It was exactly a year ago today (in Japan time, or tomorrow in America time) that I met, and subsequently went home with, my host family. I remember being ridiculously nervous about meeting them.  They were an hour late (which I later learned would be the norm for my host mother) and I had gotten there 30 minutes early as well, so I spent  1 1/2 ( Read more... )

When Band camp started this past summer I was nervous about the two new section leaders. (Haha, yes get out all your "This one time at Band Camp" jokes now, but believe me when I say that I've heard them all... numerous times, and none of them are that funny, and realistically, every band kids has "This one time at Band Camp ..." stories and they ( Read more... )

So I was done with classes for the day so I went down to socialize with everyone in the lounge. One of my friends had bought this weeks edition of JUMP so I picked it up and started flipping through it. After realizing that I was WAY behind in Bleach, D.Gray-Man and HunterXHunter, I flipped through the newest chapters of KHR and Gintama (I haven't ( Read more... )

Sorry, this is a crazy long post so I shall put it behind a cut. Ha ha. well apparently the computers at school refuse to do cuts, so sorry to spam up your friends pages! For those of you looking for pictures check facebook!

So orientation week has been hectic but a lot of fun. They’ve kept us very busy, but I think I know my way around there area ( Read more... )

Wow! Has it been a crazy trip or what! I was originally supposed to leave from SeaTac at 7:40 and land in San Fran at 9:30 and take off again at 12:09 set for Osaka. That was the original plan, but San Fran apparently had severe weather issues so my flight was delayed for three hours, three hours which I obviously didn’t have. So they put me on ( Read more... )

I am officially bored out of my mind, which is actually okay, sorta. I had the first third of my first final today, as well as two presentations. Next week is dead week, I have to "Essay" type finals, one in class Japanese essay as well as an interview (at least the interview isn't as hard as it sounds). It was a crazy week, next week is also ( Read more... )

After a crazy compressive and over the top crazy busy series of weeks, which really, this stretches back to the beginning  of October.

I haven't had time to breathe little own sleep in a long time. So many projects, essays, presentations study abroad paperwork and a bunch of band stuff and journalism stuff. It's been pretty much non-stop since I ( Read more... )

trying to get a new mood theme to work. I've never tried to use one that wasn't already in the drop down menu so I'm not sure if I'm doing it right but here goes nothing!

OKay... so I swear I didn't die. It's just  been crazy, and this post will endavour to explain why, because I'm sure you all were dying to find out what I've been up to.

So far starters the biggest issue is that my computer practically died last monday (the first day of school no less). The harddrive went bad and of course my computer was no longer ( Read more... )

Other than this one line, that is completely spoiler free but I'll put it under a cut anyways, this post will in no way mention Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Just reading the book is making me imagine how awesome the fight scenes in the movie are gonna be, then that got me thinking, what are the actors thinking as they read the book? ( Read more... )