Wednesday, December 9, 2009

   Massive Update
Question mark mood= tired, bored, hand hurts, lazy, kind of hungry.

Thanks for the comment, Kelsey. It was so long ago that I'm pretty sure the questions have somewhat been answered. :)

Well, it's been over a month. I'm sooo bored right now I thought I'd update here. I got back in the States the 19th. It was about 1:30. I didn't go to sleep until 5:30, so I was up for 55hrs straight. The 18th lasted 48hrs for me. Since I don't sleep on planes I watched a lot of movies. Too bad my first taste of America was LA. I hate that place.

I've kept my promise of on dA and started updated the saga. I hit a small snag because after months, I drew a picture. I started drawing it on Thanksgiving and recently finished it up. Scanned it, line art, and now I'm starting to color. Since I'm technically on hiatus for Otaku until I watch the new FMA in English I won't submit it there unless a challenge pops up. Here's what I have so far. I had to give some thought to what the country's flag looked like to get Kuri's color. Here's the first draft of the flag. I'm still waiting to hear from two others on it, three if Cas is allowed to look at it. Kuri used to always be dressed in the dojo colors, but sinc that's what Koji's going to be dressed in I wanted the country colors. Here's a fan picture of Kuri in the dojo colors done by Ace.

And now I will tell you what happened to me in New Zealand!
Copied from dA, too lazy to re-write.
I told you last time that this post would contain a story about the most interesting thing that happened to me while I was away. Let me start from the beginning:

There were four of us; me, B, J, and M. We were staying in a small town in New Zealand with plans to hike the redwoods. So, we wake up and take a hike. We come to a clearing and in the clearing there is a flying saucer. Ammused, B, J, and M go forward to get pictures. I hang back because...well, it's a flying saucer in the middle of the woods. Soon, I notice a woman exit the flying saucer and start circling around to find my group. I go forward and she invites the four of us in. We go in and she starts telling us about how you can see all of New Zealand in there. It'll be like going there. Having no money, we decline. Then one of the girls asks if she knew where Mt. Doom from the Lord of the Rings movie was. She says she can show us in the saucer. Again, we decline. She tells us Mt. Doom is in the Horourou(?) range. We go back to the caravan, I find it on the map, and we leave.

There is only one road through the range, 32. It's a very big, main road, so when we got into the range we were very surprised to see the road was small, narrow, and gravel. M is driving and we keep climbing up higher and higher on this twisted mountain road. The ipod is playing, people are talking, and then it starts raining. I start getting a bad feeling about the whole thing. It gets darker, and soon we crash.

Now, when we crashed a suitcase flew forward and hit B. She moves it and turns off the ipod. M keeps apologizing. J asks if everyone is okay. I look out my window. There is a tree, a thin tree, on my door. Then nothing. We were sideways dangling off a cliff. I calmly tell them we need to get out of the car. M says okay, and opens her door. She climbs out. J climbs over the seats and climbs out. I sit there for a second but B isn't coming forward. I look in the back and she's putting her shoes on. I tell her that we need to get out of the car. She says okay and continues to put on her shoes. More urgently, I tell her we are dangling off a cliff. She quickly climbs out. As I'm climbing out I grab my pocketbook (passport and cash), Lockon (my ipod), and Aerrow (flash drive). We stand there, pouring rain, and stare at the caravan.

A car going in the direction we came stops. They tell us they'll tell someone in the next town and drive off. The next town is 2hrs away. Another car going the same way pulls over. They say the same thing and drive off. A truck going that way pulls over and offers to take us to a phone. We accept so he goes to turn around. The nearest phone is an hour from us. It was decided that I'd sit in the front with him. The truck comes back and we climb in. I immediately spot bullets in the ashtray. M, B, and J then spot them and start freaking out a bit. I shrug it off since I recognize them as bullets used to hunt deer. J asks why he was up in the woods, he says to hunt deer. We tell him the quest for Mt. Doom. He tells us Mt. Tarenki(?), Mt. Doom, is on the other side of the island. I curse the flying saucer lady. He hears me so we tell him the full story. He then tells everyone we meet from that point on.

We call the tow truck from a camp ground and go back to our caravan. Eventually, a cop comes and our driver tells him about the flying saucer. After his fun, he leaves us with the cop. We gave him a great story. We sit in the cop car and watch the tow truck pull out the caravan. The cop offers to take us to the camp grounds or to his house for the night. He goes to talk to the tow boy. M immediately says she wants to stay with the cop because it's free. She, J, and B all go on and on about how we can trust him because he's a cop. I don't trust him, but we go stay with him anyway. His house happens to be the police station.

M and B get a little drunk since he kept giving them wine. I stayed up and waited until he left before going to sleep. Slept soundly by a warm fire, and in the morning the cop took us hiking before driving us an hour away to the garage. We find out the tow driver lied to insurance and told them we slid into a little ditch. No damage to the caravan, no payment, so we drove off to continue our time in New Zealand. This may've just become the new weirdest day of my life.

And what was that country song I was ignoring that was playing when we crashed? It was titled "Mud on the Tires". Now I have another reason to dislike country music.
Fin

I have my classes for next semester. 3 BIO, 2 with labs, and CHEM II with a lab. I go from 8-14:45 on T and R. Lab M and F, but nothing W. This summer I might take a class or two. I'll have to work, I'm going to have to work during the semester too. And I'm going to try for an internship working with the African Painted Dogs. So...yeah, full plate. I'm also moving out...again, so I need to make 800-900$ a month at least. 300$ a month for my horse, 400$ for rent, and the rest for food and gas. I got to eat, the cat has to eat. My sister is living with me for a semester, so that'll help with payments, but it's also adding to them since she's adopting Iris, my favorite barn cat. Pets have to pay rent too. It's so stupid. Juno doesn't work. How's she supposed to pay 25$ a month? Since we're only allowed two pets I can't get a puppy. I'm pretty bummed about that.

I'm not sure how long this is or if it makes much sense. I'm out of it. I woke up at 14:00. It's all dark and snowy here, but since I haven't been up too long I feel disorientated. I'm going to go drink some tea or something.
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