Kākau Hoʻopaʻa ~ To register

Another good day for me :)

First off, this picture was uploaded to FB this morning, here are the 2013 Marching Flutes! Can you spot me?

So, I woke up this morning and went to work at 9:00, where I monitored the walk-in advising at the front desk, and made more snowflakes!

I made another 3D one with blue & white paper!

Snowman snowflake!

I had Chemistry at 12:00, and then I rushed home to figure out the last few classes I was going to register for. After long debates on what to take, and a conversation to take, I decided and registered for my classes at 2:00. I got into all of them; however my schedule is going to be very busy next semester with 18 credits!

I then started feeling pretty lousy, and sick, so I laid down for a half hour before having to get up to go to Hawaiian Studies. Today's lecture was about Eugenics in Hawaii in the 1800-early 1900's. It was interesting!

I worked again from 4:30-6:00. Melissa, the peer advisor, wanted me to show her how to make the 3D snowflakes, and once I did, we decided to make one giant 3D snowflake. She got off of work at 4:45, so I was left to do pretty much the whole thing, but it passed the time, so it's okay.

Here it is by itself...

...and for size comparison, here it is next to the normal sized one I made earlier!

After that, I just walked home for the night and had a nice conversation with my sister :)

I did some online homework for Chemistry that is due next Thursday, and Amber and I talked for a while about classes and life. Haha!

I'm now off to sleeeeep! 
So happy tomorrow is Friday :)
I'll talk to you then,
Goodnight! <3

Nā Mea Hana Lima ~ Crafts

So today was a really good day for me!

Not due to any specific thing, just overall it was great!

I woke up for my Biology lecture this morning, and at the end we are told that class is cancelled next Monday! You see, our professor always takes one day off each semester for getting sick, but he never got sick this semester, so on Monday, there is no class :)

I then headed off to Bio Lab. The last Bio Lab for the semester! Woo :)

We turned in our homework, and final paper, and also got a surprise in this class, too!

We typically have weekly quizzes in that class, but since it was the last class, our TA was nice and didn't give us one. :)

So we made concept maps, and presented them to the class. Prety simple lab. Oh, and another good thing is that if 90% of the kids in our section go on and do the anonymous TA evaluation, we all get 10 extra credit points added to our overall grade. How awesome!

So by 11:30, my day was already starting off really well.

I then had an hour until Oceanography, so I went to Jamba Juice and got a smoothie, and a bistro sandwich for lunch and ate that before class.

Today, Oceanography wasn't bad, but wasn't too interesting either. It was just alright.

I then worked for only an hour from 1:30-2:30. Right at the beginning I had to alphabetize some papers, but for the rest of the time, I got to cut out paper snowflakes to decorate the offices with  and help put up other decorations. 

Here are some of the snowflakes I made...

I think they turned out great, and they were super fun to make.

And since Marching Band is now over, I didn't have practice tonight, so the rest of my afternoon/evening was free.

I've got quite a large number of Christmas present to buy, which has been hanging over my shoulders for a while now, so I decided why not go to Walmart and see what I can find there.

I did find about 2/3rds of what I needed there, and after $60 spent at Walmart, I needed to go back to my dorm.

Now, I thought that going to Walmart on a Tuesday evening would be fine. I didn't think it'd be too crowded; well I was WRONG. There were a trillion people in Walmart and it was really hot in there and I was so stressed out. It wasn't very great. Oh! And not to mention the busses. I forgot that it was right about the time that people were getting off work and heading home. Well a large percentage of the people on O'ahu use public transport, so that whole situation was a mess on it's own.

I got through it, thankfully.

Once I got back to my dorm, I cleaned up my room. It had gotten somewhat messy, and although I organize it pretty often, I hadn't done a thorough cleaning in a while. 

So I vacuumed everything, wiped down the desks, and cleaned up the whole thing. It looks great :)

Then I watched some Gossip Girl and made a 3D snowflake for my room! 

Then, Amber and I tried figuring out our schedules for next semester. We made sure we are taking the same Chem lecture and lab again, so that'll be fun.

Class registration for us is tomorrow at 2:00pm!

Let's hope I get all of the classes that I need!

And that's it for today!

I had a great and very productive day, in my opinion :)

I hope yours was just as good.

Talk to you tomorrow, 

Goodnight <3

Hau Pūehuehu ~ Snowflake

Unfortunately, there is nothing even remotely exciting to update you on today. 

I went to my Chemistry lecture at noon, and then had a break before my next class so I went back to my room and worked on my final draft for a lab write up due tomorrow. 

I had Hawaiian Studies at 3:00, and then I walked to work. I worked from 4:30-6:00 but I only had one small project to work on, so I finished super early and sat there reading for most of the time. 

I picked up some dinner at Ba-Le and then headed back to my dorm!

I watched some Gossip Girl while I are, then I painted my nails with the nail polish my mom sent. They're so cute :)

I also opened my third little present which were two suction cup snowflakes that change colors. However, they don't seem to want to stay up on the window no matter hard we try. 

And the rest of the night I've worked on finishing the final draft of my lab, as well as the homework due for the lab tomorrow. It will be the final Biology Lab for this semester, and I couldn't be happier! :)

I'm off to sleep now! Hope your days were wonderful :)
Goodnight <3

Maikaʻi Mea Hou ~ Good News!

Yayy! I have good news :)

Wait to find out toward the end!
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So today started out kind of slow. Biology was boring, but then I worked for 2 1/2 hours which was fun! I worked te front desk, scanned papers and ran some errands. 

Then I had Oceanography which wasn't that interesting today. We talked about the marine food chain, which everyone knows already. 

I worked for one more hour, and got to talking about school stuff with Melissa and Eliza. It was good! They gave me advice on what classes to take, studying abroad, and things like that. 

Now although we didn't have practice today, we still had to go to the band room for a little "pow-wow". 

Good news!
The band director says he needs to speak to me, which I was a bit nervous about, but it wasn't bad at all! So as you know, I was placed into the bottom band along with 13 others. Well one flute from the middle band had scheduling conflicts and had to drop down to the bottom, which left an open spot. So he tells me that I was the next highest scoring flute, and the spot is mine if I'd like it! :) yayyy! I was super happy!

So we then had to return our uniforms and had a big discussion about upcoming events involving the whole band. They also ordered pizzas for us, so we just sat around and are pizza. 

And that's it! I've been working on a ton of homework for the rest of the night, as well as having a convo with Amber who got back this morning. 

And now it's time to sleeeeep!
So I'll talk to you tomorrow! :)

Kaulele ~ Overtime

IT'S DECEMBER!!

Boy, was today interesting.

First of all, there were flash flood warnings all night, along with heavy, down pouring rain.

I woke up around 8:30, and as I was laying there in bed, the power suddenly goes out. All of the fans in my room shut off, the lights started flickering. Thankfully it didn't last long before the back up generators kicked in, which caused the fridge and printers to restart themselves and the microwave began beeping for about 2 straight minutes.

So this caused me to be awake for a while, but I ended up falling back asleep until about 11:00. I then opened my first little present from the package I my family sent me. It was some red and green nail polish along with a cheesy Christmas joke from my dad :)

I then got ready and got on the bus with Marisa, Greg and Jalish. We went to Kalihi, and just walked around. However, as we were walking, it starts pouring outside! Completely pouring -_- Thankfully I had my umbrella, but I was wearing shorts and along with the rain freeeeezing! And there were ankle deep puddles eveeeryywhereee that we had to walk through. Ick!

We then had to come back to UH to change and get ready for the basketball game tonight. 

It was a women's basketball game, so I wasn't expecting it to be interesting, but it ended up being very interesting! The entire game was really close. The score was 66-63 in the last few seconds with Minnesota ahead, and as the buzzer goes off, one of the girls on our team shoots a three-pointer and makes it! It was an incredible shot!!

We then went into overtime, and ended up winning 76-68. Yay!

After that, Marisa, Alyssa and I went to the cafe to eat some dinner, and then I got back to my room at about 9:00.

I've been getting my things together for the week, and tried to clean up the mess that my room had become over the weekend.

I'm now off to sleep!
Goodnightt <3

Pohole ~ Bruise

Today was a day of mixed emotions, for sure.

I slept in until about 10:30 and then headed off to the band room at 12:20, to get ready to leave for the game!

We left at 1:00 and got there around 1:30, and we were told some devastating news.

One of our football players, he was the running back, was swimming at Sandy's this morning, which is a very popular, local beach with huge waves. So he was swimming in the early hours of the day, and he drowned while swimming. Although I did not know him, it was very sad to hear about.

Also today, actor Paul Walker died in a car crash, which is scary! A lot of people drive cars every single day to and from work/school, etc. and just the fact that either of these unexpected things could happen at any given moment. Life is short, so be sure to not take things for granted and live it to the fullest, because sometimes life is cut short.

RIP Willis Wilson and Paul Walker

So the game went well, we played with the Army Band for pre game, which was cool. I though we'd be playing another college team today, but instead we played the Army; as crazy and odd as that sounds.

We scored within the first minute of the game, which was surprising, and ended up going on to win the game 49-42!

Those of you who know me, know that I wear two rings. A ring with my name on it and a claddagh, which I put in my uniform pocket during the game today because I forgot to take them off before hand. So druing the first quarter, I went to the bathroom, and I guess my KYLIE ring fell out of the pocket, because it was not in the pocket anymore. I went to check the bathroom once I discovered that it was missing, and it was no where to be found :(

I was sad.

Also, as I was going up the stairs to get to the second level where the bathrooms are, I tripped and fell. Embarrassing, I know. Anyways, I fell straight onto my left knee, and although it didn't start bleeding, it is completely bruised up and the skin is peeling off. :(

We had fun in the stands today, as it was the last one of the season. :)

So yeah, we won our first game! Woo! :)

FSU also won their game, and Alabama lost theirs, meaning that Florida State University is now number #1 in the nation! That is super excited! At least one of my teams did well this year :)

After we got back from the game, Marisa and I went to theMarket to spend the rest of our meal points, and it was so crowded! I really am not a fan of people, let alone obnoxious, and drunk college ones.

And I finally got back to my room at about 11:40.

I'm off to bed now, because I am exhausted!

Hope your day was good!

Goodnight <3

ʻOle Loa ~ Nothing

Nothing.

That is what I did today.

I slept in until about 11:00 this morning, and then sat around reading.

I then got an email that my Christmas care package had come from my family :) So I went down and got it. Inside, my mom sort of themed it as an advent package, so there is one thing to open each day starting December 1st up through the day I fly home!

Also inside were some cute decorations and even a few presents for Amber :)

I have the best family in the world, and am so thankful for them. <3

So other than that, I watched Gossip Girl, went to theMarket and did a load of laundry, but that's about it.

Oh, I did order a pizza for dinner! :) But I have so much left over.

And sadly, that's it!

It was upper gloomy and rainy out today, the sun didn't some out once! And it is still pouring outside. So that kind of ruined any chances of going out and doing something, and all of the stores were probably packed with shoppers, so I just decided to stay in!

I hope your day was exciting :)
I'll talk to you tomorrow which is a game day!
Goodnight! <3