Jeff

oahu morning

Well, just woke up for my first day in Waikiki. We are staying in the Embassy Suites, which is super nice. There was an open bar thing last night, so I got to try a number of drinks, and then we had some basic food at this place called the shack. Now I am just chilling here in the morning waiting to shower and watching some football on TV. We flew in here yesterday around 3 and got settled in around 5. The big island was nice. Not very accessible, but very nice. I ended up staying around the condo most of the time. We explored Kona on Friday but I couldn’t find anything I really wanted to get. I hopefully will find some things around here. We went to a lua’u for Christmas dinner, it was decent. Some of the food kind of upset my stomach some. The highlight of the whole thing was the fire dance at the end of the night. It was pretty impressive. He really did all sorts of things that I hadn’t seen before, like lighting the other end with his tongue (he placed the flame on his tongue and quickly lit the other end) or holding the pole with his knee (in the joint behind the knee).

We will be heading out of here on New Year’s Eve, so I get to celebrate the ‘09 New Year, kind of sad… I think I will hit 2009 at some random point across the mainland. Maybe I will get a window, doubtful though… Well I better shower and get breakfast.

hawaii night

So I’m writing this entry in the dark because I am about to go to sleep…

Our first full day in Hawaii. It’s been nice. Very warm, relaxing, but not a ton to do. Even though I don’t plan on being super active this break, I’m completely content in taking it easy and enjoying not having to do anything. I hope to see the sights, shop around some, and generally have a good time. It is like 80 degrees here (in Fahrenheit Kim) and incredibly great weather. I think that I’m going to enjoy this tropical paradise.

I will probably add more when I can see my keyboard, until then, I’ll be in paradise =D

hawaii morning

So we shall be departing from our house in about 3 and a half hours. I am still awake because my sleep cycle sucks so much it is about as far off good as it can possibly be for this, or as close to depending on how you look at it. I have most of my stuff packed up and I am just sitting around in my bed burning time before I need to get up and get ready to travel across the country. Hopefully, because I can’t sleep now, I will be able to crash for a lot of the flight and wake up in sunny paradise, far, far away from homework and exams.

I have been stressing about grades for a while now. I just don’t know about the outcome for my 437 class or where the curve lies in my psych course. I am just hoping that they turn out fine, I really don’t want to find out what happens if I have to retake either. I hope that the place we stay has internet, else I will be in a very odd position, since I am rarely away from the internet for more than a few hours, or at most a day. I will also need to be around when grades are released so that I can figure out if I should be panicking, crying, or relieved. I just hope it all goes alright. I put a lot of effort into this semester and if it turns out shitty, I will be pretty down.

I should probably get back to watching more House for now.