New Viola & Other Happy Things

Oh, yes.
I got a new viola yesterday xDD It's a 16" dark brown Scott Cao... 11 years old and kind of dented everywhere ;____________: Oh well, it sounded the best and was the cheapest of all :]
I couldn't stop playing it today. It was so much fun, and so much louder than my 15" one. When I play in the bathroom it sounds like I'm in a concert hall :]

I came back from Corpus a couple days ago... it was all sand and beach and sun and... hotel. The hotel was awesome. Free breakfast, cooked to order o.o And free drinks and snacks in the afternoon. And they had good TV channels too xD

The beach was awesomer than the hotel. The sand was like flour, really fine and white. We caught hermit crabs and sea snails and cool beach critters and dug holes and channels and soaked in the water :] I have the worst swimsuit tan now, but at least my shirt tan is gone xD

And then retreat tomorrow. Then Orchestra camp. I feel more prepared with my new viola... and region music is coming along pretty well :]

Yay.

Undisciplined

So, I've been thinking lately.
Is it true that people, specifically artists, are undisciplined in everything except their areas of interest? It sure feels like that for me.

This point was first brought up, actually, in one of the handouts at Friday night fellowship. It's been nagging at me ever since.

Seems like when there's something I like to do, like draw, I spend tons and tons of time on it. And when there's stuff I hate doing, like math for instance, I do enough just to get by.

Most of the summer's gone already but it feels like I haven't accomplished much in anything but art.

I feel kind of guilty about that.

But the reason this really jumped out at me is because of the following.

Darren: hey
Ryou: hi
Darren: you know if u just spent time u spent studying instead of drawing u would be insanely smart :D

And I was like, "Really, that is SO TOTALLY TRUE."

And now I feel pretty, uhh, fail?

I don't know, like what should I do?
Obviously, I ought to study more starting now.

But I also learned so many things about art this summer...

I think it's a balance.

Here and There

Oh, hello again :]
It's been awhile since I've seen you all last~
What have you been up to lately?

As for me, today was more eventful than most.
We went to visit my mother's friend, who lives about an hour's drive away. She's tall, is from Singapore (YAY.), is super pretty, and has a cute dog. But no. Not a small lap dog kind of cute. Her dog looks like a bear/horse thing o.o It's huuuuuge, and it's a Bouvier~ go look it up.

We had a good time. She even gave us Yakult and Crackerjack.

After that we went to the outlet:
They were having a huge book sale, like 70-80% off of everything, so we bought some books :] My sis got "Airman," by Eoin Colfer. Please, if anyone can tell me how to pronounce "Eoin"? I've awlays wondered about that... I read it on the way back, and it was really good, as expected- it was Eoin Colfer, after all.

I bought two Japanese books. In Japanese o.o
One was a kid's book, and the other, a random manga, the sixth installment of a series I've never heard of before ;x, that looked somewhat interesting.

The how-to-draw manga books were terrid (horrid+terrible, a word I keep saying on accident). I hate it when people make how-to-draw books when they can't even draw themselves.
Not that I'm great or anything. But yeah >.>

Thatsall.

Happy Independence Day~

Oh wow, it's already July. And it's already July 4th :]
Happy July 4th, everybody.

I think US History is much more interesting than the history of other countries. No offense o.o Anyways, my cousins say that's true~ Apparently they just learn the same things in history every year xP

I feel patriotic, sort of. We had a picnic at church today, and we played "Broken Telephone charades" and water balloon fight :D I didn't get too wet~