Please help me raise funds!

Hi friends,

I'm traveling to Fiji for a volunteer trip, and I need help raising money to fund my trip!

http://www.gofundme.com/nikkifijitrip

Thank you in advance,
Nikki 

Why I hate Forever 21

1. This
2. Only 30 days to return clothes, and you only get store credit, not the money back.
3. When you buy something online, it's virtually impossible to ship it back to them.
4. Their clothes shrink to about 1/2 the size after one wash (That cute crop top? Oh now it doesn't cover your bra, oops)

Palestine

Just yesterday, an email went out from the University stating that Conflict Kitchen had closed after receiving death threats. Conflict Kitchen is a small restaurant that serves food from countries that the United States is in conflict, changing the countries every 6 months. In addition to serving food, they also give more information about the culture and lifestyle of the people there. The most recent iteration of Conflict Kitchen was serving Palestinian food, and obviously, Israeli people seemed to take offense to this fact, protesting outside the store and trying to open up their own version of Conflict Kitchen. My issue with how most Israeli people react to any news about Palestine is too long to put into this post, but I found an interesting infographic that shows how many countries recognize Palestine as a state. Currently, it is 135 countries, meaning that greater than 1/2 of the countries in the world support the Palestinians. That being said, the countries that are missing are also the ones that have most of the power in global forums, so numbers clearly don't tell the whole story. 

From Washington Post

Last Quaker Classic

Dang. It's been 4 years of me coming to this tournament, and it's coming to an end. Tomorrow I will compete for the last time in my collegiate competition, at the competition I have loved the most.

#onelasttime

Car alarms

There is a car alarm in the parking lot next to my apartment that has (I'm not kidding) gone off >20 times in the past hour (each time lasting about 30 seconds, and then promptly stopping). 

Three possible explanations:

1. Someone is trying real hard to steal that car.
2. Someone has a baby/toddler who has stolen the car keys and is now playing with it.
3. Someone is using the car alarm as an alarm clock.

Whatever it is, I'm about thiiiiiissssssss close to calling the police and asking them to tow the car. Because this is unacceptable.


UPDATE: Police were called, car is now gone. Not sure if those two statements are related, but let's hope it is. 

Okay, human

So I had a group meeting scheduled at 7pm, and between 5pm and 7pm, I was going grocery shopping with my boyfriend. We happened to get done a little early, so at 6:45pm I went to our designated meeting place. Since I was there early, I decided to email my group and tell them I was there, and I started working on our assignment so we could leave as soon as possible.

After about five minutes, this guy from my group (who mind you, has not responded to anyone's emails or come to class for the past week) comes over and says "Hey you're here early." When I explained to him what happened, he said, "oh okay, you're not just showing off then?" With a completely straight face.

OKAY THEN

Last time I checked, in no way was that a proper response to someone telling you why they were here early and starting things so that everyone could enjoy the rest of their Sunday night. 

Facebook Like Envy

I'm totally guilty of this - obsessively checking my like count on Facebook, and then feeling either good/bad if I see another post that has fewer/more likes than my post has. In fact, this morning, I eagerly checked my Facebook, hoping to have broken the "200 like" barrier on my status. Sadly, I had not. And truly, I was a bit sad. How does my status about finally having a job offer have less likes than this girl's profile picture? I mean, she's totally stunning, also involved in legitimately 300 activities, and has lots of friends to like her picture, but still! HOW?!

And that's when it clicked. Percentages. Using my handy dandy Mac calculator, I quickly calculated likes/number of friends for both my status and her picture. My status? 21.6% of my friends had liked it. Her profile picture? 11.91%

Once again, raw numbers don't tell the whole truth


(and I feel a lot better)