Regents!

Okay, so we all know I live in New York, and New York is the (not very) happy home of regents!! Regents are tests you take at the end of the year after finals, and let me make this clear now, they are not fun. Anyways, my friend Sophia (also going on the Japan summer program) was looking online at the regents testing dates, and our departure dates. She discovered that our leaving will conflict with a few regents, one of which, the earth science regents. We're both taking earth science this year and we were less than excited to find out that we may have to take the regents when we get back in August or even next January. However, recently, we found the way out of this mess, and no it's not moving out of New York, although that was my plan. We realized that if there are regents in January, why don't we see if we could get into the earth science regents now? Turns out, we could! So last Monday Sophie and I both signed up to take it, today (Wednesday). Now to some people though, that didn't make sense. I mean, we've barely covered half the material in the course. . . Pshh! That's not important! And when I say it wasn't important, I'm serious, because we both took the regents! XD We're hoping we did relatively alright on it, and by relatively alright I mean we hope we got a 65 or above, because there is no way we're coming back to do it again!

"Thanks So Much" Bracelets

Here's a picture of the orange rubber bracelets we made for a "thanks so much for your donation" gift.

If you support my fundraising with a $5 donation, I'll send you a bracelet.

Spread the word.... I've got a long way to go to reach my goal.

Bracelet Pictures!!

So I finally got my bracelet pictures up! Actually my mom did it since I wasn't really getting on it, but nevertheless, at least they're posted. The pictures are on my facebook group page; Megan Rocks Japan 2010. So anyone interested can head on over there and check them out! Hopefully this will get people to look into maybe buying a bracelet so that I can get even a little closer to Japan. . . Let's hope so. . .

It's the New Year!!

Hey it's officially 2010!! Only (pause while I count) 6 months to go until Japan!! You'd think I'd know that June was the sixth month of the year since my birthday is in June. . .but I always feel I need to check. I mean for all I know, I could have been delusional all these years and June could be the fifth or seventh month. But it turns out that it's not. xP

So it's super exciting! I've been watching some animes online that are in Japanese with english sub titles, and I actually can pick up words while the characters are speaking and know what they are saying! It's awesome!! However I'm completely prepared to arrive in Japan and have no idea what's going on. Oh well! I'm sure I'll pick things up quickly! xP