Something Random

So, I felt like a bad blogger since I hadn't updated since this weekend so here goes.

Classes are winding down. I'm turning in my journal for culture class today, and that means all I have left in that class is a presentation in English. I'm taking the final for the language class today, but it's only worth 15% of my grade, and I think I have at least a 98% in there already, so I'm not too worried.

Our main class from now on is our project class. With a Japanese partner, we are making in series two bridges out of 2 mm thick balsa wood. Now, I don't know if any of you have experience with balsa wood, but when it's that thin, you can bend it over a span of like 80 degrees or so without it breaking - just bending.

The funny thing too is that within all the American and Japanese students participating there is only one who is actually a civil engineer. Everyone else has no care for bridges in the majors at all. I've heard a few too many people complain about bridges the last few days.

Anyway, my partner is absolutely awesome! She cares about as much for bridges as I do (which isn't much). Actually, our first bridge had to be in the top few of all the bridges. We did this crazy triangular prism design, and it did surprisingly well. It held 9 juice boxes (100 ml each), which had to be at least 18 times its own weight. I don't think we did the best, but we definitely did well enough for both of us.

The next competition factors in beauty as well as strength, so we're practically making the same bridge, and then adding a few peices of balsa wood to make a tower and such. We have the system down for making this type of bridge, so I'm sure we're going to be able to make it like pros this time. Hopefully, we're going to be real girly and color our bridge with markers and add rhinestones and cotton and stuff. Hehe! 女の子パワー！(Girl Power!)

On the subject of 女の子パワー, this school has a worse ratio than Rose. 7 guys to 1 girl! There are basically no girls anywhere, it feels. Oh well.

Well, my final is in an hour, so I should probably go study or print my journals or get money from the atm or buy my bus ticket back to Nagoya or put up my travel plans on the board - all things I should do today . . . hmm.