow...because she's weird. When we got back to our room, I decided to work on typing up an outline for our honors class so that I could send it to my teacher...so I did that...and now I'm taking a homework break that should have ended two hours ago...whatever. I think I'm going to start on some earth science reading though...yay?
February 25, 2013
Happy Monday! Today was an okay day except I didn't want to get out of bed. Every day this weekend, I didn't set my alarm clock, but I still magically woke up at 9 o'clock and I wasn't tired, but then the weekday comes along, and my alarm goes off at 9 and I can't wake up...so I sleep past it and it's great.
Eventually I did wake up, and I took a shower and then ate some cereal. I had German and my teacher is out of town so I had a sub. Then I went back to my room to do nothing before I went to lunch and then go to lab. I realized while I was in lab today that it felt like last Monday was forever ago! I don't know what happened to last week, but it seemed to take forever. In lab we learned about topographic maps and it was kind of interesting. We had to look at maps and write down specific things about it. And then we had to draw contours, and it was strange and kind of hard, but it was a lot better than looking at rocks and identifying them.
Then I went to my honors class, and on the way there, I saw this weird snow thing built in the snow on the pentacrest. It was like a snowman on top of a pillar, so I decided I wanted that to be my picture of the day, so on the way back from class, I took a picture of it. We had a guest speaker in our honors class today, and he's going to be there on Wednesday too. He was interesting, but everything kind of went over my head because he was talking about chemistry.
After class, Maritza and I went to dinner, and then we went back to our room. I did my German homework and then I did some fiction writing homework and then I didn't feel like doing any more homework so I didn't. And that's all that happened today!
Eventually I did wake up, and I took a shower and then ate some cereal. I had German and my teacher is out of town so I had a sub. Then I went back to my room to do nothing before I went to lunch and then go to lab. I realized while I was in lab today that it felt like last Monday was forever ago! I don't know what happened to last week, but it seemed to take forever. In lab we learned about topographic maps and it was kind of interesting. We had to look at maps and write down specific things about it. And then we had to draw contours, and it was strange and kind of hard, but it was a lot better than looking at rocks and identifying them.
Then I went to my honors class, and on the way there, I saw this weird snow thing built in the snow on the pentacrest. It was like a snowman on top of a pillar, so I decided I wanted that to be my picture of the day, so on the way back from class, I took a picture of it. We had a guest speaker in our honors class today, and he's going to be there on Wednesday too. He was interesting, but everything kind of went over my head because he was talking about chemistry.
After class, Maritza and I went to dinner, and then we went back to our room. I did my German homework and then I did some fiction writing homework and then I didn't feel like doing any more homework so I didn't. And that's all that happened today!
February 24, 2013
I tried to make today a little more productive than my past two days...but that only worked a little bit. When I woke up, I ate some cereal and then I decided to do my dishes because I had a lot of them. Since that was a great thing that I did in my life, I took a picture of all the dishes haha. The coffee filter was added by Maritza later, though. So that's not included. I finished reading the story I started yesterday, and it was pretty great because the person who turned it in had obviously not read it before hand...so the mistakes were hilarious. At one point tonight, I was rolling on the floor laughing and crying because of one part of the story was so ridiculous.
Maritza and I went at ate lunch at 1:30ish, and afterwards we both decided to get shakes from the same place I got mine yesterday! Today I got cookie dough, and it was amazing and it was the best decision of my life! Then we went back to our room, and I did more of my fiction writing homework.
We both had soup for dinner in the insides of our bedrooms since the dining hall is closed on Sunday nights. Maritza left to go do homework in the lounge and eventually I got really tired so I just went to bed. Not a too exciting day.
Maritza and I went at ate lunch at 1:30ish, and afterwards we both decided to get shakes from the same place I got mine yesterday! Today I got cookie dough, and it was amazing and it was the best decision of my life! Then we went back to our room, and I did more of my fiction writing homework.
We both had soup for dinner in the insides of our bedrooms since the dining hall is closed on Sunday nights. Maritza left to go do homework in the lounge and eventually I got really tired so I just went to bed. Not a too exciting day.
February 23, 2013
Happy Saturday! I hope you spent your Saturday doing more productive things than I did!! I woke up at 8:57 and looked at the clock thinking it said 12 o'clock...and then I blinked a lot and realized it said 8...so that made me feel better!!!
I went and took a shower, and when I came back, Maritza was eating breakfast in our room so I went to breakfast without her. When I went back to my room, I just procrastinated on my computer...not really doing anything important. We went to lunch at around 3ish and we both got the same thing for lunch because they don't serve much on Saturdays. And what we did get was awesome!!! It was like a grilled cheese except with ham and bacon on it...it was very delicious!
After lunch, Maritza wanted to watch the basketball game of her sister's school because her sister was sitting in an endzone (are they called endzones in basketball?). So we went to a place in our residence hall that has a t.v., but we couldn't find the channel, so I googled it and found the game streaming through comcast...so she watched that on her laptop. I did a little bit of nothing and then I did some homework. We planned after the game was over to go over to the little store thing in the dining hall to buy some type of smoothie thing because my throat was hurting.
Let me just say that the shake thing that I ended up getting was the best decision of my life haha. And it was so cool making it!!! You pick your ice cream flavor, and then you stick it in this machine and it blends it for you and then you just take it and pay!! It was so awesome, I took a picture of my shake while in the machine and you can see that picture if you click on the button! I took a picture of me with my shake walking back to my room :) I would like to point out the snow that's on the ground behind me hahahaha...I'm a nutso.
Then I did more of nothing...but I did do some homework!!!! Maritza and I went to dinner at 6:30, and it was great. Then I started reading a story for fiction writing...but the typos were too extreme so I had to stop reading it and do nothing again. Maritza and I had plans to watch a movie tonight, but that didn't really happen...sooo we just did nothing before going to bed! Can you guess the theme of my last two days? Hahaha
I went and took a shower, and when I came back, Maritza was eating breakfast in our room so I went to breakfast without her. When I went back to my room, I just procrastinated on my computer...not really doing anything important. We went to lunch at around 3ish and we both got the same thing for lunch because they don't serve much on Saturdays. And what we did get was awesome!!! It was like a grilled cheese except with ham and bacon on it...it was very delicious!
After lunch, Maritza wanted to watch the basketball game of her sister's school because her sister was sitting in an endzone (are they called endzones in basketball?). So we went to a place in our residence hall that has a t.v., but we couldn't find the channel, so I googled it and found the game streaming through comcast...so she watched that on her laptop. I did a little bit of nothing and then I did some homework. We planned after the game was over to go over to the little store thing in the dining hall to buy some type of smoothie thing because my throat was hurting.
Let me just say that the shake thing that I ended up getting was the best decision of my life haha. And it was so cool making it!!! You pick your ice cream flavor, and then you stick it in this machine and it blends it for you and then you just take it and pay!! It was so awesome, I took a picture of my shake while in the machine and you can see that picture if you click on the button! I took a picture of me with my shake walking back to my room :) I would like to point out the snow that's on the ground behind me hahahaha...I'm a nutso.
Then I did more of nothing...but I did do some homework!!!! Maritza and I went to dinner at 6:30, and it was great. Then I started reading a story for fiction writing...but the typos were too extreme so I had to stop reading it and do nothing again. Maritza and I had plans to watch a movie tonight, but that didn't really happen...sooo we just did nothing before going to bed! Can you guess the theme of my last two days? Hahaha
February 22, 2013
So today was extremely uneventful. I literally did nothing all day. I woke up at 9 and I felt great and I was already to go eat breakfast...but then I fell back asleep and woke up at 10:30. I went to breakfast, but when I got there, they were only serving lunch food so I got a bowl of cereal. There was a lot of snow, but it wasn't crazy. The sidewalks and roads were mostly clear so it didn't seem as crazy as everybody assumed it would be. Maritza said only five people were in her Italian class today...
When I got back to the room, Maritza was back from class. I did my German homework because it sitting in front of me...and then I'm not really sure what happened to the rest of my day. Maritza and I went to lunch around 1. She went to donate plasma later tonight and then she went to church right afterwards. While I was laying, doing nothing, I got a text from her saying that she felt dizzy and she wanted me to walk her back from church...but I got this text much later so by the time I responded, she was pretty much already back to our room....SORRY MARITZA! Then we decided to watch Pitch Perfect because Maritza found it on a website...so we watched it! And it was great. We ate dinner while watching it, and then we went to bed. I stayed up a little later to work on a little bit of homework...and then I remembered I didn't have a POD...so I took a screenshot of the Pitch Perfect IMDb page. Sorry nothing more exciting happened!
When I got back to the room, Maritza was back from class. I did my German homework because it sitting in front of me...and then I'm not really sure what happened to the rest of my day. Maritza and I went to lunch around 1. She went to donate plasma later tonight and then she went to church right afterwards. While I was laying, doing nothing, I got a text from her saying that she felt dizzy and she wanted me to walk her back from church...but I got this text much later so by the time I responded, she was pretty much already back to our room....SORRY MARITZA! Then we decided to watch Pitch Perfect because Maritza found it on a website...so we watched it! And it was great. We ate dinner while watching it, and then we went to bed. I stayed up a little later to work on a little bit of homework...and then I remembered I didn't have a POD...so I took a screenshot of the Pitch Perfect IMDb page. Sorry nothing more exciting happened!
February 21, 2013
Happy Blizzard Day!! I was hoping the blizzard would come last night so that I would have a chance of classes being cancelled...but that didn't happen. It was perfectly clear when I woke up this morning. People were already saying this morning that their classes for tomorrow were cancelled in anticipation of the storm! That's crazy!!!!
I had my German test today which I think went pretty well!! The only problem I had with the test was the reading portion, but I still think it went okay. I got out of German five minutes early because of the test, so I walked over to my science class.
I don't know why it happened, but all of a sudden, my earth science class turned into a chemistry class...what?
We were talking about atoms and numbers and something about carbon I think...I don't remember because I didn't understand any of it so I just zoned out the whole time. I'm still not really sure what that class was about, but I know the chemistry had something to do with determining the ages of rocks....but I can't tell you how.
After class, I had to drop off a form at a building, and then I ate lunch. I pretty much spent the rest of the night in my room, not doing any homework because my weekend had started, and I didn't feel like doing anything!! So I didn't!!
The snow started around 6 maybe. It was snowing when we went to dinner. It gradually built up throughout the night, and when Maritza came back from the lounge where she was, she said that people had drawn in the snow!! Someone wrote the name "Alexa" really large in the snow and Maritza and I stared out the window for a long time trying to decipher other things in the snow...but we decided that the other markings were not actually letters...so I we stopped staring out the window. That's pretty much all that happened today!!
I had my German test today which I think went pretty well!! The only problem I had with the test was the reading portion, but I still think it went okay. I got out of German five minutes early because of the test, so I walked over to my science class.
I don't know why it happened, but all of a sudden, my earth science class turned into a chemistry class...what?
We were talking about atoms and numbers and something about carbon I think...I don't remember because I didn't understand any of it so I just zoned out the whole time. I'm still not really sure what that class was about, but I know the chemistry had something to do with determining the ages of rocks....but I can't tell you how.
After class, I had to drop off a form at a building, and then I ate lunch. I pretty much spent the rest of the night in my room, not doing any homework because my weekend had started, and I didn't feel like doing anything!! So I didn't!!
The snow started around 6 maybe. It was snowing when we went to dinner. It gradually built up throughout the night, and when Maritza came back from the lounge where she was, she said that people had drawn in the snow!! Someone wrote the name "Alexa" really large in the snow and Maritza and I stared out the window for a long time trying to decipher other things in the snow...but we decided that the other markings were not actually letters...so I we stopped staring out the window. That's pretty much all that happened today!!
February 20, 2013
So today was Wednesday which usually means my weekend has unofficially begun!! And I guess that's kind of true!
I had German and fiction writing. Both classes were great, as usual. Then I went back to my room and finished reading my honors homework before going to eat lunch. Then I had to go to my honors class which went by really fast. After class, I asked my German teacher help for deciphering the corrections I had to make to my German essay, and then Maritza and I went back to our room.
I was supposed to study for my German test today...but that didn't really happen. We weren't really productive at all because we decided to go to dinner at 6 so we were both like "meh...we can't do anything before 6!! So we just sat around and did stuff. Then we went to dinner! While we were eating, we ran into a girl Maritza's friends with so we ate with her. I got ice cream and it was so super amazing and awesome and the best decision of my life!!!
When we went back to our room, I laid in my bed and pretended to study for German, but I didn't really know what to study so, like I said, that didn't really happen. When Maritza was ready to print something off, I went with her because I had a billion things to print off today!! I'm not even joking...I had science notes, honors quizzes, a German essay, tax returns, and a verification form to print off!!! When I started printing, I was at $5 and when I was done, I was at $3.70....each page is .5 so I'll let you do the math on how many pages I printed off!!! It was ridiculous!! so I took a picture of the stack! And I flipped the pages upside down because some of them had personal information on it!! After the long trip to the printer, I took turns studying and staring off into space before I finally went to sleep.
I had German and fiction writing. Both classes were great, as usual. Then I went back to my room and finished reading my honors homework before going to eat lunch. Then I had to go to my honors class which went by really fast. After class, I asked my German teacher help for deciphering the corrections I had to make to my German essay, and then Maritza and I went back to our room.
I was supposed to study for my German test today...but that didn't really happen. We weren't really productive at all because we decided to go to dinner at 6 so we were both like "meh...we can't do anything before 6!! So we just sat around and did stuff. Then we went to dinner! While we were eating, we ran into a girl Maritza's friends with so we ate with her. I got ice cream and it was so super amazing and awesome and the best decision of my life!!!
When we went back to our room, I laid in my bed and pretended to study for German, but I didn't really know what to study so, like I said, that didn't really happen. When Maritza was ready to print something off, I went with her because I had a billion things to print off today!! I'm not even joking...I had science notes, honors quizzes, a German essay, tax returns, and a verification form to print off!!! When I started printing, I was at $5 and when I was done, I was at $3.70....each page is .5 so I'll let you do the math on how many pages I printed off!!! It was ridiculous!! so I took a picture of the stack! And I flipped the pages upside down because some of them had personal information on it!! After the long trip to the printer, I took turns studying and staring off into space before I finally went to sleep.
February 19, 2013
So now we're back to the package pictures!!
Today was the day of my big test!!! When I woke up in the morning, I took a shower, ate breakfast, and then I read through my science notes one last time! I had a quiz to take in German which I felt like it went better than my last quiz because our teacher gave us more than 5 minutes to take it...so that was nice!! Then I went to earth science!!!!!!!! I really had to pee when I got there, but Mary told me the bathrooms were on the first floor, and I didn't have time to run down there and come back in time. The test was 66 questions and it was matching, true/false, and multiple choice and I feel pretty good about it! Some of the answers I didn't know...but for the most part I felt like I was making intelligent guesses! I laughed at one of the questions because it was all "what metamorphic rock is used in making pool tables" and one of the questions was "felt". So I laughed haha :)
I was finished with my test a little after one, so I went to lunch. When I got back to my room, I started on my homework and that's when I realized that I had a lot of homework for my honors class because I totally missed a section of the reading that was due for yesterday. So I had to read 42 pages of a book that takes me about 2 hours to get through 10 pages when I take notes...so that's what I did for the rest of the night!
While I was reading, Maritza came in the room and told me that we both had packages! That didn't make any sense because I wasn't expecting anything, so I went to the front desk with her. Maritza ended up getting a Valentine's box from her sister, and I got a box from Mindy!!!
When I opened the box I was super confused at what was going on, and then I read the little card that was with it :) She sent me a little megaphone as a good luck charm for when I play bingo hahaha. It cracked me up! You can see a picture of it if you click on the button!! There are also owl stickers on the side of it hahaha. Greatest surprise ever :)
I also forgot to mention that today it was 8 degrees outside but it "felt like -14" according to weather.com....booo
Today was the day of my big test!!! When I woke up in the morning, I took a shower, ate breakfast, and then I read through my science notes one last time! I had a quiz to take in German which I felt like it went better than my last quiz because our teacher gave us more than 5 minutes to take it...so that was nice!! Then I went to earth science!!!!!!!! I really had to pee when I got there, but Mary told me the bathrooms were on the first floor, and I didn't have time to run down there and come back in time. The test was 66 questions and it was matching, true/false, and multiple choice and I feel pretty good about it! Some of the answers I didn't know...but for the most part I felt like I was making intelligent guesses! I laughed at one of the questions because it was all "what metamorphic rock is used in making pool tables" and one of the questions was "felt". So I laughed haha :)
I was finished with my test a little after one, so I went to lunch. When I got back to my room, I started on my homework and that's when I realized that I had a lot of homework for my honors class because I totally missed a section of the reading that was due for yesterday. So I had to read 42 pages of a book that takes me about 2 hours to get through 10 pages when I take notes...so that's what I did for the rest of the night!
While I was reading, Maritza came in the room and told me that we both had packages! That didn't make any sense because I wasn't expecting anything, so I went to the front desk with her. Maritza ended up getting a Valentine's box from her sister, and I got a box from Mindy!!!
When I opened the box I was super confused at what was going on, and then I read the little card that was with it :) She sent me a little megaphone as a good luck charm for when I play bingo hahaha. It cracked me up! You can see a picture of it if you click on the button!! There are also owl stickers on the side of it hahaha. Greatest surprise ever :)
I also forgot to mention that today it was 8 degrees outside but it "felt like -14" according to weather.com....booo
February 18, 2013
Let me tell you a little story about someone I like to call the weather....Once upon a time it was 40 degrees outside and people decided that it would be okay to walk to class in just sweatshirts. It was so beautiful and wonderful and everybody was looking forward to the start of spring. It started to rain a little bit, but that's okay because it was still an amazing day outside! Then it snowed. WHAT?!
So today it was such a beautiful day! I woke up at 9 and studied for my German quiz. When Maritza came into the room, she told me it was super nice outside but that it might rain later.
I went to German and took my quiz which wasn't bad. It was drizzling a little bit on my way back to my room. I quickly did my German homework so that I could have time to study tonight for my earth science test, and then I went to lunch. I had a wrap thing for lunch which had this incredibly disgusting purple stuff on it...I don't know what it was but it was super chunky and gross and I tried to get it all off, but that didn't work so I ended up just not eating half of it. If anybody knows of any purple chunky stuff that goes on wraps, let me know because I have not idea what it is! Then I went to my lab which was fun! I was kind of going crazy in lab today and obsessing over every rock we looked at haha. I said I was going to steal the slate example because it looked like a shark fin and it was supa smooth, and then I said I was going to steal the garnet schist because it was SO AWESOME!!!!! Here's some pictures of garnet schists. I seriously felt like a miner because the garnets were all just chillin in the rock!! It was so cool!!
Lab got done early so I finished my homework in class, and then I went back to my room to do nothing for the twenty minutes I had before I had to go to my honors class.
The temperature definitely dropped by the time I got to my class. A group gave a presentation, and afterwards we were all talking about stuff when everybody's attention was out the window because it was SNOWING!! Like really snowing!! There was so much of it!!! We got out of that class early too because my teacher had a meeting, so Maritza and I walked to dinner together.
Since the morning was so nice, Maritza only wore a sweatshirt to class... so the walk back was super fun for her. I took a picture with her on the way back to show the craziness that was the weather...and you can tell from the pained expression on Maritza's face that she is not happy.
So we ate dinner, and then I went back to my room and spent the rest of the night studying for earth science. I ended up going to bed at 4 a.m. because I could not fall asleep for whatever reason...and because I was studying. I just want this test to be over!
So today it was such a beautiful day! I woke up at 9 and studied for my German quiz. When Maritza came into the room, she told me it was super nice outside but that it might rain later.
I went to German and took my quiz which wasn't bad. It was drizzling a little bit on my way back to my room. I quickly did my German homework so that I could have time to study tonight for my earth science test, and then I went to lunch. I had a wrap thing for lunch which had this incredibly disgusting purple stuff on it...I don't know what it was but it was super chunky and gross and I tried to get it all off, but that didn't work so I ended up just not eating half of it. If anybody knows of any purple chunky stuff that goes on wraps, let me know because I have not idea what it is! Then I went to my lab which was fun! I was kind of going crazy in lab today and obsessing over every rock we looked at haha. I said I was going to steal the slate example because it looked like a shark fin and it was supa smooth, and then I said I was going to steal the garnet schist because it was SO AWESOME!!!!! Here's some pictures of garnet schists. I seriously felt like a miner because the garnets were all just chillin in the rock!! It was so cool!!
Lab got done early so I finished my homework in class, and then I went back to my room to do nothing for the twenty minutes I had before I had to go to my honors class.
The temperature definitely dropped by the time I got to my class. A group gave a presentation, and afterwards we were all talking about stuff when everybody's attention was out the window because it was SNOWING!! Like really snowing!! There was so much of it!!! We got out of that class early too because my teacher had a meeting, so Maritza and I walked to dinner together.
Since the morning was so nice, Maritza only wore a sweatshirt to class... so the walk back was super fun for her. I took a picture with her on the way back to show the craziness that was the weather...and you can tell from the pained expression on Maritza's face that she is not happy.
So we ate dinner, and then I went back to my room and spent the rest of the night studying for earth science. I ended up going to bed at 4 a.m. because I could not fall asleep for whatever reason...and because I was studying. I just want this test to be over!
February 17, 2013
Last night before I fell asleep, I made a list of all the things I needed to do today so that I could be super productive and so that I could cross things out as I did them. My biggest motivation to get through anything is just being able to cross it out when I'm done with it hahaha. Best feeling ever.
So I woke up at 10 and got to work doing the first thing I needed to do. Maritza and I went to lunch around 1 and I did homework seriously alllll day. I read three chapters of my science text book and then I did homework for other classes. At one point, Maritza decided to drink her milk out of her carton which really grosses me out. Right before she took a sip, she told me not to watch her...so I took a picture haha. Ew.
Since the dining halls are closed on Sunday evenings, we decided to order a pizza for dinner. We got it from some place Maritza had a coupon to. The pizza was supppperrr amazing, but we both ate too much and died. I seriously felt like I was about to puke all night long because of it and it was terrible! Then we decided to do us some laundry. So we did that while we did homework.
We both stayed up until 3:30 doing homework and then I went to bed because I was falling asleep studying for my German quiz tomorrow. It was a very uneventful day!
So I woke up at 10 and got to work doing the first thing I needed to do. Maritza and I went to lunch around 1 and I did homework seriously alllll day. I read three chapters of my science text book and then I did homework for other classes. At one point, Maritza decided to drink her milk out of her carton which really grosses me out. Right before she took a sip, she told me not to watch her...so I took a picture haha. Ew.
Since the dining halls are closed on Sunday evenings, we decided to order a pizza for dinner. We got it from some place Maritza had a coupon to. The pizza was supppperrr amazing, but we both ate too much and died. I seriously felt like I was about to puke all night long because of it and it was terrible! Then we decided to do us some laundry. So we did that while we did homework.
We both stayed up until 3:30 doing homework and then I went to bed because I was falling asleep studying for my German quiz tomorrow. It was a very uneventful day!
February 16, 2013
Happy Saturday!!! Today I just did homework haha. I woke up at 10:30 because I didn't feel like setting an alarm...but before I woke up...the greatest thing happened haha. While I was sleeping, my dreams were super funny...I don't remember what happened in them but I just remember laughing and I remember thinking that I needed to tell Maritza about my dreams so I woke up and she was laying on her bed doing homework so I laughed and she looked at me and I told her my dreams were really funny and then I fell back asleep hahaha. Later we talked about it and she said I was seriously cracking up in my sleep hahaha. I'm hilarious.
After I woke up, I took a shower and then read the second half of the chapter of my science book I started last night.
Around lunchtime I asked Maritza if she wanted to go to lunch with me but I thought she said she wasn't hungry so I left. I ran into Mary in the dining hall and we said hi and then I grabbed some strawberries and somebody touched me so I turned around and it was Maritza and she asked why I didn't wait for her haha. Apparently she said she was hungry and she asked me to wait for her...oops. So we grabbed some lunch even though there were zero options of good food in the dining hall, and then we ate together.
I read another chapter in my science book while Maritza went and did homework with someone else. I read a story for fiction writing and then I texted Maritza to see if she wanted to get dinner so we did.
At 7:30 we got ready to go to a play! Since Maritza is now a theater major, she takes an acting class and she had to go to this play so that she could write a paper on it and so on Monday we bought tickets for tonight.
The play was called Out of the Pan and Into the Fire. It is very very loosely based on Hansel and Gretel, but the only connections really were that it was a story about a brother and sister and breadcrumbs haha...and there was an evil witch kind of. The play was super funny and great except it got kind of weird at the end...the whole thing was kind of weird actually...but the actors were really good and they were funny. It was really good and I would see it again if somebody asked me to go again. The witch spoke German sometimes and I translated some of it to Maritza but a lot of time I couldn't understand her because she was screechy.
After the play, we went back to our room with plans to do a whole lot of homework, but we ended up talking for two hours...and it was crazy. At one point Maritza was apparently being loud and all a sudden we heard a voice say through our wall "Maritzaaa" haha it was kind of scolding so she was like "Yea? Sorry" and then she died haha. It was pretty funny and then we both decided to give up on our homework because we were not focused enough...so we went to bed!!
After I woke up, I took a shower and then read the second half of the chapter of my science book I started last night.
Around lunchtime I asked Maritza if she wanted to go to lunch with me but I thought she said she wasn't hungry so I left. I ran into Mary in the dining hall and we said hi and then I grabbed some strawberries and somebody touched me so I turned around and it was Maritza and she asked why I didn't wait for her haha. Apparently she said she was hungry and she asked me to wait for her...oops. So we grabbed some lunch even though there were zero options of good food in the dining hall, and then we ate together.
I read another chapter in my science book while Maritza went and did homework with someone else. I read a story for fiction writing and then I texted Maritza to see if she wanted to get dinner so we did.
At 7:30 we got ready to go to a play! Since Maritza is now a theater major, she takes an acting class and she had to go to this play so that she could write a paper on it and so on Monday we bought tickets for tonight.
The play was called Out of the Pan and Into the Fire. It is very very loosely based on Hansel and Gretel, but the only connections really were that it was a story about a brother and sister and breadcrumbs haha...and there was an evil witch kind of. The play was super funny and great except it got kind of weird at the end...the whole thing was kind of weird actually...but the actors were really good and they were funny. It was really good and I would see it again if somebody asked me to go again. The witch spoke German sometimes and I translated some of it to Maritza but a lot of time I couldn't understand her because she was screechy.
After the play, we went back to our room with plans to do a whole lot of homework, but we ended up talking for two hours...and it was crazy. At one point Maritza was apparently being loud and all a sudden we heard a voice say through our wall "Maritzaaa" haha it was kind of scolding so she was like "Yea? Sorry" and then she died haha. It was pretty funny and then we both decided to give up on our homework because we were not focused enough...so we went to bed!!
February 15, 2013
Today was a pretty productive day in the life of Lisa!!! Let's all give me a pat on the back! Thank you, thank you :) I woke up at 9 today for realz...I didn't even go back to sleep or take any morning naps!! So I woke up at 9 and got out of bed and got dressed. I went to breakfast and then I went straight to my lab. We had a lab test on Monday and then we had a lab afterwards and she gave us homework that had to be done in class, but I didn't have time to finish the homework assignment since we had a billion other things to do...so I had to go into the make-up lab segment thing that happens every Friday. We had to look at five rocks and then explain what type of environment they came from and it was lame and kind of hard because none of the rocks matched the pictures that we were using to as a guide. Eventually I finished my lab homework and I decided to go to CVS to buy some shtuff. I've been craving saltines like every night so I decided to pick up some of those, and I also got some milk.
It was really cold outside and all my bare skin that was touching the air was freezing, but my body was super hot under all my clothes. Maritza agreed with me when she got back to the room. We were both sweating in our coats but our faces were falling off...so we don't know what was up with that. I did my German homework and some of my fiction writing and then I decided to take a nap (it was inevitable). My nap lasted for two hours. Maritza left right before my nap to go donate plasma and she still wasn't back by the time I woke up. She texted me saying she was going to be gone for a long time and then I ate dinner in my room. I decided to make a sandwich and then eat some crackers and cheese since I now had crackers! When I opened my crackers...I noticed that the saltines I bought were a bunch of tiny sleeves of saltines!! I thought the box seemed a little different but I didn't think anything of it. You can see my tiny saltine sleeve in the picture I took haha :) It's so cute!!! There are probably like 10 of them or something in the box. And it's very handy because normally I can never stop eating saltines so this definitely helps that problem :)
Maritza's plasma donation ended up taking about 4 hours which is ridiculous!!
I read half a chapter in my earth science text book and then we decided to watch The Goonies!! I did not realize how many times I have seen that movie until today. All the lines were so familiar to me and I remembered pretty much everything that happened even though I haven't seen it in a very long time! I've missed it haha and COREY FELDMAN!!!! :) After we watched that movie, I decided to go to bed! Woo!
It was really cold outside and all my bare skin that was touching the air was freezing, but my body was super hot under all my clothes. Maritza agreed with me when she got back to the room. We were both sweating in our coats but our faces were falling off...so we don't know what was up with that. I did my German homework and some of my fiction writing and then I decided to take a nap (it was inevitable). My nap lasted for two hours. Maritza left right before my nap to go donate plasma and she still wasn't back by the time I woke up. She texted me saying she was going to be gone for a long time and then I ate dinner in my room. I decided to make a sandwich and then eat some crackers and cheese since I now had crackers! When I opened my crackers...I noticed that the saltines I bought were a bunch of tiny sleeves of saltines!! I thought the box seemed a little different but I didn't think anything of it. You can see my tiny saltine sleeve in the picture I took haha :) It's so cute!!! There are probably like 10 of them or something in the box. And it's very handy because normally I can never stop eating saltines so this definitely helps that problem :)
Maritza's plasma donation ended up taking about 4 hours which is ridiculous!!
I read half a chapter in my earth science text book and then we decided to watch The Goonies!! I did not realize how many times I have seen that movie until today. All the lines were so familiar to me and I remembered pretty much everything that happened even though I haven't seen it in a very long time! I've missed it haha and COREY FELDMAN!!!! :) After we watched that movie, I decided to go to bed! Woo!
February 14, 2013
Happy Valentine's Day, y'all!
I woke up angry at my alarm clock this morning because I did not feel like getting out of bed. I kept resetting my alarm clock for an hour until I finally got out of bed. Then I decided that I didn't feel like taking a shower either...so I didn't and instead I went back and laid in bed until my alarm went off at 11 and I decided it was probably time for me to do something with my life.
I went to German and my teacher was back from Indiana so that was nice. Then I went to Earth science and that teacher was back so that was good news...especially since I have a German quiz on Monday and a science test on Tuesday...nice of my teachers to show up!! We talked about geological time and then he "went over the test" which was him telling us to bring a pencil and that the test was going to be over what we learn in class.
I went straight to lunch after that because I hadn't eaten anything all day and I was very hungry...and I ate too much for lunch because everything looked amazing and I wanted to eat everything haha. I had a little time in my room before I had to go to a meeting with my adviser. We talked about my classes this semester and studying abroad and careers and such and it was great and long and then I was told I was going to get a new adviser later on in the semester because the amount of hours I have places me with someone who is not my first year adviser.
Then I went back to my room and spent the rest of my night doing nothing when I should've been doing productive stuff...like studying for my test on Tuesday...but that didn't happen because I was going crazy and I couldn't focus. At the dining hall for dinner, they were serving Valentine desserts so Maritza grabbed a cupcake and I grabbed a rice krispie treat and took a picture of them together. And after my rice krispie treat, I ate a heart cookie that was delicious and that made me very happy :)
Happy Valentine's Day!!
I woke up angry at my alarm clock this morning because I did not feel like getting out of bed. I kept resetting my alarm clock for an hour until I finally got out of bed. Then I decided that I didn't feel like taking a shower either...so I didn't and instead I went back and laid in bed until my alarm went off at 11 and I decided it was probably time for me to do something with my life.
I went to German and my teacher was back from Indiana so that was nice. Then I went to Earth science and that teacher was back so that was good news...especially since I have a German quiz on Monday and a science test on Tuesday...nice of my teachers to show up!! We talked about geological time and then he "went over the test" which was him telling us to bring a pencil and that the test was going to be over what we learn in class.
I went straight to lunch after that because I hadn't eaten anything all day and I was very hungry...and I ate too much for lunch because everything looked amazing and I wanted to eat everything haha. I had a little time in my room before I had to go to a meeting with my adviser. We talked about my classes this semester and studying abroad and careers and such and it was great and long and then I was told I was going to get a new adviser later on in the semester because the amount of hours I have places me with someone who is not my first year adviser.
Then I went back to my room and spent the rest of my night doing nothing when I should've been doing productive stuff...like studying for my test on Tuesday...but that didn't happen because I was going crazy and I couldn't focus. At the dining hall for dinner, they were serving Valentine desserts so Maritza grabbed a cupcake and I grabbed a rice krispie treat and took a picture of them together. And after my rice krispie treat, I ate a heart cookie that was delicious and that made me very happy :)
Happy Valentine's Day!!
February 13, 2013
I know my last three PODs have been me with mail...but deal with it because I get excited every time I get something in my mailbox!!! It's the best thing that happens to me!! So I take pictures of it. I also know that I always take pictures in the same spot in my room, but that's because there's no other ledge in my room where I can take self-timer pictures haha.
So I woke up this morning and took a shower which has now become an achievement in my life. I went to breakfast and then German. We had another sub today and this one was from Berlin and she was cool and funny. Since we had a sub, I actually got out of class on time, so I went to fiction writing and I didn't even have to run!!! Good times.
Fiction writing was pretty fun because we workshopped two people's stories and it was interesting and the time went super fast. Then I went back to my room and chilled for a while. I ate lunch in my room and it was delicious...and then I went to my honors class. There were three presentations today and they were pretty good and we had some interesting conversations, I then I went back to my room. When I checked the mail, I had so much stuffs!! I had a card from the 'rents and then I had a package slip that said I had TWO packages at the front desk. So I went to front desk and picked them up. The card was a Valentine's Day card so I called Mom and thanked her and then I finally got the book for my honors class!! And I got a birthday present from my aunt and uncle! Yay!!!
I didn't really have any homework except German so I quickly did that. I spent the rest of the night reading my earth science book because I have a test on Tuesday. I spent the whole night reading chapter 2. About halfway through the chapter, I took a nap and then I ate dinner and finished the second half of the book. While I was reading, the book mentioned that Mount Kilimanjaro is an ACTIVE volcano...which is not okay because that's where Kelley was when she was in Africa!!!! And one of my teacher's in high school climbed it once!!! IT'S A VOLCANO!!!! So I texted Kelley and she didn't know it was a volcano...you can see our conversation if you click the button. I also learned that the big island of Hawaii is less than a million years old!! Isn't that crazy!? I was really nerding out while reading the book because everything was so interesting. And then it got to be midnight and I got tired so I decided to finish the last page of the chapter for tomorrow...and then I looked in my notes from class and learned that we never went over chapter 2 so it won't be on the test....................................................cool.
Then I went to bed.
So I woke up this morning and took a shower which has now become an achievement in my life. I went to breakfast and then German. We had another sub today and this one was from Berlin and she was cool and funny. Since we had a sub, I actually got out of class on time, so I went to fiction writing and I didn't even have to run!!! Good times.
Fiction writing was pretty fun because we workshopped two people's stories and it was interesting and the time went super fast. Then I went back to my room and chilled for a while. I ate lunch in my room and it was delicious...and then I went to my honors class. There were three presentations today and they were pretty good and we had some interesting conversations, I then I went back to my room. When I checked the mail, I had so much stuffs!! I had a card from the 'rents and then I had a package slip that said I had TWO packages at the front desk. So I went to front desk and picked them up. The card was a Valentine's Day card so I called Mom and thanked her and then I finally got the book for my honors class!! And I got a birthday present from my aunt and uncle! Yay!!!
I didn't really have any homework except German so I quickly did that. I spent the rest of the night reading my earth science book because I have a test on Tuesday. I spent the whole night reading chapter 2. About halfway through the chapter, I took a nap and then I ate dinner and finished the second half of the book. While I was reading, the book mentioned that Mount Kilimanjaro is an ACTIVE volcano...which is not okay because that's where Kelley was when she was in Africa!!!! And one of my teacher's in high school climbed it once!!! IT'S A VOLCANO!!!! So I texted Kelley and she didn't know it was a volcano...you can see our conversation if you click the button. I also learned that the big island of Hawaii is less than a million years old!! Isn't that crazy!? I was really nerding out while reading the book because everything was so interesting. And then it got to be midnight and I got tired so I decided to finish the last page of the chapter for tomorrow...and then I looked in my notes from class and learned that we never went over chapter 2 so it won't be on the test....................................................cool.
Then I went to bed.
February 12, 2013
So I think there's something in my meds that keeps me awake at night because I keep laying in bed for a long time and then I'm super tired by the time I'm supposed to wake up in the morning....hmmm. Today started off better than yesterday because I took a shower last night so I didn't have to take a shower this morning! Yay! So I just braided my hair. Have I mentioned yet this semester that I love Tuesdays? Because I love Tuesdays. I only have two classes and the first one starts at 11:30 and the last one ends at 1:45...so it's a pretty great day.
Today I had a sub in German because my actual German teacher had an interview in Indiana, and my sub ended up being my German teacher from last semester!!!! So that was exciting haha. In class we talked about what we like to drink...so that was cool? Then I went to my earth science class and we had a sub in there too!! It was sub day. I just finished telling Mary about my pink eye and how I feel like I'm infecting everybody when the sub said that our teacher was out sick! I think I infected him haha....just kitting.
We got done with class earlier than usual because our sub talked really fast and went through the slides super fast so that was nice! Then I went and ate lunch.
When I got back to my room, I had all these plans to do a whole lot of homework. I had to read a story for fiction writing and then write a German paper that I haven't started on and then I had to read for my honors class...I think I had other homework...but I don't remember...it was pretty much all reading and writing.
Instead of doing my homework, I watched youtube videos and texted Kelley. She told me to check my mailbox, so I did and I got my package from her!!!! Yay for birthday presents!!!! I got a Valentine's card and a birthday card and then I opened my presents!!! She got me two adorbz hedgie pictures that I'm going to frame and admire for the rest of my life haha. And then she got me a t-shirt!!!! You can see these products if you click the button below!! For those who don't know, the t-shirt is a reference to The Goonies and I'm obsessed with it <3!! After the excitement of opening presents, I started on my homework.
My German essay had to be five paragraphs and at least 200 words...someone please tell me how to write a five paragraph essay in 200 words because mine ended up being 350? That's like one sentence paragraphs! If someone would've told me last year that I would be writing German "papers" (quotation marks are due to the fact that this was not a very scholarly paper haha) by this time this year...I would've laughed in their face. I didn't even know how to write a sentence until last semester...so I feel very proud of myself haha...the paper wasn't that great, but I still like it :)
I finally finished my homework around midnight after stalling to write my last paragraph for a few hours haha...but eventually I did finish it! And then I went to bed! Yay!
Today I had a sub in German because my actual German teacher had an interview in Indiana, and my sub ended up being my German teacher from last semester!!!! So that was exciting haha. In class we talked about what we like to drink...so that was cool? Then I went to my earth science class and we had a sub in there too!! It was sub day. I just finished telling Mary about my pink eye and how I feel like I'm infecting everybody when the sub said that our teacher was out sick! I think I infected him haha....just kitting.
We got done with class earlier than usual because our sub talked really fast and went through the slides super fast so that was nice! Then I went and ate lunch.
When I got back to my room, I had all these plans to do a whole lot of homework. I had to read a story for fiction writing and then write a German paper that I haven't started on and then I had to read for my honors class...I think I had other homework...but I don't remember...it was pretty much all reading and writing.
Instead of doing my homework, I watched youtube videos and texted Kelley. She told me to check my mailbox, so I did and I got my package from her!!!! Yay for birthday presents!!!! I got a Valentine's card and a birthday card and then I opened my presents!!! She got me two adorbz hedgie pictures that I'm going to frame and admire for the rest of my life haha. And then she got me a t-shirt!!!! You can see these products if you click the button below!! For those who don't know, the t-shirt is a reference to The Goonies and I'm obsessed with it <3!! After the excitement of opening presents, I started on my homework.
My German essay had to be five paragraphs and at least 200 words...someone please tell me how to write a five paragraph essay in 200 words because mine ended up being 350? That's like one sentence paragraphs! If someone would've told me last year that I would be writing German "papers" (quotation marks are due to the fact that this was not a very scholarly paper haha) by this time this year...I would've laughed in their face. I didn't even know how to write a sentence until last semester...so I feel very proud of myself haha...the paper wasn't that great, but I still like it :)
I finally finished my homework around midnight after stalling to write my last paragraph for a few hours haha...but eventually I did finish it! And then I went to bed! Yay!
February 11, 2013
Today....I woke up at 10:30 and my alarm went off at 9...so that was cool haha. They clean our bathrooms starting at 9:45 on Mondays so I couldn't shower...so my day started off pretty terrible because I felt dirty and gross and I couldn't eat breakfast but I had to go to class.
I was planning on studying for my German quiz this morning after I woke up, but I only ended up having about 15 minutes to do that....so I studied very fast. Then we went to class and I found out I studied for the wrong thing so that was cool too. After German, I went back to my room and ate lunch.
I studied for about a half hour for my lab test and then I went to lab. That test ended up being...impossible. We literally had a rock in front of us and we had a minute to look at it before we had to pass it on and we had to name what type of rock it was...it was ridiculous. And then after the test was over, we still had to do a lab!!! I wanted to go curl up in my bed, but I couldn't.
When lab was over, I walked over to my next class and Maritza and I gave our presentation and it went well, and we're both glad that that's out of our life!!
When we walked back to our residence hall, we checked our mailbox and I had a card from my aunt and a letter from ARZU!!!! It seriously made my not-so-great day!!!! I was so happy to get a letter from her hahaha! Now I need to write her back!!!
I took a shower and then I prepared to spend the rest of the night doing homework...and that's exactly what I did! I went to bed at about 1:30 after finishing all the homework I planned to do! It was the first time I actually did all the homework I wanted too so I felt pretty good with myself :)
I was planning on studying for my German quiz this morning after I woke up, but I only ended up having about 15 minutes to do that....so I studied very fast. Then we went to class and I found out I studied for the wrong thing so that was cool too. After German, I went back to my room and ate lunch.
I studied for about a half hour for my lab test and then I went to lab. That test ended up being...impossible. We literally had a rock in front of us and we had a minute to look at it before we had to pass it on and we had to name what type of rock it was...it was ridiculous. And then after the test was over, we still had to do a lab!!! I wanted to go curl up in my bed, but I couldn't.
When lab was over, I walked over to my next class and Maritza and I gave our presentation and it went well, and we're both glad that that's out of our life!!
When we walked back to our residence hall, we checked our mailbox and I had a card from my aunt and a letter from ARZU!!!! It seriously made my not-so-great day!!!! I was so happy to get a letter from her hahaha! Now I need to write her back!!!
I took a shower and then I prepared to spend the rest of the night doing homework...and that's exactly what I did! I went to bed at about 1:30 after finishing all the homework I planned to do! It was the first time I actually did all the homework I wanted too so I felt pretty good with myself :)
February 10, 2013
The last day of my weekend started off like the rest of my weekend...I slept forever. Whatever I'm sick with, it really makes me extremely tired. I worked on homework throughout the day because that's the only thing that is happening in my life right now is sleeping and homework. And then, some time in the afternoon, I took a nap! Yay!! Eventually Maritza and I decided to work on our project for our honors class since we were partners and have to present tomorrow...so at about 9 we sat down and did that together. I took a picture of our set up on the ground just because that was the only thing I could think of to take a picture haha. Our project ended up taking us a long time to finish and we were still working on it around midnight, and then I decided I should study for my lab test that I have tomorrow. When I went online to look for something, I saw that my teacher put a study guide online...and it was super long and in depth and I realized I was not prepared for this test at all...so I stayed up for a few more hours...studying rocks and it was great. That's all that happened today...nothing exciting because I just had a lot of homework!
February 9, 2013
I woke up feeling fine today...which was nice. I ended up waking up at 11 again..which sucks because I have a lot of homework that needs to get done this weekend. After I showered and stuff, I had a voicemail from Mom saying she was concerned about me, so I called her and we talked and we decided that I should go see a doctor.
I went to the doctor around 1. There was a handy place located in the mall on campus and I just walked in, filled out some paper work, and then they looked at me! At first, the guy said he wasn't going to give me antibiotics because all my symptoms seemed like they were going away and because I didn't really have an ear infection. But then it came up that I had ear infections before and he decided to prescribe me some meds just because he didn't want me developing an ear infection. He ended up prescribing Amoxicillin....which I have a history with...I go crazy every time I take it...but it's all good. I had to hand my prescription to CVS and then I had to wait for them to fill it, and I felt like an adult...going to doctor appointments and ordering prescriptions...it was scary haha. I had to give them insurance information and everything!!!
Then I went back to my room and ate dinner so I could take my meds. I spent the rest of the night doing homework because that's all my life consists of. I took a break to take a nap at one point because this sickness is super tiring...so I took a two hour nap and it was great/terrible. Then I went to bed.
I went to the doctor around 1. There was a handy place located in the mall on campus and I just walked in, filled out some paper work, and then they looked at me! At first, the guy said he wasn't going to give me antibiotics because all my symptoms seemed like they were going away and because I didn't really have an ear infection. But then it came up that I had ear infections before and he decided to prescribe me some meds just because he didn't want me developing an ear infection. He ended up prescribing Amoxicillin....which I have a history with...I go crazy every time I take it...but it's all good. I had to hand my prescription to CVS and then I had to wait for them to fill it, and I felt like an adult...going to doctor appointments and ordering prescriptions...it was scary haha. I had to give them insurance information and everything!!!
Then I went back to my room and ate dinner so I could take my meds. I spent the rest of the night doing homework because that's all my life consists of. I took a break to take a nap at one point because this sickness is super tiring...so I took a two hour nap and it was great/terrible. Then I went to bed.
February 8, 2013
I woke up at 9 o'clock this morning so that I could have a productive day! I should mention that last night I had an eyelash in my eye, and after I got it out, my eye started hurting really bad :( It felt like there was something in my eye, but there was nothing in my eye so I don't know what was going on!!!!! I decided to just go to bed and hopefully my eye would figure itself out in my sleep. Welllllll, when I woke up this morning, my eye was super crusty (ew) and it was really blurry and it would not stop watering....and it was super red! Yay! I'm glad for my eye problems. After I got dressed and did my hair, I looked in the mirror and realized that my eye was a little bit puffier than the other one...so that's cool. I was super tired after getting ready, so I just went back to bed and didn't wake back up until 11:30. I was planning on going into my teacher's office hours today so that I could talk about a quiz I took, so I did that at 1:30. I really enjoyed going in to talk to her because she's a really cool person, and on the way out, I ran into my old German teacher!! And after that, I decided I wanted to be friends with the whole German department!! Then I walked back to my room. A few days ago, I put on my boots and they were covered in sand and they left sand footprints in the room...so I decided to vacuum that up today. I took a picture of my vacuuming so that I had proof of the fact that I did actually vacuum since some people don't believe me when I say I vacuum sometimes!!!! So that's my picture.
I took a nap in the afternoon that was only supposed to be 20 minutes but it turned into being 2 hours long....so that was great. Maritza joined me in sleeping and we slept right through dinner so we had to eat in our room. I did homework for the rest of the night. Around 11, I started feeling more sick than I already was, and my ears started to hurt and my eye was still freaking out...so I decided to start looking into doctors that were open on Saturdays. Maritza and I plan to go tomorrow if I wake up feeling worse!!!
I took a nap in the afternoon that was only supposed to be 20 minutes but it turned into being 2 hours long....so that was great. Maritza joined me in sleeping and we slept right through dinner so we had to eat in our room. I did homework for the rest of the night. Around 11, I started feeling more sick than I already was, and my ears started to hurt and my eye was still freaking out...so I decided to start looking into doctors that were open on Saturdays. Maritza and I plan to go tomorrow if I wake up feeling worse!!!
February 7, 2013
Today I could not wake up. I got out of bed a half hour after my alarm originally woke me up, and then I took a shower and climbed back in bed for another thirty minutes. Finally I had to get up because I had to go to German. Apparently the class did terrible on the test and now we have to study a list of 185 German verbs and memorize them for a quiz on Monday...so yay...I ended up getting a 89.5 which is better than I thought I would do! After that, I walked over to my science class and that went pretty fast. We learned about sedimentary rocks and my teacher cracked me up a few times even though I'm pretty much the only person that laughs at his jokes...I have a problem haha. And then I walked back to my room! I decided to update my blog since I was waay behind...and I did February 1st and February 2nd and that took me 2 hours so I took a break haha. I had all these plans to do some of my homework tonight...but all I did was enter all the German verbs into an online flashcard thing and then I wrote my blog for the rest of the night....that's still kind of productive...right??? Maritza had to get allergy shots and then she had a pizza dinner thing and she brought me back pizza because she's the bestest!!!! I ate it all because I was super hungry!! Go Maritza!
February 6, 2013
Today was Wednesday...I love and hate Wednesdays because I have the most classes on Wednesdays (and Mondays) but after Wednesday is over, it's practically my weekend...so it's not that bad!
I had a test in German today so I tried to study but then I got tired and took a nap again before class. I took my German test and it was okay except I got only understand about half of the test...but whatever I think I guessed pretty well anyway. I ended up getting down five minutes early which is great because that meant I could take my time walking to my fiction writing class!!!!
Fiction went well because that class goes by super fast, and then I was back in my room eating lunch and reading an article for my honors class because I didn't get to read it last night. I finished the article with about five minutes to spare and then I went to go to class! We had a guest speaker today who talked to us about India and it was super interesting and he was pretty cool except super quiet, but Maritza told me that that was me just being sick because he totally wasn't quiet...whatever.
After that class, we went back to our room and I tried to update my blog, but that didn't work and I'm not really sure what I did with my time for the rest of my night because I definitely didn't do anything productive. We went to dinner at one point and I watched one episode of Boy Meets World and I know I took a 2 hour nap at one point. At around 11 o'clock, Maritza and I both were starving and we debated calling a pizza guy to come bring us pizza...but then we decided against it because we didn't feel like spending money. I took a picture with my tissue box because it was my companion throughout the night :)
I had a test in German today so I tried to study but then I got tired and took a nap again before class. I took my German test and it was okay except I got only understand about half of the test...but whatever I think I guessed pretty well anyway. I ended up getting down five minutes early which is great because that meant I could take my time walking to my fiction writing class!!!!
Fiction went well because that class goes by super fast, and then I was back in my room eating lunch and reading an article for my honors class because I didn't get to read it last night. I finished the article with about five minutes to spare and then I went to go to class! We had a guest speaker today who talked to us about India and it was super interesting and he was pretty cool except super quiet, but Maritza told me that that was me just being sick because he totally wasn't quiet...whatever.
After that class, we went back to our room and I tried to update my blog, but that didn't work and I'm not really sure what I did with my time for the rest of my night because I definitely didn't do anything productive. We went to dinner at one point and I watched one episode of Boy Meets World and I know I took a 2 hour nap at one point. At around 11 o'clock, Maritza and I both were starving and we debated calling a pizza guy to come bring us pizza...but then we decided against it because we didn't feel like spending money. I took a picture with my tissue box because it was my companion throughout the night :)
February 5, 2013
Today I woke up feeling great which was really exciting because I didn't want to be terribly sick...and then I took a shower and was combing my hair when all of a sudden I thought I was going to throw up. I got super hot and laid on the floor for a while and then I took some medicine to get my temperature down because I figured I still I had my fever...and then I felt much better :) Yay! I ended up taking a 20 minute nap and that helped too :) I went to German and then I went to earth science and it was all good. When I was leaving science, I saw a text from Maritza that said she couldn't get the same room as me because it wasn't showing up online!!! I went back to our room and tried to log on to the housing website but it wasn't looking again, so I went and ate lunch before coming back. When the website finally let me on, I was told that a Monica had taken the other bed in the room so we spent the next hour trying to get back into the website so that we could find another room while I looked up Monicas that go to the University of Iowa on facebook so that I could hate them haha. Eventually I was able to get in and we got another room in the same hall but farther down the hall and really far away from the bathroom but whatever because we're together and we have air conditioning and WE'RE TOGETHER!!!! If you don't believe me, you can see the confirmation over there <. We were so excited and it made my day to know that we're going to be roomies again next year!!! Woo!!!!
And then I had to spend the rest of the evening doing homework because I didn't do as much as I should've last night since I died. I was up getting all my reading and such done and then I had to study because my first German test is tomorrow...so yeah...that's what I did until I went to bed....did I mention that MARITZA AND I ARE GOING TO BE ROOMMATES AGAIN!?!?!?!
And then I had to spend the rest of the evening doing homework because I didn't do as much as I should've last night since I died. I was up getting all my reading and such done and then I had to study because my first German test is tomorrow...so yeah...that's what I did until I went to bed....did I mention that MARITZA AND I ARE GOING TO BE ROOMMATES AGAIN!?!?!?!
February 4, 2013
Today was my first day back to classes after too short of a weekend!! And I was not at all in the mood to be attending classes today! I got out of bed at 10 and took a shower even though they clean our bathrooms at 9:45...I didn't see them in the hallway yet so I quickly showered and hoped they wouldn't arrive while I was there! Luckily I got out in time and then I got dressed. I wasn't that hungry so I didn't eat breakfast and then I went to German. Walking to German turned out to be challenging because by the time I got to class, my feet felt to big for my shoes and they were hurting really bad haha...oh boy. It was all good though and I got through it.
When I got back to my room, Maritza asked if I wanted to go get lunch but I told her I wasn't that hungry so I sat in my room and tried to apply for housing but the website kept crashing so that wasn't really working, but eventually I had to go my lab and this time we discovered volcanic rocks! It went a lot faster this time and I actually finished the lab and part of our homework and we got out about a half hour early so it was great!! I went back to our room for fifteen minutes before heading out to my last class of the day!! This class was okay but I felt super lost because there was some confusion over the homework we had to do and I did not do it so I wasn't really sure what people were talking about...but that was quickly over and we went back to our room. When we went to dinner, they had styrofoam plates so I just went with it and it was kind of nice because they held more food haha and then we got to the utensils and they were plastic and they had plastic cups which were super tiny and we were both really confused at what was going on. I told Maritza that I thought I might be getting sick and we discussed how I was probably just tired and then we went to our room. I opened my e-mail and found out that the steam plant went out or something so there was not hot water which is probably why we had disposable kitchenware today...so that mystery was solved pretty quickly. I settled in to spend the rest of my night doing all the homework I didn't do over the weekend when all of a sudden...I died. I definitely was sick and there was no question about it. I had really bad shivers and my whole body was in so much pain and I had a terrible headache and I wasn't thinking straight...oh boy. I finished my German homework and then I talked myself into drinking some of Maritza's nyquil because I wanted to sleep and it said it reduced fevers....it took me a long time to drink it...but eventually I did!!! And I went to sleep hoping to wake up better.
I guess I should also mention that I applied for housing today even though it took a billion refreshes to make it work because the website kept freezing...but I finally got a room with air conditioning that is in a place we wanted to be! So that's good. I had to choose the building, floor, and room I wanted so I got to choose everything! Maritza and I even took a tour through the hall we would be on and decided it was nice haha. But Maritza can't apply until tomorrow so hopeful nobody takes the other spot in our room.
When I got back to my room, Maritza asked if I wanted to go get lunch but I told her I wasn't that hungry so I sat in my room and tried to apply for housing but the website kept crashing so that wasn't really working, but eventually I had to go my lab and this time we discovered volcanic rocks! It went a lot faster this time and I actually finished the lab and part of our homework and we got out about a half hour early so it was great!! I went back to our room for fifteen minutes before heading out to my last class of the day!! This class was okay but I felt super lost because there was some confusion over the homework we had to do and I did not do it so I wasn't really sure what people were talking about...but that was quickly over and we went back to our room. When we went to dinner, they had styrofoam plates so I just went with it and it was kind of nice because they held more food haha and then we got to the utensils and they were plastic and they had plastic cups which were super tiny and we were both really confused at what was going on. I told Maritza that I thought I might be getting sick and we discussed how I was probably just tired and then we went to our room. I opened my e-mail and found out that the steam plant went out or something so there was not hot water which is probably why we had disposable kitchenware today...so that mystery was solved pretty quickly. I settled in to spend the rest of my night doing all the homework I didn't do over the weekend when all of a sudden...I died. I definitely was sick and there was no question about it. I had really bad shivers and my whole body was in so much pain and I had a terrible headache and I wasn't thinking straight...oh boy. I finished my German homework and then I talked myself into drinking some of Maritza's nyquil because I wanted to sleep and it said it reduced fevers....it took me a long time to drink it...but eventually I did!!! And I went to sleep hoping to wake up better.
I guess I should also mention that I applied for housing today even though it took a billion refreshes to make it work because the website kept freezing...but I finally got a room with air conditioning that is in a place we wanted to be! So that's good. I had to choose the building, floor, and room I wanted so I got to choose everything! Maritza and I even took a tour through the hall we would be on and decided it was nice haha. But Maritza can't apply until tomorrow so hopeful nobody takes the other spot in our room.
February 3, 2013
Today was a sleepy day...as you could probably imagine :) We went to bed at about 8 and the next thing I realize, the light is shining through our bedroom curtain!! It was a miracle!! When I looked at my clock, it was 7:30 in the morning so I had slept 12 hours and they were the best 12 hours of sleep I've ever had! It's crazy how fast 12 hours goes by when you're not standing on your feet. I eventually got out of bed to go pee and get a drink because I was super thirsty...and then I climbed back in bed and woke up at 10. I took a shower and then ate some cereal and Maritza left to church. I was just sitting around waiting for Mom and Dad to arrive so I climbed back in bed and waited for their text to wake me up :) And then I got the text and went to the door and there they were in Iowa City!!! Mom had brought me cake so we could celebrate my birfday! You can see a picture of it if you click on the button below!! We sat in my room for a while until Maritza came back from church and then we went to Wal-Mart! After a while in Wal-Mart, my feet started getting tired walking so I was glad when we finally got back in the car...hahaha oh dance marathon. After Wal-Mart, we headed over to Blue Bird Diner and ate some lunch!!! It was really good and it was in walking distance from my dorm, but we wanted to drive there because I wasn't up to walking all that far :). I took this picture of us while we were at the restaurant. It's kind of awkward, but that's okay!
After that, we drove back to our room and we dropped off our Wal-Mart stuff and Mom and Dad said goodbye :( Dad wanted to make it back in time to watch the half-time show because Beyonce is better than me haha :). After they left, we tried to stay awake but we both gave into the temptation to take naps so that's what we did! We woke up later and I finished my German homework that I planned on finishing Thursday night...but that never happened so I finally finished it tonight. We were did our laundry and washed my sheets and clothes and it was great and uploaded all my dance marathon pictures on facebook when I should've been doing other homework but OH WELL!! And then I put my clothes away and ate some dinner. We both weren't really tired since we spent the whole day sleeping, but we went to bed eventually.
After that, we drove back to our room and we dropped off our Wal-Mart stuff and Mom and Dad said goodbye :( Dad wanted to make it back in time to watch the half-time show because Beyonce is better than me haha :). After they left, we tried to stay awake but we both gave into the temptation to take naps so that's what we did! We woke up later and I finished my German homework that I planned on finishing Thursday night...but that never happened so I finally finished it tonight. We were did our laundry and washed my sheets and clothes and it was great and uploaded all my dance marathon pictures on facebook when I should've been doing other homework but OH WELL!! And then I put my clothes away and ate some dinner. We both weren't really tired since we spent the whole day sleeping, but we went to bed eventually.
February 2, 2013
By the time we were done eating our burritos, it was already February 2nd!!! Happy Groundhog's Day!!! I was really hoping that the DJs would tell us some time today what the groundhog predicted, but, spoiler alert, they never did :(. After we walked back from dinner, we walked into the ballroom and they were finishing up singing Happy Birthday!!! I missed the first half of the song, but I was able to take a picture of the sign :) Even though it was for the February 2nd people, I like to think it was for me too :) My feet were starting to get tired but it was okay. At one, I had to put on my S.T.A.T. socks because we were supposed to wear them in between 1-3 in the morning so that's what I did. It felt great to take my shoes off to put on the socks haha. The socks are super thick though!!!! And as you can see in the picture, I put them on the wrong feet because the logos are facing in haha :) While I was putting my socks on, Maritza went to go sign up to run!!! Dance Marathon runs the Chicago Marathon every year and they had people at the event trying to get people interested in joining and they also had a treadmill there!! If people ran on the treadmill, they raised money!!! You have to square how many miles you ran and that's how much money you got donated!! So if you ran 1 mile, they donated $1 and if you ran 2 miles then they donated $4!! And so on. And if you ran 3 miles, you got a free shirt!!! So Maritza signed up to run even though it was 2 in the morning and we had been standing for 7 hours and still had 17 more left to go!!! So I stood around with her while she waited to get on the treadmill and then I stood around while she was running on the treadmill. A girl who wanted to run after Maritza was standing near by an we started talking and she said she was a junior in high school and that this was her third year doing dance marathon!!! That's crazy!!!! Maritza decided to run 3 miles so she got $9 donated and a free shirt! Woo! Go Maritza!! Then she wanted to change so I changed into flip flops and waited for her to change in the bathroom. While I was waiting for her, I ran into Hailee, our morale captain assistant so I talked with her and then the three of us went and got ice cream together!!! Coldstones had donated a whole bunch of mini ice creams for the big event so we all got some at 2:30!! It was pretty great!! We danced some more after the ice cream and then at 4 the back massages started....We had to get in line and the morale captain assistants were giving them with those tiny electric massagers from the store...after about two minutes of that it was over so that was kind of a let down haha. We danced for a long time and by this time we were all pretty tired. I had a hard time staying awake and staying standing but we powered through it!! Every hour, a family told their story to us and sometimes they had other things going on too. Between about midnight and 7 there was a giant lull in not having any kids dancing because they were all sleeping in their hotel rooms so it was just us dancers. At the halfway point, the played "Livin' on Prayer" because we were halfway there and my feet were already about to fall off so I couldn't see how I could possibly do everything all over again!! But I had too!
Breakfast started around 7ish and the line to get it seriously stretched from the food room to the front door of the IMU...it was crazy!! But I totally understood why once I ate the breakfast!!! It was the most amazing thing ever!!!! The people had an awesome pancake machine and were making it all there. There was a man and a woman and the woman would throw the pancakes into the air for you to catch with your plate!! When she did it for me, I screamed so she just handed me the other two haha...I'm a failure :) And Maritza ended up getting five pancakes from the man when the rest of us got 3 hahaha...we don't know why! Apparently she looked hungry :) As I said, breakfast was the most delicious thing ever!! Maritza and I had to shovel ours down though because it was our turn to go to the mood room at 8:20!! The mood room is this room in the IMU that has bean bags and rope lights and it plays relaxing music and for the first and only time we're allowed to lay down. We all passed out and the morale captains handed out bags that had letters from our morale captain and morale captain assistants. It was great but super short because it was only for 20 minutes! Then we went to another room that had poster boards that families made for their children that passed away. Each poster board had a story so we spent a while in there reading all the stories before we went back to the ballroom.
One family speaker that gave a speech had a girl that was five years cancer free and they brought her out on stage at the end of the speech and her hair was parted in three sections and a lady came and cut it off and she donated it to locks of love!! It was so great!! And then a huge line started outside the ballroom as people were getting their hair seperated and tied so that they could cut it!!! Two girls totally shaved their heads and we all got to watch because it was on the stage!
At 11:40 we were supposed to meet up with the boy our morale group was dancing for, but that didn't happen so they told us to come back in an hour. Maritza was developing allergies to something so she asked our morale captain if she could go back to our room to take some medicine and our morale captain said yes so I didn't know what to do while she was gone haha. I ended up just talking to our morale captain and walking around and she didn't take that long so it was okay :) We quickly went and ate lunch so that we could go and meet up with our morale captain assistant's family. When they finally took us upstairs, that took us to a boy and we were able to sit on the ground and listen to his story. His mom seemed really nice and we stayed there for a little bit asking questions, but then we had to leave and that's when we found out that wasn't the right family we were supposed to be visiting and then we were also told that we wouldn't be able to see our morale group's kid that we were dancing for so that kind of sucked.
After that, we just had to wait out the rest of the day dancing. I was ready to fall over and I was getting super cranky haha. At one point, we skyped the hospital because they were having a mini dance marathon there so that was cool!! And we danced and danced and I danced and stood and squatted but nothing was helping my pain haha. They held graduation and there were 13 kids that graduated this year which is the most in dance marathon history!! 4 of them couldn't attend dance marathon though. To graduate dance marathon, a child has to be 5 years cancer free so it was really exciting!!! They all got diplomas and they threw their caps and it was super cute!!
After what seemed like forever, Maritza and I went to go pick our bags up so that we weren't stuck in the mob of peopled that would be picking up their bags at the end of the night. We brought our bags back into the ballroom and danced with them by our feet. Then power hour started and suddenly we were surrounded by people and they were all eyeing our bags nastily because it was in everybody's way but we didn't care haha. They tossed a whole lot of glow sticks into the crowd...it was literally wave after wave of glow sticks and the lights went down and the music began and everybody went crazy and everything was okay for about a half hour, but then I got really angry and I was tired and I was sick of dancing so I just stood there in the middle of all the hot people.
Finally, after what seemed like hours (oh wait, it was) the last family speaker came on stage and told us all we could sit down!!! Since we were all in a ballroom and there were over 2,000 of us, we were sitting on top of each other. The family speaker told their story. Their son had just passed away on January 13 so it was really sad. Then they showed a video in remembrance of all the children that had died. Then they showed a video of the 24 hours we had just lived and I started falling asleep because I was tired and I didn't really want to relive the last 24 hours. AND THEN THEY ANNOUNCED THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT DANCE MARATHON RAISED THIS YEAR!!!! We raised: $1,529,650.19!!!!! I'm so proud of everybody who helped!!!! It was amazing!! The Maritza and I left because it was 7 o'clock!!
Walking back to our room was super painful but we managed. Maritza took a shower and then she decided to vacuum....what?! I don't understand her. The last thing I felt like doing was cleaning but apparently she felt otherwise. We chatted with Elle and some girls in our hall and then I climbed in bed and decided that I was never leaving my bed again!!! Then I passed out!!!
Dance marathon was a great and terrible experience...mostly terrible haha. After we were done, we both swore we would never do it again, but the more we think about it, the more we both think we probably will do it again. It was pretty awful, but it's for such a good cause that I can't imagine not helping....so maybe I'll be doing it again next year...I think I'll be more prepared if I do do it next year because I'll know what I got myself into!!
Breakfast started around 7ish and the line to get it seriously stretched from the food room to the front door of the IMU...it was crazy!! But I totally understood why once I ate the breakfast!!! It was the most amazing thing ever!!!! The people had an awesome pancake machine and were making it all there. There was a man and a woman and the woman would throw the pancakes into the air for you to catch with your plate!! When she did it for me, I screamed so she just handed me the other two haha...I'm a failure :) And Maritza ended up getting five pancakes from the man when the rest of us got 3 hahaha...we don't know why! Apparently she looked hungry :) As I said, breakfast was the most delicious thing ever!! Maritza and I had to shovel ours down though because it was our turn to go to the mood room at 8:20!! The mood room is this room in the IMU that has bean bags and rope lights and it plays relaxing music and for the first and only time we're allowed to lay down. We all passed out and the morale captains handed out bags that had letters from our morale captain and morale captain assistants. It was great but super short because it was only for 20 minutes! Then we went to another room that had poster boards that families made for their children that passed away. Each poster board had a story so we spent a while in there reading all the stories before we went back to the ballroom.
One family speaker that gave a speech had a girl that was five years cancer free and they brought her out on stage at the end of the speech and her hair was parted in three sections and a lady came and cut it off and she donated it to locks of love!! It was so great!! And then a huge line started outside the ballroom as people were getting their hair seperated and tied so that they could cut it!!! Two girls totally shaved their heads and we all got to watch because it was on the stage!
At 11:40 we were supposed to meet up with the boy our morale group was dancing for, but that didn't happen so they told us to come back in an hour. Maritza was developing allergies to something so she asked our morale captain if she could go back to our room to take some medicine and our morale captain said yes so I didn't know what to do while she was gone haha. I ended up just talking to our morale captain and walking around and she didn't take that long so it was okay :) We quickly went and ate lunch so that we could go and meet up with our morale captain assistant's family. When they finally took us upstairs, that took us to a boy and we were able to sit on the ground and listen to his story. His mom seemed really nice and we stayed there for a little bit asking questions, but then we had to leave and that's when we found out that wasn't the right family we were supposed to be visiting and then we were also told that we wouldn't be able to see our morale group's kid that we were dancing for so that kind of sucked.
After that, we just had to wait out the rest of the day dancing. I was ready to fall over and I was getting super cranky haha. At one point, we skyped the hospital because they were having a mini dance marathon there so that was cool!! And we danced and danced and I danced and stood and squatted but nothing was helping my pain haha. They held graduation and there were 13 kids that graduated this year which is the most in dance marathon history!! 4 of them couldn't attend dance marathon though. To graduate dance marathon, a child has to be 5 years cancer free so it was really exciting!!! They all got diplomas and they threw their caps and it was super cute!!
After what seemed like forever, Maritza and I went to go pick our bags up so that we weren't stuck in the mob of peopled that would be picking up their bags at the end of the night. We brought our bags back into the ballroom and danced with them by our feet. Then power hour started and suddenly we were surrounded by people and they were all eyeing our bags nastily because it was in everybody's way but we didn't care haha. They tossed a whole lot of glow sticks into the crowd...it was literally wave after wave of glow sticks and the lights went down and the music began and everybody went crazy and everything was okay for about a half hour, but then I got really angry and I was tired and I was sick of dancing so I just stood there in the middle of all the hot people.
Finally, after what seemed like hours (oh wait, it was) the last family speaker came on stage and told us all we could sit down!!! Since we were all in a ballroom and there were over 2,000 of us, we were sitting on top of each other. The family speaker told their story. Their son had just passed away on January 13 so it was really sad. Then they showed a video in remembrance of all the children that had died. Then they showed a video of the 24 hours we had just lived and I started falling asleep because I was tired and I didn't really want to relive the last 24 hours. AND THEN THEY ANNOUNCED THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT DANCE MARATHON RAISED THIS YEAR!!!! We raised: $1,529,650.19!!!!! I'm so proud of everybody who helped!!!! It was amazing!! The Maritza and I left because it was 7 o'clock!!
Walking back to our room was super painful but we managed. Maritza took a shower and then she decided to vacuum....what?! I don't understand her. The last thing I felt like doing was cleaning but apparently she felt otherwise. We chatted with Elle and some girls in our hall and then I climbed in bed and decided that I was never leaving my bed again!!! Then I passed out!!!
Dance marathon was a great and terrible experience...mostly terrible haha. After we were done, we both swore we would never do it again, but the more we think about it, the more we both think we probably will do it again. It was pretty awful, but it's for such a good cause that I can't imagine not helping....so maybe I'll be doing it again next year...I think I'll be more prepared if I do do it next year because I'll know what I got myself into!!
February 1, 2013
Today I turned 19 :) Go me! I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say that today was probably one of my favorite birthdays of all time even though I wasn't with my familia. Since I don't have Friday classes, I woke up at 10 and I just laid in bed for a while because our bathrooms get cleaned around that time so I waited until about 12 to shower :) I should've been doing homework because I was going to be missing 24 hours of my time... but I didn't!!! I was still laying in bed when Maritza came back from class and when I got down from my tower, she had placed a present on my desk!!!! It was a card with TWO snicker packages that each had TWO snickers inside of them!!!!! That's FOUR snickers!!! She automatically made it to the top of my most loved list hahaha. There was also lime green nail polish because I've been saying all week that I wanted to go and get me some of that, and that still hadn't happened by today so she gave me some!!! Go Maritza!! I took a shower and then Maritza and I went to go get lunch. I think she took a shower at one point and I talked to Mom and she was asking me about a delivery I was supposed to be getting and then a guy called me and I decided to answer the phone because it was an Iowa City number so I figured it might be somebody I knew. It ended up being a flower guy who couldn't find me hahaha. He was kind of far away so I had to give him directions to my residence hall even though I only know the name of one street in Iowa City hahaha. I was just chilling, basking in my birthday-ness when the front desk called me and told me that I had a "special delivery" there. At first they called it a perishable object haha but then they said special delivery instead.
I waited for Maritza to get out of the shower and then we went and picked up my special delivery together. It was a flower arrangement in the shape of a cupcake!! And there was a balloon connected to it!!! It made my day :) Then we packed our little duffle bags and took them to the IMU!!!!! Bag check-in was from 12-5 and they gave us a wrist tag that had numbers on it that matched the ones that went on our bags so they could organize it and keep track of it and such.
When we got back to our room, we decided to take a nap to try to rest before the long day ahead of us......I wasn't that tired so I stayed awake for an hour before I decided to try sleeping but that was a huge fail and I was just laying there for an hour. Maritza pretty much had the same luck so we just got out of bed and went over to dinner. Many people were already dressed in their lime green...including us, and the dining hall looked really cool!! We had our last meal of carbs and then we went back to our room to gather our things!! We had Elle take this picture of us before we left!
On our way there, many people were leaving other residence halls and they were only wearing their shirts and shorts so that they didn't have to put any baggy clothes into their duffle bags. They were sprinting to the IMU and so Maritza and I decided to run because everybody else was running, but we were wearing sweats. Once we got there, we had to stand in an obnoxiously long line to put the clothes we didn't want to wear into our duffle bags. Then we got to meet up with our morale groups and chill on the ground for a while. The ballroom was very packed with people and there were a lot of cameras and such. The cheerleaders performed for us and so did Herky. We watched a few videos made by the people who run dance marathon. Finally, around 7, we were all told to stand up!!! And the clock officially began! The morale captains came out and showed us their new dance and then we made an aisle and all the dance marathon families were called to walk across the stage!!! There were sooo many families!!!!! Some families stayed on the stage and we later learned that they were the families who had children who had passed away from cancer. In the back of the ballroom there was a quilt with names written on it next to a candle that burned the whole night that was there for all the children that were dancing in our hearts. Two people read off all the names and then the first family speaker came out and talked about her son and it was a sad beginning to the evening :(. Then the music and dancing started and the next few hours went pretty fast. We met up with Megan, but then we lost her. We danced on the stage for a while. Around 10:30, dinner arrived from Panchero's which is a local Mexican restaurant. A guy gave us a talk about burritos and then he sang a song about beans and it was really strange but we accepted it. Then they announced the start of dinner and the first 10 morale groups went and ate. I guess I should mention that there were over 2,000 dancers there...so yeah.
Group 33, which was my group, didn't get to eat until 11:40! So that's when we went! We were still going pretty strong at that point for having spent 5 hours on our feet!! This was definitely the better half of DM :)
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I waited for Maritza to get out of the shower and then we went and picked up my special delivery together. It was a flower arrangement in the shape of a cupcake!! And there was a balloon connected to it!!! It made my day :) Then we packed our little duffle bags and took them to the IMU!!!!! Bag check-in was from 12-5 and they gave us a wrist tag that had numbers on it that matched the ones that went on our bags so they could organize it and keep track of it and such.
When we got back to our room, we decided to take a nap to try to rest before the long day ahead of us......I wasn't that tired so I stayed awake for an hour before I decided to try sleeping but that was a huge fail and I was just laying there for an hour. Maritza pretty much had the same luck so we just got out of bed and went over to dinner. Many people were already dressed in their lime green...including us, and the dining hall looked really cool!! We had our last meal of carbs and then we went back to our room to gather our things!! We had Elle take this picture of us before we left!
On our way there, many people were leaving other residence halls and they were only wearing their shirts and shorts so that they didn't have to put any baggy clothes into their duffle bags. They were sprinting to the IMU and so Maritza and I decided to run because everybody else was running, but we were wearing sweats. Once we got there, we had to stand in an obnoxiously long line to put the clothes we didn't want to wear into our duffle bags. Then we got to meet up with our morale groups and chill on the ground for a while. The ballroom was very packed with people and there were a lot of cameras and such. The cheerleaders performed for us and so did Herky. We watched a few videos made by the people who run dance marathon. Finally, around 7, we were all told to stand up!!! And the clock officially began! The morale captains came out and showed us their new dance and then we made an aisle and all the dance marathon families were called to walk across the stage!!! There were sooo many families!!!!! Some families stayed on the stage and we later learned that they were the families who had children who had passed away from cancer. In the back of the ballroom there was a quilt with names written on it next to a candle that burned the whole night that was there for all the children that were dancing in our hearts. Two people read off all the names and then the first family speaker came out and talked about her son and it was a sad beginning to the evening :(. Then the music and dancing started and the next few hours went pretty fast. We met up with Megan, but then we lost her. We danced on the stage for a while. Around 10:30, dinner arrived from Panchero's which is a local Mexican restaurant. A guy gave us a talk about burritos and then he sang a song about beans and it was really strange but we accepted it. Then they announced the start of dinner and the first 10 morale groups went and ate. I guess I should mention that there were over 2,000 dancers there...so yeah.
Group 33, which was my group, didn't get to eat until 11:40! So that's when we went! We were still going pretty strong at that point for having spent 5 hours on our feet!! This was definitely the better half of DM :)
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