Reunited and it feels so good

Earlier last week my mom and brother came to visit on tuesday to be exact. Why? They missed me, why you may ask. I have not gone home for two whole months, give or take a week. This has been the longest I have not seen my family for. I was kind of mad that they came though because I wanted to surprise them that thursday by going home and surprising them. Oh well ce la vi. They came on a tuesday which is one of the busiest days for me, but somewhat an easy day. I have a busy but easy schedule because those classes are always pretty easy and laid back. I went to English (my first class that day) but left half way because we were discussing a paper I already knew how to do.

Funny story about me leaving. So I was just going to that class to hand my friend my math homework so she could turn in for me. I called my mom saying I will stay in English so I could ask about to paper, well then I realized my mom would be there in 30 minutes and class hasn't even started. She would be waiting for an hour and 15 minutes. So I left. Or so I thought, I walked out of class, and here comes my professor. Oh great. I told him that I couldn't go to class, but of course the little scary cat I am I went back to class. I felt so sick because I was torn between leaving class because my mom texted she was there, or stay and have my family wait doing nothing. I told my friend and she repeatedly told me "Leave! Just go you miss them." So I did. I handed her my backpack and she slide it down to the girl behind her and she slide it to the table behind her and I left and grabbed my bag really smooth and ninja like. 

The whole time they were here we just drove around trying to find a place to eat at. Finally we saw a Chinese restaurant and went to eat there. It has been so long since I have eaten anything besides Ramen, noodles, and our cafeteria food. When it was time for them to go I was sad because I only spent less than 5 hours with them. I was happy that I would be going home that weekend though.

Once class ended thursday I ran towards my car and was off. Class doesn't start until 11 so before I went to class I dropped my stuff off. Since class ended about 4:15 and I had to make a pit stop to my room to grab a jacket and make a potty break it was about 5 when I officially left campus and the town. Now to my hometown. When I finally got home it was about 6:30, and my amazing grandmother made some Korean food for me. Boy oh boy have I missed it. 

Going home I was introduced to a new member, a small new puppy. The only problem with this new puppy is, I have not ever been home since that dog has been there. The dog didn't know me so when she saw me she barked and screamed. We can strongly say the dog doesn't like me, which I told her that I was there first and am the ultimate Princess but she still refuses to like me. 

The next day I spent with my mother and grandmother as well as studied a bunch. Then we went to my moms best friends sons football game. Good thing for us that it was such a small town game we didn't have to go outside, instead we stayed in the warm car cheering for the team.

Saturday night we had a family dinner with my cousins and my aunt and uncle. They came because I was in town and we got Korean food again. I had such a fun time that night because my brother downloaded some app that makes it seem like your in a space ship with someone and you yell orders at one another and do it. The whole rest of the night everyone was yelling orders and the funny times is where there was a wormhole so you had to flip the phone. You would hear them yelling orders then "wormhole FLIP!" It was so funny chaos then a moment of silence to flip then chaos again.

Its crazy how old I am getting, while there my cousins were trying to guess my age and said I was 20. I literally flipped at that. I am getting old, but I am also growing. I am thankful for the moments I can get with my family and to make crazy memories with them. I'm thankful to be away from home so I can learn how to adult on my own as well as let me learn what it is like to miss my family and want to always be around them.

"Family a link to the past, and a bridge to the future." 

"Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind." 

Trick or Treat

Halloween time, is one of my least favorite holidays. I love seeing little kids in costumes showing off their favorite character from a movie or something creative, but I am not a fan of the people showing off scary costumes. Nor am I a fan of halloween movies, shows or scary movies in general.This year was the first year I was not home to celebrate halloween. This year I was on campus and they had a trunk or treat thing with all different organizations. My favorite thing was seeing all the cute little kids dressed up and coming around to play our game, bowling. I remember being that young and getting excited to play games and get free candy for it. Although we had a trunk or treat at church and there was thing cake walk and I played several times to where I got many desserts… There was a lot of sugar rushes on Halloween when I was younger.

Well anyways, this year I wanted to be Sandy. Ever seen Grease? Yeah I wanted to be her, especially since this year I dyed my hair blonde. I was set on being Sandy till the day before. I realized my hair is much longer than Sandy's and curling my hair wouldn't turn out as curled and perfect as hers. So I opposed it but thought of the whole black outfit theme, and went for being Dauntless. I was Tris Prior. The trunk or treat wasn't until later on that day so around 12 I went to Walmart to find a fake tattoo of birds. It's halloween and the year before they had them, so they should have some now right? WRONG. I couldn't find any so I just grabbed some aztec tattoos and called it good.

Then I got back and decided I needed to watch Divergent in order to get into character for that night to impress the kids. Do you know what I noticed once I opened the box to Divergent? A TATTOO OF THE BIRDS! So I said, alright cool now I don't need to worry about that. I proceeded to watch Divergent, I needed to take in every movement and become as confident as her. That is Dauntless people, never show fear. Well it was time for me to pack my stuff and head to my friends to get ready.

We went to my friend K.N's house, and my other friend K.V helped me get ready by curling my hair. Obviously in the movie she never has her hair done, and I was told plenty of times to look the part and just leave my hair, but I should at least look presentable because guys from our school would be there. Remember those bird tattoos I found in the dvd case? Guess what happened to them. I forgot them, of course. What did I do, you ask. We improvised, and made our own.

This was honestly the best thing I have ever experienced. I had finished getting ready early because I just wore black leggings, a black shirt, and my leather jacket. (Dauntless are all black), so we tried making an 'at home' tattoo. Before we tried this we traced it on paper, and K.N wanted to free draw the birds on me. WRONG. So finally we found the 'at home' idea and tried it. Although it didn't work as well as we wanted it did work well enough to where we could see an outline of it. I joked and said this is my third official tattoo and sent my mother a snap chat saying "sorry mom". The funny thing is while I sent my mother the video I never looked at the birds, or at least never realized the birds. Half way with the second bird I heard chuckling. Hearing chuckling is never a good thing when your friend is drawing on you with a sharpie. I pulled out my phone and looked at the camera of it and realized the birds were HUGE. They were not proportional at all and ended up looking like blobs. We took a good 20 minute laugh from it, and settled with, they are kids it won't matter to much it's the idea.

(She was a Holy Cow)

While waiting on K.V and D to finish getting ready we played inside tennis with a nerf tennis racket and a small ball. We had to sadly end because K.N had a great idea of playing baseball and was mere centimeters from hitting my head. Finally everyone was done and it was time to go give kids candy. Although I was sad this year I couldn't go home and stay a kid and get candy myself, I did have a good time getting my third tattoo and almost getting hit with a ball.

(The Final Outcome)

"Fear doesn't shut you down. It wakes you up." -Four, Divergent.

Top must haves for College

As you all know, I am in College. This is my first year being in college, this summer I watched multiple youtube videos about girls saying what to bring and not to bring to college. This is my what to bring/not to bring to College.
1. Pillows.
But not to many, let's remember that you will have a twin size bed, mine currently is twin size not twin XL. The first week I was in college I had brought 2 pillow pets, 3 pillows, a body pillow, a chair pillow and a throw pillow. You see those cute pictures the girls have with the multiple pillows? Yeah not very comfy when your pillows take up all the room so you are half dangling off. I tried to wait a month to keep the pillows but once it hit a month I went home and took a bunch of pillows back. Bring at least a body pillow, and two pillows if you want to bring a chair pillow I would advice it because I like sitting on it while doing homework. If you don't like many pillows like my friend 1-2 will suffice, it all depends on your preference.
2. Blankets.
Same applies here with the pillows. Now I have my comforter, but I am a very hot natured person so I have just been sleeping with my very soft and comfortable throw blanket, but if I get really cold I use two. Usually by the end of the night they are thrown off, but none the less I use two sometimes. I brought all my blankets from my room with me to College, and like I said I only use two. The rest are on the shelf not being used and just using space. If you are a hot natured person like me just bring two throw blankets, and your comforter you will be good!
3. Clothes. 
I went to orientation at the beginning of summer so when I went to visit I rarely paid attention to every detail, instead I paid attention to the fact I was touring the college I would be going to in less than 3 months. That meant I thought my closet space was much smaller so the whole summer I was stressing about how I could make me have much more space for clothing and things like that. Pay attention to your closet space and if you have drawers, because my room was suppose to come with drawers but it never did which stressed me out a lot move in day. Also bring clothes that are necessary but don't bring them all because it still is small compared to the closet in your room!
A. Robe/Towels
This is super helpful! Trust me, I literally use my robe every time. I get out of the shower throw my robe on and go back to my dorm. I thought this summer 2 towels would not be enough. Seriously it's enough! I went to the store and got 5 towels, I don't even use all of them in the same month. I usually just grab the first one which is one of the towel wraps, making a total of 6 towels. Literally save room for other things and just bring 2 towels.
B. Dresses
Now for us girls it would be a duh moment to bring dresses, but for some people it isn't. My two friends didn't bring dresses because "I'm not dressing up". It is for much more than that, if you are thinking about going Greek, and rushing you will have to dress up every night. Or I know one of my friends has a business class and she has to wear business clothes; slacks, skirt, dresses every meeting. Bring nice clothes so when that does happen you will be prepared.
C. Pants
I don't know where you will be going to college at but look at the weather, where I am at the weather is never the same within the week. For example, last night it was lightning and thundering but today it was perfectly fine. This is a routine where I am, so just bring pants or sweat pants because the weather will be cold sometimes. Also if you were up until 2am like I was this morning typing your english paper, studying for your math test and doing a take home quiz for history and just all in all have a break down. Waking up 10 minutes before class and savoring every minute of sleep, is always good and grabbing sweats and a big shirt is also a plus.
D. Shirts
Bring shirts!!! They don't even have to be nice. I literally never had to worry about this problem last year because of color guard, I always got new shirts. I read somewhere not to bring high school shirts to college. What did that mean? The month before coming here I had to pack up my shirts and put them in a bag, of course I wasn't going to throw them away they are still a part of me. Anyways bring shirts though, it's okay if you sneak 2-3 high school shirts to College, no one will judge you. Along with normal shirts, bring cute dressy shirts. Some days you will go to sleep early and wake up feeling great and want to show the world that and what better way than dressing cute? Also if you ever just want to go somewhere with your friends, the next town over for dinner, the movies, the zoo, anything, you will be prepared for pictures.
4. Drawers.
So like I said my room was suppose to come with drawers, but never did. Well buying drawers is always helpful. My dorm is not one of the ones where the bed can be moved up or down, but if you do have one of those you can always put the drawers under your bed to where you have them right there so easy for when you wake up and can grab things. My roommate and I both have two and they are super helpful since we don't have actual drawers.
5. Electronics
I am not saying bring every electronic item you have. You won't have room. I had planned on bringing my tv this year but I have no room to put it so it is sadly at my house which means every sunday I will be missing Once Upon A Time. Just bring your necessities; laptop, phone, tablet. I usually just use my phone or laptop for things for school, or the library. I brought my camera and my tablet but I hardly use either because I never have time, I am always so busy.
6. Kitchen Ware
Before you buy anything in this category talk with your roommate and look in your dorm. Our room comes with a refrigerator and a microwave. Also my roommate brought a Kurieg so we were set there. A really great thing I advice you to get is plastic forks, spoons, and knives as well as cups and plates. Literally when you are on your busy schedule and just come to your room to eat soup for 15 minutes then rush back to class it will be helpful to just be able to throw everything away rather than leaving it there soaking up germs and waiting for it to be clean.
7. Food!!
Can I just say WAIT TO BUY FOOD UNTIL YOU GET THERE. Move in day it was just my mom and I because my brother had band. My mom and I got up at 5 in the morning so we could be here by 7am We were very tired and carried everything in just one trip. If we didn't bring the food until I was settled in that would have helped so much. Please, do not buy food until you are settled in, it will make everything so helpful. Also when you have to actually adult for the first time by yourself, do not grab food. Do not grab those animal crackers with icing or the chips that will just call your name at night and hold true to the Freshman 15 myth. Don't do it. Instead think rationally. Will you be able to eat this and will it actually fill you up and last you longer than the junk/snack food that you are eyeing. The first time I adulted and went to get my own food I just grabbed snacks because I eat on campus. Boy was I wrong, sometimes I don't want the school food I want the food I bought, because otherwise it would go to waste, but what I bought is snacks and I want an actual meal. Also if you happen to have a kitchen in your dorm use that to your advantage! Try to learn how to cook so you can be able to be independent.
8. Shower
Along with the towels and the robe an important necessity for the shower is a shower caddy and please don't forget SHOWER SHOES. That is very important. I see so many girls who just go to the bathroom without shoes, and I understand that there are people who clean them weekly, or daily or two times a week or whatever, but would you take your shoes off to go to the public bathroom? No. Please don't do it here, that is just gross to me to not where shoes where other girls have repeatedly stepped in and their shoes have been everywhere then stepped on the floor, just please don't do it.

You are more than welcomed to bring whatever you like to make yourself feel at home because you will be here for quite some time, but just remember that there will be a bunch of people going in and out of the dorms grabbing things so just keep in mind the necessities and things you can go without. Decoration is key but do that after you get moved in, trust me it will be so much better.

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

Dear partying roommate,

I am beyond glad that you, just like many others, are enjoying yourself at college. College is something new and exciting and it's where we learn to create ourselves, I understand. But at the same time this is where we grow up, and find ourselves and our future soul mates.

You don't want to be labeled as something right off the back freshman year, do you? I didn't think so. You may think you're "cool" for going out and partying every weekend, but trust me you are not. You are not cool for stumbling in at 5am and waking up at 7pm. In fact you are annoying. I just want you to know that you have a roommate and you have other people to think about besides yourself. Please be courteous to others, and to me. I have class just like you but unlike you I don't go to class and go back to sleep, I try really hard to get good grades and don't blow college off.

You will one day grow up and realize life isn't a game or party. You will make life decisions and become an adult. Don't waste your life by partying or don't ruin it by just one careless act. 

College is more than partying and being young stupid teens. It's where we will become adults and our own person. It's where we could meet our future spouse. It's where we will meet our best friends and find our future bridesmaids. It's where we learn that family is importt, especially if you live away from home. It's where it decides your future.

You don't want your future to be a "I should have tried harder in college" life.

Wake up! Realize that going to parties all the time gets old especially since you are underage! Realize you have a roommate and you have people who are here to get an education. College isn't just for partying. I know some people who never party, which is actually all my friends, and I like it that way. In fact I have never gone to a party till the first week of college and Halloween and I can strongly say that is not my scene and I will not be going back anytime soon. My ideal of partying is Netflix. 

I understand some people think getting beyond wasted and waking up at 7pm is fine, but I personally disagree. Especially if you have a roommate, it really bothers me when I have to study in the hall because my roommate is hung over. If you like to party and you're 18 and you already have a problem with alchol fix youself, change your ways and focus on your goals. Then when you're 21 and able to drink have small parties with you and your friends to where no harm no foul.

Please stop strolling in late and waking up late. Please understand and remember why you came to college, it certainly wasn't fm to party and get wasted enough to not remember what you did the night before.

Sincerely,

A girl who cares about her education.

"I don't want to party my life away. If you aren't living for something, you are wasting your life away." Elizabeth Kaiser.