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Monday, July 20, 2009

Dishwasher Friendly! / CBYX Conference 3

Watch the video.



The point of this, is that we just took our broken dishwasher out, and put in a new one... and I decided to crawl into the old one. It was a very tight fit. I had a hard time getting out, but when I did, the dishwasher fell on me!

But, I would like to give a shout out to Cody Smith... thanks for stabbing me! (We were sword fighting with play fight swords, and he accidently stabbed me in the arm. It wasn't that bad, and it was a while ago, so it's almost healed by now.)

I also had my third CBYX conference recently. There were other alumni on the call, and one said he was totally not paying attention in language camp, then he decided to work hard, and within about two weeks, or a month, he was just like any other student... and was getting higher grades than some Germans by a month. That made me feel a lot better, because the other alumni had said it took him practically nine months to feel comfortable talking to people. But, the conference was mainly about safety and school. One of the things they mentioned, was that school spirit is virtually non-existant... another one of the alimni said that he lost 80 pounds in his first four months! But, it was also said that girls are likely to gain weight overseas, while boys lose it. What I really liked was when they said that drinking in Germany was more of a social lifestyle, and it wasn't abused. Germans don't drink to get drunk, they drink in a bar while talking to their friends.

The safety part was what you'd expect. Always meet up in a public place, unless you trust the person. Friendship are taken very seriously over there, and it takes more than being mere classmates to be considered a friend. So, you can't trust someone 100%, just because they're a classmate. The German students will be flocking over you, because you're a student from America, and your first impression will be everything. It was also said to be careful when going out at night with friends, because of pickpocketers, to make sure your wallet is on you at all times, and to not bring your passport around.

I have already packed for Germany, and I'm excited.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Owl Baby and Exams

So, you might be asking yourself, what is an 'owl baby'? My owl baby is a demented looking creature that my cat tried to kill. This is a picture of my owl baby.

Quite the looker, isn't he? I put him on my lap after my mom saved him from the cats, and he was starting to fall asleep as I stroked his head and his back. He sort of flopped around, instead of flying, and so he most likely injured his wing. He wouldn't eat either, so my mom called an animal shelter, and they came to pick him up. Here is a less creepy looking picture of my owl baby.



I had him for less than 24 hours :'(. But, there will be other owls like him at the animal shelter.


As for exams, today was my last day of college courses at Estrella Mountain Community College. It was interesting, because I realized this college has no "+"s or "-"s on their letter grades, just the letter (for example, B instead of B- or B+). In math I was supposed to have a final exam today, but there was a different surprise... only about four people actually had to take the test. The reason for this is that if the other students took the exam, it wouldn't really effect their grades. I had planned on hanging around and taking the final, but my teacher said he wouldn't grade it, so I just left. These are my final grades for the class (HWK means homework average), and my overall grade was 98.



As for the career and personal development class, my grade is an A. I have no idea what my number grade was in the class, but I got the highest possible letter grade, so yay. They gave us t-shirts, ice cream, and pizza in our last CPD meeting :D.

My reflections on my first college classes are simple... they were very easy.

As a last note, toads sound like chickens when you hold them in your hands with gloves on. The toad that was hanging out with the kittens in my garage (until I picked him up and put him by our citrus trees) also decided to secrete poison (or pee, my mom says he peed) from his glands as soon as I picked him up (if it was pee, then he hadn't used the bathroom in a few days).