The Life of Mere

MassPIRG is taking over my life. I have had so many meetings today that I didn't get a chance to start hw until midnight.
I'm coordinator for cheaper textbooks campaign.
Too much work! I need someone to share this workload with me.

MassPIRG = Massachusettes Personal Interest Research Group. An activist group. There's one for every state I think, NYPIRG...etc.

And...my classes this semester seem to be fine. I'm already behind on my ethnic minority class. I shouldn't have slept in class.
...Deja vu all over again.

And also. I'm missing seeing boys around. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do..

     It is freezing. I am wearing my ski jacket and pants. 2 hats and 2 pairs of socks. I don't understand why its so cold here. Or maybe I've gotten so used to the warm weather that I just don't like being cold anymore..but I don't get it. I lived in Australia for about 5 years, almost 9 years ago. And after that I've lived in Stockholm, Sweden where it gets a lot colder and Vancouver, Canada where it is higher and also, my college is in western Mass which gets constant snowstorms and rain. So I really don't understand.
There goes my future in NYC....poof!

     Oh, my parents told me something funny. In Sweden, I woke up at 6am to go to school. I'm like wow. What parents make a child wake up at 6am? But then I did go to bed at 9pm so I guess that makes it up. It takes an hour for me to get to the inner city, and another 30min for the tunnel and then maybe a bus if I choose not to walk. By the time I was 10, I was taking the train by myself. No crime whatsoever in Stockholm. =]

   Also. I hate being the 3rd wheel.

Wow. The fact that livejournal saved my last post from June is pretty amazing.
Well now, the Germany pictures are up. lol

I am in college now, Smith college to be exact. Its very good. Still not used to the all-girls thang but so far its been great. The town's really liberal and overpriced.

It snowed for the 3rd time last night. I am not enjoying the cold weather.

Also, on a sadder note.
I don't think I'm fitting in very well here. Its like, I'm Asian but I act different than other Asians which makes other real Asians think of me as weird..feel me? I come back to the room after being out of the house [we live in houses instead of dorms, like harry potter] for 10 hours, no one notices. But when like, this other girl goes away for 4, its like..."THANK GOD YOU'RE ALIVE!!!" Wtf? I'm sorry I'm not small and cute. I'm sorry for not liking to cuddle around teddys. I'm sorry for smoking and drinking and liking to party. I'm sorry for being an Asian fail.

 

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Other than that, I think I'm done.
I'm going to try and spend more time on LJ [I feel like thats are recurring phrase] instead of on perezhilton.com and tmz.com lmao
 

Okay, for this long awaited entry [pft], I'm gonna mash up my many random thoughts into one entry.



So it is spring break for me, and my AP tests are within 2 weeks. This means, its not really a break but a hell race to actually get a decent grade on my AP. My first one is either French or Government. French...I totally give up on. Gov..I may have a chance..but not really considereing I never got a higher grade than a C in that class. And since summer is creeping up on me, the heat isn't really helping.

HAROLD AND KUMAR: ESCAPE FROM G-SOMETHING BAY!!!  I cannot wait for this movie to come out!  

So my parents bought a BMW. ... ..... I don't really know what to say. Its like giving up a year of college for a car...

When I get my camera battery charged, [Oh yea! I went to Montreal last weekend!! It was still snowing there! But it was mad fun. I never spent so much money in such a short amount of time!] I will post pictures about Germany, Montreal, and my new haircut/bleached one. 

Question: Does it turn you off to find that your signifant other or your crush smokes/drinks? 
Danke!

p.s. Has anyone seen The Departed? Go search Mou Gaan Dou [HK film with Andy Lau] and you'll find that their plots are exactly the same! And the HK one came out 4 years prior. Copy much? Or has this plot been around for ages?

My birthday just came and went. No difference to the other school days, just with more hugs and more people talking to me than I usually have. It was nice nonetheless.  Except for the fact that a couple of my friends totally forgot until like later after school. I mean, I remembered your birthday...oh well. I'm not as smart and dignified. =]
1st period; completely humliated by the teacher. Like him telling everyone in the class that I'm a failing student.
2nd/3rd. We do nothing as always, which was cool.
4th. Apparently my teacher hurt his back going paintballing. What a young/old guy...
5th. Okay class. Quite screwed for the AP. Found out that I have a C+, which is going to get better due to my essay that hasn't been handed in yet, and my class participation grade. Unless Panaro thinks that I don't participate..
6th. What ever happens in orchestra??
7th.  Its a day 7.
8th. Sectionals. The only 1st violin, and the only violin there. So when it came to the melody, I completely screwed up. Teach had to stop about 3 times just cuz I refused to count. Oh, I'm on a bus that everyone dubs lame. What a start to my Montreal trip which I have been looking forward to for about four years.
9th. English. Practice AP. Not that bad. Seriously.

Last Friday, I bleached the underside of my head. Peek-a-boo?

www.crunchyroll.com is my newish crack. 
my crack is still www.youtube.com

Any ways, hopefully going up to Smith College for a visit Thursday, and then Montreal on Saturday, Sunday and Monday!!! 
Oh! Dad's slightly capable of driving again! Yay!

Random question to my LJ friends:
What inspires your style? Superstars? A group [emo, punk, prep..etc?]
I think for me..I'm inspired by everyday life and by Asian people..slightly.

 I had a girls night out yesterday. It was mad fun. I ate pasta, baked cookies and had a mini-facial. It was all very cool. Cookies are amazing...I would bake them 24/7 if my oven was working. Cookies with milk is even better. I cannot believe how much I ate last night. 2 bowls of pasta, and 1 bowl of salad. half a plate of cookies. and about 3 cups of Sunny D and a cup of milk. The amount of sodium in there is incredible.

Dad was discharged from the hospital today. I'm pretty happy. That means I don't have to travel across town to the hospital when I can see him at home. =]

Failing [legit] government. I find it really interesting, but the amount of work that I have to put into it is unrealistic for a senior. I doubt that me doing well in that class or on the AP is happening.

Oh, question for my LJ friends.
How do you feel about bi-racial [mostly half Asian, half Caucasion] people? 
I think they're gorgeous people, except for the select few. 

 Hell week's over. Its kinda sad that its my last musical of my high school years. I'm not ready to be 'grown-up' yet..
But 5 hour violin practices are over!!
That means more time to mess around on Detective Conan. Lmao. Which is probably why I'm failing Gov and Math and probably French right now.
I got a gov test on Iran tomorrow...I don't know what to expect.

Senioritus is really getting to me..even more so than before. I just wanna get in somewhere so I can chill. In the past few weeks, a lot of my college stuff got lost in the mail, so now, I'm not receiving any decisions because I have many incomplete files. 

I hate my commitments. To the various clubs that I'm in, and to my hobbies. Because they conflict with each other...
It saddens me that I have to forfeit my violin just so I can put flyers around the school to support Midnight Run.
Oh well, such is life.

Hope all is well with you guys, 
I'm gonna comment on your posts soon! 
And by soon I mean within the next week.

Ciao!

P.S. I HATE PROM SEASON!!!! So much drama and disappointment...

So I've been craving Italian food because I didn't get any for the past two weeks or so. And Germany isn't big on pizza and pasta.

Okay, to my main annoyance.
Northeastern sends me an email saying that my file is incomplete and will be inactive..whatever that means.
They're saying that I'm missing my teacher recommendations. both of them
okay, so i talked to my teachers and both have sent it over a month ago.
i have no idea whats going on...but now i'm really scared.
cuz northeastern stressed that 'THERE ISN'T ENOUGH TIME'  so I have to ask my teachers to fax their recommendations.
i don't really understand whats happening...it was over a month ago..and now..ugh
i don't see any of my teachers until monday..and omg..
i'm stressing..
and its a school in which i kinda want to go too..and if this happens, will it happen to other schools cuz my teachers sent them in at the same time?

i'm so confused..
and scared.
and this section of my life sucks..
 

So I'm back.
Sorry for not commenting much on your journals. =[

But I'm back from Hamburg. It was really fun. I got to go to Berlin and go to school in Hamburg and everything! 
OMG, all people eat there is bread and seltzer water. For breakfast, we eat toast or bread/rolls with cold cuts. For lunch, we eat a sandwich. For dinner, bread again. I began skipping dinner in Germany because I couldn't take bread anymore. It was bad enough that all I could eat is bread but I couldn't even get normal water. My throat was hurting so badly [I lost my voice for about 5 days] and all I wanted was something that didn't fizz in my throat but to get it I had to drink tap water. 
The tap water in Hamburg was hard. So it killed my hair and  throat. 

Also, when I got there, I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY WHITE PEOPLE IN THE SAME AREA IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!! Me and my friend Katie were the only Asians there. If you count her as being Asian since she's half. Out of the people that I saw in the whole of Hamburg city, I only saw about 10 black people. Lots of Turkish people though. Everyone was white, blonde and blue-eyed. If you weren't blonde, you were light brown and that was the end of it. 

Some differences that I've noticed:
Food = we don't have much bread. They eat so healthy no wonder skinny jeans is really fashionable there. They have no fat people. 
School = they end school at 1300 and get this, they start at 800. Everyone cycles to school and instead of parking lots, they have like about 50 bike racks. 
Transportation = Really similar, cept they're cleaner by a lot, and they don't check tickets that much, but if you happen to be checked and not have a ticket, you get fined the maximum fine [80 euros = 120 bucks]. So it was always good to get a ticket. I've only been checked once out of all my time here.
Ages = the drinking age is 16. You can start buying 'beer' at 16 but to buy hard liquor you have to 18. 
Smoking = There were SO MANY cigarette ads there. I was really surprised to find a whole wall covered in one Marabou cigarette ad. You can't find this in Canada. America sometimes but always in Hamburg. I was so annoyed. I hate cig ads. Even though I do smoke, its annoying to find them right in your face. Its like corrupting lil kids who don't really want to die sooner than they want. 
H&M = Their h and m is amazing!! so much better than the american ones. better quality and more variety. its like europes hot topic, h and m, and forever 21 in one, and better. Apparently jewelery [sp?] in the store is called Schmuck. So I bought a schmuck for 1.6 euros. that cracks me up.
Cosmetics = okay, you know how a simple drugstore [loreal] mascara costs about 7 bucks here? it friggin' costs 10 euros there! Its a difference of 8 dollars! Holy shit. I'm happy that I live in America. And this is pretty much the only reason why I like living in the US. For the cosmetics.
weather = the weather's crap there

I also met lots of cute guys. I met Christian, a 14 year old who's like 6ft. And who's also amazing at the violin. If I were 3 years younger, I would totally have a crush on him. 

And now since I'm back, I'm sad that I live so far away from good life quality in Hamburg. Everything's like better there [cept for cosmetics]. 
And omg, Hamburgers love Hey There Deliah song. So overplayed.

I'll update more about Germany once I start remembering more.
Ciao!

So I'm in Germany right now. I missed my flight twice due to 1. visa problems (got my german visa in a day), and because I got my visa too late, I couldn't make it to the airport in time. 
But right now, omg..okay, instead of qwerty, they have qwertz, so all my y=z and vice versa. the familz is nice. don't understand a word thezäre sazing but oh well. i can deal. 

so tired. been up for more than 24 hours due to jetlag. it sucks..cuy i canät go to bed until dinner, and apparentlz everzone eats late here, lunch at two...dinner past 8...holz shit. i need food dude!

will update sometime later, sorrz I havenät been commenting latelz, :(

ciaossu!