March 31, 2013
Happy Easter!!! I hope the Easter bunny was kind to you! I took a picture of our Easter baskets from the Easter bun! Thanks Bun (Mom&Dad!). The baskets were sitting on the table for us when we woke up, and they were super stuffed!!
I took a shower and got dressed. We had brunch plans for 11:30 and my auntie and uncle's house, so we drove on our merry way over to their house at around 11:20ish. Mom made French toast casserole with the French bread Kelley and I bought yesterday, and Jill made her amazing potatoes! All the cousins sat at the kids' table because we will forever be the kids, and we ate and sat around and talked. It was very laid back. Eventually, Kelley, Jill, and I decided to go outside to take pictures because it was a nice day out and we like to take pictures. We decided to take jumping pictures since that's what we did last year. We also took normal pictures too. This picture that I used for my POD seriously took us forever to get because every time we took a picture, something was always wrong with one of us in it haha. Good times. After that, we went home.
Kelley and I went through our Easter baskets, and we got a lot of candy and yummy things. Kelley also got an apron and I got a little hedgie decoration thing. After that we had to start packing to go home :( Dad took Kyle to the train station, and then Kelley left to head home. I had to finish packing, and then we left for the bus stop. The bus ride home seemed super long for whatever reason, but I could not wait to get off it finally. When we did, it was chilly in Iowa City so I power walked back to my room. I decided to take the stairs to the top of the hill instead of the elevator because I thought my bag was light enough...but I was wrong, and I was out of breath for a very long time. When I got back to my room, I ate some dinner, and then I studied for my German quiz tomorrow. Happy Easter again!!
I took a shower and got dressed. We had brunch plans for 11:30 and my auntie and uncle's house, so we drove on our merry way over to their house at around 11:20ish. Mom made French toast casserole with the French bread Kelley and I bought yesterday, and Jill made her amazing potatoes! All the cousins sat at the kids' table because we will forever be the kids, and we ate and sat around and talked. It was very laid back. Eventually, Kelley, Jill, and I decided to go outside to take pictures because it was a nice day out and we like to take pictures. We decided to take jumping pictures since that's what we did last year. We also took normal pictures too. This picture that I used for my POD seriously took us forever to get because every time we took a picture, something was always wrong with one of us in it haha. Good times. After that, we went home.
Kelley and I went through our Easter baskets, and we got a lot of candy and yummy things. Kelley also got an apron and I got a little hedgie decoration thing. After that we had to start packing to go home :( Dad took Kyle to the train station, and then Kelley left to head home. I had to finish packing, and then we left for the bus stop. The bus ride home seemed super long for whatever reason, but I could not wait to get off it finally. When we did, it was chilly in Iowa City so I power walked back to my room. I decided to take the stairs to the top of the hill instead of the elevator because I thought my bag was light enough...but I was wrong, and I was out of breath for a very long time. When I got back to my room, I ate some dinner, and then I studied for my German quiz tomorrow. Happy Easter again!!
March 30, 2013
Today was not that exciting of a day, but it was still wonderful because I was home! So this morning I woke up around 10 or 11ish because it's Saturday, and I can do that :). I decided to take a shower. Mom made lunch for us which was delicious. Mom needed us to run to town to pick up some French bread, and so we went to Kelley's old grocery store. While we were there, we got some ice cream too because why not? Kelley chatted for a while with her old boss, and then we headed home again. I played some Sims, and then Mom and Dad went to go get dinner. They ordered from this restaurant that they ate at a few weeks ago that's about an hour away or something, so they were gone for awhile. We ate dinner which was super good!
Eventually we had to go pick up Kyle from the train station, so Kelley and I went to go do that. While we were there, I saw Sharon, so I pointed it out to Kelley because she wanted to see her and Roy over spring break, but that didn't happen. So Kelley ran out of the car and said hi to them. Then we drove home. I decided to take a picture with my sibs since the last time all three of us together was over Christmas break. So we took this picture together after much convincing on my part for Kyle to be in it. We decided to watch Legally Blonde because it's been awhile since I saw that movie. What a great movie. Then we went to bed because tomorrow's Easter!! Jersey was really happy to have the whole family home again :)
Eventually we had to go pick up Kyle from the train station, so Kelley and I went to go do that. While we were there, I saw Sharon, so I pointed it out to Kelley because she wanted to see her and Roy over spring break, but that didn't happen. So Kelley ran out of the car and said hi to them. Then we drove home. I decided to take a picture with my sibs since the last time all three of us together was over Christmas break. So we took this picture together after much convincing on my part for Kyle to be in it. We decided to watch Legally Blonde because it's been awhile since I saw that movie. What a great movie. Then we went to bed because tomorrow's Easter!! Jersey was really happy to have the whole family home again :)
March 29, 2013
Happy Day That I Get To Go Home! I woke up at 9 this morning because my bus was at 10:30! I decided to not take a shower this morning because I didn't really feel like it and because I didn't really have that much time. So I went to breakfast, and put the rest of my backpack together. After doing that, I picked up my things (which were a lot lighter compared to my Spring Break/Christmas Break bags) and headed down to the bus. It was a nice bus ride because I got a seat to myself! Yay!! I listened to my music and watched some Boy Meets World. We were a little late getting to the mall, but we got there eventually. Mom was there to pick me up, and then we drove home. I said hello to my pup and ate some chips and salsa because I was really hungry. Then I took Jersey outside, and I found her snuggie!! I forgot we had one for her, so of course I put it on her :) She loved it! And I took a picture, and that became my POD.
We decided to order pizza for dinner because I was kind of full from eating some chips and salsa. When we picked up our pizza, they completely spelled our last name wrong, which you can see a picture of if you click on the button! They also spelled spinach wrong (spinich)....kids these days.
We ate the pizza, and then Kelley came home and ate some pizza. We watched This American Life for the rest of the night. Yay for being home again!
We decided to order pizza for dinner because I was kind of full from eating some chips and salsa. When we picked up our pizza, they completely spelled our last name wrong, which you can see a picture of if you click on the button! They also spelled spinach wrong (spinich)....kids these days.
We ate the pizza, and then Kelley came home and ate some pizza. We watched This American Life for the rest of the night. Yay for being home again!
March 28, 2013
Let me tell you about how my normal day suddenly turned extremely hectic........
So I had a pretty normal morning. I was pretty excited/sad since it was the start of the weekend, but I should have been heading home today!! (I think I forgot to mention that I got a call earlier in the week saying my bus today was cancelled because not enough people were taking it, so I had to reschedule to tomorrow) So I was pretty sad that I had to stay an extra night instead of petting my pup haha.
Anyway, I had German and then I went to earth science where we talked about water in the ground. Today I learned that small towns in Iowa and Illinois that use well systems, are at high risk of having their sewage leaking into the water sources....so that's great. My friend and I just looked at each because she's from a small town in Iowa with a well and I'm from a small town in Illinois with a well...so yeah. We drinkin poo.
After that, I decided to head back to my room instead of going straight to lunch because Maritza's bus home was at 2:40, and I wanted to see her before she left. When I got back to my room, I realized that I had enough time to go eat and get back. So I ate and came back to the room and she said bye and left.
I sat down at my computer and started to eat some left over garlic bread from yesterday when Maritza came back in the room saying she didn't know where her phone was. She looked through all her bags and all the stuff she wore today, and then she thought she might have left it in the dining hall, so I told her to go ask the people if they found a phone.
While she was there, I logged onto Facebook and saw that I had a message from Maritza's sister. The gist of the message was that someone had texted her saying that they found a phone on the ground and they needed to know who to return it to. Maritza's sister told them who it belonged to and where to find her. After I read it, I responded, telling her sister to give the person my phone number so that they can contact me, and then I sprinted from the room to go find Maritza to tell her the news before she headed to the bus. We met each other in the hallway of the residence hall, and I told her about the message, and then we walked back to the room for some reason, and then she had about ten minutes to get to the bus which was pretty far away. I told her I would walk with her to carry one of her bags. I ended up leaving in a t-shirt and flip flops...but the weather was still beautiful today so it was all good! On our way, I tried calling Maritza's phone a few times to see if the person would answer, but I had no luck. I took this picture of me rushing through the streets of Iowa City with Maritza's bag! When we were still a few blocks away, we had two minutes to get to the bus, so we started running, and we rounded the corner and the bus was there and people were still loading their bags, so we could stop running. Maritza got in line, and I stood around catching my breath. I was super sweaty. I was also in the middle of messaging her sister to tell her what to do with Maritza getting into town since she didn't have a phone to tell her family when she was going to arrive. Then we said goodbye for real, and I walked back to our residence hall. I decided to stop at the front desk to ask them if anybody turned in a phone, and they said yes!! They asked for the last name, and then they asked for an ID, and I told them it was my roommate's and that she had just gotten on a bus to go home, and they handed it over.
Maritza had asked me, once I got her phone, to text her mentor who is heading home tomorrow, and ask if she would be able to pick up the phone, and then Maritza would meet up with her tomorrow once she got to town. So I did that, and she said she would swing by our residence hall around 4:50 after class. At about 4:30, I started waiting for her text....and then it was 5:30 and I was super tired so I took a nap and put Maritza's phone on ringer so that it could wake me up. At 6 I decided to go eat dinner, and then at 7 I finally texted the girl, and she had forgotten. Long story short, I eventually got her the phone, and now I have the rest of the night to spend by myself :( But I get to go home tomorrow!!
So I had a pretty normal morning. I was pretty excited/sad since it was the start of the weekend, but I should have been heading home today!! (I think I forgot to mention that I got a call earlier in the week saying my bus today was cancelled because not enough people were taking it, so I had to reschedule to tomorrow) So I was pretty sad that I had to stay an extra night instead of petting my pup haha.
Anyway, I had German and then I went to earth science where we talked about water in the ground. Today I learned that small towns in Iowa and Illinois that use well systems, are at high risk of having their sewage leaking into the water sources....so that's great. My friend and I just looked at each because she's from a small town in Iowa with a well and I'm from a small town in Illinois with a well...so yeah. We drinkin poo.
After that, I decided to head back to my room instead of going straight to lunch because Maritza's bus home was at 2:40, and I wanted to see her before she left. When I got back to my room, I realized that I had enough time to go eat and get back. So I ate and came back to the room and she said bye and left.
I sat down at my computer and started to eat some left over garlic bread from yesterday when Maritza came back in the room saying she didn't know where her phone was. She looked through all her bags and all the stuff she wore today, and then she thought she might have left it in the dining hall, so I told her to go ask the people if they found a phone.
While she was there, I logged onto Facebook and saw that I had a message from Maritza's sister. The gist of the message was that someone had texted her saying that they found a phone on the ground and they needed to know who to return it to. Maritza's sister told them who it belonged to and where to find her. After I read it, I responded, telling her sister to give the person my phone number so that they can contact me, and then I sprinted from the room to go find Maritza to tell her the news before she headed to the bus. We met each other in the hallway of the residence hall, and I told her about the message, and then we walked back to the room for some reason, and then she had about ten minutes to get to the bus which was pretty far away. I told her I would walk with her to carry one of her bags. I ended up leaving in a t-shirt and flip flops...but the weather was still beautiful today so it was all good! On our way, I tried calling Maritza's phone a few times to see if the person would answer, but I had no luck. I took this picture of me rushing through the streets of Iowa City with Maritza's bag! When we were still a few blocks away, we had two minutes to get to the bus, so we started running, and we rounded the corner and the bus was there and people were still loading their bags, so we could stop running. Maritza got in line, and I stood around catching my breath. I was super sweaty. I was also in the middle of messaging her sister to tell her what to do with Maritza getting into town since she didn't have a phone to tell her family when she was going to arrive. Then we said goodbye for real, and I walked back to our residence hall. I decided to stop at the front desk to ask them if anybody turned in a phone, and they said yes!! They asked for the last name, and then they asked for an ID, and I told them it was my roommate's and that she had just gotten on a bus to go home, and they handed it over.
Maritza had asked me, once I got her phone, to text her mentor who is heading home tomorrow, and ask if she would be able to pick up the phone, and then Maritza would meet up with her tomorrow once she got to town. So I did that, and she said she would swing by our residence hall around 4:50 after class. At about 4:30, I started waiting for her text....and then it was 5:30 and I was super tired so I took a nap and put Maritza's phone on ringer so that it could wake me up. At 6 I decided to go eat dinner, and then at 7 I finally texted the girl, and she had forgotten. Long story short, I eventually got her the phone, and now I have the rest of the night to spend by myself :( But I get to go home tomorrow!!
March 27, 2013
IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL OUTSIDE TODAY!!!! I was so in love with the weather!!! I went to breakfast and then German this morning, and then I had to go to fiction writing. I had time to walk at a normal pace today, so that was nice since it was almost warm outside! After fiction writing, I went back to my room and ate lunch. Then I had to go to my honors class, and my German teacher was teaching the class today, so that was exciting!
After class, when Maritza and I were walking back, I told her that I might go running today since it was so nice! When we got back to our room, she said she'd go with me! So we both changed into running clothes, and we set out! I took this picture of us when we just got out of our residence hall. There's this loop that from our residence hall that's about a mile long, and I ran one loop and was dying at the end, so I took the key from Maritza, and she went for another loop. Then I took a shower. Maritza had to go somewhere to do something, so I decided to relax until she got back, and then we went to dinner. My legs were sore when I started walking again to go to dinner...so this is going to be fun haha.
After dinner, Maritza and I decided to go on an adventure. Yesterday I got a coupon for a pizza place that sells garlic bread type things that are really good. They were only $2 and the sale ends tomorrow, so we decided to walk out to this pizza place.....let me tell you...I did not realize how far away this place was when we set out!! It was so far! It was pretty much all the way on the other side of campus. So we had a long walk, but the weather was a nice kind of brisk, and it felt great!
We were practically at the pizza place when Maritza looked at the coupon and realized that the sale only happened if we ordered online...so we sat down and tried to do it on my phone, but it wasn't working, so we just went into the pizza place and ordered the same thing without getting the sale :( I was not going to walk all the way over there without buying something! So we got some garlic bread stick things. We had to wait for them to be made, and then we took the long hike back. I spent the rest of my night doing homework, which wasn't much because I only had German homework! Yay! I love nice weather!
After class, when Maritza and I were walking back, I told her that I might go running today since it was so nice! When we got back to our room, she said she'd go with me! So we both changed into running clothes, and we set out! I took this picture of us when we just got out of our residence hall. There's this loop that from our residence hall that's about a mile long, and I ran one loop and was dying at the end, so I took the key from Maritza, and she went for another loop. Then I took a shower. Maritza had to go somewhere to do something, so I decided to relax until she got back, and then we went to dinner. My legs were sore when I started walking again to go to dinner...so this is going to be fun haha.
After dinner, Maritza and I decided to go on an adventure. Yesterday I got a coupon for a pizza place that sells garlic bread type things that are really good. They were only $2 and the sale ends tomorrow, so we decided to walk out to this pizza place.....let me tell you...I did not realize how far away this place was when we set out!! It was so far! It was pretty much all the way on the other side of campus. So we had a long walk, but the weather was a nice kind of brisk, and it felt great!
We were practically at the pizza place when Maritza looked at the coupon and realized that the sale only happened if we ordered online...so we sat down and tried to do it on my phone, but it wasn't working, so we just went into the pizza place and ordered the same thing without getting the sale :( I was not going to walk all the way over there without buying something! So we got some garlic bread stick things. We had to wait for them to be made, and then we took the long hike back. I spent the rest of my night doing homework, which wasn't much because I only had German homework! Yay! I love nice weather!
March 26, 2013
I realize this picture isn't that great, but it's the only thing great that happened to me today!! So I know I've mentioned this before, but I love Tuesdays because I only have two classes! Today was a pretty average Tuesday. I woke up and ate some breakfast. I had German where we spent the whole day going over sentences we wrote. Then I went to my earth science lab with my new teacher. We talked about the different type of water systems on Earth...and I wasn't really paying attention because I'm bad at paying attention when people are just talking....BUT, I did tune in long enough when we were on this slide to hear her say "so the water can be strong enough to push this cow down stream" and then I died of laughter. I circled the cow for you in the picture in red, and I outlined the river thing he's standing in in blue so that you can get an idea of what the real picture looked like.
After that class, I went to lunch, and then I decided to do some homework. I had to write my German essay tonight since it was due tomorrow, and it was the weirdest essay of my life because it was about what we would do if we were 16 again, so I just made up a bunch of stuff. That's pretty much all that my night consisted of!
After that class, I went to lunch, and then I decided to do some homework. I had to write my German essay tonight since it was due tomorrow, and it was the weirdest essay of my life because it was about what we would do if we were 16 again, so I just made up a bunch of stuff. That's pretty much all that my night consisted of!
March 25, 2013
Shout out to Jill for being born today! Go Jill! Happy Birthday!!!
Today was the first day back to classes. I was nervous for whatever reason. I was terrified that I forgot the time that my German class started, but I ended up being there at the right time so it was all good. Afterwards, I had some time to kill, so I went back to my room and ate some lunch. I should mention that before I went to German, I was on Facebook and saw some thing from Iowa on my newsfeed that said there was some weird thing happening that if I went to the c-store in Burge and said "white top" then I would get a free cupcake.
Moving on with my day... After eating lunch, I went to lab where we played with sand. We were learning about rivers and their different types today so we were making rivers in the sand and recorded stuff about the water and stuff...it wasn't as fun as it sounds. I decided to leave lab a little early rather than finish my homework in class, and I just chilled in the hall until my honors class started.
We had a guest speaker today in my honors class, but he was under the impression that we were going to read the book he was talking about, so he spent most of the presentation talking about the history of France and saying that we'll understand certain aspects of the book once we read it, when we actually aren't going to read the book and the whole idea of the presentation was to learn about it...so that was kind of a waste of class time. There was about 10 minutes of his lecture that actually applied to us.
After that, Maritza and I went to dinner, and then on the way back, we decided to head to the c-store to buy some things. While I was checking out, I saw a sign about the secret phrase I had to say to the cashier, sl I said it, and I got a cupcake!! It was super exciting, and Maritza got one too. Afterwards, we checked our mailbox and my package came!!! Over break, I ordered John Green's shirt for his book, and it arrived today!! I'm so excited! This is a picture of me with the shirt. It's a little big because it only came in s/m, so I think I'm going to stick it in the dryer first. I really like the color, and it's soft. And my arm vein looks huge in this picture. That was all the excitement of today!
Today was the first day back to classes. I was nervous for whatever reason. I was terrified that I forgot the time that my German class started, but I ended up being there at the right time so it was all good. Afterwards, I had some time to kill, so I went back to my room and ate some lunch. I should mention that before I went to German, I was on Facebook and saw some thing from Iowa on my newsfeed that said there was some weird thing happening that if I went to the c-store in Burge and said "white top" then I would get a free cupcake.
Moving on with my day... After eating lunch, I went to lab where we played with sand. We were learning about rivers and their different types today so we were making rivers in the sand and recorded stuff about the water and stuff...it wasn't as fun as it sounds. I decided to leave lab a little early rather than finish my homework in class, and I just chilled in the hall until my honors class started.
We had a guest speaker today in my honors class, but he was under the impression that we were going to read the book he was talking about, so he spent most of the presentation talking about the history of France and saying that we'll understand certain aspects of the book once we read it, when we actually aren't going to read the book and the whole idea of the presentation was to learn about it...so that was kind of a waste of class time. There was about 10 minutes of his lecture that actually applied to us.
After that, Maritza and I went to dinner, and then on the way back, we decided to head to the c-store to buy some things. While I was checking out, I saw a sign about the secret phrase I had to say to the cashier, sl I said it, and I got a cupcake!! It was super exciting, and Maritza got one too. Afterwards, we checked our mailbox and my package came!!! Over break, I ordered John Green's shirt for his book, and it arrived today!! I'm so excited! This is a picture of me with the shirt. It's a little big because it only came in s/m, so I think I'm going to stick it in the dryer first. I really like the color, and it's soft. And my arm vein looks huge in this picture. That was all the excitement of today!
March 24, 2013
Today was the last day of break :( Lisa is a sad sad girl.
After I woke up this morning, I had to do my laundry so that everything was clean for when I go back! Yesterday when we were in town, Kelley bought smarties for her campaign, and today she wanted to buy more, so we went to town again. We also had to return the movie that we rented yesterday.
So Kelley and I headed to town in the afternoon. We went to walmart first since that was the main thing on our agenda. While Kelley was getting all the things she needed, she decided she wanted some chicks, ducks, and bunnies since they only come out around Easter time. After she grabbed a bag, she mentioned getting one for Jill, and then our plan was born. Jill's birthday is tomorrow, so we decided we should get her a bag for her birthday and put a bow on it and leave it on her doorstep! Then we found basketball colored Easter eggs and Easter grass, so we found a basket, got some grass, the eggies, and we found a happy birthday bow to tie around the basket. We also got an Easter card and some fettis.
After we checked out, we opened the chicks, ducks, and bunnies which have become mini over the years, and we started to fill the eggs! I documented the process of us putting the basket together. You can see all the pictures if you click on the button!!
With the Easter card, we decided to turn it into a Happy Easter-Birthday card since her birthday is so close to Easter and because her gift is pretty Eastery. We decided to leave out putting the confetti in the basket until we got to her house so that it wouldn't get all over my car.
After walmart, we went to JC Penney because Mom said they had cheap, colorful skinny jeans. Kelley bought some stuff there, then we went to the movie store, but we couldn't return it there because I got it from a different movie store, so we had to drive to that one. After I returned the movie, we drove to Jill's house. We poured the confetti in the basket. There was a lot of confetti so it ended up covering all of the eggies. While Kelley was walking to the front step, the wind blew a lot of the fetti out so that it was all over the driveway. I took a picture of it, so you can see it :).
We took pictures of us on her front step with the basket, and then I took a picture of the final basket on the step, and then we left.
Mom made cabbage casserole for lunch-dinner, and it is the most amazing thing ever. So we ate that, and then Kelley decided to head back to school since Champaign is supposed to get a crazy snowstorm tonight. I finished my laundry and started packing all my things up, and eventually we had to leave too. I said bye to my pup pup, and then Mom and Dad drove me to the bus.
The bus driver originally said I would be back to school at 9:30, but it turned out that he was talking about a different destination, so that didn't happen. The snowstorm that was headed to Illinois was also happening in Iowa, so the bus ride back was pretty scary. There were a lot of cars in ditches and everybody was driving really slow. Eventually I decided to watch some Boy Meets World just so that my last moments could be happy if my bus landed in a ditch too. Eventually we made it back to Iowa City which was a huge relief. We almost died right before the IMU though because of the giant hill on campus that was icy, but we made it. I found my bag and went back to my room.
Maritza and I were wearing the same t-shirt which is awks but hilarious haha. We talked for a while, and I tried to unpack, but I couldn't, so I ate some soup, and then I decided to watch The Ugly Truth because I didn't feel like going to bed yet.
After I woke up this morning, I had to do my laundry so that everything was clean for when I go back! Yesterday when we were in town, Kelley bought smarties for her campaign, and today she wanted to buy more, so we went to town again. We also had to return the movie that we rented yesterday.
So Kelley and I headed to town in the afternoon. We went to walmart first since that was the main thing on our agenda. While Kelley was getting all the things she needed, she decided she wanted some chicks, ducks, and bunnies since they only come out around Easter time. After she grabbed a bag, she mentioned getting one for Jill, and then our plan was born. Jill's birthday is tomorrow, so we decided we should get her a bag for her birthday and put a bow on it and leave it on her doorstep! Then we found basketball colored Easter eggs and Easter grass, so we found a basket, got some grass, the eggies, and we found a happy birthday bow to tie around the basket. We also got an Easter card and some fettis.
After we checked out, we opened the chicks, ducks, and bunnies which have become mini over the years, and we started to fill the eggs! I documented the process of us putting the basket together. You can see all the pictures if you click on the button!!
With the Easter card, we decided to turn it into a Happy Easter-Birthday card since her birthday is so close to Easter and because her gift is pretty Eastery. We decided to leave out putting the confetti in the basket until we got to her house so that it wouldn't get all over my car.
After walmart, we went to JC Penney because Mom said they had cheap, colorful skinny jeans. Kelley bought some stuff there, then we went to the movie store, but we couldn't return it there because I got it from a different movie store, so we had to drive to that one. After I returned the movie, we drove to Jill's house. We poured the confetti in the basket. There was a lot of confetti so it ended up covering all of the eggies. While Kelley was walking to the front step, the wind blew a lot of the fetti out so that it was all over the driveway. I took a picture of it, so you can see it :).
We took pictures of us on her front step with the basket, and then I took a picture of the final basket on the step, and then we left.
Mom made cabbage casserole for lunch-dinner, and it is the most amazing thing ever. So we ate that, and then Kelley decided to head back to school since Champaign is supposed to get a crazy snowstorm tonight. I finished my laundry and started packing all my things up, and eventually we had to leave too. I said bye to my pup pup, and then Mom and Dad drove me to the bus.
The bus driver originally said I would be back to school at 9:30, but it turned out that he was talking about a different destination, so that didn't happen. The snowstorm that was headed to Illinois was also happening in Iowa, so the bus ride back was pretty scary. There were a lot of cars in ditches and everybody was driving really slow. Eventually I decided to watch some Boy Meets World just so that my last moments could be happy if my bus landed in a ditch too. Eventually we made it back to Iowa City which was a huge relief. We almost died right before the IMU though because of the giant hill on campus that was icy, but we made it. I found my bag and went back to my room.
Maritza and I were wearing the same t-shirt which is awks but hilarious haha. We talked for a while, and I tried to unpack, but I couldn't, so I ate some soup, and then I decided to watch The Ugly Truth because I didn't feel like going to bed yet.
March 23, 2013
Nothing too exciting happened today. It was my second-to-last day of spring break which makes me sad because the week went by so fast! :(
So this morning I woke up at 10ish, and Mom was almost out the door; she was writing Kelley and I a note for when we woke up. I decided to spend my morning playing Sims. Eventually, I took a shower and decided to let my hair dry naturally to see what it looked like with my short short hairs.
Kelley and I decided early in the day that we wanted to rent Perks to watch tonight, so we had plans to run to town pretty much all day. We didn't end up going shopping until about 3 or 4ish. We ran to the movie store and got The Perks of Being a Wallflower (which is a great book if you haven't read it yet!). And then we went to walmart.
When we got home, dinner was ready for us which was a pork liiiion (loin) and some awesome casserole that Mom made for us for the first time! It was super good. After dinner, I played more Sims, and then eventually we decided to watch the movie. I took a picture of the title across the screen, and I think it's kind of a cool picture! It's very artsy...
I thought the movie was good, but I don't really remember the books. Everything was sparking memories as the movie played, and now I want to read it again!
After the movie, Kelley and I stayed up for a little while, and then we went to bed.
So this morning I woke up at 10ish, and Mom was almost out the door; she was writing Kelley and I a note for when we woke up. I decided to spend my morning playing Sims. Eventually, I took a shower and decided to let my hair dry naturally to see what it looked like with my short short hairs.
Kelley and I decided early in the day that we wanted to rent Perks to watch tonight, so we had plans to run to town pretty much all day. We didn't end up going shopping until about 3 or 4ish. We ran to the movie store and got The Perks of Being a Wallflower (which is a great book if you haven't read it yet!). And then we went to walmart.
When we got home, dinner was ready for us which was a pork liiiion (loin) and some awesome casserole that Mom made for us for the first time! It was super good. After dinner, I played more Sims, and then eventually we decided to watch the movie. I took a picture of the title across the screen, and I think it's kind of a cool picture! It's very artsy...
I thought the movie was good, but I don't really remember the books. Everything was sparking memories as the movie played, and now I want to read it again!
After the movie, Kelley and I stayed up for a little while, and then we went to bed.
March 22, 2013
My face does not look pretty great in this picture...but that's okay!! Today I went to lunch with Arzu! Yay! I woke up at 9 and took a shower. I had a chiro appointment at 10:45, so I went to that, and it went pretty quickly because it always does. There's a new guy there now, and he's pretty serious, I kept laughing because I felt really awkward, but he was just ignoring me....whatever.
When I got back home, I just chilled until Arzu came and picked me up! We decided to eat at Corner Bakery because we wanted to try something new in our life. It was super packed there, and the food was really good!!! When Mom and Dad went, they got sandwiches and said that they weren't that amazing, so I got a panini today and it was super good!! So if you go to Corner Bakery, get a panini! They handed us little table numbers after we ordered, and mine was red and Arzu's was brown, and I asked her why her's was brown and she said probably because she was brown, so I took a picture with her and our table numbers hahaha. You can't really tell because the picture is really dark, but just trust me!
After lunch, we went to walmart so Arzu could get some stuff for trail mix she was going to make. After that, she dropped me off at home. I had a few hours to kill, and then I went and picked Mom up from work! We had to go pick Kelley up from the bus stop, and when we got there, Mom went to the bathroom, and when she came out, the bus was there and only Kelley and another person was there!! It was crazy!
We stopped at a pizza place on the way home and Dad met us there. I got chicken strips, and I realized that that it's been a long time since I've eaten chicken strips! After that, we went home and we just kind of chilled for awhile. Mom and Dad fell asleep on the couch, and Kelley and I decided to watch How to Train Your Dragon. I'm now going to rant about this movie for a second:
This was the third time I've seen this movie, and it is seriously the best thing of my life! Every time I watch it, it gets better! And it makes me sad because I feel like it's really under appreciated, so I'm going to tell you to watch it because it's so great and you won't regret it! It's so funny and great. You can thank me later :)
After the movie, we watched some of the special features, and then we went to bed! Yay!
When I got back home, I just chilled until Arzu came and picked me up! We decided to eat at Corner Bakery because we wanted to try something new in our life. It was super packed there, and the food was really good!!! When Mom and Dad went, they got sandwiches and said that they weren't that amazing, so I got a panini today and it was super good!! So if you go to Corner Bakery, get a panini! They handed us little table numbers after we ordered, and mine was red and Arzu's was brown, and I asked her why her's was brown and she said probably because she was brown, so I took a picture with her and our table numbers hahaha. You can't really tell because the picture is really dark, but just trust me!
After lunch, we went to walmart so Arzu could get some stuff for trail mix she was going to make. After that, she dropped me off at home. I had a few hours to kill, and then I went and picked Mom up from work! We had to go pick Kelley up from the bus stop, and when we got there, Mom went to the bathroom, and when she came out, the bus was there and only Kelley and another person was there!! It was crazy!
We stopped at a pizza place on the way home and Dad met us there. I got chicken strips, and I realized that that it's been a long time since I've eaten chicken strips! After that, we went home and we just kind of chilled for awhile. Mom and Dad fell asleep on the couch, and Kelley and I decided to watch How to Train Your Dragon. I'm now going to rant about this movie for a second:
This was the third time I've seen this movie, and it is seriously the best thing of my life! Every time I watch it, it gets better! And it makes me sad because I feel like it's really under appreciated, so I'm going to tell you to watch it because it's so great and you won't regret it! It's so funny and great. You can thank me later :)
After the movie, we watched some of the special features, and then we went to bed! Yay!
March 21, 2013
Today was a pretty busy day (kind of)!!! I had plans on going to lunch with Arzu, but we had to reschedule that until tomorrow! So that gave me time to relax for a long time in the morning. I mostly read Ender's Game which is pretty great and intense.
Yesterday, I asked Mom if I could get my hairs cut, so after she came home for work, she decided to head out to the hairs cutter. The lady that cut my hair did not wet it which was really weird because every time I've gotten my hair cut (which is not that often) they always wet my hair! So she was combing through all my curls, and it hurt pretty bad since my hair is very intertwined. She also cut my hair super fast and was just picking up random chunks and cutting...it didn't really look like she had a plan. When she was done, I wasn't really sure if she was actually done because it went by so fast! I went to Mom, and then we left.
Dad made dinner tonight since I was getting my hair cut, and it was good. For the past few nights while we've been eating dinner, Mom and Dad have been pointing out deer and wild turkeys that have started grazing in our yard around dinner time. Tonight, Mom kept seeing something running around in the woods, and we were trying to figure out what it was, so Dad pulled out his binoculars to look at it...and he looked like a weirdy, so I took a picture of him. Spoiler alert: it was a deer. He was just prancing around in the woods because he felt like it.
On Monday, Janelle and I made plans to go to the show tonight to see Oz! I went and picked her up at 7:40, and then we headed to the show! We saw it in 3D because she heard it was really good in 3D. When we first walked in, we were the only people in the theater, and it was pretty awesome, and we were talking really loud, and then other people arrived....and we were still talking really loud haha.
The opening credits were awesome in 3D!! And the movie was very 3D-y. There were flying monkies and such flying at you. The movie was okay. It was not really what I was expecting it to be, but it was okay. There were some pretty funny parts, but I wasn't really a fan of the plot of James Franco's acting skills.
After the movie, I dropped Janelle off at home, and then I went home and went to bed! Yay!
Yesterday, I asked Mom if I could get my hairs cut, so after she came home for work, she decided to head out to the hairs cutter. The lady that cut my hair did not wet it which was really weird because every time I've gotten my hair cut (which is not that often) they always wet my hair! So she was combing through all my curls, and it hurt pretty bad since my hair is very intertwined. She also cut my hair super fast and was just picking up random chunks and cutting...it didn't really look like she had a plan. When she was done, I wasn't really sure if she was actually done because it went by so fast! I went to Mom, and then we left.
Dad made dinner tonight since I was getting my hair cut, and it was good. For the past few nights while we've been eating dinner, Mom and Dad have been pointing out deer and wild turkeys that have started grazing in our yard around dinner time. Tonight, Mom kept seeing something running around in the woods, and we were trying to figure out what it was, so Dad pulled out his binoculars to look at it...and he looked like a weirdy, so I took a picture of him. Spoiler alert: it was a deer. He was just prancing around in the woods because he felt like it.
On Monday, Janelle and I made plans to go to the show tonight to see Oz! I went and picked her up at 7:40, and then we headed to the show! We saw it in 3D because she heard it was really good in 3D. When we first walked in, we were the only people in the theater, and it was pretty awesome, and we were talking really loud, and then other people arrived....and we were still talking really loud haha.
The opening credits were awesome in 3D!! And the movie was very 3D-y. There were flying monkies and such flying at you. The movie was okay. It was not really what I was expecting it to be, but it was okay. There were some pretty funny parts, but I wasn't really a fan of the plot of James Franco's acting skills.
After the movie, I dropped Janelle off at home, and then I went home and went to bed! Yay!
March 20, 2013
Today was a very early morning for me! Mom and Dad had planned before I came home to go to Galena, a town on the boarder of Illinois and Iowa. They knew a few people who've been there before, and everybody said it was really nice there and that there's a lot of shopping that can be done. The town is about 2 and a half hours away, so Mom wanted to leave the house at 7...that meant I had to wake up at 6!! Since I'm not used to waking up that early, I actually woke up at 6:40 and quickly showered in 20 minutes.
We decided to stop and eat breakfast, and it was pretty good, but we got really full and weren't really hungry again until dinner time. I fell asleep in the car on the way to Galena, and then I woke up once we got there!
It was super cold outside today...the wind was terrible, so we were all really bundled. The road with all the shops was long, and we walked along that, stopping in the different shops. They were pretty cute stores! Galena is a town with really old houses like the house that President Grant lived in after he was president, and this house that I took a picture with!! It's the oldest house...I don't remember how old, but it's pretty old! There was also this old cobblestoned road that was preserved and it does not look like something you want to drive down...it's pretty bumpy.
Since it was so cold out today and since it's only March, there weren't really that many people out because the touristy time is usually during the summer.
At one store, we bought yogurt covered pretzels which were pretty much the best thing of my life. We decided to eat dinner at an Irish pub place, but we had to wait for them to open at 4, and when we came back at 4, they said they opened at 4:30, but we were seated anyway. I got a Reuben because I love Reubens, and we ate are dinner which was pretty good, and then we settled in for the drive home!
I took a cool picture of the road with all the shops while we were walking down it because it was such a cute road; Dad said it looked like something out of a movie. You can see that picture if you click on the button!
It was a pretty great day, but I was pretty exhausted when it was time for bed. We plan on going back some day!
We decided to stop and eat breakfast, and it was pretty good, but we got really full and weren't really hungry again until dinner time. I fell asleep in the car on the way to Galena, and then I woke up once we got there!
It was super cold outside today...the wind was terrible, so we were all really bundled. The road with all the shops was long, and we walked along that, stopping in the different shops. They were pretty cute stores! Galena is a town with really old houses like the house that President Grant lived in after he was president, and this house that I took a picture with!! It's the oldest house...I don't remember how old, but it's pretty old! There was also this old cobblestoned road that was preserved and it does not look like something you want to drive down...it's pretty bumpy.
Since it was so cold out today and since it's only March, there weren't really that many people out because the touristy time is usually during the summer.
At one store, we bought yogurt covered pretzels which were pretty much the best thing of my life. We decided to eat dinner at an Irish pub place, but we had to wait for them to open at 4, and when we came back at 4, they said they opened at 4:30, but we were seated anyway. I got a Reuben because I love Reubens, and we ate are dinner which was pretty good, and then we settled in for the drive home!
I took a cool picture of the road with all the shops while we were walking down it because it was such a cute road; Dad said it looked like something out of a movie. You can see that picture if you click on the button!
It was a pretty great day, but I was pretty exhausted when it was time for bed. We plan on going back some day!
March 19, 2013
I hope you like dogs because apparently that's all that I do over spring break!! But that's okay because I LOVE DOGGIES!!!! So I hung out with another puppy today!!!
Mom decided to take off work today to spend the day with me. We decided we wanted to visit Butch and Judy and see Marbles, so that was the first thing on our list!! I woke up at 7:30 (I know), and we left a little before 9 to head over to their house!!
Marbles greeted us right away and she's so huge compared to when she was a tiny puppy in our kitchen in January!!! It was crazy to see her!! She was so excited, she just kept jumping around! I took this adorable picture of her once she calmed down and decided to lay on the couch. She was so snuggly and soft! I love puppies!! We talked with Butch and Judy for awhile, and then we left to go to lunch.
We went to this really great restaurant in a town close to home. It was the first time I've been there, and it was so super delicious!!! Mom and I got the same thing...awks. I took a picture of our meal because it looked and tasted amazing. I also took a picture of the silverware because the forks were HUGE!!! You can compare it to the spoon lying next to it...they didn't even fit on the napkins that we were given.
After lunch, we had time to kill, so we went to a few stores, and then we went and got frozen yogurt! Yay! I love frozen yogurt with a passion! It was soo good! Then we went to our movie. We planned on seeing Identity Thief, so at 2:10, we went to the theater and the movie started! It wasn't as funny as we were expecting it to be, but it was still a good movie. I would see it again! I liked it.
After our long day of doing fun things, we went back home, and the rest of the night was pretty normal! If you want to see the exciting pictures from today, you can click on the button!!
Mom decided to take off work today to spend the day with me. We decided we wanted to visit Butch and Judy and see Marbles, so that was the first thing on our list!! I woke up at 7:30 (I know), and we left a little before 9 to head over to their house!!
Marbles greeted us right away and she's so huge compared to when she was a tiny puppy in our kitchen in January!!! It was crazy to see her!! She was so excited, she just kept jumping around! I took this adorable picture of her once she calmed down and decided to lay on the couch. She was so snuggly and soft! I love puppies!! We talked with Butch and Judy for awhile, and then we left to go to lunch.
We went to this really great restaurant in a town close to home. It was the first time I've been there, and it was so super delicious!!! Mom and I got the same thing...awks. I took a picture of our meal because it looked and tasted amazing. I also took a picture of the silverware because the forks were HUGE!!! You can compare it to the spoon lying next to it...they didn't even fit on the napkins that we were given.
After lunch, we had time to kill, so we went to a few stores, and then we went and got frozen yogurt! Yay! I love frozen yogurt with a passion! It was soo good! Then we went to our movie. We planned on seeing Identity Thief, so at 2:10, we went to the theater and the movie started! It wasn't as funny as we were expecting it to be, but it was still a good movie. I would see it again! I liked it.
After our long day of doing fun things, we went back home, and the rest of the night was pretty normal! If you want to see the exciting pictures from today, you can click on the button!!
March 18, 2013
Today was the busiest day of my spring break so far! Yay for doing things! So I had a dentist appointment at 11 which Mom set up for me a few weeks ago. Since I was supposed to do something with Janelle last night and that didn't work, we decided to hang out today in the morning before she went to work. Janelle's house and my dentist are pretty close to each other, so I woke up at 8:30, took a shower, ate breakfast, and then left to go to Janelle's house! I planned to be there at 9:30, but that's when I actually left my house. It started snowing this morning so my car needed to be brushed off. The roads weren't bad, so that was good!
I don't know if I mentioned this yet, but Janelle got a new puppy, and I was so excited to see it!!! Her name is Lilly and she's crazy! She is also suppppeerr tiny!! She was jumping all over the place when I walked through the door, and she kept sliding all over the kitchen floor hahaha. The other dog is not a big fan of her which was hilarious. When Roxy came inside, she was so happy to see me, and she gave me this look that told me to take her away from Lilly hahaha. And then Roxy cuddled in my lap. It was kind of hard to take pictures of Lilly because she was so bouncy, but I did get some when she posed for me :) You can see two other pictures of her if you click on the button!
At about 10:50, I decided to leave Janelle's house and head to the dentist. I waited for a few seconds and then they called me in. I got x-rays today, and then after all the torture happened, they told me one of my wisdom teeth was growing in at a 45 degree angle to the rest of my teeth and it could cause infection and blah blah blah. Basically, the dentist told me I'd probably have to get them removed in a few years, but the hygienist lady told me I should do it this summer. She wrote me a referral to get it done, and now Mom is planning on that happening almost as soon as I get home from college in the summer. I'm so excited.
After the dentist, I came home and did homework/other things for awhile. I think it was mostly homework. When Mom and Dad came home, Mom made dinner, and then right after dinner, Mom and I went to go pick up grandma to go shopping!
We went to wal-mart to get a few things, and I wore my yellow converse. While we were there, a guy stopped us in the store and asked where I got my shoes from because he was standing up in a wedding where all the bridesmaids were wearing purple converse and all the groomsmen were wearing yellow, and they couldn't find anywhere that sold them. So Mom gave him the name of the store. It was pretty great because I love my shoes, and I love that other people love them too :) After wal-mart, Mom got gas, and then we went home. The rest of my night was pretty average.
I don't know if I mentioned this yet, but Janelle got a new puppy, and I was so excited to see it!!! Her name is Lilly and she's crazy! She is also suppppeerr tiny!! She was jumping all over the place when I walked through the door, and she kept sliding all over the kitchen floor hahaha. The other dog is not a big fan of her which was hilarious. When Roxy came inside, she was so happy to see me, and she gave me this look that told me to take her away from Lilly hahaha. And then Roxy cuddled in my lap. It was kind of hard to take pictures of Lilly because she was so bouncy, but I did get some when she posed for me :) You can see two other pictures of her if you click on the button!
At about 10:50, I decided to leave Janelle's house and head to the dentist. I waited for a few seconds and then they called me in. I got x-rays today, and then after all the torture happened, they told me one of my wisdom teeth was growing in at a 45 degree angle to the rest of my teeth and it could cause infection and blah blah blah. Basically, the dentist told me I'd probably have to get them removed in a few years, but the hygienist lady told me I should do it this summer. She wrote me a referral to get it done, and now Mom is planning on that happening almost as soon as I get home from college in the summer. I'm so excited.
After the dentist, I came home and did homework/other things for awhile. I think it was mostly homework. When Mom and Dad came home, Mom made dinner, and then right after dinner, Mom and I went to go pick up grandma to go shopping!
We went to wal-mart to get a few things, and I wore my yellow converse. While we were there, a guy stopped us in the store and asked where I got my shoes from because he was standing up in a wedding where all the bridesmaids were wearing purple converse and all the groomsmen were wearing yellow, and they couldn't find anywhere that sold them. So Mom gave him the name of the store. It was pretty great because I love my shoes, and I love that other people love them too :) After wal-mart, Mom got gas, and then we went home. The rest of my night was pretty average.
March 17, 2013
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! In celebration, I wore my Kiss Me I'm Iowarish shirt that Judy got me! Too bad I couldn't sport it in Iowa, but oh well! I was going to go visit Janelle today, but our plans changed so I'm going to see her tomorrow! I woke up at 11:30 today which wasn't great because half the day was already over! I had leftovers for lunch, and then I didn't really do anything for awhile. I decided to start and finish my fiction writing homework! So that was nice to get out of the way! All day the corned beef and cabbage was cooking and our house smelled amazing!!! I was so hungry by five, and Mom said that it was ready!! Yay!! I took a picture of our spread because it's awesome and tastes amazing. I mocked Kelley with this picture because she ate chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes at her dining hall while we ate corned beef and cabbage! So delicious :)
After dinner, I did more homework, and the rest of the night was spent not doing much of anything. Mom and Dad went to bed relatively early because they work tomorrow, and I decided to work on my essay that was supposed to be due on the Wednesday before break, but my teacher pushed back the deadline to Monday, so I started working on that. I was up until about 2:30, and then I went to bed! I hope your St. Patrick's Day was as exciting as mine :)
After dinner, I did more homework, and the rest of the night was spent not doing much of anything. Mom and Dad went to bed relatively early because they work tomorrow, and I decided to work on my essay that was supposed to be due on the Wednesday before break, but my teacher pushed back the deadline to Monday, so I started working on that. I was up until about 2:30, and then I went to bed! I hope your St. Patrick's Day was as exciting as mine :)
March 16, 2013
Today was pretty uneventful. I woke up at 10ish and Mom had made some bacon and eggies so that's what I had for brunch! It was good. Then I decided to work on some homework. Mom made some potato salad with some of the bacon from this morning. She wanted to run to Aldi to pick up a few things, so I said I would go with her. I had to take a shower first, so that's what I did, and then we were on our way to Aldi. She bought her corned beef for tomorrow's dinner, and while she was there, she also bought some steak for dinner tonight! Woo! I took a picture of my dinner because it's nice to have home cooked meals and it made me excited! Yay! Have I mentioned I love being home?
After dinner, Dad decided he wanted to watch Austin Powers Goldmember because it's been such a long time since we've seen it...it's crazy watching it now. Too many memories. I tried to do homework while Dad was watching the movie, but that didn't really work. Eventually we all just went to bed. Not too exciting :)
After dinner, Dad decided he wanted to watch Austin Powers Goldmember because it's been such a long time since we've seen it...it's crazy watching it now. Too many memories. I tried to do homework while Dad was watching the movie, but that didn't really work. Eventually we all just went to bed. Not too exciting :)
March 15, 2013
Today I woke up to this thing at the feet of my bed :) And she looked super adorable while she was there. Eventually I got out of bed and ate some brunch of toast and a banana and tortilla chips :) Then I decided to start on my homework...because I'm lame. No, because I have a few chapters to read in my earth science book and I want to do one a day because I hate reading the book, and I want it to be over. I also did my German homework. I showered at some point today, and after that was when I started my German homework. Mom and Dad came home while I was working on that. Mom made dinner which was delicious since it wasn't dining hall food. Jersey looked really cute on the couch today, so I took a picture of her because it's good to see her pug face again :)
I did more of my earth science reading after dinner. Dad wanted to watch a movie, and I was going to tell him that I wanted to see Walk the Line again, but then I decided I wanted to finish my homework and not watch a movie. When he came upstairs, I asked what he decided to watch and he said Walk the Line hahaha...we can read minds. I still did some of my homework, but then I decided to watch the movie because it's so great and I wanted to watch it and because Joaquin Phoenix.
After the movie, I stayed up for a little bit before I went to bed! Yay for being home!! I still love it :)
I did more of my earth science reading after dinner. Dad wanted to watch a movie, and I was going to tell him that I wanted to see Walk the Line again, but then I decided I wanted to finish my homework and not watch a movie. When he came upstairs, I asked what he decided to watch and he said Walk the Line hahaha...we can read minds. I still did some of my homework, but then I decided to watch the movie because it's so great and I wanted to watch it and because Joaquin Phoenix.
After the movie, I stayed up for a little bit before I went to bed! Yay for being home!! I still love it :)
March 14, 2013
Happy Start to Spring Break to all my no Friday class people!!! I woke up at 9 and decided to not take a shower because it makes my life easier when my hair is straight! I put on some clothes and ate breakfast, and then I went to German! We had a quiz today as I mentioned yesterday, and I still didn't really study it, but my teacher told us that when we were done with the quiz, we could just leave! When we sat down, the quiz was only one page, and it was way super easy! I got out of class ten minutes after it started! Since I had about an hour before my science class started, I went back to my room. It was sooooooooo nice in Iowa City today! It reached almost 50 I think at one point. When I looked at the weather back home, it made me actually not want to go home because it was so beautiful here, but it's supposed to snow tomorrow at home....yay.
After my hour of doing nothing in my room, I went to my earth science lecture with my new teacher. She wasn't that bad, and she was actually pretty funny too. She talked super fast which was nice because we got out earlier than usual. Hopefully she keeps that up :) After that I was free!!!!!!!!!
I went to lunch, and then I packed to go home! Then I had a few hours to kill, so I just chilled in my bed until the time came for me to board the bus! Maritza walked me to the bus. We said goodbye, and then I got on the bus, and I was Illinois bound!! The bus seemed ten times longer than usual, but eventually I got to the mall where it drops me off, and I found Mom, and we drove home together.
When I got home, I went to put something in my room and saw that I had a library ladder!!!! I've been waiting for it for years, and now I have one!!!! I'm so excited!! And Mom told me the crazy story of them trying to get the pole in my room...they had to cut a section of my ceiling out just to get it to fit....oh my haha. Dad came home a little bit later, and then I ate some dinner, and Mom and Dad went to bed. I stayed up for a few more hours, and then I went to bed in my bed! Yay! I like being home.
After my hour of doing nothing in my room, I went to my earth science lecture with my new teacher. She wasn't that bad, and she was actually pretty funny too. She talked super fast which was nice because we got out earlier than usual. Hopefully she keeps that up :) After that I was free!!!!!!!!!
I went to lunch, and then I packed to go home! Then I had a few hours to kill, so I just chilled in my bed until the time came for me to board the bus! Maritza walked me to the bus. We said goodbye, and then I got on the bus, and I was Illinois bound!! The bus seemed ten times longer than usual, but eventually I got to the mall where it drops me off, and I found Mom, and we drove home together.
When I got home, I went to put something in my room and saw that I had a library ladder!!!! I've been waiting for it for years, and now I have one!!!! I'm so excited!! And Mom told me the crazy story of them trying to get the pole in my room...they had to cut a section of my ceiling out just to get it to fit....oh my haha. Dad came home a little bit later, and then I ate some dinner, and Mom and Dad went to bed. I stayed up for a few more hours, and then I went to bed in my bed! Yay! I like being home.
March 13, 2013
Happy Wednesday!! Since I showered last night, I decided to straighten my hairs this morning!! I actually woke up at 9 (surprise, surprise) and I got right to that! It took me about an hour and half and then I went and ate breakfast. After breakfast, I went to German and we talked more about the reading that we've been doing all week.
German went a little bit over which made me nervous because Wednesdays are the days where I have ten minutes to run across Iowa City. So I power walked super fast all the way over to my class, and I was super out of breath, and as soon as I walked through the front doors of the building my class is in, I saw three people from my class walking towards me and one said "class is canceled", so I just turned around and walked out the doors I just walked through!! Then I went back to my room still out of breath and checked my e-mail. My teacher was sick and sent us an e-mail while I was eating breakfast,
That gave me two extra hours to do what I wanted! I decided to go to the lounge and work on an essay that was either due today or the Monday after break...but as soon as I got to the lounge, I decided to do nothing and just spend the two hours of my life procrastinating! It was pretty great. I took this picture in the lounge with my straight hairs.
After my amazing 2 hours worth of free time, I had to go to my honors class. We talked about Faust again today, and it was super interesting, but sadly, we did not watch any awesome musicals in German :(.
After that class, I was pretty much on spring break. It was so hard for me to just pick up my German book and read the last two chapters. I have a quiz tomorrow, but I could not for the life of me try to study.
Instead, I talked Maritza into watching Big Fish with me!! It was just as great as the last few times I've seen...I just forgot how long ago it was that I actually saw it! After that, I stayed up for a few more hours trying to study, but eventually I just gave up and went to bed.
German went a little bit over which made me nervous because Wednesdays are the days where I have ten minutes to run across Iowa City. So I power walked super fast all the way over to my class, and I was super out of breath, and as soon as I walked through the front doors of the building my class is in, I saw three people from my class walking towards me and one said "class is canceled", so I just turned around and walked out the doors I just walked through!! Then I went back to my room still out of breath and checked my e-mail. My teacher was sick and sent us an e-mail while I was eating breakfast,
That gave me two extra hours to do what I wanted! I decided to go to the lounge and work on an essay that was either due today or the Monday after break...but as soon as I got to the lounge, I decided to do nothing and just spend the two hours of my life procrastinating! It was pretty great. I took this picture in the lounge with my straight hairs.
After my amazing 2 hours worth of free time, I had to go to my honors class. We talked about Faust again today, and it was super interesting, but sadly, we did not watch any awesome musicals in German :(.
After that class, I was pretty much on spring break. It was so hard for me to just pick up my German book and read the last two chapters. I have a quiz tomorrow, but I could not for the life of me try to study.
Instead, I talked Maritza into watching Big Fish with me!! It was just as great as the last few times I've seen...I just forgot how long ago it was that I actually saw it! After that, I stayed up for a few more hours trying to study, but eventually I just gave up and went to bed.
March 12, 2013
So I ended up waking up at 11 today...I don't want to talk about it...I don't even know how that happened. I could not believe the clock when I woke up!! And I didn't even hear my alarm clock!!! I had 15 minutes to get ready before I had to leave to go to German...so I didn't shower (ew). Good news was that I felt super well rested! Yay for oversleeping!
I went to German which made me feel better about my life because we read from the story again today. After I woke up, I looked out the window and saw that it was pouring snow outside, and on my way to German, I took a picture of myself walking through the craziness...as you can see, I don't look very happy. I was covered in snow by the time I got to class.
After that, I went to earth science which was a sad day because it was the last day my British teacher was teaching that class :( The class is some sort of team teaching thing where halfway through the semester, they switch teachers, so now I get some lady which makes me upset because my teacher's accent was the main reason I took that class! (I wish I was joking).
After class, I went back to my residence hall, and Maritza went down for a nap after she opened the window...it got pretty cold in our room, so I decided to go to the lounge to get stuff done. I ended up being pretty productive, and then at 5, Maritza and I went to dinner.
I decided to shower later tonight since I was disgusting...so that's what I did. I went to the lab to work on my German homework, and that took a pretty long time, and then I came back to my room and did pretty much nothing for the rest of the night! 2 more days until spring break!!
I went to German which made me feel better about my life because we read from the story again today. After I woke up, I looked out the window and saw that it was pouring snow outside, and on my way to German, I took a picture of myself walking through the craziness...as you can see, I don't look very happy. I was covered in snow by the time I got to class.
After that, I went to earth science which was a sad day because it was the last day my British teacher was teaching that class :( The class is some sort of team teaching thing where halfway through the semester, they switch teachers, so now I get some lady which makes me upset because my teacher's accent was the main reason I took that class! (I wish I was joking).
After class, I went back to my residence hall, and Maritza went down for a nap after she opened the window...it got pretty cold in our room, so I decided to go to the lounge to get stuff done. I ended up being pretty productive, and then at 5, Maritza and I went to dinner.
I decided to shower later tonight since I was disgusting...so that's what I did. I went to the lab to work on my German homework, and that took a pretty long time, and then I came back to my room and did pretty much nothing for the rest of the night! 2 more days until spring break!!
March 11, 2013
Happy Monday!! I was actually excited for the week to start because that means I'm closer to spring break!! Yay! I woke up and did some German homework before going to German. We started reading this easy reader book thing for this unit, so we spent all of class reading it together, and it was pretty amusing because the story is ridiculous. After that, I went back to my room and ate lunch. I had lab today which was kind of not fun because we were looking at patterns of rock formations under ground and drawing them and coloring them based off of what the surrounding area looked like...I was almost falling asleep while we were going over it, and then the actual work just made me confused. The lab ended up taking the whole time to finish, so I had to hurry and make sure I finished since I couldn't come in on Friday to finish...since I will be home!!! Yay!
After that, I made my way over to my honors class where it was a lot more interesting and we talked about Faust and watched parts of the ridiculous rock opera that exists in Germany. One of the songs had a chorus that was literally "he loves me, he loves me not" over and over and over and over again in German and I was dying. After class, I sang that song to Maritza, and now she hates me :). We went to dinner after class, and then we went back to our room and I did my German homework which was reading out of the story, and I turned around at one point and saw that Maritza was doing her Italian homework out of a similar book, so I asked her to take a picture with me because we're cool cats :) Look at us doing our similar homework together!
After that, I made my way over to my honors class where it was a lot more interesting and we talked about Faust and watched parts of the ridiculous rock opera that exists in Germany. One of the songs had a chorus that was literally "he loves me, he loves me not" over and over and over and over again in German and I was dying. After class, I sang that song to Maritza, and now she hates me :). We went to dinner after class, and then we went back to our room and I did my German homework which was reading out of the story, and I turned around at one point and saw that Maritza was doing her Italian homework out of a similar book, so I asked her to take a picture with me because we're cool cats :) Look at us doing our similar homework together!
March 10, 2013
We finally saw the play today, as you can see from the POD!! Because of daylight savings time, I technically went to bed at 4, and I wanted to wake up at 10...but that didn't happen...so I woke up at pretty much 11. Then I took a shower and did some more fiction writing homework! Woo. Maritza went to church, and we decided to go to lunch afterwards. It was raining again today, like all day, so that sucked. On Sundays, they usually serve breakfast at lunchtime, so I had breakfast for lunch. We realized when we were done eating that we still had time to spare before the play, so we went to our room for a little bit before heading over there.
I wore my rain boots today and we each brought our own umbrellas. The play started at 2, and we got there right before they opened their doors, so we didn't have to stand in line for too long! Yay!
The play was called A Dream Play so we kind of knew it was going to be weird from the beginning. Because we were thrown off from daylight savings time, Maritza and I were super tired before the play even started. It was pretty much about this girl who came to Earth to learn about how human's behave, and everyone she meets is unhappy for a different reason. It was kind of depressing but mostly weird. There were also a few creepy parts too. When it was over and we all left the theater, everybody was mesmerized by the sun because it was soooo bright compared to the dark. We didn't even realize how dark it was in the theater!!
Maritza and I went back to our room, and she took a nap, and I had plans of doing homework...but I got super sleepy so I took a nap too. We both ended up sleeping for almost two hours. When we woke up, we went to Chipotle!! We planned on going to Chipotle sometime last week, so this was a big deal for me. It was so amazing, but I don't really think Maritza was a fan. She got really full.
After we walked back, we decided to do our laundry and watch Faust since I have to watch it for my honors class. The video that my teacher posted online was made in 1926....so it was in black and white and it was a silent film...and it was two hours. It was a big ball of fun. It was actually pretty ridiculous and I laughed at it a lot because the acting and facial expressions were priceless. So I was able to take that and my laundry off of my checklist!! Yay!
After that, I folded my clothes. Maritza went to go to the bathroom at one point, and she ran back out and into our room screaming because there was a giant cockroach mozing along in there. She showed it to me from the doorway, and it was pretty huge, so we both decided to use the individual bathroom at the end of the hall instead. Later on, I heard more people talking about the cockroach and one girl had trapped it with a garbage can and the other went to tell my RA who refused to do anything hahaha and then the girl that trapped it, picked it up in a box and carried it to the outdoors...our lives are saved! Hallelujah!!! And that was the most exciting part of today hahaha. Four more days until spring break! Woo!
I wore my rain boots today and we each brought our own umbrellas. The play started at 2, and we got there right before they opened their doors, so we didn't have to stand in line for too long! Yay!
The play was called A Dream Play so we kind of knew it was going to be weird from the beginning. Because we were thrown off from daylight savings time, Maritza and I were super tired before the play even started. It was pretty much about this girl who came to Earth to learn about how human's behave, and everyone she meets is unhappy for a different reason. It was kind of depressing but mostly weird. There were also a few creepy parts too. When it was over and we all left the theater, everybody was mesmerized by the sun because it was soooo bright compared to the dark. We didn't even realize how dark it was in the theater!!
Maritza and I went back to our room, and she took a nap, and I had plans of doing homework...but I got super sleepy so I took a nap too. We both ended up sleeping for almost two hours. When we woke up, we went to Chipotle!! We planned on going to Chipotle sometime last week, so this was a big deal for me. It was so amazing, but I don't really think Maritza was a fan. She got really full.
After we walked back, we decided to do our laundry and watch Faust since I have to watch it for my honors class. The video that my teacher posted online was made in 1926....so it was in black and white and it was a silent film...and it was two hours. It was a big ball of fun. It was actually pretty ridiculous and I laughed at it a lot because the acting and facial expressions were priceless. So I was able to take that and my laundry off of my checklist!! Yay!
After that, I folded my clothes. Maritza went to go to the bathroom at one point, and she ran back out and into our room screaming because there was a giant cockroach mozing along in there. She showed it to me from the doorway, and it was pretty huge, so we both decided to use the individual bathroom at the end of the hall instead. Later on, I heard more people talking about the cockroach and one girl had trapped it with a garbage can and the other went to tell my RA who refused to do anything hahaha and then the girl that trapped it, picked it up in a box and carried it to the outdoors...our lives are saved! Hallelujah!!! And that was the most exciting part of today hahaha. Four more days until spring break! Woo!
March 9, 2013
Happy Saturday!! Today was not very exciting...I woke up at 10, and Maritza was getting dressed and told me that she was going to breakfast after she was done getting dressed if I wanted to go with, so I said sure. So we went and got breakfast. After breakfast, I took a shower, and then I finished reading the Edgar Allan Poe stories I had started reading last night for my fiction writing class. After that, I decided to take a nap. I ended up sleeping for an hour, and I woke up to Maritza talking to the lady that cleans our bathroom. They had a really long conversation in Spanish which made Maritza happy because it reminded her of home :)
After that, I'm not really sure what I did with my time. We went to lunch and dinner so that we could use up all of our meal swipes this week. Maritza and I have been planning on going to a play since yesterday, but we didn't feel like going yesterday, so we wen today. It was raining pretty hard when we walked over to the theater building, but since my umbrella is huge, we decided to share it...but that was a mistake because it's not that big haha. And there were a lot of puddles all over the place so our shoes were getting soaked.
Once we finally got to the theater building, we had to wait a little bit for the box office to open, and then when it did open, they told us that the show was sold out, so we bought tickets for the show tomorrow at 2.
When we got back to the room, I decided to start figuring out the color run situation. Kelley and I wanted to do the Color Run last year (it's a 5K in which you get paint thrown on you while you run it), but the dates didn't work out, so we decided we definitely wanted to do it this year!!! So Kelley, Kyle, and I are planning to do it with Maritza and her two sisters and anybody else who wants to join!! What was holding us back was our team name, which we finally settled today!! We are Team Awesome Sauce :) So I created the team and signed myself up!!! I can't wait!!! I called Kelley to go over some stuff on the phone, and then we talked for a while...and it was great!
After that, I spent the rest of my night doing fiction writing homework. I remembered at about 1:30 that it was daylight savings time, so we turned our clocks ahead, and all of a sudden I felt like I should've been in bed....I hate turning clocks ahead :(
After that, I'm not really sure what I did with my time. We went to lunch and dinner so that we could use up all of our meal swipes this week. Maritza and I have been planning on going to a play since yesterday, but we didn't feel like going yesterday, so we wen today. It was raining pretty hard when we walked over to the theater building, but since my umbrella is huge, we decided to share it...but that was a mistake because it's not that big haha. And there were a lot of puddles all over the place so our shoes were getting soaked.
Once we finally got to the theater building, we had to wait a little bit for the box office to open, and then when it did open, they told us that the show was sold out, so we bought tickets for the show tomorrow at 2.
When we got back to the room, I decided to start figuring out the color run situation. Kelley and I wanted to do the Color Run last year (it's a 5K in which you get paint thrown on you while you run it), but the dates didn't work out, so we decided we definitely wanted to do it this year!!! So Kelley, Kyle, and I are planning to do it with Maritza and her two sisters and anybody else who wants to join!! What was holding us back was our team name, which we finally settled today!! We are Team Awesome Sauce :) So I created the team and signed myself up!!! I can't wait!!! I called Kelley to go over some stuff on the phone, and then we talked for a while...and it was great!
After that, I spent the rest of my night doing fiction writing homework. I remembered at about 1:30 that it was daylight savings time, so we turned our clocks ahead, and all of a sudden I felt like I should've been in bed....I hate turning clocks ahead :(
March 8, 2013
Hello picture of more paper! Nice to see you again! So today was kind of productive I guess. I woke up at 10:30 which was not a plan in my life, but it happened anyway. I waited for the people to be done cleaning the bathrooms, and then I took a shower. I went to lunch, and then I went back to my room and packed all my things into my backpack. I went to the library and spent most of the time reading one of the stories for fiction writing. It was super long (as I mentioned yesterday), but since we have a 20 page limit, the guy who wrote it shrunk the margins and I'm pretty sure it's not double space either, and there was about 3 lines of dialogue throughout the whole thing....so that took me about 2 hours to read. Then I read the other story. Maritza texted me asking if I wanted to go to dinner at 5, so I walked back and the most interesting thing happened on my way back....
I was walking down the sidewalk, minding my own business, listening to my ipod, when I saw this guy chillin. I didn't really pay attention to him, so I kept walking, and all of a sudden I heard this voice next to me, and I looked, and it was the guy. He was singing, really badly, "Fireworks" by Katy Perry (which is already bad enough). He walked with me for a while, and then we got to the top of the hill by the Old Capital Building, and I noticed a guy with a camera, and he was cracking up. I don't really know what I was a part of...but I don't want to be a part of it. So if anybody ever finds a video of me being serenaded terribly by a guy singing "Fireworks", please destroy the tape, and also tell that person I did not give them permission to have me in a video!!!! Jeez.
After that excitement, Maritza and I went to dinner, and then we went back to our room and I actually finished part of my fiction writing homework!! So I took a picture of the finished product!! Yay! Go me!
I was walking down the sidewalk, minding my own business, listening to my ipod, when I saw this guy chillin. I didn't really pay attention to him, so I kept walking, and all of a sudden I heard this voice next to me, and I looked, and it was the guy. He was singing, really badly, "Fireworks" by Katy Perry (which is already bad enough). He walked with me for a while, and then we got to the top of the hill by the Old Capital Building, and I noticed a guy with a camera, and he was cracking up. I don't really know what I was a part of...but I don't want to be a part of it. So if anybody ever finds a video of me being serenaded terribly by a guy singing "Fireworks", please destroy the tape, and also tell that person I did not give them permission to have me in a video!!!! Jeez.
After that excitement, Maritza and I went to dinner, and then we went back to our room and I actually finished part of my fiction writing homework!! So I took a picture of the finished product!! Yay! Go me!
March 7, 2013
I finished all my tests today!!! Yayyyyyy!!! I woke up at 10:00 which was kind of a problem because I wanted to study some more for my test....so I just took a shower, ate an apple, and studied for my test!! I didn't feel to great about the test because some of the parts were kind of confusing, but later on in the day, my teacher graded the tests and I ended up getting a 97%!! I don't really know how that happened....
Anyway, after German, I went to earth science, and that was fun? Afterwards, I went to lunch. When I was about to sit down, I heard my name called, and Maritza was sitting in a corner! So I walked over to her, and she was finished, but she stayed while I ate lunch. She told me that I got the same food that she got...we're just cool like that.
After that, I asked her if she just wanted to head over to the Dey House to pick up the stories this week, and she said sure. I didn't find $20 this time, but the stories were actually there today! And each of them were 20 pages long :(. I took a picture of both of the stories because they are ridiculously thick, and they make me sad. I spent the rest of the night not really doing anything. I finished my lab, but other than that I didn't do any homework. But that's okay because it's only Thursday and all my tests are done with!!! Yay!
Anyway, after German, I went to earth science, and that was fun? Afterwards, I went to lunch. When I was about to sit down, I heard my name called, and Maritza was sitting in a corner! So I walked over to her, and she was finished, but she stayed while I ate lunch. She told me that I got the same food that she got...we're just cool like that.
After that, I asked her if she just wanted to head over to the Dey House to pick up the stories this week, and she said sure. I didn't find $20 this time, but the stories were actually there today! And each of them were 20 pages long :(. I took a picture of both of the stories because they are ridiculously thick, and they make me sad. I spent the rest of the night not really doing anything. I finished my lab, but other than that I didn't do any homework. But that's okay because it's only Thursday and all my tests are done with!!! Yay!
March 6, 2013
Happy one-more-test-down day!!! I woke up at 9 this morning after a nice short sleep since Maritza and I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning studying for our midterm today. So I woke up and took a shower. I ate breakfast, and then I went to German. We studied for our test tomorrow in class today, and she let us out ten minutes early because she said we needed to study, so she wanted us to go home and do that. That gave me ten extra minutes to walk to fiction writing! So that was exciting! I actually got there in a healthy amount of breath, and I was able to site and wait until class started. After that class was over, I walked back to my room and ate some lunch as well as studied!! I looked through my old quizzes for my honors class to prepare for our midterm. Maritza had a midterm while I was doing that, and she got out of her class early, so she came back to our room, and we walked to class together. Our teacher told us that after the test was over, we got to leave!!! We both weren't really expecting that, so it was really exciting!! The test went really fast except it threw me off because some of the multiple choice questions I studied for were changed into free response questions...so I had to dig into the depths of my brain and pull out the answers. The class starts at 3:30 and usually ends at 4:45. Maritza and I both finished around the same time and we got back to our class by 4 o'clock!!! That was really exciting!!! So I took a picture of my clock to show how excited I was! That meant I had all night to work on studying for my German homework....but of course that didn't happen! I took about a 40 minute nap which was great and amazing and instead of studying, I worked on some fiction homework, and then around 11 I decided to start studying. I ended up staying up pretty late again after studying for some time. Two tests down, one to go!!
March 5, 2013
Today was a pretty great day! After I woke up and took a shower, I wasn't very hungry, but I decided to go to breakfast anyway. When I got outside...there was a bunch of snow....what? I had no idea we were supposed to get snow and it was everywhere!!! I ran into Maritza while I was there, and we talked because even though we see each all the time, we still get excited when we run into each other hahaha. While we were talking, I realized while we were talking that I wasn't that hungry, and all I really wanted was a glass of water...so I got some water and some raisin bran. After breakfast, I went to the printer and tried calling Mom and Dad...but they didn't answer the phones!! I tried Mom's work, then Dad's cell, then Mom's cell, and finally the home phone! After the first two failed calls, I looked up to see if the college was closed because I woke up to a bunch of snow day statuses this morning...and the college was closed! And so I called the house, and Dad answered. I called because the bus had tickets available for next Thursday to go home for spring break, so I had to make sure I would be able to be picked up! And I was, so I bought my ticket home! Woo!
After that, I went to German where we studied for our test on Thursday. Then I went to earth science.
After that, I went back to my room and ate lunch. Maritza and I have been meaning to make a Wal-Mart run since Saturday, so we finally did that today!! There's a bus that goes out close enough to Wal-Mart, so we hopped on and went. It drops you off a few stores away and across the highway, so we had to run across the highway, and trek through about three inches of snow since the area didn't have sidewalks or crosswalks...that was fun. Then we had to hike through a car dealership and jump off of their landscaping to make it to Wal-Mart...it was quite an adventure. We went shopping and it was great. When we were in the deli, we ran into an old lady who we had this long conversation with, and then we continued on our shopping. One of things Maritza wanted to get was body wash and a loufa. As of yesterday, the word 'loufa' was unknown to Maritza because she always called them sponges since that's what they're called in Spanish. I was talking about loufas, and she had no idea what I was talking about, so I showed her a picture, and taught her a new word! So today we walked through the store and she was trying to find where the loufas and body wash were, and she said something along the line of "look, loufs!!" And I cracked up...because "loufs". Then when we finally found the loufas, she had a hard time picking out what colors to get since they came in a two pack. We were disagreeing on the color choices, and by the time the search was over, she was holding all the loufas in her hands and she was all "how did I get to be holding all the loufas?!" And I died because she looked ridiculous. So I took a picture and you can see that if you click on the button!!
After we did all our shopping, we checked out. We each brought our back packs, and Maritza brought her duffel bag so that we could carry all our stuffs home. Then we made the dangerous walk back to the bus stop and waited for the bus to pick us up. It took a very round about way back, but eventually we got back, and we put our stuff in the fridge and the room. Then we went to dinner, and it was so miraculous that the dining hall had a ton of amazing food!! We pretty much wanted to eat everything hahaha!! That never happens. After a great dinner, we went back to our room and we've been studying/doing homework since.
After that, I went to German where we studied for our test on Thursday. Then I went to earth science.
After that, I went back to my room and ate lunch. Maritza and I have been meaning to make a Wal-Mart run since Saturday, so we finally did that today!! There's a bus that goes out close enough to Wal-Mart, so we hopped on and went. It drops you off a few stores away and across the highway, so we had to run across the highway, and trek through about three inches of snow since the area didn't have sidewalks or crosswalks...that was fun. Then we had to hike through a car dealership and jump off of their landscaping to make it to Wal-Mart...it was quite an adventure. We went shopping and it was great. When we were in the deli, we ran into an old lady who we had this long conversation with, and then we continued on our shopping. One of things Maritza wanted to get was body wash and a loufa. As of yesterday, the word 'loufa' was unknown to Maritza because she always called them sponges since that's what they're called in Spanish. I was talking about loufas, and she had no idea what I was talking about, so I showed her a picture, and taught her a new word! So today we walked through the store and she was trying to find where the loufas and body wash were, and she said something along the line of "look, loufs!!" And I cracked up...because "loufs". Then when we finally found the loufas, she had a hard time picking out what colors to get since they came in a two pack. We were disagreeing on the color choices, and by the time the search was over, she was holding all the loufas in her hands and she was all "how did I get to be holding all the loufas?!" And I died because she looked ridiculous. So I took a picture and you can see that if you click on the button!!
After we did all our shopping, we checked out. We each brought our back packs, and Maritza brought her duffel bag so that we could carry all our stuffs home. Then we made the dangerous walk back to the bus stop and waited for the bus to pick us up. It took a very round about way back, but eventually we got back, and we put our stuff in the fridge and the room. Then we went to dinner, and it was so miraculous that the dining hall had a ton of amazing food!! We pretty much wanted to eat everything hahaha!! That never happens. After a great dinner, we went back to our room and we've been studying/doing homework since.
March 4, 2013
Today was the start of my busy, busy week!! I woke up at 9 and took a shower, and then I went to breakfast and had toast!!! I haven't had toast in a really long time! I didn't really have a taste for toast, but I made some anyway, and it was SO DELICIOUS!!!! I haven't realized how wonderful toast was until I haven't eaten it in a while.
So nothing really exciting happened today. I took my German quiz!!! That was fun...it was actually pretty easy because my teacher went over everything right before we took it...so that was cool!! Then I went back to my room and studied for my lab test while eating lunch. I had lab at 1:30 and we took our test. It took about an hour to take, but I felt pretty good about it. Then we had to actually do a lab about earthquakes. We got out about 20 minutes early, so I just walked over to my honors class and worked on my lab homework while I waited for class to start. There was a class presenter today, and then we spent the rest of the class going over old quizzes because our midterm on Wednesday is going to be over the questions from the quizzes. Afterwards, Maritza and I went to dinner. She was donating plasma again today, so I went to the ITC and printed off the stuff I needed to print off, and then I went back to our room, but not before checking the mail and seeing that she got a package.
I worked on some of my homework, and then eventually Maritza came back. She had ordered shoes last week, and they came it. She needed black heals, but she wasn't sure how high they would be....and they ended up being supppperrrr high. I took a picture of her wearing them, but she didn't like her face in the picture, so I told her that I would replace it with my face hahaha....so that's what I did!!! If you look closely at the picture, you can find another copy of my face somewhere peeking over the room.....The shoes are so tall that she is almost my height! She was going to return them because they're a little too scandalous for her, but the return policy from the website she ordered them from is really strange...so she has to keep them! I spent the rest of the night doing homework, and I found out that I got a 94% on my lab test!!! Woo!! I should've started studying for my test on Wednesday...but that didn't happen!
So nothing really exciting happened today. I took my German quiz!!! That was fun...it was actually pretty easy because my teacher went over everything right before we took it...so that was cool!! Then I went back to my room and studied for my lab test while eating lunch. I had lab at 1:30 and we took our test. It took about an hour to take, but I felt pretty good about it. Then we had to actually do a lab about earthquakes. We got out about 20 minutes early, so I just walked over to my honors class and worked on my lab homework while I waited for class to start. There was a class presenter today, and then we spent the rest of the class going over old quizzes because our midterm on Wednesday is going to be over the questions from the quizzes. Afterwards, Maritza and I went to dinner. She was donating plasma again today, so I went to the ITC and printed off the stuff I needed to print off, and then I went back to our room, but not before checking the mail and seeing that she got a package.
I worked on some of my homework, and then eventually Maritza came back. She had ordered shoes last week, and they came it. She needed black heals, but she wasn't sure how high they would be....and they ended up being supppperrrr high. I took a picture of her wearing them, but she didn't like her face in the picture, so I told her that I would replace it with my face hahaha....so that's what I did!!! If you look closely at the picture, you can find another copy of my face somewhere peeking over the room.....The shoes are so tall that she is almost my height! She was going to return them because they're a little too scandalous for her, but the return policy from the website she ordered them from is really strange...so she has to keep them! I spent the rest of the night doing homework, and I found out that I got a 94% on my lab test!!! Woo!! I should've started studying for my test on Wednesday...but that didn't happen!
March 3, 2013
Hellooo!!! Today was a day...yep. Since I went to bed at 4 this morning, I set my alarm clock for 10 o'clock so that I didn't sleep for too long...but the volume on my phone was super low, so I didn't hear it, and I woke up at 11 instead...oops. I took a shower and then Maritza and I went to lunch after she got back from church.
I studied a little bit for my lab test, and then I decided to take a 45 minute nap...but that 45 minute nap turned into a 2 hour nap sooooooo.....yeah. I had a swimming dream while I was napping. I was super amazing and I was so happy to be swimming...and then I realized that I was actually done with swimming, so I was really sad :( Right when I woke up, I had a hankering for a smoothie, so we went over to the store in the dining hall and I bought a smoothie. It was delicious and amazing and it was the best decision of my life! So I took a picture with my smoothie :) Then Maritza and I studied for our honors class together, and studied some more for my lab test and my German quiz...and that was pretty much my day. I can't wait until tomorrow's over so that two out of four of my test/quizzes will be over!
I studied a little bit for my lab test, and then I decided to take a 45 minute nap...but that 45 minute nap turned into a 2 hour nap sooooooo.....yeah. I had a swimming dream while I was napping. I was super amazing and I was so happy to be swimming...and then I realized that I was actually done with swimming, so I was really sad :( Right when I woke up, I had a hankering for a smoothie, so we went over to the store in the dining hall and I bought a smoothie. It was delicious and amazing and it was the best decision of my life! So I took a picture with my smoothie :) Then Maritza and I studied for our honors class together, and studied some more for my lab test and my German quiz...and that was pretty much my day. I can't wait until tomorrow's over so that two out of four of my test/quizzes will be over!
March 2, 2013
Happy Saturday. Today was very uneventful since all I had going on in my life is studying. I don't remember if I mentioned this already, but this week is going to be pretty crazay!! I have a test and a quiz on Monday, a test on Wednesday, and a test on Thursday...oh boy. So today was spent studying. I woke up at 10:30 again, and then I took a shower. Maritza and I went to lunch, and then we went back to our room, and I started studying for my lab test on Monday. I had to know the properties of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and stuff about topographic maps. So I started studying, and that continued throughout the day, broken up by eating dinner.
Maritza has a problem with leaving drawers open, so my POD is proof of her drawer closing problems. She seriously opens them and then forgets about them and just leaves them there. It has been a recent discovery of ours. So I took this picture to show how she left two drawers open today, and she didn't even notice until I pointed it out after this picture was taken.
Maritza went to the lounge later in the night, and I did some fiction writing homework, but it was kind of miserable because I didn't like the story I had to read.
Maritza and I ended up staying up doing homework/studying until 4...and then we went to bed.
Maritza has a problem with leaving drawers open, so my POD is proof of her drawer closing problems. She seriously opens them and then forgets about them and just leaves them there. It has been a recent discovery of ours. So I took this picture to show how she left two drawers open today, and she didn't even notice until I pointed it out after this picture was taken.
Maritza went to the lounge later in the night, and I did some fiction writing homework, but it was kind of miserable because I didn't like the story I had to read.
Maritza and I ended up staying up doing homework/studying until 4...and then we went to bed.
March 1, 2013
Today was unexpectedly productive and great! Happy Friday and March! I woke up at 10:30 today because I didn't feel like setting an alarm...so I didn't. And I woke up at 10:30. Maritza got back from class right when I was getting dressed. I decided to go to the mall on campus so that I could deposit some monies and go to CVS, so that's what I did. The lady at the bank was super funny and we had a nice conversation about school, and we both had trouble doing the math of the monies I was depositing hahaha. Then I went to CVS. On my way back, I decided to try to stop at the Dey House again to try to pick up our fiction writing homework, but it still wasn't there!! Grr. Then I went back to our room. Maritza was napping, so I packed all my homework stuff and left her a note and went to the library for the first time this semester! My goal today was to write a nomination for an award for one of my teachers, and I actually finished it while I was at the library! I wasn't expecting that to happen. I also finished my German homework! Yay! Then I went back to our room and started working on reading for science. Maritza had left to donate plasma, so I went to dinner without her which was extremely disappointing because I had quesadillas and they were not the best thing in my life :( They actually made me feel pretty sick.
I did more of my science homework after dinner, and then Maritza got back from church, and we just kind of did our own thang in our room...like homework. At around 9:30 I told her I had a taste for french fries, and then we started talking about Wendy's and how I love dipping my fries in shakes, and I was starting to crave them both, so Maritza looked up restaurants online and we decided at 10 o'clock to go to the Hamburg Inn hahaha. They close at 11, so we put on our coats and set out. This is a big deal for us because we never go out on Friday nights....it's a new us!!
As you can see from the picture, our shakes both had whipped cream, but we both got over it. I got a chocolate shake with chocolate chips, and she got q red velvet cake shake. We each got an order of fries too. It was pretty great and we stayed there until almost closing, and then we walked back to our room. I decided I didn't feel like studying for my tests next week, so we just talked for a good hour, and then I just did nothing! And now I'm about to go to bed!
I did more of my science homework after dinner, and then Maritza got back from church, and we just kind of did our own thang in our room...like homework. At around 9:30 I told her I had a taste for french fries, and then we started talking about Wendy's and how I love dipping my fries in shakes, and I was starting to crave them both, so Maritza looked up restaurants online and we decided at 10 o'clock to go to the Hamburg Inn hahaha. They close at 11, so we put on our coats and set out. This is a big deal for us because we never go out on Friday nights....it's a new us!!
As you can see from the picture, our shakes both had whipped cream, but we both got over it. I got a chocolate shake with chocolate chips, and she got q red velvet cake shake. We each got an order of fries too. It was pretty great and we stayed there until almost closing, and then we walked back to our room. I decided I didn't feel like studying for my tests next week, so we just talked for a good hour, and then I just did nothing! And now I'm about to go to bed!