Ohizashiburi!!!

It’s been so long. I haven’t updated my blog in months and I feel terrible, but I couldn’t bring myself to write anything.

It’s past 2 in the morning and I’m at Hannah’s house with Hannah and Dani. We just ate a lot of McDonald’s and are waiting for the full feeling to go away.

 

I’m off to college next Monday! I’m actually excited now, unlike a month ago. I think it’s because I’ve signed up for my classes and have my schedule already. It’s funny how I’m classmates with Hannah in all my classes except for PE and Math. We would’ve been classmates for math too, but we realized just a while ago that I was put in the basic math class. Which I think is because I had a low score in the math portion of the ACET, so yeah. Sucks, because that means I’m having summer class this year. Booooo. I hope I get moved up or something.

So that’s college news.

On Nihongo news, I was offered a tutoring opportunity today. My mom’s employee’s friend needs a tutor because she’s going to Japan in August, and they asked me, which is so awesome because I’ve been looking for a source of income for forever, and this was so well-timed. It’s cool, thank God for this. I hope it works out well. I’m not entirely confident in my ability to teach someone Nihongo, though Sensei thinks I can do it. But I need to prepare. Exciting, that.

 

I’m getting sleepy now, and I can’t write properly anymore. More decent entries coming soon, I promise. I’m going to write about college. And stuff. More often from now on. And I’m planning to finally start my Nihongo blog. I hope.  I really hope. No. I will. Okay.

The Weekend.

Our internet at home is busted, so I haven’t gone online in two days. I’m using Nest’s internet, which is also acting up, but still working, which is awesome.

So the UPCAT results came out last Saturday, and Hannah was the one who informed me again. XD I couldn’t check it myself since the internet was busted, so I asked her to check for me, and guess what? I wasn’t admitted. Haha. I used to say I didn’t pass, but my mom thinks I passed and they just don’t want to accept me because I’m home schooled and they’re biased like that. Well. Their loss. Ateneo, here I come~~ =D

Truthfully, after the ACET results came out, I didn’t care much about whether UP accepts me or not. (Right Hannah? Hahahaha.)

So yeah, Yanskeedoodle is a blue eagle. Yay!

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I also had my Nihongo final on Saturday. It was a bit sad, because it was our last day as a class. A lot of us are planning to skip Elementary 4 and Intermediate 1 classes because we already reviewed them for the JLPT, and it would save a lot of money to go straight to Intermediate 2. We also won’t have the same teacher when we enroll again.

Anyway, I wasn’t confident about the finals, because I didn’t study at all, but by some miracle I managed to pass. We all passed! It’s great.

After the test, I had lunch at Yamazaki(?) with Ann-san, Pola-san, Kichi-san, Nicole-san, and Anson-san, who treated us. We talked about starting an Elem4/Intermediate1 study group since a lot of us plan to study those on our own, and that’s exciting. I hope it pulls through; I will miss my classmates.

I went home after lunch, and then got ready for Ate Nadja’s wedding, which was that evening at The Blue Leaf. I rode with Dani and Tita Dongdong, and we got there in time to hear Ate Nadja’s vows. It was a really cute wedding~ Their theme was coffee, and they had a Starbucks booth and everything. Ate Nadja and Kuya Chuck were cute. And Nicole was pretty, and I loved her hair. So yeah, that was fun. I photo boothed with Dani, Nicole, Kuya Martin, and Kuya Mike.

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Sunday was chaotic. I taught Sunday School with Bianca and Hannah. I don’t know why, but whenever Bianca and I teach, it’s either we have absolutely no students, or we have so many we barely fit in the room. Yesterday, we had fifteen kids. I am seriously thankful Hannah decided to help out because otherwise, we would have died. XD It was fun though, because the kids were more responsive than usual. Just a bit hyper, but I guess that made it fun. I missed teaching, and my first class for this year will not be forgotten. Hahaha.

Oh, Yay. Ateneo.

Last Name: ZAMORA

First and middle name: Arianna Gabrielle Soliman

Status: ACCEPTED

Course: AB Lit (Eng)

I was in my Japanese class this morning, and I got this insanely excited text message from Hannah asking me, “DID YOU SEE NA?!” referring to the ACET results, which came out today. So that got me excited and I started bugging her to tell me how we did, but she wouldn’t say. Then my mom calls me, and she was pretty much screaming into the phone: “YOU PASSED!!!!!”

Ohhhhh, yay. I am relieved, I can breathe easy now. I was worried the whole week because or ACET and UPCAT results.

Hallelujah and amen. I have a school already.

Mata ohizashiburi.

Ahhh, I haven’t written in MONTHS I missed you! Really, I don’t know what it is that made it so hard for me to write during that time, but I seriously couldn’t write anything. Not here, or in my journal… I couldn’t even write that UA&P essay right. (The last one is OK though, since I ended up not applying there anyway. Long story. For later. )

I’ve spent the past few days working on the kids’ costumes for the Sunday School Christmas play. I have to sew gold sequins onto the angels’ shirts and make swirly patterns. I did this last Sunday during service with Bianca, Hannah, Nicole, Rachel and Dar, and that was fun. We didn’t get to finish much though, and the shirt Hannah, Rachel and Dar worked on pretty much came apart so I had to start it all over again. XD Hey, it isn’t as easy as you think, and it takes time. It’s relaxing though, and it’ll probably take less time to do once we have more people sewing. Bianca and I have a loooooong way to go where those shirts are concerned and we don’t have that much time. Thank God for friends who have nothing to do and are willing to help.

The rest of the time I’m studying, or on the internet catching mice on MouseHunt (I don’t know why either. Goes to show how bored I’ve been. XDD) or sleeping. I don’t know why I sleep so much, it’s kind of creepy.

Only 23 days until the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) and I’m not prepared at all. I’m getting review materials this weekend, and I imagine I’ll be spending most of my time reviewing after that. I’d very much like to pass and I don’t think I can in this unprepared state.

JLPT is the only test left for me this year though, which is awesome. I’m done with my college entrance exams, so now I’m just waiting for results. I planned to apply for UP, Ateneo, La Salle, CSB and UA&P but ended up taking entrance exams in the first two only. We decided La Salle and CSB were too far away and I wouldn’t end up going to school there unless I failed in everywhere else, so nevermind. I was all set to apply for UA&P, but thanks to Divine Intervention, that didn’t work out either.

I had a slight feeling UAP wasn’t meant to be while I was writing my essay, because I didn’t have anything up until the very last minute (a day before the deadline) and after I started, I didn’t know how to end. My dad wrote the conclusion for me. Then when we were about to print it out, we discovered that the printer’s USB cable wasn’t at home, it was at my mom’s office. All this happened the day we were going to submit the requirements, so Dad had to e-mail my essay to Mom, who was  at work, so she could print it there, then after that she had to drive all the way back to Ortigas so we could submit it.  Dad and I were at UA&P talking to the admissions lady, and my dad was getting really irritated because she was really snobby when she told us that our requirements were incomplete, and no, they aren’t going to accept photocopies, and no, we couldn’t submit the requirements on another day because that day was the deadline. So we left, and that was that.

And in the end, it’s UP or Ateneo. Which makes it easier to choose, I suppose. I’ll just go wherever I pass. Problem is if I don’t pass anywhere, in which case I don’t know what I’m going to do yet. But I’ll cross that bridge only if I have to.

So that’s been my life lately. No one’s been missing much, no. XD I will be writing more from now on, promise.

ACET, Done.

I took the ACET this morning. Two down, two to go. Or three. Besides La Salle and St. Benilde, I might take the exam for UA&P as well. Blaster was encouraging me to take the exam at PMA, but I didn’t. (I didn’t want to at first, but now I’m sort of regretting not taking it. He said it was a real experience.)

I found the ACET easier than the UPCAT in a way.In a lot of ways, actually. During the UPCAT there was Filipino language and reading comprehension besides the English, which really tired me out. There were no Filipino parts in the ACET. There was an essay, but I’ll have that over Filipino reading comprehension anytime.

I was more afraid of the ACET than the UPCAT because people kept talking about the time pressure, but I found the whole, 25 items in 5 minutes thing easier than the 70 or so items in an hour we did for the UPCAT.

The math parts were hard for me, so I just guessed my way through them. haha.

It wasn’t so bad, really. I felt no pressure, which is weird. I think maybe I’m just a naturally calm person. I don’t mind. Now all I have to do is wait for the results in January.