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i-am-a-fan · 9 months

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Things I learned my first year in American College ™ that maybe would be helpful for others?

Don’t skip meals, if you have to then buy a starchy snack to keep you from feeling funky until meal time

Take out is a god send

Buy frozen Veggies

WD -40 is a good investment ( Squeaky door frames to Wasp Killer)

Bring rain boots. It won’t hurt.

Be okay with bugs. If you have a phobia, make sure there’s a designated bug killer.

Know how to communicate your wants and needs

DONT. LEAVE. OUT. DISHES. WITH. FOOD.

Keep sandals on at all times if you’re on the first floor. (I had scorpions :,>)

Eggs are a good and easy source of protein!

you will get tired of eggs.

Go out. do stuff. Even if it’s just sitting in the library for a bit.

You’ll need more paper towels than you realize.

Take a water bottle with you. A 16 oz is really enough.

Have a routine. It’ll help keep you sane

I know everyone says this, but start your stuff early. Especially if you work. The bad part is that most of your peers will not be able to help you if you start early.

MAKE. FLASH. CARDS. Write down the information your professors give you like 3 times in different places.

Your professors and peers are mostly there to help you.

Little treats will mostly keep you sane but will drain your bank account

There’s a million ways to cook instant ramen packets. Don’t just follow the instructions.

IN FACT HERES MY FAVORITE RECIPE I MADE

Take the ramen packet that’s cooked on the stove (I usually used spicy lime shrimp.

Separate the noodles and the flavor packet.

Fill a medium pot with about 3-4 cups of water. (I measured out the water to be the same amount as could be held in the bowl I used). Turn on to medium heat.

Add the flavor packet to a pot of water.

Add a slice of butter (for creaminess).

Add half a spoonful of chili garlic sauce

add a spoonful and a half of soy sauce

add minced garlic (half a spoonful)

Add ginger paste ( a dollop)

Add chicken flavored Bouillon (a spoonful)

Mix it all together and let it boil.

Once boiling crack an egg and there and MIX. MIX!! You want the egg to cook fully in the boiling water.

Once the egg is cooked add in the noodles and let the noodles cook for like 3 minutes?

Once the noodles are starting to separate, add in your hearts content of frozen minced spinach.

Wait until spinach is no longer frozen and serve.

#speck rambles #college tips #🐊#🐊🍲#i’m going to be so honest. I eyeball the soup measurements.#I also have no idea if that’s how I actually did it #but it feels right in my heart #If you guys wanna add please do. I’m mostly writting these for myself

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savvyqueen18 · 4 years

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SilveeLocke | Let's Go Eevee ZombieLocke | Pt. 2

I’ve got a good stock of back log and am going to be posting these every 3 days or so. I’ll continue to add to it as time goes on. But I need to give myself time to writ more haha. After that they will be consistently uploaded every Wednesday once we reach the current issue. I am currently working on part 10 as I post this.

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Part 2: Juniper Berries

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>Next Part

>Previous Part

>Part 1

>Meet Silviana

>Meet Xander

The laboratory smelled funny, nothing there brought comfort to her as the Professor talked to the only other child in the room. She rolled her only pokéball in her hand.

That, she could admit, was one of the only things keeping her comfort.

"Alright my boy, this is your brand new pokémon," Professor Oak opened the pokéball in his hand and a yellow pokémon came out.

"Pika-pi!" It cried and jumped into Xander's arms.

Xander laughed brightly, "Oh my god you're so cute!" He hugged the little pokémon tightly as it nuzzled his face, "I'm going to call you Spark!" The Pikachu happily cried out hearing its name for the first time.

Silviana lifted her pokéball to her chest, and with a click the ball opened all on its own. The little Eevee popped out onto the lab table she was standing next to. The little brown pokémon was giving her a look.

"Oh wow! Is that an Eevee! That's a pretty rare pokémon out in the wild!" Xander came over to the table with Spark still in his arms. The Eevee quickly turned to glare at him and his pikachu. It lashed its tail as he spoke, "You know I thought that it was mostly breeders that came to own rare pokémon like these," he pulled his face slowly closer to the Eevee.

The closer he got, the more Silviana could see the little pokémon's brow furrow. With a growl it barked loudly at Xander and made him jump.

"Wow! It's really got some spunk doesn't it!" Xander got a spark in his eye, "Hey! Why don't we have our first battle! We are rivals now after all." He smirked at her.

Silviana looked to the little brown pokémon on the table, "I don't know Xander, I kinda wanna just get goi–"

The Eevee jumped off the table, landing on the floor with a readied stance.

"Aww yea! That's the spirit!" He let go of his Pikachu.

As soon as Spark touched the floor, it was tackled by the Eevee. They rolled across the floor, the Eevee nimbly jumping out of the tussle while the Pikachu. The Pikachu in turn did not get up from the laboratory floor, it made little sounds as it lay there.

"Oh no! Xander I swear I didn't mean for it to do that! It doesn't listen to me for some reason!" Silviana clutched her arm.

Xander looked at his fainted Pikachu, he gave a nervous laugh, "Haha, well I guess we'll just have to watch out for you in the future then, huh?" He crouched next to Spark to pick him up gently.

Professor Oak came over, "No need to worry my boy, we can heal him right away." He pulled Xander over to one of the many machines in the laboratory.

"If you want to go on ahead I'll catch up as soon as Spark is healed!" He called back to her.

"If you say so," she called back to him. She looked over to the Eevee, "You should get back in your pokéball so it's easier for me to cary you." When she pulled out the pokéball, the little pokémon growled, "Well what do you want me to do carry you?"

The Eevee looked at her expectantly. Silviana rolled her eyes and crouched down, but the pokémon turned with a flick of its ear and started walking toward the exit. Silviana gave the Eevee an exasperated sigh and followed it to exit the building.

On their way out of town Silviana thought to herself, Xander was able to easily name his Pikachu... Why can't I come up with a name for you...

She looked at her Eevee. It half glanced back at her, with a flick of its little tail it looked back forward. She sighed and pulled her bag in front of her going through it to look for her phone. She pulled out a couple of pokéballs that the professor gave to her for her journey, still digging trough the backpack.

She felt something catch her foot and she fell with a thud, her face landing in the grass and the poéballs flying out of her hand into the grass ahead of her. She picked up her head, taking off her glasses, she rubbed her face.

Dang, I'm such a klutz today.

She looked to the Eevee who had its eyes half-glaring ahead. Silviana heard something shuffle in the grass ahead of her, she couldn't see past the tall grass though. She heard the cry of a strange pokémon and a flash of red. Hearing three clicks, she got up to look at what she had "caught".

Popping open the pokéball, a little grassy pokémon with vines and a yellow flowering head stared back at her.

"Well you look like a little Venus Fly Trap don't you?" Something clicked in her mind, "Oh that's perfect! I'll name you Trahp! Strange spelling of course 'cause it's cooler," she smiled at the Bellsprout, it gave a cute little quack in response. Silviana giggled and looked at the Eevee. It was unamused.

"Look I'm sorry I don't have a name for you still," she put Trahp back into the pokéball, "maybe you should come up with your own name." Silviana pouted, the Eevee used a paw to pat down the little tuft of hair on top of its head, then glared at her. She watched the pokémon continue on ahead and she march down the path following close behind.

As Silviana continued to ahead, she looked carefully at the little pokémon. Huh... Small, brown... Brownie! No that's stupid... She watched the Eevee stop and use it's paw to pat down the tuft of hair on its head again.

She looked at the color pattern on its fur and noticed the tail had dark stripes that stretched from the base and wrapped around its tail. It somewhat mimicked the little tuft of fur that was bothering the little pokémon.

Wow, that actually reminds me of... Blue skies, shaded clearing, a strong hand holding her up to pick the berries from...

"Junipur!" She halted and cried out. The Eevee stared back at her with a raised eyebrow, she crouched down next to it, "I'm going to call you Junipur." She smiled at Junipur and opened her arms for the pokémon to rush toward her.

Junipur looked at her for a moment before glancing off to the side. With a little nod of its head, it continued onward.

"Right," Silviana stood up somewhat disappointedly, "Junipur," she smiled softly as she caught up to the little brown pokémon.

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As they entered the little town of Veridian, Silviana pulled out a little list her mom had made for her.

"Right, so we need to go to the..." she squinted at the paper, "pokémart, to get some supplies before we head further," She looked at Junipur who just ignored her, "you can't walk into a grocery mart, I should carry you or something so they don't think your a wild pokémon. Since you refuse to get into your pokéball," she complained.

She called to Junipur and crouched down with her arms open. Junipur sat and stared at her for a long minute.

"Oh come on... We need to get going," Silviana put her hands on her knees, she saw Junipur rush toward her. When she caught the little pokémon in her arms it squirmed, Silviana tried to hold her a little tighter, "Hey! Stop! Ow! Your claws hurt!" She let go with a gasp. Junipur used this opportunity to climb onto Silviana's shoulder. She supported herself by resting her back legs on Silviana's backpack with her front paws gripping onto her shoulder.

Silviana looked at Junipur, "Oh, well I guess that can work." She continued to the pokémart. Junipur settled itself more onto Silviana's shoulder as they walked into the mart. The little pokémon continued to fuss with the tuft of fur on her head. As Silviana checked out with all of the items she needed, she looked down at the clear glass container at the counter. Pointing to one of the items in the glass, she said, "Can I have one of those in a blue color?"

"I'm sorry miss, we only have them in a black color at this location," the clerk said.

"No worries," Silviana paid for her supplies. She grabbed the little black hat she had purchased in addition and plopped it onto Junipur's head. The pokémon looked stunned at first then looked at Silviana confusedly, "I just thought you could use something to cover up the fur you kept messing with," Silviana smiled kindly.

Junipur looked away and gave a short snort of approval.

They wondered around town. Silviana stopped at every little wonder she could see, Junipur even seemed to be enjoying herself because she found a few berries near the a path that stretched eastward out of town. Silviana watched her Eevee eat the berries as she soaked in the sunlight of the mid afternoon.

She glanced to her right when she heard footsteps coming in her direction from the path beyond.

"Heya Sil!" Xander waved to her, his Pikachu hopping along side him, "There was a guy further down the path that said that that way is blocked for us, he recommended to go north if we're doing the Gym Challenge.

Silviana came to a stand, "Well what were you doing over there in the first place?"

"Oh I was just looking for rare pokémon, did you catch anything yet?"

"Yea," She brought out Trahp. The little Bellsprout let out a toot of happiness.

"Sweet Bellsprout! You wanna battle?"

"Isn't that unfair for you since I have two pokémon and you don't?" Silviana retorted.

Xander looked down at Spark. His Pikachu had it's ears pinned back and was glancing nervously between Xander and Junipur, slowly it tried to hide itself behind one of Xander's legs. Xander let out a chuckle, "Yea, probably, I think Spark wants to go. Plus I should be off if I want to catch up to you, you seem to be giving it all you got!" He waved to her as he and Spark walked off.

"Well," she looked to her pokémon, "I think we should head on our way too." She put Trahp back in the pokéball and crouched down so that Junipur could hop onto her shoulder once agian. Junipur just stared at her.

"Please Junipur, we need to get moving," She pleaded.

The little brown pokémon looked at her. It picked one of its paws up, but marched off in the direction of the next route. Silviana let out a soft sigh.

They walked across town to get to the route gate. Silviana walked over to the little billboard that was right outside of the entry way. There were a lot of dumb ads on there and some flyers for pokémon training classes. But at the top was a notice to trainers heading into the forrest beyond.

Veridian Forest

Please be mindful of the bug pokémon that inhabit the forest. Do not disturb the Beedrill nests.

Oh great... Bug pokémon

"Vee!" Junipur snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Right," she glanced from the billboard notice to Junipur and began to walk up the small flight of steps, "Let's hurry up and get through this." As they walked into the building, they were greeted by a couple of the forrest care staff. She received information about the different pokémon that inhabited the forrest as well as a map to get her through.

Silviana looked to the archway that lead to the forrest beyond. Looking down at Junipur she watched the tiny pokémon flick its ears and listen to the sounds coming from the forrest. With a deep breath, she walked out into the dim light of Veridian Forrest.

#zombielocke #silveelocke #pokemon #nuzlocke #pokemonnuzlocke #pokemon nuzlocke #let's go eevee #let's go pikachu #my writing

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