Hey, guys! Sorry I haven't posted lately. Truth be told, I just finished my first week of college Friday (whohoo!) so I'm been pretty busy. It's not terribly hard to adjust, but you do have to keep up with your assignments and such. You have to be very self-directed, knowing when to ask help when needed, which, fortunately, I've learned pretty well :) So I'm adjusting pretty well
How do I feel about college? Honestly, I love it. I love that you have more freedom over what you want to learn - granted, you have prerequisites and such to take, but it's all towards your major of study. Plus, you get electives, which I kind of have this year, and you get to choose your teacher, which time you want to go to school (from the available times they offer, of course) and such.
I'm really enjoying my discussions. I'm fully engaged in my English class, and I love my teacher. He's like an English nerd like me, so that's cool :) My mom knows my music teacher, and he's really nice, really chill, so while I'm not into that class as much, I like it and I like the teacher :) My art teacher is really nice too; and I don't like math, but my math teacher is very helpful, which is nice.
Another thing I'm loving is the social experience. I've met so many people studying different things, similar things, etc. and even made a couple of friends on the first day of school! I guess it's because everyone wants to be there that they seem genuinely excited for school and learning. Actually, the two friends that I make have several mutual friends with me on Facebook! :D (which reminds me, I saw an old friend from dance class taking classes there, and two of my other friends from dance are taking dual enrollment! How cool is that?)
So yeah, overall I'm loving college. It's so much fun. Work, yes, but fun. It's not TOO bad as long as you keep up with your assignments and such - which your teachers definitely remind you of. Most of them (at least all of mine) just want you to succeed in their class, so why wouldn't they help you? My point is, as long as you put your mind and effort into school work, college can be great.
With that all said, I probably won't be posting here weekly, as you can see I have been doing already. I probably will post every now and then, but not as regularly. I love writing, but I don't want to feel overwhelmed. Blogging has its benefits, don't get me wrong, but I already have a diary I prefer writing in everyday, which is what I used to do for my blog, plus I have school assignments and my own writing projects on the side. So I apologize for not posting as often. I hope you don't miss me too much.
But don't worry: I won't keep you in the dark TOO much. I will fill you in on the details of my life every now and then, so it's not like you'll NEVER see me posting at all. So thanks to all the people who've been viewing my blog and (hopefully) entertained by it. I look forward talking to you all soon!
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Saturday, August 8, 2015
August Begins
It rained HORRIBLY Monday. Well, at first it didn't rain - it had just rained the other day, so it was wet outside - so we decided no park today (probably) and headed off to grab some breakfast. Well, guess what - IT RAINED. HARD. It's like the rain was trying to make up for the lack of rain the weathermen had predicted all of last week! So, anyway, we got inside, soaking wet, ate some breakfast, and left. I think it wasn't raining as hard that time.
Then we went to the library. I don't think it was raining too badly then. I saw an interesting-looking book based on Anastasia Romanov's life by an author who wrote a bunch of historical fictional novels on the Tudors I enjoyed, so I picked it up (it's called Anastasia And Her Sister's, by the way, in case anyone's interested, and the author's Carolyn Meyer). I also picked up ANOTHER book on a royal, but this one was fictional - Princess Ben, and I forget the author's name. But I'm reading the one on Anastasia first, since I kept hearing about the Romanov's awhile ago - or maybe I was just thinking about it and finally wanted to read about their life (or what it could have been). Plus, I hardly know anything about Russia or WW1.
We went to eat out again later, since we got a bit of a flat tire and wouldn't make it home in time for lunch. It rained again, hard again, so we had to run inside. And we ended up staying at the library again since we had to wait on the car. By now it was POURING outside. When the car was ready, we literally had to rush inside the van and quickly shut the door since it was raining so badly. And it kept stopping and coming, so we always had to be prepared just in case it decided to rain crazily again. But hey, it helped the plants grow, eh? xD
We went to eat out again later, since we got a bit of a flat tire and wouldn't make it home in time for lunch. It rained again, hard again, so we had to run inside. And we ended up staying at the library again since we had to wait on the car. By now it was POURING outside. When the car was ready, we literally had to rush inside the van and quickly shut the door since it was raining so badly. And it kept stopping and coming, so we always had to be prepared just in case it decided to rain crazily again. But hey, it helped the plants grow, eh? xD
It rained again Tuesday but it was NOTHING like yesterday. In fact, Monday made Tuesday look like a wimp xD Anyway, we went out again to pick something up at the library, and I went on my new (starting this fall!) school campus to get my student ID. And financial aid paid for my classes that day (I think it was on that day, because I called yesterday and they said they hadn't paid yet). We also went to the grocery store. And the rain made it so we could unfortunately not go to the park :/ But hey, I still got out :D
It was REALLY hot Wednesday, so we opted to head to the beach :D The waves were seriously WILD out (now I sound like a stereotypical surfer xD) But seriously, they were hard. It felt like I was getting punched by it sometimes! But it was fun :)
We spent the rest of the days visiting parks around the city. In total, we've been to about 18 :O It's so awesome :) I really am enjoying exploring all the different parks around the area. It's great for soaking in fresh air, exercising, and just plain fun!
Then we went to the library. I don't think it was raining too badly then. I saw an interesting-looking book based on Anastasia Romanov's life by an author who wrote a bunch of historical fictional novels on the Tudors I enjoyed, so I picked it up (it's called Anastasia And Her Sister's, by the way, in case anyone's interested, and the author's Carolyn Meyer). I also picked up ANOTHER book on a royal, but this one was fictional - Princess Ben, and I forget the author's name. But I'm reading the one on Anastasia first, since I kept hearing about the Romanov's awhile ago - or maybe I was just thinking about it and finally wanted to read about their life (or what it could have been). Plus, I hardly know anything about Russia or WW1.
We went to eat out again later, since we got a bit of a flat tire and wouldn't make it home in time for lunch. It rained again, hard again, so we had to run inside. And we ended up staying at the library again since we had to wait on the car. By now it was POURING outside. When the car was ready, we literally had to rush inside the van and quickly shut the door since it was raining so badly. And it kept stopping and coming, so we always had to be prepared just in case it decided to rain crazily again. But hey, it helped the plants grow, eh? xD
We went to eat out again later, since we got a bit of a flat tire and wouldn't make it home in time for lunch. It rained again, hard again, so we had to run inside. And we ended up staying at the library again since we had to wait on the car. By now it was POURING outside. When the car was ready, we literally had to rush inside the van and quickly shut the door since it was raining so badly. And it kept stopping and coming, so we always had to be prepared just in case it decided to rain crazily again. But hey, it helped the plants grow, eh? xD
It rained again Tuesday but it was NOTHING like yesterday. In fact, Monday made Tuesday look like a wimp xD Anyway, we went out again to pick something up at the library, and I went on my new (starting this fall!) school campus to get my student ID. And financial aid paid for my classes that day (I think it was on that day, because I called yesterday and they said they hadn't paid yet). We also went to the grocery store. And the rain made it so we could unfortunately not go to the park :/ But hey, I still got out :D
It was REALLY hot Wednesday, so we opted to head to the beach :D The waves were seriously WILD out (now I sound like a stereotypical surfer xD) But seriously, they were hard. It felt like I was getting punched by it sometimes! But it was fun :)
We spent the rest of the days visiting parks around the city. In total, we've been to about 18 :O It's so awesome :) I really am enjoying exploring all the different parks around the area. It's great for soaking in fresh air, exercising, and just plain fun!
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Late July/Early August
Sorry I didn't post last week :/ I've been having so much fun exploring parks and checking out books libraries that I never took the time to really log anything down. But I'm here now, and I'll catch y'all up on everything that's been happening this week (yeah, I said y'all; my southern side is really showing xD)
We went to the park last week. A stranger had given us a $30 coupon for ice cream when we went to eat at Jimmy John's, which was so nice. My dad's birthday was Thursday! My brother found him this marine bear at Goodwill (he's a veteran)
Monday was a looooong day. Long, but good. First, we went to our tenth park this summer. It had no trail, but there were these woods for some golf disk game or something (never heard of it) and the woods were beautiful! So breathtakingly beautiful<3 It gave me inspiration for describing scenes in my stories. I have an idea now; I'll get descriptive as possible, remembering every detail about an area I've been to so I can describe it clearly (I've heard of advice like this before), and then I'll edit out the unnecessaries. With this new idea and that fantasy series in the loom, I feel like Kronk from Emperor's New Groove: "Oh, yeah, it's all coming together."
Then my two older siblings and I went to hang out with an old friend who came to visit town (she lives somewhere else now since she's in college there). I had SO much fun! We got some ice cream, went to a sandwich shop, a craft store, and then Barnes & Nobles. I realize that you, you know, actually get to talk to people when you don't go to see a 2-hour or longer movie. This was really fun; I want to do it again with another friend sometime this month or before school. Anyway, I had lots of fun, just talking and catching up on old times. I know there's a quote about how you remember the time you spent with people you care about the most, and that's so true. No matter how busy you are, make sure you make time for the ones you love, because that's what's really important in life.
Afterwards, we re-watched Guardians of The Galaxy since the younger ones didn't get to see it.
Tuesday was another long day! Let's see if I can remember everything...In no particular order, we went to the park, but there were no bathrooms or water fountain :/ But we made fun of it by racing up and down this hill.
I think we went to Walmart after that. Since a lot of the parks have like tennis courts and some had basketball ones, we went to buy that. My brother found me a Star Wars Millennium Falcon shirt that was on sale for like $5.00 (it used to be like $7 or so) so of course I had to buy it :D Also, he found some superior shirts (like Superman, Age of Ultron, etc) and a Looney Toons one that he got.
Eventually we got hungry, so we ate lunch at this restaurant (I won't give the name because it may be local) that sells DELICIOUS sandwiches and panini's. Let me tell you, the food there is SO good! I hadn't eaten it in SUCH a long time, and there's this chicken pesto panini that's to DIE for. I also went there Monday so I had it two days in a row! :D
We went to Goodwill sometime later, though I don't remember when. I wanted to swing by just to see what they had, maybe some T-shirts, and I found some! I made some jewelry with them later that day. I love how I can find perfectly nice T-shirts there for half the price at a craft store :)
I know we went to the library twice, but we did it at two different times. We went to the largest branch because a movie my parents wanted to see, Wreck It Ralph, was supposed to be there, but it must have been on hold or something because she said it wasn't there. So it's on hold now. And then later on, we went to the branch closet to us. It's smaller but the people there are really nice. Not that they're rude at the other place, but they're more talkative here (probably because it's a smaller branch). I had something on hold - Transformers, I'm pretty sure, the first one - and so did some others so we went there and got that.
Friday was my sister's birthday! We did a park again that day, but we also went out to eat for lunch and dinner. First we ate some DELICIOUS pizza and nachos at this local pizza restaurant. And then we ate dinner at this great buffet. And today my grandma got my sister a cookie cake and lemonn cake - it was SO good!
We went to the park last week. A stranger had given us a $30 coupon for ice cream when we went to eat at Jimmy John's, which was so nice. My dad's birthday was Thursday! My brother found him this marine bear at Goodwill (he's a veteran)
Monday was a looooong day. Long, but good. First, we went to our tenth park this summer. It had no trail, but there were these woods for some golf disk game or something (never heard of it) and the woods were beautiful! So breathtakingly beautiful<3 It gave me inspiration for describing scenes in my stories. I have an idea now; I'll get descriptive as possible, remembering every detail about an area I've been to so I can describe it clearly (I've heard of advice like this before), and then I'll edit out the unnecessaries. With this new idea and that fantasy series in the loom, I feel like Kronk from Emperor's New Groove: "Oh, yeah, it's all coming together."
Then my two older siblings and I went to hang out with an old friend who came to visit town (she lives somewhere else now since she's in college there). I had SO much fun! We got some ice cream, went to a sandwich shop, a craft store, and then Barnes & Nobles. I realize that you, you know, actually get to talk to people when you don't go to see a 2-hour or longer movie. This was really fun; I want to do it again with another friend sometime this month or before school. Anyway, I had lots of fun, just talking and catching up on old times. I know there's a quote about how you remember the time you spent with people you care about the most, and that's so true. No matter how busy you are, make sure you make time for the ones you love, because that's what's really important in life.
Afterwards, we re-watched Guardians of The Galaxy since the younger ones didn't get to see it.
Tuesday was another long day! Let's see if I can remember everything...In no particular order, we went to the park, but there were no bathrooms or water fountain :/ But we made fun of it by racing up and down this hill.
I think we went to Walmart after that. Since a lot of the parks have like tennis courts and some had basketball ones, we went to buy that. My brother found me a Star Wars Millennium Falcon shirt that was on sale for like $5.00 (it used to be like $7 or so) so of course I had to buy it :D Also, he found some superior shirts (like Superman, Age of Ultron, etc) and a Looney Toons one that he got.
Eventually we got hungry, so we ate lunch at this restaurant (I won't give the name because it may be local) that sells DELICIOUS sandwiches and panini's. Let me tell you, the food there is SO good! I hadn't eaten it in SUCH a long time, and there's this chicken pesto panini that's to DIE for. I also went there Monday so I had it two days in a row! :D
We went to Goodwill sometime later, though I don't remember when. I wanted to swing by just to see what they had, maybe some T-shirts, and I found some! I made some jewelry with them later that day. I love how I can find perfectly nice T-shirts there for half the price at a craft store :)
I know we went to the library twice, but we did it at two different times. We went to the largest branch because a movie my parents wanted to see, Wreck It Ralph, was supposed to be there, but it must have been on hold or something because she said it wasn't there. So it's on hold now. And then later on, we went to the branch closet to us. It's smaller but the people there are really nice. Not that they're rude at the other place, but they're more talkative here (probably because it's a smaller branch). I had something on hold - Transformers, I'm pretty sure, the first one - and so did some others so we went there and got that.
Friday was my sister's birthday! We did a park again that day, but we also went out to eat for lunch and dinner. First we ate some DELICIOUS pizza and nachos at this local pizza restaurant. And then we ate dinner at this great buffet. And today my grandma got my sister a cookie cake and lemonn cake - it was SO good!
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