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Thursday, November 10, 2005
there are six things that are entertaining my mind...and should be typed down before i forget them:
willy wonka: good morning starshine! the earth says HELLO!
gracey declares, that the coolest name in the whole world is, WOLFGANG NIKITA BANDERAS.
monika: u know, in the old 'willy wonka and the chocolate factory', the grandparents were BED-RIDDEN for twenty years!'
since when was 'bed-ridden' a part of her vocabulary??
i make good strawberry-banana pancakes.
there are some people i will never look at the same way again.
I WANNA GO TO NEW YORK AND SEE 'PRIDE AND PREJUDICE' DX
Saturday, November 5, 2005
it's ten forty-two pm. and here i am, sitting in front of the computer, one leg up, the other supporting my upper body, with my tuna-melted wrap right in front of the screen.
oh dear me...it's been how long since i have updated? i really do apologize. i've been way too swamped with stupid schoolwork and work. when do i ever have time to actually sit back and be an actual teenager? ah...i miss those days when i'd stay in bed and act like a bum, and not mind about what has happened yesterday, or what will happen tomorrow. ><
*takes a bite outta tuna wrap, spilling bits of tuna on the wooden comp desk* so what's been new? well...^_^
REDGE AND RACHEL ARE TYING THE KNOT TOMORRROOOOWWWW!!!!!
THERE IS NO TURNING BACK! YOU'LL HAFTA DEAL WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE REST OF UR LIVES! SOON THERE'S GONNA BE LIL REGGIES SCATTERING ABOUT THEIR HOUSE! AND THEY'LL ALL RUN TO THEIR UNCLE BENJ AND KNOCK HIM OFF HIS FEET! THUS AGGRAVATING HIM EVEN MORE! PWAHAHAHAHA
*another bite. mayo poors all over lower lip* so what else has been new? *sigh* turns out i'm doing soooo poorly in schoolwork. and not because of SENIORITIS! nooo, in fact, i'm spending hours grinding my nose into my books, yet i gain little to no knowledge. gahhh...what shall i do? monday i'll prolly be crawling on my knees to my phy. teacher...begging for help. i'm still considering to switch out...but i'm scared to annoy firincilli again...and...as i just realized...my grades are similar to that of spanish last year, yet i managed to pull it off. eh...i shouldn't risk that.
oh yeah. i mentioned this to some people already. dad said he'll buy me an ipod for my bday...so that means i can spend a good portion of the money i was saving it for. thus, i bought myself a white fleece, and a dance dance revolution, mario mix.
man, i don't care wat other people say...it's a GOOD GAME...despite the corny storymode, and toad's annoying voice, and the limited amt of songs. say, that's the whole description of nintendo in one sentence. ^_~
of course i demanded gracey to come over, and i think she's overwhelemed by its cuteness. i mean...wat could be cuter? mario and luigi shaking their hips and bustin some salsa moves...bowser acting ghetto and doing some seriously sweet breakdance moves. ha ha ha, and me drowning in sweat, dancing to remixes of classic mario tunes. tee hee. monika and jez [whom i was babysitting] also broke a sweat, not from ddr-ing, but from imitating mario and luigi's dance moves, which were interestingly fast and complicated.
uy...that's enough of me for now. i'm almost done with my sandwhich. after i ate a lunch of popcorn and pizza, i went to subway and ate a cold cute trio, a cookie, and now this tuna wrap.
i am gaining back all that i lost. >_<
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2 quick things that made my day today:
it was around 4:35ish when i started to embark on my long journey from home to my work. my pants were drenched, my head hurt, and my right hand was frozen from being exposed to the cold while clutching onto my purple umbrella. once i go inside (i was 10ish minutes late) all the kids turn around and were like, 'risa! where were you!' mrs. z also turned and said, 'ah! there you are! all the kids were looking for u...'
i was only ten minutes late, and the kids were panicking, wondering where i was. i had a mushy gushy feeling inside me for about five seconds. i felt so touched ^_~
2nd:
i'm searching for good sound effects for the sci-fi movie i'm making in di2. and wat do i find? the sound of boiling potatoes....
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKIE!!!
gaaaah...YOU'RE 18. YOU OLD PICKET FENCE! I BET NARDONIEVILLE VIRGINIA IS HAVING A BIG PARADE AND CELEBRATION RIGHT NOW!!! tee hee, you know i love ya...
words can't describe how much i'll miss u when we go to college, cuz ur one of the most 'sane' outta the c hall group. O_O happy birthday again! and don't run over any more priests!!!
Friday, October 7, 2005
OH MY GOSH.
right now i am locked inside the digital imaging room. countless janitors keep coming and trying to break the lock. thank god that this room is slightly cold, and i can surf the web. man if the fire department came...that would be just hysterical...
so sorry shendi! i can't tell u wat our calc hw was! ><
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
hooray! finally! two very well deserved days off! i thought a day such as this would never come...september was a painfully slow month.
what could get better? no homework? yippee! wait i take that back...yes 'yipee' but i still got SAT's, MEH project, and AP studio artwork is beyong endless. not to mention college applications uy.
man, physics test was horrible. was it possible to complete all of those questions in 40 minutes? nnnooooo. the last question alone took me ten-ish minutes. argh. walsh better be generous and take away a question, or give us a few extra points...
and here, are a couple of random stuff that's clouding my mind:
ever since i took digital imaging 2, i've been downloading adobe cs, adobe illustrator, and creatin some random art pieces. i can't deny that di2 is one of my fav classes. not only cuz mr. i's cool and there's no annoying students and the computers are worker, but the projects he assigns for us are a bit challenging, yet cool and worthwhile in the end.
actually, di2 is tied with production graphics, mainly cuz gracey and mikey are there...the only chance i get to talk become closer with either one. and of course, troxell is a nut, but in a good nutty way :) hopefully when the project comes to design shirts, we'll be able to create c-hall shirts, or maybe even design duckshirts, specifically requested by nat.
i just finished reading the davinci code. ahem. the beginning was pretty exciting, and after i read that darn chatper i immediately ran to this comp and complained and yelled at benj. argh. otherwise, the whole plot was pretty interesting. angels and demons was WWAAAYYY better, and had more of an adventure. the davinci code was way too full of conversation of that stupid truth of the holy grail, and not enough, u know, code and clue hunting.
nevertheless i'm curious about the movie. i've seen pictures of tom hanks as robert langdon [have u seen his hair? DX i was picturing more of liam neeson] audrey totou, or something like as sophie [she looks pretty in it], sir ian mckellen aka gandalf as teabing [interesting choice, i pictured JK Simmons], and paul bettany as silas [do u guys remember him? gracey, lucy and shelly? he was peter colt from WIMBLEDON! gasp] well watever. i saw the movie clip, and they way they wrote the A in dA and the V in Vinci for the logo...i got all excited becuz i figured out why the A and V are designed that way...
alright i should shut up about that now...
i just watched 'kate and leopold'. beleive it or not, i might categorized that as one of my favorite romantic movies ^_^ hugh jackman is so pretty. i'm amazed how he can act so gentlemen-like in this film, yet arrogant and dangerous in X-men, AND happy and gay in 'boy from oz'. it's a talent that i will never have.
soooooo wat am i doing write now u may ask? watching charles ross perform the oneman show of 'star wars trilogy' and 'lord of the rings'. oh my gosh, it's one of the funniest things i've seen in awhile. i mean, it's just one man, on stage, re-enacting the scenes AND sounds of those famous trilogies.
yeah i know. pretty quirky. hey watever.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
i've been staying up past one lately... but not because of school; for some spooky reason, this week's load has been considerably light. i've been staying up finishing my AP studio art work. ha ha, i never thought i'd find myself in this kind of position, but since this is the sort of stuff i wanna major in, i might as well get used to it. we're doing a drawing assignment that is attempting to correlate creative thinking, and our hands. the 'creative thinking' part includes drawing our hands from a different perspective, doing some weird [and occasionally painful] gesture...the list goes on.
idk, i've been fascinated with drawing my hand in a sort of tense gesture, as if it's trying to grab something...preferably the viewer. well, the reason it's taking me so long to finish this assignment is cuz i can't transpose wat i had in mind, to wat i draw on the paper, so some of my gestures are well, bleh. especially how i imagine where i position my thumb, in contrast to wat i drew. well, my first 'final' hand looked so empty and alone on the big piece of charcoal paper, so i guess my 'creativity' is that i drew five other hands in the same tense gesture, but with a lighter media. my first hand, which is in the center, is the only one competely drawn and shaded in charcoal, so as to be accentutated and differentiated from the rest. heh, attempting such an artpiece is not that easy. thankfully mrs. brown, and the rest of the class like my drawn hands. as michelle commented, my tense gestures seem to allude to the gestures of a spider. kinda freakish for my part, but watever. i'll leave it at that. hopefully, on the AP test, i'll get a four on it....and if i'm not lazy enough, i just might scan the artpiece in for all u web-blog vistors to see. how exciting.
hhhnnn...so wat else has been up with my life? lesee...well, the burden for asking teachers for recommendations has been lifted. mr. firrincili of course, needs to write one, and mrs. z and mr. carey were also delighted to write one for me. i'm a lil curious on wat carey's gotta say, since chem was not one of my favorite subjects....actually, what's been bothering me most was what mrs. z has gotta say. she's known me far longer than the other teachers, and she knows my dad REAL well. she has helped kids get into MIT, Harvard, Princeton, and has also helped students win all sorts of scholarships. i feel so blessed in having her, and i also feel blessed that she has faith in me, that i have the ability to achieve watever i desire. oooh, the AGONY and PAIN i will FEEL if i don't get ACCEPTED. argh!
why must college acceptances be like, the main focus of our lives!?!? god has created our lives to have soooo much more purpose than that!! when will my wails cease!?
hmm, i have nothing more to say.
i have a strange craving for chips right now. perhaps i might enjoy myself to a grabful or two.
tee hee.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
so i come home and i notice that the house carpet was vacuumed, the dishes washed, and there were fresh flowers everywhere.
at first i was like, eh? tita rosa's back? then i remembered, about two hours ago, that it was mom and dad's anniversary.
well i don't think i should feel guilty that i forgot. i don't hafta do anything. right?
today was a very rare day in that i had very little homework to do. still, i failed to learn my lesson, and i didn't start it until ten-ish. the rest of the time was spent...i dunno, either surfing or playing mobile chess on my cellphone, which i've recently been very addicted to.
oh, so to everybody who doesn't know. i am going to take leave of the church's worship team. i feel that GOD is calling me to participate more in the children's sunday school, a ministry i feel that i've been growing more spiritually than anywhere else. thank GOD reggie was so understanding. ha ha, i tried to hint him of my feelings online, but that was a complete failure, so he suggested that we talk on the phone, at around ten-ish at night. it was resolved that i am allowed to leave, and if i feel that i am making a big mistake, the worship team will still have an open spot for me. how cool is that??? praise GOD.
so later on i tell mom our arrangement, who then told tita my, who couldn't be happier =) [thank goodness! ha ha! get it meeks? no? um...it's a wicked song? aiyah nevermind]
speaking of witch [HAHA oh i crack myself up ><], it is decided that for my dad and meek's mom's birthday, we shall take them to see the 'wicked' musical. me so psyched. in addition, i'm jealous that reggie's gonna see it next week, and he's not obsessed with the musical as me and meeks are. oh well.
eh, it's midnight and i better go. i still gotta read and draft my college essay. argh! i hate the college application process! why can't we just...'wish' the problem away?
eh, i have a headache. i can't breathe @_@
Saturday, September 17, 2005
alright alright. so yesterday was a youth-free night, so wat better thing could i do, than to go shoppping? i mean, all my hard work [which grace says, totally consumes my life >_<]and hard earned money deserves a lil shoppping spree.
i had a whole list in my head as to what to buy, for example, two sweatshirts, a computer program, and an endless amount of cds. stupid thing is, i kept thinking, 'do i REALLY need all those cds? do i REALLY need that program? do i REALLY need that shirt?'. so wat do i do? just bought one cd, one shirt, and ben's bday shirt. pwah ha. either i'm being less 'i want i want i want', which i guess is good, or i'm just downright lazy to go shop spree-ing myself. har dee har har.
so what has been consuming my mind? COLLEGES!
i'm starting to get sick of the whole process. i just wanna fast-foward the stressful application process days, and just go to the day i receive my acceptance letter.
and when that's done, senior year is gonna move a LOT faster...a big burden already lifted from my shoulders. oh goody.
sigh. it's almost eleven, my hands wreak of the subway stench, and i still hafta do english....i hafta interpret a franklin...a FRANKLIN? how can i extract the sattire when all chaucer describes it the endless food on his table. pwah.
PS: friday night when i had nothing to do (yes gracey, i had NOTHING TO DO becuz i WASN'T WORKING AT NIGHT. hmph.), i watched fellowship of the ring, and i realized that i'm in love with sean bean. sigh <3
Monday, September 12, 2005
ah, first day back at work in the art studio! my first teaching class started 3:30, and i thought i could go home, surf a lil, then walk to work. turns out i was ten minutes late. but hey, no big deal, mrs. z said the 3:30 class would be swamped, but only four people just showed up, so i spent most of the time reading the newspaper.
mrs. z also wanted me as her helper for the 5:00 class as well, so by the time the 3:30 students left, i eagerly waited for the next class, since most of the students were the ones i taught last year. the 5:00 class is oil painting, and there were a few students who were just beginning, so i was busy running around, preparing their art box cases, instructing them to label everything.
otherwise, i was soo happy seeing rache, jo, emma, and brookie again, the girls who i can honestly say, adore me. ha ha, that class went by fast, since everybody kept shouting "risa risa! i need help!...no! help me first!", and i was running around, while mrs. z watched and laughed. everybody wanted my help, from drawing clouds [i was flabbergasted when brookie said she didn't know how to draw clouds] to leaves, to legs. this is going to be an interesting year.
so it ends up that i'm working tomorrow 3:30 as well. how am i gonna do college aps, SATs, three jobs, lance newspaper, and school work all at once? i have no idea.
maybe i can save up the money i earn for that million dollar house in manhattan i was looking up in the newspaper during the 3:30 art class. pwah ha just kidding.
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
yes! finally! our stupid old modem broke down, so dad calls up technical service and asks for another modem, which the service gives us for free. the next day the new wireless modem arrives, but our computer tower didn't have the right ethernet connection in order to install the new modem. so, dad and i go to radioshack to purchase a network chip to install that missing connection. when we tell the worker that we needed a network chips, he stares at us wide eyed and asks, "hold OLD if your computer?". we told him how old it was. he shakes his head [man, who is HE to care how old our comp was? oh well] and responds, "you'd be better off buying a new computer", but shows us the network chips anyway. dad turns to me and says, "you know, i was thinking of buying a new computer anyway," i shrug and say okay, and we walk outta there and drive on to PC richards. aww, that radioshack man could've earned an extra $20, if he didn't suggest for us to buy something that's 400x more expensive.
so yeah! we got a new comp, with a flat screen, a dvd burner that burns both sides [who would bother with that?], and a printer-scanner-copier. see now the good thing, is that there aren't any viruses...yet....so right now i don't hafta fear if this comp freezes, and hey, that's good enough for me. tee hee.
so anywho...this long summer has ended! now it's the start of my senior year! and i started this pitas when i was a frosh. wow.
first period mr. j: ben abandoned me [grr] but jess and geoff are in it! my lil SOPHisticated MORons. lol just kidddiiiiinnnggg.
second period mead: at least christie and tiff are in it, and mead's very cool, and active, despite the fact he has a cast on, but of course, no one beats last year's USII with siegel. ;_; [what's funny about mead, is that whenever there's an important paper he passes out, he prints out information in a neon-colored paper; which happens to be hysterically effective because those important documents, are just...painful to look at...due to their color]
third period LORD i: at least those stupid mac laptops are gone, and now replaced with these big white comps. ha ha.
fourth period gug: INSANE CLASS, me, shendz, brian, brenda, meg, tiff, brian h., raul, vlad, ben lo., jonah (???), and the list goes on. idk, math has never been my best subject, so i don't expect to excel =/
fifth period brown: okay okay okay, she loves me way too much to the point that she keeps pointing me out. mich and saskia can testify *shrug*
sixth period gym: errr, watever.
seventh period walsh: of course, my only academic that makes me mingle with juniors. uy. i flipped through the ever-so-heavy textbook, and a lot of the reviews deal with some terms we went over with chemistry. ><
[i'm almost done so bear with me]eighth period joy-o-so: or at least that's how dear troxell wants us to pronounce it. jules, mike and gracey are in it. obviously i should look up to trox as an idol, cuz she's a very successful graphic designer. she explained how we should design based on our client's taste, and one of our first clients will be [drumroll] wittmaack for the school play. once trox mentioned that i glanced over at jules to see her reaction. hee hee, she knows i still love her. this class is definitely going to be mucho interesting, considering since i'm still thinking of taking 'graphic design' as my major.
last but not least, period nine anderson: eh, idk. the teacher really intimidates me for some awkward reason, but hey, i wouldn't mind achieving the goal of becoming a 'painterly writer'. ha ha, cuz from my POV, my writing style can be depicted by a painter dipping his brush, and just randomly splattering the canvas, not caring which direction the strokes land.
alright so that ends the school day, and what better way is there to end the day, than...PAYING A VISIT TO MY ONE AND ONLY CHEM TEACHER?
it was adorable how he turned red the moment gracey, shelly, lizzy and i appeared at his door [blush? yeah right...]. after exchanging our hello's, shelly ranted about how she suddenly realized she talked like a ditz, while carey told us that he has somehow become the unofficial barber to some of his friends.
thank god he loved my gift [kudos to gracey], to the point that he showed his family, even his mom...? lol. so after saying goodbye, we [gracey, me, shelly, arthur, saskia] walked the long path home, with our heavy text books pressing against our backs. >_<
and so ends my lil shpheal.
in case i forget, SHENDZ, BENJ IS DYING TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE HIS LAGUNA BEACH DVDS, AND PLEASE RETURN MY HARRYPOTTER BOOK!
Sunday, August 28, 2005
sigh, it's been too long since i've last updated. there's a stupid virus [nowadays, who DOESN'T have a virus?] that's slowly eating away my comp; first the MSN internet, then the sound, then the internet explorer, then the javascript and cookies, and now, our DSL modem is corrupted. thankfully, i've been spending my time working at subway and doing summer assignments, preventing me from going online for hours on end. so now the only way to get in contact with the cyber-world, is through the library's comp.
so what's been new? well, nothing that can be elaborated. i have about one week and two days until school starts, so i took a whole week off from subway, so that my time could be dedicated to english and ap studio art. sadly, my studying time has been growing shorter, replaced by my sleeping time. pwah.
hmm, i told mom i'd be home in about twenty minutes, and i used about fifteen minutes of it looking for books and rereading the MLA format. ha ha. i should go.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
darnit, u know what's starting to suck about subway? well, being a worker there u think ur actually gonna lose weight, since ya know, that whole 'jared foggle' incident of losing two-hundred or so pounds from constantly eating sub-sandwhiches. well when the day gets slow...and there's nothing to do...and the food is there...and it's an employee discount...you just might as well eat. and believe me, evey twenty minutes or so, there's something in my mouth. sigh. at least therese and don agree with me. don doesn't even like cookies, but when ur sitting there, with the cookies just right in front of u, there's nothin better to do than to kill time by grabbin a cookie. sigh.
that's why i'm scared to go near a scale. but due to the house-moving months before, i haven't seen that dreaded scale since. phew.
if meeks is reading this, she'd prolly be reading in disbelief, that why ME, of ALL PEOPLE, stress over my weight.
ha ha okay i wanna change the topic.
so last friday, lucy had a small get-together gig at her house, since ya know, us C-hall members haven’t seen each other in so long. so it was me, saskia, gracey, mike, meg, and ben, [nat and geoff were north somewhere] all together, and it was just like old times again ^_^.
sigh, I missed it soo much: us laughing about nothing, me making fun of mike in some shape or form, etc. well since mike and I have summer jobs that involve ‘dealing with people’, we exchanged with each other as well as everybody else, our encounters with crazy old people, and folks who just don’t understand logic; whereas ben worked at camp horizon, and the only things fascinating were him videotaping the camp’s Disney-based ‘aladdin’ play, and a retarded balloon show.
however, when meg came, I couldn’t stand seeing her, not that i didn't like her, it's cuz she had a big sunburn that looked sooo painful, it felt like i could feel her pain as well ><. she just came from the shore, and was bright red from the sun shining down on with its skin-cancer-threatening rays. gracey commented that meg’s skin blended in with lucy’s kitchen cabinets [which are dark brown]. Hee hee. i love all you guys, and i dunno what’ll happen when we separate in college. ;_;
so I lose track of time and arrive at meeks’ house by around ten-ish. Fortunately, they weren’t done with the devotional yet, and were discussing about our love being tested, in how we should show GODly love. how appropriate! because a few days ago my love was strongly tested with my relationship between my aunt and uncle. i don’t wanna repeat it, because it will break my heart, but a fair few should get the idea. in addition, the love was also tested when JR passed away about a week-ish ago, since just like shendz, the only memories I have of him, are not…really…pleasant.
sigh, I wish I could elaborate, but i feel bad blogging this late [[what time it is? Ha ha, you’ll never know]]. I can’t sleep, so I’ll prolly keep on reading ‘pride and prejudice’, which I must say, is starting to become interesting. Me can’t wait until the movie comes out, which is KAYE’S BIRTHDAY.
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
sigh. yeah i apologize for my more-than-weeklong absence. I could’ve updated ya know, but my california cuzn [yeah romilyn, i’ll explain more later] would go surfing the internet during my online time, and she would surf into the wee hours, and be done when I’m asleep.
so since i said i’d talk bout Keswick, i guess i will, so i gotta think back REAL hard ><
jessi didn’t attend, which was poop, so i hadda roommate with good ol’ shendi. as predicted, we stayed up till three talking about everything and nothing. as i can recall, i explained to her the gruesome horror movie “saw”, and why i think it’s psychotic-ness is, well, ‘genius’. heh, then i talked bout harry potter and his fluctuating hormones.
okay so the theme of this year was “in times like these, think Christ”, a very effective topic, because depending on Christ through trials and tribulations is essential in strengthening one’s faith. i openly admit to having problems with doing that [ex] to the point that i blame GOD for the troubles i hafta deal with in my, whether it’d be relationships, or...whatever. but GOD will never leave you nor forsake you (where’s the reference? Ah!) and will always be there to life whatever burdens are laid upon us. awesome.
‘kay so that’s pastor’s message. Tita flo’s message dealt with discovering the spiritual gifts GOD bestowed on us, and how we can develop these skills and contributed them to the church, the world, and whatever ministries (i think ‘watever’ is like, the word of the day ~_~). u think i was (probably?) confirmed the gifts of help, teaching, and giving.
HELP: when our youth worship was assigned to lead, i was willing to provide and give support to my worship leaders *cough*shendimico*cough*
TEACH: the children’s sunday school…MAN. Where I combine my love of art, creativity, and educatin’ the lil’ people, all at once. and seeing the kids learn something new is enough to make me satisfied. i was especially touched when darrin said i had a big heart for kids. awww.
GIVE: a told this to shendz before: I WANNA DO A RISA’S FAVORITE THINGS [spinoff from that Oprah special], i love going to the mall and keeping a lookout on what people would want. SO TRUE. and i don’t so just to gain popularity or something {meh?} i find it FUN making people smile
alright a should stop myself from gettin’ any more mushy. we had 7 1/2 hours of free time, so of course, i spent a majority of that time playing volleyball and...BADMINTON. i had fun and all, playing against therese [varsity tennis player] rallying overhead clears, but then my arm eventually became sore. ah, now I know why my gym teacher always reminded us to stretch out arms before playing. i always learn the hard way.
all is said and done, and then it was time to leave the camp. my family drove back home and hit the bed, while benj, therese and allyn attended a backstreet boy concert >_~
oh btw, this all happened from friday until sunday, ha ha i should’ve mentioned that earlier. Ah well. So on tuesday, was the start of VBS! THE RAMBILIN’ ROAD TRIP! Which way should I go? O_O
the whole theme was of embarking on a road trip [not realistically, though that would be cool if we could. STEAL SASKIA’S WINNEBAGO! BWAHAHAHA] and eventually leading the kids to the road of salvation. VBS (vacation bible school, case u didn’t know), is one school-week long, so for each day, the kids are supposedly traveling across the US of A, and stopping by five sites: washington d.c., chicago illinois, lebanon kansas, yellowstone national park, and knotts berry farm (I agree jess, such random places to visit). since I didn’t teach last year, i tried to compensate by making my room look cool, and my teaching style fun.
here are pictures of my kiddies {i taught 1st and 2nd graders with mico}, meeks, and jess, though I have loads more in my camera for all to see ^_^
i’m too lazy to now talk about my california relatives visiting and my lil vacation, so I’ll save that for another day, otherwise, this blog would be way too long, and I know u’ve had enough of this entry already. Pwah.
art craft time for my kids! and meeks is helpin them out. i'd help too, but i was behind the camera. duh.
my kiddies include, josh...
christine...
pauline, laurel..
jared and david [who's not sleepy, he was just blinking a that moment]
meeks hangs out with shendz' kids, steven, joseph, and JR [[aka, Lala, the telletubie ^_^]] ps: JR looks really weird in that pic =/
trish and jessi keepin in real during the kids' music practice
and finally, the kids mimicking the music movements to 'road ramblers' tee hee.
so had enough? yeah i thought so...