Phew. I have survived spring break. I have one more day left, and I will be volunteering and returning to La Sierra. This spring break was stressful, at least more than all the others I've had. I had to take care of things for volunteering at the hospital which meant running around looking for various offices and people. Then I had to finish my Loma Linda application. It's due tonight, but I had to finish it before I had to take my entrance tests. I needed one more recommender and only had a couple days to find one. Damn my procrastination. My essay was missing some important points so I had to tweak it. I also had to study for my LLU entrance test. I hate science, math, reading comprehension, and English. I woke up at 6 am on Friday to get ready to head over to LLU. I didn't study much. I looked up some math equations online. That was it. I wasn't too nervous on the way there, but once I got onto the campus, I swear I was going to pee in my pants. Every time I see that campus, I get this weird twisty feeling in my stomach. I entered the School of Nursing building. Ronan and Stephen were already there so I felt more relaxed since I wasn't alone. LLU gives you two chances to take the test, but if you fail the second time, you can't take it for another year which means you can't enter to program for another year. But I want to be a nurse now! Ha ha. The tests took six hours. SIX HOURS! How can any human being sit in one stop taking tests for that long? We started 30 minutes late. The first test, the TEAS test, had four sections: reading comp, math, science, and English. It wasn't too bad. They gave me more time than I expected for each section which gave me time to relax between each section. The proctor was barely in the room. The whole test was on the computer and each person had different tests. You could move on from one section to another once you finished the previous section so I got to go at my own pace, somewhat. I finished in two and a half hours, but my head was hurting. I went outside to get my test score. I passed! I was so scared of that test because most of the people I know fail it the first time. I wasn't ready to take the critical thinking test so I hung out in the halls. I saw Dennis, Kristina, and Louvelle. I hung out with them for a while then went back in to take the critical thinking test. I passed, but it was ridiculous!
"Poland is not a monarchy. After WWII no country was a monarchy. There are no more monarchies in the world. But we would be ignorant to not look at the Middle Eastern culture. What are these facts trying to prove?"
Then there were scenarios that were given to us, and they asked, "How do you evaluate the conclusion? Good because the facts are state correctly. Good because it points out all the flaws of the argument. Poor because... or Poor because..."
What the hell! I hate thinking critically. The weird thing is that I got a high score on it, but I had no idea what answers I was putting down. Then I had to take a personality test. After all that, my brain was fried. Kristina offered for me to stay over at her house and we would go to LA in the morning. I just had to wait for her to finish with something. I chilled with Dennis, and he gave me a tour of the Nursing building and the Med Center. The School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy share the same building. After taking my tests and turning in my application, I feel more comfortable at LLU. Dennis, Kristina, Louvelle, and I ate at Chipotle. Us girls hung out at Louvelle's room for a while, then I went to Kristina's house. I watched Babel, and I do not like that movie.
Today I went with Khaing and Kristina to Pink's and Pinkberry. We also went to USC to watch the Filipino Club perform a play of the Korean movie "My Sassy Girl." We left at intermission because it wasn't very good. Now that my Loma Linda stuff is over, I can finally relax, with one day of vacation left.
This is a long post.. sorry.

I'm trying to study for my LLU test tomorrow, but all I can think about is pho.

I FINISHED MY LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING APPLICATION!! Finally.

Half of my spring break is gone. Damn.

"This is a new song. It's called 'Connect the Dots' and it's about sex."

Yep. Tonight I went to a Spill Canvas concert with Bryan at the Glass House in Pomona. It was an awesome concert! The crowd was really into it which got me really into it. I made use of my "rocker hair," as Connie would call it. When Spill Canvas went on, I almost crapped my pants. No, I didn't, but I was really excited. I got really into the last two songs, "Lust a Prima Vista" and "All Hail the Heartbreaker." "All Hail the Heartbreaker" was the only song I really wanted to hear because it's my favorite. My voice is almost gone, I can barely hear anything, and my feet hurt, but it was soooo worth it!
The bands that went before them kind of sucked. The first one was The Color Turning. They scared me. The whole time there was red light on them, and it didn't help that when the lead singer sang, he looked like Satan. Because of the red light, it looked like they were descending down to hell. But the funny part was that they had some video clips playing in the background, and it was of a girl in a grassy field picking a dandelion. Somehow hell and dandelions don't mix to me.
The second band was Cosmonaut. For half of their set, I didn't know who they were. Finally they said who they were, and I heard a bunch of people behind me say "Oh, that's who they are!" So I wasn't the only person lost.
The third band was... interesting. They were called The Oohlas. The lead singer was a girl, and she reminded me of a Jack O'Lantern. Her hair was orange, and she had large dark eyes. She made these weird facial expressions when she sang and had a really weird voice. The girl was moving around so much that she fell over. That was pretty funny.
Regardless of the sucky bands, Spill Canvas made up for it.