November 30, 2012
Happy last day of November!!! I don't know where this month went... It was nice to have the week over though! I had to go to a German speaking quiz this morning at 10:30 so I did that and it went okay. My teacher used some new grammar stuff that I didn't understand but I guess it turned out okay. After that, I went back to my room and met Maritza for lunch and then I went to German and then stars and galaxies. After that, I spent the rest of my afternoon in the library. I was working on my essay and I actually did work and felt somewhat accomplished! Yay! Then I went back to my room to go eat dinner. We were going to go to the mall again tonight but we decided against it because we couldn't figure out when the buses were running, by the time we got back to our hall, we decided we didn't really feel like going to the mall anymore. We ended up chilling in our hall for a while with other girls. We were planning on going to an improv thing but you had to pay to get in and Maritza didn't want to spend money so instead we stayed in our room and watched The Breakfast Club. Then we went to bed. Go us.
November 29, 2012
Today was a very busy, busy day but it meant that after today, I only have one more day before I get to go home again!!! I had cinema this morning which was pretty great because we talked about adaptations today so we watched two horrible video clips of an adaptation from a video game and then we watched Batman throughout the years. We watched the 40s, 60s, 90s, and present day time versions and the two versions from the 40s and 60s that we watched were super ridiculous. Then I stayed after class to talk to my teacher about our next paper but so did five other students and my teacher was taking 20 minutes to talk to each of them and I was the last in line and the person before me finished at 12 (the class gets out at 10:45). So I stood in the hall for over an hour just so I could walk into his office and tell him I couldn't talk to him (I have a class at 12:30)and that I needed to schedule a time for tomorrow...ugh. So I had to quickly run back to my room to pick up my German book and then I quickly ran to German. After German, I went back to my room and ate lunch quickly and then I had to leave again for rhetoric. The group that presented today presented on capital punishment which I have no strong feelings about so I didn't really do anything that class period. Right after that I had to go to my cinema screening which was Batman Begins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been looking forward to this screening since the first day of class when we got our syllabus. I invited Maritza to come along and watch it with me so she did. I don't think I have ever watched the whole movie all the way through because I think I fell asleep the one time I tried to watch it. It was pretty great though. I took a picture of Christian Bale just for all y'all out there.
After that, Maritza and I went to dinner and then we caught the bus to the mall. She wanted to do Christmas shopping and the bus is free after 6 on Thursdays and Fridays. The only problem is that the mall closes not long afterwards. She bought something and she is too nice to people so she was stopped by one of those mall vendor people and was actually convinced to buy something. The guy was really funny though haha and he shined two of my nails to try to convince me to buy his thing so now they look nice haha. We actually got done in the mall within the hour and we were able to make the next bus that came! So we got on the bus and went back. I spent the rest of the night doing homework. Yay.
After that, Maritza and I went to dinner and then we caught the bus to the mall. She wanted to do Christmas shopping and the bus is free after 6 on Thursdays and Fridays. The only problem is that the mall closes not long afterwards. She bought something and she is too nice to people so she was stopped by one of those mall vendor people and was actually convinced to buy something. The guy was really funny though haha and he shined two of my nails to try to convince me to buy his thing so now they look nice haha. We actually got done in the mall within the hour and we were able to make the next bus that came! So we got on the bus and went back. I spent the rest of the night doing homework. Yay.
November 28, 2012
Today was a pretty nice day because it was Wednesdays and Wednesdays are always great. Maritza was feeling sick today so she stayed home for her morning class and slept. I went to lunch without her and then when she woke up from her nap, her hair was all crazy so I asked to take a picture haha. Her bangs would not lay flat and they made me laugh :). Then I went to class. When I got back, Maritza was sleeping again so I went down and did my laundry while I did some homework. When I got back to the room, Maritza was missing so I put my laundry away and found out she was at practice. When she got back, we went to dinner and then I did some more homework. Eventually, I decided I didn't feel like doing my homework any more so we watched Remember Me instead. Maritza had never seen it before and she ended up loving it and crying in it :). I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it, but you should definitely watch it if you haven't! After that, we went to bed! Go Wednesdays!
November 27, 2012
Today was a very cold day outside. I think it was around 14 degrees this morning while I was walking to cinema. All I can say is that I'm glad I watched the movie last night/this morning because we definitely talked the crap out of that and I would've had no idea what was going on. So while it was 14 degrees walking to class, the room was about 100 degrees and it was so hot once I finally dethawed. When cinema was over, I decided to head back to my room so that I can do some last minute studying before my German test. While on my way to German, I passed these crazy people outside. They were having a clothes drive at the church or something and two girls were outside wearing a tank top and shorts and two guys were outside wearing pants and no shirts. They were shouting that they needed clothes haha...it was a cool idea but no thank you. They said they would be out there until six but I'm pretty sure they would've died from hypothermia by then. They were still there when German was over so I took a creeper picture of them. They're kind of far away in this picture so I added a button at the bottom of this post and if you click it, it'll take you to a closer up picture of that picture! I realize that the people are still kind of hard to see in that picture, but I circled them in red and you're just going to have to take my word that they were not dressed for the weather.
My German test was kind of hard. One of the sections I had completely no idea what we were supposed to do. everyone except one person had to stay after our class time to finish. I think I did okay though. After German, I quick ran back to my room to do nothing for a few minutes and then I headed over to rhetoric. The first group gave their presentation today and it made me a lot more relieved because it was a lot more low key than I thought it would be. Then I went to the library to try to get stuff done but I had no motivation so I just went back to my room.
Eventually, Maritza and I ate dinner and then I came back to my room and changed. I kept forgetting all day that I had a Dance Marathon meeting tonight. Even after we had just talked about it, I put my pajamas on and I didn't realize until a half hour later that we still had the meeting haha. So I had to change and then we headed over to the IMU for our meeting. It was great and we watched this nice video which you can watch here and perhaps you will cry because Maritza may or may not have cried while watching it. Then we headed back to our room and had hot chocolate. Then I went to bed.
My German test was kind of hard. One of the sections I had completely no idea what we were supposed to do. everyone except one person had to stay after our class time to finish. I think I did okay though. After German, I quick ran back to my room to do nothing for a few minutes and then I headed over to rhetoric. The first group gave their presentation today and it made me a lot more relieved because it was a lot more low key than I thought it would be. Then I went to the library to try to get stuff done but I had no motivation so I just went back to my room.
Eventually, Maritza and I ate dinner and then I came back to my room and changed. I kept forgetting all day that I had a Dance Marathon meeting tonight. Even after we had just talked about it, I put my pajamas on and I didn't realize until a half hour later that we still had the meeting haha. So I had to change and then we headed over to the IMU for our meeting. It was great and we watched this nice video which you can watch here and perhaps you will cry because Maritza may or may not have cried while watching it. Then we headed back to our room and had hot chocolate. Then I went to bed.
November 26, 2012
Today was my first day back to classes and it wasn't all that great. I did not feel like going to German this morning because that meant I was officially back at school and I wasn't prepared for that. I slept great though and I think it's because of our new Christmas lights which I took a picture of to show you how beautiful they are. It was a nice Christmas-y glow all night long and it was absolutely wonderful. But I still woke up tired. I took a shower and then sat around my room before going to lunch. After lunch, I sat around some more before going to German. We spent the whole day reviewing for our test tomorrow so it wasn't too bad. Then I went to stars and galaxies which was completely over my head like always. Today we talked about quantum physics for a while and we watched a cool video that actually kind of made sense. Then class was over and I finished the last of my German homework for this unit before I had to head over to writing commons. Writing commons was okay today because we were just workshopping people's essays and mine was one of them and then we just gave a very short informal presentation on the literary magazine we had to research so it wasn't too bad. Then Maritza and I went to dinner and I spent the night studying for my German test. Since I have cinema tomorrow and since I ditched the last movie we watched because I was on my death bed, I decided to watch Minority Report so I would know what we were talking about tomorrow in class. Maritza has it on her computer so she let me borrow it. The bad part was that I started it at 11:20 and it's a 2 1/2 long movie so it got done early in the morning. But that was alright. I studied for about five seconds afterwards and then I went to sleep.
November 25, 2012
Happy one more month until Christmas! Today was my last day at home :( It went by too fast, boo. I had a really strange dream about zombies which was really realistic...I woke up extremely relieved that it was just a dream...it was so weird. When I was talking to Dad about it he said that he heard something like a scream come from my room this morning hahaha...After I woke up, I took a shower and then I started my laundry. I put CDs on my iTunes and then I helped Mom make shish kabobs. You can see the picture of them over there <. Aren't they beautiful?! I did more of my laundry and then it was time to eat lunch/dinner. The food was amazing. When we were done, Justin came over to pick up Kelley and he had some kabobs before they left to go back to school. Then I packed and I got hungry out of nowhere so I ate some more haha. We had to wait for Kyle to get home because he wanted to visit Ikea while we were on the way to the bus. So we left around 4:40ish and went to Ikea until it was time for me to get on the bus :(. I found Maritza in the parking lot and we found a bus and said goodbye to our 'rents before getting on the bus. We ended up talking for over an hour on the bus catching each other up on what happened in the week we didn't see each other haha :). I'm pretty sure the people around us hated us. Eventually we just listened to our music until we got back to college. Before we unpacked, we hung up our Christmas lights and they look super cute! Then we unpacked and we went to bed. It was a nice, short-lived break.
November 24, 2012
Hello! Welcome to my new blog/website if it is your first time visiting! When I woke up in the morning, I spent a good hour uploading all of my January posts. It took a while so I decided that I'm gonna wait until after finals to finish uploading the other posts. Today was my last full day of break and that makes me sad :( I wish my Thanksgiving break and Christmas break were just one long break because that would be totally awesome! I can't wait for Christmas break when I won't have any homework to do. I spent the whole day today doing homework and taking breaks (mostly taking breaks). I'm pretty sure I sat in the same part on the couch all day haha. Jersey was being a weirdie all day but around dinner time she crawled underneath the blanket that was hanging off of the couch and treated it like it was her fort. So I took a picture of her. I love my dog :) I finally started working on my rhetoric thing and I outlined that and then I just sat around for the rest of the day. There was a lot I could have been doing but I didn't feel like it. I finished reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret and then I started a Wimpy Kid book. Then I went to bed a little bit later. Yay for doing nothing all break!
November 23, 2012
Happy Black Friday! I hope you didn't get trampled at the stores! I stayed in my bed nice and snuggly while people were waiting outside of stores. It was really cold today too. When I woke up, Mom told me that it was snowing outside and it was! It wasn't a blizzard but there were white whisps flying about. I decided to do some homework this morning and it felt great being productive. My cinema teacher is letting me use Amélie for my final paper which makes me excited so I spent the morning collecting my thoughts on what I wanted to write about and then writing some kind of a proposal. Then I started outlining my final rhetoric paper. I don't like outlining because I don't really think about what I want to write until I'm writing it but my teacher is requiring us to write a "descriptive outline" for this paper...I don't really know what "descriptive" entails but my outline is just a bunch of bullet pointed thoughts that don't really connect together.....whatever. Around 3 o'clock, Kyle decided that he actually did want to go to the city today to move in some of the little stuff into his apartment and I decided I didn't want to do homework anymore so I went with! We left at 4ish and got there around 6ish. The traffic was a little bad. So we parked in a parking lot and then carried stuff to his apartment. I took this picture while standing in his kitchen area. We explored his apartment and the basement to his apartment and it was really nice. His name is already on his mailbox! It was freezing outside and some of the stuff we had to carry was heavy, but we managed!
When we were done moving in, he took some measurements and then we went to Trader Joe's to pick up some foods because we were hungry. Then we headed home. Once we got home, I stayed up for a while and I proofread Kelley's project where we learned that Malcolm X has two "l"s in his name. Then we later went to bed. I stayed out of stores all day and it was wonderful! I actually forgot today was Black Friday for a while.
When we were done moving in, he took some measurements and then we went to Trader Joe's to pick up some foods because we were hungry. Then we headed home. Once we got home, I stayed up for a while and I proofread Kelley's project where we learned that Malcolm X has two "l"s in his name. Then we later went to bed. I stayed out of stores all day and it was wonderful! I actually forgot today was Black Friday for a while.
November 22, 2012
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! Today was Thanksgiving if you didn't know. We were expecting my grandma and my aunt to eat dinner with us! When we woke up, Mom had made quiche and then she started making the side dishes to the turkey and I helped peel the apples! We have this amazing thing that you put the apples on and then you spin it and it peels the apple and cuts it into slices....I had to peel 10 apples and it was the funnest thing I have ever done haha. After that, we all just kind of bummed around the house until the afternoon when we decided to get dressed. Kelley and I straightened our hairs!
Mom planned a few days ago that we would take our Christmas pictures today while we were all dressed nicely so right before my grandma and aunt came over, we sat down to take our pictures! My POD is a test picture we did before the actual thing. I think it's hilarious. Kyle is missing because he was the one practicing taking the picture to see if the lighting was good and if we were positioned okay. Just take a moment to look at everybody's face :). Expect to find that in your Christmas card this year!!! After that, my grandma and aunt arrived and we said hello and Happy Thanksgiving to each other. The food was ready an hour later and we all sat down to stuff our faces!!!! The food was amazing, like always, because Mom is an amazing cook. When we were all full, we had dessert. Grandma and my aunt stayed for a while and they talked and then they left and we decided to watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles since it's a Thanksgiving movie and we haven't seen it in a long time. When the movie was over, we were all really tired so we went to bed! I hope everybody's Thanksgiving was as wonderful as mine!
Mom planned a few days ago that we would take our Christmas pictures today while we were all dressed nicely so right before my grandma and aunt came over, we sat down to take our pictures! My POD is a test picture we did before the actual thing. I think it's hilarious. Kyle is missing because he was the one practicing taking the picture to see if the lighting was good and if we were positioned okay. Just take a moment to look at everybody's face :). Expect to find that in your Christmas card this year!!! After that, my grandma and aunt arrived and we said hello and Happy Thanksgiving to each other. The food was ready an hour later and we all sat down to stuff our faces!!!! The food was amazing, like always, because Mom is an amazing cook. When we were all full, we had dessert. Grandma and my aunt stayed for a while and they talked and then they left and we decided to watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles since it's a Thanksgiving movie and we haven't seen it in a long time. When the movie was over, we were all really tired so we went to bed! I hope everybody's Thanksgiving was as wonderful as mine!
November 21, 2012
Today was another kind of productive day! I woke up and finished some of the other homework I didn't do last night. Then I took a shower. Kelley went in to school today to talk to some German classes and to visit old teachers. At one point, I decided to go to town with Dad because I needed a reason to not do my homework and that was the perfect reason! We went to Menards and then to Kelley's work to pick up some stuff and then we went home again. Jersey was being a freak all day like she normally is so I decided to take a picture of her. Here is a picture of her laying sideways on the couch...I just looked over at her and she was sideways so I took a picture.
Mom spent the whole day making the turkey for tomorrow so we decided to go out to dinner. We went to a pizza place in town where my aunty-poo works, but sadly she was not working tonight. We ate pizzas and some appetizers and then we went back home. Later, my aunt and uncle came over and they stayed for a while to talk since we haven't seen them in a while. After they left, Kelley and Kyle left to go to a bar and then Mom, Dad, and I watched Rango but Mom and Dad both fell asleep during it. When that was over, I decided to take a shower so I could straighten my hairs tomorrow and then I went to bed. Yay!
Mom spent the whole day making the turkey for tomorrow so we decided to go out to dinner. We went to a pizza place in town where my aunty-poo works, but sadly she was not working tonight. We ate pizzas and some appetizers and then we went back home. Later, my aunt and uncle came over and they stayed for a while to talk since we haven't seen them in a while. After they left, Kelley and Kyle left to go to a bar and then Mom, Dad, and I watched Rango but Mom and Dad both fell asleep during it. When that was over, I decided to take a shower so I could straighten my hairs tomorrow and then I went to bed. Yay!