Sophomore year

Well it was an interesting one for sure. This past year was kind of a living hell for me. I kept having to go to the hospital for stress induced pains. My relationships with almost everyone around me suffered like there was no tomorrow. The year was long and difficult whenever I wasn't at school.
For starters i'll say this, I've always gone to school and liked it because of my friends but that changed this past year. I went and had fun mostly because of the kids in my classes rather then my friends which was a bit of a shock to me.
First semester got progressively worse once my bf and i broke up. I was miserable after that even though it was my own fault. I had a lot of fun with my child development class and art class. My art class always made me laugh and i had a lot of fun getting to do art again. But i did end up doing a lot of charcoal pictures of naked people. Things were really busy towards the holidays when we got a visit from Kibi. I wasn't quite strong enough to put some things behind me and so i only saw kibi twice. I made a lot of important decisions during this time.
Now there was sort of a time in between the two semesters where i put events that i don't think belong completely the either. They are mostly the Chicago trip for band and AMKE. Chicago was such an interesting experience. It was a band/orchestra trip and i roomed with Yukihime, Eliza and an uperclassmen from the saxophone family. During the trip i bonded with Eliza and a lot of different people in our class. We saw an Opera, the hard rock cafe, and the Hancock building the first day and were supper exhausted by the end. Saturday we did the shed/field museums and were ready to pass out by the time we got to Navy Pier. After Navy Pier we got to see the Blue Man Group and dear god we spent the entire time laugh our asses off. Now AMKE was a whole other fun event. We had like 8 people in the room and so much bonding. I met some really awesome people and reconnected with others. Now in between those two events something happened that made second semester better. I got back together with my bf. It made me very happy since by then I really missed him.
Second semester was kind of a whirl wind of different stuff. I got Emma in my English class which made those days very fun. I also got a really awesome group of people in Outdoor pursuits. They were mostly my band geek buddies and a few upperclassmen. We had a ton of fun with the class. In band, me and 2 other girls in my section decided to do solo and ensemble. We did a song called weigenlied and it was a pretty nerve wrecking experience for us. But it felt really good to finally do something like that. I really improved in my playing. I also got my very own saxophone, Pudding the 3rd. Second semester was a lot nicer in my opinion since i wasn't so sad or depressed.
But... there's always a but. My grandmother became very sick and died in the spring. She died the last day before i left houston. It was very sad and heartbreaking for me to see my aunts and cousins after she passed. Next summer or the summer after that i really want to go visit my grandma and grandpas graves. Then i came back to Middleton and our concert was coming up really fast and of course life wasn't done screwing me over. I came back to the news that my band teacher is leaving for a different teaching job. Our last concert was so sad. I wanted to cry so many times. We not only said goodbye to our teacher whom has helped us so much to grow as players but to our upperclassmen who guided a lot of us. Next year when we say goodbye to the class of 2013 i'll probably be sobbing. I'll miss them so much.
So over all I learned a lot this year and I grew a lot too. I was put in many different often life altering situations and sure it was hell but i wouldn't be able to keep growing if it wasn't for them.

Talk #11 in review of AMKE

So, gosh am i about to pass out. I've got about a million things running like crazy in mind, S.R.P., cosplays, school, my birthday, Coffin Kissers, and about a million other things. Either way when i'm not insanely tired i'll post a real update. 
So i wrote that a day or two ago, here's the re-cap i posted on DA of AMKE




 Ok i'm now back from AMKE, and i'm sick, i guess being around sick people all weekend will do that to you. 
Here’s the video version in case you don’t want to read this whole thing through.

Ok's so thursday and friday i ended up having no school and Thursday i worked away at Sanatales Zatsune costume and wig. On friday i had an early start and headed off to the school to pick up Sanatales coat and made sure we had directions on how to get to Milwaukee and made sure to drop Sanatales off with a friend so he could teach her how to tie a tie. Then she came to my house and we got into our Ritsuka and Seimei loveless cosplays and hung out and relaxed until 12 when Yukihime picked her up. I waited around until about 2 then headed off to pick up diva and we both headed off to Cree's house. We left later then Yukihime and the people who rode up with her since Ash had to babysit her brothers until 3.

We were on the rode by 3:10 which is really good for us. We watched Alladin and the king of theives on the way up. We only stopped once and got there at exactly 5. After we had some issues getting into the elevator and finally we dumped everything in the room, got Diva into her Italy wig and we were off to the con. 
Right off the bat i heard someone screaming my name i turn around to see my friend Mina running at me, after she walks away i turn around to find my friend Ryan, i turn around once again to find my friend Dustin in drag. BEST GREETTING EVER! I got my badge and wandered around for a while, saw stuff and played tetris. Got stuff kind of unpacked and I helped Yukihime change. Cree and I looked around for a location to do the photoshoot and we decided to just do it in the Sky walk. We did Diva, Sanatales, and my photo shoots and then we went back to our room to get Sanatales changed and I got out of my cosplay and we headed out again to the vocaloid photoshoot. We got stuck in the elevators cause some idiot pushed all of the buttons so we had to go all the way up to the 18th floor, then we realized it was a straight drop from the 18th floor the 2nd floor and we scrambled to press other buttons. Finally we got to the photo shoot and Yukihime was a no show for a good chunk of it so we did a small photo shoot for Sanatales. And my camera Basil decided that he didn’t like the lighting in the sky walk and was one heck of a female dog throughout the entire thing. But hey, Basil had a few moments. We met up with some old friends after Yukihime got there and Cree, Sanatales, Coco, Ash and I all headed back to our rooms to just pass out since most of them were sick. We had a lot of ramen noodles and chips and watched a documentery on Morgan Freemen and then Sanatales and I fell asleep after Diva came back.

The next day our alarms went off at around 7:30 and I got up and got mostly ready to go for the day so that I could help everyone else with their cosplay. Soon after diva got up and she and Sanatales had breakfast. I got into binding and helped Sanatales into her Zatsune costume and once we were dressed I did Sanatales makeup and she did a little bit of my Lambo makeup and then we spent the rest of the time getting Diva into her Rip Van Winkle cosplay and dear god was her wig a female dog. Finally we were all dressed and just headed out. We wandered around and played a lot of ddr and stuff. Then around 11 we went up to the Polaris room where the maid café was and we had the best cake ever! But it was short lived since we had to go back to the room and finish packing and put everything in the car we had come up in. After that I did Coco’s Chii photoshoot, and Basil pulled through for me and took the most amazing pictures ever! We spent a long time in line to have to Enthusiast take our pictures, but it was fun we met some really nice people in line. Once everyone had their pictures taken we watched a Pokemon movie and just went around saying bye to people and spending the last of our money. We left around 6 on Saturday night since there was an ice storm on the way and we stopped at Mcdonalds on the way home, and god was it funny. I tried to dive from the back seat of the van to the middle part and got stuck, I took my binding off in front of a lot of people, Cree also tried to get me to order her a Cheese Burger, but without the burger part, no words could begin to describe how hard I laughed, and we influenced a bunch of little kids. Safe to say Anime Milwaukee was amazing!!!!