German Results XD

German kind of took over my life at the end there so no blogging for me XD I barely passed I got what's called a conditional pass (otherwise known as a D or 54%). It means I passed but I can't take anymore German classes, horrible I know XP, and if it was a music class I would have had to take it again. The only thing I care about though is that I passed, it counted towards my degree and now I can focus on Korean again XD
The other thing that has been taking over my life is Winx Club XD Yes I mean the Italian anime that targets 8 year olds XP I got a friend totally hooked *yay me* and we've been marathoning it all. We're nearly done only 4 more episodes of season 4 left which means we've watched almost 4 seasons at 26 episodes each and 2 movies in the span of 2 weeks ... yeah we kind of spent 3 or 4 days just watching Winx Club, it was amazing ngl. I hadn't watched it in about a year so it's been fun watching it all again and I've never had a friend into Winx Club so now I have someone I can spazz to about new Winx news and all the pretty contained in that awesome show. We have such clothing envy over everything in that show. It's all so gorgeous and sparkly and amazing it makes me eyes super happy XD

*SYTYCD time XD yay for more happy eyes*

German Project Results & Pet Peeves

I presented my oral assignment on Tuesday and got my results this morning and the mark is ........... 80%!!!!! Good thing I listened to myself with this and didn't give in to silly worries. This is one of those many times that I wish Jiyong oppa had Twitter so I could thank him but alas the YG family doesn't really believe in Twitter T.T I hope that my presentation got some people interested in Kpop and Jiyong oppa specifically but I'm not going to hold my breathe on that, I know how North American people are. My prof seemed surprised that my pronunciation was so good. That could have something to do with the facts that I'm never in class and when I am I rarely talk. It always amuses me how people are so surprised by my accent in foreign languages being so good because I don't even notice anymore. I'm always surprised by how bad most peoples accents are. It's odd to me that they can't hear that they're not saying things right because I've never had any trouble with speaking in foreign languages. Actually learning the languages however is a nightmare because most grammar is super hard for me to memorize, especially Romantic languages, and it takes a lot for me to remember vocabulary unless I hear it in songs or dramas like Korean and Japanese.
That leads me into the other thing I wanted to talk about .... pet peeves. I think I have more pet peeves than most people but I'm also very passive aggressive about them so it's not usually an issue. One is loud people. I can't stand loud people and I always have. It could be because of the migraines so I'm more sensitive to sound than most people but loud people just drive me up the wall. I can't understand why they can't control the volume of their voice. It also amazes me that some girls seem to think that leggings are the same as pants. They're not. At all. It's always people who are unattractive and/or don't have the body to be wearing leggings as pants even if that was ok. I don't get it, I really don't. Leggings are what you wear under dresses/skirts/long T-shirts etc, they are not a replacement for pants. We can see everything when you wear just leggings from underwear to a lack of and it's repulsive really it is. I'm getting angry just thinking about this so I'm going to stop before I say something I'll regret.

*German Final on Monday so I should probably start reviewing T.T*

JYP Audition

Now that I'm sane enough to talk about this rationally I'll make my post. Needless to say the audition did not go the way I wanted it to. Not that it went awful by any means, actually looking at it from a sane angle it went really well for a first audition. I forgot a word but recovered quickly and smoothly which is more than I can say for most people. I was stopped before the chorus so they didn't get to hear what I can do but it wasn't something I could control so I'm trying not to dwell on it. My skin and hair cooperated and my outfit was super cute so I'm happy with how I looked for it which is more than I can say for some singing things I've done. There were tons of people there I would guess over 500 and there were more coming in when I left around noon. They were very ... efficient. In the information we were giving about preparation it said 1 minute which I thought was short but fair. We definitely did not get a minute. I sang a verse which is around 30 seconds, some singers got less, one guy got around 45 seconds. The dancers got way less time than the singers, they got 15 maybe 20 seconds. I felt so bad watching them because they started and then before they had time to do anything they were stopped. It was awful to watch. The first guy in my group totally choked which made me more nervous and I can't even imagine how he felt. We had to stand at the side behind this tape line during the performance before ours which was stressful, my hands were shaking. If we weren't performing or waiting to perform we were sitting in chairs at the side watching everyone. They made the entire experience as stressful as possible so I was very happy to have a friend with me the whole time, except when I was in the room auditioning. I'm glad I did it and at the very least I've had the experience and I know how to prepare better for next year. I wish it had gone better but it went well enough.

*got to get back to German and catch up because I am ridiculously behind*

German Project

Every language course here at McGill requires you to do an oral presentation at the end of the year or semester, depending on wether you take intensive or not. I hate oral presentations. Hate, hate, hate them. I get this nervous laugh and talk way too fast. I'm thinking of doing my presentation on JiYong but it just seems so weird to talk about some guy that nobody will know. I made a video mixing the MV's from his solo album, which looks amazing and I'm so proud of it, but I'm not sure what my classmates, who I never talk to, will think of the random Korean music in German class. I'm not planning on playing any music because it's way too distracting, especially for me >.<, also because I'm supposed to talk for the whole time not have them listen to a 3 minute song for half of the presentation. I'm not sure what I'm going to talk about if I do talk about JiYong though. Obviously I'll talk about the basics like his age, his family, Big Bang, his composing etc, but I'm not sure that that will fill the time. I'll probably talk about Gaho a little bit but that's 2 maybe 3 sentences. I also don't know very much about his family because he doesn't talk about them ... ever. I don't really want to talk about his lawsuit and the issues with all of that, nor do I want to talk a lot about Big Bang mainly because the video that will be playing only has Ji in it. I guess I can talk a little about how he works and how much of a perfectionist he is ... not sure I'll mention his obsession with cleanliness because that would be so weird to explain how I know so much about his personality. Ugh I hate oral presentations T.T

*nearly done season 2 of Sanctuary ... yeah I'm watching this show way too fast.*

It's Been So Long T.T

Wah it's been forever since I made a post T.T I've been swamped with homework for German and been extremely sick with migraines and dizzy spells so computers are not my best friends right now. However I'm going to get back into this because it's important to me to write things down and go through my thoughts.
My audition is coming up >.< Freaking out massively of course but I'm also extremely excited. I'm still wavering between two songs but everyone likes one over the other so I'll probably do that one. (I really like the IU song though T.T) I decided to change from a black and pink outfit to a white and pink one for a more innocent, cute look rather than the club look that I thought the black brought to the outfit. I was so worried my white shoes weren't going to come in on time but thankfully they came in yesterday. (I leave tomorrow O.o) I'll have to work on German while I'm in Toronto though, probably while I'm at the audition too. OTL
* On a side note but still in the JYP vein the teaser for 2PM's comeback came out last night and it looks so good XD The guys all look great, as does the video even though it's just a club concept and nothing new and innovative. The song sounds good too, again not incredibly innovative from what was in the teaser but it's upbeat and has good beats and bass and I don't always need innovative music, Ji can supply that for me XD
I've massively gotten into a Canadian T.V. show called Sanctuary. It's all about a world where people and animals have abilities and look different and finding out about them, similar to Fringe before the war between worlds thing that I found so annoying. Of course there's a cute guy, and a nerdy guy so my male quota is fulfilled but there's also tons of English accents which makes me supremely happy. XD I'm already halfway through the second season of 3 and I've only been watching it a couple of days. *watching it way too much XP* It's amazing so far so I hope it stays that way and doesn't follow Fringe into the realms of over-complicated plot.
The last thing I want to write down is about my mother. I can't remember if I've mentioned my mother on here before but if I haven't I'll give a little intro. My relationship with my mother isn't amazing to say the least. I'm an only child and she's always been very protective of me and kept me very sheltered. I always did what she wanted, the big things not always the little things, because I didn't have any reason not to, I was fine with singing opera and doing ballet and all the things she wanted me to do. However now that I'm 6 hours away and finding things that I love that she doesn't approve of she's having trouble letting me go enough to decide things for myself. This year I've barely been home and I almost never talk to her on the phone, partly because I don't want to but also because I don't really have the time. She sends me e-mails where the title is the question she wants to ask so that I can't not see it. Annoying but effective. -.-' Recently she's been asking me to come home for a bit or she wants to come here for some vacation time, I said I didn't know what she would do here and the only things she could come up with were food and a bug garden. -.-' No way I'm going to a bug garden, I hate bugs. *shudders* Basically I'm going to try to convince her that I'll go back home for a few days and then come back here and start working. Hopefully she'll agree and get her nagging for awhile done with. It would be nice to see my dad and my dogs though, and my mom don't get me wrong I love her but we don't see eye to eye and I'm sick of fighting with her, maybe once she learns how to accept me and show love in an emotional way and not a material way I'll want to see her more often.

*Going to do German homework now and watch some more Sanctuary, the noise helps me focus I can't do anything in pure quiet I need background noise XP*

Travis Wall ^.^

I haven't been feeling well thanks to the massive thunderstorm that is passing over so I didn't post yesterday. I was so ill I forgot that So You Think You Can Dance was on. If that doesn't show how awful I've been feeling I don't know what would. So I rectified this grievous mistake today and Travis has stolen my heart again. He is the best thing that has ever come out of SYTYCD. I don't even remember how many seasons ago he competed but he was my favourite and he didn't win which broke my heart but he's been back as a choreographer for at least two seasons now and he is even more amazing than ever. He's choreographed quite a few dances that were so gorgeous and had so much emotion in them that I have broken down in tears. He choreographed one of the dances for the callbacks in Las Vegas this season of SYTYCD and the couple seconds I saw of it I had tears running down my face. I don't even know the story behind it and I didn't see very much of it but it was so amazing what I did see. I cannot wait to see what he does this season because he is unbelievable. I do know that he choreographs a dance for the top 20 show and that there are two Sonya Tayeh dances in the top 20 show as well. (one of my other epic favourite choreographers, her dances are so unique and amazing to watch I can't even put it into words) I am so excited for this season and there are a number of amazing dancers in the top 20. (although one of my favourites got cut which sucks T.T I'm hoping since she's really young she'll come back again)

*going to Imadake again tomorrow and the possibility of taking pictures is very high ^.^*

X-Men First Class

Dragged myself to the theatre to see this since I'd already bought tickets and I did actually want to see it. It was good. Not amazing or awful, just good. Some of the special effects were really bad and I'm not sure if it was because they were 3D effects that don't work in 2D but they really fell short. The acting was good, though I'm a huge James McAvoy fan so anything he does is gold to me. The best part of X-Men movies is the mutants of course and this movie didn't disappoint. There were a few mutations that stood out, like Angel and Banshee, but they were all very cool and very well done. Some of the music choices left much to be desired, such as when the mutants come in to save the day the "heroic" music was way over the top. My other major issue was the makeup for Beast. Since they had a point of reference from the third movie they should have kept the fur and mouth prosthetic the same. The prosthetic in this movie barely moved and seemed so awkward on the actor where the previous one did not. I loved the 5 second, 2 word cameos from Wolverine and the original Mystique they were hilarious and extremely well timed. Wolverines was made all the more funny with James' reaction to being cussed out by Hugh Jackman. All in all I liked the movie and will add it to my collection, gotta catch 'em all XD but my favourites will stay the original trilogy especially the third movie because the story, characters, actors, music, special effects etc all came together perfectly in that movie. <333

*forcing myself to study German even though my head feels like an elephant is dancing in it*