//UPDATE: So I can has journal skin for all of November...? >D

Sooo my school has a Winter Term program, which means we get the whole month of January as more or less a break, and there are a few different things you can do:

take one class (usually something interesting like cooking or Irish folksongs or some other obscure topic, whatever the professor wants) that you go to for, like, four hours a day four days a week, but that's all you do all month...

go somewhere to do research (that's been approved by a professor) and write a paper at the end (one girl went to Hawaii to "study sea turtles." Yeah, I bet she was looking at sea turtles the whole time.)...

if you're super homesick, you can even take one of the four years and just go home for a month...

Or, if you're super ambitious, you can sign up for one of the Winter Term programs.

I signed up to go to Japan, and got accepted.

I am SO FREAKING EXCITED.

I'm thinking about potentially majoring in Asian Studies... English and Computer Science are also potential majors, but I've been learning a lot about some of the asian countries lately, and I really want to learn more. So at the moment Asian Studies is top of my list. So, of course, one of the things I really want to do is visit the countries that I want to study. It's only two weeks, so it'll just be a taste... but this is WAY better than waiting until Junior year [I'm a first-year] or wasting my time on a pointless class that doesn't really accomplish anything. Apparently there are really fun classes, but also classes that are a giant, boring waste of time... and it all depends on the professor. So, I opted for the Japan route.

I CAN'T WAIT.

On the artsy side of things... I've had a bit of art block lately, and when I'm not art blocked, I'm swamped with school work. This college thing is tough! But super fun and awesome, I'm loving it to death so far. Everyone I've met is awesome, all my classes and professors are awesome... my roomies are great... it's kind of scary how well everything is going.

Here's hoping for a continuation of the same.

Oh, and I'm currently obsessed with Star Trek. The new movie is insanely awesome. Don't even try to deny it.