This here is a recipe for Banana Apple bread that my mother gave me a few weeks ago.
I'm going to have to go to two grocery stores today to get everything but that's okay!
It'll be worth it!
I'm making two loaves and none of it's for me^^
It's for a fundraiser.
Last year Halloween, one of the students in my year passed away..
It was awful.....
He was a dance major and a beautiful dancer at that. I'll always remember him for this baseball cap that he always seemed to wear outside of class. I didn't even know him that well, but I do know that he was well liked amongst the student body. It hit the dance department really hard.
I've never felt that amount of resounding grief in my life.
So this year, his boyfriend had the idea of putting together a fundraiser for the scholarship that was put in his name (The boy who passed, I mean) He's in the modern department which is why I was included in it.
It's amazing what about twenty dedicated students can pull together. We organized everything outside of class time as a group.
There's going to be a bake sale in the morning. (I'm a baker)
And after classes there's going to be an event with more baked goods, raffles for free classes at other dance studios, and discounts for stores, live music, performances, it's going to be something worth going to.
I'm so glad^^
The saddest part about it I think is that he had a twin.
I don't know what I'd do if I woke up one morning and my other half wasn't there
I love you Ari ♥
It's going to be a little hard not to cry tomorrow over the sheer emotion of it all. And if someone else starts crying I'll definitely be a wreck!! I'm really empathetic to other people's emotions! It can be a little overwhelming and annoying sometimes when i start crying and aren't sure why.
But I never knew him personally so I have to try to hold it in especially when I know everyone else will be doing the same!
This will be a day to celebrate the boy's life and I think he would want to see us as unified as we have become as a class.
If I'm going to go, I guess I'd better go now, it's already almost 12 >.<
This week my costuming class walked around the city, taking pictures of the architectural patterns on buildings for inspiration for our very own textiles that we're going to create.
I found a little more than just that!
Here are some of the patterns I found!
You can actually use patterns like these to create a design on a garment!!
After a while though, I just started taking pictures of things that I like
LIKE THIS AWESOME PLANT!
I think it's a squash O.o
We walked by the park^^
Scene's like these relax me^^
We also stepped into a baby boutique store. ( I think my teacher knew the owners or something)
Everything was so PRECIOUS ;w;
I wanted to spend more time in there >,<!!!
Maybe next time...
And on the way back to Chipotle- um- er class!!
A girl with blue hair!!
I just had to take a picture^^
I really do enjoy times when I can just roam around the city, taking pictures of things that catch my eye :3
Fun
It's the Friday before Halloween and I need to get dressed up so I can go to my friend'd house for a little Halloween get together^^
This weekend we went to the Korean Music Festival!!!
Ari pulled through you guys!! ;w;
We started planning out everything from how we were getting there to what we were eating to what time to get up about two weeks ahead.
We woke up at about 7:30 to be out of the house by 9:00
This wasn't easy because Keiko kept Ari and me up all night with his crying
Stupid cat....
We arrived at Over Peck Park NJ at about 9:30
Eeeee!!
So many people up this early in the morning><!!
All in hopes that we would get a good seat!!!
Well, what we didn't know was that more than half of the seats were reserved for VIP tickets...
And to get a ticket you had to "know somebody"
In other words you had to know somebody who was performing or know a sponsor or special guest to get good seats.
Public seating started pretty far back
Regardless we figured that as long as we held the seats we had we'd still get a pretty good view of the stage from where we were. So we took turns holding our seats and walking around ...
We didn't buy anything but there was A LOT of food. I couldn't read any of the signs though..
Allkpop had a tent too which was fun. They had dance covers and kpop prizes. None of which I actually got to participate in because I don't know much kpop trivia or their dances.
It really was an exceptionally warm day for October!! They call it an Indian Summer. It went up to 80 degrees!!
At about 1:00pm and announcement was made in Korean.
They were evacuating the seating area and re-seating people to check tickets...
But they made the announcement ...IN KOREAN
So we didn't know what people were lining up for until the line was halfway across the field.
We ended up in the back ;w;
And couldn't see the stage ;w;
Regardless it was a beautiful day :)
We were outside ALL DAY. Didn't buy anything because of lack of money, but we brought sandwiches and snacks and had a picnic.
The crew! lol
No money and all we had a pretty good time!
I watched some of the Kpop groups warm up!!! Shinee! B2ST! DBSK !
I didn't take pictures only because everyone was pushed up against the 3 foot barrier fence between the free seating and the VIP seating and I didn't want my camera to get broken if I dropped it ><!!
And it was a good thing I DIDN'T bring it.
As soon as B2ST came on the fans went nuts and PUSHED the fence down, trampling on it and almost knocked me over!!! I was in the front ;A;
I felt myself going down and remember thinking "I'm definitely going to break something" But I turned around and literally PUSHED people back yelling at them as I did so!
They could have really hurt someone D:<
Some of them looked scared when I did that but I was MAD.
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In the end about three cops and some staff members were able to push everyone back behind the fence and keep them there for the duration of the event.
We felt like prisoners being kept from our idols ;w;
The seating arrangement just didn't seem fair. Who ever heard or VIP taking up more than half of the seats?!
It's like it wasn't meant for the public to be there at all.
AND there were some people who had actually bought tickets from people to get it at 50-200 dollars a piece!
Money WASTED when there was no guarantee for good seating in the first place.
So this is where we sat.
The stage was big enough so that we could see everything from the screens and it we cranked our necks we could see them on stage a bit.
The screens kind of ruined the effect of actually being at a live. But I was excited the whole time regardless!
The stage opened at about 6:30 but no one came on stage until almost 7:30.
There were many great performers even outside of Kpop! There were some traditional korean singers, and a few classical singers as well.
But I was surprised to see Isooni there!!!
I love her ;w;
She was amazing!!!! And she sung A goose's dream which I LOVE ♥ (some people may know this song from Dream High)
♥♥♥ She was SO beautiful live♥♥♥ I can honestly say that she was one of the best performers that night.
B2ST and 2pm were pretty good live!! 4minute and SISTAR were there as well, but I don't really care for their music...as well as some soloist named G.NA (?)
D B S K were AMAZING.
They PERFORMED!
Though for some reason Yuhno didn't sing much live =/ Maybe he wasn't feeling well?
I never thought I'd say this but Changmin really outperformed Yuhno!
He was so beautiful!
Look!! LOOK!
Changmin ♥ My new favorite. That jacket!!
I melted ♥
I felt bad for Shinee only because they had some straight in from Japan and were exhausted. ;A; I heard they couldn't even shower properly! I hope that's not true><!!!
Minho!!!! And....I don't remember who that is....co-hosted^^
The show finally ended at about 11:00 but we weren't able to catch a bus back to New York until about 12:30.
But it wasn't bad, because if being outside all day raving about Kpop, and seeing a concert with Kpop stars in it was great enough we played Kpop and danced to it while we were waiting for the bus.
Then somehow PONPONPON got in the conversation.
We managed to get home at about 2:30AM, Monday morning!!!
We ended up staying outside for over 12 hours. I don't think I've ever been outside in the sun for that long in my life!
But it was worth it! And now I PUMPED to see my stars again for SMTOWN!!!
Ciao♥
End of the road... nothing to do... and no hope of things getting better. Sounds like Saturday night at my house. - Eeyore
My roommates actually don't him in here (as most people wouldn't) but if they did their dishes and swept a little more often it wouldn't be a problem IN MY OPINION.
Me and Marcus hung out last night in the kitchen.
I sat at the kitchen table on tumblr and he ate some crumbs off of the carpet.
He lives under our stove and promptly ignores the glue traps coated with peanut butter that my roommates so courteously set out for him.
Good boy^^
Yes I'm assuming it's male.
Last week I went fall foliage/ autumn festive hunting and took many of pictures!!!
But since I can't find my USB chord for my camera I can't show them until I go home next weekend. But here are pictures I took with my phone camera.
ALSO!
Next weekend is the KOREAN FESTIVAL (son't remember if that's what it's actually called) feat. groups from SMTOWN!!
The following groups will be attending^^
B2ST
Sistar
2pm
shinee
4minute
TVXQ
I'm am SO excited. (Though I really only care about Homin and Shinee...I'm gonna have to brush up on the other groups before I go....)
Ari is literally picking up our tickets as I type this >w<!!!
Hopefully she'll take pictures so that I can make a report on how that went.
