So Monday night was all about awards. I spent the entire night Sunday doing James' Hall of Fame. Then on Monday, I did his president's award and touched up Joe's Hall of Fame. I really hope one of them wins. They really deserve it! So I slept at 5am. I was so tired.

Luckily on Tuesday I get to sleep in. I woke up at 12pm and got ready for preschool. Today the site coordinator was bring someone to observe us. GOSH..our team hates being observed. Luckily the kids were really good today. On our drive back, I was telling my team leader how great my kid was today. She let me read to her and she remembered my name!

OMG. Then all of a sudden a huge CLUNK sound. We were about to exit the freeway and as my team leader Alice was switching lanes, she ran over some huge metal thing in the road on the freeway. So we pull over on the shoulder and she realizes that 2 of the tires popped! So crazy and of course it's raining..more like pouring! So she only has one spare (obviously) and we call AAA. They hang up on us so we called back. They tell us they are sending someone. The problem is, the tow truck can only take 2 people...THERE ARE 5 OF US. Crap.

So I was like OMG..then I called Agustin. Luckily he was free and he took off right away to save us. As we were waiting, a tow truck comes. This super shady looking guy comes to the window...I'm imagining all kinds of crazy killer stories at this point. But it turns out that the tow service is free in Berkeley and they get you off the freeway. But again, the problem is there's 5 of us and only space for 2. So we send him away and wait for AAA. Then the traffic starts getting worse and worse. And a while later Agustin calls and says he is almost on the freeway going the way we are.

But then a california highway patrol pulls over. He tells us to try and drive the car..then a nasty burning tire smell penetrated the windows into the car. IT WAS DISGUSTING. Seriously gross. So the CHP officer decides to give us a ride. OKay...just then Agustin calls again and I tell him to drive home safely. THANK YOU SO MUCH AGUSTIN!! I LOVE YOU LIKE SERIOUSLY SO MUCH! YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT FRIEND! SO then my teammate gets in first..she like took 5 minutes because her foot got stuck between the back nd the front seats. I get in and was like WTF...there is seriously no leg space. Then another teammate gets in and she closes the door but it's not closed all the way. Well obviously in a cop car the door handles dont work. So whatever, off we go. So we take the exit that we were super close to and the officer was like "fuck, there is an accident"







LOL..yeah he was like super cussing. So there are two cars blocking the off ramp. He tells the cars to move off the ramp using the speaker system, but they don't even pay attention. Then he goes if you don't move your car, I will move it for you. He was serious. He was inching forward with his cop car. Then he gets out of the car but he forgets to put the car on park! It was scary..we almost hit the car that rearended another car. LOL..but dude the ppl were crazy. The two ladies would not get in their cars and drive off the freeway. When I saw the car, the front one was a BMW (BRAND NEW) but it only had paint scuffs. The car behind, got all fucked up. the front was like totalled. SO SAD. *side note: invest in a nice car..it's worth it* So we are still super squished in the cop car and the ladies drive to teh AMPM off the freeway and everything is okay. So we leave.

On the way he kept trying to make conversation and it was pretty crazy. He kept trying to convince us to become CHP Officers (apparently he makes $120,000 a year..WHOA) Anyways..he tells us how ppl only like firemen and never cops..which is totally true. Cops have such bad reps.

So finally we get to the Bart and then I head over to generally meeting. I had not had anything to eat yet..by the way it's 6:20pm and I have gone the whole day without food. I wanted to eat..but I only had 2 dollars. FML. Gosh..so I get some comfort food (curly fries) and I just go and wait at the general meeting room.

So gen mtg was pretty interesting..some funny skits etc..i got to be in the assassins skit..where I killed everyone for reals..(yeah I dunno..i dont get it but it was funny). Dragonsaurs won 2nd place penny wars for both categories..i think..(2nd Most money raised and most positive points)..then I ate a brownie.

I finally left and went to get some real dinner with James. Poor thing..he hasn't slept for like 4 or 5 days now. He worked on the Single Service essay for 7 hours...he didn't even care about his president's award. *sigh* what presidents have to do. SO yeah after dinner, got home and passed out at 11pm.

Wednesday: work, boring classes, work, home (ate a whole can of clam chowder..yikes), jumpstart training that was cancelled AGAIN..apparently there was some sort of fatality? and an emergency faculty mtg and our guest speaker couldnt make it. So instead of the training I finally was able to attend Margaret's committee meeting for like the first time ever. It was fun and I love Margaret (she's so awesome). Too bad water spilled in my backpack and my notebook is all messed up. Oh wells..after the mtg, I picked up some chocolate chips because I wanted to make chocolate chip cake..but I didnt have any sour cream..then I wanted to make some cc muffins..but I had no milk. FINE! I'll just settle for some chocolate chip cookies. They have a disgusting amount of butter but they are delicious. I MADE THESE FROM SCRATCH! yay..off of today's smitten kitchen post.




Alex got me thinking about graduation and the end of circle k...so I went on a search to find the best graduation song. haha..then ended up on youtube looking at random videos like Jimmy Kimmel's Unnecessary Censorship (super funny!). Now it is late..24 cookies later and a ton of youtube videos, I am off to bed. Goodnite.

PS. I reminisced about being on APATH and listenin to our open house songs/dance and our goodbye song by brian and jeff. I miss APATH freshman year. Fun stuff.

Hello! LOL..I am so tired. I am in class and not paying attenting because I cannot see the board. My contacts hurt my eyes because I stayed up until 5 am or something with James so he wouldn't be doing awards alone. I felt really bad for him. He needs an "Alex Chu". I am no Alex Chu...I can barely write. Awards editing is no fun.

Anyways, this weekend was pretty fun. We went up to Tahoe and got to see SNOW!!! So Friday night we left at like 6? 6:30? even though we were supposed to leave at 5pm. Well we got on our way and it was super trafficky. ON the way there were some crazzzy things. So we were in Joe's car and the car was hurting when going uphill. Then throuhout the whole drive, we were like why is the window so blurry?? the defroster is on..but we still can't see. It turns out Joe's defroster doesnt work. Great...we were driving throuh a darkass forest with fogged up windows and a slow drive uphill. Does this sound like a setup for a horror film? HAHa..so in the car was Fanny, James, and Joe Vu. We joked about man-eating deers and man eating deer. YEah..but we made it!



We settled in and a game of Apples to Apples began shortly. I was doing terribly..omg..not one card, not even close to being picked, not really any laughs either. My card was always like first to be discarded. MMUUUAHAHAHHAHA....but I came backkk and won! well..I don't know if I won but I got 8 cards in a game of 15 players.. OH YEAH! Some of my favorite cards are Jessica Simpson, Broken Collerbone, and Daddy Long Legs. ah yes...good times. THen we woke up super early to head to the ski resort. I didn't snowboard or ski because I don't like the feeling of death. So I passed. Many people stopped by where James and I were sitting and we left early.



Poor Tiffany N. got hurt. She was too busy saving children and a water dog to have paid attention to safety. Thank goodness she was able to save the children =) Anyways..we left, I took a really good nap, had awesome dinner, watched Star Wars Episode III and then I went to bed at 12am. I was really tired..not sure why..it's not like I was sore from snowboarding or anything. Well..I guess I missed out on late night trash talking. Oh wells.



Then it was morning. We cleaned up and left. OMG it was so windy and cold. Then it started raining and the death 'mobile had really noisy windshield wipers. Then it started snowing!! OMG I have never seen falling snow..it was quite a treat. Ate at IHOP, came back and napped. Then awards support for James.



Oh yeah, I got in trouble with both my work for being super flaky. I must try harder. That should be my goal until the end of the year...NO MISSING WORK BECAUSE I AM LAZY. Gosh..

BTW, Friday was Darrell's Bday and then we surprised him. Nina made awesome carrot cake cupcakes..heavenly...omg.

and a funny thing happened..oh i just love Monica's comebacks..

Josh: *Takes a bite of cupcake.* Asks Monica "You want some?"
Monica: "No! I don't want anything that comes from your mouth"
Matt: "That's how herpes is spread"

Monica: "You mean Josh?"

HAHAH..oh..she is the best at comebacks/disses/smart or witty sayings.

So I fell asleep at like 11pm and now I am awake again at 2am. OMG..im so screwed for tomorrow.

So I wanted to elaborate on dinner. Alex is going vegan for Lent and Agustin is becoming vegetarian...why?!????? *whimper* They are my eating buddies. So anyways, I did some research and Cha Ya came up as one of the most popular places. I remembered that Daniel and Chris had told me about this place when they were living on Shattuck. So we go and its really cute. Everything is super quaint.

Open Kitchen











My wonderful eating buddies











My meal: Udon with Vegetable Tempura











Dessert! Ice Soy Cream, red bean and green tea sauce, pineapple chunks, and rice crispies on top














It was so good Alex practically licked the bowl. HAHA..

YUM! I would definitely recommend this place for vegetarians/vegans.

So today after going to dinner with Agustin and Alex, I came home and went on youtube!

I realized that I didn't know what teletubbies show looked like. I just remember doing an article about the purple one being gay in one of my journal/article report in 4th grade. Yeah so I started watching some of the clips on youtube...WTF..that stuff is weird. LOL..

Anyways, this video inspired this random search into Teletubbies.



It went from barneys to teletubbies to what the freak?!













So the purple one is gay. The green one is black or mexican. the yellow is a drama queen. the red is a short bilingual asian. YAY for diversity!


thats all for today.

Selection from Alex's award winning speech about how Circle K has developed him into a competent, capable leader.

Thursday=Fenton's with the Casanovas. mmm...ice cream and chili cheese fries. Enough said.

Oh! Francis kicked me on accident (or I think it was an accident LOL) and I got a double bruise. It hurts. A lot.

Omg! So I'm back from a weekend in Sacramento spent with Alex, Cheriz, and other people (Alice & Danny from Dboard, Keiko and Kathleen from Circle K). It was so much fun! Also for the past week I have been eating..TOO MUCH MONEY SPENT ON FOOD.

So on Friday I worked for 5.5 hours and had class. Afterwards I went to Kips to meet with people. We ate then headed to Ace of Cakes (Circle K PR event). The cakes were so awesome!

Here are some of my favorites.














































This is my cupcake that I decorated for the cupcake contest. Do you love it? haha















Here are some winners:













Then on Saturday I went to Sacramento. We made it for the Candidate's Session and then it was off to dinner at Elephant Bar. So I had a really bad experience at Elephant Bar at a long time ago so I just wrote it off as a bad restaurant. But suprisingly the food was really good. I had a french dip and SWEET POTATO FRIES! OMG..if you didn't know I LOOOOOOOOVE sweet potato fries. There are only a few places that I know of that have them (Cha for Tea, Yardhouse, Taiwan and now Elephant Bar) The food was good..and I was really amazed at the amount of food Gail could eat. LOL..she told me she started running so she could eat whatever she wanted =) Go Gail! I'm jealous. So then we went back to the hotel room to hang out. After staying up until 2am or 3am, the boys went to sleep and it was Cheriz, Alice and Me. We had girl talk. Aww..I miss that stuff. Sigh** we had some moments where could not stop laughing and we probably woke other people up. It was good to share and hear other people's thoughts. It's weird..I feel like I don't get deep conversation enough times throughout the semester. Makes me miss my girlfriends from home.

So we stayed up until 6am or something and then went to sleep. We had District Large Scale Service Project at 11am. LOL..I think Alice woke up first but she went back to bed. Then I woke up and got ready and then went back to bed. LOL..we ended up leaving at like 12pm. OOps..then we ate at Mcdonalds. Wow..it's been a while (well..actually I had it in January) but before that it's been a long time. So yummy chicken nuggets and fries and super sweet tea that I had to mix with unsweetened tea.

At the project I went to the weight management booth. haha..the irony..












So we talked and waited and talked and waited and no kids showed up. It was so sad that there were no kids. The fair was really well set up and there were tons of fun things to do.

Like Puppets!















Well, we managed to do some kind of service. I helped cut fabric to make blankets. Then we left and were on our way home. It was really fun hanging out with a few dbaord members without the rest of dboard. It's so hard to compete for attention..haha..so I don't ever really get the chance to talk to the board. But this weekend was super fun. After we got back from dinner and the airport it was time to get down to business.

I had a midterm the next day. CRAP. So I read the textbook and wandered off on other things. I felt that I needed to manage my finances better so I went to www.mint.com. This is a pretty cool site! You can see where all your money goes and label things the way you want to. So more studying..and then sleep then more studying.

The midterm kicked my butt! Wayy too little time. When the professor said 5 minutes left, I still had 7 questions to go. CRAP. LOL..oh wells..to be continued.

So the people are sniffing up their farts so that the methane won't get in the air. LOL