Update

Hey hey <3

I know, I know...I keep neglecting this poor blog, I've made it a priority this year to give it a lot more love.

 Some news since I've first last showed my face here, I've finally graduated from high school and gotten in to college! I am now officially a art student :) Life is busy now for me in this small Delaware college with 6 classes and projects due every week. Sometimes I wanna cry and go back home to North Carolina but I promised myself not to be a coward and runaway, especially since coming to Delaware was my own choice.

While completing my fall semester this year I learned a lot of things about life and about myself. I may not be the most beautiful and or the most athletic but I have strength of another kind, I have bravery. 

It's been snowing here a lot the past few days, not very much but enough for small snow ball fights :3 

I really missed snowy nights and visible footprints last year, North Carolina doesn't really get much snow showers but a lot of slush during this time of the year. I really do like enjoying the most out of the seasons, I don't want it all to pass by me in a flash.

 Well I'm off to take a nap and then do some hw, I got a lot to do. I'm busy, but it's a good kind of busy <3

Until later your truly,

Kotani Yumiko <3

Yo!

Hey y'all, how is...you guys? Yeah, I know I'm good with words aren't I? XD. Anyways I'm fine, thank you. It is now summer vacation, my relatives have come to visit me, a loud bunch they are... I don't mind company but you see, I'm one of those girls who have a personal need for quiet. It is hard for me to be around a lot of people. This post is an update, so prepare for major ranting...

My first year in Vienna will come to and end next month. this year maybe, no, it most certainly WILL be my last in Virginia. We will be moving to North Carolina after the summer ends. I am not happy to leave Virginia so unexpectedly, but I believe this is allah's will, like everything else in the world. I might never know, but maybe this is Allah's new challenge for me? A new learning experience? After all I'm a free, unbound spirit, Allah must like to test people like me.
I wonder if my broken heart will heal when I'm away from the place my beloved and I meet and spent quiet days together. Away from the school library where my solitary days were suddenly interrupted by chattering German boy. I know life isn't a fairytale, he says he doesn't love me so he doesn't, why do I still see him everywhere I go?

I'm my dreams he is smiling and real, whenever I speak German I hear his accented voice. I can still feel the warmth of his pulse under his neck from when he embraced me. He's like a haunting ghost that refuses to leave me alone! How long should I suffer with memory and why? what kind of punishment is this? I didnt know loving someone was so painful and sad, I dont want to feel this way ever again. I dont care if I'm all alone. I dont want his memory to effect my life anymore.

Rant over...How are you guys? How has life been treating you guys? I know no matter what that I will remain strong and keep walking my path

Kotani Yumiko

Manga Review: A House in Venice(SPOILERS!)

A House in Venice or Una casa a Venezia is a one shot mystery manga by Italian artists Giovanni Mattioli and Vanna Vinci. Published by Kodansha this manga is read left to right like traditional Japanese. Taking place in the magical city of Venice(as the title says) the story is about a young art student Rosa who rents a room in an old mansion. She meets her handsome, mysterious, landlord Lorenzo and learns his dark secrets.

A lush manga with Gothic-style art and a gloomy mood. I was hooked to it from the first page. I love Rose and Lorenzo very much. I wish a man like Lorenzo existed in my life...I kind of knew that he was a vampire of something like that from the start since Rosa saw a coffin when she was exploring the new garden, also because when she does meet Lorenzo he later mentions that sunlight bothers him(cliche I know!).

I actually hate most vampire manga including Vampire Knight, I started to hate vampires since Twilight came out people became fanatic over it. Then a weeks ago I read this manga and now theyre not so bad anymore. I LOVE Lorenzo, I am going to find an Italian boyfriend like him one day~Anyway I give this manga 10 out of 10 rating. Vampire fans, Gothic story lovers alike should read it. I hope the artists keep drawing more manga too because I want to read!