Winter and Fall Tunes

It's been awhile so here we go with a new playlist, some of my favourite songs that I have been listening to in the last 6 months. Enjoy.

Wow, she's dumb.

Does it make me a bad person to not want to be around somebody who complains all the time? Who talks about their ex-boyfriend all the time? Who is overall not fun to be around? Who says really stupid shiz? I don't think so and if it does you can suck it. I can't help that chomping and unintelligent conversation are two things that drive me bananas. I was born this way.

At the same time I hung out with a friend that I do enjoy spending time with, Erika Takahashi. I know it's weird to think that someone with the last name Takahashi could even speak the same language as me, but she does, and in fact she can't even speak Japanese. Why do I enjoy spending the very little time that I have spent with her... well reason number one, she isn't a stupid girl! Reason number 2 she is from Canada, reason number three she watches all my stupid online classes videos and still wants to be my friend.

Oh and I come home in 2 weeks, thats 14 days, 336 hours, 20 160 minutes, 1 209 600 seconds. I mean really though, who is counting.

So in jr high school I enjoyed this song, it's about a stupid girl and how I'm sick of them. Still valid to this day.

Le Printemps

Cliff jumping and rope swing - right off the pali highway.. super good time.

Hiking Crouching Lion

Skateboarding

Books on the plage
The weather has been beautiful here and I have found that I have a lot of time on my hands. I often goto the beach just to think, relax, and to read. I just recently read the Alchemist. I highly recommend it to anyone. It's a solid read, not to long or too difficult to understand but thought provoking and just overall radical.

Recent favorite songs.... enjoy

Spring Term

School

I'm back at it. Been at it for about a week and a half. I am thus far enjoying this term, classes are good because I can work at my own speed. I am getting ahead in my online classes and staying on schedule for my real class. I feel a lot less stressed and take time to enjoy the nice weather on the beach. School is good, I'm enjoying it.

Friends

I love my friends. I love my friends in Canada, I love my friends in Hawaii, from the mission, who happen to be all over. Lately I've been able to spend time with some Rad people. Chase has been back in the social scene.. it's nice to spend time with him, who woulda thought that when we met back in Besancon in my apartment that we would actually end up going to the same school in Hawaii. I went to town with him and Skee on Saturday and just had a great time, we hiked to some waterfall in town.. that's right there is a hike in town to a waterfall. It was way pretty and fun, we got to hike in the twilight which added an incredible aspect.




I have been trying to notice lately all the amazing things that I am blessed with in my life and I'm so glad that good friends are one of them. I'm sad that I don't get to have all of my friends in one place at one time, because that would be SICK. A few people went home after this winter semester and I am sad to have seen them fly away, but thats one thing that I have come to realize sometimes friendships will only last for a season, so get stoked on them and enjoy!

Forward girls

I always thought that I would enjoy a girl being blatantly obvious when she expressed her desire to be on me. I found out that I'm not so stoked on it. Why am I talking about this.. let me elaborate. Dan Baradoy left this rock, but before he left his father, him, and I all went to Hukilau Cafe for breakfast. Now if you don't know what Hukilau cafe is your missing out, and if you think you know...(isn't it on 50 first dates... your wrong. The name of the cafe is but the actual location is incorrect) Anyways for those who are unaware Dan Baradoy is a good looking young fellow.

And this girl at the cafe also seemed to think so. So she got her friend to drop a lil note off at our table and it read " You're Hot. Name. 808-678-8967"(number isn't real) Pretty rad, I mean that is quite the compliment. So Dan calls her and we take her to the beach. Fast forward a week. I get a text after church from a friend who says "my roommate has a crush on you." My thoughts are this is different, it's been awhile since I've had someone say this to me. So I ask who, and she tells me. I don't really know what to say so I'm like... Cool. Then I get invited to hot tub with just forward girl.. just us two. This is a little uncomfortable for me, a stance I feel justified in taking. I don't want to hot tub so I straight up get out of it by saying I don't feel comfortable hanging out in a hot tub with this girl, and kinda make up some other excuse, thinking and hoping that thats the end of it. Later I end up going to play games at the A frame house. Not just any game a super intense fun game of signs. I mean it didn't get much better as far as a game of signs goes. After a half hour guess who shows up.. thats right forward girl with her roommates, which is fine, but dang did I feel awkward. I'm sure if someone was paying close attention the color of my face may have changed a few hues. I think that is why I came to the conclusion that forward girls are not as rad as I thought.

School is out

I am finished. Finals, papers, everything. All I need to do in the next 10 days is apply to renew my passport, get a bank account here, get more tanned, surf, skate, and find out what the deal is with my student loans.

I am so happy, the last 2 or 3 weeks I have been cooped up in a library writing papers studying and overall being lame. I am fairly certain that I got 3 A's and 2 B's. Which is not bad at all. I actually don't mind getting A's. But I mean now it's over and I don't have to be in the Library, I feel freedom.

I am grateful that I have an awesome teacher at school who really helps me to do well and even basically offered me a job as her TA. I think I will take it, she is really well connected and is a really smart lady. I am stoked that she is helping me. She even introduced me to the past and current president of the BYU-management Society so that I can network.

Well here's a video to help you pass the time.

Anger Management

School Sucks. I suck at basketball. Social life in Laie sucks. Being poor sucks a lot. Writing tests every week sucks. Being dating retarded sucks. Living with four dudes in a two room apartment sucks, but luckily it's now one less than 5. It does feel good to vent though.

Yesterday was a gong show. A roller coaster. Sometimes I think the vicissitudes of life are going to mess me up real good. The day started off fairly good I guess. I went to school studied for my two tests that I had that day and then I ate some subway, talked with some cool dudes and saw this neat girl on my way back to school. Then I found out I have no money... Sin. I start stressing. Go write a test, super stressed the whole time. I don't even know if I did well. Get out of my test, wish my sister a happy 29th bday. Sort out money issues and then I go and write my bio test. 20 mins in and out. I love writing tests quick... I already studied for hours for the stupid thing I don't wanna be spending hours just to write it. And yes I say write test and not take. If you have a problem with that I recommend finding a busy intersection and then going to play in it. Acrimony might be a by product of my life right now. Well I killed that test, which made me feel good cause I absolutely bombed the previous one. Anyways after this I go and take a much needed break from school for the next couple hours.

Basketball game. Fudge I suck at basketball. I like to play but not when I suck. We lost, and the other team was super cocky and just arrogant. Made me not stoked... wasn't fun. So I left the game upset, angry that I couldn't perform to my own standards. Went straight to the gym and worked out. That was great. Couldn't even really move after I was done, however as if there aren't enough rules at this school but I was told that I can't wear one of my v necks to work out. In normal gyms you can wear jerseys but not here, it's immodest. Whatever, dumb rule but what can I do, being here is worth the extra year that I don't have to take of school at a university in Canada.

And for the icing on the cake I happened to be ditched, Twice, by two different girls. Fudge.

Anyways I have been listening to band of horses alot lately check out this track. super good.

Tsunamis Tsuck

So this weekend we had a bit of a scare. I woke up at 5 on Saturday morning to talk of a Tsunami hitting the island at 1030. We all woke up talked about the decision to stay or to go up to gunstock ranch or behind the temple. Dan and I decided that the waves were not going to be big enough to engulf the house. It was reported that the sea level would swell 6 feet and then waves would hit that were 9 feet high. That is only an extra 15 feet above the normal sea level so we stayed home. We ran to Foodland which had been open for the last 24 hours and picked up some water then came home and prepared for the worst. It was funny how the news predicted the worst, they had shown reports of when the last tsunami hit hawaii and killed something like 150 people. We thought that some gnarly waves were going to hit. Well we waited, and waited... nothing happened. Luckily the tsunami missed us and we didn't have to worry about the repercussions. Well I survived a tsunami.. Whats up!

In other news I love Canada, and I love the Olympics and I am stoked that we won 14 gold and won the hockey gold in both womens and mens. I will be sad that the Olympics are over, but guess what World Cup this summer! Whats up!