Well nothing too big has happened since my last post. I'm still working the same job and I'm still reading books and manga and watching anime. I've also been playing games a bit. But what is new is that last summer my little sister came home from the Netherlands where she had been studying as an exchange student for a year. It was a blast!! We were all ecstatic to have her home. She finally got to meet our two new cats Aka and Kuro.
Though there is a sad story there. Kuro died on the 1st of August from some unknown sickness. He got a really high fever and he was all listless and he didn't eat anything. We took him to the vet and they gave him some fluids and antibiotics and he seemed to be doing better so they sent him home for the night. He died in the morning on our couch.
I was absolutely heartbroken. I had to go to work that day and it was all I could do not to cry in front of the customers. It was a really rough day but I got it over and done with. I still miss Kuro a lot. His brother Aka was rather depressed for some time after his death but now he is doing fine, as are our older cat Kiri and our dog Rontti, who also took the death of Kuro rather heavily. I still miss him and I still tear up when I think about him.
But now something a bit more positive. I've started studying again! I'm going to Helmi Travel and Business college!! I'm on the business side and I'm doing dual education since I didn't finish my sixth form studies (or whatever you people call lukio), so I'm getting my A levels as well as my vocational qualification in business and administration. Cool huh!!!
I started in August and it has been pretty fun, though I had some adjusting to do when I realized that I was going to be at least five years older than my classmates. That really was a wake up call. They are so young I don't know what to do with them.
Now I'm going to sound like a damn kid, but I've made some friends with my classmates and I'm really relieved. Can you imagine studying for three years with kids five years your junior and not get along with any of them? That would be hell, I tell you. But luckily, as I said, I've made some friends and I like to think that I get along with all of them pretty well even though we are not at all close.
Ummm... what else? I've been writing a story and hopefully this one will actually start going somewhere and I'll be able to write more than a couple of pages. Well you never know. I guess this was it for now. I'll try to update more regularly and not have these over-long breaks in between. Oh well, it's not like anyone is actually reading this, so I guess it doesn't really matter.
I'll probably start posting snippets of my story here. Maybe the threat of someone actually reading my ramblings will motivate me to continue writing. one never knows.
Oh, by the way, there is going to be a crew-party for me and my coworkers for job well done on 28th of January, so it's just around the corner. I'm having a little panic attack about what to wear. ^^;
It'll be pain, though, to go to school the next morning since I have no doubt that drinking will be taking place and I'm easily swept along, uncaring of the consequences until too late. Oh well, what happens, happens. It'll be fun anyway.
But now I'm saying good night since I should have been in bed over three hours ago. School and work tomorrow so it'll be a very, very long day. Good night! ^^
