Alright girls, life update while I wake up.

School is rather great. I'm really enjoying my classes. I mean, I have to study at least 3 hours everyday, but besides that, the classes are really interesting. Today I have a test on rescue breathing in advanced emergency care class. The only class that is disappointingly silly is my religion class, which, I was hoping for a professor kind of like Camba. But alas (earwax), I ended up with a professor who is scatterbrained and quite mouse-like. He's nice and easy, so I can't complain too much. But, well, you know. It's difficult to write essays when you don't take the class seriously. In Anatomy we started working with the cadavers. We're learning the muscles and so after we go over the muscles that we're learning for this section we go into the cadaver room and look at the muscles on the cadavers and it's really insanely interesting. Some of them are pretty old and dried out, but a couple of them are still moist and it's just very interesting. I was afraid I'd be scared of them or something, but that's definitely not the case at all! And psychobio is super interesting, but I wish I wasn't taking it in the same semester as anatomy. I wish I could put the studying time in that it deserves. When I say at least 3 hours of studying, I mean just for anatomy.

Things are also really great with Andrew. We tend to go out on Sundays, since that's the day that we're both off all day, but we hang out regularly during the week, too. We're planning on becoming regulars at the Cozy Café and we already seem to be regulars at star-gazing. Every Sunday we've ended up at a park on a blanket looking for shapes in the stars. We picked a celestial body (well, it was a planet, but we bet on whether it was a star or planet) as our own, that turned out to be Jupiter. So now whenever we go out we always comment on Jupiter. I've never really been this comfortable relationship-wise with someone before and all the time I'm surprised at how uncomplicated things are with Andrew. During the summer, past the point that the silly crush turned into something a little bit more legitimate, I kept hoping for things to fall into place, because they were showing signs of actually doing so. We alternated with ride giving, we had started hanging out by ourselves, we alternated with paying for eating. Those are all silly things, but I just felt like something could grow, it didn't seem too impossible. And things did fall into place. Perfectly. Without addressing with words what was actually happening, we became a couple! In the back of my mind, I'm still a little nervous that he'll get irritated with me or that he'll somehow find that he doesn't actually have feelings for me at all, but then there are no signs of that because he wants to hang out all the time and we always hold hands, and yeah. For the very first time in my life, this is happening how it's supposed to happen. This is a real thing.

On Sunday, we went to this park that's literally at the very end of Crenshaw up in PV, that has this super amazing view of PV and the sunset. And it was really dark at night so we stargazed. But I got 11 bug bites! Ughh.

Well, it is 7:27 am, and it's time to get ready for school, sigh. So I'll leave this here. Someone *coughmichellecough* needs to update her blogs more often!

Today Andrew and I are going to the 1920's festival thing that Lindsay told me about! I'll let you guys know how it turns out! I'll try posting pictures too!

Blah blah blah

I am settling into the routine of this semester, and it's a bit chaotic because I'm busy ALL THE TIME, but it's the good kind of busy, where I always feel productive and occupied (and I'm almost caught up on everything I was behind on! And that sentence made so much sense!). I wonder how long it will be before the exhaustion and stress set in. But knock on wood that they don't!

I had my first test in my Spanish lit analysis class today, and I was totally freaked out about it, because my professor seems like she expects a lot. And while I actually finished in time and completed everything to a degree that I think is quite acceptable, I'm still nervous that it's not going to be good enough for the prof and I will get an F. Okay, probably not an F. Maybe a C. Okay, B-. But still! I am not comfortable with that! I am far too much of a type A personality to be okay with that. Stop freaking me out, Spanish lit prof. It's not pleasant.

Class Scheduling 101

So y'all, I have a really embarrassing story about my first day of class, which was on Thursday.

Just some background before I begin: I always make myself a pretty, colored schedule on Excel instead of just using the one on Tele-BEARS, our registration system. So the classrooms I have printed on that schedule are the ones I go to.

I go to my last class of the day: History of Germany from Bismark to WWI. I sit in the room while a bunch of freshmen natter away, excitedly introducing themselves because this whole thing is still novel to them (awwww, adorable!). I just sit there, quietly*, because I kinda don't want to be there, as it's already 3:30 and this class won't end until 5.

Finally, the professor walks in. She sets her stuff down on the podium, and opens a window.

"Welcome to Intro to Feminist Theory."

Oh. Shit.


*Hahahha, quietly. I know, right?

Guys, school starts tomorrow! I know for all of you (besides Lindsay and I) that it has already started. How were your first days?

I'm kind of nervous for this! But listen to the syllabus description of Advanced Emergency Care:

H. Expected Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Recognize victim’s signs and symptoms, and establish which victims and which problem(s) require immediate emergency care.

2. If needed, students will be able to furnish assistance until advanced emergency medical care for adults, children, and infants is obtained, or until the prognosis for recovery is assured.

3. Student will demonstrate knowledge and skills in assessing and caring for emergencies involving breathing and circulation (Including Rescue Breathing, Breathing Devices, Obstructed Airway, CPR, and Automatic External Defibrillation).

4. Students will appropriately assess and care for severe bleeding, bandaging of wounds, splinting of musculoskeletal injuries, burns, cold and heat exposure, injuries to the spine, head, neck, trunk, poisoning and bites, drug abuse, and dental emergencies.

5. Students will be able to recognize when and how to perform necessary moves and rescues for emergencies in water and on land.

6. Students will be able to identify and care for emergency childbirth, and various forms of sudden illness, such as fainting, shock, heart attack, diabetic emergencies, stroke, seizures, and high fever.

Doesn't it sound really cool?? I'm glad that I actually got into that class. Geez, by the time it's over I'll know how to properly assess dental emergencies and identify and care for emergency childbirth. I wonder how the Activity portion of the course will be.

Anyways. For real life, I might go rollerblading with Andrew and Isaac today. Sarah and Sam left yesterday morning and so I'm feeling that familiar empty feeling inside (even though I still have breakfast to look forward to with Nicole Pyon) that comes at the beginning of the semester. But this semester is going to be different! There's going to be fall quidditch (I'm so excited for this! There's apparently a South Bay Quidditch League that we're all actively stalking up (by that I mean, we've tried to join via facebook but they haven't accepted any of us yet. And Andrew sent them an email challenging them to a match!) and we plan to train this fall so that in the winter we're ready for them! This means I need to start running at the gym. Anyways though, this semester will be different because I do have people that I could meet up with at school. It's really strange, but they're all boys. Literally, all of my new friends from this summer are boys!

Wish me luck for school. I miss you all so much (believe me, so much!) and I hope that next week goes well for you guys too!

Finally!

Hi guys!

So I finally figured out how to join this thing, and I've finally brought my computer into a cafe. That's right, I don't actually have internet yet. Nor do I have a lot of time to update. I'm having a lot of fun, though, and I miss you all heaps! (I learned that from my Australians!) Do you want like a play-by-play update next time? Or just a general "I'm alive, here are pictures". In any case, I'll post some pictures up next time. I have so much to tell you all!

Love you all heaps!

what i like is that we made this blog to communicate with michelle but michelle is the only one who hasn't joined it yet :]

i hate school

Michelle called twice this morning! She says that she's having a lot of fun and meeting a lot of really really nice people (from all over! Sweden, Finland, Germany, Australia, &c) and she went to a pub yesterday and she's going to a party tonight and she's been shopping and exploring and she sounds really extremely happy!

Seriously, I couldn't have had a better wake up call! I'm so glad that she's happy and having fun and exploring and meeting all sorts of new people! She's a social butterfly! Ah, I'm just so glad she's doing well <3

Woah, okay, this is kind of an awkward start for me because I have never had a blogger and thus, I don't feel all that comfortable typing in it's entry box. There's just something really inviting about livejournal, xanga, and tumblr. But alright, come on now, Misty, it's time to get down to business. I've gotta defeat some huns here!

Okay, so for starters, here's the Sweden mix I made for Michelle, it's called "Dear Sweden," which references our blog on tumblr:

1) Ms. Bentwich by Princeton
2) Miniature Birds by Grand Archives
3) Dancin' In The Moonlight by Toploader
4) Queen Of The Savages by The Magnetic Fields
5) Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic) by Metric
6) Shout It Out (live on MOKB radio) by Princeton
7) Sing Songs Along by Tilly & The Wall
8) After the Curtain by Beirut
9) In My Life by The Beatles
10) Lovegood by Ministry Of Magic
11) Catch My Disease by Ben Lee
12) See The Stars by Ida
13) Geraldine by Glasvegas
14) I Love You And Buddha Too by Mason Jennings
15) Reasons Not To Be An Idiot by Frank Turner
16) Accio Love by Ministry Of Magic
17) The Whole World And You by Tally Hall
18) Pi by Hard 'n Phirm
19) Gameover by Ozma

Don't judge my mix, guys! I'm not nearly as cool as Lindsay with her music taste (and I never will be!), but I tried to put together a really fun mix with all different types of music that I thought Michelle would really enjoy. Then I also burned her a copy of my driving CD, which is called "Estella Sueña Summer 2010" because Estella Sueña is my car's name :] and I made the CD this summer:

1) Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo by Jens Lekman
2) Seabird by The Novel Ideas
3) All My Little Words by The Magnetic Fields
4) Across The Universe [Cover, The Beatles] by Fiona Apple
5) I’d Like to Think by Nov. 16
6) Horchata by Vampire Weekend
7) Sam Bean by Sarah and Rachel Ballister
8) Frank’s Tavern by Calexico
9) You and I by Ingrid Michaelson
10) Kick Drum Heart by The Avett Brothers
11) Wake Up by Arcade Fire
12) To Love Like The Father & Son Love Each Other by Half-Handed Cloud
13) A Sweet Summer’s Night On Hammer Hill by Jens Lekman
14) Love in the Time of Hopscotch by woodpigeon
15) The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelson
16) I Go To The Barn Because I Like The by Band Of Horses
17) Skinny Love by Bon Iver
18) Resurrection Fern by Iron & Wine
19) Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

I really miss Michelle. Really, it didn't register that she was actually going to Sweden until she left. And even worse, I didn't expect to recognize that she was gone until the first morning when I tried to text and ask to rollerblade and remember that she was out of the country because it's so easy to assume that she's in her house just like normal! But the fact that I haven't heard from her in 3 full days made me realize her absence so much sooner than I expected! Michelle's my homegirl! Hahahaha! Literally! But yeah, I really miss her!

On the same lines, I miss all of you guys too! I've had practice in missing you guys though, so it's not so mentally shocking to have you guys leave. But either way, the combination of all of you being away from home makes my heart sink. I really just hate this part of the summer.

So school really is starting soon. At the end of this entry I'll post some pictures of my school. They're not significant pictures, just some random ones. But I'll explain that later.

Anyways, I didn't make it past the waiting list for Physiology. I still have the chance to try adding it when school starts but I had to add a class to hit 12+ units (to be full time and thus to keep me on my mom's medical insurance policy for free) so I almost took Intro to Tap, but then realized it conflicted with another class :[ So I'm in Intro to Religious Studies, because it was the easiest sounding class (and by easiest I mean, all of the other ones were either Chicano studies, or upper level classes that I'm not allowed to take, uhh). I think next semester, though, that I'm going to try working Tap into my schedule. That sounds like so much fun! But so as of right now, I'm taking Anatomy, Anatomy Lab, Advanced Emergency Care, AEC Lab, Psychobiology, and Intro to Religious Studies. Crossing my fingers I get into Physio.

Okaaaay, this is just me rambling on and on about uninteresting things, so here are the pictures I mentioned (as a heads up, these are on 35mm and 120mm film):



This is my favorite walkway at school. The trees cast these really nice shadows and it's always really pleasant. When you walk through them on hot days, your body temperature drops in a good way. It's really rather beautiful. This was on my Akira!



And this is in the center of campus, kind of. It's just a walk way. This was on my Holga!

They're really not significant pictures of my campus. But alas (earwax), they are the only pictures that I have.

Alright, guys, I'll leave you to your business then.

Don't panic

There's less than a week before school starts, and I'm starting to feel like a chicken with it's head cut off, scrambling around yet somehow not actually doing any of the things I need to do. For those who don't know (um, nobody, let's face it), my corner of the world is in Berkeley, CA and we start school on Thursday. Thursday! How did this happen?! What happened the remaining few days of summer?! I have part 2 of a leadership retreat tomorrow, immediately after which I have to rush off to the airport, because I am going home for three days and flying back at the last possible minute in time for class.

Still, I am sure that this is still much less stress than Michelle felt before leaving for Sweden. I remember when I was getting ready to go to Mexico last summer, I felt completely scattered and so sure that I was going to forget something insanely important (like my passport), and I was going somewhere relatively close and only for three months!

Well, Michelle has already left for Sweden, and I haven't yet spoken to her, but I can only imagine the sheer panic that set in right before she left. But like I was, I'm sure she is fine. In fact, I'm sure she's better than fine, because she is now in SWEDEN, somewhere she worked so hard to get to and something she deserves so much. So congratulations, Michelle! You are awesome!

And now I have to go pack.

Sweden Mix!

Michelle told me to make her a mix, so I've been working on this for the past week, because rather than just use songs I already had, I researched contemporary Swedish pop to make a mix that I hope she'll like! (sorry, no Abba though because I figure she already has all that XD)

http://rapidshare.com/files/413827851/Sweden_Mix_.rar
(it can only be downloaded 10 times from this link, so I'm posting a second link for it just in case that first one stops working)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/z34hn0

Here's the tracklisting:
1. Säkert! "Vi Kommer Att Dö Samtidigt"
2. Timo Räisänen "Let's Kill Ourselves A Son"
3. Hello Saferide "San Francisco"
4. Brotherhood of Broken Hearts "Aeroboy"
5. The San Marinos "On Our Way"
6. Slottet "I Know"
7. The Radio Dept "Pulling Our Weight"
8. A Camp "I Can Buy You"
9. Ji Nilsson "Lalalovesick"
10. Skaten "Territory"
11. de Montevert "High On You"
12. Maia Hirasawa "And I Found This Boy"
13. Nom De Guerre "Everybody Knows"

I'm really liking this stuff, so I'll probably keep making these for myself and I can keep posting them if you guys want. :O


OMG I AM GOING TO MISS YOU SO MUCH MICHELLEEEEEEEEEE!! ;3; Have the best time ever!!!

Välkommen!

Welcome to Four Corners, where five girls* (Michelle, Misty, Lindsay, Hana, and Arielle) are going to write all year in order to stay connected and share our über-interesting lives while Michelle is in Sweden!

So this might be a smashing success, or it might just be me whinging about how no one else ever posts. We shall see!

More personal introductions to follow!


*Thus the URL