Not another Cold!
My throat started hurting last night after I got home from a fun dinner with Scott, Mari, Ayako, and a new guy named Matt. So I took vitamin C.
It still hurts, but more so now...I hope I can fend off whatever sickness might strike me with a lot of vitamin C pills, and water. Regular sleep might help too.
So today I arrived at school an hour early because I wanted to make sure I actually made it to class. The bus was really crowded. X__x I got to speak Japanese though! I gave my seat to a little girl when I had to get off, and someone else might have taken it if I hadn't asked her to take it...though she later sat with her mom when more people got off haha...I just wish I would remember to speak in masukei and add desu to everything...I must sound so fucking impolite all the time. There was also a cute service dog! He was sooo well behaved...the poor thing.
Our one library has an interesting exhibit up about the Nazi Book Burnings. I read one floor of it, and got one part done on the second floor...I think I have to spend several hours reading/listening to it all though (it's very big, since it spans two floors of a building). There was one diagram that had a list from an American Jewish federation of some sort's report of the first instances of violence against Jews. It really...disgusted me. I don't understand why anyone would attack, beat up, or murder someone because they're a Jew or black or Muslim or just different. It's not because I associate myself with Judaism that I was offended. I was offended that people would kill other people over a difference in belief, or lifestyle, and that the people who reported these instances, just watched. That no one who didn't agree with what was happening didn't say anything or act. Of course, this is just my opinion 60 somewhat years after the fact, and if I had been living in Germany - as a German who had Jewish friends, or as an American embassador, or just as a normal German person - I would probably be scared shitless to stop any beating/wrongdoing I saw. "If the SS is kicking the crap out of that rabi like that, imagine what he's going to do to me when I say stop it" is what I'd think, and I probably wouldn't do anything. I want to say I would stick up for what I believed in but if there were 5 storm troopers - all with heavy boots, probably clubs and other instruments that they can beat me with in hand - then I'd probably not. I can't honestly say I'd die for my beliefs, because I haven't been faced with that situation, and I will not assume I am courageous. I do know that some citizens did speak out, but they paid for it. I'm not a historian, nor do I know much about history, so I should stop here before someone tears into me and tells me I'm lying.
Classes were fine but after the test in Japanese I got really frustrated. I think I poured all my mental energy into the test, which made my brain mushy. I also had not slept well for two nights...and my throat was starting to get sore...it all led to me being very frustrated and not being able to make a sentence out of something very very simple. I just basically couldn't understand what we were doing...yet I did. I'd read or listen, and I'd get it, but I couldn't reword it by myself. It was...frustrating.
But what happened afterward made up for it. Raeanna and I went down to Kinokuniya/Uwajimaya. I got three music magazines - all for Linguistics homework. That's right, for homework! And I got three...because I wanted three and we have a big term project involving magazines so yeah. XD; I also bought the first three volumes of the Shounen Onmyouji novel. I hope I try to read it someday...
We also bought some things at Uwajimaya. I bought miso paste so I can make miso soup with tofu and pumpkin in it. I also bought the anin tofu mix! The anin tofu I have been craving! But apparently, it's really almonde flavored agare....but the kanji reads as anin tofu! XD;
And I bought something I really wanted: the Shiseido Tsubaki Shampoo and Conditioner. GOD I loved my Tsubaki conditioner...but I had to leave it behind in Japan! But now I got a whole 19 oz pump of BOTH! I will smell pretty and can say I wear the SMAP CM beauty product. X3 And that was me spoiling myself...
Sadly, my Ouran trading cards were no longer there. Looks like it's internet buying for me. =/
After that, we went to Raeanna's apartment! MAN it is huuuge, in my opinion. It's really nice, I like it! We had dinner together, took goofy photos with Rose, and watched a few episodes of season two of the Venture Brothers! I love hanging out with Raeanna, and Rose too!
And now I am back home. My feet are sore from snow boots, my back is sore from carrying around a heavy book bag all day. But! I have a heater in my room now, a lot of candy I believe, and all my loan application stuff which I will fax tomorrow!
Plans for the weekend:
Saturday: Call mom - ask a question
go to QFC - fax school loan
do laundry
vaccuum
fix chair
homework
watch netflix movie?
Sunday: anything not done sunday until 12 probably
12 - meet up with Allyn and Mari
by 4 - be at Key Arena for STARS ON ICE!!!
uummm rest is open to us doing dinner or something or whatever
Monday:
homework
anything else that was not done Sat or Sun
...full weekend. I feel fucked already! =D (Ah the pleasure of taking 18 credits!)
And for all of you have a facebook...I caved and got one. I'm my school email: jessholy@u.washington.edu
It still hurts, but more so now...I hope I can fend off whatever sickness might strike me with a lot of vitamin C pills, and water. Regular sleep might help too.
So today I arrived at school an hour early because I wanted to make sure I actually made it to class. The bus was really crowded. X__x I got to speak Japanese though! I gave my seat to a little girl when I had to get off, and someone else might have taken it if I hadn't asked her to take it...though she later sat with her mom when more people got off haha...I just wish I would remember to speak in masukei and add desu to everything...I must sound so fucking impolite all the time. There was also a cute service dog! He was sooo well behaved...the poor thing.
Our one library has an interesting exhibit up about the Nazi Book Burnings. I read one floor of it, and got one part done on the second floor...I think I have to spend several hours reading/listening to it all though (it's very big, since it spans two floors of a building). There was one diagram that had a list from an American Jewish federation of some sort's report of the first instances of violence against Jews. It really...disgusted me. I don't understand why anyone would attack, beat up, or murder someone because they're a Jew or black or Muslim or just different. It's not because I associate myself with Judaism that I was offended. I was offended that people would kill other people over a difference in belief, or lifestyle, and that the people who reported these instances, just watched. That no one who didn't agree with what was happening didn't say anything or act. Of course, this is just my opinion 60 somewhat years after the fact, and if I had been living in Germany - as a German who had Jewish friends, or as an American embassador, or just as a normal German person - I would probably be scared shitless to stop any beating/wrongdoing I saw. "If the SS is kicking the crap out of that rabi like that, imagine what he's going to do to me when I say stop it" is what I'd think, and I probably wouldn't do anything. I want to say I would stick up for what I believed in but if there were 5 storm troopers - all with heavy boots, probably clubs and other instruments that they can beat me with in hand - then I'd probably not. I can't honestly say I'd die for my beliefs, because I haven't been faced with that situation, and I will not assume I am courageous. I do know that some citizens did speak out, but they paid for it. I'm not a historian, nor do I know much about history, so I should stop here before someone tears into me and tells me I'm lying.
Classes were fine but after the test in Japanese I got really frustrated. I think I poured all my mental energy into the test, which made my brain mushy. I also had not slept well for two nights...and my throat was starting to get sore...it all led to me being very frustrated and not being able to make a sentence out of something very very simple. I just basically couldn't understand what we were doing...yet I did. I'd read or listen, and I'd get it, but I couldn't reword it by myself. It was...frustrating.
But what happened afterward made up for it. Raeanna and I went down to Kinokuniya/Uwajimaya. I got three music magazines - all for Linguistics homework. That's right, for homework! And I got three...because I wanted three and we have a big term project involving magazines so yeah. XD; I also bought the first three volumes of the Shounen Onmyouji novel. I hope I try to read it someday...
We also bought some things at Uwajimaya. I bought miso paste so I can make miso soup with tofu and pumpkin in it. I also bought the anin tofu mix! The anin tofu I have been craving! But apparently, it's really almonde flavored agare....but the kanji reads as anin tofu! XD;
And I bought something I really wanted: the Shiseido Tsubaki Shampoo and Conditioner. GOD I loved my Tsubaki conditioner...but I had to leave it behind in Japan! But now I got a whole 19 oz pump of BOTH! I will smell pretty and can say I wear the SMAP CM beauty product. X3 And that was me spoiling myself...
Sadly, my Ouran trading cards were no longer there. Looks like it's internet buying for me. =/
After that, we went to Raeanna's apartment! MAN it is huuuge, in my opinion. It's really nice, I like it! We had dinner together, took goofy photos with Rose, and watched a few episodes of season two of the Venture Brothers! I love hanging out with Raeanna, and Rose too!
And now I am back home. My feet are sore from snow boots, my back is sore from carrying around a heavy book bag all day. But! I have a heater in my room now, a lot of candy I believe, and all my loan application stuff which I will fax tomorrow!
Plans for the weekend:
Saturday: Call mom - ask a question
go to QFC - fax school loan
do laundry
vaccuum
fix chair
homework
watch netflix movie?
Sunday: anything not done sunday until 12 probably
12 - meet up with Allyn and Mari
by 4 - be at Key Arena for STARS ON ICE!!!
uummm rest is open to us doing dinner or something or whatever
Monday:
homework
anything else that was not done Sat or Sun
...full weekend. I feel fucked already! =D (Ah the pleasure of taking 18 credits!)
And for all of you have a facebook...I caved and got one. I'm my school email: jessholy@u.washington.edu