TSUNAMI

I groggily go to bed at 2 a.m. after watching 2/3rds of the classic thriller "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" with Don Knotts thinking to myself what I was going to do for the remainder of my Saturday. At 4 a.m. I am awakened by talking and I hear something about a tsunami heading towards Hawaii. I am so tired that I don't comprehend anything and finally my room mate tells me that we need to get ready to be evacuated if needed around 6 a.m. when the sirens will begin to sound. For the next two hours I sluggishly get ready and pack a bag to include a blanket, a pillow, a jacket, food, water, my camera, my iPod, and other necesities. Around 6:45 a.m. I walk down to the lounge with Kylie Soelberg and we find ourselves a seat on one of the few couches in front of the television. We watch the news until 7:30 a.m. then decide to go to the evacuation site or a.k.a. my room. All the people on campus were to evacuate to the 2nd floor of the Hales by 10:45 a.m. We all go to our rooms to take a nap until the tsunami arrives. I then get a text from Jarek and he invites me to go to a hill above the Laie Temple. I hesitate then decide to go because Jarek and I are in need of another adventure. I pack a lighter bag with the essentials and meet at "the bench" around 10:50 a.m. We walk over and head up a grassy hill with many other people trying to get to higher ground. As we walk through the gate to walk up the hill we read a sign that read "The Gathering Place" and both agree that this really is a gathering place. We find a grassy spot and plop down. While waiting for the tsunami to roll through town Jarek and I watch an episode of "Supernatural" and then while Jarek does homework and I take a nap in a sun. Around 2 p.m. we decide to leave the hill and walk back to campus. We arrive back on campus and I go up to my room for the remainder of the day to finish some homework and take a shower. I then go eat dinner around 5 p.m. and then go see "The Music Man" with Jarek, Jefferson Campbell, Potter, and Ali Fredrick as the players. It is phenomenal. I then come to the most critical point of the night - do I go to bed early like I had promised myself because I had only gotten 2 hours of sleep the night before or do I go to Taco Bell with Trisha Zemp, Joanna Morrill, Hannah Cash, and Jessica Crandall? After much consideration I choose to go to Taco Bell and don't end up going to bed until 12:30 a.m. This was a bad mistake because all throughout Sunday I felt like he walking dead. I could barely function. So that is the story of the "wanna be" tsunami on Saturday, February 27th!

A Quote for the Reader

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quote of the Week

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
- James Joyce

Whispers

Whispers
Written by Sydney Sturgeon

Listen to what the Eiffel Tower whispers,
What the rotting bodies of WWII say.
Search for what the waters of Venice are hiding.
Question the ancient pharaohs of Egypt
And the Roman and Greek gods.
Read the stories of the thousands of murdered Jews.
Touch the rocky miles of the Great Wall.
Swim in tropic waters with the drowned men at Pearl Harbor.
Enjoy a cup of tea with now dead kings and queens.
Hear the protests and shots ring out at Tiananmen Square.
Honor the victims innocently killed in the Twin Towers.
Never forget to listen for the whispers of the past.

Got Milk?... and Froot Loops?

It's COLD! It's STICKY! It's SWEET! It's FRUITY! AND... It's SMELLY!
What is it? One guess...

It's milk and froot loops poured on top of your precious little head! How does that sound?

Well from PERSONAL experience I had a BLAST!... To begin my story, my friends and I (namely Hannah Cash, Trisha Zemp, Jefferson Campbell, Erek Short, Kylie Soelberg, Joanna Morrill, Ali Fredrick, and Jarek Buss... sorry if I forgot anyone) were sitting in the "caf" eating a lovely Chinese New Year dinner when Trisha announced her brilliant photoshoot idea! "I want to pour milk and froot loops on your head. Would you be willing to do it?" Almost all of us agreed. So around 8:15 p.m. we met in the photo studio dressed up in our uniform... a white shirt and bottoms that have the ability to withstand a soaking of Vitamin D enriched milk. We proceeded... we took turns dumping the soaked breakfast cereal on top of each other's heads. It was such an AMAZING EXPERIENCE!!!! (It should be put on everybody's BUCKET LIST!) So many colors surround your head and you feel a chilly splash of milk that then runs down your neck. BEAUTIFUL! Now for the dirt... the aftermath... you feel sticky, you smell like rotting milk, and you have froot loops M.I.A. somewhere in your once clean hair.

But it was worth it! The pictures will go down in history as some of the best! Just you watch... those pictures will make it into the Smithsonian!


Go to:
http://trishazemp.blogspot.com/
for a look at more PICS!! Trisha is AMAZING!

Hawaii: The Animal Kingdom

Comparable to an African Safari, a once in a lifetime opportunity awaits you in what is currently called "Paradise." Adventures await you with slippery, green geckos; thriving nocturnal rats; giant cockroaches (big enough they can be made pets and named); a countless abundance of ants; beastly crabs (a.k.a. bugs, according to Jarek and his completely logical reasoning); colorful fish named Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (YEAH... say that 10 times fast); and exotic birds that fly! You get all of this and the added joys of itchy bug bites that scar your perfect model-like skin, the occasional scare from a gecko stalking you from the bathroom wall, the chance to go rat hunting at 3:00 a.m. in your very own "suite" of a room, and a "love pinch" from a crab while attempting to peacefully relax on the beach. The question is - Do you have what it takes to SURVIVE?...

How to Fry a Brain to a Crisp

a.k.a. A Day in the Life of a College Student

(This recipe has been proven to work 119% of the time.)


The frying procedure works best if you do these steps in order:


1) Stay up until 2:00 a.m.

2) Wake up at 6:20 a.m.

3) Go to classes that require the highest level of thinking from 7:30-11:00 a.m. with NO breaks. (To make sure the brain is CRISP make sure a yawn is being produced AT LEAST every ten minutes and you can't control lapsing in and out of sleep.)

4) After the marathon of classes one small break is allowed to prep the brain for deep frying.

5) Now time for DEEPING FRYING!!! (For best results make sure you are tired to the point where your body is feeling numb.) Then pile all ten books that need to be read on your bed that is tempting you to take a nice, restful nap. The books should take you a minimum of six hours to read.

6) Begin with the first book. Warning: It is going to be the hardest to fight off sleep while reading this first book, but don't get discouraged. Never give up, never surrender!

7)Proceed with the remaining nine books, reading each assignment completely before beginning the journey onto the next exciting textbook that was written for your enjoyment. For the frying to be most effective only take breaks for the times when "nature calls".

8) By the end of the reading your brain should feel as though it is not able to produce an understandable sentence. You know when your brain is going to be fried to its crispiest self when you forget your best friend's name.

9) Now come another SHORT break for something that you used to comprehend as being called food. Make sure to eat QUICKLY for best results!

10) Next, proceed to write a paper for your Psychology class for two more hours.

11) Lastly, for optimal results don't go to bed until PAST midnight. By the time midnight strikes your brain shouldn't even be able to tell you WHO YOU ARE. Now you will begin to think (yes believe it or not you still have the ability to THINK) that you once were a highly capable human being who could once show dynamic emotions and speak out with your own fierce opinions but who is now more worthless than dust. (This should be comparable to a midlife crisis...)


Good luck and have fun!

La Vida Es Buena

Tonight I have been inspired to start a blog to not only share my life experiences with others but to help show the world the good things that can be found in it. I have chosen to go on this journey with my friend Jarek and we have vowed to be blog buddies! We plan on blogging once a week if not twice and if this strict regimen isn't followed, harsh consequences will come our way. His blog can be found at http://jarekbuss.blogspot.com. Any stories that seem like they are fictitious can be vouched for on his blog. Well good night to all and I will talk to you later.