Last Gabs Game

Yesterday was the last Girl's basketball home game at Mackey.

So that means, it is going to be my last time wearing the silly jersey in the Mackey Arena. I should have brought a camera. It was a really spectacular emotional game.

There were 5 graduating seniors in the current girl's team. All of them are really, fantastic players. As I have seen them play since the mid last year, they are amazing. it is quite funny how you can get attached to the players. I have never been "forced" to watch a sport this intensely (every home game, once or twice a week). Now it seems like that I know every single players very very well. Even though they just have no idea who I am :S

But anyway, the girls played really well. We played against Michigan. their head coach was evil angry old man. he was scary. when he was trying to pick a girl to swap with someone on the field, instead of calling out her name or whatever, he pretty much pulled her arm to make her stand up and go. That was scary. We won though, very well. 75-58.

The Purdue head Coach put all 5 seniors onto the court about 5 minutes to go. then, she swapped everyone with the younger players about 2 minutes to go. That was so... umm cant find a word... impressive? emotional? hmm you know what I mean.. It was their last chance to play together, all 5 seniors on the court. That was really cool. The audiences went nuts when all the seniors left the court.

After the game, there was like a ceremonial thing going on for the graduating seniors. there I found out, one of the senior girls is actually a 2008 homecoming queen with GPA of 4.0 (highest you can ever get) doing premed. she is like really really good at basketball, and she is super smart. I dont know. I was seriously amazed. She was something.

But anyways, the ceremony was really moving. all the team was crying. I was almost in tears even though I didnt know them... I am quite terrible with these things.

I think being in GABS was worth it. Probably one of the best things that I have done in Purdue. It has been a great great experience for me. It was awesome. I am bringing my jersey back home so I wont forget how awesome this experience has been.

Kumi

Blah

Hi.

Nothing much is going on here atm.
I am just stressing out with no reason for the HW due on next Wednesday... i know it is kinda crazy to get stressed about now. But I am.

I have about 10min now to kill before I see my TA. sigh. I am so lazy recently.

I have so much time to myself but I somehow use it for nothing.
I must doze off or something. It is seriously insane. I am always doing things last minutes.

Today consisted of
1. Weekly meeting with the Research Professor. (I fell asleep)
2. Concert band (I fell asleep and I felt terrible for the conductor)
3. meeting with TA
4. and possibly grabbing values for the research class. Maybe. If I can be bothered.

Its Thursday. Should I go out? or not. SHOULD I? hmmm i havent been to the Cactus this semester. Maybe i should just to be sociable. But I have NO FRIENDS!

Ku

Ok i have 8 more minutes to kill. what the hell am i meant to do!?

Breast Cancer Awareness

Okay. This is me on Feb 15th wearing all PINK. I just came back from a girls basketball game. it was breast cancer awareness game. so everyone was supposed to dress up in pink. This is all the pink stuff that I have accumulated in Purdue. The headband was given during the game today. Its mine now :P

The Purdue 10 is GABS uniform, everyone has to wear it every game. Its quite cool. Apparently without the uniform we are not allowed to go into the Band section in Mackey Arena. Odd. I thought instrument would give it away even if you are not wearing the jersey. but anyway definitely bringing it back. Well, Purdue won against Illinois 60-45 or something. Girls didnt play as well, but oh well we won :)

And also you can see my whole room. I moved by the way to Hawkins Hall. Its a quite small room, but it is big enough for 1 person.

anyway nothing much is new apart from I am frigging all pink.

Ciao

Boiler up

Kumiko

Sustainability

Im doing this group assignment for sustainable engineering.
I have to write annotated bibliography for 10 articles. so im reading those articles.

This is just a quick thought. Nothing fancy.

This article Im reading atm was written 10 years ago. It was complaining that US gov is not part of any environmental protocol completely. Nothing has changed since. US hasnt signed the Kyoto Protocol yet. Sigh.
I am so tempted to bag the crap out of the US gov in the annotated bibliography but I probably shouldnt...

This subject is stupid unless you can bag US at all.

Silly

ku

Lazy...

Hi all.

I have been seriously lazy. It is mid-Feb and this is my first blog entry of the year...

Sigh.

but anyway, it has been almost a month since Pat has left the country.
I had a great time for 3 weeks. even though the traveling was quite intense and as soon as I got back to Purdue, I got a cold on my birthday... How sad.

It has been pretty cold, apart from the past a few days. It gets up to 18C today. I am so excited.
I can just go out with my thin long T-shirts instead of a huge coat... hehe.

This semester has been quite busy, but in a totally different sense.
much much less socializing. I guess without dining court meals with friends it becomes that way.


I started playing racquetball, started doing ridiculous amount of exercise, doing at least 2 hours a day. Im in a part of 4 bands. total I think Im playing almost 15 hours a week.

I started playing tenor sax too :) It is such a cool instrument. I love it. I am still trying to play flute but not enough time I guess.
I am studying less. More time to concentrate on one subject comparing to last semester when I was doing 5 subjects at the same time.
It can get quite late time to time. But I was expecting that.

The new kids seem okay.But I kinda lost an enthusiasm to make friends. Don't get me wrong. I have some. but not as intimate as last semester. Last semester was the best.

I have 3 hours of class (including 1 hour of Jazz band) Monday, Wednesday and Friday
and 2 hours of class (concert band only) on Tuesday and Thursday.
Playing Racquetball 3-4 times a day. Group exercise every night.
I am usually dead.

another exciting thing in my life atm is the research class.
I am enrolled in a research class. I am meant to spend about 15 hours a week. I have not yet done that. but it has been so much fun.
it is awesome organizing your own experiment and control the equipment and stuff.
I once stayed till 8pm waiting for an experiment to finish.
Hehe that was pretty cool. Im enjoying it :)

but anyway I should probably go back to study... I have a test tonight and I am not too confident about it even though i had all the weekend to study....

Missing you heaps and cant wait to go back home

xx

Kumiko

Hello from Boston

It has been a week since Pat and I have left West Lafayette.

We have been travelling fair bit.
We went to

• Indianapolis
• Detroit
• Toronto
• Buffalo (Niagara Falls)
• and currently at Boston

It is not a bad effort for 1 week right? At Indianapolis, it was seriously seriously freezing. I think it went down to -24F with windchill. It was so bad. My eye lashes were frozen from my breath and my scarf was also frozen, That was a painful painful day.

Detroit was nice for wandering around for 2 hours. We only spent a night (got there late afternoon and left at noon the day after) I think if we were there for longer, we would have been bored. But it was quite nice seeing the Downtown detroit. Oh, We had this BEST greek food for dinner. it was soo good. we were happy.

We got to Toronto on Christmas Eve, eve (23rd) at night. the bus was really delayed. we got there at about 11:30pm. everything was closed, but it was snowing beautifully. It was sooo awesome. So we decided to make a snowman the next day. But the next day, it was raining! we were soooo disappointed. so we didnt have a white christmas.... But Toronto was cool. There was the underground walkaway connectging all the buildings in the downtown. The weather was quite miserable but It was good. Enjoyable. Pat loved it, as you can imagine...

Niagara falls was amazing. it was awesome just to be able to walk back and forth the border of the US and Canada. We looked at the falls from both side at day and night. It was awesome. quite cold though.

Boston is amazing. I should have come to this city to study for a year. it is such a nice place. I can so imagine myself living in this city. We went to Harvard and MIT today. both of them was very impressive considering it was only 10min train ride away from the centre of the downtown. Also walked around the city. It was quite good. The Boston Common was quite relaxing. Ice skating rink too! we didnt do it though. There was a huge line and we were hungry and tired. We will go to the one in NYC :D

Tomorrow, we are leaving Boston for Philadelphia spending NYE there :)

we would update photos, but both of us forgot cables in W Lafayette...

Love you heaps

Pat and Kumi

Bye bye!

Just checked out of Purdue Village. Moving to hawkins next semester!

and leaving for indianapolis to start out trip along the east coast! It is going to be so exciting but it is going to be freezing cold...

Enjoy your warm weather.

Ku