Classes and Bears

I think my power cord is just about to die, in that it never really stays in and I always have to wiggle it around in order for it to hit all the contacts inside my computer. The tip is pretty wiggly as is and possibly unsafe. Just to be sure I recently ordered a cord from Amazon- I hope it gets here soon.

I recently have become far more energetic about my studies in my Japanese class and other classes as well (specifically my god-awful Health and Wellness class which makes me feel like I'm in high school again... Christ.). So far my religion classes, Zen Buddhism and Islam: History and Beliefs are my easiest out of the five i'm taking, but I have a feeling that's not going to last long. Mid terms are coming up and my Islam class teacher mentioned something about a really thick mid term.... uggh. At least there aren't any pop quizzes about when the Muslim calendar starts or something like that, so I guess I should be grateful.

In my life I've only had 2 horrible classes: English 1 honors in middle school with a bi-polar disorder, and my Ethics class just last semester. I'm really hoping there's a way around that Ethics class.....

Anyway, I'm also taking Sculpture 2, which will be later renamed Sculpture 1, the Sculpture 1 class which I took last semester is now called 3D Foundations, and the (what would be) Sculpture 3 class is now a Sculpture 2 class. That's a bit confusing. On my transcript it'll say "Sculpture 1" "Sculpture 2" "Sculpture 2"....
As of now our main project in that class is a multiples project, where we'll make molds or some such and convey a message or meaning through the power of crowds and so on. Unfortunately I'm not an "ideas" artist, so all my ideas were just abstract things with geometric shapes and bananas for heads... some of which people liked but I had no meanings for. I should work on that.

One of my good friends is over in Japan studying abroad right now, and her experience on her blog has single handedly implanted the idea that I too can go to Japan with my limited Japanese language knowledge, which should be beefed up even further next semester when I take the 102 course. Its interesting, I've always wanted to go out of the country, but for my 5 years in Texas I've never been to Mexico, and even when I was in Montana I never went to Canada. I've been to 23 states so far, so I'm very used to traveling. I technically could only travel (or, rather, would only prefer) to countries where I speak the language. Until this semester, that list was fairly narrow, only consisting of Mexico, Cuba, Canada, Australia, UK, and Ireland... but now I can kinda add Japan to the list :D
... Yeah, regardless I'm going to talk to my parents soon about this, raise my GPA to 3.0 (its at 2.5 now... damn freshman year >.> ), and snag a passport anyway. Technically it will be cheaper than my college now... If all goes well I may be leaving fall 2010.

For the past several nights and naps I've been having dreams that involve bears. I will try to go over these dreams with you, as some of them get pretty prophetic (especially the ones where I'm speaking fluent Spanish and I have no idea what I'm saying.).

The first dream had something to do with me going to my home base which was located at the top of a flight of stairs in a very white-clean bank. At one point I come across a security guard of the bank, and he shooed me away; as if I wasn't supposed to be there.
I then realized that it was a lucid dream, in that I can control what I do within it. Just to prove to myself that I could do anything, while walking I did an action with my hands that made it look like I was shooting an energy blast from my hands- it was all directed towards this one guy's face, which I wanted to change somehow. Since I am irony incarnate, nothing happened to the man. It was disappointing.
The dream cut to a scene where I was being chased by a bear, who was going through a backyard somewhere. In this yard was me and someone else, and two opened gates. As the bear rushed inward, through one of the gates, I stood at the other one, ready to close it once the other guy got past. He kept going around in circles for a good minute or so, and finally went through the gate. I was tempted to close the gate, but decided against it. To stop this bear I thought I should close the other gate, so I ran around all these houses and to the other gate. The bear had gotten out. He was on the sidewalk on his back two legs and started charging me, so I ran at him at full speed and pulled out a gun, intending to do battle with it. The dream ended.

The next dream was about my house filled with all kinds of animals. I have two cats, so I spent the dream wondering where they went to. There were mostly zoo animals, but predominantly a buncha bears. Eventually all the bears and animals went to sleep with no real harm to my home. That is when my two cats appeared. I proceeded to talk to them and they told me about their hiding spot, and how they have become semi-nocturnal. They were polite and carried on a fantastic conversation. Somewhere on my porch I was following my cats, who had gotten off into my fenced back yard. There I saw my uncle, who was recently disowned by the family. On the porch was a deer or gazelle, which a bear suddenly attacked. Eventually I wander off, eventually finding the door to my garage open, with a cat inside. I tried to talk to the cat, but when I got closer- it attacked me.

I really have to say, so I'm going to let you all go for now.