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Description Phew this took me forever

Anyway, I did this for a scholarship contest that I need to send off today aaannd it would still be wet if I didn't leave it by the fire last night. The contest involves painting a duck and if you win best in country it's turned into a stamp for a year that hunters have to buy or something like that. Now, I thought that painting ducks would be a pretty obscure contest given the prize isn't super huge or likely of winning, but I saw there's so many skilled entries from students I doubt I'll even place in the state let alone for the whole country. But it was still fun.

But I am proud of this, and I think it's the most realistic painting I've ever done. If I had more time though, I'd work some more on that grass in the background. I just couldn't find any references for swamp reeds that close up so I kinda just had to make em up. :/

Mallard ducks
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LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-15 22:35:18 +0000 UTC]

What pretty little ducks! Very well painted I've actually been very infatuated with ducks lately (lol xD) and whenever I walk my dog by the river, I study those cuties ^^

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CelticFeather In reply to LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-16 01:26:15 +0000 UTC]

Ahaha! Maybe you don't want a goat for your birthday, but next time I'll get you a duck! Do you have that sort of duck in Denmark, with the green head and the blue wings? 
I always thought ducks were kinda funny. Proficient in land air and sea, but masters in none. Also, brave to a fault at times.

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LoveToTheCucumber In reply to CelticFeather [2015-03-16 08:19:59 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, yuuush! Me wants duck!
Yes, we do ^^
Heh, well, they're just like those people who wanna learn everything and so they don't have time to learn anything properly *cough* me xD

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CelticFeather In reply to LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-17 01:33:07 +0000 UTC]

      Here have some!! I don't think we have thaat many ducks where I live. I think they're mostly outcompeted by Canada geese. Which I think is actually a feral hybrid breed of geese we domesticated in the 1910s or something to replace all the ones we hunted and it exploded.
 I don't know about all of the obscure things you tried. But you seem pretty good at the ones I know, art, playing music, and story writing -in two languages too!

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LoveToTheCucumber In reply to CelticFeather [2015-03-17 14:28:12 +0000 UTC]

Geese... Geese everywhere!!
Seriously? I thought ducks were a pretty common animal. At least the green neck kind.
Hahaha, oh well, that depends, I guess. I wouldn't say I'm good enough at any of them to actually say I'm good at it.
By the way, little me just bought two Western manga books... IN GERMAN xD I actually got through them and understood everything, though, obviously, I had too look up a lot of words 'cause my vocabulary is pretty small since I rarely use German. But sometimes I read pages without looking up any words at all. Proud! Lol xD

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CelticFeather In reply to LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-17 19:52:07 +0000 UTC]

Well maybe they are. They might be here but since I don't live in a very marshy area they don't populate the lakes as well as the geese who are more long distance travelers who can get to our scattered ones more easily. I guess if you're a duck you want a real marsh, not gonna take all the time to get to some little mountain ponds.


 Das ist wunderbar! Gratulien! Was ist Westlich manga? Avatar: der Herr der Elementen? Haha. Mein Deutsch ist noch Scheiße. Schade, weil ich so viel Musik auf Deutsch gern hören. Drei Stunden jeden Tag höre ich Deutsche Musik und Jedes mal höre ich ein Wort das ich kenne nicht, finde ich es in einem Diktionär. Also ich lerne viele random Wörter. Doch, ich kann nicht ein gutes Satz machen, denn ich weiß nicht so viel das Grammatik. Ich denke ich wurde besser, wann meine Austauschulerin hier war. Ich schrieb ihr so viele emails auf Deutsch und ich versuchte zu ihr schreiben, wie ich tun mit dir. Über Kultur und Geschichte and Musik. Aber es war mir ein Bisschen enttäuschend. Ihr English war drei mal besser als mein Deutsch, aber unsere Gespräche waren nicht so interresant wie würde ich hoffen. Ich versuchte so viel,  und sie schrieb mir zuruck nur ein paar Englische Satze pro Jedes Deutsch Paragraph schriebe ich. Also.... Mein Deutsch ist echt Scheiße. Aber ich bin die beste Studentin in meiner Klasse-- die anderen sind "Guten Tag! Ich name ist Nick und ich mag spielen Tennish!" Also der Lehrer kann nicht mich lehren, wenn musst er mit diesen Dummkopfen helfen.


Doch! Die Österreicher mochten mich, und dachten mein Deutsch war gut für nur zwei Jahre. Es war ein Junge der war sehr intelligent und sein Englisch war sehr sehr gut und er war so spass zu sprechen mit. Wir sprachten viel über Universitäten im Amerika und Österreich und Rammstein. Ich denke, hatte ich ein kleine Crush, hehe. 

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LoveToTheCucumber In reply to CelticFeather [2015-03-17 20:43:04 +0000 UTC]

Hahahha, maybe not xD We have loads of deer as well. I walk by a pack everyday that are always in the same place. They're actually very close to where the runners and dog walkers walk.

Lol, I guess Avatar is kinda Western manga. But this one really is a manga, only it's in German. A Japanese/German created it.My favorite part was when oone shouted "Ruf einen Krankwagen!!" I'm totally gonna shout that all the time. It sounds awesome xD but I guess it's a bad idea to go yelling that all over the place xD
Oh yes, back when I took German classes, I listened a lot to German music too and learned loads of random words by doing that. So keep on listening to all that Rammstein it really helps!! But yes, unfortunately, music will probably not help you improve your grammar. It's a bitch in German anyway.
As for you mails with the Austian, does she at least correct you?
If you're serious about "Ich name ist Nick" then I'm done. Nope, I would never be able to follow that class without constantly lying on my back, laughing xD!!

Well look at you no wonder. Must have been quite the confidence boost. just as this have been for me. Only looked up two words though I still understood what you were saying 'cause of the context. Whoop! You're welcome to write me something in German when you feel like practicing though I'll be answering you in English 'cause it's been too long for me since I last used my German so I can't recall it enough to actually write it. Takes too long xD

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CelticFeather In reply to LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-18 00:31:38 +0000 UTC]

That's so cool. I rarely see herds of them together, and only ever at night. It's always a loner by me. It's still black when I walk out of my house in the mornings, and when I opened the garage door I saw a flash of white and a deer exploded away from me. I actually flinched. I mean, they always run away. But when you get really close like you can in my neighborhood, they always look at you. And when your close enough that you doubt you can outmaneuver them, especially the bucks with antlers, and they stare at you expressionlesly, I can't help but wonder for a split second what I'd do if it charges.

Haha! Well, when you and me go to the stork fountain, I'll pass out from tourist overload, and I guess you can pretend you're a german tourist and spring up the fountain and swing from it shouting that.
Yeah, music helps much more with vocabulary than grammar. Though sometimes it reveals to me some that I don't even know yet. "...ich sprechen kann." I've heard a lot of those. But I've yet to know why the verb order is inverted. Does the sentence need to be a certain way to do that, or is it just moveable for fun or emphasis?

Well I don't really email her any more, but before she came I did a lot. I'm kinda afraid to talk with her too much now because we cried when we left each other but I'm just a pussy and cry whenever and then she started crying too, which my last one didn't. I think she expects me to visit her this summer and I'm kinda embarassed to tell her that I won't be visiting her but will instead be going on a tour of Berlin Prague and Munich. God I sound like a spoiled brat. But when it comes down to it, this is a great opportunity, and with the whole world to explore I don't think it's wise to visit the same small town twice. I mean, I wonder if maybe we could meet up in Munich, and go south from there, but that means I can't fly home with everyone else and would have to figure that out on my own. But if she did want to meet me I wouldn't want her to spend money to get there and I have to be hauled around like a child with my tour group whos afraid of losing me and I can't spend any time with her.
Also eh, dunno if she'd be thrilled about going to Dachau.

Oooh, to what you were actually asking; no we never corrected each other in the emails, and I think it was wise that we didn't. We just didn't know each other and couldn't risk the other getting offended. Which I don't think one of us would be bothered if it happened once or twice, but I was making so many mistakes I think if she corrected some she would have to correct them all, and that would push my patience. Especially since I do try very very hard compared to any other student my teacher says he's ever had and I could have written in English. So I think we mutually understood and accepted that some of what we would say is wrong, and would improve our language when she got here. Some of the instances I'm sure were just typos too, sometimes we'd say ist instead of is and vice versa but obviously we knew what we were doing.
Like, I wouldn't correct you if you messed up a 'their' in a message. (Sein Bruder, for example, I'd bring it up to you just for the other people reading). You obviously know what they're used for and I'll know just as well and make the mistake too. Your English is at the point it would be insulting.
I'm curious, what words did you have to look up? I'm wondering if it was the one I had to look up. xD

Yeah... Ich name Nick is real. It's this mexican kid who just dozes off the whole class. Our poor teacher tries to catch him up for ten minutes every day and I just can't stand having to listen to him regurgitate something basic we learned 3 weeks into the class. At first I hated him for being stupid. But in my summer job I encountered a 5 year old exactly like him. I realized it was because his parents spoke complete spanish at home and in elementary school he couldn't understand the teacher and expose his brain and was understimulated. Luckily, we caught this kid quick and with some of our art therapy over a fews weeks his attention span and coordination improved astronomically. My Swiss mentor also spoke Spanish fluently. But I understood why this was- I was ready to abandon the kid. Give him a ball of clay and let him play with it, it was so much work to get him to even trace or cut out paper. It was easier for me to do it for him. Even the other teachers just put him where he could do the least damage rather than actually help him. But my mentor did and she understood how to. I learned a lot from working there.

I desperately, fervently, hope they hire me again this year. It's a good job. I've made more money there than I have in 6 months of my part time job. But I can only work for 3 weeks instead of the full five this summer because I'll be in Europe, and I don't know if they will hire me just for that. I worry if they don't hire me this year, I won't have a job next year either.
I try to tell myself that I am important. That they need me because I am the only one who can do my job. That with my mentor gone, I have the most experience at three years in working the program's most popular class. And they bumped me up to looking after the after care until 3pm too, which is a position real teachers are trying to get. But she doesn't want to put them on because she has to pay them four times as much as me. But that might not be valid if I'm only good three weeks.
 But well... now I'm only just starting to realize the value of money. I realize what this trip will cost, though I'm not funding it, is more than my entire life savings. And it might be a while before I can have a job in college and settle in, so I want to fatten up while I can so I can afford to go out to a restaurant if I want to.

It was. Because of their dialect I could only understand about 10% of what they said. But there was this one asshole British guy at the party -he's living in America and probably we're responsible for turning him into an asshole because our women spoil his accent with so much attention, but well, I'm glad it was the Brit who was an asshole rather than an American- and he got wasted and wanted to fight the one Austrian I was flirting with. I guess this is just what British people do in pubs for fun- fight. I can say in America fighting is not very common in bars. Britain yelled something stupid, to which I replied with a very Austrian version of 'shut up' (lit. hold the snout!) And all of the austrians laughed and ooooo'd and high fived me and I was suddenly part of their inner circle. The British kid, also in German class, had no idea what I'd said. Because My first Austrian had taught it to me the year before.

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LoveToTheCucumber In reply to CelticFeather [2015-03-20 20:50:49 +0000 UTC]

Well, loads of herds and loners here xD

I don't know what I would do either. Probably not much to do. Either take it, challenge it oh try and run to safety. I don't know deer well enough to guess what's best to do.


Will do xD sounds like a lot of fun.

Never listen to grammar in songs. They make mistakes AND they sometimes write something that is grammatically incorrect for it to fit the song or just for fun. As for that way of placing the verbs, you can do that in Danish too. It makes it sound old, or something like that. Don't use it in daily speech and only in writing when it's suitable. As in songs.


Well, don't worry. I'm sure she won't expect you to actually visit. her. She knows what a great oopportunity it is for you andsurely, she wwouldn't hate you. She would most likely just be a bit disappointed 'cause obviously, she would love the chance to meet up. Don't expect her to come to Munich either, though. Even though it might seem close 'cause it's in Europe and she's in Europe, it's simply not that easy xD

(lol, started writing this Thursday and didn't continue till now xD)

You're probably right about that. I always ask others to correct me (not in English, though) and then I think it's okay to correct frequently. Best way to learn. Buuut I know hardly any would actually correct me unless I ask them a specific question. At least that's my experience.
Uuuh, can't remember and I'm on my phone so it's difficult to go back and check. It was a long word starting with e xD

Yes, I see this must have given you a better understanding for this other kid who seems like he must have given up. Some people are just not good with languages. But then maybe he shouldn't have taken German xD

Ugh, it's always hard with these things. But they might be willing to take you for just three weeks so in that case, problem solved

Hahahha, how awesome! I would have loved to be the one doing that xD must have scored you some points with that guy too. Speaking of crushes - I met a girl last Friday when me and my friends went to a bar. We danced and kissed and talked a little and I ended up asking her for her number. And today, I went on a date with her. I was so fucking nervous 'cause as I've told you, we don't really date in Denmark so it's kinda weird and no one knows what to do and aaarggh, I just don't do stuff like that to begin with so everyone was like, WHAT?! YOU are going on a date?! It ended up going really well. Went for a bit to drink and eat at a cafe to begin with where we talked and got to know each other in the most casual way imaginable and then we went for walk in the city. Near the old train station, there is this chill place where people around our age come and hang out and all sorts of stuff. Someone had just lit up a bonfire and so we decided to sit there and talk 'cause we both had a bad cold (great to be sick on our first date xD). It was so chill! Four guys came over and asked if they could sit there too and they brought music. We just sat there talking while the guys lit up joints and started playing trivial, lol xD! After a long and successful date (in my opinion, of course), she asked if we should meet again next Friday at the old train station when she was done with her exams. She also suggested we went on a horror trip through this old ruin of a factory nearby her place and I thought it was the most hilarious suggestion ever so I'm probably gonna mention it again later 'cause I'm guessing it's gonna be a shitload of fun xD

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CelticFeather In reply to LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-20 23:12:16 +0000 UTC]

I never see a group of deer more than five though? Usually just a couple females and the rest children. I feel like in nature they’d have great big herds. But maybe just as moose stay alone and caribou in the hundreds that’s what the white tail species by me does.

But here’s where it’s interesting in that a deer;s brain is so much different than ours. We’re much better at understanding the impulses of omnivorous or carnivorous animas because they’re more like us. I’d have no idea what to do if a buffalo came after me because it’s different that what you should do if a mother bear went after you. Making yourself look small and unthreatening wouldn’t work with a buffalo, they’d charge you anyway for fun. Most of their attacks are bluffs. But If I held my ground and he did charge I’d most certainly be killed. I was watching this video where a guy on a road in yellowstone stopped his car because bison were on the road, and a bison walked up to the stopped car and charged the hood it anyway. Just because it was so full of testosterone. I don’t know if it has the intelligence to evaluate me based on my body that I probably would not actually charge him. But if I ran away, I’d guarantee an excuse to chase.

 

Oh, I listen to a lot of medieval style music nowadays so they might even be doing some extra word invertations for fun. I hope I didn’t incorporate it into my dialogue too much.

 

Yeah, I get that. ‘don’t expect it to be close just because theyre both in Europe’ thing. My uncles family had a visitor from Germany, and before she went back home, she decided she’d go aolne to the grand canyon from NJ. (The Grand Canyon is the stereotypical German tourist spot in the US.) Just because you happen to be on this half of the ocean doesn’t mean it’s close, haha.

 

Yes! Cool!  Enttäuschend, disappointing, was the word I had to look up xD. Great minds think alike. Or rather, uh, lack knowledge of the same words.

 

It’s funny, a lot of Latin American kids take German. We’re only required to take one language at my school and since they already know Spanish, their parents are good souls and force  them to learn a third. It’s actually, to my knowledge a much smaller amount of Hispanics taking Spanish than I would have thought. I know some people might have just wanted an easy A.

 

I just found this song I thought would be interesting to us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5up86… It was made in the 70s by an Italian singer to prove that any English song would be a hit and to make fun of the Italians who liked them. So he devised this song out of complete jibberish that was tailored to sound like American English. And to the Italians that understood nothing of English, it was a hit! It was funny to me, because my brain even started filling in words even where there weren’t any. I was also curios to see just how ‘American’ sounded as a language without being distracted by the meaning of the words.

 

I really hope they hire me! I’ve been pretty lucky this year so far but I hope I don’t run out. What I mean by lucky is-- I got accepted to that school!

 

Yeah, I hate to say it but I think I’m more interested in visiting Austria just so I could see that guy again. He was such an adult and so articulate. He made me comfortable where usually I’m fidgety and nervous around the few potential suitors who I actually like. Or very arrogant and worldly as an attempt to mask my twitchiness. At first I told myself I would stay romantically away from him because he wasn’t that hot. But that melted pretty fast with him where it holds a while with a lot of boys. Come to think of it, I had no idea if he has a girlfriend. Most of them do. Oh well, wasn’t going to stop me from talking with him. He was so nice to me when we said goodbye and he made me feel like such an adult.

 

Your little anecdote made me so happy!  Kyookster, you’re so brave! Asking for that number! I kinda hope you and your date didn’t join in with the joints on the date though.  I’m so happy she asked you to meet up again! I like how in your culture you can just walk up to that bonfire. I’d feel it belonged to someone and since they set it up they have exclusive rights to it. I get dating can be awkward. I’ve never been on a real date to a restaurant- I promise I’m not a loser and I have been asked a few times. But this is where I get anxious so I try to talk them into an activity like ice skating rather than talking awkwardly over food with no escape.  I hope you have fun on your next date at the haunted factory! Nothing makes fun like not supposing to be there. Me and my friend blatantly snuck out of class today to buy curly fries and ice cream and brought it back and ate it right in front of the teacher. We were laughing giddy in the hallways with our catch,  but I was nonetheless proud of my sneaking abilities.

When you met her, how did you figure out she can be into girls as well? I hear sometimes this can be hard to distinguish. With girls and guys it’s pretty easy to realize “You look really beautiful tonight” as flirting, but girls will say that to each other with less weight to it, so it’s hard to discern she might wanna be more than friends.

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LoveToTheCucumber In reply to CelticFeather [2015-03-21 11:06:05 +0000 UTC]

Well, I don't think I've seen more than 7 together and it's also just females and babies. Anyway, they come by often and I think it's nice. They haven't been here the last few days, but there were a couple of rabbits instead ^^ good thing Sasuke didn't see them. Last time we went past a rabbit, I didn't see Sasuke for half an hour... Stupid dog -_-'


Omg, fucked up bison! What a bitch xD I sure as hell hope I never come across one of those. But yes, it's definitely hard for humorous to just guess how different animals will react to threats. 


Haha, awesome! I love medieval music. It's very festive ^^ but yes, try not to learn too much from the songs. Might just come back and bite you


I expected that would be the same word you had to look up since it was the less common one xD


Well, loads of Danes take Spanish or something else instead of continuing with German when reaching high school simply 'cause they wanna learn a new language. I would've have thought at least some of the Mexicans would have the same motivation?


What a great idea that man had xD and for the most part, I guess it does sound a lot like American English. Lol that the Italians "fell for it". I don't even like the music so that wouldn't have been an excuse for me xD

Congratulations!!! Yaaay! So now you can actually go to you first choice so, is it settled, are you actually going there for college ^^?

Aaaw, that little crush of yours is still flaming hot, I see well, do you at least have the opportunity to write him? 
And I'm glad he made you feel comfortable and like an adult. That's really important. At least it is to me xD but I've been an adult for a few years now so it would be a problem if someone didn't treat me like one, I guess xD funny thing my date told me. In high school when she was 17, she went to the US for 7 months (attending high school there, of course xD) and she told me it was really stressful that she was used to being an adult in Denmark, but all of a sudden, she was treated like a child. It was not just that she had been drinking for years, had lots of sex that wasn't looked down upon and so on. It was everything in general. In Denmark, she had been an adult for a few years already. In the US, she was like a 12-13-year-old Danish kid again. I knew there was a big difference, but I guess I never realized just how big it was xD these must be one of the major cultural difference when it comes to the US and Dänemark xD

Thank you ^^!! I felt really brave too since I'm no good with these things. I surprised myself when I asked her if we could talk for a minute off the dancefloor and just outright asked her. I'm really happy she agreed. Though, I was so nervous the next day 'cause she didn't have my number so the ball was on my side of the court. I didn't know if I was supposed to wait with contacting her or if I could just write her already. I went with something I felt was safe, writing her the next morning, "hey, it's Chris. Thought it was only fair you got my number too." and I guess it worked xD
No worries, we didn't join in. I'm on those anxiety pills now and I've had my fun so there's no need for me to keep on smoking ^^ as for the bonfire, I don't know what the fuck happened. We just wanted to check it out and once we got close, this lone boy immediately asked us, hey, how long are you gonna stay? Care to take care of the fire for me? We said yes, not knowing what the fuck was going on. Then he left and we didn't see him again. Then those boys joined in. Very cozy and very unlike anything I've experienced before. I'd never been to that part of town. Didn't even know it existed xD There's LOADS of art around that place so it's very cultural. Urban, even. I think a lot of anarchists and alternative people might hang around there. it felt like one happy community of lost souls, kinda. Who would have thought they would find a bonfire in the middle of the city xD

I understand why you would rather do that. I'm not into the dinner thing either. and no worries, I don't think you're a loser for not going on dates. Remember that I think dates are a weirdconcept to begin with xD 
Aah, I loved to do that. Kinda made me miss high school. I skipped several classes (especially in the beginning) in favor of wandering the city with a few people. One day, we decided to skip class and we had a free period after that so we had lots of time to do different stuff... But later we were told our schedule had changed so the free period was not a free period that day so we ended up skipping two classes, one of them which we actually  wanted to attend. Sucked xD

Well, we were at a gay bar (the only one in Aarhus and it happens to be the best bar around in my opinion. Loads of heterosexuals come there 'cause it's freaking awesome) so if a girl approaches you, you can be quite sure she's into you. We were dancing when my friend tapped my shoulder and told me that this girl was looking at me. I looked at her and suddenly we were dancing and soon kissing too. So... No doubt xD went as smoothly as possible.

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CelticFeather In reply to LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-21 19:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Oh Sasuske. My neighbors dog blew right through their electric fence after a deer and I saw their owners trekking through the woods in the snow  behind my house to find her. I think my backyard has become something of a rabbit sanctuary. I think a family lives under the shed. There’s plenty of flowers. I thought the foxes couldn’t get in but with snow on the ground I thought I’ve seen fox prints, so maybe they can fit though the bars.

 

I know right? I liked nature because it usually has natural guards against unreasonable activities. Don’t charge if it’s not a threat because you don’t want to waste the energy. But jacked up on testosterone bison don’t care xD

 

Yeah, and that’s what they should do if they want. But I just thought there’d be so many people looking for an easy A.

  

I’d say 90% chance I go to this school, 10% chance I go to the other. The third one in North Carolina I spoke about is out, I don’t wanna pay that much money a year to live and study there and I don’t think its name is as good as either of these NJ ones. Part of the reason I liked the 90% school so much was because I thought I wouldn’t get in and it was too good for me. But now that I am in, of course it’s lost some of the allure.

I’m gonna outline these two schools, because I started writing a paragraph of my thoughts right now and realized you’d get confused because I went back and forth so much xD

The 90%-chance-I’ll-go school: smaller and more suburban and is more competitive to get into. I care a lot about titles; I want to tell people where I went and them to go ‘wow, that’s a good school.’ Yeah, I’m pretentious that way. This one, though less well known outside of NJ because it only has some 7,000 students is more competitive to get into and I think would offer a better education. It’s more liberal arts centered wheras the other school is more business centered. Part of what I worry with this school is, since I don’t know what I want to do, if it’s smart to get myself lost in a bigger forest.  

Even the 10% school, the one my grandfather taught at, is ranked 31st in the world or something like that. But I don’t think I like the campus much because it’s spread all around and is in a not so nice city. My dad raised to me though, I might get bored at the other school’s grassy green campus. But then again, he’s a guy and the city presented no dangers of rape and mugging to him, it was just new territory to explore. But classes here have a couple hundred kids and I don’t know if I’ll learn as well. Also don’t know if I liked the student body as much. It was a fend for yourself dog eat dog kinda world. But that self advocation noboady cares about you might be a useful lesson to me who grew up in a sheltered neighborhood.

My dad tells me not to stress too much over the decision because I can’t go wrong with either one of them. And they’re the same price. It’s just, theyre complete opposites and I know either way my life will turn out totally differently. I just don’t have that crystal ball to see how my life will turn out with either one and pick which one I’m happier at. I have until May 1st to decide.

And, well, I might just say fuck it a year in and decide to go to art school within either college. But I didn’t want to go to art school because I didn’t want to marry an artist and generally thought artists were all kinda weird. (except me, of course.)

But then again, would that put me at an advantage in art school if I was someone who an advertising company actually wanted to business with? Rather than one who smoked weed in drum circles and ranted about ‘the man’? Would I make more money there if I actually was good enough to start up my own small graphic design business or go into administration? I kept away from art thinking they make no money, but would I really make more if I wanted to be a history teacher?

Whelp there’s my babbling, I don’t expect you to make any sense of it.

 

I do have my little crush’s facebook. But I’d feel kinda weird writing him when I barely write my student. Also, there’s no chance we’ll see each other again, so it’s not like I want to waste our time. I’m not going to delude myself into thinking I was going to marry the guy. Certain girls when they have a crush think a person in ‘the one,’ but I’m a bit cynical of being able to tell that after only knowing him for a few days. I think it’s just a chemical reaction hormone in our bodies that makes us feel high around them.

 

It probably sounds weird to you that I said twice being with him made me feel like an ‘adult.’ It’s not like he was older or more experienced than me and his acceptance of me made me feel more like him. But he was just so easy to be around…. Not awkward child insult give and take flirting.  I’m sorry your friend felt a little patronized here. Might I ask what part of the US she went to? (Ironically, when my crush guy was 17 he went to Ohio and that was why his English was better than everybody else’s). If it was a little town out in the middle of the country I could understand why because it’s especially like that there. In the cities on the coast it’s probably most like Europe. When I went to the parties, we kept picking up my student’s boyfriend from my friend Alex’s house. She couldn’t drive and my mom was nice enough to volunteer to take my Austrian’s BF wherever he wanted to go with us. I kept asking Alex if she wanted to come with us, and after the third party  -my party- I felt really betrayed that she wouldn’t. She was only a sophomore, but I hauled her Austrian around to all the parties and she wouldn’t thank me by coming with? I barely knew any Americans there. I was understanding at first, she wouldn’t party if she didn’t want to. I even told her if she wanted to come I would defend her in front of the others if they pressured her to drink. But when she kept sending her Austrian off with us, I started to feel bitter and superior to her. I had a point to this story but I lost it.

I bet, when I go off on my summer tour, I’m probably going to be one of the older teenagers there and probably one of the only ones that are comfortable drinking  and partying, I’ll look down at the others for being slower in development. While if I were in their shoes, I would look at me like some fuck up sinful girl being stupid by drinking, that I was superior to. I’d feel like an adult when everyone else, maybe even our tour guides, thought I wasn’t. And because of that, they would view me as less of an adult for thinking I was one when I wasn’t.

I Saw your journals btw! I hope you’ll have fun in Netherlands! What do you plan on doing?

 

It’s good nowadays we can just text. Think about the old says when the guy had to /call./ ugh, I’d hate calling people, At least a text is easy and you can think about what you’ll say and the other person has time to react. Or pretend not to see it for a while and that you have a life  while you ask your friends for what to say.

Oh that’s good. And I’m glad the pills seem to be working. It’s none of my business what you do, but I’d feel like getting high on a second ‘date’ would set a bad precedent and after that I’d just do more evil things to match it.

Oh gosh, I learned in the 1910s anarchists in America were a force to be reckoned with. They assassinated a president. But now, our anarchists are lobbying against starbucks. Come on guys, step it up xD. Well, I hope your Aarhus artsy anarchists are fun to be around and not too threatening towards society.

 

Oh, Gay Bar would make it clear huh. Kinda sucks with all the heteros there though? I’d be like, this is my bar! Get out and stop appropriating it, you have enough bars and less confusion in your life already. Now shoo! But I know at times women will go to gay bars/ hang out with gay men just because they don’t want to be hit on. I guess it wouldn’t be so bad as long as the straights didn’t try flirting there because that would just throw a fork in the purpose  and then you wouldn’t know who was what.

i'm going to my school play tonight with some friends and it's about a giant man eating space plant so hopefully I'll have some fun to report!

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LoveToTheCucumber In reply to CelticFeather [2015-03-21 20:35:10 +0000 UTC]

Psycho dog and what poor rabbits D: Hope you don't find them little fellas dead in your yard too often I kinda wanna be mad at the foxes, but I love those creatures and they gotta have food. Unlike dogs, they gotta find their own food. So I guess I sympathize more with the foxes than the rabbits :/? Anyway, I'm glad Sasuke doesn't kill anything but spiders and flies xD Yeah, he's a brave one.

HAAHAH xD God damn bisons are ruining it for everyone!

BUUUT, it was the last school to reply to you so shouldn't they at least get points for playing hard to get ;D?

Argh, that's really tough. I can't even help you! All my life, it's actually been quite easy to decide what school to go to. The first one I went to throughout most of folkeskolen was not my choice to make and when I got older, I could see that it was one of the better school in the area anyway so it wouldn't have made any difference if I had been able to choose. When that school ended in 8th grade, I had two choices. A giant school full of people I didn't like, where loads of drugs were sold and taken and where they didn't learn much. OR a private school that people only spoke well about (aside from the students being kind of alternatively dressed, but hey, I was a bit of an emo-thingy myself so that was only a plus to me), where the students were stronger in all subject than the other school, the students and teachers seemed nice and it was just a small, cozy school compared to the other. Not a hard choice, it all depended on my parents' willingness to pay. And luckily, they did. Then came efterskole. It was kind of a hard choice, but I had chosen which one I wanted to go to way back when I was just a tiny kid so I just stood by that choice and it turned out great too. As high school, the others were too far away for me to wanna consider. And Uni, well, I hated Aalborg and Copenhagen and was pretty sure I was gonna like Aarhus so Aarhus Uni it was. As you can see, when choosing schools, it's always been kind of easy for me. I can't imagine how hard it must be for you to choose when there's so much to choose from! Especially when there're so great differences between them. Then again, for me, it might not be such a difficult choice. Instead of thinking of prestige and all that, I would just sit down and find out who I am, who I wanna become (is it realistic for me to become that person) and where do I think I'll have the happiest life. All the studies I've ever considered have very "poor" futures most likely. None of them ensure more than others that I'll get a great job that'll earn me loads of money. I only choose what will make me happy. Prestige and money don't mean much to me. If it means a lot to you, then maybe it's best to choose the school that you would feel less embarrassed to tell others that you went to? If something else is more important, than that's what you should consider.

Hahha, ah yes, those poor girls. I think I often scare away crushes when I reveal I don't believe in the one and only and that I don't wanna get married and if I did anyway, I would most definitely expect us to get divorced at some point, lol xD

No, not at all. No matter if you're an adult or a child, there will always be someone who can make you feel like a child and someone who will make you feel like an adult. It's very understandable. The latter gives a really nice feeling and lots of confidence so I really don't think it's weird at all. It's part of being equals, also. No one likes talking to people who look down on you. Talking to people who look up to you gets tiring. And talking to an equal is just the greatest thing in the world, often, lol xD
I think she went to Iowa, but she didn't say what town or if it was small or big. And of course it has to do with where you are at. If I had been your pet (and was 17 again), I think it would feel somewhat the same. Not completely - according to the things you tell me - but far less degrading than her experience. Just wanna point out, though - and I'm sure you saw it coming - that you can't compare it to Europe like that xD I'm pretty sure the difference from European country to European country is HUGE when it comes to when you're viewed as an adult.
Strange? I wouldn't hate her for going to. She might have had a problem that made her feel like she couldn't go. I don't know her so I can't judge her. But I would get kinda annoyed too if she just made your mom drive her boyfriend everywhere he wanted? Didn't he have his own host family?

Thank yoooou Well, in late June, me and 3 of my friends will pack our bags and go on a roadtrip to the Netherlands. The roadtrip itself is probably gonna be awesome. At least we're looking very much forward too it - except for when we're on the German highway. I'm pretty sure there's no speed limit there and last time we drove there, we were nearly crushed by one of those damn trucks 'cause they were repairing the road so there was almost no space, but the truck thought it was okay to drive up next to us anyway while probably driving over 100 km. pr. hour. Sick bastard. Anyway, when my bro gets home in 2 hours, we'll book our hotel rooms. My sister is certain her boyfriend's sister will let us park the car by her house (going by car in the Netherlands is a no no. You won't get anywhere). Then we'll take the train to Amsterdam where we will stay for two nights in this really awesome hostel. Here are some pictures from the place www.google.dk/search?q=st.+chr…
We'll have to go to a coffee shop, the Red Light District, shopping and go partying one or both nights. The rest is up to fate, I guess xD After those two night, we'll go to an even more awesome hotel in Utrecht for 4 nights. We'll have to try partying in Utrecht as well and maybe we'll go to Amersfoort, but everything else is, again, up to fate xD We're considering spending the last night in Germany. Hamburg or something (it'll be too far a ride to Berlin though I would have loved to go there!). That's pretty much all we have planned out now ^^ Looking very much forward to it, but the only way I can go is if I earn enough money by then and that might be a problem xD Which is why I hope to earn some money by doing commissions. I've just done one and have another lying around I need to finish. And two more people just contacted me about commissions so I'm hoping this thing actually will help me some of the way ^^ Buuut there's a long way to go till I even have enough for fuel and the hotel stays xD

Hahah xD Oh yes, texting is indeed a blessing! I love speaking on the phone, though. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like to do it with strangers xD

I'm glad they seem to work too. I haven't had this much of a life since 7th grade. I now realize how much I live living without fear. It's not like it's all gone. But there's finally some light at the end of the tunnel ... And me who always doubted medicine, lol xD
I agree and it's fine that you wanna give advise ^^I was afraid she was gonna ask those guys if we could join in 'cause apparently, she has smoked it more than I have (not hard to beat since I've only done it thrice.. or four times? Can't even remember now xD) and she said she really liked it, but that she didn't really smoke it anymore 'cause the only thing it did to her now was make her sleepy. She had also just quit cigarettes so that's a huge plus too xD I'm not very fond of cigarette smoke, urgh, hehe xD

Holy Christ o.O? Well, no, they don't seem too threatening. I've never heard of any anarchists doing anything here. I don't even know if the people there are anarchists. Especially since none of them wore punk clothes. More like casual hiphop clothing. The atmosphere was just this hippie/rebel one xD It was like that part of town did not have anything to do with the rest of the city.

 Well, some don't mind and some do. I don't really care. Especially since, as far as I can tell, the heteros are mostly men and they are super easy to spot because they are very offensive in their approach towards all the pretty, petite ladies in there. And they come alone. Also, loads of people bring their hetero friends when they go out partying. Excluding them from that bar would be like excluding the gay ones from normal bars. and wouldn't it be unfair to the gay person that he always had to go where his heteo friends wanted to go? I don't know. I bring my friends and some of them are gay, bi, pan and some of them are just hetero. The ones I've met have been completely fine with that.

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CelticFeather In reply to LoveToTheCucumber [2015-03-21 22:47:10 +0000 UTC]

 I never found any dead ones. I guess the body is what a fox would want anyway xD. But my mom said when she finds drowned mice in the pool filter, she flings them over the fence into the woods by their tails, and when she checks back the next day, they always gone I’ve always been kind of ambivalent towards predator and prey. Certain animals I’d root for, but I like foxes and rabbits about the same. But I’d always root for the hawks and owls over the squirrels though. And I hated chipmunks. Cute, my ass. I used to have a birdfeeder and they multiplied in my yard underneath it until I counted 13 chipmunk holes. One of them actually found out where I kept the seed, chewed through my garage, and broke into the bag of sunflower seeds. I always used to shoot them with these big water guns when I saw them when I was in the pool. I got to be a pretty good chipmunk hunter.

Medal of Honor winner here!

 

Yeah fuck ‘em!

 

Yeah, they get hard to get points all right xD.

 

I never had a choice until now. It’s a shame in your case one of the options was druggie school or pay for private school? Kinda makes it unfair to the poor guys, but I guess life always is. There’s a private school by me some of my neighbors go to, but I never thought the education there was much better. Maybe in some cases it would have been but the public school by me was pretty good, and I’m glad my parents saved the money there since we have to pay for college. I thought the private school just gave all the kids A’s so they could get into a good college. That’s what they were paying for.

My dad tells me the same as you. When he had to pick a college, he said he had no choice. He was going to Rutgers. It was a good education and a fair price. I almost wish I only had one option because I’m sure by the end I’ll think I’ll have made the right choice, but until then there’s a lot of doubt.

I tried having with myself the who-do-I-wanna-be talk in November. But the truth is, I just don’t know yet. And rushing it isn’t seeming to work, so I’m just gonna figure that out as I go and hope it’s not a base clarinet player. A little bit of prestige is important to me, but these are both pretty top schools so I try to remind myself that I shouldn’t care too much if one is .05% better than the other according to a certain person. I mean, when I’m 40 nobody will care what college I went to. They’ll care what I’m doing with my life.  Thank you for your insight  

 

Haha, well Kyook, if you told me that, I’d be a bit scared off too xD.

 

I think you’re right about that, different people making you feel that way. I was at work the other day and was surprised to see this woman my parents’ age, though we were the same level, treating me as her equal. She was comfortable enough to curse like a sailor in front of me. Most adults don’t do that with me xD.

Yeah, a place like Iowa would do it. Did you know, at one point in 1924, the KKK ran all of Iowa? That’s what happens when there’s a bunch of white guys with nothing to do in a cornfield. Luckily, the KKK master wizard dragon (they seriously call their leaders these terms) raped a white girl and drank alcohol and that was against what they stood for so the party fell apart pretty fast after that xD.   We kin only have black people doing that, gaddamit.

“If I had been your pet (and was 17 again),”

aghagHAGHAGAHGAGAGAAAHA I’m LAUGHING SO HARD RIGHT NOW.

Maybe you would have to some extent felt those feelings here. I can’t say because I don’t know how you’re treated in your homeland. But none of the Austrians when they came were looked down upon for doing what they did. Not by us students at least. I think the parents treated them more as guests than as children. and let them and their kid have slightly more freedom than usual.  

Awwkay, *grumble grumble*. I guess you’re right. I slipped there. I didn’t mean it to sound like I was saying all of Europe is more similar. What I meant was the more prevalent drinking and sex at a younger age that a lot of European cultures have would be more similar to the acceptance levels  of American culture in those areas, than in cornfield-and-God land.

I just felt like I was doing so much for her and she made no effort to repay me. I don’t think it was because she was a bad person or manipulative. I think she just socially didn’t know how to or understood that she should. It wasn’t /my/ mom’s duty to make sure her student had a good time. So I don’t hold it against her, but I think we could have been better friends if she tried to do something back. Offer to take us to go laser tagging or something.

 

OOoooh! Sounds very fun! Yeah, I’d watch out for the autobahn. My German teacher told us about his travels on that. Even in the rightmost lane I think you have to go like 80 mph (130km). I’m usually afraid to go above 65 – 105. But then again, I have a big clunky car.

We were also talking about hostels in Germanclass (Jugendherberge! Made me think of a mountain of boys all tangled together limbs flopping every which way like dead bodies), we don’t have them here. I got the impression from him and a friend hostels were the type of place where you’d find semen on the sheets. But this seems really nice?!  At least in the way that someone bothered to decorate it nice and trippy than leave the bodily fluid stains. I hope you have fun!. I’m glad you have a few already.  I uh…. Have a grand total of 3 deviantart points people gave me for giving them lamas. Think you could draw a dot on a piece f paper for me? XD Hahaha.  Well, I hope those commissions roll in. Part of why I just gave my boss the ultimatum for more hours (which she accepted) was because I was willing to work my ass off now to make sure I had enough money to have a good time when I go on my trip. I remember in Austria I regretted being so cheap. I dind’t buy this one 20 euro nice hoodie because I thought I could find one like it here. I deliberated on it for 20 minutes. But what I forgot to factor in was that it would remind me of Austria and the fun I had and what I learned every time I wore it. And I still don’t have a nice hoodie. So I regret to this day not purchasing it.

 

Ahaha I’m so happy you feel that way ^_^!  I was really afraid they wouldn’t work.

Hahaha! I had assumed you’d be the badass one in your relationship and I thought this was a sweet little girl, but it seems I might be wrong in this aspect! Yeah, don’t think I would prefer my date to be a smoker. I mean, I imagine aph Gilbert would be a smoker, but I wouldn’t necessarily want that for my boyfriend. Good for her, that can be very difficult!

 

Hmm yeah I guess you’re right, I wouldn’t want to go without my friends and I wouldn’t want them to be excluded. I guess just knowing the ‘hey, if this stranger girl compliments you she might be testing the waters’ is enough.

 

I edited my last message while you were posting because I realized I kept saying ‘host’ when I meant  my Austrian student. Uuh, stupid. But I also added in I was going in to my crazy mutant space plant school play tonight! So I’m gonna go do that now and give you a full report. toodles!

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itmix [2015-03-15 06:19:39 +0000 UTC]

Colourful, very colourful, darling. I would feed these ducks. Who knows, one day they may turn to swans. 
Good luck with the contest!   

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CelticFeather In reply to itmix [2015-03-15 13:52:16 +0000 UTC]

Thank you itmix! I'm appreciative my duckies pass the feedable test xD. Now they won't starve (or y'know, have to eat seaweed like normal peasant ducks). Thanks!

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