I'M GOING CRAZY!!!

Lol, how do you like the title today? The sad fact is... it's true... So, now, school has started! I meant to post yesterday, but my teachers decided to give me a nice big load of homework on the first day of school. Today I was a bit luckier, but I just used my time to finish yesterday's homework... This year, I'm taking three AP classes. AP American History, AP Physics, and AP Biology. So far, AP American is okay, though... I'm not to hot with the whole history thing. The teacher is great and funny, and we spent about 30 minutes just doing role-call, since he kept commenting on people's names and family members. AP Physics is great, though... for having the easiest AP test, it sure has a lot of work... But I've learned a lot- like Descartes thought that brain fluid was actually "liquid soul" when he found the stuff in animal's brains when he dissected them... Biology is also fantastic, though... we are covering a chapter per day until the AP test. It's going to be CRAZY!!! My other classes are great as well... though out of all of them... my favorite would have to be Jewelry Making. :D I love jewelry, as you probably already know. :D

Oh, and another reason, besides school, that's making me crazy is this:

Yes, Mockingjay, from the loverly series the Hunger Games. I am sooo obsessed over these books, but sadly enough... I don't have my hands on the book at the moment. I know, I know, it only came out today, but still! I'm a book connoisseur! I need to sink my teeth into Mockingjay as soon as possible, or I fear I will die from book starvation... I don't know if there is such a thing... but this is the Hunger Games I am talking about... Sigh...

Oh, another cool thing- I have a new pet! It's Septimus Halfus the Tarantula, and yes, I know, Halfus is not Latin, but the name Hemi Septimus or Septimus Hemi doesn't sound as good.... I swear, he is the only thing keeping me semi sane... Okay, maybe not... but still, he is AWESOME! Here's a pic of him. :D

Anyhow... sorry, I know this post is jumpy, but I didn't want to be writing forever!!! I had a ton of things to say. :D So, I'll see you later!
~Nicholle

Busy, Busy, Busy.... OOH LOOK AN ELEPHANT!

Hey everyone! What's up? It's just me again, Nicholle, if you haven't already figured that out by now... I mean, seriously, you probably should already know... but just in case... sometimes even I forget. Hehe. Anyhow... There is now only a week left until school, and I am not totally thrilled to be pushed back into the whole classes part of school, but I can't wait for the social part! I miss everyone sooo much!!! And I'm terrible at the whole keeping in touch thing... thought that's mainly due to my busy busy life.

Anyhow, I guess I had better update you on whatever I did that whole last week... not that you really care, but hey, I'll write it anyways. :D I guess I'll start with Monday... though... Do I even remember what I did on Monday? Hmm... let me think...

Oh yeah! I think that's the day I went to go see a play called Big River down at Sundance theater. It was great! Though not as great as the time I saw it at Hale's theater which actually had a river full of water for a set... but anyhow... It was funny enough, and the guy playing Huckleberry Fin was really good. I felt sorry for him though, because he had a ton of lines! I can't imagine having to memorize that many lines for a play! Oh, and a cool think about the theater at Sundance is that it is outside! So, they had a song about stars, and I looked up and there were millions of stars in the sky. It was soo pretty. :D

Okay... the next day, Tuesday if you want to be totally exact, I went to Thanksgiving Point. That was fun, considering I haven't been there in lik... forever. We spent like an hour watching a guy blow glass. It was really cool. :D And then we went to the farm part of it and I fed goats and ogled at a baby calf for like thirty minutes. The little calf was soo cute! And he was born the day that we came too, so he was in his really awkward stage trying to figure out how things worked... And then we went to the dinosaur museum part. That was a very cool place to look at. Apparently the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point is the largest one in the world!

And for the life of me, I do not recall what went on on Wednesday... Let me think... Oh! Yeah, I went shopping and I got myself a very nice Mockingjay pin from Hot Topic. For all of you who don't know what a Mockingjay is, read the Hunger Games series. :D Afterwards I went to the Training Table for the first time with my mom and some friends we knew from when we lived in Washington. For those of you who don't know, it's a very good burger joint where you order your burgers through a phone. I got a mushroom burger with mushrooms (of course), the burgur (duh!), a light mushroom sauce and grated cheddar cheese. It was delicious! Afterwords I went go-cart racing down in Layton somewhere. It was a ton of fun, even though I'm not the best driver there ever was... Lol!

Thursday and Friday were both days I went to go work at the Hogle Zoo. On Thursday, I got to pet a penguin and also feed and pet a Mara. For those of you who don't know exactly what a Mara is, it is a large rodent that lives in Argentina. On Friday, I got to help prepare for Zuri, a one year old elephant's birthday! I even taste tested her birthday cake... Which tasted like apples and oranges and had a weird texture. That doesn't sound too bad, but wait until I tell you that the orangy flavor came from this thing called monkey chow! Yeah... I only tried it after being dared to by my boss, and even then I waited until she tried it first. :D

And then came Saturday, which was a big day considering it was Zuri's birthday celebration and also my aunt's wedding. So first, I skipped down to the zoo and watched Zuri celebrate her loverly birthday by demolishing presents, that I helped make, with her mother, Cristy. She is soo cute! Though, she hasn't totally mastered the use of her trunk yet. She had to totally kneel down in order to try and stuff a pineapple into her mouth. :D After coming home from the zoo and getting ready, we went to my aunt's wedding. I was bored for most of the reception part considering I knew no one... and the fact that my job was to sit at a table and let people sign a book and drop of their presents... But the end part was fine, considering I left my post and just talked to my cousins. :D

Now today... nothing much has happened... We said good bye to some of my relatives from California and then we went to church... sooo.... nothing much...

Anyhow... that was a long post! I'm going to stop writing now... though maybe later I'll update with some pictures of stuff and videos from watching Zuri on her birthday. :D

See ya!
~Nicholle

COLD MOUTH!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!

My mouth is really cold!!! AHHH!!! Lol, that's what I get from taking a mouth full of super cold ice cream... but it was soo good. :D Sorry, I know that was random... but this whole post is going to be kind of random or somewhat informative... Anyhow... I think I'll start with random first.

Look! I found a video of an owl. It's a cute owl. People should watch the video. Yes, I know the video is in Japanese, and yes, I know most of you don't speak much Japanese, but that doesn't matter! Just focus at the size of the owls, and then watch the owl with the bright orange-yellow eyes and his amazing shape changing skill!




Aww! Isn't that owl cute! Do you know what else is cute? My little cuz, Kaitlyn! And guess what! She's coming to visit with her family. :D Yay! They are coming to attend my aunt's wedding. Weddings are a little annoying... though only a little bit. First, it's a lot of planning. And second, this wedding is planned on Zuri's birthday!!! For those of you who don't know who Zuri is, she is a one year old elephant who I love to death! I wanted to go help out on her birthday and volunteer at the Hogle zoo... but I can't!!! Because I'm going to be at a wedding...

Oh! I've been having songs run through my head!!! One of them is called Hallelujah, and it just keeps going on and on and on in my head. Sad thing is... I only know like two lines in it... Sigh... That's not fun... I can't sing along to my head because I don't know the words to the song...

I've been having an obsession with the Renaissance and Middle Ages lately. I've been trying to put together a Renaissance costume, or trying to find one that I can buy for a reasonable price on the Internet. I've also been wanting to take archery and fencing classes... or even a class to teach me how to use many weapons popular during the Renaissance or Middle Ages periods... I think that learning how to handle these weapons, I'd be better prepared to write fighting sequences in some of my stories I'm writing....

Dang... I'm done with my small bowl of ice cream... and I'm too lazy to go get some more.... I'm going to go now... And I'll probably end up playing games on my iPod touch.... Anyhow...

See you all later! Hope you're having an interesting summer! And BEWARE OF THE BUTTERFLIES!!!!

~Nicholle

Good Morning!!!

Good morning loverly people!!! How is life in coconut land?.... Okay... I don't know what that is supposedly supposed to mean... I think I'm losing it... Ah well! This morning is great so far! Though, in about less than 15 minutes, I need to go and do some important things... like clean my room, do an online class and also wash my fish's bowl.

Anyhow... I really have no reason for posting this except for the fact that I'm in a good mood. So... I need some stuff to fill in this post... Maybe I'll enter in the first entry of my Chinese Startalk adventure. I had started writing everyday about what happened... but that only lasted for like 4 days, since after that I was too busy to do anything except for homework... Anyhoo... I'll post it right underneath this paragraph.


Chinese Startalk Entry One!

Day 1

Wan shang hao da jia! Wo zi BYU Startalk xue zhong wen. Good evening everyone! (For it is evening now as I type this) I’m here at BYU Startalk to learn Chinese. So far, it’s been hen hao (very good) and wo xue hen duo, hen duo (and I’ve learned a ton). I don’t have Internet access that I’ve been able to find in my dorm, but I figured it is good enough to write things as they happen.

I guess I should start at the beginning of my day, though most of it has seemed to blur together. It first started out (after arriving which took a long time since my mom and I got lost CONSTANTLY) I went to register. Upon registering, I was given a nifty cool backpack that only hangs on one shoulder, a text book, a binder with too much info, and then, last but not least, a very awesome water bottle! I mean, it is really cool! I don’t know how I’ll describe it… but I have to tell you, it’s my favorite. :D

I then sat through a very long orientation. It was full of a ton of info, and some of the speakers were amusing, but I was hungry the whole time. But soon enough, it came time for me to part with my mother (I miss you!) and then go to lunch! I was immediately overwhelmed by the vast amount of foods available! Everything I tried was hen hao chi (very delicious). It was almost like being on a cruise ship… and it was fun tasting the few dishes I took.

Afterwords, we parted ways and went to class… It started out with a pre-test, which was rather difficult I must admit. It was mostly written in characters… and my teachers never taught me characters…. Other than that, I understand everything orally spoken; it’s just that I’m off balanced. Oh! In another class, I also learned how to type in Chinese… which I can’t do now, since I have no way of loading the program to my computer due to the lack of internet connection….

Dinner was after, and everything was as good as lunch. I sat with a few people that I know from my loverly hometown… Ooh, and I also tried a dessert, just because of its name! It was called “Chocolate fluff in a cloud…” Isn’t that interesting? It tasted alright, but I kept laughing at the name. :D

After dinner, we had to have a study time where we passed off some dialog… I passed it off, though, I still want to study the written characters due to the fact that it’s all Greek to me (well… technically it’s Chinese to me… but still… :D ) Afterwords, we’ve been having free time separated by a few meetings… I’m tired… but I’m trying to decide if I should take a shower now, or in the morning… I always shower in the mornings… but I don’t think I’ll have time… I’ll go shower now so I won’t have to worry!

Good night people! Wan an!

~Nicholle


So there you have it. Dang... reading it brings back memories of the good old days when I was still at BYU having my brain washed with Chinese.... I should really start practicing my writing and speaking.... I don't want to lose it... Okay, I'll start practicing after my fish's bowl is clean...

Oh, by the way, I finally named my fish! His name is Prince Arthur, and he was named after the Prince Arthur in the Merlin TV series. Arthur is vain, and so is my fish. Arthur wears red a lot, and my fish is red. Arthur has blue eyes, and so does my fish. Arthur is hot, and my fish would be considered pretty attractive in the fish world. :D Lol!

Okay, well, I'd better go... I only have like 4 more minutes to waist before I have to get to work doing important things that don't include riding unicorns...

Bye!

~Nicholle

Hao Jiu Bu Jian!!! Long Time No See!!!

Dang, It's been a while since I posted, and that is mainly due to the fact that I've been really busy/lazy at the same time. The busy side of things is mainly me hanging out with my mom and her friends, and also working at the zoo on Thursdays and Fridays. The lazy part of my life is just watching Heroes whenever I can. And yes, I am addicted... sigh... I need to find a new show to watch soon. Heroes is getting a little annoying at the moment....

Anyhow.... Not much has happened that is exciting. I've watched several movies including: the Sorcerers' Apprentice and Inception. Sorcerers' Apprentice could have been better, though they did have some good special effects. Inception was AMAZING!!! I absolutely LOVED it. The movie made me think, and it completely boggled my brain. :D I would recommend going to see it if you haven't already, it was extremely good. :D

Another thing besides movies that I've used to occupy my time is my obsession with The Hunger Games! The third book, Mockingjay is coming out in 22 days and I can not wait!!! I am absolutely psyched with the series, and I am counting down the days... though that means that school is in 21 more days.... sigh... Anyhow, I've begun making my own Hunger Games necklace pendants. I'll upload some pictures later, and after I've perfected my designs for the pendants, I will be willing to sell them, and not only for Hunger Games, but almost anything if people ask. :D It makes me happy.

Anyhow... other than that... nothing exciting... Oh, besides the fact that I passed off my Financial Literature class online for the first quarter. When I was driving back from the test, my grandma went on an on about how people who are rich become un-rich by gambling, and also that if you have money for food, you should save money, cook your own food, and then go out to eat after a few weeks. She was very informative, though, I was a little amused with her ramblings....

Speaking of ramblings, I'm rambling... okay, I'd better go soon.... Blog to ya later!

~Nicholle