Super Typhoons & Massive Amounts of Reading

Well Michigan may have snow storms but Japan has typhoons. Nice trade off for me, right? I guess I'll find out how bad it'll be within the next 48 hours but I'm not even sure how concerned I should be about it. For the past week or so, the weather has been dismal. When it rains, it usually rains all day and even when it isn't raining it's been kind of cold. Well today was no exception except I decided to check the weather and found out the typhoon that's been affection southeast Asia is what's causing it. When I checked this morning they predicted that by the time it reached Tokyo it would have weakened. After school though, I checked my e-mail to find a warning from the American Embassy about super typhoon Melor and from what I understand it won't be getting better. After talking to my friend Greg, I still can't really predict how this will affect the area I'm living in but I guess all I can do is watch the reports and just go about my normal life here. So wish me luck! (Also--someone tell me why regardless of the fact that it's been raining a lot, I still haven't bought an umbrella!)

My classes this week are going well so far except I forgot to do some homework that my Japanese class is supposed to do online. Ugh. But I've been doing everything else and I think I'll be okay. They don't take late homework so there's no reason for me to get too upset about it. I just need to make sure to write down everything on the calendar that they gave us. (Shakes head in frustration and disappointment)

Other than that, most of my homework is just reading and preparing for lectures in class. I'm not very outgoing so I haven't spoken up yet but I'm trying to be more outgoing in general because that's the only way I'll get anywhere while I'm here. I need to make friends, I need to do well in classes, I need to improve my Japanese, and all of that demands me to be outgoing and speak up. So...wish me luck with that too!

It may be strange to say but I consider eye drops to be a beauty product that I've worked into my daily regimen when it comes to getting ready in the morning. No matter how much sleep I get or how much coffee I drink, I never look as awake as I'd like (or as white-eyed) as when I put eye drops in. They make my eyes look bright and they also wake my eyes up. It's like...caffeine for them! Strange ne? When I told this to Shawna last year she just laughed at me and said they weren't but I still consider them a beauty product, at least for me! (^_^)

For a while I've been obsessed with the fashion of Daisy Lowe. Also~I'd like to imitate her hair style because there really is NO point in my straightening my hair when the rain and weather has just been ruining it. Her hair style is more what mine is really textured like. I just need to find the right products to keep it looking like that and NOT a fuzzball all day.