Flakes

I woke up this morning and looked outside, and saw that is was "snowing" outside. It only lasted about ten minutes, but we had snow, I love snow.

Proud or Distirbed?

Last night my cat, Nelly, caught her first mouse (first since we've gotten her) and like a good thoughtfull cat, she brought it up into my parents room, still alive. Earlier that day, my mom had gone downstairs to get something, and saw Nelly at the door that led to the no so nice part of the basement. Nelly looked up at her and started meowing away, so my mom opened the door and she was off like a shot. Since we couldn't close the door and trap her back there, my mom left the door open and continued on with her business. Which is why, she later carried a still living mouse upstairs to show us she is taking care of us.

Today she got another one, or the same one since the other cat scared her away from hewr first catch and proptly lost it...by then they were outside so it wasn't too bad. I love my cat.

Finals

The last month has been crazy, things have gone wrong every where and I am up to my neck in computer and car repairs, well one computer is completely dead, so I haven't been able to use it for my finals this last week. I still have a few finals to go but I have already gotten one over with, and my grades aren't that bad this semester.

I am soon to start applying for jobs, have to wait until I am no longer a student, but once school is over, here come the applications...as many as I can get in the small town I live in.

Kristie, that babysitting money you gave me saved me with the car repairs, it wasn't too painful of a drain on my savings.

Tanko Bushi Japanese Dance

On March 6th, my Japanese class and I, went to our local mall and performed the Tanko Bushi.
It is a Japanese Dance and we had lots of fun. I don't have a video of us dancing, only one that demonstrates the dance. So if you imagine a bunch of college students in kimonos dancing this on a stage, then you kinda know what we looked like.
I'll try to get some pics, will have to do some work with the digital camera though.

Not Much

Well, there isn't much to blog about today. The local Lion Dance is happening today, at the Chinese Temple. Might find some pictures from last year's dance.

Since it is the Chinese New Year, the local Chinese Temple, our Joss House, puts on a dance using Chinese lion puppets/costumes. It is really fun to watch, especially when the little kids in the dance are in their little lion costumes, so cute. The dancers are mainly from our local, and only, karate group. Some dance in the lion costumes, some hold the lanterns the lions follow, some play the drums, and some might do a sword dance, don't know if those that did still live here though. At least it will be sunny for them, it has been raining for the past week.

School Starts Again

Once again I have started another semester at college. I have gotten into three of the four classes I was going to take, so now I need to find an online class of some kind to fill in the needed units.

The weather was a bit of a worry, but so far this morning it was clear enough for us to get over, tonight on the other hand...wish us luck. I am carpooling with my friend, Meghan, my sister, Nancy, her boyfriend, Jori, and his friend, Nick. Nick has a class that keeps us at the college until 9:30 at night. Nancy has a class that requires us to get to the college before 8:00 a.m. We have an hour drive home. I am too nice. Lucky for me we only have to do this two days of the week.

I have been sick this past week, yucky sniffling, coughing, wheezing, thing. Throw in some dizziness and nausea, and you have a wonderful night before school starts. I finally felt well enough to fall asleep around 1:00 in the morning, Jacquie woke up at 4:20 and started walking around and talking loudly to whom ever was putting wood in the stove, and my alarm went off at 5:45.

At least I got into the two classes I was worried about. I had been wait listed for them and just made the class. Hopefully I will do well in my Japanese class that I am taking. Kristie sent me some books, but they have been lost in the immenseness that is the bookshelf.

So, once again, hopefully we will have good weather this evening, have a nice fast food dinner, make it over the hill and on to home, and sleep in tomorrow morning.

Avatar

I went to see Avatar today, and it was earth shaking, literally. In the middle of the movie, our seats started shaking and everyone was looking around. My friend thought it was the surround sound, but that would be more of a vibration. Not a back and forth, side to side motion. The earthquake was a 6.5 off the coast. When I got home I asked my mom if it was an earthquake, and it was. Avatar rocks this world. ^_^