An Overview: Junior High Lock-In 11/16/07 to 11/17/07

This Lock-in was probably the best decision I've made in the past month. Being a high school counselor was super fun and I never realized how much I missed church. Below are some pictures from the night! Credits to Danny on my camera.
Nemo and Dory, circa 2003
Bleeehhhhh!
Registration table kids! CONTACT! 1, 2, 3...
Ice breakers! I have really bad posture. I should fix that.
Carolyn's litto group. =]
My group! =]
RJ and Lawrence look so bored.
Tom is so prettyyyyy.
I look super excited. I was the only one in my group to have the messiest/stickiest hands.
Paul is hilarious.
Monicaaa!! Such a cute girl.
Carolyn Shin. THE shit. No questions asked.
Yeah, I know, stfu. :] I let one of my kiddos do it. HAHA.
Here is my group leader partner, Raph. =] He's awesome.
I swear it, he looked like Jigsaw. HAHA!!

Anyways, I also have two videos of the best group chants. Mine was, of course, freaking bomb. It shall be the last one.


After all of the fun and games with the kids, us counselors all got together in a room and started playing Mafia until 3AM. That was the shiiiiit. HAHHAA. Accusing people left and right. I seriously need to get better at lyinggg. =[ HAHAHA. That was a super fun day/night. <33

An Entire Day of Thanks and Giving

So my neck sort of hurts just a tad due to my sleeping on the couch with my body all crooked. I was up late watching Bernie Mac? Yeah, I don't know what. Don't ask.

Today is the big Turkey day. My family buys Boston Market every year. Sure beats breaking a sweat in the kitchen and cooking all day. But the only thing is, we have to wait in line, I suppose. No biggie.

Tonight, around 9PM, I'm going to go out and camp out for Black Friday shopping! Yay! My buddies and I are going to get to Gilroy and chill in the parking lot and wait for the doors to open at midnight. Pretty intense stuff. After, I believe we're going to go to Fry's (pray for me that I won't get trampled....), and then Valley Fair. Sounds like an ENTIRE Friday spent on shopping. This will actually be my very first Black Friday experience, so I'm pretty excited. All the other years, I always got my hopes up but my mom never decided to go in the end. My family is very un-fun that way.

So I watched The Pursuit of Happyness for the first time last night. I really got me thinking, about how hard the world is without a proper education, how frustrating it is to have land lawyers/motel owners pounding on your door every night asking for the last three months rent when you barely have enough money to pay for the rent THIS month, all this with your own kid to worry about. But that movie also showed me a lot of courage and determination above anything else. He's so diligent and hopeful that he can manipulate his fate with a whole lot of elbow-grease and focus to achieve the American Dream. It showed me what I'm thankful for this year; a loving family, a safe home, friends who are always willing to help, and the opportunities given to me. I sound so cheeseball right now, but hey, stfu and gtfo.

Have a gluttonous Thanksgiving weekend.

A Night of Procrastination

So, I suppose, at the moment I should be reading my Biology AP book, so that I actually know the material for the exam on Tuesday. But I'm a little too scared to read it because I would most likely fall asleep from my drowsiness. So I'm going to blog.

The past few weeks have been so hectic and stressful. I find it so uncomprehensible that one school year, one year, can completely flip somebody's sleeping times upside down. I am almost certain that I have procured a number of more white hairs from the preceding weeks.
But hey, at the very least, I feel pretty damn important, with all these engagements and meetings and due dates. It's very gratifying. And Google makes it all so easy to view it conclusively. I fucking love Google.

I have found that I have this new obsession to light candles while I'm doing my homework. I guess it's to have yet another distraction while working. Who knows? But it sure does give off a very warming glow along with some wonderful scents.

Tomorrow night, I'm going to be part of the staff for this Junior High Lock-In event at church. It'll be hella exciting! I've never been at actual counselor status before, but I've always been told that I'd fit the part. Haha. It'll be an interesting experience since I was never one to interact with kids who are younger than I am; I'm an elitist that way. So I'll at least be put in a new position, gain responsibilites, all that wonderful what-not. I get to help RJ with the ice-breakers!

Some new things that I have learned about myself, recently or unrecently:

• I'm not as much of a tight-ass as I thought I was.
• I'm a push-over. How did this outspoken, loud-ass son of a bitch become a push-over? I don't get it either.
• I'm constantly surprising myself with the guys that I find myself interested in.
• But there will always be that one guy...
• I need music in order to feel good about my math homework.
• I can't work with music on when doing English homework, however.
• I actually don't think that Korean people are as disgusting as I used to. Dare I say so, I actually wished that a few Koreans went to my school so I can make those esoteric racial jokes, too!
• I suck at English more than I thought I did.
• Two hours of Biology isn't really a waste of my time.
• I don't exactly have a specific group of people I hang out with every day, per se....
• Facebook > MySpace. Period.
• I actually like my history class this year! I used to tell myself that I hated history because it was so goddamn boring, but my teacher this year is really good at what he does and he makes U.S. History much more interesting that I thought it to be.
• Some people totally put up a front.
• Flashcards = bff4lyfe.
• Junior year does make you fatter.
• Sleep is not important when it comes to assignments; sleep is the only thing that I want for Chirstmas.
• I can never be what you hope that I will be.
• My thoughts and my actions aren't as college-bound as I used to think.
• I actually really enjoy going to church. Call me a Bible-thumper, but I'm not.
• I'm not as obsessed with my iPod as I used to be. School took over, sorry.
• I have the ability to be a generally happy person.
  

Long list, no?

Thanksgiving is next week! I'm pretty excited for the turkey and the Black Friday purchases.

Chirstmas is coming sooooooon! It's my most favorite time of year. It's the most exciting time of year. I only love Chirstmas becuase of how New York is the center of it all. It's got so much character in one little holiday. I shall leave you with a super cute Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon, performed by the cast of Scrubs.