ʻIke noʻeau e pili ana no nā mea ola ~ Biology

So as expected, today was veery boring. It was simply a study day. 

I didn't finally fall asleep until 3:45 in the morning due to my nap earlier on, but I ended up sleeping in until almost 11:00, so that was good. 

Once I finally got up I did some research about this coming Spring semester. I looked into how to declare a minor, learned about this new awesome program designed for students interested in the ocean, me, and also planned out my schedule a bit more for next semester. 

The studying then began. I obviously took breaks, and pretty frequently I might add, just to make sure I didn't get too bored which would make the information go in and straight back out without comprehension. 

Tomorrow is my Biology exam, which I feel pretty good about, and I also did some studying ahead for my Hawaiian Studies and Oceanography exams. 

And unfortunately, that is literally all I did. I only left my room to eat food and use the restroom, soo....yeah. 

I now plan to get a decent nights sleep in order to be awake and ready for this 8:30am exam....blahhh. 

So I guess I'll talk to you all tomorrow night!
Goodnight<3

'Aha Mele Hui Puhi ʻohe ~ Concert Band

SPRING CONCERT BAND AUDITION DAY!

So what I had imagined to be a pretty boring day, ended up being really fun :)

I woke up around 7:00 due to the garbage truck, and a car alarm going off unfortunately, but I needed to practice, so I guess it was okay.

So I got up and I didn't practice out loud, instead I just blew air into my flute without making noise for about 30 minutes. I then showered up and got ready, and practiced a little more. I left my dorm at 10:00 and got to the music building by 10:20. My audition wasn't until 11:00, but I had to fill out forms and warm up, so I wanted to make sure I had plenty of time.

The audition was completely blind and we couldn't even say anything inside the room, but overall I think it went well! The sight reading threw me off a bit because it was pretty difficult, but other than that, it was alright. I mean I definitely could've done better, but I also could've done way worse.

So afterwards I just came back to my room. I changed back into my PJ's, and then slept. I fell asleep around 12:30, and woke up to the sun setting! I looked at my clock and it was 5:38pm. Hey, at least I was rested!

I had 5 meals that I hadn't used up, and life every Saturday, I went to theMarket to use up my meals. I bought a personal pizza as well, and had that for dinner. 

So earlier in the day, Marisa invited me to go to the movies with her and Nathan, but they were seeing a scary movie, and I didn't want to go because I do NOT do scary movies!

Well at 6:30, I get a text from Nathan telling me that I was coming to the movies with them and that he'd pick us up at 7:30.

So I decided, you know what? Why not. I haven't done anything fun today, I'll just go.

So we saw the movie Carrie, and it was not as scary as I had expected, honestly it wasn't even that scary. There were a few parts that made me jump, but that's it. It was mainly just creepy and weird, but not really scary.

The movie itself wasn't great, but the girl in it, Chloë Grace Moretz is a great actress!

After the movie, we went to Walmart, because for some reason, Marisa

and Nathan love Walmart because we always end up there. The Christmas

decorations were already set out and made me so excited! I cannot

WAIT to come home :) I'm so excited!!

We then came back to UH and he dropped Marisa and I off. We got back

around midnight, and I wasn't tired at all! That is why I am currently

typing this post at 2:54am, and I'm still wide awake.

It was obviously from the nap that I took earlier, and now I can't sleep.

I literally am not tired one bit, but I'll probably try to sleep soon just

so I don't sleep too late tomorrow morning!

I had a nice day today, and I'm glad I went! Especially since tomorrow is

going to be a study day for me.  I have three midterms on three consecutive

days this week, and I'm not looking forward to that. One of them is a take

home test, so it won't be too bad, but the other two cover 9 chapters EACH :/

So tomorrow is going to be solely a study day for me!

Well, that's it!

Hope you all are well, and I'll talk to you tomorrow :)

Goodnight <3

Ānuenue ~ Rainbow

Aloha Friday!

I'm so happy that it is the weekend!

I woke up at 6:30 this morning, after going to bed around 2:00, so that made things a bit rough today. 

Biology was fine, we reviewed for our exam coming up on Monday. 

Then I worked from 9:30-12:00, during which I addressed letters, made labels, addressed the envelopes with those labels and a stamp with our return address on it, put the corresponding certificates and letters inside, sealed them up and mailed them off! It was a big job, but it was better than just sitting there! I probably would have fallen asleep. 

Oceanography, however, was a bit harder to keep focused on and I could feel my eyes drooping throughout the lecture, I did manage to stay awake the whole time though, so that's good. 

I then worked another hour from 1:30-2:30 and I just helped my supervisor clean and wipe down the back work station because it was an absolute mess!

I went back to my room once I got off of work to get changed up. I wanted to take a quick power nap, but by the time I got there, I only had about 30 minutes total, and I had to get all of my stuff together, so no nap for me!

Practice wasn't too bad. It was drizzling and overcast the whole time, which made it pretty cold out! And there were about 7 rainbows during practice right in front of us, making me smile :)

We learned the rest If the drill, but it was pretty rough and there is major improvements that need to be made. One of our drum majors flat out told us that he doesn't think we'll be ready so that's a bit worrisome. 

I got some dinner around 6:30, and then afterwards I just prepared for my audition tomorrow morning!

I'm nervous, as always, but the music isn't too bad so I hope it goes well! I'll let you know :)

And that's it! I need to get some sleep so I'm fully rested for my audition in the morning!

So I'll talk to you guys tomorrow!
Goodnight <3

Lā Hoʻomākaʻukaʻu ~ Halloween!

Happy Halloweeeeeen!!

I had a great day today, and I hope you all did too!

I started off my day with work from 9:00-11:30, which was super fun :) 

I walked into the building and my supervisor was there dressed as an exercise person with weights and workout clothes, but she had on this big Afro wig which made her look TOTALLY different! I didn't even recognize her at first and she was waving at me, but I didn't know it was her so I just waved back with a smile on my face thinking, "Who in the world is waving at me?"  Then I realized once I got closer. Everyone else in the office was dressed up and it was really awesome, and everyone was having so much fun!

At one point, some people from the department came around with the "Treat Cart" for us all. It had loads of sweets and food and coffee. So generous of them :)

The office also had a big potluck at 12:00, but I wasn't working at that time :(

My Chemistry lab was cancelled today, so I went back to my dorm and chilled out until my next class at 3:00. 

So once 2:45 rolled around, I headed to Hawaiian Studies, fully prepared for my quiz, which then got postponed! :) instead of the quiz, we made tea leaf lei's! They are pretty difficult to make, but  really pretty, when made right. 

Then I went back to my dorm because I had a while before I had to leave again. 

I decided that I was going to go out with Marisa, Brent and their friend Donisha, who is super nice! :)

We didn't meet up until 9:30, because Marisa got off of work at 10:30, so I just Brent and Donisha and we took the bus down to her work. 

I ended up dressing as a tacky tourist! :) I thought it looked great!

The bus ride was terrible. There were so many kids packed into the bus and most of them weren't wearing much, making things awkward, but we finally got off after about 20 minutes on the bus. 

We arrived at her work at like 10:08 and had to wait a while, but luckily there was an art show going on right next to it. This man was doing one of those paintings out of spray paint, and it was amazing! The detail was incredible!

Once she got off, we walked along the Strip at Waikiki which is just the main road, and there were tons of thing going on. There were freak shows, haunted houses and art things, which were all really cool! But then there were also mass amounts of people, the majority of which were drunk, and there was not much walking room available. We saw some pretty intense things happening, such as a couple getting into a fist fight, a man getting arrested, and also a guy dressed as Bacon! :)

We walked along the entire thing and realized that we weren't far from walmart and we all needed a few things, so we decided to make midnight shopping trip to walmart, in costume. 

After walmart we started walking back to campus, and by this point I was completely wiped out and exhausted! We walked for a while before we realized we were near a bus stop that would take us close to campus and there was a bus on the way.

So we waited for about 5 minutes and hopped on the bus! We got off by the Humane Society and walked the last little bit to campus and I finally got back into my dorm at 1:20. 

And man, do my feet hurrrt! I swear we walked at least a good 3 or four miles today!

I had to complete this online homework assignment that took about 10 minutes and then I typed this up! 

Sorry for no pictures, but I'm typing this on my phone in bed because I am so ready for sleep, and I can't put pictures when I'm doing it from my phone, sorry!

I have to wake up and leave by 8:00 for class in the morning...so I should probably sleep. 

I'll post the few pictures that I got on tomorrow's post!

I hope you all had a great Halloween!

Goodnight! <3

Kula kamaliʻi ~ Kindergarten

Hiii!

Today went by really fast!

I woke up at 6:30, blah, blah blah. Normal routine.

I had my Biology Lecture at 8:30, and then my Bio Lab at 9:30. Today's lab was literally the most pointless thing ever! We had to taste little pieces of paper, some were bitter and some were sweet, and it was weird. Then we had to pick two cards out of a box that had different alleles on them; some were big T's and others were little t's, and then we had to "breed" with the other people in our class and see what the possible outcomes our offspring would be. Not too hard, right?

I guess not, because when our TA asked us to raise our hands for each of the 10 different trials to get the class data, and even though we are college kids now, for some reason, each time some would would either forget to raise their hand or then would raise it twice or for the wrong one. We literally did this part 4 TIMES because this kept happening and we were not getting the same numbers for each trial -_- Like, are we back in Kindergarten now?

On the plus side, my group and I didn't have any problems this time. They all talked to me in a friendly manner, and a couple of jokes were even cracked! Woo :)

After my lab, I had a little less than an hour until my next lecture so I just sat outside and relaxed while waiting. I also called my mom :)

During my Oceanography lecture we talked about Tsunami's, and tides, it was really cool!

I then worked for only an hour today, from 1:30-2:30 and I just did multiple small/easy jobs like copying papers, mail runs, and inventory.

I had practice tonight and it was really hot out again. :(
About halfway through practice I wasn't feeling too great, a bit nauseous, but it went away after about an hour. We also had sectionals again, until 6:00, after the full band marching practice, where we just reviewed our music and learned some new visuals for the show.

I came back to my room, lied down for about a half hour with a cold washcloth on my face, and then I went and got some dinner at 6:45.

I didn't have any homework tonight, so I looked over the music for my concert band audition coming up this Saturday and studied a little for the three midterms I have next week.

And that was my day!
Thanks for reading :)
Talk to you tomorrow,
Goooodniiiiggghtt! <3

Ahi ~ Fire

Don't worry, there wasn't a fire! :)

Today wasn't great, but it also wasn't bad by any means. It was just an average Tuesday in the life of Kylie (which is never too exciting...)

I woke up, got ready and headed off to my Chemistry Lab with Amber, which was pretty cool today! Probably the most interesting lab we've had yet.

We finally got to work with fire, and (possible) explosive chemicals. Although it was very time-consuming, and my partner and I didn't even finish, it was fun! Much better than these baby labs we've been doing all semester...

After, Amber and I went to our Chemistry Lecture, which I'm just not going to say anything about anymore. We literally have the notes, that we have online access to, read to us word for word. How exciting!... -_-

We went and got some lunch after class, I got a smoothie and sandwich from Jamba Juice, and then went back to our room.

I've given up on Revolution because it is just an awful show, and I watched an episode of Terra Nova...hopefully it is better!

At 3:00, I had Hawaiian Studies which was pretty interesting today. We talked about Hawaiian Art, and it reminded me of my sister, so after class I called her and we had a short, but nice conversation.

I worked from 4:30-6:00 and all I did was make sure some papers were completely filled out and then check student grades online. In the afternoons/end of day it is really slow in the office and not much is happening.

As I was walking to work, this beauty popped out of no where,

...and made my day :)

After work, I was done, so I just went back to my dorm for the night.

I finished my peer-reviewing for our Bio Lab Write-Ups, and the paper I was grading was pretty poorly written.

I also did the question due for Bio Lab tomorrow, and that was it!

I'm off now, to hopefully get a good night's sleep, because last night I woke up like 3 times...
So I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Byee! <3

Alo Pākaukau ~ Front Desk

Wow. So even though I took that 4 1/2 hour nap yesterday, I still managed to sleep from 11:00pm until 6:30 this morning! I was so relieved and rested when my alarm went off, because I really needed that sleep.

So as I said, I woke up at 6:30, stayed in bed until 7:00, then got showered and ready for the day, and left for class at 8:00.

Bio was okay today, we are still talking about DNA/RNA and genes.

From 9:30-12:00, I worked! Today was kind of stressful because my supervisor was gone from 9:45 until 11:00, so I was in charge of the front desk. Everything went smoothly, except for the phone situation. The phone rang quite a few times, but I have not been trained on the greeting when I answer, hoe to answer the millions of questions the caller might have, who to direct them to, how to transfer to another office, all of that jazz, so I simply didn't answer the phone. The head of the office came out and was like, "Kylie, hasn't Nichole trained you on the phones?" and I told her no, and she kind of seemed worried maybe. I couldn't really read her emotion, but she was like "Ooookkkayyy, well that needs to happen soon." I felt bad, but I haven't been trained, so there wasn't anything that I could have done differently. 

So while working, I took charge of the front desk and helped everyone who came in and people who had appointments. I also made copies of papers when it was less busy.

Then I had Oceanography from 12:20-1:30 and we talked about waves and how the surf/type of wave is determined based on the shore line, which I didn't know prior to that lecture.

I also worked again from 1:30-2:30 and I just went through this massive stack of papers and had to make sure that certain things were circled and other boxes were checked off.

After, I went and got/ate some lunch from Subway, because I hadn't eaten yet, and then went back to my room to change and get all of my stuff together, before heading off to practice at 3:25.

It was another reeeallly hot day out today, but practice wan't too bad. Although it was hot out, practice seemed to fly by! That's always a plus :) We also had sectionals afterwards until 6:00.

I finally came back to my room and just layed on my bed for about 30 minutes before getting up and  started on my homework. 

I got some dinner around 7:00, and then I just finished up my homework. I had Chemistry Lab homework which took like 3 hours! Boring.

And now I'm done! :)

Oh, I also have two more pictures from the Homecoming game that I'll show you...

This is the whole section

And this is me, Christine (section leader; as the minion), Marisa and Mauri!

So I'm off now, to hopefully get another awesome night of sleep! *fingers crossed*

I'll talk to you tomorrow,

Goodnight <3