April 2010
7 posts
kombanwa minna-sama!
Hello all from Japan!
It is around 10pm Japan time here on the 24th, and I am on one of the computers that is provided at the youth hostel we are staying at. We arrived at the airport around 4pm on the 23rd, and basically chilled out and exchanged money until our bus got to the airport around 7pm. While we were waiting, some of us rented phones, some got food, and others tried to nap (I would...
It's about that time...
Hello again!
It is now 5:50am, and I have successfully made it through the night awake! While we aren’t officially leaving until 6:30am, I feel that I am already on my way. The poster I did for my door is finished, so anyone at Hiram that wants to track where we are can go to my dorm room door (Miller 304) and see the map and the descriptions of the areas we are going to!
I finally got a...
Less than 12 hours 'til liftoff!
Hello lovely people,
It is now a little after 11pm and I just finished my last Resident Assistant Duty as a student at Hiram College—REALLY WEIRD! I am all packed and finished with journals, so all that is left is to chill and wait for the actual trip to start! With that in mind, I am staying up until we leave at 6:30am with others that are going to Japan with me, as well as other friends...
Noctournal Nature
Hello lovely people,
So, I haven’t written since January…whoops! The last time I wrote was before OhayoCon—which was fantastic by the way! It was a bit stressful to get 18 people together and gather their information and budget for all of it (since it was an anime club function), but luckily I had my friend Mike to help me with it. He’s the President and I’m...
January 2010
2 posts
It has been a long while...
Hello all!
So, it has been a long while since i’ve been on here : P oops! Well, since then, I have done quite a few different and new things:
Gone back to school: I went back after the summer for my senior year at College-quite a year it has been thus far! I am a resident assistant for an all-first year floor with my friend Dakota, and I very much enjoy it! I like getting to know...
It has been a long while...
Hello all!
So, it has been a long while since i’ve been on here : P oops! Well, since then, I have done quite a few different and new things:
Gone back to school: I went back after the summer for my senior year at College-quite a year it has been thus far! I am a resident assistant for an all-first year floor with my friend Dakota, and I very much enjoy it! I like getting to know...
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
1 post
At long last...
After what seems like forever spent editing and sifting, I have FINALLY posted my China pictures online! Here they are: http://picasaweb.google.com/misspez330
Sorry again that I haven’t put a synopsis of Shanghai and the later part of Hangzhou up (you may just have to let the photos tell the story). I’ll see what I can do.
In daily life news, Summer is just chugging along at its...
June 2009
14 posts
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My update from Hangzhou (which covers Xi'an as...
Hello again everyone! Sorry I haven’t been able to write lately, it’s been a real FUN and BUSY trip! Since I last wrote, I have been to the Summer Palace, the Beijing Opera Center, and the Temple of Heaven (this was all in Beijing). After that we traveled by train to Xi’an (it was a 12 hour train ride overnight, so we stayed in a “sleeper car”)—I stayed with...
May 2009
15 posts
Update from China, Part 1: Beijing
Hello all,
So, here’s the start of my first update. I copied this from the mass E-mail/facebook note I sent everyone, so for those of you who read the update, this isn’t anything new. See Below:
After the menacing 14 hour plane ride (I managed to sleep for 8 hours on it, yay!), we had a big dinner where they kept piling on the food! We had some Beijing duck (a specialty), as well...
I'm back...and no longer banned!
Hello all!
It’s 5:30 in the morning and I’m still up because I’m still stuck on China time! The reason I haven’t been updating here is because most (if not all) blogsites are banned in China, including this one. Sadly, I was only able to E-mail to those I could (so this is why some of you haven’t heard anything). I will update as soon as I can!
Just to let you...
April 2009
13 posts
Dani, OUT!
Hey all!
It is 4:35 in the morning and I am checking my E-mail and doing last minute computer stuff before I leave for the airport! Luckily my friend Bobby was still up so we played ping pong and various card games until about 10 minutes ago (I decided to stay up all night). If you read this Bobby, thanks for keeping me company!
It still seems SO surreal that I will be leaving the country for...
Cue "Jaws" Theme Music!
Hey all!
*Jaws theme song plays in the background* I leave for China in a little over 24 hours from now, WAH! I am BEYOND excited, yet at the same time I am also anxious. I wonder what will be the first thing I experience when I get there. Will I be looked at oddly since I stick out like a sore thumb? Or am I thinking way too hard about it?
I think its typical of me to overthink things,...
Insomnia Strikes Again!
Good “Morning” all,
So, it’s 4am my time (still in Ohio) and I can’t sleep : ( WHY?!?!?!?!
Sometimes I feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day for me to accomplish what I’d like. That and I feel most awake when it is night (usually that sets in around 10pm). Perhaps I was meant to be in a different time zone. Either that or my internal sleep...
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Great video, wish I could do this! Make sure you... →
And We're Finally On Term Break!
Hey all!
Thank Goodness for term break! Hallelujah! After staying up ‘til 5 in the morning the night before my last exam, I’m pooped. The strange thing is, instead of just leaving Hiram with the knowledge that I’d still be there for a few more weeks, I had to pack my entire room up and start moving out! So instead of hurrying home like I typically do at the end of a 12 week,...
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Where did my motivation run off to?
Hey all,
So as per usual, my motivation has been waning these last few days. Why do you ask? Mainly, our study abroad group leaves for China in 11 DAYS!!! HOLY COW! I can’t stop thinking about what it will be like and what we will see and experience. I’ve wanted to go to China for such a long time, and now I’m finally going! And with a lot of great people as well! ...
“Let’s face it, I have a speech impediment—I speak Bitch!”
– My youngest sister Lauren (she’s 15, you figure it out)
Mind Explosion!
I think my imagination has finally gotten off of its leash, since I constantly imagine my brain spontaneously combusing with everything I’m trying to remember (including due dates, events, meetings, etc). Woe is a college student in the midst of the last few weeks of a semester!
However, there is much to see positively: wonderful weather, my sickness abating (YAY!), knowing people that...