Seventeen

Both of my sisters might have swine flu... so it's a good thing I'm going to Seattle tomorrow! I'm so excited! I know I've never spent Thanksgiving with my family here but I don't see myself having that great of a time. We don't have any real family plans. So far it sounds like they're going to a family friends house all day. Seattle sounds a lot more amusing. We aren't sure what we'll be doing Thursday but we'll make it awesome. Even if we have to hobo it over to the homeless shelter and bum for some of their food... which we probably won't do. Something we will do for sure is make epic forts in the common room of Rox's dorm and have hot cocoa! I can't wait to see Rox and Chels again. I miss them so much. I hope we will have epic adventures next week!

Sixteen

Words cannot even begin to describe how amazing the U2 concert was. So I'm not even going to attempt writing about it. But I will leave this:

Seattle: I love it. I spent a day there last week. I was with my best friends again and it was wonderful. I hate being this far away from them. Even if it is only 3 hours. I can't wait to join them there. I'm seriously considering applying to UW again. I don't like the environment I'm in. I can't stand the tension and oppression at home. But I don't want to leave my dad. I cherish our conversations on my way to and from school. I'm the one he talks to about the whole situation we're in. I listen and don't judge. I'm there for him and he's there for me. This is the hardest thing about wanting to leave here. I know I could visit but it's not the same. I want to be here for him.

Canada: AS EPIC AS MY FUTURE MAINE COON! I love Canada, especially the people. I met some really awesome peeps and I can't wait to see them all again. I get so excited when Rox and I talk about going back. We already have two more trips in mind. Damn that was an epic time we had.

Fifteen

I reallyyyy have to work on blogging more often =]

So this is what's been going down lately: school, school, aaaaand school. I love it! There is just soooo much learning going around! I learn something new everyday. I'm taking English 101(It's nice since there are some fun people in it), English 102(It has been really helping me with the whole process of writing, as well as editing), Precalc(I pretty much hate this class because I JUST took precalc and we seem to be learning totally different stuff that I do not understand), Biology(Very interesting. My love for this class confirms that I actually do want to major in it), and Biology Lab. I LOVE this class. There are so many awesome people at my table like Devyn, Reid(Sadly he is planning on transferring to a college in the Northeast), Katie, Bethany, and this other guy who doesn't talk that much but seems pretty cool. We have so much fun. It's a good thing I really like this class since it's almost three hours long =]

Registration for next semester is coming up soon and I just took a look at the schedule of classes. I set up what would be my perfect schedule and it really is perfect to me. I would only have class on Monday and Wednesday. I would have Economics in the morning, a break in the afternoon, then Archaeology, Math for Life Sciences, thennnn Astronomy in the evening! =] Soooo perfect! I really hope I can get the classes I want. Aaaand since I'll have my car I can get a job and actually work during the week and earn money so I can go to Seattle and see my bestest friends and we can road trip and fun stuff =3

Here's a cool pic I took through a microscope in Bio Lab =]

Fourteen

I've really wanted to blog lately but never really had the time. Now, since I'm going to be home all alone today, I figured it would a good time. This will probably be a long one because a lot has happened lately. So here we go.

First off, I would like to talk about something that has happened very recently. As in last night. I'm a twitterer so I tweet every now and then and so does Nicka. She's very much devoted to it. Last night she sent a tweet. It said: "I don't enjoy having you around. I'm sick of hearing you say how much "better" you think you are than I am. You make me want to scream. Bye." I don't know if it's pointed towards me or what. I figure it might be since I'm around but I have NEVER said that I was "better" than her. Ever. I find this quite insulting. I have no hard feelings toward her and if she does have a problem with me, then I'd appreciate it if she came out and told me so that we can work things out. That'd be really nice since I consider her to be one of my best friends. It's hard for me right now because I don't have any friends here and she's the only one here I feel that I can really talk to and will listen and understand. Nicka, I'm sorry for whatever I did. If I did say something I probably didn't mean it how you took it because I would never say anything to you that would make you mad. You mean a lot to me and I really enjoy having you around =] Also just so she knows, I'm 17 and can buy movie tickets for rated R movies if she ever wants to go because I know she does.

Okay next thing on my list would be our trip to California. I went there to visit my grandparents with my dad, my stepmom Vangie(so if I say mom here I mean her), Nicka, and Kiana. There were some good times and bad times. Good would be going eat at Jollibee, having loads of fun at Soak City, just walking around the beach since it's way too crowded and cold to go in, getting Louis a nose ring, and finding movie star's houses. Bad would be the heat, being ignored part of the time by mom and Nicka and having my mom say I'm not family. That hurt. Especially for someone who has gone through having parents getting a divorce. So I talked to my grandma. She is seriously the most loving person I have ever met in my life. I think I'd go crazy without her. That night she talked to me about everything, God, my mom, my mom mom, my dad, my uncles and aunt, my cousins, her and my grandpa, her sisters. I just got a lot better insight on my whole family. I feel like I can understand them a lot more now. She really helped me and Vangie work things out too. I'm so glad things are good between us. I'm also glad I learned more about my family. It's weird. I found out that my grandma(my mom's mom. not the one I was talking with) divorced her husband(my mom's dad) when she was really little and then got remarried and divorced him right before my mom graduated. Strange. I'd gone through the EXACT same thing my mom did. I was just like wooooaaaah O.O weird much. Okay... well I've got more to write about and I don't want this blog to be too long!

After California, we drove up to very Southern Oregon, through Klamath Falls, Bonanza, and to the Gerber ranch. It's owned my our neighbor's mom Sylvia. She's pretty dang cool. She has hundreds of cows, a bunch of horses, three pigs, 3 dogs, and a lot a lot of kittens that live in the barn. It was really nice and relaxing. The second day we were there my dad and I, along with Sylvia, her granddaughter who lives by us, and Nathan her son in law, got to herd cattle! So we saddled up five horses, took them to near where the cows were wandering, and herded them through wilderness, cinder roads, rocks, water, and gates till they were in their new area by Gerber springs. Sylvia owns a lot of this land. That was one of the neatest experiences of my life. Oh and did I mention we had to tag baby calf's ears, castrate some, and take the horns off of one. Yeah. Nasty and bloody and lots of cow screams. But everything else was fun =]

LAST THING. Woohoo! School! I just had day two and three of freshmen orientation and Washington State University Vancouver! It was awesome. I met people like Lia, Devyon, Alexa, Zachary, Colby, Alex, Brooke(who had a viral infection and couldn't come the second day), Cassie, and some other people. The student amabassadors were epic. The first day I was with Sierra and Bret. They were really fun. The second and third days I was with Elena who was also really fun. We did a tour of the campus, played games like slaptastic, ride the pony, jedi mindtricks, and the shout out game. We also heard some of the proffessors talk about classes, what to do and not to do. We heard some other people talk and we ate food. Hawaiian BBQ. Hah. Deyvon and I were just like... uh wow. She lived on Oahu for 3 years and Maui for 9. She's like the palest person ever and has red hair. She's nice. So was everyone else. Oh and I'm really looking forward to going behind the scenes at the Oregon Zoo and taking a trip to Pullman to watch the Cougars play football! That'll be epic for sure.

One more thing before I end this. My mom's Subaru got lots of things fixed and if this next thing goes well, we might ship it here and I'll have a car! I need to get my permit as soon as she sends me my birth certificate since we need proof that my dad is related to me. Wtf. I was totally gonna bring some strange guy in and say it was my dad. *sarcasm*

I'll be sure to blog after my first day of school on MONDAY. Nervous...

Thirteen

Last night was one of the most fun times I've had since I've moved to "the Shoug". It began with the Dollar Tree. Nicka, Kiana, and I bought a whole bunch of glow sticks. We went home, waited untill it was dark, then went on our trampoline... WITH THE GLOW STICKS. We used some as bracelets and necklaces but most of them were on the trampoline. When we would jump, they would fly everywhere and spin around. It was seriously really awesome. After a while Kiana left because she can't stay up very late no matter how hard she tries. So it was me and Nicka and a shit ton of glow sticks. We stopped jumping and just watched the stars. I busted out my penguin ipod playing thing. It's a stuffed animal that I can hook my ipod up to. It's pretty damn bad ass. We also got blankets and pillows. Within about two hours we saw a total of 18 shooting stars! It was amazing! I loooove watching the stars. We continued to watch the stars for another hour (we only saw one within that whole hour and Nicka happened to by rubbing her eye at that exact moment >.<) and that was where we felll asleep last night... till about 5:30 when we decided we were freezing cold.

Twelve

I'm home. I love it.

So about two weeks ago I left Maui. I was crazyyy nervous and had no idea what it would feel like to be gone. So far I'm very happy with things. I miss my friends more than anything but they'll be close to me soon enough. I can't wait for college and all of the adventures that await in this new state.

I'm sitting in my new living room with my stepsister Nicka in my new home in Washougal, Washington. We just got back from our neighbor's grandma's beach house. In case you didn't know, Oregon beaches are really fucking cold, but totally amazing.

The house we stayed in was furnished in the 70's and had a total Napoleon Dynamite feel to it.

After I left Maui, but before I arrived at my new home, I went to Seattle and Victoria, Canada with my mom and her cousin Marcia. I've been wanting to blog for a while now but I was planning on it after my mom sent me my pictures from our trip. My camera died and I ended up bringing the wrong charger so I was cameraless most of the time. She hasn't sent the pics yet. Anyway, I'm extremely jealous of my friends for getting to live in the beautiful city of Seattle. I'm going to live there someday. I swear I will. My mom, Marcia, and I went to Pike's Market, the Space Needle, the Science Fiction museum, the Experience Music Project museum, and a few other places. It was really cool but we definately didn't have enough time to explore everything. I'm really looking forward to visiting Rox and Chels up there.

Our next stop was Victoria. We took a seaplane in which was uber cool. I had never been to Canada and I must say that it was the most pretty city I've ever been to. We basically just wandered the streets and shopped most of the time. Oh and people said "Eh?" and it made me super happy! Haha. Well on one of our last days there we took a bus up to the Butchart Gardens and DUDE. Wow. It was incredible. It made me suuuuper depressed that I didn't have my camera. Flowers and trees and cute little brick paths everywhere. Don't even get me started on how amazing it smelled.

Oh and I got my new little buddy at their gift store! His name is Quatchi (like Sasquatch because he's awesome). He's one of the mascots for the Vancouver 2010 olympics.

So after our adventure in Canada, we took a ferry to Port Angeles, Washington, got a rental car, and drove down to Mount St. Helens then to Portland. We got super lost in Portland but found our way out eventually. I thought it would have been nice to grab some coffee and walk around but I couldn't find the area that I usually go to so that was a bummer. Once we were out of there we drove to Washougal. I figured we could grab some coffee. So we went to Safeway since there's a Starbucks inside and guess who we see? My dad, my stepmom, and my halfsister! HAHAHA. Funniest and most awkward thing of my life. We all chatted for a bit and wowww... nothing weirder than seeing my mom and dad standing next to each other. I haven't seen them together since before I could remember. It was strange. We said bye to them for now, grabbed our coffee and walked down the beach. Along the beach were a bunch of unripe blackberries and my mom being the silly person she is searched high and low for ripe berries. She's like a pro berry hunter. After that we drove to my new home and she helped me carry my things to my new room, in my new hosue, with my new family. Damn I miss her. It was really nice last few hours with my mom before leaving me here.

I haven't said anything about my school so I guess I should say something about that. I took my writing assessment test last week to see which class I would fit best in. I don't know how I did yet but I find out soon. The day after I took the test I met with my academic advisor. He's soooo cool! His name is Bryan Blarlock or something like that. He was super helpful and nice. We started planning which classes I'm gonna take and things like that. I'm not so nervous about school now. I'm kinda worried about being a loner but oh well. I'll survive somehow. I have a registration and orientation ish thing on the 31st. Ahhhh. I'll tell them which classes I want and hopefully my schedule will be close to the one I set for myself. All of the time options for my classes are online so that was cool. I was able to make a few possible schedules for me. The sucky thing is that my dad and stepmom will have to drive me to and from my classes for the first two weeks or until I get my liscense. Rawr.

Eleven

I'm leaving Maui in 5 days. I just graduated high school and I won't be living here anymore. It still hasn't hit me. I love it here. I don't want to leave, but I really do. I'm excited to be moving on with my life. Whenever I think about living with my family in Washington I can't help but smile. I haven't lived with my dad in more than 10 years. Every summer and winter has been so special to me because of the time I get to spend with him, my stepmom, my half sister, and my step sister. It's gonna be weird after a while. I'll feel like I'm supposed to leave soon but I won't be. I hope everything goes fine. I'm sure it will. College will be interesting. I'm going to be such a loner! The only friend I'll have is my step sister, Nicka. I suck at making new friends. Of course I'll still have the amazing friends I have now, but the long distance thing is gonna be horrible unless I get a car. Maybe I'll get one for my birthday... *crosses fingers* That'd be great. I'll have to get my license first. Hah.

So next Monday I will be in Seattle. I'm going on a little trip with my mom and her cousin before I go to Washougal. We'll be going to Seattle, Victoria, Port Angeles, then we will be driving down to Portland. I'm really looking forward to it. Gosh I'm gonna miss my mom. I'll miss everything. At least I'll be back for breaks =]