|
III
sand dollars
November 26, 2007
// 9:36 PM
 I just cleaned up my sand dollar from Ocean Beach. Yesterday's trip to Ocean Beach was amazing!!! I feel soooooooo lucky to have gotten to see such a beaaautiful sunset. I really made my week. I could've stood there for hours (and I guess I did). I think I cursed about a hundred times about how I didn't have a digital SLR to take pictures with. The sky looked lovely when we got there and eventually when the sun started to set, I was SO glad I decided to go. I had a ton of photo ops and I definitely took advantage of them. ooooooh I love love love the water and I looooove sunsets. It was absolutely perfect. I'm sorry I ever said anything bad about Ocean Beach. I guess it's lovely when you don't attempt to go into the water. I wish I could've bonfired, but oh well, it couldn't have been any better! After the beach we headed over downtown to get some grub. mmmm I love San Francisco at night when it's busy and lit. Everyone was shopping of course, but I didn't let myself waste hours shopping for the fiftieth time this weekend. All in all, the trip was lovely and quite worth my Sunday.
I was really sad to wake up this morning and have to go to class. It took me like 4 snoozes to finally get up. The bus didn't come when it was suppose to and I got to class about 30 seconds before it started. I suppose thats better than being late. It was really hard to stay up in class, besides Chinese, which is always eventful. Lunch was spent with the lovely Gannon and Ronnie (oh and the Walgreens guy that was developing my pictures). On the way to OASES today the guy driving us walked us to the outskirts of Oakland Chinatown where we got vietnamese sandwiches before tutorial. yum yum yum. Today one of my tutees wrote a sign that said something on the lines of "Tammy is KOOL" for when we took our group photo. I pretended like I didn't see it because she didn't want me to, but I thought that was darling. I looove my tutees, they make me happy.
   Labels: love love love
III
November 24, 2007
// 9:27 PM
 So we got a cat. His name is Francis and he's quite the cute one. He's a crowd pleaser too. Not really, he mostly sleeps the whole day and is really sloth-like. He playfully bites and claws, although I guess we wouldn't think it's very playful. :] Anyways, the past couple of weeks have been pretty busy and eventful. Long story short, I've kept myself busy and have learned to appreciate naps (in class or not) and some of the lovely people I've met in Berkeley. The semester is almost done and I wouldn't say it's been one of my best academic friendly semesters, but it's been fun. Stats is getting better believe it or not, but everything else is just kinda bleh. But I guess it's okay because I think grades aren't the only thing important when you're in college. I love love love doing reach! and community service around Berkeley. It's soooo rewarding and I'm really glad I got into all this stuff.
Anyways, it's Thanksgiving break and every time I come back to Milpitas, I love it even more. I missed my friends soooo much. It's always really nice to see people I've grown up with.. people who know more about me than anyone else I see these days. It's a comfort zone. They make me happy and they're such sweet people who care about me and make me laugh. I loooove you people. I can't wait to see everyone again during Christmas. I miss high school when I come home. I miss everything being so easy, and everyone being so relaxed. I miss all our inside jokes and all the hugs I used to give and receive. You guys made me sooo happy this weekend, I love you guys for that. :]
And I guess now I have to take a long break from home again. Time to getting studying, and more of keeping myself busy. Tahoe trip after Christmas anyone? yeaaayuh.
.. I still love you very very much. I'm so sorry. I'll miss you.
III
wang lee hom you rock my world
November 05, 2007
// 11:16 PM
I freaking love this guy. I think I'll sit here for an hour and just watch his videos. Gosh. This guy is my Chinese version of Jason Mraz. I want to marry him :(
 Saturday I spent with my looooovely chinese 1ay tongxue in San Francisco and it was freaking amazing. We met up with our too awesome of chinese teacher on BART and from there on was good times. We were dragged into this little isolated dim sum restaurant and ordered a load of food. Of course when the meal was over, and being Chinese as we are, Zhang Laoshi tried to pay for all of us. We fought for the bill and won. We then went to this little park that had the most darling name: Willie "Woo Woo" Wong. We played around there for a while and went shopping in Chinatown looking for a Chinese bookstore because Zhang Laoshi wanted to buy us books to make up for the lunch she couldn't pay for. She instead just bought us pearl tea when the book searching came out to be hopeless.
 When she left, most of us went over to Union Square and shopped for a while. The guys did their thing and the girls took a long time doing theirs. I was pretty fun. We headed back to Berkeley and we ordered some pizza from West Coast Pizza (as if we didn't have enough dim sum to eat) (okay, we didn't :D). We watched Cal beat Washington State and played a good game of Cranium. George and Gannon stayed for a bit watching V for Vendetta and then we moved into talking about The Land Before Time for some reason. After that we went on a Chinese video watching spree.
I basically was passed out after that. The next day I spent making up for what I did.. I studied for Oceanography for about 12 hours, including breaks. I went to bed at 2:30 and woke up at 7:30 to study some more this morning. I am so tired. But it's okay. That's college life.
Now I'm wasting my time listening to Chinese music. Gosh I really wish I were super at this. I need to catch up. Goodbye lovelies!
III
快樂
November 02, 2007
// 11:23 PM
So school isn't going that great for me, but I'm trying to not think about it. Statistics is really killing me. I keep trying to study harder and I keep thinking I'm going to do better and then when I get the tests, I just snap. It's so terrible. I make really dumb mistakes that I shouldn't be making and I keep freezing up and getting nervous. I don't know what I'm going to do. I guess I'll be making regular visits to office hours.
Anyways, that's all I'll be saying about school. I need to stop worrying and be more confident in myself!
So I think the thing that makes me happiest at school is going to Chinese. I feel sooooo productive and rewarded every time I go. I feel like I learn so much and it makes me so excited for studying abroad next year. I can't wait to make something of what I've learned. Sitting in a class room and doing nothing isn't enough for me. I love learning it. My teacher is so great and everyone in the class is lovely! We're all going to go eat dim sum tomorrow with our teacher, Zhang Laoshi. Geez. It's really Chinese class that is keeping me sane and not making me go out of my mind.
Today I went outreaching with Outreach. It was really fun. It was nice seeing the students actually so into it. I totally took for granted all the special counseling we got in high school from Ms. Young. I'm so happy I'm doing outreach.
I've just been in a good mood lately (if you disregard every single thought of Stats and my GPA). I'm having a good time doing everything I'm doing.. that includes hanging out with my really cute kids at OASES (the other day, my tutee was holding my hand the whole time during recess), doing community service with SRB and doing outreach with reach!. All that and getting excited to go to China next year.. geez. I would be absolute happiness if Stats weren't such a huge burden to me right now.
I really love being in a good mood. It makes me happy and it makes me want to make other people happy. :)
|
Name: ymmatammy
