Midterm of Death

Studying of Death

Today I had a midterm for one of my classes. So my midterm was at 3:30 and I left home around 2 because one of my housemates put his U2 dvd on right next to me while I was studying. -_-;; Anyhow I was fine studying outside but I realized my laptop needed to be charged. And by the time I knew it, it shut down on me. I needed to study the powerpoint slides so I went inside some random science building and I saw this girl with her laptop plugged into an outlet in the hallway. So I went to another hall, found an outlet and plugged me laptop in and sat down to study. Right next to me is a 7 foot gigantic tank of nitrogen gas. I know this because there is a sign that says "No nitrogen liquid. Only gas." on the wall.

Everything is going fine and there are 10 minutes left till class when all of a sudden the tank starts hissing. It was hissing a little bit before but now it was suddenly getting louder and louder. My first reaction was to play it cool- maybe this happens regularly. But the noise was getting so loud so fast like a kettle so I began to panic. I imagined myself damaged by the explosion but gaining superpowers but sad that I became deformed and was ostracized by the world. I tried to get all my stuff and get out of there but my power cord for the laptop didn't disconnect all the way and I stumbled and dropped my laptop and my books. Then the hissing stopped and for a second I was disappointed for not playing it cool but I was thankful that my body was not mangled. So I kind of did play it cool and I picked everything up and just walked out to go to class a little early. I think that girl in the hallway next to me heard me because she was smiling. Either she heard me drop everything and stumble or she fell victim to the irresistible aura that surrounds me. But judging the circumstances I'm going to guess it is the former (and judging her appearance thankfully so). JK. On another note I'm glad that this blog has limited readers haha.

So to sum it up: I am alive and well.

Preference

Teaching Kids
As I was just about to write this I realized my knee is bleeding. I knew I bumped into something but gah! ok cleaned up.

Last week I went to go help out a friend at this afterschool program called MIKA (I think) and its basically a place where kids in tough neighborhoods can go afterschool and this basically makes me a wonderful person or some kind of hero haha jk. So the kids come by the time slots; 4 o'clock k-2nd, 5 is 3rd-5, 6 is 6th and jr. High. I came at 4 and the kids were awesome. They are like puppies. They were so cute and nice. 5'o clock and 6 o'clock kids were drastic contrasts to 4 o'clock kids. Some, not all, of the older kids are loud and not fun to work with. Made my head hurt. I remember Dmitri Martin saying a joke: "I heard this lady say ' I love kids'. Thats nice...little weird though. That's like saying I like people for a little while." But I find it true. If you're in an awkward stage where you're still a kid but you're not really cute... I'll probably teach you wrong. haha jk. I love medium sized kids.

Bad Battery and the Good Drinks

After I got my laptop back from sending it in I was so happy. But I noticed that my battery level has gone down so much. The time it goes at is just around 1 hour. -_-. So it probably cannot last me through this one class period. Should I get a new battery? How are all your guyses? Onwards...

Korean Drinks
mmmm...I love Korean drinks. America is most identified by soda, France to wine, the rest of the world to tea. I try not to drink soda and I hope I develop a taste for wine later in my life and tea is good but after a long hard day of understanding half of what my Spanish professors are saying, I love coming home to my wonderful korean drinks.


Yogurt Drink
Refreshing and simple. Its not something you have to carry around to finish but you can drink it on the spot. One Shot!








Pear Drink
I love this drink. At the marked they sell it in packages as these as "Gift Sets". I don't know if people actually give these at gifts. If I received one for my birthday or something I would frankly be a little insulted. Until I saw how cute the small fat cans were.

Side Note: There are variations of this drink in similar cans with apple and peach and these are not as good. Also, the SacSac drink, an orange drink not pictured, is equally wonderful and old school.



Shikae
I was trying to find a picture of this online and after a while I found it was most commonly spelled "sikhye" in english. But Shikae sounds more correct to me. So they usually serve this at restaurants after a meal and it is the most sweet and refreshing thing ever. This probably looks the most Korean/Asian out of all the drinks so far but the taste isn't that exotic.





SooJeungGwa
This is what my entry culminates to. I didn't mean for this picture to be so big but I feel like it was divinely done so as to emphasize the greatness of this drink. This is the can version which I usually drink but at some restaurants they serve this after a meal as well. SooJeungGwa is a cinnamon drink with hints of persimmon and ginger, served cold. I really take this as a relief drink and even a wake up drink. It's not a drink you should down whenever you want. IE: I usually don't drink it in the morning and never drink more than 1 at a time. It's really a delicate drink I like to sip on for 30 minutes at night as I take my Korean drama/gameshow study break. I have 5 stacked in my apt. fridge and 1 in my backpack I will drink when my laptop runs out of battery and I'm forced to look up to what's going on in class.


So my battery is down to 16 minutes :(. There's no cafes really that sell these kind of drinks so if you come over to my house, we can drink over a korean movie. Ok stay good in school and lets study hard!