Life is Busy

Here's a list of everything that I've been up to recently, to the best of my recollection:

1. Semester finals. Generally speaking, my grades rounded out to being about where I expected them. Not great, but not an epic fail. I'll take it.

2. Studying for finals. Horrifying nightmare of doom.

3. The Hobbit. Best movie I've seen in a while. Sure, I'm biased as a Lord of the Rings fan, but seriously it's still worth seeing. I saw it twice within two days.

4. Today, the bank ate my ATM card and almost didn't spit it back out. That was not cool at all. The ATM machines here are really fussy.

5. Yesterday, I helped some tourists with operating the MRT machine. I had to return my green ticket for a $1 deposit, and there was a tourist family behind me that looked very confused. I ended up buying them all tickets for about $8, and the man gave me a $10 and told me to keep the difference. Apparently being nice in this day and age can get you $2.

6. The other day on the MRT, I got followed by some guy in a pink shirt and jeans. Turns out, Singapore is like any other city and there are weird guys following female students in uniform. Not cool, dude.

7. Teaching dance. Well, I don't know if I still will be teaching dance, considering a general lack of interest within what few students I have. However, I taught a girl a little candy-cane dance from the Nutcracker, and we had a good time.

8. Packing, which I should be doing now. I'm going to New Zealand for Christmas, otherwise known as Middle-earth. So, in the event I do not come back, assume I either a) fell off a horse and died like Genghis Khan, b) got eaten by Orcs or c) met some elves and successfully begged them to let me stay for a while.

Just kidding. I'm really excited for New Zealand though. Lots of fun things to do there, and it seems like every picture I've seen is beautiful!