http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Carina0&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Carina0 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:37:45 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/28003895/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/28003895/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:55:30 PDT Only because I got rid of my A-line bob style to even out my hair and grow it out long again.

But it looks sooooo awkward, it's not even funny (but it may look funny to you if you ever saw a picture )

That is all.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/27731900/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/27731900/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:53:26 PDT
Art Studio today really made me feel artistic, seeing all my classmates with such amazing talent and skills with such mediums (papercuts, -which I dreaded and still do dread- and enconstics [sp?]) and such creativity/imagination placed into their work really made me want to try harder and try new things.

I feel like kicking my AP English, Algebra, US History, Forensic Science and Japanese homework in their asses because all I want to focus on right now is developing my skills which I haven't been doing since I started high school! GRRRR!! *punches The Scarlet Letter in the face*

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/27022564/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/27022564/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:43:19 PDT SCORE!
And did 2 hours and 10 minutes of driving, even more score!
What a good day ^_^

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/27008001/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/27008001/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:20:12 PDT 8 hours straight, with an hour's worth of time of closing my eyes for a little rest, texting my boyfriend, and playing with my cat in between.

And now I feel like my stomach will eat me from the inside out because, well, first I'm hungry as hell, but secondly I'm really hoping I pass the knowledge test tomorrow... The first time I took it back in June I failed by ONE mofo question... ONE! That really pissed me off.
However, it was my fault because I didn't read the manual before taking the test at the time (I had completed the whole thing [not within a day like I did today] when I was 14, and assumed that because I already read the whole thing at the time that I was good to go to take the test at 16... Wrong. My memory proves it), so I just did and I hope it will be better this time!

I'm gonna eat a bowl of salad and sleep man.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/26285467/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/26285467/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:58:48 PDT The following journal entry will involve blood, laceration (stab wound), stitching, and medical deals of which some of you may not feel so comfortable reading because they may scare you like they did for me.


So Tuesday, I was having a great day with my boyfriend, laughing and having fun and eating together and all that stuff, right? Then at the end of the day, he leaves my house at 9:30 PM to get back home by bike by 10 PM, so I kissed him goodbye for the day, and watched him bike away.

Five minutes later, I walked back into my house, into my room, and decided to put in my iPod on the iPod speakers to listen to some music. They were sitting on my white dresser next to the doorway into my room, and I had my black bean bag chair lying right next to the white dresser.

I decided to drop all my weight onto the bean bag chair because it IS comfy, after all.

But hell broke loose when I felt a -POP- in my leg, and shearing pain at that.

I lifted myself up off of the bean bag chair, thinking, "Ouch!! What the f**k?" and a pair of scissors I left on the bean bag chair from earlier was lodged into my right leg, about an inch below my knee, for a moment, then fell out. I had a deep hole in my leg...

A... A HOLE! IN MY F**KING LEG!! OHHHHH S**T @#$%&*!!

Then, as if it was following along to the tempo of my heartbeat, blood was spilling out from the hole. So much blood, I couldn't believe I was bleeding so much, and I was in shock from the sight of so much blood coming out from such a little wound.

I screamed for my mom to come help me because my dad was asleep, and she wouldn't come right away; I was trying to hold my blood in my hands, but they were dripping over the sides of my hands and leg, and spilled onto the carpet of my bedroom.

When my mom finally came, I started crying hysterically (and trust me on this one guys, I'm not much of a crying person... I actually think I'm a bad crier, if that's even a word) and screaming and just started shaking. I'm not used to seeing such things, I haven't felt so shocked since the time when I was 10 years old and had severe pain in my abdomen that was from possibility of appendicitis. My head felt light and I felt really cold, even though I'm currently living in an area of extreme heat.

My dad woke up from hearing my screaming for my mom, and both my parents rushed to the bathroom to grab band aids, gauze, anything to stop bleeding. My mom quickly pulled out gauze and pressed her hands onto my leg to halt the bleeding. My parents were fussing about what to do next, and they decided to take me to the ER, and my dad mentioned, "Well it looks like she'll need stitches for this..." My dad let my mom handle my leg for a few minutes while I was sitting down on my floor, mom applying pressure on my leg and I'm just freaking out and crying out loud like when I used to as a little girl (it felt weird to cry like that after so many years, but it was absolute pain and traumatic to me).

"Carina, stop crying! You must calm down if we're going to the emergency room! Stop it!" she told me.

"It. Really. Hurts. Mom! Ahhh!! F**k!"

She held out her wrist to me and said, "Look at this. Do you see that scar? I had kind of the same thing happen to me, but on my wrist! You will be fine, now stop crying and get up because we're going to the car!"

I felt even more scared because her scar looked somewhat vicious, then started thinking I was going to have a vicious looking scar on my leg... oh man, why! Why did I leave those scissors in the f**cking bean bag chair!? I'm so stupid!

As my mom was taping the piece of gauze over my laceration, my dad prepared the car for all of us to go to the hospital - I was still freaking out like crazy, having the mindset of stitching that was necessary for my stab wound.

I eventually got into the car, but it took a lot of time because my leg was in so much pain I couldn't walk at all. While driving to the hospital, I tried my best to think about nice thoughts, like cupcakes, or spending time with Erik (boyfriend), but I just couldn't get my mind off of the idea of stitching, bleeding, a puncture wound in my body, going to the hospital in general...

When we arrived, my dad got the idea to put me in a wheelchair because it was so hard for me to walk (I thought that was exaggerating, but it was true that I couldn't walk, it hurt too much) and we signed in for the ER. We were instructed to wait for the doctor to call us in to examine what's going on and whether or not it's like code red or not. We got in for about 5 minutes, just questions asked and the doctor looked at the condition of my wound, then we were told to wait in the waiting room again. I was so nervous to have to get stitches... The first stitches in my life! Am I even ready for this?
<... ]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/26211515/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/26211515/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:35:42 PDT
Splendid, now I have to get them pulled out, no big deal right?
You can choose to be sedated (I know I will wanna be!) and you just go home, bleed, rest, heal, then go back into the world!



Well, I wasn't so aware of the limitations in food and activities I'll have when this surgery is over with, and I'm pretty dang nervous and scared about it.

I've been feeling haunted by the things that will come after I get my wisdom teeth extracted, and I wished that they weren't "so big" (according to my dentist) and that they could just grow in my mouth, but nope, my mouth is too small for them to make any room.

Plus surgery scares me in general. Hearing that word makes me get the shivers a little :/

I haven't set a date for them to be extracted, so I have no idea when I will get this surgery done, but I know it will be in August, and I'm hoping just to get it over with really soon! My dentist said because they aren't grown out from my gums yet, it will be best to get them extracted as soon as possible so that they will heal faster (which is a nice thought!); how much faster will it heal? is my question?

If you have any experiences with wisdom teeth extraction and what happens after it's been done, please feel free to share them with me, for I'm just paranoid about this.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/25633645/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/25633645/ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:24:48 PDT
I've been drawing, though! Just not posting it because I don't feel like they're worthy of my gallery >.<;

Also, I'm going to Japan again this Friday and coming back July 16th, w00t! At the same time, I'm excited and I'm dreading it.
Excited because I'm going to see my family again! Dreading because I'm gonna miss my boyfriend and best friends so much

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/25158236/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/25158236/ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:05:56 PDT But before getting into that, we have 7 class periods, and a different schedule compared to last year where they tried to cram all 7 classes then have one or two class periods be long enough for finals.

This year, it's:

Monday - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd periods.
Tuesday - 4th and 5th periods.
Wednesday - 6th and 7th periods, then END!

Which is great because we get to come to school 50 minutes later than usual, and get out WAY earlier than 3 o'clock! Monday we're released at 2 PM, while Tuesday and Wednesday we're released at noon.

Anyway, for Monday, I'm in luck: my 1st period Drawing class has no final because we drew our final last week (self portraits with graphite pencils only); instead, we'll be cleaning the classroom, and that's a breeze!
2nd period Health, I'm surprised that my Health teacher decided to NOT give us a test. We have notebooks (binders) that have our work inside, and we turn them in at the end of each quarter and determine our grade if we completed our work and whatnot... He said to me clearly, "Your final is turning in your notebook." Wow, I always finish my work in that class because it's so easy not to do it, so I was really happy to know that we won't be doing ANYTHING!
Lastly, 3rd period, I'm an office aide in the Counseling Office at my school, and if we have a test, it'll be that common sense test that asks like, "If a student walks in and requests for a transcript, what should you do?" and, "Alphabetize the following..." SO EASY! I'm glad that this weekend is going to be a laid back one...

But Tuesday consists of my two hardest classes: Accelerated English, and Chemistry.
Now, Acc. English is actually not that difficult, but I'm a poor writer for essays, and our final will be a synthesis essay >.< I didn't do so hot on the first semester final for this class, where I only could complete two (2) paragraphs for my in-class essay in a matter of an hour and 50 minutes...
Chemistry, well, that's self explanatory.

Wednesday, ugh, as much as I think the classes I'll have then will be easy, I may have to take summer school for Geometry (6th period), which I do blame in most part to my teacher for that because he doesn't really teach us the materials or help us understand things in that subject like finding surface area and volume of prisms, polyhedra, the ways to solving for x for some polygons and inscribed angles etc... Then my last period, Japanese, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I laugh at how easy it is, so this year feels really great.

I hope everyone has/had a great end of the year!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/24708031/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/24708031/ Mon, 11 May 2009 17:32:15 PDT 5/11/09 3:45 PM:
Stepping off of the #33 bus, I walked along the street to get home and eat a snack, then later on, begin homework that's due tomorrow. While walking, I was thinking about how nice a day it is today - sunny, but cloudy, and not extremely hot, but definitely not freezing - and the hopes that it will be sunnier and a slight bit warmer tomorrow.

"If only I could picnic right now," I thought to myself.

I was about 30 feet away from the bus stop when I noticed that houses in the neighborhood had nicely cut grass on their front yards. At first, I thought that was normal because a front yard that has freshly cut grass is nice because it is easier to walk on (my opinion), until I realized that after being 40 feet away from the stop, every house had a clean-cut front yard.

The thing is, where I live, people don't necessarily care about their front yards, or do I ever see them bother to try pulling out the large weeds that are conquering what looks like plant moats when they're the front lawns of their houses. At times, I will see somebody's front yard get mowed, and that's great, but that isn't every house.

Now, the strange part is this: once I arrived at the street where I was to turn right to go to my house, continuing along the street I was walking along, every house had cut grass on their front lawn... even the house that I swore was abandoned was cut!

"That's kind of weird," I whispered to myself.
I turned right, going towards the slope that I must walk down, and noticed that my neighbors' had their front lawns cut too.

Heck, even that little walkway that nobody really pays attention to or hardly walk along had grass that was freshly cut! From there, I thought that was unusually strange.

But the even stranger part comes and that's when I began to question myself if this was just a coincidence or something's really really weird: my own house's grass was cut!

"What the craaaaaaaaap!?" I thought.

I arrived to my house and saw that even my backyard was mowed!

Don't get me wrong, I didn't panic, but I definitely didn't expect this to happen. EVERY single house in my neighborhood had their lawns mowed, including mine, when it's only my mom and I here while my dad is in Panama... mom works all day, and I'm at school all day. Who the crap mowed my lawn!? Did they mow everyone on the block's lawns too!?!

But that's when I remembered that my mom hired people to take care of the lawns at my house instead of making me mow the lawn on my own (thank you dad for teaching me, anyway).

"Oh, phew."

So did these guys mow every house and trim the trees or something? I know that they were meant to take care of my house and all, but it was so freaking weird to see everyone's homes to have freshly cut grass...

Okay, this isn't quite put out like a short story would, but yes, I felt utterly stupid in the end, but I still wonder, did every single one of my neighbors happen to mow their lawns all on the same day? Was this the doing of the people who my mom hired to mow our lawns? Who knows what exactly happened, but if you lived in the neighborhood that I've lived in all my life (yes, meaning living there since I was born) and saw this, you would've been a little surprised too.



~Carina 5/11/09 5:30 PM

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/23752617/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/23752617/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:43:37 PDT
I conclude that out of 1600 students at my school and about 300 classmates, only 5 paid any attention to my clothing, and 2 out of those 5 pinched me.

It was odd, I thought it'd be kinda funnier than that, but oh well *shrug*

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/23372663/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/23372663/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:26:28 PST
I also liked having short hair because it was easier to get ready for school.

Right now, I'm trying to grow it out (see current ID picture for the length I have now)...
But now I'm considering cutting my hair short again.

Hmmmmmmmm... if you'd like to share ideas, you may, but I'm unsure of my decision since I noticed that having my hair just being shoulder length made my time to wash my hair and dry it completely longer, compared to when I had short hair last year when it was like a snap *snaps*

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/22341628/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/22341628/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:21:04 PST Finally, no more 2008...
I hate oh-eight.
OOOOOH rhymed xD

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/22186830/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/22186830/ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:49:39 PST
SO!

MERRY CHRISTMAS to those who celebrate it!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/21936880/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/21936880/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:49:58 PST
My mom must've been so relieved to have me out!
I was a tough baby the night of December 11th, 1992, I'm not joking.
And I was a very late one to add to that.
How was everybody's Thursday night?


And let's give some birthday love because she and I are both 16 today, MY TWINNY LANCHI!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/21040186/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/21040186/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:12:28 PDT


But when I came back to ODS last week, from October 12 - 17, as a student leader, I faced things I had never realized before, and learned so much more to it than just the outdoors...



Let's start with how it began:
Walking onto the bus, I met other people from different schools, and immediately became friends with them within the first hour of the ride; I was the only one from Grant who went in the week of October 12 - 17 to Camp Namanu, so I felt so nervous to meet others from other schools. I also was worried about the fact that I was a first timer, and a sophomore, being one of the youngest members of the leaders, and I assumed that because I was a sophomore, the upperclassmen wouldn't respect me like some do back at school because I'm still young and inexperienced with things. But, it wasn't the matter of different schools or age; it was you, as a person, who was more important. Meeting all these different people, getting the chance to know them, I felt much more comfortable than I felt just being at school.



We had wonderful weather (well, dry weather) except for Thursday, and that was just fine with me; there was plenty of mud going around, and plants brushing up on my arms and legs during hikes and bugs that touched my face or a spider on my hat that was on my head, but that didn't matter at all to me when I was there. Mainly, the weather was seriously not a priority for me. If it rained all week, I don't think I would've hated it at all, even though I dislike rain because I get wet. I was prepared for that, and so I felt confident in my trip there, so my attention was faced to other more important things.



Then came meeting the 6th graders.



I had to be flexible on everything at ODS, and had to show leadership as a Student Leader (let's say SL for short); I successfully did so, because I remained positive about EVERYTHING, including times when I had a horrible morning or didn't have the chance to do something I longed to do. I was cheerful, I sang loudly and clearly so all 6th graders could understand the lyrics and sing along. I encouraged the 6th graders to do things positively, watch their language, and focus and listen on the things that were to be focused and listened upon. Field studies were very fun for me, because I had the opportunity to teach the students based on the field study I was in charge of (Animals) and successfully did so! I also realized that while teaching about the exact same things for four days straight, I have so much more knowledge about the subject, and someday, I might see a daddy long legs on the wall, and start sharing facts about it to people who are probably freaked out of it. I might even see a coyote in my backyard one of these times, feel a little scared because it's in my backyard, but I'd understand it's niches and how it has been moving around toward the slums with its habitat starting to shrink. I could noticed a skull on the ground (even though that seems unlikely that an elk skull would be lying around on the ground in Portland, haha) and immediately know that it belongs to a deer because of its teeth and eye socket position and facial structure and size. I might see a a cicada on a tree and others may not notice it because it's got camoflauge into the tree trunk. I would know it all without thinking about it!



I even learned the further qualities of friendship and unity.



Friendship is important because it's all the time when you can support each other or have support from your friends when times are rough and you don't feel like you are confident about something. It is what builds up yourself and grow to feel successful and possibly BE successful in whatever you need or whatever you do. It teaches you lessons to learn and follow for the future, and helps prevent negative things from happening.
To make new friends is especially important; at ODS, it's a place to learn about the outdoors, make new friends, and it's also a place to escape from your life.



I personally don't like my home life, but my life with friends is incredible and means so much to me. Along with my life with friends and at school, my life was just like it, but life there was greater than the sun, and sweeter than chocolate bars; I got to escape my home life and live a life of opening up to a person I probably had never been, and so did the others; they got to escape their home lives to be who they wanted to be without worrying about what people think.



Thursday night, I learned the other 18 SL's opinions and thoughts about when they come, and two really reached out to me: one was from Elephante (real name James). James was... ]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20726201/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20726201/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:00:59 PDT
]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20470171/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20470171/ Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:47:41 PDT
While walking, I noticed something very strange!

Have you folks looked at my featured deviation? To the left of this? My "Happy -early- Birthday, Temari" drawing?

Well, I forgot to mention that I used a picture reference on Temari's sweater...
But I didn't copy ALL the details because I didn't want to, like, plagiarize the entire design, right?

Well, there was a girl I shared one class with last year (don't know her name) who was wearing THAT EXACT SWEATER!!
FREAKY!!
But then again, the store where I checked out the sweater is at the mall here, and so it wouldn't be too huge of a surprise if somebody got that sweater, you know?

The picture of that exact sweater is not on the site, [link] anymore, so now I can't show you what it actually looked like...

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20308345/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20308345/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:51:27 PDT

But I'm not ready for the work...


However, I get to see all my friends again!


But I hear one of my teachers is an ass...


Then again, if I stay open-minded and properly mannered, then I shouldn't get on anyone's bad side!


But what happens if I screw up like I always do?

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In other news, I completed my website that I created to pretty much show my portfolio to art schools!


But I won't show the link here yet...


Mostly because it's got a stupid looking background


]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20244013/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/20244013/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:09:35 PDT [link]) and today till Monday will be the convention.

Now, I had no idea that it was going on today specifically; I only knew that they do it over one weekend sometime in the summer.

I went shopping with my mom at Lloyd Center (mall) for some back-to-school stuff, and wow! I saw so many Naruto's, Sasuke's Sakura's, Kakashi's, Jiraiya's, Temari's, Itachi's, Hinata's, Orochimaru's, Akamaru's (full body suit!), Neji's, Ichigo's, Urahara's, Grimmjow's, Near's, Mello's, Matt's, Misa's, Sailor scouts (mostly Sailor Moon and Mars), Chii's, Ed's, and so much more! I even saw one little boy who was Conan from 名探偵コナン (in English, "Case Closed")! He was so cute! Then I saw more characters I've never seen before; it was pretty awesome.

Lloyd Center is right next to the convention (Double Tree Hotel), so the cosplayers - or people who attended Kumoricon - can easily do some shopping or just eat by walking next door! I wanted to go to Kumoricon this year, but I had no ride, and didn't really have a costume to wear anyway (mostly because I'd rather not dress up looking horrible; I'd rather dress up as a character who actually WEARS glasses).

However, because I told my best friend, I think we'll go on Monday! Yay! But no costume; just as ourselves.




So, what are the "cons" around your places?
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EDIT: For next year, I think I'll definitely cosplay as somebody! But, it'd have to be a character wearing glasses and that'll be hard to find a character - that I have any idea of - wearing glasses since most authors barely create characters with glasses sitting on their noses.

Then again, if I possibly got contact lenses.... my choices of characters to cosplay would be an ENDLESS LIST!!! YAAAAARRR!!!!11!11!11!!!1one!1 *nerds out*

In fact, I think for Halloween this year, if I can purchase the following...:
1) A black NYLON full-body unitard
2) Black boots
3) Black NYLON cloth pieces
4) White cloth (any kind of fabric; preferably stretchy kind)
5) Sewing kit
6) Black mask,
...then I can be Cat Girl from my original comic, Ultra Teenz! HOMGZ! Oh and I'd need to find a white wig and hope to get black strands of hair for the front of the hair too... then the outfit would look JUST like her

Oh shit, if I'm to wear a mask, that means I gotta get rid of my glasses... crappit. Then, I gotta quickly create a Cassie normal outfit (she wears glasses, since each character is alike to the people who represent them: me being Cassie [I wear glasses, ho HO!], Desmond as Curtis and Dash Jones, and Emily as Sora Burd)


















I'm seriously going crazy with costumes, dude.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/19813562/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/19813562/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:41:03 PDT (for some people, it has ALREADY ended a shock to me)

School will be back in session.

Tell me what you've done this summer! I'm curious to know
If you wanna know, TOO BAD!
Because it'll be too long and confusing to explain (hehehehe)

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/19671235/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/19671235/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:47:16 PDT
I arrived in Portland from Japan

I was gone since July 15th; a two week trip.
It was exciting, it really was.
However, sitting through five different earthquakes, three huge thungder/lightning storms, and extremely humid hotness was just crossing the line for me around the middle of the second week I was there.

I'm glad to be home.

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ALSO! I drew a lot over the trip--HOWEVER...
My scanner is not being fair, so it will be difficult to post here.

And, I don't really feel like posting the things I had in my sketchbook >.< because they're so primitive.

PRIMITIVE!!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/19299560/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/19299560/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:20:14 PDT
]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/18669022/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/18669022/ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:41:08 PDT June 3rd, 2008: WOW! Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour with Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D. and Rihanna was INCREDIBLE! It was also my first concert (I thought the Nivea [show] I went to was a concert, but it was just being held at a mall, so that doesn't really count as a concert huh?)!
Man, but I was more excited to see Lupe Fiasco compared to everyone else; however... Portland SUCKS. Know why?

You know how when singers or rappers have parts of their famous songs silenced so that the audience sings it out loud?

Well, all four artists did so, but for Lupe Fiasco, dude... we were made of fail when that happened

But but but yes I was still happy!

And I hadn't ever heard of N.E.R.D.'s music before... and I LOVE IT! I am SO buying their CD next Tuesday homgz lol
Also Lupe's. I'll never forget his album; I have to have it.

The stupid part was Kanye West though; in my opinion, he can be so conceited, and he makes himself look all godly and the shining star of the universe and whatnot...
He was the one who made this concert, but I wished he didn't. He rapped about 6 songs, then once the time I thought he was finished... he performed 3 more songs! Each one lasted like 10 minutes! And he presented a speech-ish type thing to us about how he has problems, how anybody's dream will come true if you work at it (which I agree, so no talking shit about this one), and how much he loves his mom (who is dead, FYI to those who don't know) and thanking us for coming and supporting him and SHEESH!

I just wanted him to end already, I thought.


Came home at 12:30 AM, ate, then slept at 2 AM.
About 4 hours of sleep is just delightful.

Going to school seemed pointless when it was a half day today (we have a parade going on throughout Portland) so I was pleading to my mom to just let me skip school and let me sleep....

Yeah right.
That never works with my mom xD;

SO YEAH! I just wanted to post this! Too bad the T-Shirts were so expensive, all I could afford for souvenirs were paper shutter glasses ($10). The plastic - indestructible - shutter glasses were $30 o__0 >8( damn Kanye! Don't charge so much for a piece of plastic >_>

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/17400918/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/17400918/ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:05:13 PDT
Upset... terribly upset with myself.
And lost something that I could've had.
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]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/17239513/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/17239513/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:58:40 PST WARNING: This is an entry based on opinion and/or rant.

I've noticed around that the fictional book that Kakashi Sensei from NARUTO reads is, of course, called "Icha Icha Paradise" in Japanese イチャイチャパラダイス translated "Icha Icha Paradaisu" is being formed into real life books for cosplay (or even just to draw) INCORRECTLY:

There are people around that aren't native or familiar with Japanese characters at most times, and that's totally cool; but to have translations put out incorrectly bothers Carina.

The incorrect translation people are picking up is Icha Icha Baradise イチャイチャバラダイス rather than Paradise like it actually is.

The difference in the sound that "P" and "B" get in the Japanese language is based on the use of Dakuten 濁点 and Handakuten 半濁点 which are the little symbols that you write at the top right-hand corner of certain characters.

Dakuten 濁点 is used to pronounce characters with a harder tone (if I can explain that in an understandable manner? Since it's hard to explain) for the following characters ONLY: Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke, Ko か き く け こ Sa, Si(Shi), Su, Se, So さ し す せ そ Ta, Ti(Tchi/Chi), Tu(Tsu), Te, To た ち つ て と and are written out as if when you write the quotation mark " but it's slanted.

Handakuten 半濁点 is used to pronounce all characters under the alphabet order starting with "H" sounds: Ha, Hi, Hu, He, Ho は ひ ふ へ ほ into "P" sounds, and ONLY for those characters only. They are written out like a miniature circle at the top right-hand corner of the character.

See the difference? : パラダイス　　バラダイス

If you can notice when I've typed out Paradise and Baradise above, then you're on a roll on what I'm trying to communicate: The Dakuten is being used rather than the correct use of "Paradise", the Handakuten.

The first word I typed out is the correct spelling for "Paradise" in Japanese. The second word is the incorrect spelling (and the most used by people whom aren't familiar with Japanese so well) for "Paradise" turned into "Baradise".

I just want people to know that it's incorrectly spelled out, and (in my opinion, if you want to) should fix it.

That is all.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/17030625/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/17030625/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:50:50 PST Especially because the beautiful sun
Was out to shine on us today,
The rays were blinding us, but hey,
It was worth it, the 5 hours
To waste with my friends, and devour
Pizza, with my friends.
But when the day ends,
I think to myself, "I must clean off my shoulder,
Because later when the day starts getting colder,
The bird poop that landed on my shoulder will dry..."
But this was not all that made me cry
Of embarrassment, anger or fright;
When I walked home with delight,
My happiness switched to surprise,
When I couldn't believe my eyes,
That two houses before my own,
While faking that I was talking on the phone,
There stood a man in the front yard
Who appeared to be staring at me hard.
I walked a couple more feet
Toward [street name I live on] Street,
To find out that I live two houses down
(Which made me show a frown)
From my history teacher...

This poem was half-assedly created by Carina R. on February 23rd, 2008. Note that this poem is describing Carina's day and pretty much the title to this journal entry.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16662232/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16662232/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:36:14 PST
[1] Very last day of finals in school today. Fortunately, I had only one more class to finish a final of - it was English - and it was very easy. Hopefully I get an A?

[2] Very last day of being in my art class and being with people that I had only that class with. Especially Thanh. He was awesome and now I have no more classes with him after today has ended.

[3] My dad's car got totaled on his way coming to pick me up at school. Luckily, if my friend Breanna and her friend's mom wasn't there, I wouldn't have gotten a ride home.

[4] I am very relieved to have house keys. Because I never used to carry house keys with me until this year. Whew, thank you mother!


That is all. NOW! I'm going to spend my three-day weekend DRAWING. DRAWING DRAWING DRAWING. Oh and scanning in pencil drawings I've done while I've been pretty much dead for about three weeks.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16423863/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16423863/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:30:19 PST Or quite possibly bored...
With a lot of time on your hands (3 minutes and 33 seconds)...
Then click on that link(s) at the bottom of this to view my (low-quality) school film project on...
THE RULE OF LAW
Based on How Police Abuse Their Authorities.




[link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

It's not as funny as I intended it to be, but there you have it folks.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16233898/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16233898/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:22:44 PST (1) I didn't send them my finished piece of my part of the collab
(2) The lineart hasn't been drawn in and never had been
(3) I don't start coloring

If you are one of those collabers with me, I apologize so much for not completing our collaborations! To be quite honest, I lose track of time or have no time to draw the rest of them, or, the worst, I forget.

An add-on to my resolutions: When I collab, I must finish it with the other person.

Or you know what? Scratch that: No more collaborations.

Carina is now never up for collaborations.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16114862/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/16114862/ Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:56:19 PST Well, who's got a new year's resolution? Share share! I want to know your (not personal) resolutions you'd like to complete in 2008!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15992471/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15992471/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:58:15 PST ^_____^
And I noticed that I'm close to 10k views omgwtfbbq!
I wish I could do the thing where if somebody caught the 10,000th view that I could draw them something but I couldn't promise that I would soooooo....

To whomever catches my 10,000th view, please screenshot it and show me ^_^ because I know I won't see it and that's weird that I'm up to that number.

Oh and HAPPY HOLIDAYS

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15896185/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15896185/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:50:24 PST

Today was the best day in 2007!

FIRST:
I get a call at around 6:18 AM by Ari, and she asks, "Hey did you get cupcakes to give to everybody?"
I didn't.
Then she offered to go buy cupcakes for me!
How happy was I?
My early morning so far was great!

SECOND:
Breanna gives me a cute little teddy bear with "Happy B-Day!" on its shirt!
And Ari gives me a gourmet cupcake from Ja Civa's.
Man was that delicious.

THIRD:
I guess because I'd been counting down for my birthday that so many people said "Happy Birthday!" to me! I liked it

FOURTH:
Too bad Nick was sick and at home today at lunch, but I just hoped he'd feel much better by tonight and ate like three chicken strips LOL fat me up!

FIFTH:
WHITE RABBITS ARE TASTY. Everybody loves them =]

SIXTH:
The announcer guy substitute from yesterday subtituted my Algebra class again, and I recorded him as an example of his talking AND he said happy birthday in that cool voice... so tight.
And laughing my ass off in that class made all my energy just fall out and hahahaha it was still fun.

SEVENTH:
Got home, did all my homework (well, not anymore, but it was before) and went out to the Macaroni Grill for my birthday with my mom and dad...
Until I get there and Aiano, Moira, Aiano's parents and sister and my mom were there and surprised me!
Dude! I really WAS surprised!

EIGHTH:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I GOT MY CAMERA THAT I WAS REALLY WANTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a Chicken Dance Elmo (Aiano.. HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA)
Doraemon air freshener (smells like peach and totally nice)
A beautiful "C" necklace (Thank you so much Nina and Taka!)
Super cute top (it was too small and I didn't wanna risk ripping it so I gotta ask for a large.... my bad Narumi D
YESSSSSSS!!!!

NINTH:
I just had a wonderful time, really. This is all I wanted to say without explaining every single thing into details ♥



Also I was sung to by this dude at the Macaroni Grill in Italian in his opera voice and WHOA!!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15646301/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15646301/ Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:58:01 PST
~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15368379/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15368379/ Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:12:58 PST
But she wasn't just a regular school counselor!

She was too nice to be a counselor...

I remember that as a kindergartener, I was a really mean bully and had no friends and didn't know politeness. My teacher suggested my mom to have me attend this thing called "Friendship Class" (pathetic, I know) and Ms. Strobel was the teacher for that "class".

I remember she'd always put up with all the shit I did and didn't ever stop to help me. She was so patient and caring to keep up with me and I eventually improved. After that, that was the end of "Friendship Class" and less time to see her.

Around the end of my elementary school years, I don't remember when, that I saw her, for the first time, bald and wearing a hat. At first, I didn't know why a woman would shave off all the pretty thick, curly dark brown hair she had, but found out by my teacher that she had breast cancer and got through chemotherapy.

So, okay, I was too young to know what chemotherapy was, so I just imagined that her breast cancer was gone after doing that...




I haven't ever forgotten about her since leaving in 5th grade. I always remembered her name, remembered "Friendship Class" and remembered how nice she was to everybody and never yelled at us kids. I think she was one of my favorite teachers during elementary school.

And now she's dead.
I couldn't believe it.
She didn't survive her breast cancer.

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I cried so much after finding out about it......

To those dA people who know me in real life, and have attended Richmond... do you remember Ms. Strobel?

I'll miss her...

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15208223/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15208223/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:43:24 PDT By one person, and a school.

I'm drawing a picture of a dude riding an ostrich, and design a hoodie for a private school of my best friend's.

I'm afraid I'll screw it up though o.o buuuut it's worth a try! I'm broke! Haha.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15142998/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15142998/ Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:54:36 PDT But the dance completely SUCKED.

Most of my friends didn't go because they were chicken for not having a date when homecoming isn't the point of having a date...

And the friends who did show ditched me plenty of times.

What a waste of $8 and my time.







But before the dance happened, I learned half of Soulja Boy... haha. I look white when I do it, so I wouldn't ever do it in public.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15122443/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/15122443/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:22:08 PDT
And I finally updated my drawings... because I found only yesterday the only free day I had to be able to draw. I wanted to draw something else, though, but decided to just draw something that happened to me yesterday XD

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14875112/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14875112/ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:57:43 PDT 's Art Meme. D:

That's all I wanted to say... I've seen so many of them in my deviantWATCH's and like DAHH it looks like fun to fill out... I guess by the time I actually have the time to fill it out, it's gonna be oldish by then xD

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14545253/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14545253/ Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:13:28 PDT My teachers are funny, I got my opprtunity to see all my JMP friends once again and I drank my first Red Bull on Thursday which caused me to run about a half a mile. That made my friends laugh. Hee hee.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I don't mind the homework anymore. o.O

Yeah, I got a lot of homework, but I finished them in one day and I'm surprised by that.
I'm also working on a homework that relates to drawing (my modern world history teacher assigned us to draw a cover over our notebook... sweet!). If you wanna see it, it's right here [link]

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14490097/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14490097/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:53:58 PDT I'm not as nervous or scared as I was earlier this summer, but I'm just realizing that I'm growing up and I'm gonna work harder and seriously need to take more responsibility for myself more than I used to.

So this also means less drawing...

...

o____O
NUUUUUU
xD I'll face it again; drawings will be LIMITED again. w00t I wish y'all a wonderful school year, and for those who are out, I wish you a wonderful day
~Carina

ALSO: I'll scan ANYTHING I like and quickly submit them.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14438659/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14438659/ Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:34:13 PDT
Have a good day and keep up the deviations y'all!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14322381/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14322381/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:36:19 PDT IS Naruto's dad...
I never knew his mom though, but she sounds sort of unlikely for some reason lol. Well, Kishimoto is the creator, and I can't say no to his creations.

ALSO

I'm not ready for schoooooooool *dances* na na na na naaaaa naaaa!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14259458/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14259458/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:20:34 PDT
My schedule's first period class is absolutely HORRIBLE!

I have PE as my FIRST PERIOD.

WHY!?!? WHYYY!?!?!

I mean, I'm okay with having PE... I'd rather have PE so I can be fit all year... but why the crap would I wake up early, take a shower, clean up myself, style my hair and dress as nicely as I can and then show up at school, sweat and screw up myself and then take the shortest shower I've ever taken and appear worse than I started?

I can' believe this! My school is just horrible to do that! I would be totally fine if PE was around after lunch or anytime at the end of the day.... BUT FIRST?

I'm in an absolute rage and so furious about my first period class... heck, I'm more frustrated about my first period than the fact that I'm restarting Algebra 1.

@^#$@^&*()(*&*(%#!@!#*$&!@#&$^&%@#^$^!#$*^!*@%$#^@!%&^%#$^!%#^!%^#@&$%#$$#%##!!!!!







That is all.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14222808/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/14222808/ Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:11:59 PDT
When I cleaned up at home, I went straight to surprising two of my best friends... after that we all went to the pool... ha.

One of my eyes were pink because of when I was wiping it after I thought there was something in it during the flight and possibly from lack of sleep since (Japan's) 6 AM to (Portland's) 11 PM... that's so many hours and I was absolutely EXHAUSTED. But I stayed up for extra hours because I didn't want my jet lag to get me (which is too late for me to say that since I have jet lag already... I woke up at 5:46 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep).

So yeah... the trip was great! My family is so odd and fun at the same time, I met many of my mom's friends she hasn't seen since like 25 years ago and such (reunion, she'd say) and I almost passed out everyday from such terrible heat.

The hottest day this year in Japan was (I think) two weeks ago Thursday, reaching at about 102 or 104 degrees fahrenheit (they use celsius, so I'm guessing it's that when it was 38/39/40 degrees celsius). I was outside the entire time and I did think to myself that day that it felt hotter than usual.
________________________________________ ________________________________________ ___


Also, I've been tagged by today... er, August 6th (she sent it while I was gone lol). I haven't ben tagged in a while, and I love being tagged.

So here goes:



The rules:
1. post these rules
2. each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. tags should write a journal of these facts
4. at the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged



1. I don't like the car window open unless I wanted to dry off sweat from my face after playing tennis.
2. I draw every night right before going to sleep... clip board and lamp on my bed and everything.
3. I don't like it when shoes are everywhere on the floor... it looks so ugly for me.
4. When I'm angry, you don't want me to target you.
5. When I was 5 (or whatever age that the Little Mermaid first came out) I used to come home after preschool (then elementary school after), push in the Little Mermaid tape, wrap myself up in a blanket in a shape of a mermaid's tail and rolled my shirt up until it looked like I was a mermaid and enjoyed watching that movie everyday.
6. I am most self conscious about how people think of my house and bedroom a lot more than my looks or anything.
7. I can be independent and anti-social at times, but I still love my friends with all my heart, no matter what.
8. It takes me forever or never to draw up a comic because I am a horrible story maker.
9. I am honestly scared of going into high school (right now).
10. I dislike people who are arrogant, selfish, annoying, rude or greedy... especially those who litter and never properly throw away or recycle garbage.



I don't know who to tag, so I might break the rules and not tag others XD

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13889987/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13889987/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:51:38 PDT
But this time, when I go to Japan I'm not gonna bring so much stuff in my luggage because I will be buying my friends some things in Japan as a generosity feel I'm having lately I still have to ask many more of my friends (only contacted friends over myspace that is only like 1/4 of everybody lol).

So yeah, you won't be expecting too many drawings from tomorrow til about August 19th maybe. But I will be drawing with pencil so I'll scan those when I come back!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13649260/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13649260/ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:13:31 PDT
I'm having a problem with my feelings at the moment, and I'm so confused for what I should do.



That is all.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13372408/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13372408/ Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:47:49 PDT Now I have to face high school... xDDDDDD; I know I'll be fine though.

But I'm so sad because:

1) I am in a magnet program called JMP (Japanese Magnet Program) which means that it's a program of a class that learns the language of Japanese... together
-That means I've shared the same class with these 37 or so students/friends of mine since Kindergarten (the grade that JMP starts in)
-Which means that we've been sharing teh same classes together for 9 years now

2) Because half of us has quit JMP to enroll in a different high school instead of the high school that continues JMP, half of us won't see each other everyday like before
-Meaning that I only have half of my closest JMP friends left
-And I'm really sad that we have to go our seperate ways

3) Also that I realize when we graduate high school, it's not half of the class but every student is going their seperate ways
-Which makes me even more sad
-But I'm okay because I have four more years with my remaining friends!

Yeah.... long story
JMP are practically brothers and sisters because we learned to get along easier than any other student would with a friend at school.
We're all best friends, even if we don't sleepover at every single one of our houses.

*cries* but we must all move on in our lives, right? So I'm okay.












ANYWAYS, I'M SORT OF HAPPY BECAUSE I'M NOT A FRIGGIN' MIDDLE SCHOOLER ANYMORE! WOOOOOOOOOT Also because I've been DYING for summer vacation too. This year was sooo stressful that I haven't updated anything in my gallery!

I'm updating all the sketches I drew in classes soon but for now, I wanna draw myself an ID since my old one deleted itself sometime this year and I hadn't noticed until around February LOLOLOL

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13309741/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13309741/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:15:17 PDT Attended my school had passed away Saturday, June 9th, 2007 of Leukemia

What I have to say:

I didn't know you in person, although I've seen you walk the hallways last year to classes and lunch.

It was terrifying to hear that you had Leukemia last year and hoped you would be okay.

Honestly, my friends and I still thought about you and your sickness and wondered how you were doing. We even planned to try visiting you at the hospital... but that never worked.

Now that you have passed away, I feel real great sympathy for you and your family.

I didn't know you in person, but I still care.

May 24th, 1994 ~ June 9th, 2007

RIP Edward

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13204461/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13204461/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:13:45 PDT Irish Temper.

People around me are pissing me off right now... such as my mom. >_>
But yeah, I just wanted to say this because I need to share it to anyone right now.
o.o
god I can't wait for summer to come.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13182624/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13182624/ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:58:39 PDT *EXPLOSION*

I'm not happy at all.
I'm really displeased right now.
Perhaps if school finally ends, I'll be fine.
But at the same time I don't want it to end.
o___o
Freaking last year in middle school; all my friends are going seperate ways and it makes me sad.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13054285/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/13054285/ Tue, 22 May 2007 17:49:10 PDT

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12943621/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12943621/ Sun, 13 May 2007 15:49:17 PDT -Drew a card for her
-Cleaned (my) room
-Made her lunch
-Poured her tea

That's about it. xD

But I have so much work to do. School is screwing me up in the head.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12867095/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12867095/ Sun, 06 May 2007 18:11:36 PDT
But funny thing happened on our last day:

All kinds of delays happened to us and so called "errors" too. The errors that first occurred was one of the plane's wings had the fan thingy underneath and that fan was being all funky and such. So that was being fixed...took the people long enough of a total of an hour and 30 minutes. Then we finally got into the air, flew from Kansai Int'l Airport (Osaka, Japan) to San Francisco Int'l Airport.

But, since the previous plane had that "error" that took an hour and a half to fix, the next plane we had to ride was leaving really soon and we all thought we'd probably miss it. Thinking so, we sort of slowed down and was thinking about how to divide everybody into the groups that would go on one plane taht arrives first and which would go on the next plane couple hours after.

Instead, the people at the airport told us we missed the plane, and I think they also mentioned that there wasn't another plane to Portland, Oregon.

That freaked everybody out.

And then they mentioned that we had to stay in San Francisco for one night and leave the next day...

That freaked (more angered) everybody.

But turned out the flight we thought we missed was still at the airport...it was actually waiting for us! But it was about 10 minutes until it boards...

We were running, running, running....super fast.

A friend of mine was running so fast that when another friend of mine yelled out to her, "PULL UP YOUR PANTS!", she tried to pull her pants up, but instead fell over and rug-burned her elbow, stomach and knee.

It was hilarious, but we still had to run anyway.

So we caught our flight in time......although it didn't get into the air until almost an hour after we got on. That annoyed me.





Then, finally, home.

Problem is, our luggage didn't arrive.

Turned out the luggage carrying belt (the conveyor belt) in San Francisco was broken and didn't get to our plane.

So then about two hours later we got our luggage.





It was a stressful day, especially since we were all really sad earlier when we had our goodbye thing to our homestay families in Japan. And yeah other stuff too.

So that was my last day's thing that happened. *shrug* just wanted to update to show I'm alive now!

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12798415/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12798415/ Tue, 01 May 2007 03:00:15 PDT
So yeah...just updating to show that I`m alive...just in a different country lol.

P.S. OMG MY HOMESTAY FAMILY IS FREAKING AWESOME

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12660234/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12660234/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:08:09 PDT *forgot to mention*

1. Do you like animals?
Yes, especially small animals because they're really cute and sometimes just too adorable that I might start crying.

2. Have you ever met an online friend in person?
No

3. Are you athletic?
I used to be, but I'm too caught up with school things. I am athletic during the summer though, playing tennis and some soccer and baseball.

4. Are you: thin, fat, athletically built etc:
I'm not fat, but I'm not thin. I'm a little average, but my friends have told me I'm pretty skinny o.o but I'm not underweight or nothing...probably my height.

5. How much do you weigh?
I don't want to share that to the public.

6. What's your height?
5' 6", but I haven't checked my height in a while so I'm not sure.

7. Shoe size?
Women's 10, but there are some shoes that are made weird and can fit in 9 1/2

8. Girls - are you tomboyish, girly, normal, etc?
Girly, but normal is another because I'm not obsessed with really preppy things or anything like that...just myself.

10. How old are you?
14

11. When is your birthday?
December 11th, 1992

12. Do you like to receive giftart?
I've only recieved one in my life so far, and I like it

13. Are you sociable?
Ohhhhhhohohohoho yeah. I'm only shy with a guy I like xD

14. Do you have many friends?
Of course! I have soo many friends in my class and outside of my school.

15. What's your race?
Dujapanish (Dutch, Japanese, Irish).

16. Do you like to talk on the phone?
Yes, but I have some trouble understanding some things the person says on the other line because my hearing is sort of funky.

17. Are you single or taken?
Single and there's a certain guy I've had on my mind for a while now xD

18. Do you eat meat?
Not a lot, but yeah.

19. Are you paranoid?
No.

20. Do you read a lot?
No, books bore me and I can't keep up with one. Like if I was reading a novel, I'd read the first two sentences and BOOM I'm already thinking about something else instead of the story.

21. Do you listen to music, what kind?
I love listening to music, and I listen to many many kinds. Mostly depends on how I'm feeling.

22. Do you play any instruments?
I used to play piano, but school has been keeping me from practice PLUS piano seemed to take up my social life time so I quit. My new "instrument" I use is my voice =]

23. How long have you been drawing?
When I was born. =] naw, when I was 8 months old.

24. What's the meaning of life?
I honestly don't know the meaning of life. All I know is you're born, you wonder what's the meaning of life. Then you're a kid, trying to survive life by education. Then you're an adult, surviving by working your way to the life you want. Now you're a granny/grandpa, wondering the meaning of life is. And die.

25. Now tag five of your friends! They MUST take this quiz and post it in their journal.
Okie dokie.

I've tagged:

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I'm off to Japan for my second class trip research residency this Sunday, the 22nd. I will be back May 6th.
Just a reminder since I'm overlapping my previous journal entry. lol

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12646139/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12646139/ Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:11:27 PDT
I am leaving to Japan on Sunday, the 22nd of this month and will be back May 6th.

Just a warning or a FYI to everyone so they know why I'm gone.

Sure, Japan has internet access and such, blah blah, but I might not have any access to a computer there because this is my second class trip and I'm going to more rural areas in Japan instead of city places. Other than that, we're not supposed to be on the internet there.

The purpose of this stupid trip is to field study D:

I'm not looking forward to it.
Know why?

I go to Japan every summer; there's nothing much to do AND I don't wanna go to Japan to study...I'd rather go to go hang out.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12646138/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12646138/ Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:11:22 PDT
I am leaving to Japan on Sunday, the 22nd of this month and will be back May 6th.

Just a warning or a FYI to everyone so they know why I'm gone.

Sure, Japan has internet access and such, blah blah, but I might not have any access to a computer there because this is my second class trip and I'm going to more rural areas in Japan instead of city places. Other than that, we're not supposed to be on the internet there.

The purpose of this stupid trip is to field study D:

I'm not looking forward to it.
Know why?

I go to Japan every summer; there's nothing much to do AND I don't wanna go to Japan to study...I'd rather to go hang out.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12250891/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/12250891/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:15:04 PDT
Once the bell hit, he opened the door really fast, that he kicked my knee.

It hurt. So I got angry.

I chased after him into the 8th grade hallway (which is like 50 feet long) and about the 28th feet length from the classroom and about 6 feet apart from my locker, I jumped into mid-air to grab Will...

But he dodged my grasp.





And I fell on my right side.
All my books and binder falling as well.

Yes, random people I didn't know laughed at me on the floor.









Boy did it hurt. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/11967635/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/11967635/ Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:38:52 PST My neck pains officially disappeared two days ago! So nobody needs to worry. Thanks to those who supported me for something that might've happened o.0
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Today, February 25th, is my mom's birthday! Yay. I posted a pic. Congrats, she's 47 (I hope she's okay with me telling the world XD). Uh huh, yeah.

Now gotta go to bed.
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I LOVE LIFE AT THE MOMENT! hee hee.

]]> ~Carina0 http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/11912993/ http://Carina0.deviantart.com/journal/11912993/ Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:53:18 PST isn't coughing and everybody is sneezing. Two people spread it two weeks earlier. People sick, etc. I was sick two weeks ago.
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I woke up yesterday morning at 5 AM with a horrible pain in my spine. From my head all the way down to my bum, was this shearing pain that caused me to not budge easily.

If I moved my legs, my entire back went *BJIEEEW* and I couldn't shift my body because it stopped me.
So I stayed in that position until it was 7.
Went to school, back was horribly aching and I couldn't wait to get home.

"I'm pretty sure the Tylenol will fix the pain by tomorrow." I swallowed the Tylenol and went to bed at 10 PM.
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I woke up.
Back was fine. Butt was too.
But my neck still ached like crap.

If I made a quick move (like a jerk), my neck would, again, tense up and I couldn't move until the pain went away.

Went to school, if I:
1) Sat
2) Walked
3) Spoke
4) Swallowed
5) Ran
6) Studied
7) Carried something
8) Jumped
9) Shook
10) Made a wuick turn of my head,
my neck reacted really badly and I started crying because it hurt so bad.

It even affected my vision!
If I was sitting somewhere or standing at one point, I'd move and my vision changed....I wear glasses and my eyesight still fidgeted.

I told my dad about it and he was all, "Well, Carina, those conditions sound like you might have a tumor."





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"WTF?"
"Yeah. I mean, the pain in your neck, whatever you do, it always hurts? Then you mentioned about your vision being weird. I think you should go see the doctor or something."
"Dad, it ain't a tumor, don't say that. Just neck pain."
"Swallowing, standing, walking, speaking and any other verb making your neck hurt for two days straight?"

I told him that it's just a cold that's going around, so I shouldn't be worrying about it. What do you think?

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