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Monday, September 20, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
dan's blog posts from the last days of august
8/23 I went to school today.
8/24 I went to school today.
8/25 I went to school today.
8/26 I went to school today.
8/27 I went to school today.
8/30 I went to school today.
8/24 I went to school today.
8/25 I went to school today.
8/26 I went to school today.
8/27 I went to school today.
8/30 I went to school today.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
6 minutes to midnight
Saturday is about to conclude and I am still wondering about tomorrow's agenda. At this moment, the whole don't-worry-about-today-coming-to-an-end-it-is-already-tomorrow-in-Australia quote does not apply to me. I have lots of wandering thoughts all over the place about what I am going to do with this long day ahead of me that consists of studying for an important upcoming Greek Mythology Exam on Monday and working on a crucially important Personal Statement draft that will be due on Thursday. My weary eyelids are drooping down and my contacts are all dried up. But this is because I have not been following my own made-up bedtime, which is in between the time frame of 9:00-9:30 pm.
Going way back to September 10th, I received the privilege to go on a wonderful and unforgettable field trip with the Special Ed kids to Lake Cunningham Park. I realized that I did not really talk about how this amazing trip went, so now I will briefly talk about it. The event itself was just fantastic. The people in charge had over five schools' Special Ed kids join together for this big Soccer Tournament at the park on a regular bell-schedule school day. I mainly recall seeing everyone joining together, having a bunch of fun running around in about 90 degrees of strikingly hot weather, meeting new energetic people from other schools, and sharing interesting life stories about each others' deep personal lives. There are no real words to explain how great the event turned out and how moved I was to see all of these kids come together as one on that day. All I remember is that that Friday afternoon was the day that I decided that it was time I made some new goals for myself for the future. I set my mind to be socially involved within the fields of Special Education in the upcoming days.
Skipping forth, the Saturday after the field trip was one of the last days that my brother stayed in San Jose before heading back to San Diego. Jennifer helped plan a hiking trip with my brother, me, and his friends to Joseph D. Grant Park. We went through many curvy and rocky trails along the way that resembled the scenes of Where the Wild Things Are in my point of view. One of my brother's friends, Paul, made this delicious sandwich that just had to be as good as one of those Science Camp meals that we ate in the fifth grade at Walden West. I gave into some of those specially added condiments that day.
Now news regarding Khai Tri, the tutoring center that I work at daily nowadays, contains nothing too life-altering. Occasionally there are many irrational, unreasonable moments and misunderstandings between the boss and me, but in the end, every time I think back to the situations, I always tend to realize that there might have been some major faults in me from the beginning. So I suppose sitting down and reflecting back to what I have done wrong always works when I am in a helpless situation. But really, here I am, as just another high school senior trying to get the employed experience at a work place that actually gives me the chances to learn and make mistakes from, and I have yet to stop and thank all the once in a life-time opportunities that have been given to me so far. I need to stop being such a crybaby and start being a little more grateful when times are grim.
On the other hand, I am very excited to start applying to colleges soon. No let me go back, I am very excited to take the SAT Reasoning test for the last time in October and be done with the SAT books once and for all. I am excited to take the November SAT Subject Tests and be done with those as well.
Then... I am ready to grow my own plant in my incredibly dry backyard.
I hope this was a good enough summary of what's been going on with me lately. Goodnight San Jose.
Going way back to September 10th, I received the privilege to go on a wonderful and unforgettable field trip with the Special Ed kids to Lake Cunningham Park. I realized that I did not really talk about how this amazing trip went, so now I will briefly talk about it. The event itself was just fantastic. The people in charge had over five schools' Special Ed kids join together for this big Soccer Tournament at the park on a regular bell-schedule school day. I mainly recall seeing everyone joining together, having a bunch of fun running around in about 90 degrees of strikingly hot weather, meeting new energetic people from other schools, and sharing interesting life stories about each others' deep personal lives. There are no real words to explain how great the event turned out and how moved I was to see all of these kids come together as one on that day. All I remember is that that Friday afternoon was the day that I decided that it was time I made some new goals for myself for the future. I set my mind to be socially involved within the fields of Special Education in the upcoming days.
Skipping forth, the Saturday after the field trip was one of the last days that my brother stayed in San Jose before heading back to San Diego. Jennifer helped plan a hiking trip with my brother, me, and his friends to Joseph D. Grant Park. We went through many curvy and rocky trails along the way that resembled the scenes of Where the Wild Things Are in my point of view. One of my brother's friends, Paul, made this delicious sandwich that just had to be as good as one of those Science Camp meals that we ate in the fifth grade at Walden West. I gave into some of those specially added condiments that day.
Now news regarding Khai Tri, the tutoring center that I work at daily nowadays, contains nothing too life-altering. Occasionally there are many irrational, unreasonable moments and misunderstandings between the boss and me, but in the end, every time I think back to the situations, I always tend to realize that there might have been some major faults in me from the beginning. So I suppose sitting down and reflecting back to what I have done wrong always works when I am in a helpless situation. But really, here I am, as just another high school senior trying to get the employed experience at a work place that actually gives me the chances to learn and make mistakes from, and I have yet to stop and thank all the once in a life-time opportunities that have been given to me so far. I need to stop being such a crybaby and start being a little more grateful when times are grim.
On the other hand, I am very excited to start applying to colleges soon. No let me go back, I am very excited to take the SAT Reasoning test for the last time in October and be done with the SAT books once and for all. I am excited to take the November SAT Subject Tests and be done with those as well.
Then... I am ready to grow my own plant in my incredibly dry backyard.
I hope this was a good enough summary of what's been going on with me lately. Goodnight San Jose.
they say sunflowers make people happy
so i also picked up a bundle of sunflowers at trader joe's for jenell this afternoon.
for jenelly
sonoma chicken coop
national farmer's market week contest
so my mom asked me to write this short essay about why i love going to the farmer's market during national farmer's market week about a month ago. then three days ago, i discovered that i had won 2nd place in the contest. my prizes consisted of filling an entire bag full of farmer's market fresh produce, a cookbook, and $25 carrot cash to spend at the market. sweet, my mother bear was super excited today.
Friday, September 17, 2010
it's not a party without a chocolate chewy bistro safeway birthday cake
"look at my teeth!"
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| Jordan wanted me to take a picture of his missing tooth and Christal wanted to make her usual face in pictures. |
Thursday, September 16, 2010
back-to-school-night
Who doesn't love staff collaboration days? This sunny afternoon Lin drove me to Yogurt Twist, Costco, and Target. At Yogurt Twist, they have this new watermelon flavor that is worth the try. At Costco, the churros were not just good again, but have stayed delicious as usual. At Target, I got Danny this ultimate "Twin Tek 6" gun set. Hehe the shooting will begin tomorrow night at Cataldi Park. Don't worry, this gift is nowhere near violent. I bought the gun set in the end because I could not settle with the stylish clothes in the men section from the beginning. There's just too great of a variety to pick from. But actually, in general, I have never been able to settle down with any piece of clothing whenever I am on a gift hunt.
So I have been on and off the internet for the past few days because I have just been a little bit busy at my workplace and everything. Spending three hours at a tutoring center tutoring 1st and 2nd graders daily, in one small confined room kind of takes out the heart of my typical senior school day. At work, there are definitely the pros and cons of it, but I'm not going to worry about them just yet. I will elaborate more this weekend, hopefully. Tonight, I have to study for an Aeneid quiz for English.
The title of this post is back-to-school-night because it's this event tonight that allowed me to take one day off work. It felt so great to just take a quick 50 minutes nap, but it did not feel as great waking up thinking that it was early Friday morning and that I was late for school. Luckily, I made it to the band room on time and set up and played on time.
Also, I will try to convince Dan to go to Target to try on those banana suits with me some time soon. You guys just wait.
So I have been on and off the internet for the past few days because I have just been a little bit busy at my workplace and everything. Spending three hours at a tutoring center tutoring 1st and 2nd graders daily, in one small confined room kind of takes out the heart of my typical senior school day. At work, there are definitely the pros and cons of it, but I'm not going to worry about them just yet. I will elaborate more this weekend, hopefully. Tonight, I have to study for an Aeneid quiz for English.
The title of this post is back-to-school-night because it's this event tonight that allowed me to take one day off work. It felt so great to just take a quick 50 minutes nap, but it did not feel as great waking up thinking that it was early Friday morning and that I was late for school. Luckily, I made it to the band room on time and set up and played on time.
Also, I will try to convince Dan to go to Target to try on those banana suits with me some time soon. You guys just wait.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
remember what happened last year?
VMAS 2009
Kanye West and Taylor Swift
Kanye West and Taylor Swift
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| Well, we'll see what happens this year, tonight. |
Saturday, September 11, 2010
where the wild things are
Joseph D. Grant County Park
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| gigantic wild spiderweb |
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| little wild potato balls |
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| that's my broskie, with the blue thing |
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