Well, today was Thanksgiving!
I woke up this morning and went off to the theaters to see Frozen, and it was really great :) I enjoyed it a lot, although I felt a bit out of place being there alone surrounded by a ton of families..
So then I came back to my dorm.
As much as I'd like to say that I ended up making up my mind of what to do tonight, I didn't.
I had received a few invites from a couple friends to celebrate with them, but for some reason, it just didn't feel right. I would've felt awkward and I honestly didn't want to physically celebrate Thanksgiving without my family.
I did however, sit down and think about all of the things that I am thankful for. We truly cannot take anything for granted, because chances are, we are more fortunate than so many others. I really wanted to do some volunteer work today such as serving meals to the homeless, but last night when I was looking places up, it was too late. You have to submit volunteer forms to most places, and they won't just let you walk in. So that was a bit disappointing, but it was nice to know that these people were getting hot meals served to them.
So although I ended up not taking the offers from friends, I decided that I wasn't going to mope around, so I went out and took a walk, just around campus. It was nice to just admire the landscape and the simplicity of things.
I was planning on going Black Friday shopping with a few friends tonight, but I ended up feeling really sick to my stomach, on the verge of throwing up. It was probably due to the Twix bar that I ate at 9:54am, along with the other junk food that I bought at the movies...oops!
So I ended up just staying in tonight, reading Insurgent, watching Gossip Girl, and actually took a nap around 7:00.
Although it wasn't the Thanksgiving I had in mind, it was an enjoyable day nonetheless.
But I hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving, and ate tons of food! :)
I'll talk to you guys tomorrow! <3
Friday, November 29, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
ʻAno ʻē ~ Odd/Peculiar
Not much to talk about/update you on today. It was a pretty boring one, sorry!
First off, I slept awful last night! I felt so unrested when I woke up; it was horrible. I'm not sure why though.
So, I went to Biology at 8:30, and then came back to my dorm since Bio Lab was cancelled due to the shortened week.
Fortunately, I was able to sleep for about 2 more hours in my dorm, before having to get up and go to Oceanography!
I've come to the conclusion that the professor who is teaching this 1/3 of the class is very odd/peculiar. He tends to put music into his power points, and then he stands at the front of the room and plays air guitar to the "ripping guitar solos".
And then today, he like fell completely onto the ground, where the steps are and stayed there for a good few minutes because one student got the wrong answer. Like? That's kind of weird. Haha.
I then worked from 1:30-2:30 and I filed, took the mail up, alphabetized flies, and helped at the front desk!
We did not have practice today, thankfully, so I was done for the day!
I had planned to go see Frozen tonight, but since I am going alone and the movie wouldn't get out until about 8:30, I didn't feel like going and having to walk the sketchy streets and take the bus when it was pitch black, so I'm going to go tomorrow!
I've been watching Gossip Girl, reading Insurgent (the second book in the Divergent Trilogy) and reaching a volunteer trip to Peru next Spring that I am interested in! :)
I hope you had a good day!
Tomorrow, when you read this, it'll be Thanksgiving :)
So enjoy and eat!
Goodnight <3
First off, I slept awful last night! I felt so unrested when I woke up; it was horrible. I'm not sure why though.
So, I went to Biology at 8:30, and then came back to my dorm since Bio Lab was cancelled due to the shortened week.
Fortunately, I was able to sleep for about 2 more hours in my dorm, before having to get up and go to Oceanography!
I've come to the conclusion that the professor who is teaching this 1/3 of the class is very odd/peculiar. He tends to put music into his power points, and then he stands at the front of the room and plays air guitar to the "ripping guitar solos".
And then today, he like fell completely onto the ground, where the steps are and stayed there for a good few minutes because one student got the wrong answer. Like? That's kind of weird. Haha.
I then worked from 1:30-2:30 and I filed, took the mail up, alphabetized flies, and helped at the front desk!
We did not have practice today, thankfully, so I was done for the day!
I had planned to go see Frozen tonight, but since I am going alone and the movie wouldn't get out until about 8:30, I didn't feel like going and having to walk the sketchy streets and take the bus when it was pitch black, so I'm going to go tomorrow!
I've been watching Gossip Girl, reading Insurgent (the second book in the Divergent Trilogy) and reaching a volunteer trip to Peru next Spring that I am interested in! :)
I hope you had a good day!
Tomorrow, when you read this, it'll be Thanksgiving :)
So enjoy and eat!
Goodnight <3
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Hana Hoʻopīhoihoi ~ Adveture
Well, today was much better than yesterday!
I was able to sleep in until 9:00 before getting up to study for my exam some more.
I studied until it was time to head off to the exam! We got there and had to wait for like 20 minutes to start because the professor was making us wait until the last possible second!
So I came out of it feeling really good!
Then Amber and I went and got some lunch! We decided to take the shuttle back, but ended up getting on the wrong one. It was an adventure! We had no idea where we were, it was actually quite funny :) we just stayed on until it went back to campus and then hopped on the right one when it came.
At 3:00 I had Hawaiian Studies and we watched a film called "Act on War" which was really good! I enjoyed it a lot.
When I got out of class, I had about 10 minutes until work started, so I waited for the shuttle. It comes around and I step on and he tells me to get off, and that he wasn't going back to Campus Center, so he was kind of rude.
That meant that I had to walk alllllllll the way there and I ended up being 15 minutes late for work, they didn't mind though. I didn't do anything anyways.
Then I was done! So I came back to my room, worked on online homework, read, watched GG, and how I'm off to sleep!
Talk to you tomorrow!
Goodnight <3
I was able to sleep in until 9:00 before getting up to study for my exam some more.
I studied until it was time to head off to the exam! We got there and had to wait for like 20 minutes to start because the professor was making us wait until the last possible second!
So I came out of it feeling really good!
Then Amber and I went and got some lunch! We decided to take the shuttle back, but ended up getting on the wrong one. It was an adventure! We had no idea where we were, it was actually quite funny :) we just stayed on until it went back to campus and then hopped on the right one when it came.
At 3:00 I had Hawaiian Studies and we watched a film called "Act on War" which was really good! I enjoyed it a lot.
When I got out of class, I had about 10 minutes until work started, so I waited for the shuttle. It comes around and I step on and he tells me to get off, and that he wasn't going back to Campus Center, so he was kind of rude.
That meant that I had to walk alllllllll the way there and I ended up being 15 minutes late for work, they didn't mind though. I didn't do anything anyways.
Then I was done! So I came back to my room, worked on online homework, read, watched GG, and how I'm off to sleep!
Talk to you tomorrow!
Goodnight <3
Monday, November 25, 2013
Weliweli ~ Awful
Boy am I glad that today is over!
Let's just say that I had a pretty bad day overall.
It started by waking up late and missing Biology this morning, which is not a good thing considering it is not my strong point.
I made it to work at 9:30, which was good. I kept busy the entire time by scanning things into the computer while keeping an eye on the front desk.
It was then time for Oceanography which I enjoyed today! We talked about sharks for a brief part of lecture which will always boost my alertness and mood :)
After Oceanography I worked another hour from 1:30-2:30 and it was so busy! There were like a thousand people coming in and out and asking questions and it was super hectic and stressful. I couldn't keep things straight in my mind and I was just a mess.
After that was done and over with, I headed back to my room.
On the way back I stepped in a very well hidden pile of mud and got it all over my gold Sperry's making them look disgusting. I was able to get it off of the leather, but not off of the laces which are a softer leather cord that is holding that mud in tight :(
Practice had been pushed back today to 5:15, or so I though.
I left my dorm at 4:30 and got to the Campus Center Ballroom at 4:45. Today we were recording all of the music that we have played this year, and so it was held in the ballroom.
Well as I got to the outside of it, I could hear the band playing inside and knew I was late. I couldn't figure out why they had already started when it wasn't supposed to start until 5:15. Well I later found out that it had been pushed up an hour to 4:15, which was indicated in an email that the assistant band director sent out. For some reason I have not been getting her past few emails. I told her, but I'm still not getting them, so I'll have to talk to her again about that because that caused me so much trouble today.
So I hear them playing outside, and there are three of the tech guys outside of the door. I patiently wait outside of the door until they stop playing, and then the guys kindly let me in.
I put my instrument together and start walking across the ballroom which felt about a mile long, with about 200 pairs of eyes on me, all except for the band director who then starts conducting again and they start playing.
I'm still walking so I just continue walking to my spot and then fall into the arc and begin playing where they were.
Well, he sees me walk up, and stops the entire band along with the recording. His next words were, "Can someone please watch the door to make sure no one walks in WHILE WE ARE RECORDING!" Full on shouting by the end of his sentence. Then he looks at me and like rolls his eyes and starts conducting.
It was embarrassing. However, I was more angered by the fact that this happened rather than embarrassed, because had he been facing the other way he would have seen that I walked in between songs and no one was playing yet!
I would never have just walked in when I knew they were recording, and there were people who were monitoring the traffic coming and going from the room, and they were the ones who let me in! None of it was my fault, but it put an even bigger damper on my day.
After practice, I got a laugh in when walking with Marisa and Nathan, and they made me feel better.
I then walked back to my dorm.
It was study time.
I studied for about 2 hours before stopping and kind of having a small mental breakdown.
Nothing specific caused it, I think it was just a whole conglomeration of things. I was stressed about this Chemistry exam tomorrow, upset from the day I had, sad about not being able to go home for Thanksgiving which seems to be getting worse the closer Thursday comes, and homesickness.
Since my mom left I have not felt an overwhelming feeling of homesickness, until tonight. Again, it might be heightened by everything that is going on right now, but I just really wish I could go home. Even if it was only for a day.
It is now 12:15am, and I still do not feel as though I am ready for this exam, but I am absolutely exhausted and need to sleep. If I continue studying right now it will do me no good.
I don't have my Chem Lab tomorrow morning, so I'm free until noon. I plan to wake up early and finish studying then, but for right now, I need to sleep this day away, and start fresh tomorrow.
So I really hope all of your days were way better than mine, and I'll talk to you tomorrow!
Goodnight <3
Let's just say that I had a pretty bad day overall.
It started by waking up late and missing Biology this morning, which is not a good thing considering it is not my strong point.
I made it to work at 9:30, which was good. I kept busy the entire time by scanning things into the computer while keeping an eye on the front desk.
It was then time for Oceanography which I enjoyed today! We talked about sharks for a brief part of lecture which will always boost my alertness and mood :)
After Oceanography I worked another hour from 1:30-2:30 and it was so busy! There were like a thousand people coming in and out and asking questions and it was super hectic and stressful. I couldn't keep things straight in my mind and I was just a mess.
After that was done and over with, I headed back to my room.
On the way back I stepped in a very well hidden pile of mud and got it all over my gold Sperry's making them look disgusting. I was able to get it off of the leather, but not off of the laces which are a softer leather cord that is holding that mud in tight :(
Practice had been pushed back today to 5:15, or so I though.
I left my dorm at 4:30 and got to the Campus Center Ballroom at 4:45. Today we were recording all of the music that we have played this year, and so it was held in the ballroom.
Well as I got to the outside of it, I could hear the band playing inside and knew I was late. I couldn't figure out why they had already started when it wasn't supposed to start until 5:15. Well I later found out that it had been pushed up an hour to 4:15, which was indicated in an email that the assistant band director sent out. For some reason I have not been getting her past few emails. I told her, but I'm still not getting them, so I'll have to talk to her again about that because that caused me so much trouble today.
So I hear them playing outside, and there are three of the tech guys outside of the door. I patiently wait outside of the door until they stop playing, and then the guys kindly let me in.
I put my instrument together and start walking across the ballroom which felt about a mile long, with about 200 pairs of eyes on me, all except for the band director who then starts conducting again and they start playing.
I'm still walking so I just continue walking to my spot and then fall into the arc and begin playing where they were.
Well, he sees me walk up, and stops the entire band along with the recording. His next words were, "Can someone please watch the door to make sure no one walks in WHILE WE ARE RECORDING!" Full on shouting by the end of his sentence. Then he looks at me and like rolls his eyes and starts conducting.
It was embarrassing. However, I was more angered by the fact that this happened rather than embarrassed, because had he been facing the other way he would have seen that I walked in between songs and no one was playing yet!
I would never have just walked in when I knew they were recording, and there were people who were monitoring the traffic coming and going from the room, and they were the ones who let me in! None of it was my fault, but it put an even bigger damper on my day.
After practice, I got a laugh in when walking with Marisa and Nathan, and they made me feel better.
I then walked back to my dorm.
It was study time.
I studied for about 2 hours before stopping and kind of having a small mental breakdown.
Nothing specific caused it, I think it was just a whole conglomeration of things. I was stressed about this Chemistry exam tomorrow, upset from the day I had, sad about not being able to go home for Thanksgiving which seems to be getting worse the closer Thursday comes, and homesickness.
Since my mom left I have not felt an overwhelming feeling of homesickness, until tonight. Again, it might be heightened by everything that is going on right now, but I just really wish I could go home. Even if it was only for a day.
It is now 12:15am, and I still do not feel as though I am ready for this exam, but I am absolutely exhausted and need to sleep. If I continue studying right now it will do me no good.
I don't have my Chem Lab tomorrow morning, so I'm free until noon. I plan to wake up early and finish studying then, but for right now, I need to sleep this day away, and start fresh tomorrow.
So I really hope all of your days were way better than mine, and I'll talk to you tomorrow!
Goodnight <3
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Pau ~ Finished
Unfortunately, after coming to the realization that I have an important Chemistry exam coming up on Tuesday, today ended up not going as I had hoped.
I wanted to get out and go see Catching Fire again and possibly go to the mall to get some Christmas Presents, but as I said my main focus was studying.
I woke up around 11:30 and read Divergent for a while. Then around 2:00, I began studying and I studied for a few hours.
I then watched some Gossip Girl and then went back to reading!
Amber was here all weekend this time, and she decided to order some pizza, so we ate that for dinner because we are tired of the same old food that they serve at the caf.
I then began reading again at like 8:00, and I finished the book! :) 487 pages in two days, oh yeah!
It was really good and very well written! I enjoyed it a lot, and look forward to not only reading the other two books in the trilogy, but also seeing the movie that comes out in March!
I was thinking about buying the other two books right now on my Kindle and starting them since they are both only $6.99, but decided I'm too tired to read anymore tonight.
If I buy them now then I'll get distracted from studying which is what I am going to be doing all day tomorrow whenEVER I have free time for this dreaded Chem exam.
I'll buy them/read them once this exam is over and I have time to read over this five day weekend coming up! Woo :)
And that's it!
Sorry for the suuuuper unproductive/boring weekend, hope yours was better! :)
Goodnight <3
I wanted to get out and go see Catching Fire again and possibly go to the mall to get some Christmas Presents, but as I said my main focus was studying.
I woke up around 11:30 and read Divergent for a while. Then around 2:00, I began studying and I studied for a few hours.
I then watched some Gossip Girl and then went back to reading!
Amber was here all weekend this time, and she decided to order some pizza, so we ate that for dinner because we are tired of the same old food that they serve at the caf.
I then began reading again at like 8:00, and I finished the book! :) 487 pages in two days, oh yeah!
It was really good and very well written! I enjoyed it a lot, and look forward to not only reading the other two books in the trilogy, but also seeing the movie that comes out in March!
I was thinking about buying the other two books right now on my Kindle and starting them since they are both only $6.99, but decided I'm too tired to read anymore tonight.
If I buy them now then I'll get distracted from studying which is what I am going to be doing all day tomorrow whenEVER I have free time for this dreaded Chem exam.
I'll buy them/read them once this exam is over and I have time to read over this five day weekend coming up! Woo :)
And that's it!
Sorry for the suuuuper unproductive/boring weekend, hope yours was better! :)
Goodnight <3
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Heluhelu ~ Read
So today was a pretty much a rest day for me, which will result in a pretty short post, my apologies!
I woke up around 8:30, and literally sat in bed switching off between reading Divergent and watching Gossip Girl all day.
Around 4:00 I finally got up and had to shower up and get dressed. Tonight I subbed for our section leader at one of the Rainbow Wahine Volleyball games, which started at 7:00.
Once I was ready, I decided to make a little trip to theMarket because I still had 5 meals left this week, so I spent those and then came back and put it all away.
It was about 5:45 at this point and I watched half of an episode of GG before heading off to the Stan Sheriff Center for the game.
Now, I did not know that we would be playing in front of the stadium before the game, so as I was walking, I could hear the band playing. So I rushed to get there.
I didn't know who the other flute players would be since this was not a game I had originally signed up for, but when I got there, there were no flutes out there playing.
I joined in and played the last five songs before we headed into the stadium.
I was still the only flute player, until finally right before the game started, Marisa and Raquel showed up.
The game was great! We played Cal State NorthRidge, and it was a pretty close game, but we pulled out the victory! :)
Tonight was Senior Night for them, so it was an exciting win!
After the game I came back, and it is now present time. I am sitting at my desk typing this, and afterwards, I plan on getting into bed and reading Divergent! It's really good! If you are into Distopian Novels, read this trilogy! :)
I'll talk to you all tomorrow night! <3
I woke up around 8:30, and literally sat in bed switching off between reading Divergent and watching Gossip Girl all day.
Around 4:00 I finally got up and had to shower up and get dressed. Tonight I subbed for our section leader at one of the Rainbow Wahine Volleyball games, which started at 7:00.
Once I was ready, I decided to make a little trip to theMarket because I still had 5 meals left this week, so I spent those and then came back and put it all away.
It was about 5:45 at this point and I watched half of an episode of GG before heading off to the Stan Sheriff Center for the game.
Now, I did not know that we would be playing in front of the stadium before the game, so as I was walking, I could hear the band playing. So I rushed to get there.
I didn't know who the other flute players would be since this was not a game I had originally signed up for, but when I got there, there were no flutes out there playing.
I joined in and played the last five songs before we headed into the stadium.
I was still the only flute player, until finally right before the game started, Marisa and Raquel showed up.
The game was great! We played Cal State NorthRidge, and it was a pretty close game, but we pulled out the victory! :)
Tonight was Senior Night for them, so it was an exciting win!
After the game I came back, and it is now present time. I am sitting at my desk typing this, and afterwards, I plan on getting into bed and reading Divergent! It's really good! If you are into Distopian Novels, read this trilogy! :)
I'll talk to you all tomorrow night! <3
Maka ~ Eye
Wow! This is my 100th post! Can you believe it?
Happy Aloha Friday to you all! :)
Here are a few pictures from yesterday at the movie theater that I forgot to post in that post!
I've had a great day today!
I woke up and went to Bio, and then worked from 9:30-12:00, I did things like filing, copying, scanning, and also manning the front desk. Nichole moved into one of the smaller offices within our office, so now the front desk is the student workers responsibility! It's fun :)
I had Oceanography after that, and although the normal professor is back, it wasn't too bad today. The lecture was pretty interesting; it was about the Primary Producers of the ocean.
I then worked again. Now typically on Monday/Wednesday/Friday afternoons, I only work from 1:30-2:30 but practice was cancelled today, meaning that I had nothing left for the rest of the day. So I stayed in the office until 4:00, meaning that I worked five hours today! I had tons of projects though so I kept busy the entire time. In the afternoon I had to count out graduation invitations for students who requested them and monitored the Walk-In Advising appointments. :)
I also got my first ever paycheck today which was wonderful and made my day!
I then went back to my dorm because I had been gone from 8:00am-4:00pm! Such a long day.
Since getting back, I haven't done too much.
I got my Thanksgiving card from my family including a rubber band bracelet that my little brother made me, which was really nice and even made me tear up a little just thinking about not being able to come home for Thanksgiving which is going to be very hard :(
So I watched some GG and ate some dinner once I got back.
Around 9:00, I went outside to check out this Fair that is going on in our dorm's courtyard. There is music, a dunk tank, raffles, and just tons of fair games. I walked around to see what was happening, and it's pretty cool, but I would guess that there are a couple hundred students down there and I couldn't deal with all of that.
I've also been reading! I have been wanting to read the Divergent series for quite a while, so I decided to buy the book on my Kindle. It was only $3.99, what a steal! I've been reading that for about an hour and a half, and it is really good so far.
And somehow it is now 12:28am and I feel like I am keeping my roommate up, when she is trying to get to sleep, so I'm going to go now!
I'll talk to you tomorrow night <3
Happy Aloha Friday to you all! :)
Here are a few pictures from yesterday at the movie theater that I forgot to post in that post!
OKAY! So I saw this giant eye thing and told Marisa to take my picture next to it, when all of a sudden THE EYE STARTS MOVING. It freaked me out, so instead of taking a nice picture, I took this one :)
There is me in the LEGO Movie cutout in the top center. This thing is meant for children only, as specified on the back, but I wanted my picture so I got it. However the head-hole was so tiny! Clearly my head doesn't fit, as you can see.
The Hobbit!
This is Olaf from Frozen, but he is in a grass skirt and his hips shake! <3 :)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I've had a great day today!
I woke up and went to Bio, and then worked from 9:30-12:00, I did things like filing, copying, scanning, and also manning the front desk. Nichole moved into one of the smaller offices within our office, so now the front desk is the student workers responsibility! It's fun :)
I had Oceanography after that, and although the normal professor is back, it wasn't too bad today. The lecture was pretty interesting; it was about the Primary Producers of the ocean.
I then worked again. Now typically on Monday/Wednesday/Friday afternoons, I only work from 1:30-2:30 but practice was cancelled today, meaning that I had nothing left for the rest of the day. So I stayed in the office until 4:00, meaning that I worked five hours today! I had tons of projects though so I kept busy the entire time. In the afternoon I had to count out graduation invitations for students who requested them and monitored the Walk-In Advising appointments. :)
I also got my first ever paycheck today which was wonderful and made my day!
I then went back to my dorm because I had been gone from 8:00am-4:00pm! Such a long day.
Since getting back, I haven't done too much.
I got my Thanksgiving card from my family including a rubber band bracelet that my little brother made me, which was really nice and even made me tear up a little just thinking about not being able to come home for Thanksgiving which is going to be very hard :(
So I watched some GG and ate some dinner once I got back.
Around 9:00, I went outside to check out this Fair that is going on in our dorm's courtyard. There is music, a dunk tank, raffles, and just tons of fair games. I walked around to see what was happening, and it's pretty cool, but I would guess that there are a couple hundred students down there and I couldn't deal with all of that.
I've also been reading! I have been wanting to read the Divergent series for quite a while, so I decided to buy the book on my Kindle. It was only $3.99, what a steal! I've been reading that for about an hour and a half, and it is really good so far.
And somehow it is now 12:28am and I feel like I am keeping my roommate up, when she is trying to get to sleep, so I'm going to go now!
I'll talk to you tomorrow night <3
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