I've decided.

I really enjoy writing personal essays.

I'd never given creative writing a go before this semester. I'm enrolled in advanced creative writing and we've been reading tons of "creative nonfiction" (basically essays of the personal experience type). I really like this genre. I love literature don't get me wrong, but I find it so much easier to relate and discover with this genre.

I wrote my first ever piece of non-academic writing (if you don't count my rants on this blog) and I loved it. I wrote about what it was like to be type-cast as the bitch in high school both on and off stage. I brought a really strong theater element into it and tried to make it fun to read.

I had such a good time with the assignment. I was really nervous because our entire class is reading each other's essays so I wasn't sure how people would react but I was so pleasantly surprised that most people loved it. I'm so freaking glad haha. I was kinda freakin out about it. I think there are definitely things I need to work on with it but I actually feel like I'm gonna continue with this assignment and play around with it for a while rather than just getting a grade and leaving it.


I want to write more!! I'm thinking about writing an essay on the impact my siblings have had on my life.

for sanity's sake.

Haven't had something I actually wanted to blog about in a while, but I think everyone should go out and watch this movie:



so so so so good. I have no clue if it's real or not but either way it's incredibly captivating and takes you by surprise like you wouldn't believe.
you know something is off, but you can't even fathom how intricate everything gets.

fantastic.


catfish+ jersey shore+ friends + catch phrase

great night :]

i didn't realize it would be this hard to write 2000 words about myself.

:[
this essay was supposed to be easy

right now

I have a tummy full of haleiwa eats
I'm cuddled up in my snuggie
and I'm watching Jersey Shore

in this particular moment, I am very content.

rain.

alright, rain may be a good thing where I come from, but this is getting ridiculous. in hawaii it is not making corn and therefore whiskey, so no one's baby is getting frisky. instead we are all just getting wet and having no electricity.

the thing I love about rain in maryland is that there is an entire season for thunderstorms with beautiful lightning. from august to october you can expect anywhere from fog to downpours on a pretty daily basis.
in hawaii, between december and march you can expect extremely sporadic downpours all day every day. there is an extreme downside to this other than the obvious fact that this is supposed to be paradise. that downside is the additional fact that laie is completely ghetto.
to be more specific: power outages.

in maryland a storm only brings a power outage if it has been raining all day and there is tremendous thunder and lightning.
this past week it has rained at least once every single day here on our little island, and we hadn't had thunder or lightning until this evening. however, our power has gone out about six times in the past week. sometimes for ten minutes, sometimes all day. [as in today]

so while I don't mind rain all that much, it really sucks to have your power go out on a daily basis and to have to ride your bike to school in the rain.

rain, please go away.

forgetful.

I sometimes forget how incredible some things are.

this time around, I forgot how much I love musical theater. it is an art. plain and simple. I forgot the power that songs from musicals can have.

my favorite musical is Les Miserables. it is majestic.
I especially love the 10th anniversary concert performance.

here's my favorite song:




just listening to the combination of his voice and those violins makes my soul feel infinite.
I might sound hyperbolic or over-dramatic but music touches me in a way nothing else can, and I find this performance to be a beautiful representation of musical theater as genuine art.

this sunlight feels synthetic.
and I'm having deja vu.