First week of school..

Well technically, it wasn't the first week because it was only three days of school. But, it still was. I like all of my classes, except for my environmental science class.

My professor is SO into the involvement of the class and group work. And we have a semester-long project about how we can help the environment. Kill me now.

Granted, I am only taking this class because I need one more science class with a lab. And also, because whenever I meet Leonardo DiCaprio, I don't want to be completely unknowledgeable about the world. (That us not a word lol)

OTHER THAN THAT, I made an abundant amount of friends in my classes who constantly want to hang out. Funny since my friend described me as "the most social anti-social person" ever. Ha!

I will post more when I have time.

Summer 2016 Travels

This blog inconsistently tracks certain aspects of my life, so here is an update. Finals came faster than I thought it would. I moved back to Oklahoma for the Summer and moved completely out of my dorm. (I'll be getting a single this fall, yay!) I started working again, then I went on a week vacation to Minnesota (St. Paul & Minneapolis.) Then went back to work, then back on another vacation for the 4th of July to Chicago and Milwaukee to Lake Michigan and then back to Minnesota for a day or two to visit with family...

Now here I am off work finally writing a post for my invisible readers. Up until mid-August, I will be working as much as I can to save money for textbooks! Yikes!

But here are a few pictures from my Summer so far...

June

Okay, here we have Sencha Tea Bar. Avocado, so good. This was in Woodbury, MN. 

This is Sunfish Lake. I was here for a birthday party. A cute place to cookout, they even had volleyball nets all set up too. 

This has been on my list for a long time.... This is in St. Paul and it's F. Scott Fitzgerald's home! It's where his genius self wrote, This Side of Paradise!

It looks like one big house, but it's not. It's a bunch of town homes all lined up together. 

 July

This was taken July 3. This was in St. Louis, it was super rainy and muggy all the way up to Chicago. 

Me at The Bean! It was crowded!

July 4th at the Navy Pier! You can see all the heads, I tried to crop a lot of them out, but they wanted to be seen. The Pier was so crowded, they reached max capacity at only 7 PM!

Lake Michigan from the pier. Across on the left hand side, is Lincoln Park. 

Joyyee! (Taken July 6) In New China Town. This boba is avocado, again ;) 

As you can tell, it's my fav and Oklahoma has zero boba shops that have a good avocado.

Fire works! 

My chacos! The shore line was filled with rocks, I had to wear shoes! But the rocks were so pretty because they were perfectly round. There was also a lot of sea glass. Luckily, I had my little sister with me and she has a sharp eye. 

This is the view from above the Lake. (I don't want to give away where exactly I was, because the location was so secluded.)

I don't know whether I am in a lake or an ocean in Mexico!

Last day in Chicago (7/6 sorry pics are not ordered correctly...)and spent the day at Lincoln Park and Montrose Beach. Can I say the beach was SO crowded. 

Happy Leap Day!

LEO WON AN OSCAR. THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE POST.

RANDOM SONGS

RANDOM SONGS I'VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH AS OF LATE. 

Still Waiting for Sweater Weather...

How is it already almost Halloween and November is just creeping around the corner next Sunday? Let me tell you I am happy about next Sunday. Daylight savings is over and we can fall back one hour. Hallelujah. One more hour of sleep. :)

I've been busy and these posts have been inconsistent. I've been writing essays, taking midterms and all that college-type stuff. And I finally saw my family for the first time in two months last weekend for Fall break. 

Here are some pictures I took of campus truly turning into fall. 

Straight off the steps of the campus library.

Last night, I had an early dinner and grabbed a coffee from the caf. It isn't really a rainy day without a cup of coffee, right? It's been raining recently and I suspect it's from the Hurricane Patricia. Pray for Mexico. I haven't been updated on that news yet. 

Time has flown by this semester, this time next month I'll be home again and then it'll be December. Time, please slow down so I can take every moment in. 

It happened to me...

Me, being an English major, my professor called on me to tell the class what a gerund is. Gerund. 

A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding an -ing to it. Like: "Shopping is fun."

I completely blank. If you have been following me, you'd know that I graduated from school nearly 9 months ago, and I haven't been in this kind of atmosphere in ages it felt like yesterday.

Well, I completely blank and respond with a response I should have not said but said anyways, "I don't know," and then I wanted to shit myself then and there in class or a cloak of invisibility would have sufficed. 

I felt like Elle Woods, lost and clueless and more lost than anything. Just being there to be there not knowing a thing. But I think I am a little smarter than Elle. 

I knew what a gerund is, I just blanked from being on the spot like that. Who hasn't blanked like that is my real question? 

All in all, it was embarrassing. I hate my life. Let's see if I go back to class.... 

I've been MIA

Sorry I've been busy with work. Working 6 days a week sometimes 8-4 or 8-2 just depends on the day.

Well, last weekend I went to register for classes in Arkansas and got my schedule. Who knew that time goes by so fast. It's almost July and I swear that it was just Christmas. 

Secret waterfall in the ozarks

Broken by the Broken Arrow Expressway

My dad came to pick me up from work and the car broke down on 51st and 129th by the Broken Arrow Express Way. *sigh* a little embarrassing for us since its RUSH HOUR.

Called my sister and mom and they didn't pick up, as usual and I can tell my dad is pretty pissed. But it's okay I guess since my grandpa answered first ring and said right on the way to us. Thank goodness.

As you can see that truck moved in front of us trying to get past us. 

Sitting here for the past 20-30 minutes and NO GOOD SAMURITANS TO HELP US 4:56 pm

5pm

Literally after I said this, this man came and pushed our car to the QT across the road BY HIMSELF. But he was pretty strong looking and his shirt said he was a marine. So maybe he was. But he didn't it with me and my dad still in the car. He just ran over!! Dang. What a nice guy. Thank you to whoever you are. 

Then my grandpa (lol at his cute shirt) came and he gave us a jump. 

5:43 on our way from 51st all the way to 101st where we just died again and thankfully my grandpa followed us just in case. (BTW I'm writing this as its happening.....) 

I am not a high school dropout!

Since graduating, the only thing I've been really doing is working... every day, which I don't mind since I am getting paid. And I well rather get paid 8 hours a day for working than going to school for 8 hours retaining nothing (as I did.)

But it's hard explaining to people that I graduated early. Since I moved before senior year, I honestly do not keep in touch with any of my friends from Texas. And when I explain it to people up here to why I'm not in school they look kinda confused... Well, let us just say this... the Oklahoma education system is not as up to par as Texas. So, obviously, people see me at work, a teenager, who is working the day shift and they think that I AM A DROPOUT.

But let me break it down since NO ONE except for me understands how I did.

In Texas, the school district I was in requires 26 credits to graduate. I had already  24 credits. And to be a senior you have to have 22 credits. In Texas, they count a full-year course as a whole credit, and a half a year as a .5 (half credit).

But anyway, I moved up here, and moving here I looked at the classes I was required to take to graduate:

• US Gov (half year)
• Oklahoma history (which was so dang boring and hard to pay attention to) (half year)
• Algebra (full year)
• English 12 (full year)
• Some finance class that was mandatory for Broken Arrow Schools

But up here, they counted credits like this...

A full year of an English class is 2 credits, while at the end of the first semester of that same English class is only 1 credit. Weird. And to graduate up here you have to have 48 credits, (48/2=24 so technically 24) So I did the math with all of my credits, and I really only needed the credits to graduate, I didn't need any of the electives.  

So probably the 2nd week of school I went to see my counselor who opposed my whole well thought of a plan, and I never go into anything without knowing all the facts. And I had all the facts... I had everything I needed to graduate expect those classes listed above and passed all the state tests I needed in Texas, so I was not about to waste a whole year being fakey nice to all these people for my senior year! Well, the counselor strongly advised against it even when my mom called saying I could not handle it.

So then when she finally Ok'ed everything, I had to take 5 online classes. I took Government, OK history, English2 semester, Alg 2 semester, and the finance class all online. They were all the second-semester classes, so while at school taking the first semester parts for English and algebra I was put in stupid elective classes to fill my schedule since they don't allow seniors to leave early the way they did with my old school in Texas. 

So some days, I would be at school for 12 hours 8 hours at school, take a bus to another school for 4 hours and do my online classes there. 

I put a whole school year's work into 3 and 1/2 months.

Not that I owe anyone an explanation, I would just like to clarify to the customers who will never read this that I am not a high school dropout. 

Senior Year

Senior year has been pretty blah so far. All summer I worked and now it's like I work all the time and then I also have school on top of that.

And I am trying to graduate early since I almost have all my credits.  I turned in my forms and everything and even paid for two online classes for my second semester english class and algebra 2 class. Wish me luck, I need it especially since I  will be taking 5 online classes that I have to finish in 103 days.. aka a little less than 4 months. I have to be finished by December 19th.

December 19th please take your time.

After I graduate (hopefully early) I am going to work full time and save up for college since I got accepted early to Arkansas Tech University! (not sure if i mentioned that before.)
But yay !!!


These next months are going to be stressful.

Now back to writing my essay for english class. eugh...