Well it happened again. I put off blogging for a little while and before I knew it I had too many things to talk about. So now I'll skip ahead to Thnaksgiving which was yesterday. I have a lot to be thankful for this year so here is a list of what I am Thankful for.
1. I am very thankful that I have found the love of my life this year.
2. I am thankful to have found my niche in linguistics
3. I am thankful for being able to spend Thanksgiving with my family
4. I am thankful for every giving me a wonderful birthday a few weeks ago
5. I am thankful to get to sleep in my old bed here in Port Angeles
6. I am thankful for good tea made with good water
7. I am thankful for good books
8. I am thankful for lazy mornings spent with family
9. I am thankful that in 2 weeks from today I will see the love of my life again
10. I am thankful to get to see Monk through to the season finale, starting today
11. I am thankful to be able to do what I love and hopefully get paid for it... someday
12. I am thankful for my love, Alexandra Mateu... did I say that already? I guess I must be really thankful!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Friday, November 27, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Week Five
Hi everyone! Here is a catch-up/new post. The past couple weeks have been really busy with schoolwork; I had something due pretty much everyday last week. So, since last Sunday (which was my cousin Andrea's b-day so Happy Birthday Andrea! I hope your day was fun) I was going research, I have to fill you in on two weeks instead of one. The 9th-11th were fairly uneventful. I just went about my normal routine, the only thing different being that the guy I've sort of been interested asked for my number...but didn't call me. Since the 11th was Veteran's Day, I had the day off from school and from work. So, I wasn't really expecting anything interesting to happen. A few interesting things DID end up happening though. My friend Caitlin came over, and we hung out by going to Northgate Mall. After that, I got together with one of my group members from my Dance 250 class. We are supposed to be researching a type of cultural dance to do a group presentation on, and we had chosen Croatian dance. However, we were supposed to be able to watch the dance and do field notes on it. Our field notes were due on Wednesday, and we hadn't found a place to do that yet. Luckily, one of my group members happened to find a Balkan dance folklife party at the Russian Community Center on Capitol Hill on Friday night. So, we did a little work coming up with some questions and didn't have to come up with some kind of excuse for not having appropriate field notes. However, somewhere in between me hanging out with Caitlin and working on my project with Annie, Lillian discovered a leak in our closet ceiling. The leak had caused the ceiling to crack and there was a giant mold spot. This time, our landlord responded to our E-mail quickly, but Lillian and I had to empty EVERYTHING out of our closet. While the maintenance guy was very prompt about fixing the leak, he STILL has NOT covered the hole in our ceiling with dry-wall. So, we STILL have not been able to put the mounds of things lying around our room away. It's starting to drive me nuts! However, when I got home from the library on Wednesday night, I got a text from the guy that I like and he offered to come over and help me move the stuff out of my closet. I had already done all of the work, but I didn't mind him coming over. So, we hung out for awhile until he had to join his friends for something. After that, I had a normal day on Thursday, although it was Eric's birthday and it took me about 20 minutes to sneak into his dorm to give him birthday present after tutoring. Then, on Friday, my roomates left for the football game (they're all in the marching band) in Oregon, so I was supposed to be home alone for the weekend. I took Eric out to lunch at Shalimar, a delicious Indian restaurant on the Ave. That evening, I went with my 250 group to the Russian Community Center on Capitol Hill and we took field notes, etc. We didn't get back until after 10:00. What made that evening especially odd was the fact that earlier in the evening, I had been invited to hang out with a different guy...someone who I'd always kind of liked and had sort of been friends with. Anyways, I ended up hanging out with him, but I didn't get to his apartment until about 12:30 and got home at about 4:00...went to bed at 4:30 and got up at 7:00 to take Eric home for the day because he had a job "audition" and needed some nicer-looking clothes for it. We went home and had a lovely little birthday celebration, then drove home. I got back at about 8:30, and was so exhausted that I fell asleep on the couch waiting for a text from this other guy that I really do like. He called at about 2:00...I was asleep. I didn't end up being able to see him at all that weekend. In fact, I didn't see him until this Thursday, except in passing. The whole thing appeared to be going well, but suddenly got very weird. I don't know what will happen, but I'm very sad about it right now because I don't have a good feeling about the situation. I haven't found someone that I really liked in quite some time, so I was hoping this would work out. On the other hand, I went to the ballet with my friend Caitlin last Sunday and it was a lot of fun. My birthday was on Wednesday. It felt like a normal day except that I was bombarded by texts, calls, and facebook messages which made me feel so good :-) I ended up having to work until 9:00, but my friends threw me a bit of a bday party anyways. So, thank you so much to Caitlin, David, Jason, and Brandon, I really appreciated that. My friend Craig came home for Thanksgiving on Friday (he goes to WSU and has a whole week off) and stayed with his friend Riley. So, I hung out with Riley and Craig on Friday. Last night, I got together with some of my London friends and we went out, which was fun too. Today, I made an ice cream cake for my roomate Katherine, whose birthday is tomorrow! Other than that, I've been very tired and lazy all day, probably because I feel down about this boy. Oh well. See some of you soon! Can't wait!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Week Four
Hi everyone! This is just a post to let you all know that I didn't forget about you and my promise to try to post. I'm just working on a research project and can't take a lot of time to post right now. I will hopefully have some time to post tomorrow!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Third Week In a Row :-)
Hi everyone!
This week's entry won't be as long or as interesting as the last couple of weeks' regular entries. I still have some homework to do tonight.
Since my students had their mid-term papers due this week, their teachers decided to go easy on them. Most of them just watched movies and discussed them in class so they had very little work to do at tutoring. The basketball team had their first game this Wednesday (they won), so now basketball and football will be going on at the same time. I foresee lots of rescheduling in my future!
I've been having a really fun time in dance. We were learning about swing dance this week, and we got to practice it on Wednesday. Our teacher is really good at it, and there is also an older lady in my class named Linda that used to do swing dance in the 60's after the swing crazy had pretty much died out. She taught us some really cool stuff! On Friday, I had a mid-term in my dance 250 class, then I had to tutor one student who had rescheduled. At 1:00, I had a mid-quarter meeting with my boss about how my students were all doing. It was really nice to just and talk with her. She's a super nice lady and a great boss. I can't imagine how much work it must be to keep hundreds of people in order from tutors to student athletes. Good thing she has such fabulous assistants and employees, right? When I had my interview for the job, she was out of the office, so her assistant met with me. I felt like this was the first time in the year or so that I've worked there that I really had a chance to meet with her, so it was nice.
Thursday night was extra cool because there was thunder and lightning as well as a massive hailstorm that lasted for all of 5 minutes. It was so exciting! One of my roomates' friends, who lives up near 50th and 15th, was watching when lightning apparently struck the building across from his apartment which caused all of the car alarms nearby to go off at once. Awesome!
On Saturday, I did my normal Sunday things...laundry, watched the football game. Our team was in California playing UCLA and my roomate Lillian was playing in the band there. We played fairly well for the most part, but ended up losing by one single point in a really painful ending to the game...*sigh* Last night, my friend Caitlin came over and we made dinner. The only problem is that our oven doesn't work. It never has. We were trying to be careful when we were making twice-baked potatoes, but they ended up burning anyways. Our friend Jason bought us some more potatoes and we salvaged our dinner then went out to a place on the Ave that had just opened, called Ruby's. At 9:30, we went to our friend David's housewarming party, which was so much fun! One of Dave's roomates just got a kitten and it was just about the cutest thing we'd ever seen. She was tiny, probably no more than 10 weeks old, and all grey. Sophie (Dave's roomate) named her Moxie because she's so unafraid of people. After that, we hung out for awhile and ended up coming home at about 3:00 in the morning.
Needless to say, I'm pretty tired today. Caitlin and I kind of hung out on the couch. I got some things done around the apartment, but I still feel like I've accomplished very little today, which I hate. I have a hard time sitting around for very long and not doing anything, but I guess today is just one of those days! Well, I'm off to do some homework! See you all next week for a new installment!
This week's entry won't be as long or as interesting as the last couple of weeks' regular entries. I still have some homework to do tonight.
Since my students had their mid-term papers due this week, their teachers decided to go easy on them. Most of them just watched movies and discussed them in class so they had very little work to do at tutoring. The basketball team had their first game this Wednesday (they won), so now basketball and football will be going on at the same time. I foresee lots of rescheduling in my future!
I've been having a really fun time in dance. We were learning about swing dance this week, and we got to practice it on Wednesday. Our teacher is really good at it, and there is also an older lady in my class named Linda that used to do swing dance in the 60's after the swing crazy had pretty much died out. She taught us some really cool stuff! On Friday, I had a mid-term in my dance 250 class, then I had to tutor one student who had rescheduled. At 1:00, I had a mid-quarter meeting with my boss about how my students were all doing. It was really nice to just and talk with her. She's a super nice lady and a great boss. I can't imagine how much work it must be to keep hundreds of people in order from tutors to student athletes. Good thing she has such fabulous assistants and employees, right? When I had my interview for the job, she was out of the office, so her assistant met with me. I felt like this was the first time in the year or so that I've worked there that I really had a chance to meet with her, so it was nice.
Thursday night was extra cool because there was thunder and lightning as well as a massive hailstorm that lasted for all of 5 minutes. It was so exciting! One of my roomates' friends, who lives up near 50th and 15th, was watching when lightning apparently struck the building across from his apartment which caused all of the car alarms nearby to go off at once. Awesome!
On Saturday, I did my normal Sunday things...laundry, watched the football game. Our team was in California playing UCLA and my roomate Lillian was playing in the band there. We played fairly well for the most part, but ended up losing by one single point in a really painful ending to the game...*sigh* Last night, my friend Caitlin came over and we made dinner. The only problem is that our oven doesn't work. It never has. We were trying to be careful when we were making twice-baked potatoes, but they ended up burning anyways. Our friend Jason bought us some more potatoes and we salvaged our dinner then went out to a place on the Ave that had just opened, called Ruby's. At 9:30, we went to our friend David's housewarming party, which was so much fun! One of Dave's roomates just got a kitten and it was just about the cutest thing we'd ever seen. She was tiny, probably no more than 10 weeks old, and all grey. Sophie (Dave's roomate) named her Moxie because she's so unafraid of people. After that, we hung out for awhile and ended up coming home at about 3:00 in the morning.
Needless to say, I'm pretty tired today. Caitlin and I kind of hung out on the couch. I got some things done around the apartment, but I still feel like I've accomplished very little today, which I hate. I have a hard time sitting around for very long and not doing anything, but I guess today is just one of those days! Well, I'm off to do some homework! See you all next week for a new installment!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
On-Line
Since the beginning of the quarter they have have been warning every student about the swine flu. There has been a lot of effort on the part of the administration to keep the students as healthy as possible. One of the effects of this is that my Phonetic's teacher always bring in a microphone to class and records his lectures. If you are feeling sick (or lazy as the ase may be) you can just stay home and follow everything from your computer. Today I am trying it and loving it. I no longer have to sit in a desk, I am in a comfier chair at my computer, drinking tea. Earlier I had a sandwich and I am listening to Mozart while the teacher is talking. Talk about luxury! I may have to start doing phonetics on-line every day!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Major Changes
The major changes I refer aren't changes that are major in any particular way but instead changes to my major. On Friday I had a quick meeting with the Speech and Hearing Science advisor to drop that major and just focus on linguistics. It went very well actually. My advisor was very friendly and aside from a little "was it something we did" joke there were no hard feelings. She actually seemed rather excited for me and asked me to let her know when I know where I'll go for grad school. (Or hopefully when I get accepted to the University of Alberta) She even told me that she is going to be looking for my name over the next few years because she knows I will do great things. Talk about a compliment!
I got a form, signed it and took it to the place where they handle the paperwork and the guy behind the counter changed my major in less than 5 minutes. I am officially a one major man again. I am getting really antsy here though, I am definitely looking forward to the day that I can be done with my Bachelor's Degree and start my Master's. At least I've only got one quarter left after this one.
I got a form, signed it and took it to the place where they handle the paperwork and the guy behind the counter changed my major in less than 5 minutes. I am officially a one major man again. I am getting really antsy here though, I am definitely looking forward to the day that I can be done with my Bachelor's Degree and start my Master's. At least I've only got one quarter left after this one.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Happy November!
I can't believe it's November already! I mean, c'mon school just started...didn't it? I love holidays, so I've been excited for Halloween, but then it crept up on me so quickly I almost didn't realize it had arrived. One of my students, who is a basketball player, was talking about how his first game is November 4th. I just said, "Whoah, that's next week!"
One thing I am really excited about is the fact that we got to turn out clocks back an hour today! I have a lot to do today, so it's really bought me some time. It feels like I've done so much already, but it's only about quarter after 2:00! Woohoo! Tomorrow, I'll be adjusted an it won't really matter, but for one day it's fabulous. I remember last spring, in Europe, I got to experience the time change twice since they do it later in England than they do in the US.
So, my week mostly consisted of dance and tutoring again. It's mid-term week, or the week before mid-terms for a lot of people, so I've been talking my students through writing their mid-term papers. I only have an hour to do so at a time, so one of them has asked if I can come in this evening and look over her finished paper before she turns it in. Even though it's nice to have a break from tutoring on the weekends, I really love it when students take an interest in their work and also take the initiative to ask for extra help. It shows that they are comfortable with me and my skills as well.
This week, we studied flamenco and tango in my cross-cultural dance class. Our practicum was on flamenco, and our teacher was so great! I've already been inspired to try out several of the kinds of dance that we've learned about in class, but this is one that would be really cool to actually perform. I would love to be able to do the dance styles that I've practiced all day long. I'm going to look into classes after I graduate. Normally we just have dance lecture on Friday, but this week we only have a half-day of lecture. My teacher brought a friend with her and they taught us about tango and demonstrated for us, then we got to learn a little bit about how to do it.
On Friday, I had lunch with Eric and we hung together for a little bit afterwards. When I was leaving, I saw a few interesting costumes. My favorite was this tall, skinny Santa Claus that was walking into a building near Eric's dorm. I also saw the most realistic-looking bloody wounds, which were gross, but pretty cool. On Halloween, my friend Caitlin came in from Mill Creek and our friends David and Dan picked us up and took us to Dan's friend Alysha's house to watch some movies. Now, neither Cait, Dave, Dan, or I like horror at all. David had brought The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, all of which are Halloween-y movies, but decidedly not scary...and all REALLY good! Alysha, however, loves horror movies. So, we started watching "Chukkie: Child's Play". It was creepy, but so campy and silly that it wasn't really scary. Not only that, but the copy she had rented from Blockbuster stopped working, so we watched Hocus Pocus instead, which was a lot more fun. I hadn't seen that movie in years! We played Apples to Apples all the way through the movie and counted our cards at the very end. I won; I had 21 green cards. Then we went to an irish pub that was near Alysha's house and had cider while we played Trivial Pursuit. There was a party going on upstairs, and some of the party-goers has the most interesting costumes I'd ever seen. I particularly like the mountie, Napolean Bonaparte, Jon and Kate Plus 8, and Jesus (although it was almost offensive, it was extremely creative). There was also a girl dressed as a unicorn with a mustache and sunglasses, which was remarkably funny considering I obviously didn't get it...anyways, today is my blogging, laundry, cleaning, homework, etc. day so I'm off to try to get some things done. Have a great week. I hope everyone's Halloween was fabulous!
One thing I am really excited about is the fact that we got to turn out clocks back an hour today! I have a lot to do today, so it's really bought me some time. It feels like I've done so much already, but it's only about quarter after 2:00! Woohoo! Tomorrow, I'll be adjusted an it won't really matter, but for one day it's fabulous. I remember last spring, in Europe, I got to experience the time change twice since they do it later in England than they do in the US.
So, my week mostly consisted of dance and tutoring again. It's mid-term week, or the week before mid-terms for a lot of people, so I've been talking my students through writing their mid-term papers. I only have an hour to do so at a time, so one of them has asked if I can come in this evening and look over her finished paper before she turns it in. Even though it's nice to have a break from tutoring on the weekends, I really love it when students take an interest in their work and also take the initiative to ask for extra help. It shows that they are comfortable with me and my skills as well.
This week, we studied flamenco and tango in my cross-cultural dance class. Our practicum was on flamenco, and our teacher was so great! I've already been inspired to try out several of the kinds of dance that we've learned about in class, but this is one that would be really cool to actually perform. I would love to be able to do the dance styles that I've practiced all day long. I'm going to look into classes after I graduate. Normally we just have dance lecture on Friday, but this week we only have a half-day of lecture. My teacher brought a friend with her and they taught us about tango and demonstrated for us, then we got to learn a little bit about how to do it.
On Friday, I had lunch with Eric and we hung together for a little bit afterwards. When I was leaving, I saw a few interesting costumes. My favorite was this tall, skinny Santa Claus that was walking into a building near Eric's dorm. I also saw the most realistic-looking bloody wounds, which were gross, but pretty cool. On Halloween, my friend Caitlin came in from Mill Creek and our friends David and Dan picked us up and took us to Dan's friend Alysha's house to watch some movies. Now, neither Cait, Dave, Dan, or I like horror at all. David had brought The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, all of which are Halloween-y movies, but decidedly not scary...and all REALLY good! Alysha, however, loves horror movies. So, we started watching "Chukkie: Child's Play". It was creepy, but so campy and silly that it wasn't really scary. Not only that, but the copy she had rented from Blockbuster stopped working, so we watched Hocus Pocus instead, which was a lot more fun. I hadn't seen that movie in years! We played Apples to Apples all the way through the movie and counted our cards at the very end. I won; I had 21 green cards. Then we went to an irish pub that was near Alysha's house and had cider while we played Trivial Pursuit. There was a party going on upstairs, and some of the party-goers has the most interesting costumes I'd ever seen. I particularly like the mountie, Napolean Bonaparte, Jon and Kate Plus 8, and Jesus (although it was almost offensive, it was extremely creative). There was also a girl dressed as a unicorn with a mustache and sunglasses, which was remarkably funny considering I obviously didn't get it...anyways, today is my blogging, laundry, cleaning, homework, etc. day so I'm off to try to get some things done. Have a great week. I hope everyone's Halloween was fabulous!
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