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getting caught up in school and had a spa day on sunday! i got my nails done and it was so relaxing. finally getting started on my essays and i'm cramming for the jlpt which is in 12 days and 18 hours! wish me luck guys, i hope i pass this time around so i can get my part time job in japan
it's fall break at my university right now, so i'm just relaxing while completing some readings for my asian studies class. i'm still behind, but i'm slowly catching up and will be done by the time fall break ends! doing readings while having the skyrim soundtrack play in the background just...makes me feel some type of way. it's relaxing, yet motivating. also, i used to play skyrim in my youth (oof i'm only 21, but 13 feels like it was so long ago) and i miss it a lot. maybe one day i'll go back to it, but for now i'll just listen to the soundtrack.
also, i've been super lazy this fall break and after it's over i'm gonna have to give everything a 120%! speaking of which, i maxed out all of the possible extra credit points on my last social epidemiology exam and I got 84/70 (120% !!!) this semester is truly blessed but also super stressful
I'm back! It feels nice to post again after my sudden hiatus. I really like my planner spread for this month! It's simple and it follows the other months' spread. I'm fiddling with the indicator symbols about completion, unfinished, need to finish, etc. I got this month's wallpaper from @emmastudies, like always! Thank you for making these, I always look forward to them! That latte is amazing!!! I got it at a local hole-in-the-wall cafe. Tiny, great atmosphere, wonderful music. I went there with a classmate and studied for my Japanese chapter test. I got a 97.5! I'm content with what I got. I'm going to study hard for the final exam because I got a high B, low A (iirc) on it last semester. And now I'm aiming for an A. I also had a history midterm exam the day before spring break. I was super nervous. And at the very end, I was one of two students who were the last ones in the classroom, so I hope that means I did well!!! The other person was the one I studied with the night before the exam. So, I hope we both get the grades we wanted.
Spring break has been fun, I've just been really busy. Cleaning, washing, sleeping. Basically everything but writing the 2 essays and completing the one page of Japanese homework I have. I haven't even revised my notes. Which I should do too. I'll most likely get it all done on Saturday. I'm such a slacker. But I haven't been feeling well lately either. So, overall, a good spring break and an okay-ish semester. Time to brace myself for the second half!
Some pictures I took on my most recent trip to Boston! Flying has always been hard for me because my ears don't equalize pressure properly but I found the cure to my pain! I use earbuds and put them in before I get on the plane to make sure that I'm at ground level and when we take off I play my favorite music and forget about the pain and the fear of my ears hurting during takeoff and landing! My ears don't get plugged and they don't need to equalize. So anybody struggling with ear pains while flying I would reccomend taking:
2-3 sudafed 45 min to an hour before take off to clear your sinuses and make sure everything is clear!
Take an anxiety or sleeping (melatonin) pill 45 min to an hour before, if you have a fear of flying or are worried about pain.
Clean your earbuds and your ears before boarding the plane, and put them on as the gate is calling you to board; and then find your seat, play your favorite song, and remember that it'll be okay!
I love to travel but I always had a slight fear because of my excruciating ear pain, my ears would take days to equalize so it made day trips hard on me. I'd be crying so hard during descent and begging my mom to never take me on another trip again, because it was just that horrible for me. I figured out that doing these steps worked for me and really helped make my traveling experience even better. Now, I have no problem hoping on a plane, even multiple times in one trip like Boston! From my departing airport to Boston, walking around Boston a bit, to jumping back onto a plane to my home airport, in less than 40 hours was a breeze!
I hope this helps someone, but I thought I'd share my experience with traveling and ear pain as it seems to be something nobody talks about.
Working on listing the major arcana for a book arts/creative writing class. Our theme is to tell a narrative using the tarot. I've always wanted to learn about it and this class gave me an excuse to buy a beautiful tarot deck by Siolo Thompson! My card is The Chariot. It means focus, ambition, self discipline, sacrifice, and victory. I feel like this fits me very well and helps me have confidence in my abilities! The major arcana have been taken out for this project, but I want to see what each card means so I can gain a better understanding of the project overall. Plus, studying the major arcana is a lot of fun. My professor is giving each of us 2 cards for this project. I'm excited to see what I get. I hope I can make it work!
Studying for a map test in my asian civilizations class. A classmate made a study guide for the test and decided to share it with us! He even filled out the map and made a ppt slide for additional information on each country listed! I've been blessed. I printed out the map and outlined it because I really wanted to outline my map in a nice color gradient. I'm working on memorizing and trying not to stress out, but let's be honest...I'm always stressed. I hope I do well! It's worth 10 points and I really want to get an A in this class so I have to ace it. Or else I can't get above a B+/A- according to the professor??
Also I was using a supertip and it came out bubbly? It looked like something was growing on it. So I checked all my other supertips and they're all okay. Maybe I just didn't close that one specific supertip correctly?
Items:
Crayola Supertips
Listening:
懺悔参り/まふまふ
Finals are over. It's snowing, and I love my supportive friends so much! I feel confident about the Japanese written exam but there's still that uncertainty that I might have messed up. I have work today and since finals are done I'll be working more and revising notes, swimming, etc. I hope that this new year I can post more personal photos, get better at note taking, improve my handwriting, and continue maintaining my GPA! I hope you guys did well! I believe in all of you!!
I've been wanting to add this sticker to my water bottle for the LONGEST time, but instead I decided to move the stickers around on my surface go and put Keith on there instead next to the BoM mantra! Is it a mantra? Or a quote? Or a...saying? Not sure. Winter break has had me working a lot lately, but I still have time to do little things like this. I love my simply modern water bottle by the way. Unfortunately, my backpack doesn't have the little holders. I might see if I can find a clip to put on my bag though. I just don't know where to find a bottle clip. I've been working on revising notes, but it's not coming along too well. I keep getting distracted and I really want to revise them so that next semester in Japan 2020, I won't have a hard time referring to Japan 2010.
Items:
Surface Go
Pentel Energel 0.5
Kokuyo Campus Notebook (with removable pages)
Stickers from Redbubble artists!
