Middle School Dance

When I decided I was going to blog today, I told myself that I wasn't going to rant about Middle School dance. However, I'm going to partially ignore my common sense and simply make a short list of things I learned about today from Middle School dance. 

1. Middle schoolers learn a lot slower than I thought they would.

2. If a girl says she's never danced before, she means it. Therefore she gets to stand in the back. 

3. Just because they say they can jump doesn't mean they can land. 

4. It is better to rule with fear than with love. 

5. Middle school dancers are extremely un-flexible~ I think I freaked a few of them out with my splits. 

6. I'm going to go insane from 7 weeks of this. 

7. I need to take off all jewelry and put it safely in my bag so I don't leave in the studio. 

There may not even be a point to me doing Middle School choreography if I decide not to join the High School choreography class. At the start of the year, my goal was really to get into Dance Performance (choreography class). But after I didn't make Varsity dance and started tech, I realised there's more to life than getting as many roles as possible. This doesn't mean I'll stop dancing- it just means I've found other things to do worth my time. 

Besides, techies are nicer people than dancers (in general). 

... so I'll just be the awkward hybrid girl who dances and techs the same show. Which is obviously not what I intend to do for High School 2nd semester dance show. Considering I'm not in the first half of the show, it's a perfectly reasonable idea...

I Dislike HOJ

I probably should either be updating this blog more, or make a regular timetable so I don't feel lazy all the time.

On Sunday, I ended up going to the movies with Nick, Cat, and a few other people. We saw the most confusing movie ever made, Ghost Rider 2. Physics was completely defied as the characters ended up all over Europe. There was this Gypsy woman who's son did not share her accent, which was weird. Not to mention a random prophecy mentioned halfway through the movie or the other bad guy with the power of decay. Generally I'm pretty good at following movie plots and such,  but I walked out completely confused.

Afterwards a minor event took place, but I'll leave it at that.

Yesterday was Parent Night for my Japan interim trip, which was surprisingly fun. I gave the same speech about ten times to various parents, but my 'Kawaii' project was quite strong overall, if I say so myself.

So, I've typed this blog post up during History of Japan. While I enjoyed HOC, HOJ is draining the life out of me. I think I have a substitute teacher in math after this. That will be extremely unproductive!

Later on in the Day:

I really ought to stop blogging so early in the day, because things always happen that I feel bad about not mentioning.

First thing in the morning (before HOJ) I went and 'worked the sound board' (stood around doing nothing) during this rather long assembly. Honestly it's nice to appreciate our artists and such, but there's eoften very little point in it because no one really cares. That being said, I knew a decent number of the delegates/people going to the Cultural Conventions. Dance, drama, singing, speaking, story-telling... all recognised as reasons to send kids to the other IASAS schools in competition.

At lunch today, there was a minor strange occurrence. I'm sitting around doing nothing with Nick and some other techies when I hear this random guy say something like, 'Hey Natalie, my long lost love'. Apparently the guy is in my grade, and since he knew a surprising amount about me I won't mention his name here. At the time I didn't know his name, and it was very, very strange. He then proceeded to ask me for my HOJ notes (mildly ironic). Somehow I convinced Nick to send this random guy his notes. Anyways, this guy kept saying that Nick was incredibly awesome and that he loved him. Which wasn't strange in the slightest. And obviously did not annoy me. Therefore, I did not attempt to  to hit this annoying guy with a hockey stick.  I think I ended up hitting Nick instead. Needless to say, my boyfriend was not very happy with this Sophomore. At least the other people at lunch got a very good laugh.

There was no dance today (though I thought there was and bothered to bring black tights to school >.<) but there was Floor Hockey. Not entirely certain why I went back a second week, but I'm getting a bit better. No one was hit in the face by me today. So, I am quite proud of myself.

Stolen Phone

I posted far too early yesterday, as there ended up being a lot worth mentioning.


First, I went to Chinese dance again after 2 weeks of missing class. They had changed a decent amount of choreography while also altering formations. Needless to say, I was pretty lost. I also apparently did something extremely rude to a teacher. Still cannot figure out exactly what I did, but I got yelled at pretty badly. The girls in my class thought the teacher was talking to someone else, and as I wasn't addressed by name I don't really think I'm at fault.

After dance, I was taking the MRT home with my mom while texting multiple people. While switching trains at the one of the stations, my iPhone was stolen. Luckily, we were able to clear the information off it as well as report it to the police. I'm sure right now it's being taken apart and sold for parts. My family is going to try and get it replaced today.

This is the second stolen phone within my family in a month! My father had his BlackBerry stolen in Argentina. Needless to say, we really need to get phone insurance or something.

Last night I celebrated a friend's birthday, which was pretty fun overall. I met up with her and another friend and we saw This Means War. It's a pretty good movie, I was surprised. It was about these two CIA agents fighting over a girl. Had a nice ending and was funny. Then we ended up eating at the American Club. After that, we went back to her house and watched the new Star Trek movie, which I've seen before but is still worth watching.

... I've had a busy weekend. Time to get a new phone, then do piles of homework. How fun >.<

Pretty kimono-clad girls outside a temple.

College Spam and Life in General

In a way, not a lot has happened this week. I still have a cold (and took Thursday off) and it's going away rather slowly. I've actually managed to get some work done in this annoying post-interim week in which no one wants to do anything. Things have changed after interim- people missed each other and everyone seems to be getting on better. 

In English class, we've started studying poetry. Now, I like poetry. I've actually been writing it for years, ever since I was a little girl. Yet whenever I study poetry, I feel like I'm being force to drain a poem of all its beauty to analyse only its bare bones. This year is no exception, and is probably worse than previous years. What's worse is that we're reading Emily Dickinson, one of my favourite poets of all time. My teacher managed to make the poem so boring I almost fell asleep. Then, she knew nothing about Dickinson so I ended up giving the class significant background information on her life (for heaven's sake, I've been to the woman's house in Massachusetts). It's kind of painful to see good literature be reduced to a jumble of words on paper. Maybe I won't take AP Literature after all.

Something else that's been bothering me lately is the sheer volume of annoying college emails I've been receiving. When I got back from Japan, I had over thirty emails from colleges I never intend to even look into. I'm sure other students get these obnoxious emails, but sometimes it feels like I receive them in excess. To be frank, it makes these colleges quite unappealing to go to. Santa Clara University has sent me at least 4 emails, nagging me to reply. This is not the right was to go about recruiting students!

I'm going to celebrate a friend's birthday tonight, which will be fun. I got her a pretty nice present that I hope she likes. Then, next week is another friend's birthday! It's weird- I never knew any February birthdays that I particularly cared about until I moved to Singapore. 

Japan photo! This is a dragon water-fountain thing outside a temple in which one was to purify their hands. No idea which temple this was anymore. 

Fever? What's That?

I'm not entirely certain why I went to school (and then stayed after school) when I'm pretty certain I woke up with a slight fever. As it was my slacker day (Dance, Law, Free, Chinese) I guess I wouldn't have missed much. Seems like the whole school is sick after Interim- there's a few colds going around, not to mention various stomach bugs. A few of my friends went to China and got sick, but insist on coming to school. Seriously, going to school with a cold is acceptable. Going to school after being violently ill all night... not so much.

I received the 30 clip of music I have to choreograph to for the Middle School dance show, and I have to say, it's one of the weirdest Chinese music clips I've ever heard. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it. There are absolutely no counts. This is going to be a blast.

After school today instead of going to tech immediately, I went to Floor Hockey. Floor Hockey is not exactly a club I would go to by myself, but I had promised Joy I would go. I also kind of promised Mari. And Nick, the president of Floor Hockey Club. After a quick how-to-hold-the-stick lesson, I found myself playing. Two other female techies were there too, though I must say I think they were better than me. I failed multiple times, but in my defense it was my first time playing in a few years (oh, 7th grade gym class). The weirdest fail was when I was hit in the stomach with the wiffle ball, which caused me to smack Nick in the face. Oops.

Because going home at a reasonable time is not something I can comprehend anymore, I then went to Middle School musical rehearsal. I signed up to apprentice sound, which is either going to be really interesting, or mildly stupid. The dancing in that show is horrendous at the moment. It ought to shape up before the show... hopefully.

I'm going to go to bed early tonight to try and get better. Does anyone know any good cold remedies?

To show off my Japan photos, I'm just going to upload random ones every blog post until I get bored.

The host families in Hiroshima (technically, in Kure city) making Okinomiyaki. From the left: My host mom Hiromi, the other host mom, me, Mark, the other host father. In blue is my host father, Tooru.

Kyoto and Other Stuffy Stuff

So, I've completely given up on posting about Japan in any sort of coherent order. Please bear with me as I blab about my random experiences.

Temples/Shrines:

In Kyoto one day, we went to three shrines that were all incredible but completely blend together in order. There was one with amazing red tori gates. See?

So that was one of my favourite temples. Here's another one, covered in gold leaf.

It was unbelievably cold in Kyoto. Though it never snowed, it felt colder than Hiroshima or Tokyo. 

The Ryokan:

A ryokan is a traditional Japanese inn. Basically, you sleep on the tatami floor on a futon. There was a large 'communal' (when I went down there it was empty) bath in the basement. To be frank, it felt like the budget option to the nice Western hotel next door. But, whatever. It was sort of fun to stay in the ryokan because it was all traditional, but it sort of felt like a horror movie. 

Chanko-nabe:

Chanko-nabe is a stew often eaten by sumo wrestlers. We had some on one extraordinarily cold night. The place was pretty nice and gave us these really weird plushy presents. 

Looks like I'm posting this incomplete. I'll finish this up later. Turns out multiple distractions, dinner, and one's computer being stupid result in half-finished blog posts.



On a completely different topic:

Since I told Nick (the guy I've been talking about for a while) that he couldn't post explicit details about our date, I won't write that here either. I'll just say that he gave me a really cute stuffed sheep. I poked the sheep's nose a lot. It's very fuzzy. For some reason I thought the 'kawaii' was over after I left Japan, but I was wrong.

Back From Japan!

I can't believe I'm back here in Singapore typing this out on my Mac. 

The week in Japan went by so fast! It feels like just yesterday I was flying into Japan, and yet this morning I landed back in tropical Singapore. According to my dad I took 699 photos in total, around 20 or so that were for my project. The project was the concept of 'kawaii (かわいい)' or 'cute'. Apparently in Japan it's a pretty big deal and was easy to find overall. Since I can't post all my photos on this blog, I'll try to post a few and look into photo-sharing websites. Pretty certain I already said I would do this, but never bothered. Oops. 

As I'm really tired, I'm just going to talk about Tokyo for now. I'll backtrack to Kyoto when I'm slightly more awake.

After leaving Kyoto two days ago, we took the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Tokyo. It was roughly a two-hour trip.  Apparently we went past the ocean and some snow-covered areas, but I was asleep. We got in and promptly went to a temple. Now, I like Japanese temples. They are very beautiful. But, I think I went to like 8 of these things on my whole trip. There was at least one day when we hit 3 sites... it was too much. Unfortunately I can't remember the order of events terribly well anymore, but I think we went to a traditional drumming class after arriving in Tokyo. It was a lot of fun, but my arms still hurt. Oh well. That night we went to a 'しあぶしあぶ’place, which is cooking really thinly cut meat in hot water. It was delicious. I must admit I sort of ignored the vegetables floating around. We stayed in a quite nice hotel that night. 

The next day, we woke up really early to go to a fish market. I'll look up the name later, but it was the largest fish market in the world. My friend 'Cat' really doesn't like dead animals/fish so I ended up frog-marching her through the entire thing. I didn't mind and parts of it were a bit gross, but it was actually a really interesting place. Supposedly we went into an area that we technically weren't supposed to go. Either way, I really enjoyed it. 

After that, we went back to the hotel to sleep for a few more hours before heading to yet another temple. It had a five-story pagoda so I actually remember what it looked like. While I like Japanese temples, they have all sort of started to blur together. To be frank, I was glad to leave for a tempura lunch before heading to Harajuku. 

I LOVE HARAJUKU. It was actually my second time visiting, and it was weird to remember half the stores. Takeshita street is actually where most of the shopping is, while Harajuku is covered in graffiti and is just slightly shadier in general. I went to the Bodyline store on Takeshita street and bought a new Lolita dress, petticoat and blouse. Can't wait to find an opportunity to wear it. 

Afterwards, we went to Akihabara street. Essentially, it's 'Otaku Lane' or 'Anime Nerd Heaven'. There were lots of interesting figurines, game shops, gaming areas, and CDs. There were also girls dressed as maids on the streets, advertising maid cafes. Which wasn't actually as weird as it sounds, though I'm sure some people were uncomfortable with it. 

Well, that was probably a very messily written blog post. I do apologise. I'm super tired even though I skipped dance class to sleep. Now I get to panic about what to wear tomorrow... I'm meeting up with the guy I like tomorrow for a date!

Second Homestay Day

The house is a mix of East and West- the bedroom doors and such slide, but the front door is Western style. The kitchen and dining area is also Western, but the dining area can easily become Japanese style. For breakfast I had oranges, egg, bread and salad. For whatever reason, it was really good.

Hiromi-san and I met up with Mark and Dongi's host mother (who's name I currently forget) while Touru-San when fishing. We later found out he caught 3 fish.

Together, we all went to this really cool submarine museum. It was a lot of stuff about detonating mines and such. I didn't understand most of it, but there were many interesting artifacts. We then got to go into a real submarine. I was surprised about how small it was- for some reason I thought it was going to be bnigger. The submarine itself was quite large, but most of the space was not for people to tour around.

Over the course of the day, we kept meeting up with Flick and Theresa. Apparently their host family is very traditional and the mother wears kimono all the time. I think that is pretty cool!

We then went to this cultural festival thing, which was basically for Kure City to show off how multicultural they were. The main thing was to go to each country booth (Brazil, China, Korea, Japan, the library, Austraila) and get the stamp for that country. After that, one could collect a prize. At the Japanese room (instead of a booth) there was calligraphy. Hiromi-San wrote my Japanese name very prettily for me. I wrote a couple of words very messily, and am glad I have something nice looking to take back with me.

There was also a tea ceremony, granted an abbreviated on. We sat down and were served sweets (which I later realised had red bean in it, though nothing has happened to me yet so I think I'm not allergic to it) that were very tasty. Then the tea was brought out. It was bitter but very good, I liked it a lot. Then again, I liked the Vegemite given out at the Australia booth. Anyways, everything was carefully choreographed and generally very formal. It was peaceful and time sort of stopped. Apparently it took 30 mins, but it felt like 5.

At the Culture Festival there was also a fashion show for the various countries. Japan was obviously well-represented. No one clapped for Korea even though two really cute little kids walked out. The Chinese outfit made me cringe (not traditional) and the horrible American cowboys with their annoying country music was so funny I almost died laughing. I hate to think what Japanese people must think of 'Americans' with huge cowboy hats and banjos.

Dongi and Mark ended up going shopping after that, while I looked around the shopping centre. Their host mother ended up buying me some cookies, which makes me feel kind of bad because I can't figure out a way to repay her other than bowing and saying thank you.

Now back at Hiromi-san's house, waiting to go to the other host home. Apparently she's kicking me out for an hour so she can cook, and then inviting everyone back for dinner. This is going to be really 'oiishi' or whatever it is in Romaji. Just gave Hiromi-San the present, she liked it a lot. Not certain if this is her first time hosting (I may just be the first one from Singapore), but she still put the Merlion by her window. She also gave me a hug, which is pretty unusual in Japan. They are bowing-type people, not hugging type. So that was surprising, but nicel

I've been trying to use/learn Japanese whenever I can during this home stay. It's not easy and I feel like I make a lot of mistakes, but it's the attempt that counts.

Also, sorry if this is really badly written. I normally check over my blog posts, but since I'm on my iPad typing with very cold fingers (Japanese houses have no central heating or anything, it's all space heaters and blankets) I cannot check what I wrote. Oh well.

Will try to post tomorrow.

It's weird, I feel like I've been in Japan for a while.

First Day in Japan

Here's my blog post from yesterday!

So we got in at whatever time we were supposed to, ditched our luggage and pulled on our coats. It was really cold. The Pakistani kid got searched and that was really funny. Anyways then we took the bus to this awesome temple. I made a wish there. After we ate our way down the street, we got back on the bus and had a tempura lunch. That was pretty good. We went shopping around this mall for a while before taking the bullet train to Hiroshima. It goes really fast, but you can't tell. So I fell asleep. 

Upon arriving at Hiroshima, we then went to the Hiroshima Memorial museum and park. It was amazing to see all the paper cranes at the Children's Memorial. The museum was less 'dramatic' then the Holocaust Museum in DC, but I think this one was more horrifying in the sense that America caused this disaster to occur. I didn't realise this before, but Hiroshima was positively flattened. It was awful.

Thankfully after that we went and met the host families. My host family and Dongi/Mark's host families are neighbours and kind of co-hosting us. Hiromi-San calls me Natsumi because she can't say 'Natalie'. 

Sorry it's short, I was tired. Will write again later today.

Valentines Day on the 10th

 My school is celebrating Valentines Day today because we're on Interim Semester over the 'real' Valentine's Day. I don't know if I've ever walked into school as nervous and excited as I did this morning. There were no projects to turn in or presentations to give (that I knew of), so all of my weirdness was coming from the whole 'Single Awareness Day/Valentine's Day' thing. Unfortunately, that makes me really spacey. Whatever.

First thing in the morning, I went to my Japan Interim home room to sit around being bored. Except it wasn't boring, because I got beautiful roses! Rather than red roses, the sender was thoughtful enough to send champagne (pink and gold-ish) roses to me. Yes, I 'm weird and prefer champagne or white roses to red. Whatever. I've been carrying them around all day and people have literally been stopping me in the hall asking me who they're from. 

I gave him his present after my Chinese class. It was one of the most nerve-racking things I've ever done in my life. Even though it's his birthday as well as 'Valentines Day', I pretty much only have him a 'Valentine's Day' present according to my friends. Very well then.


If you're reading this, ありがとうございます。I'm not keen on saying more publicly on this blog. Either way, I hope you know how much they mean to me. Also, happy birthday again!

Moving on....

In Chinese class this morning, I failed epically writing a little skit about Interim Semester. It was something along the lines of getting on the wrong flight and ending up in Japan rather than China. Which is incredibly interesting, of course. This was followed by Dance III, in which Ms. V gave us the day off. So, we sat on our butts watching Step Up 2 laughing at the terrible acting. Seriously, I know the 'actors' are really dancers, but it's not that hard to act halfway naturally. And why does the female protagonist always seem to be in itty-bitty tops? I mean, any real school would have a dress code preventing her from wearing such revealing clothing. 

Then I went to lunch all the way on the fourth floor to celebrate my friend's birthday.  I think he did pretty well overall in terms of getting presents. A mutual friend baked him cupcakes and we all had a quite lovely time. I gave him a Japanese candy as part of his Valentines Day/Birthday present that was a cherry jelly. So randomly in the middle of lunch, there was the classic 'Asian slurping something' sound. 

... It was funnier than it sounds.

Anyways, I just got out of law class, in which we watched a movie about the OJ Simpson trial/case. It was really interesting. For whatever reason I didn't know much about the depths of the trial before this class. However, I can now understand why it had such a great impact on the American society. Currently sitting in my free, wondering how I'm going to kill an hour. Perhaps I'll go to the tech office to avoid tech-withdrawal for the next week. 

So, I'm flying out to Japan in roughly 11 hours. That means I probably won't be blogging for a week. Which will be pretty weird, but I'll have lots of talk about afterwards. 

YEAH!!!!!!!

Shout out to my reader in Russia: Hey, it's really cool you're still reading my blog! Hope everything is going well for you. 

Can't Stop Smiling

After a series of mediocre days, I've finally had a really good day. There were a few main events that set this day apart from the usual Monday misery.

Since it was the first day of the week, I had to go down to the tech meeting (four floors and the other side of the school from where I was. As I was heading down the hall,  I could see the guy I like up ahead, not entering the room. It was kind of strange. Before I got particularly close to the door, he pulled me aside.  Not going to lie, he looked really nervous. So we both awkwardly found this little place where we could talk, and he asked me out.

I'm pretty certain my heart skipped a beat. Or two.

I can't even remember what I said in response, but it was obviously some form of 'yes'. Time does really strange things sometimes, and this was one of those times when I didn't know if seconds, minutes, or hours were going by. Must have only been seconds. It's a proper relief to know one's feelings are returned. Pretty certain I walked into the tech meeting with a big smile on my face.


Change of topic...
In dance class today, we had to perform our partnering/weight transfer dance. It sounds really strange, but it was actually a lot of fun. Though I'm terribly sore now (stupid shin splints), the piece ended up being well worth the 3 class periods of sweat and effort. For whatever reason, the ending that we rehearsed the least was actually the best part.
I don't have the video for today's piece, but here's my solo from last semester. The theme is 'regret' and the music is 'Dream is Collapsing' from the Inception Soundtrack.





So there's an example of my dancing, aren't you thrilled?

Essentially I can't remember anything about today because it sort of went by in a blur of being really happy. Honestly- it's like the whole day slipped out of my mind completely!

Science Sunday

Surprise of the day everyone: I'm super tired.

It couldn't have been because I was babysitting until 2:30 am last night. Nope. Not at all. While the parents never gave me a time, I was sort of hoping for midnight. But of course it they couldn't have gotten home at midnight. Instead, they got back half an hour later than they even intended. Thankfully I got a good tip from them though. And it did get to the point when I was being paid to sit at their dining room table playing video games and card games while texting a friend. So essentially, I shouldn't be complaining.

Today I went to the Singapore Science Centre with two friends and their mutual friend. The mutual friend (who I'm pretty certain knows a decent amount about me) was making a video for his History of Malaysia/Singapore class. Personally I think the whole project is pointless, but it gave me an excuse to see some exhibits. Since being 15 made me a 'child', I only had to pay $5 to get in. The Science Centre may have been for slightly younger children/people, but it was still pretty fun overall. I wish I had gotten to spend more time in some of the exhibits. 

Here's a video of the fire tornado, or whatever it's called. 

I assume I threw in some random commentary. Sorry about that. 

The Science Centre was a good opportunity for me to hang out with friends that I normally only see in school/tech. It was kind of funny on the MRT though, because we were all really tired. Oh well. 

I can't believe there are only 6 (5 if you don't count today) days until I leave for Japan! I've started sorting through everything and making sure I have enough cold-weather clothes.

Since we're on Interim Semester during Valentine's Day, the school celebrates it on the 10th. 

Did you know that in Japan, it is customary for girls to give chocolate to the boy she likes. Then on March 14th, which is known as 'White Day' in Japan, the boy who received a girl's chocolate is supposed to give her a present back. Valentine's Day in Japan was introduced by a company who was actually trying to market to foreigners. A typo in their campaign created the custom of women giving chocolate out. As expected, the concept for White Day was also created by a company. Apparently it was a marshmallow company who wanted men to give women marshmallows, but it failed and white presents are given instead. There! You learned something today. Or if you watch enough anime, you learned absolutely nothing :P

And I'm now I think it's time to stop writing about random things. I like blogging more often than I used to. As this blog is significantly less interesting now that the action of moving and settling in is over, I guess I'll just spam all you readers with how my days go. Whatever. 

When something interesting does happen regarding living here in Singapore, I'll mention it too. 

... Super Saturday?

Today was never going to be a good day, and part of it is my fault. The other part I could have made less miserable for myself, but I inadvertently went and made it difficult. 

I was on Skype chatting with someone until 2:50 am, which is 'my fault' in making today miserable. While chatting was fun, it made me really tired today. These days I haven't been getting a lot of sleep. So, I've been running off of pure reserve energy and general happiness. 

Yup. Happiness. Because something changed and I'm trying to be more optimistic. Living in the moment is more fun than living in the past.

Anyways, I had Chinese dance today at DES (Dance Ensemble Singapore). And it went moderately okay for the first half, which is basic warm up, stretches, and ballet. Then the actual Chinese dance part of class started, and I found myself on a slippery slope. My teacher is good and all, but she only speaks in rapid Chinese. To be completely honest, I consider myself lucky to understand the 'question words' at the end of the sentences. Understanding what is actually going on in class is next to impossible. To make matters worse, I was wearing pink ballet tights instead of white Chinese dance tights. Then my nails had red nail varnish on them. Great. Needless to say, teacher yelled at me for that. 

There's this one part of the class when we work on a big dance that someday we'll perform. It's using 'water sleeves', or really long silk sleeves. Memorising the dance isn't too difficult, but the timing is a totally different story. She yelled at me a lot for going to fast. Then I was too slow. Then I forgot what I was doing and hit the girl by accident. 

I'm going to try to avoid complaining about Chinese dance every week, because I realise that it is pretty boring to read all the time. Ultimately I don't hate the class, or the teacher. I hate how I can't speak Chinese (and Chinese 1 is teaching me NOTHING useful) or remember basic dress code rules that I didn't know existed. 

Moving on, my family is helping me get ready for my Japan interim trip. I'm really looking forward to exploring that beautiful country on my own. I doubt I'll be updating my blog on the trip, but if I can I will. 

Instead of going to some parade with a friend tonight, I'm babysitting. Which is probably going to end up being a story, because I've been requested to discuss something with the girl I'm watching. Still haven't made up my mind on how I feel about that.

I'm not entirely certain if anyone reads this blog. Want to leave me a comment?

Er... here's a question. What is the most valuable language (other than English) to be learning right now?

Fail Thursday

There's something about 'Fail Thursday' that doesn't have the same cute ring to it as 'Fail Friday'.
Regardless, today and the day before have both kind of been off for me. Today was especially weird.

First off, I didn't do a thing in law class. I don't even know what's going on in that class anymore- I mean the teacher assigns work but it doesn't really matter if you do it or not, because he doesn't check it. Also, like tech, law seems like half logic. However, the other half of law is manipulating people into doing what you want. There was something sort of neat about the idea of studying law before I took a class in it- now I just want the class to end!

Then I fell up the stairs. Still wondering how I pulled that one off. 

Dance III wasn't terrible, though since we're doing partner work and weight transfers some falling is naturally involved. Actually, we didn't have nearly as bad of falls as some people in the group sharing the studio with us. Either way, my group and I got some good laughs.

I was very happy to go to tech this afternoon, but naturally I failed there a bit too. At one point I got to play with lighting a bit, though. I ended up getting sent backstage to do props and such. Then I found out I'm  not particularly strong. Like, moving a piano was sort of impossible. There were a few other little mistakes but I'll learn with time. Hopefully. 

Since I feel the need to be a nerd, I'll mention I was playing Kingdom Hearts on the bus. The very first big-mean-scary character (I'm sure there's a real name for it) killed me about 5 times before I succeeded in killing it. Which is mildly depressing, and a total fail. 

Not to mention I'm chronically distracted. There's just something I can't get off my mind, and it's beginning to be annoying. Yet, it's not annoying, because even though I can't stop thinking about it, I don't want to change it. Whatever. Fail again. 

Sure hope next Thursday is better than this one was.

Tech, KH... Such an Uncreative Title

Today I realised that my life is currently revolving around going to Japan, and tech after school. All of which are pretty pathetic. But today was mostly tech.

Today in tech I actually learned how to do something. It ended up just being me and one other techie after 4:15, so I learned a bit about lights and a bit about sound. Lighting is really fun. I never realised it as a dancer, but lighting can really make or break how a piece looks. IASAS dance was rehearsing today, and it looked horrible because of the awkward lighting. Under better lighting, I think it would have looked much better overall. That being said, the dancing itself was great. IASAS drama rehearsal was today as well, and it's really something different. I did the lighting for it once and it was pretty cool. Honestly, half of tech is common sense and logic. Which certain people *cough freshman cough* sometimes seem to lack.

I feel bad for a friend of mine who asked on his blog for people to write down what they would do on their last day, and practically no one answered. So for fun:

On my last day, I'd call my friends in the States that I don't talk to as much as I'd like to anymore. Then I'd magically find/finish my cosplays and wear them. Then I'd probably watch anime/read manga for a bit because I'm just that cool. And I'd dance. Probably some strange mixture of Chinese dance and modern, but it would be mind.  If I found the courage to do so, I'd tell that guy I like him. After that,  Towards the end of my day, I'd just like to be with friends and family. Bury me in gothic lolita, okay?

Since I've been wasting a surprising amount of time on it today, I should mention Kingdom Hearts. A friend loaned me his PSP (thanks again, if you're reading this) and I spent a sad amount of time getting lost in a virtual world where my character has funny clothes. I can't even remember his name now... Ventus?

Well, anyways it looks like it's my new addiction. This could prove interesting.

On that morbid note, I should mention it's really late and I'm not thinking straight anymore.
9 DAY UNTIL JAPAN!