home

so i decided that i'm gonna go home this thursday. my dad's gonna pick me up around 2:30 and i'll have the oppurtunity to have dinner with my family and get a longgg nice bath. the only person who knows that i'm coming home is my dad...so it's pretty much a surprise for my mom, sister, and nanny.

maybe this time i will actually do my own laundry now that i have learned!

other than that, i'm expecting to get some homework done, so maybe i won't have too much to do over the weekend.

i'm excited to get a home cooked meal. other than that, the fact that i'll be sleeping in my own bed will be really nice.

it'll be weird to be away from the college atmosphere, but at least my roomie is gonna be a block away from my house bc she lives in my neighborhood and is coming home as well!

wahooo. ha

money

soo as obvious as it is, i am a college student. aka, i have no money. as i wrote before, i recently got a job selling tickets for concerts that are held on route one...i don't get paid  very well, so that type of money is used as "pocket money" and is spent rather quickly. 

the other money i spend comes from my parents. i am so grateful that they take the time to work everyday in order to provide a happy life for their three children. as i've been in college, i've tried to cut down on my spendings. everything here is so expensive. i spend about 20 dollars on food each day (whether it be at the diner or at an outside food place). on top of that, the terp bucks go so fast, due to the fact that i buy convenient things at the union shop and convenient store in north campus. 

i miss summertime when i could make real money.

first exam

i just posted a blog a second ago, but i have something else to write about, so why not do it right away? i had my first college "exam" today. it was for my sociology class, where i learn how individuals in society interact with eachother and the world they live in. i was pretty nervous while studying for it, considering that i had no idea what type of format it would be. anywho, i studied with a group of people last night, and again in another group during our break in between classes. i felt prepared. 

i took the test and realized that it was really not that bad. i think i've had harder tests in high school.  

job

so my neighbor ale and i got a job this weekend. we have to sell about 150 tickets for the red hot chili peppers cover band concert at santa fe this weekend. each ticket is $12. today we sold about 5o in an hour...pretty good. i have no idea how much we are getting paid though. either way, i am a college student that is broke half the time, so a little money seems pretty nice right now. not sure if any of you are fan of the red hot chili peppers, but you should definetly check them out. they play rock/alternative music that can chill you out if you're in those blah moods when you over-analyze everything that has been happening in your life.

bitter

i am bitter. this weekend, i woke up and had no voice for some reason. no, i did not go out or anything..haha i just woke up mute. weird. anywho, i guess that no voice aspect was the genesis of my cold. because this past week i had massive headaches, which later changed to a sore throat, and now, a sinus thing. gross. i hate being sick in college...mainly because my mother is not here to check up on me and make me tea/ feed me etc. hhaha and on top of that, i have not been getting sleep because i've had ridiculous cough attacks throughout the night. i feel bad for my rooomie. 

ummmmmmm. it is cold. i hate this rainy weather...i lost my umbrella somewhere in my room and cannot find it.

good stuff

So i finally learned how to do laundry! 

Uhh I don't really know what to write about. I'm home at the moment. I decided to come back just so i could get some homework done, and it's not really working. my parents are super distracting, coming in every minute, asking if i'm doing okay. apart from that, my dad is listening to really loud techno music because he's trying to be cool....so i can't hear myself think or get math done. blahhh.

the game this weekend was pretty fun. i still don't know half of the cheers, but i'm slowly learning, and am moving my arms around pretending like i know what i'm doing.

 

yesterday was a bitter day for me though...my neighbor and i weren't hungry for dinner until about 8....and with our luck, we go to the diner and it's closed. so we decided to see if adele's was open...but it was closed too. we had to walk all the way to route one from centreville. whomp. 

draft of narrative in class

For my paper, I will tell the story about my working experience during my junior year of high school. i worked at a store called toys etc in potomac maryland. my brother was the one who first started working there, and when he left for college, he told his manager that i would replace his position as a sales associate. aka i was pretty much forced to work there.
junior year in general is hard. you have to keep your grades up because those are the ones that really "count," and you're in the middle of deciding where you should start looking to go to college...

not finished!