UAA ACCEPTED!!!

I got 2 letters from University Of Alaska/Anchorage finally letting me know that they accepted me...after 2 past colleges, I can finally continue up here in Alaska....so now I can finally graduate end of next year before continuing on....If anyone hasn't been though it, starting completely over on a career field is a complete pain, and beyond annoying...but sorry, travel and tourism wasn't cutting it for me, and after 9/11...I just said "forget it" after the panic attacks kinda sorta went away from all that, and got away from it altogether....so everything that I had before was nothing but travel and every country in the world...nothing to do with education, but since I've been flying through without any problems, I don't mind it at all...I just completely SNAPPED after being around such unbelievably beyond ignorant people back in Japan...I made a vow to myself set in stone, that no matter what it took, and even if it took me the rest of the time living overseas, that I was NEVER going to work with people who acted that way ever again...let's see!!! what did they jump down my  throat just because I didn't have the same exact opinion as them!!!

1. I hated sushi..still do....always will..I got lectured about that about how "good" it was...still have no idea wth that was about...they couldn't understand no matter how much I told everyone that I really and truly and honestly didn't like anything...They throw meat in with everything, wouldn't even look at that, and they couldn't understand that, and I had no idea how anyone could ruin vegetables, when I say I want them completely and totally plain, and how they can trash a $40.00 lobster mixing mayonnaise in it, and somehow I ended up with 2 of those nasty things, and couldn't touch either one of them...The smell alone was enough to kill me...I'm guessing it was another misunderstanding againnnnnn....so never again will I go through that, even if others enjoy that sort of thing, they can also put up with the guy at the end of the table yelling around arguing about the price of mustard going up...such sad sad souls...I'm thinking Valium for the entire country perhaps...(yes I still am the inventor of sarcasm as the defense mechanism as usual, and when I really have no idea what else to say...and that"s what puts me at the top of all my classes..I guess it pays to always have some snippy off the wall answer...those who haven't heard one, obviously haven't met or come across me yet...

2. I hated being there...I got told to like it anyways, and to just make the best out of any place that I was at...yah, I secretly bitch slapped that one a trillion thousand million times +++++ in my head and that was about when I took off to Australia for a month, and left everyone else there wondering what to do with themselves on an island out in the middle of nowhere...

3.Nothing was in English...yes I know I was in Japan, ok, so what... the response that I got????? "Suzy, you should go and LEARN JAPANESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I think the glare that I gave them fried their brain in half cause they never spoke to me again...and the same went for me...not that I cared of course...

4. Nothing happening like ever besides protests, yelling from vans from loud speakers, arguing, yelling at me when I didn't understand something..like I was really going to understand them any better with them yelling at me in Japanese...I threw out all kinds of phrases in 3-4 different phrases, in German, French, & Italian, all mixed together, so I still came out on top, I don't care what they were saying to or about me...

5. I don't do heat and 1000 degree temperatures...So every new month that rolled around, I found myself in the emergency room being treated for heat exhaustion...I have never lived through such heat...It takes 5 generations  to get used to heat that is in Japan...I had no idea it was so hot over there, but still I was lectured and told that there are beaches, and you can go to the beach any time, and you never have any bad weather...shows what they know...

6. Earthquakes...I went through 4-5 over there, and I had never been through an earthquake in my entire life...2 happened in the middle of the night, our bed just started shaking like crazy and I had no idea what was going on, another time I was just walking across the room, and everything started shaking, and things fell off of my walls...then I just felt slight shaking when I was sitting still....also typhoons like crazy and tsunamis that never end...doesn't sound so much like a beach paradise to me....

7. Oh and how could I forget? MUSIC...what I have on before my feet even hit the floor out of bed in the mornings, and I keep radios on all throughout the house on stations that I can actually stand...We got only ONE radio station there that was in English...the rest were all in Japanese, the street performers on the corner where the shopping areas were, the concerts that were going on during the weekends, were all in Japanese...I was always the loudmouth in the crowd yelling out to play something in English, play something country, can't understand you all, play something that is actually enjoyable...It was so crowded, and shoulder to shoulder, no one had any idea where that came from, or who was saying it...me of course, but I wasn't gonna get up in front of all them and admit that..I'd much rather be the anonymous screamer than let anyone else know that it was me saying all that...funny how I had some other Americans laughing though since they were about the only ones who could understand me...wow how I'm loving that "I Heart Radio" feature that came out not too far back....

8. It seemed like everyone there was nothing but an attitude basher or a trouble maker,... I guess that explains why I still get so moody and won't give up the sarcasm no matter what...It seems that the only ones that I could actually stand were my students, and some of them felt the exact same way, since I am still in touch with a few of them...so good to know that I wasn't the only one who was going outta my mind being stuck in one place...

9. No matter what I liked or what I was interested in, somehow it was always "wrong..." someone always had something negative to say, just to hear themselves talk, and to try and get everyone else to laugh with them...Another reason, why I made a pact with heaven that I will never work with people like that again....

10. Sorry, but that is NOT a beautiful island...There are like 10 landfills, and every single one of them are full...beaches have endless trash thrown all over floating in the water, and jagged rocks aren't inviting along with habu snakes and all other kinds of creatures that I have never heard of...My cats caught one of the lizards that they found, and knew that I'm scared of everything, and killed the thing, and I found it one night in my bed when I pulled the blankets back...I had no idea how long I had been sleeping with that nasty thing in my bed...dried up of course, but I couldn't decide if I was more grossed out, or that it was dead funny and trying to stop halfway choking from laughing so hard for my cats trying to protect me like that...all those beaches do not have sand...they have jagged, broken up pieces of coral that will slice right through your foot if you are going barefoot like I am every minute of the day except when out in public...I seriously can't believe that I had someone else argue with me about that either...not every beach in the entire world has sand...fine a great percentage of them do...great...but I've been to the French Riveria in Nice, France, and that beach is nothing but small black stones....very small of course, but just goes to show you how ignorant some people can be just to try and think that they are right in front of everyone else...

I really have no idea how I got off on all that...just an excuse to talk again I guess...not quite losing my voice again, but I can kinda sorta feel it going....so going to the Anchorage mall this weekend to grab more than a few more things of Alaska...I never wanna leave here, I don't care if it stays cold with snow 6-8 months out of the year...I finally have my life back...no small towns, no weird living styles, no more yelling matches, and not so much of me being so sulky and moody every second that I am awake...now that I can finally think straight, I won't have to secretly slap as many people in my head, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to stop...it never ends when you come in contact with me...good night/day everyone...all my bingo team mates, you all are the greatest ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! so congrats to me....I made it into the University of Alaska!! first time ever going to an out of state school...