Hey everyone!
I know its been a while but I wanted to let you know I started a new journal. I have sorta kinda started being a photographer. I dont know if it will go much farther but maybe it will develop into something more.
anyway, go check it out!
http://erin-ofthe-wood.livejournal.com/

I just got my acceptance letter from Western!!!!
Im so happy, now I just have to make sure I dont screw up any of the classes Im taking this or next quarter. Still haven't heard from Fairhaven but that's not really bothering me right now. Lets Party!!!

I passed my math class!!!

I blew up at my English teacher about 2 hours ago. she has been very unorganized in her teaching methods and she only just got our first two essays graded and back to us, which she wants us to re-write by Monday. Anyway, she told me I got 3.4 and 3.5 but didn't tell me out of what and the blackboard thing says they are out of 10 so I freaked out and yelled via email. I told her exactly what is wrong with her teaching method and that, if I was in danger of failing I wanted to know about it before the last drop day instead of telling me and everyone else that she would get our grades to us 'soon'. anyway, she wrote back and explained that the score was out of 4 and told me I didn't need to bother with the re-write because I am doing so well anyway it wouldn't really make a difference.
I really hate her and I cant wait to be rid of her.

Fell asleep in class today, I have been allot recently. not really my fault, wake up at 5:30 and go to a class with cushy computer chairs where they turn out the lights and talk quietly about the pictures and thats what happens. but today they caught me o_0 the teacher asked me a question apparently and when I woke up everyone was laughing at me.
take a look at some of my pics?

*sigh*
for those of you who don't know, I am stuck in math 90, again. just the last two credits but still, this is like the fourth time and I just don't get how I can be so bad t it XP
Anyway, I took quiz 5 again last week, and I freaked out because I got 9 out of 20 when last quarter I got 16. so I looked at it and found that the had changed the total amount of points to 22 not 20 but they had added up the missed answers for a 22 point quiz and put it over 20. I did get 11/22 but I still don't get it because I got 8 out of 10 on two online quizzes with the same content.
I talked with my teacher today and explained this and ended up crying because, honestly, if I cant pass out of math 90 I cant get an AA and if I cant even get an AA what is the point of continuing college at all? I know I want to continue and my parents would be really disappointed if I quit but its so frustrating and I cant even think about this without getting teary.
I am so Tired of all this.

Anyway, she doesn't think I need math 131 but I will probably need 117 so I need to contact western and see. she is going to help me after classes from now on and I really hope I pass this time...
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this turned out great!! ^^
Outside of the Kamelot concert, First in line and like five hours early ^^
(self pic, taken w/ cell phone!!)

So in economics yesterday my teacher was trying to explain what is America's problem, socially, economically and so on. she blames immigration. Just the amount of people who come to America and how the system isnt built to grow so quickly. and then she compares it to Finland of all places and asks the class; 'You dont see Finland having problems like that I mean honestly who wants to go to Finland?' (she said this very passionately) and being who am, I raised my hand. and the entire class starts laughing then I get at least three other people (in a class of like seven or eight people) who agree that they would like to got to Finland with me...
in short, we blew her explanation out of the water (even if it did make sense)
Until next time ^^
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so I figured it was about time I post again and I also decided to share some pics I have been working on.
(sort of inspired by Karen K. and her web com 'drop of fuel' http://www.webcomicsnation.com/visdviking/dropfuel/series.php?view=single&ID=129905 and my friend who told me about it, Jenn)((and the Kamelot concert we went to las week^^))




"I thought you Knew Id come disguised on angel wings, in white"





at the concert at El Corazon there was a totally drunk guy behind me and my friend who thought it was a great Idea to try and drag Khan (the singer for Kamelot) into the crowd...




This is Henrik Klingenberg from Sonata Arctica...he has always seemed kinda moody when I have seen him, maybe he just needs more vodka!

and to my band yes I have been practicing.

Tuesdays have become my least favorite day of the week. I wake up anywhere from4:30-6:30 to take my dog out, get my stuff together and try to catch a boat early enough that I can find a parking space at my college, my first class it at 11:30 my last class goes from 6:00pm to 8:10 pm and then i run to catch the boat again and am lucky if I get home before 10:30-11:00 XP
bad day sorry peepl

going off of a subject me and my friends were talking about the other night-
'when you are just at the edge of sleep do you ever get the feeling that you trip up, you kinda jerk and you wake up?'

when John asked this I started thinking of all the times this had happened to me and I realized that with every one I was either walking, climbing, running, flying, or swimming when I would trip, slip, fall, or some other action that requires you to react quickly and my actual waking body would attempt to make the movement and bring me out of sleep.

Anyone else ever had similar 'almost dreams'?

So its been fun! I recently went to Tokyo Disney Land (and got a nasty sunburn) and this really cool place called edo mura or edowonderland (Im putting up pics). it was awesome!!

the other day I went to a flea market! that was fun but this old man who spoke broken English cornered me and wanted to talk about how much he loved America and how he was 53 and how he had been to America 3 times...this wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't been hinting at the fact that he wanted me to take him back with me or hadn't smelled so strongly of alcohol or hadn't tried to get me address and gave me his... other then that it was really fun, then we went to a second hand clothing store in harajuku. I never realized how difficult it was to shop for cloths for other people, usually I can say 'well this is cool, totally a jenn shirt' or 'Kendal would probly wear this its really neat' but now that Im actually looking its really hard!

anyway today I got a pre paid cell phone, that was fun and it is pretty cool and at the shop this old man started smoking and one of the guys who worked there kept asking him to stop, he kept arguing with him and then he turned to me and asked me if I was Japanese. he then told me he was Chinese and tried to tell me something about my eyes but got interrupted (thank god) he asked me if I was on vacation and wasn't Japan crazy and so different. he was Chinese and why didn't I go to china for my vacation and he Olympics...why do I attract dirty old men T-T ?

anyway, tomorow is Gibli studio day wooooo!! Ill post more pics soon.
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oh, and its been raining pretty heavily off and on.

so I went to a naruto convention at Sunshine city today...that is a department store. and I got postcards... OH!! and yesterday I went to gibli's new movie!!! it is called, Ponyo on the cliff by the sea...or something like that. the movie theater was awesome!!! I am going to post more pics in my album so go check it out.
oh yeah and tomorrow I am going to Disneyland!
Sayonara
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woke up at 5:30 this morning so we could get to the meeting place for yatsugatake. we were a bit late but that was ok. I learned a fun card game! tell you about it later! we changed trains about three or four times and now I am on one that is going for 2 hours...i forgot my book XP.
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I have been battleing crickets again and this time I have pics to prove it!!!! they are realy ugly!!!!
tomorrow we will wake up at 6:00 and go to the waterfall!


its been really fun so far and I will post some pics here so look for them in my album!!

thats it for now
ttyl
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Hey everybody! I made it to Japan alright! its really hot and humid here.
tomorrow I will be going to yatsugatake camp so you wont here from me for a while.
I keep forgetting to bring my camera with me but I already packed it for camp so I will have it. when I get back I will post some pics!
ttyl
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PS, I have been riding a bicycle in really heavy rain, we forgot umbrellas ^^ (I am still very wet XP)

sorry its been so long but Ive been really busy. when your focused on earning money things just dont seem as fun and you seem to have even less time to yourself than you normally do. Im just feeling a bit depressed right now, there are so many things I wanted to get done before I went to Japan, study my Japanese for example, and all i seem to have been doing is work. And my maniger larned a new word, I kinda wonder if she knows what 'skank' means because she has been calling me that (in jest) alot lately.
'erins picking on me.' (meaning Ive tickled or poked, or made a funny comment at someone)
'thats because she is a skank, isn't that right erin.'
it was a real shock the first time she said something like that
anyway, on to other things,
Im going to have to get a different job soon, maybe at barns and noble so I can transfer somewhere close to wwu when I go, because all my classes this next quarter ar centered around my 4:00 Japanese class.
ok bye for now
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*sigh* once again it is summer and I have little to no time for art. odd isn't it, that when I dont have classes I dont have time for sketching but in a math or history class I can find all the time on the world. oh well. Ill just have to get around to it sooner or later.
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I think the microwave in the break room of my work is like radioactive or something...It takes 10 seconds to do what my microwave at home or even the ones at school do in 30 seconds.
the other day I put my pizza in there for 30 sec. and took it out when there were still about 15 sec left and the thing was sizzling. I couldn't touch it let alone eat it for about a minuet!
anyway, evil appliances update #1
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And now Im learning Chinese! Mandarin to be exact though I may get into Cantonese as my teacher is a native Cantonese speaker and Mandarin is her secondary language...English her third(not fair x_x). I was just minding my own business, eating my teriyaki rice bowl when she commented on my use of chopsticks and things progressed from there. I can now say 'thank you' and 'I am eating rice' and 'good'. I am sorry to say I dont know her name but I do know she is here staying with a host family and studying health and nursing I believe. In China she teaches Mandarin, Cantonese, physical education and Chinese culture. she already told me a story about why the Japanese are so short.

The emperor sent 500 girls and 500 boys of about 15 years of age into the world (in the general direction of Japan) and told them to search for the elixir of life so that he would never grow old and die. They never came back. Anyway the reason the Japanese are short is because the 15 year olds never grew up.

At least thats what it sounded like to me.
So yeah. Nothing else new,
of_the_Wood

So I figured I have been keeping you all waiting for long enough...Thought I would post something just to fill the space.
umm, not sure if anyone cares but apparently I like to sleep with one eye open...for anyone out there who wears their contacts to bed like I do you might understand that this can be painfull XP.
I couldn't understand why I would wake up with my eye so scratchy but my mom came in to wake me up and watched my eye roll shut.
Anyway, filler complete and I hope to actually be posting something worthwhile soon...ish... like maybe that I have been accepted to WWU!! that would be awesome!!
so bye for now!
of the Wood