As my finals week is coming to a close, the only thing I have left to finish is my writing portfolio for my fiction writing class. However, I keep finding ways to procrastinate. The bad thing about writing is that I’m on my laptop and only one click away from the internet. And once I go on the internet, it is hard to go back. I go on Facebook and look at old pictures of my time in Italy, then research airplane tickets for the off change that I will go back to Italy soon. And then somehow I end up looking up restaurants and clubs in Vegas, which is where I will be spending part of my spring break. The internet is a dangerous place when you have tons of work to do. Web searches lead to more links much then again leads to different links. Pretty soon, several hours had passed and I have only written a few sentences. I spent the whole time looking up random stuff on the web. Damn you internet for distracting me!!
Now that that rant is over, I will try to get back to writing.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Random Disney Facts
Since I am very knowledgeable about Disneyland, I like to share some interesting facts about the park.
1.) Openning day in 1955 was a disaster. The pavement was still wet and temperature was over 100 degrees. The water fountations weren't working and several rides shut down to maintence problems. Some thought that the park wouldn't make it and close after only one year.
2.) There is no gum sold in the park because Walt Disney did not want gum to be spit on the ground in the park
3.) The bricks on the castle get smaller as they get higher to make the castle look taller
4.) Each land has a different style trash can
5.) Matterhorn has a half sized basketball court and mini pool inside
6.) Walt Disney used in live in the Mainstreet Firehouse. The light is left on today in his remembrance
7.) The Snow White and Seven Dwarfs statues by the wishing well are the same height. Walt just put Snow White higher on the hill to make her look taller.
8.) There are several hidden mickeys located in the rides and other attractions around the resort. You can purchase a Hidden Mickey Book for clues where the mickeys are hidden.
9.) Tomorrowland is set to represent the future as the perceived it would look like in 1986, the year of Hailey's Comet.
10.) Club 33 is a private club above Blue Bayou Restaurant in New Orleans Square. It takes years on the waiting list to get in the club and it is the only place that serves alcohol in the park.
11.) Once inside the park, you can not see the outside world. You are away from the stresses of life.
1.) Openning day in 1955 was a disaster. The pavement was still wet and temperature was over 100 degrees. The water fountations weren't working and several rides shut down to maintence problems. Some thought that the park wouldn't make it and close after only one year.
2.) There is no gum sold in the park because Walt Disney did not want gum to be spit on the ground in the park
3.) The bricks on the castle get smaller as they get higher to make the castle look taller
4.) Each land has a different style trash can
5.) Matterhorn has a half sized basketball court and mini pool inside
6.) Walt Disney used in live in the Mainstreet Firehouse. The light is left on today in his remembrance
7.) The Snow White and Seven Dwarfs statues by the wishing well are the same height. Walt just put Snow White higher on the hill to make her look taller.
8.) There are several hidden mickeys located in the rides and other attractions around the resort. You can purchase a Hidden Mickey Book for clues where the mickeys are hidden.
9.) Tomorrowland is set to represent the future as the perceived it would look like in 1986, the year of Hailey's Comet.
10.) Club 33 is a private club above Blue Bayou Restaurant in New Orleans Square. It takes years on the waiting list to get in the club and it is the only place that serves alcohol in the park.
11.) Once inside the park, you can not see the outside world. You are away from the stresses of life.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Californiaisms
This past weekend I was driving with my friends to the beach and realized that being the only person from California, I have many sayings deemed as Californiaisms. For example, I put the word “the” in front of highways and freeways. For example of instead of saying, take 101, I say take THE 101. I am constantly made fun of for that by my friends.
I also recently talked to my family about this. My sister and mom agreed that they tend to put “the” in front of highways and freeways; however, my dad does not do this. But he grew up in Pennsylvania, which further emphases my point that saying THE 5 or THE 101 is definitely a California thing.
Another Californiaism is complaining about the weather. Californians want perfectly sunny weather all the time. Even when it starts to rain the slightest, many California natives freak out. Just last night I looked up the weather for the week and saw that we supposed to get to rain all week. After saying the weather looked depressing, my friends just laughed at me. They told me that we need rain and that rain really isn’t that bad. I know we need rain, I just don’t like it. It gets in the way of my tanning time and makes walking to class so much more difficult.
California is the best state and I plan on living here for the rest of my life. So my friends pretty get used to my Californiaisms because I will never change my habits.
I also recently talked to my family about this. My sister and mom agreed that they tend to put “the” in front of highways and freeways; however, my dad does not do this. But he grew up in Pennsylvania, which further emphases my point that saying THE 5 or THE 101 is definitely a California thing.
Another Californiaism is complaining about the weather. Californians want perfectly sunny weather all the time. Even when it starts to rain the slightest, many California natives freak out. Just last night I looked up the weather for the week and saw that we supposed to get to rain all week. After saying the weather looked depressing, my friends just laughed at me. They told me that we need rain and that rain really isn’t that bad. I know we need rain, I just don’t like it. It gets in the way of my tanning time and makes walking to class so much more difficult.
California is the best state and I plan on living here for the rest of my life. So my friends pretty get used to my Californiaisms because I will never change my habits.
Missing Florence
Margarita Pizza from Naples and rigatoni with eggplant
This past week I have been thinking a lot about Florence. I had a dream where I was eating Italian food last week and I woke up missing Italy. I was completely spoiled by the cuisine and atmosphere abroad and I deeply want to return soon.
First of all, the food and wine in Italy is simply delicious. Here in the states, it is almost impossible to find Italian food as good as it was in Italy. Seriously, the pizza here isn’t real pizza. In Italy, the crust on the pizza is thin, almost cracker like. Here the crust is so big and fatty that I am full after a piece or two. But since the crust was so thin in Italy, I could eat a lot more of the pizza. The thin crust also helped the other flavors become more dominant tasting. My taste buds could focus on the cheese, tomato sauce, sausage, vegetables etc.; instead of the tasteless crust. My favorite pizza was probably eggplant pizza or potato pizza. My host mom would make pizza with potatoes on it sometimes and it was simply divine. Just thinking about it makes me hungry.
The pasta was also amazing. The ingredients were also super fresh and they did not use much cheese or sauce. They also used the perfect combination, not too much and not too little. Dinner time was one of my favorite times while I was abroad.
The wine was also amazing. During my semester In Italy, I was blessed with the opportunity to wine taste in Chianti three times and wine taste once in an old cellar in Florence. The wine tastings were fabulous, each of the wineries was very knowledgeable about their wines and how they are produced. They would also give you a generous taste. By the end of my tasting experiences, I usually had finished about 4 or 5 glasses of wine. Wine is also so much cheaper in Italy. You could get a decedent bottle for about 3 euro. Here in the United States, if you spend $5 dollar on a bottle of wine, it usually doesn’t taste very good. I wish I can have the cheap wine I found while abroad. The wine here is breaking my budget. I have come so accustomed to good wine in Italy that is hard to go back to the not so tasty cheap wine.
Studying abroad in Florence was the best experience of my life. I loved the food, the wine, the people and the chance to see new things. Back home, I see the same thing again and again, day after day. I miss the adventure of traveling to new European cities or seeing new works of art in museums. Well, as I sit reflecting on my time abroad, I plan ways in my head to return again soon. Due to money and time, it seems as if it might be awhile before I return, but I will one go back to Italy. It Is my dream.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
FINALS
From
http://shailen.tumblr.com/post/2467947036/stupidcreations-finals-fuck-i-never-actually
This is basically what I am feeling right now.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Group Projects
Group projects suck. They are super stressful and unnecessary. One of my professors has claimed that group projects will help us learn to work with people in the future. I believe that that isn’t true. When we get out in the work force, we won’t be working with others on projects very much and when we do we will actually have time to get together.
One thing I hate about group projects is that it is hard to find a time to get together and work. With everyone’s busy schedules in college, finding a time where everyone in the group is free to meet is almost impossible. Therefore sometimes, the group decides to spilt up the assignment and email one person the designated parts to put the whole thing together. This leads to my second compliant about group projects: there is always someone who doesn’t do their part and someone who has to do the whole thing. Sometimes people send inadequate work to the person who has volunteered to put it together and that person has to spend time redoing it. It is just not fair.
I also hate when every member in the group gets the same grade, when not every member did the same amount of work. It is not fair when someone who spends virtually no time working on the project and someone who spent hours perfecting the project both gets A’s.
I have been screwed over far too many times during group projects. I have had a group not send me their information so I had to quickly do their part one hour before the assignment was due. I have had a partner forget to save the work she did while I was in class and thus had to redo her part. I have had a partner return the camera back to media services before saving the content to the computer and thus had to track down the camera we used. I have had people cancel meetings on me because they were too hung over to work. I am the type of person who likes to plan and get things done, so when someone else messes with that, I get a little pissed off.
I hate group projects and I hope I never have to do one again. And if I ever become a teacher, I will never assign a group project to my students.
One thing I hate about group projects is that it is hard to find a time to get together and work. With everyone’s busy schedules in college, finding a time where everyone in the group is free to meet is almost impossible. Therefore sometimes, the group decides to spilt up the assignment and email one person the designated parts to put the whole thing together. This leads to my second compliant about group projects: there is always someone who doesn’t do their part and someone who has to do the whole thing. Sometimes people send inadequate work to the person who has volunteered to put it together and that person has to spend time redoing it. It is just not fair.
I also hate when every member in the group gets the same grade, when not every member did the same amount of work. It is not fair when someone who spends virtually no time working on the project and someone who spent hours perfecting the project both gets A’s.
I have been screwed over far too many times during group projects. I have had a group not send me their information so I had to quickly do their part one hour before the assignment was due. I have had a partner forget to save the work she did while I was in class and thus had to redo her part. I have had a partner return the camera back to media services before saving the content to the computer and thus had to track down the camera we used. I have had people cancel meetings on me because they were too hung over to work. I am the type of person who likes to plan and get things done, so when someone else messes with that, I get a little pissed off.
I hate group projects and I hope I never have to do one again. And if I ever become a teacher, I will never assign a group project to my students.
Monday, March 5, 2012
World of Color
I wish I was at Disneyland right now. With finals just around the corner, I need a stress free environment to clear my mind before I start to tackle the projects, papers and study guides. Perhaps one of my favorite parts of the Disneyland experience is the World of Color Show, which runs nightly at California Adventures Park.
The World of Color is a water and light show that opened in June 2010. In the little under two years that the show has been running, I have probably seen it seven times.
The show involves 1,200 fountains of several different colors, water spouting up to 200 feet into the sky, fire, clips of Disney movies projected on the mist screens and good ol’ Disney Music. What more can you ask for?
The entire show runs about 25 minutes and cost about $75,000,000 to design, manufacture and build. However, there is no additional fee for park guests to watch the show. All they need is a park ticket and a fast pass(which they can pick up in the beginning of the day). The fast pass will have a designated meeting time and place on it. When the time comes to start lining for the show, one must go to the location on their fast pass.
The show is truly magically and amazing. Even though I have seen the show many times, I look forward to watching it again and again. I am amazed by the effects and love to dance around to the music. It also makes me happy because it truly is “A Wonderful World of Color”
The World of Color is a water and light show that opened in June 2010. In the little under two years that the show has been running, I have probably seen it seven times.
The show involves 1,200 fountains of several different colors, water spouting up to 200 feet into the sky, fire, clips of Disney movies projected on the mist screens and good ol’ Disney Music. What more can you ask for?
The entire show runs about 25 minutes and cost about $75,000,000 to design, manufacture and build. However, there is no additional fee for park guests to watch the show. All they need is a park ticket and a fast pass(which they can pick up in the beginning of the day). The fast pass will have a designated meeting time and place on it. When the time comes to start lining for the show, one must go to the location on their fast pass.
The show is truly magically and amazing. Even though I have seen the show many times, I look forward to watching it again and again. I am amazed by the effects and love to dance around to the music. It also makes me happy because it truly is “A Wonderful World of Color”
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