man, it's only the first week and already i feel like school's been going on FOREVER.
so..tuesday was seriously the most stressful day of life. and thurs. and they're gonna be like that EVERY WEEK. i just hope i survive this semester. really. cuz tues and thurs my day goes all the way from 1.30 till 11pm++. classes all the way..insane huh. but i'm excited to learn alot in my classes..taking Scriptwriting, Freelance Writing, Specialized Reporting, Arts and Ideas and Adobe Dreamweaver.
the prof for freelance writing (which i take at fort wayne, 1hr away from upland) is definitely the most INTIMIDATING guy i've ever met. EVER. he's like sooo experienced..he told us he only expects greatness from us, nothing less. and every single student he's had has had stuff published!! and our first assignment is to write 3 devotionals and read them aloud in class to be criticized and bashed by him and the class. oh joy. but i'm actually looking forward to it. cuz i think i'll learn SO MUCH from him..he seems so know everything!!! plus i can earn extra $$ by sending in my stuff to publications!! so that's tues.
thurs..classes all the way..the The Echo (sch newspaper) staff meeting. oh gosh. sooo intimidated. me and my co-news editor, hannah, who's also my roomie, are like the least experienced pple on staff! and we have the most stressful job!! reporting the news!! while others get to report on sports, entertainment, opinions, etc. sighhh. was pretty awkward the first meeting..but hopefully we'll improve and learn as we go along this semester. i already learned so much about how to edit pple's articles, how to layout and design the newspaper page, etc.. it'll be a good experience too. although there's these few guys on staff who are SO intimidating. it's like they know it all, and they know that they know it all. haha. but me and hannah laughed non-stop after the meeting about how awkward it was. good times. although i am realizing i don't really wanna work in a newspaper. it's a super high-stress, fast-paced job where the burn-out rate is over the roof.
am feeling pretty stressed now..about classes and responsibilities and jobs and everything, but..that's normal for me. i always stress out at the beginning of the semester, but after a while i'm fine. so..pray that God will be my guide and my strength and will help me through all this!!
oh. and my friend offered to teach me driving!! haha. cuz i told him everyone's nagging at me to learn. so yayyy. i just gotta go pass the written test first and learn quickly before winter comes and roads get icy.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
sch starts..
can't believe classes start tmr!!! kinda excited, but kinda sian too. homework again. haven't bought my books yet! so darn expensive!! plus tmr i'll have to drive 45mins to another taylor campus to take a class - freelance writing - cuz they don't have it here at upland. and the class is freaking 3 1/2 hours long!!! ugh. oh well heard it's a good class though.
so anyway this weekend was so fun!! hung out with the freshmen till like 2am everyday..haha. have fun while we can. fri went to this place with hannah,andrew n kevin - buffalo wild wings - which i wrote an article about for the paper but never got to visit. its a pretty cool restaurant.. with tv screens everywhere and sports stuff. and they had really spicy wings..which were yummy!
then tried to get me a cell phone..the guys were really helpful with information n stuff..but i was too indecisive. heh. couldn't decide whether i wanted pay-per-use or get a 2 year plan..but think i'll go with the 2year plan..cuz i'll prob be here next summer workin on my internship.. can't wait to get a new phone!! watched 'The Rocker' at the theatre..kinda tired but it was pretty funny as far as stupid movies go. haha. starred the guy from the office.
totally slept in on sat till like 3pm..dinner was my first meal. haha. this year's welcome weekend hoedown was outside..so wasn't that hot. they really went all out to decorate the place! all that cowboy stuff..a band playin country music..even brought in a real cow! don't know what for. haha. u totally know you're in indiana when u see all that. it was fun though. hanging out and watching pple square dance. went to see the new apartments off campus!!! they're SO NICE! i so have to live there next year. it's like a hotel!! air conditioning..a living room, kitchen..everything to yourself and 3 other roommates!!! sooo nice. watched the olympics at some guy's apartment. didn't really know them but just went along with friends. they were really funny though. and we got kinda busted for being too loud and supposedly having alcohol.. after that i hung out with my little asian freshmen!! they're so cute. can't believe they're like 3 years younger than me!
sun was move-in day. got all my stuff from storage!! so now my room's totally full of junk. it's like 9/10 of the room is my stuff, 1/10 is my roomie's. haha. the closets are wayyy too small to fit all my clothes. no space for winter stuff even. omg and there's like flies everywhere. they're huge too. and indiana weather is insane. ystdy it was scorching hot. today it was freezing cold. and it's still summer!! so anyway..really glad to see all my friends again!! and to make new ones. it's been really fun catching up.
ooh and i'm soooo excited for my wing this year. think we have an AWESOME group of girls!! the freshmen are so crazy and bubbly!! i'm psyched. we did something crazy today. dressed up in 'camp outfits' (red/white shirts and shorts, high socks, bandanas, caps, schoolbags) went to the DC where everyone was eating dinner and did random cheers. hahaha. first we did a cheer for the salad bar..then we did a prayer for the food cheer at the table, then another one, then individual cheers..and i was picked to do it..so i had to like yell 'i, i get hyped for jesus! do u get hyped for jesus?' and dance around our table in front of everyone in the DC. u would think i'd be embarrassed, but it was so fun. haha. and then we went around and cheered for every table. ohh man. can't wait for other stuff for our wing this yr!! :)
so anyway this weekend was so fun!! hung out with the freshmen till like 2am everyday..haha. have fun while we can. fri went to this place with hannah,andrew n kevin - buffalo wild wings - which i wrote an article about for the paper but never got to visit. its a pretty cool restaurant.. with tv screens everywhere and sports stuff. and they had really spicy wings..which were yummy!
then tried to get me a cell phone..the guys were really helpful with information n stuff..but i was too indecisive. heh. couldn't decide whether i wanted pay-per-use or get a 2 year plan..but think i'll go with the 2year plan..cuz i'll prob be here next summer workin on my internship.. can't wait to get a new phone!! watched 'The Rocker' at the theatre..kinda tired but it was pretty funny as far as stupid movies go. haha. starred the guy from the office.
totally slept in on sat till like 3pm..dinner was my first meal. haha. this year's welcome weekend hoedown was outside..so wasn't that hot. they really went all out to decorate the place! all that cowboy stuff..a band playin country music..even brought in a real cow! don't know what for. haha. u totally know you're in indiana when u see all that. it was fun though. hanging out and watching pple square dance. went to see the new apartments off campus!!! they're SO NICE! i so have to live there next year. it's like a hotel!! air conditioning..a living room, kitchen..everything to yourself and 3 other roommates!!! sooo nice. watched the olympics at some guy's apartment. didn't really know them but just went along with friends. they were really funny though. and we got kinda busted for being too loud and supposedly having alcohol.. after that i hung out with my little asian freshmen!! they're so cute. can't believe they're like 3 years younger than me!
sun was move-in day. got all my stuff from storage!! so now my room's totally full of junk. it's like 9/10 of the room is my stuff, 1/10 is my roomie's. haha. the closets are wayyy too small to fit all my clothes. no space for winter stuff even. omg and there's like flies everywhere. they're huge too. and indiana weather is insane. ystdy it was scorching hot. today it was freezing cold. and it's still summer!! so anyway..really glad to see all my friends again!! and to make new ones. it's been really fun catching up.
ooh and i'm soooo excited for my wing this year. think we have an AWESOME group of girls!! the freshmen are so crazy and bubbly!! i'm psyched. we did something crazy today. dressed up in 'camp outfits' (red/white shirts and shorts, high socks, bandanas, caps, schoolbags) went to the DC where everyone was eating dinner and did random cheers. hahaha. first we did a cheer for the salad bar..then we did a prayer for the food cheer at the table, then another one, then individual cheers..and i was picked to do it..so i had to like yell 'i, i get hyped for jesus! do u get hyped for jesus?' and dance around our table in front of everyone in the DC. u would think i'd be embarrassed, but it was so fun. haha. and then we went around and cheered for every table. ohh man. can't wait for other stuff for our wing this yr!! :)
Friday, August 22, 2008
welcome weekend
tons more freshmen are coming today!!!! excitedddd.
anw international orientation went super awesome! so sad its ended. I LOVE MEETING ALL THE NEW FRESHMEN!!! they're so fun to be with!! miss living in our 'co-ed' dorm for the last few days. still love my small group!! they're so awesome. they're so ready to share about everything! really thank God for them. thank God for guiding me and using me to speak to them too :)
we had combined small group the last day with dan's group..so it wasn't homogenous..we went to a random place..this dock in the middle of the lake, which was SO ulu. we had to go behind the environmental science building, trek through some jungle, walk across a rickety bridge to finally get to the dock. what an experience. and it was SO dark cuz it was like 9++pm. i was freakin out! some other girls were too. haha. it was TOTALLY the setting for a horror flick! a bunch of college kids to go some ulu place in the jungle, sit in the middle of the lake, get eaten by some gigantic croc or monster or something.. heh. but after a while it was ok. the stars were nice..
anw i was really surprised at how open they all were with each other! like, dan and i just told them we were gonna hang out..no bible lessons or anything..but this guy, sam, just took the initiative and started reading verses and leading the group in discussions! and from there they all started sharing about themselves, their struggles, their fears about college.. i was like, wow. this group is really cool! so open and vulnerable with each other! and it was all unplanned! and they only met like a few days ago! God is really SO good. can tell that alot of them are pretty nervous about college..so was trying to encourage them and all.
ystdy i went to work on the newspaper with my co-news editor, hannah, who's also my roommate :) and today the first issue of THe Echo comes out! specially for the freshmen :) had an awesome international dinner..alot of pple cooked stuff from their own countries, so we had like ethiopian, kenyan, hungarian, chinese, italian..all kinds of food. yummy. we got to hang out afterwards..watched some random movie..started a massage chain. there was like a guy massaging my back, and two others massaging my hands. ahahaha. they were really good too. so yeah. hope i still get to see them around campus after classes start.
so been running around between the newspaper, orientation and meetings for my other job this week. getting a little more stressed each day about all this stuff i'm supposed to do this sem!!! 16 credits, news editor of the sch newspaper, coordinator for american ethnic scholars... omg. i didn't realize how much i'd have to do as coordinator of ethnic scholars..but oh well. it'll be fun. :)
i finally moved into my new room!!! set up our stackable furniture and stuff. will take pics soon!! getting my stuff from storage on sun. i think i have wayyy too much stuff to squeeze into our room with its new furniture n everything. plus my roommate has like 10 times less stuff than me! feel so bad. haha.
anw international orientation went super awesome! so sad its ended. I LOVE MEETING ALL THE NEW FRESHMEN!!! they're so fun to be with!! miss living in our 'co-ed' dorm for the last few days. still love my small group!! they're so awesome. they're so ready to share about everything! really thank God for them. thank God for guiding me and using me to speak to them too :)
we had combined small group the last day with dan's group..so it wasn't homogenous..we went to a random place..this dock in the middle of the lake, which was SO ulu. we had to go behind the environmental science building, trek through some jungle, walk across a rickety bridge to finally get to the dock. what an experience. and it was SO dark cuz it was like 9++pm. i was freakin out! some other girls were too. haha. it was TOTALLY the setting for a horror flick! a bunch of college kids to go some ulu place in the jungle, sit in the middle of the lake, get eaten by some gigantic croc or monster or something.. heh. but after a while it was ok. the stars were nice..
anw i was really surprised at how open they all were with each other! like, dan and i just told them we were gonna hang out..no bible lessons or anything..but this guy, sam, just took the initiative and started reading verses and leading the group in discussions! and from there they all started sharing about themselves, their struggles, their fears about college.. i was like, wow. this group is really cool! so open and vulnerable with each other! and it was all unplanned! and they only met like a few days ago! God is really SO good. can tell that alot of them are pretty nervous about college..so was trying to encourage them and all.
ystdy i went to work on the newspaper with my co-news editor, hannah, who's also my roommate :) and today the first issue of THe Echo comes out! specially for the freshmen :) had an awesome international dinner..alot of pple cooked stuff from their own countries, so we had like ethiopian, kenyan, hungarian, chinese, italian..all kinds of food. yummy. we got to hang out afterwards..watched some random movie..started a massage chain. there was like a guy massaging my back, and two others massaging my hands. ahahaha. they were really good too. so yeah. hope i still get to see them around campus after classes start.
so been running around between the newspaper, orientation and meetings for my other job this week. getting a little more stressed each day about all this stuff i'm supposed to do this sem!!! 16 credits, news editor of the sch newspaper, coordinator for american ethnic scholars... omg. i didn't realize how much i'd have to do as coordinator of ethnic scholars..but oh well. it'll be fun. :)
i finally moved into my new room!!! set up our stackable furniture and stuff. will take pics soon!! getting my stuff from storage on sun. i think i have wayyy too much stuff to squeeze into our room with its new furniture n everything. plus my roommate has like 10 times less stuff than me! feel so bad. haha.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
international orientation '08
OMG i just have to rave about the awesome new freshmen that we have!! because they really are quite...awesome!! haha. and this year there are TONS of asians!! as compared to previous years. so that's pretty exciting!!! mostly guys too! haha. 2 girls from korea..tons of guys from hongkong, (singapore. kind of), korea, japan. yayy!! and yes, other freshmen from other parts of the world too. it's been pretty fun..welcoming them yesterday..having the banquet..playing crazy games right after while we were still all dressed up..having small group. which was kinda intimidating cuz i'm a small group leader!!
but THANK GOD for my wonderful small group whom i love very much!! even though 2 of them are older than me (23 yrs old cuz they're transfers frm another school. one from HK, one from china), it went really well, and they're pretty talkative, which was so great for me. haha. one girl from korea but she lives in russia..she is like seriously, the CUTEST LITTLE THING!! hahaha. she like, bounced up to me and asked hopefully, 'are u korean??' and wasn't really that sad when i said no. another girl in my small group, from russia, kept calling me some korean name cuz she thought i looked like her korean friend. seriously! why does everyone think i'm korean?? but u know what, my new 'dream' is not to be american anymore..i wanna be korean!! ahahaha. i think they're SO cute. i mean the girls. cute little things! plus koreans are everywhere. and everyone loves koreans. so anyway yah. i really like my small group! all 5 of them!
but THANK GOD for my wonderful small group whom i love very much!! even though 2 of them are older than me (23 yrs old cuz they're transfers frm another school. one from HK, one from china), it went really well, and they're pretty talkative, which was so great for me. haha. one girl from korea but she lives in russia..she is like seriously, the CUTEST LITTLE THING!! hahaha. she like, bounced up to me and asked hopefully, 'are u korean??' and wasn't really that sad when i said no. another girl in my small group, from russia, kept calling me some korean name cuz she thought i looked like her korean friend. seriously! why does everyone think i'm korean?? but u know what, my new 'dream' is not to be american anymore..i wanna be korean!! ahahaha. i think they're SO cute. i mean the girls. cute little things! plus koreans are everywhere. and everyone loves koreans. so anyway yah. i really like my small group! all 5 of them!
Friday, August 15, 2008
summer pics
family at jere's BMT graduation! so patriotic :)
at soup restautant..celebrating my early bdae. :)
sentosa!
SINGFEST 08!!! best concert EVER!!! rawk on
joce bdae at Shokudo
clar's bdae at the ice skating rink. haha
dawgz last outing
me n joce :)
on the lu-ge! :)
jedi's 14th bdae. brothers grow up so fast!
back again!
it's been...3 months? heh. summer was..AWESOME! hanging out, watching every single movie there is (except the horror flicks), going gym with joce (new body!), family gatherings, SINGFEST!!, celebrating my bdae numerous times.. can't believe time flew by so fast!!
and now i'm back. in good old upland. arrived safely and happily. the flight back was..AWESOME!! they gave me premier tickets? dont know what those are but i like em! cuz United Air usually doesn't have TVs for economy class, so i came prepared with my ds, mags, books, laptop, etc. but to my utmost surprise, there were tvs on the back of the seat!!! so excited i called my parents to share my joy. haha. and the plane was like half empty! so there was no one around me!! so i could put up my legs, put down my chair, not be disturbed by anyone!!! it was total happiness. and from japan to chicago, they put me on BUSINESS CLASS!! without even telling me!! it was SUCH a nice shock. loved it!! huge reclining chair, soooo much space to fit 2 of me, nice meals..although the food was kinda wasted on me..prawns..seafood stuff..ugh. so i got more sleep than usual. it was one of the best travelling experiences. :) THANK GOD! cuz normally when i travel i either get cramps, flu, or painful ear popping experiences. but God is good!! and all my luggage arrived safely too!!!
kinda weird being back and seeing everyone again. but it's nice :) can't wait to see the freshmen though!! yayyy!!! going back to eating wraps and burgers and salads is kinda weird too. there's like tons of chips, sweets, snacks, cookies, etc..laying around at the daudts' (where i'm staying with 15 other girls)..but i'm determined to be healthy and avoid those like mad!! ooh must remember to take my medicine. :)
and now i'm back. in good old upland. arrived safely and happily. the flight back was..AWESOME!! they gave me premier tickets? dont know what those are but i like em! cuz United Air usually doesn't have TVs for economy class, so i came prepared with my ds, mags, books, laptop, etc. but to my utmost surprise, there were tvs on the back of the seat!!! so excited i called my parents to share my joy. haha. and the plane was like half empty! so there was no one around me!! so i could put up my legs, put down my chair, not be disturbed by anyone!!! it was total happiness. and from japan to chicago, they put me on BUSINESS CLASS!! without even telling me!! it was SUCH a nice shock. loved it!! huge reclining chair, soooo much space to fit 2 of me, nice meals..although the food was kinda wasted on me..prawns..seafood stuff..ugh. so i got more sleep than usual. it was one of the best travelling experiences. :) THANK GOD! cuz normally when i travel i either get cramps, flu, or painful ear popping experiences. but God is good!! and all my luggage arrived safely too!!!
kinda weird being back and seeing everyone again. but it's nice :) can't wait to see the freshmen though!! yayyy!!! going back to eating wraps and burgers and salads is kinda weird too. there's like tons of chips, sweets, snacks, cookies, etc..laying around at the daudts' (where i'm staying with 15 other girls)..but i'm determined to be healthy and avoid those like mad!! ooh must remember to take my medicine. :)
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