BLAH! Where do I start. Overall this has been a pretty shittified day. I mean.. there were some good parts... but there were a lot of bad. So anyways.. let me go back to Tuesday.. that's where I left off.
On Tuesday, Jacob picked me up and we went to the Honolulu Kiwanis meeting at this one nice hotel. There meeting was fun and I even got to speak for a couple minutes at the podium and everything! Although it was still quite nervewracking. Speaking in front of a bunch of Kiwanians hoping they don't think you sound stupid, or don't get what you're saying. Anyways.. afterwards, went to Ala Moana again with Jacob so i could buy my skirt from the GAP... oooh so excited because it was the skirt I wanted FOREVER but my store (or any LA store) didn't have. But I got it! So yeah. Then we went to Hot Topic, where I saw these cool pants that were like plastic shiny material. They would have been the best party/TJ pants... but they were too big (gasp!). Then we visited Lisa at the WB where I loaded up on PPG stuff courtesy of their closing the store sale and her employee discount (yay!). Then went back to Brandy's, and got locked out, but Chris let me know where the "secret" key was, so it was all good. Went to the Hawaii-Loa meetings that night. What Chris said is true, it's pretty entertaining going to their meetings. After I got home I was soooo tired, but I tried to stay up to watch the Real World, ONLY to find out that it wasn't even on! So then I went to bed.

Anyways, the next day I went with Brandy to her classes, out to lunch with her mom and sister and her. CPK yum! But I gotta stop ordering the same thing everytime I go there! then bought postcards (I am the ultimate tourist), and later than night went to this really good buffet place on this Air Force Base in Hawaii with the Kiwanis LtG and the Hawaii Board. It was sooo good, we all ate way too much and gained like 10 lbs each. Afterwards we walked around like we were drunk since we couldn't walk straight because of the amount of weight in our stomachs. It was a good time.

Today... it was a good time. I went to Pali Mountain with Jacob and Chris which is like this Mountain that over looks the island, but is also suuuuper windy. It was a fun time. The wind was so strong, it was just fun to stand there and let it push you around. Sometimes I thought it was going to rip my shorts right off. And then I was sad because I thought it blew my LtG. pin off of my shirt, but luckily for me and unluckily for Brandy's mom it was found in Brandy's house by her's mom's foot (ouch!). Then Chris, Joel, Brandy and I went to the Kaneohe Kiwanis meeting, where that was an experience in itself. But all the more same as the others. Came home, dealt with my business (grr...), and also found out that Fred died. mmm.. poor baby. Kathy should feel bad for making so much fun of him. jk. But it's so sad. *sigh ... I hope tomorrow's a better day.

Aloha! I'm in Hawaii right now, but I'm soooo pooped, although I shouldn't be. I got PLENTY of sleep last night.. but I guess that was to make up for the lack of sleep in the past two three days before that. i feel like the last days i have been walking around here like I was sleep walking or something because I've been so absolutely tired. But here's the story of my life:
So I took a nap on the couch for like 30 minutes.. showered, finished packing, which was also followed by yelling from my dad about not leaving things until the last minute. Went to the airport, tried to manuever my way throw theheavy crowd and completely slow metal detector only to RUN down to the gate which was at the very END of the wing, while my dad picked up my bags, and finally got on the plane. It was nice because I discovered that no one was going to sit next to me, so I had two seats all to my self. A window AND an aisle... yay! So I ate this horrible eggs and potato breakfast, and tried to lay down in the two seats and sleep. I didn't recline my chairs, because the people behind me had the wall in front of them, and since I remember what that was like... I didn't recline. Nice huh? :P Anyways.. I kept sleeping and waking up, and finally landed in Hawaii. The water is soooo blue and clear, it's sooo gorgeous. Landed.. met up with Chris and Lisa, got leied. (yah yah.. yuck it up) Went to Zippy's (Hawaii's Denny's) and then back to Brandy's to "nap" Went to Catch of the Day for dinner which was this cute sushi place where all the sushi was going around on this actualy train, and you just take the ones you want off the train. Cute huh? Then we went back and planned out my two weeks... fun stuff.. mm.. And then I tried to sleep.. but crazy me.. I couldn't. So I stayed up.. bah.. slept at 6am!!
The next day I woke up at 8:30am. Went with Brandy, Chrissy and her mom to the North Shore. They have the best bay there called Waimea Bay where the sand is soooo white and the water is soooo blue and clear! It's great.. I wish I could have gone swimming in it.. but I didn't have my suit. But they were also playing a polo game in the water at the beach.. it was so cool! Anyways.. did a lot of shopping in the little surf shops. Ate Haleiwa Joe's and Matsumoto's "the best shaved ice in Hawaii" both very yummy. Came home, and "napped" again. Except this time I slept through dinner and woke up at like 4am this morning.
Today... we tried to go to a Key Club meeting, but the times got all mixed up so we missed it. We'll try again later this week, or next week. Then went to Ala Moana's (a mall) with Brandy. I felt really bad... I dragged her around to all these stores because I'm a super shopper, and she doesn't really care much for it. Sorry Brandy! Anyways.. I bought some cool stuff. Then came back, did a UH Manoa club social. Ate dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory, and then went karaoke-ing. Their choice. If you ever go with the Hawaii peeps ask Chris to sing Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit... it's great. Came back.. suuuuuper tired but I had to check my mail for all that important business.. haha yeah right. Alrite.. that's all of my exciting days. Tomorrow I have to go smile and wave at two Kiwanis meetings so I should go get my rest! Mahalo!

blah... so yeah.. I'm leaving for Hawaii in 5 hours, and I still haven't really finished packing, and I'm sitting here chatting online considering sneaking out to go over to a friends house. Geez.. Anyways .. today was a fun day. I slept in late (I think I'm still jet-lagged) ate lunch, was tired all day, took naps here and there. Watched Days haha.. and Passions, organized my convention photos. There's this one picture of Mary and I on the bus.. we're so cute. And then there's a picture of Megan, Nicole, Beth, Kathy, Carrie and I in our formal wear, and it's a really cute picture too. Anyways.. did that, watched 90210, napped some more. Got online, chatted, made a hot date with Nicole, finally started packing, talked to my mom who's probably on the plane right now, and went to Target to buy a camera because my died in Taiwan.. RIP camera :( And made poor Nicole drive over there to find me, tortured the poor Target guy with my incessant requests and indecisiveness, (and NO Nicole, I was not flirting with him)... and then came home, packed some stuff, went to Rocky Cola Cafe to meet up with Carrie and Manny. Ate waaay too much I shouldn't have eaten in the first place, and then got yelled at by my dad, came home, and then went online. And this is where I'm at now. hahahah.. I'm chatting it up with my ho's, my friends, "satan," and Beth.. haha.. just kidding. Anyways.. I should stop being on this thing... I feel like I have no life. And that I'm always talking to myself, because I'm the only one that cares. hahah.. hey Manny... HAWAII! :P

okay.. so I'm a little frustrated, I wrote out this whole long thing, and then I pushed a wrong button, and then it disappeared. auggh! sucky!

So anyways.. it's been awhile since I've been here, mostly because I've been out of town, and unable to feed my addiction to the ethernet. haha. So yeah. here's a little synopsis of my past few weeks... careful.. it might be awhile.

Anyways.. I left for Buffalo on Tuesday night on a red eye flight, where I had the worst seat ever. Between two large guys, and up agaisnt the wall so I could really recline my seat back. I got like no sleep, and the movie was bad.. so I just kind of sat there. Got to the Buffalo airport where I was oh so relieved to find Katie from NY waiting for me at the gate. yay.. Got my bag, and went to the Days Inn Hotel (home of a bowling alley and the "hottest teen club") in Hamburg, NY - the Visalia of New York - Anyways.. started meeting the LSSP people. Went to the airport with the NY governor to pick up Jason and Charles, two of the funniest guys I've ever met. Back to the hotel, but also stopping by Univ of Buffalo, which is pretty nice. Back to the hotel, off to the mall, and then back to freak out about my board report, and bowl. :)

The next day I woke up with 15 minutes, showered, ran down and ate breakfast with the disgruntled lady waitress who wouldn't let us have extra plates, and harassed Ryan about how he was sitting. Rode the yellow school bus *with seat belts! to the camp. Worked worked worked.. Justin and Jennilynn from WUM, and Ryan and I piled up stray branches along the trail. Ate lunch with the kids who are way loud and rowdy. *MEAT IS GOOD!* And then back to working. Ate authentic Cajun Jambalaya and the I-Board came by. Chatted it up with Jason, Charles, Chartha and Jen Lewis. Rode the bus back, attempted to watch a movie, but just ended up making cards for the kids, and other random thank you cards. I did get to go to 24 hour Walmart, which was fun. The store was kinda shady and unkept, kinda like Pic'N'Save, but I bet the ones in California are better.. just because everything always is. haha. Next morning rode the bus, we all took tons of pictures in our LSSP shirts, worked worked worked. I got to chip wood and make new trails. That was fun. Being destructive and all. Ate lunch with the kids, worked, ate spaghetti for dinner, passed our cards to the kids, rode the bus home. That night everyone just kind of chilled, got ready for the next day. Ryan, Christi and I went to this "hot teen club" and dance by ourselves in this big room, but mostly played DDR to satisfy Ryan. Then hung out with my roomies, and Ryan, Tracy, Christi and Van. Ryan crashed on the floor to avoid the drama in his room, only to ensue more drama... I'm now a "homewrecker" :P

The next day some people left early, but us "leftovers" hung out, ate Wendy's for lunch, and then rode the bus over to the Convention. Ran through the masses of people to register, check-in, get delegate stuff, etc etc etc. I found Shannon and also Jeremy from Kansas. We hung out until opening session with our borrowed District cheer. Listened to people welcome us. And the "*NSYNC look alike motivational speaker who was kickin' it old school" who was pretty amusing. That night I helped Nick a little bit with his campaign stuff, and then just kind of stayed up and chatted with people, allll night. oops.

Then we went to the officer roundtables, and then to the Millenium Plan 2 workshop. After both Shannon feeling sick, and me shaking uncontrollably, we both went back and took naps. I slept through the part where I was supposed to help Nick, but I did make it to the general caucus session right on time. Good for me. District discussion, Governor's Gala dinner (where they served actual beef instead of chicken... much to our shock), congrats to Carrie who won disting. treas., divisional meeting, and then the dance- where I missed the dedication of California girls, as well as the dessert reception. :P Then went with Kathy, Beth, Ryan and Nicole to the LaMissTenn "party" and just sat and chatted with Mary. Then went back and chatted some more, but did go to sleep much earlier than the night before.. haha.

Next morning was the house of delegates.. not too bad, but wasn't too great either. eh.. then.. it was off to NIAGARA FALLS! We went on the Maid of the Mist boat ride where you get on the boat and ride very near the falls, they give you this poncho, but you still get completely soaked. Pic was my "little brother" and got in for the kids price. Then we crossed the border, took lots of pictures, went to the Hershey's store, and then to the casino!! haha.. I won a whole $3.50 ($8 canadian dollars) in five minutes. It was fun. And remember that episode of Friends where they're in Vegas, and Phoebe gets stalked by that old lady. SO happened to me. This lady hovered over me for my slot machine.. it was so annoying.. what a jerk. Then crossed back the border, only to run back to find Kathy because we though we had her wallet, only to find out that she already had it. oh well. Got back to the hotel by bus once again, and on to caucus. I always feel stupid, like no one cares, and that my questions are really dumb, and that I never sound as articulate as everyone else. *sigh. Anyways.. played UNO that night like I've never played it before. It was way fun and hilarious. It was a good time.

Last day of Convention.. sad! Morning session with a crummy breakfast..bagel and juice.. no danish or fruit of anything. :P and club awards.. none of those for us either.. sucks.. next year.. next year. then Divisional meeting, Service Fair.. which was fun.. we got to see what all the other districts were up to. Lunch at the restaurant hotel which we just ended up taking to go because they took too long. House of Delegates, which was excrutiatinly long. They gave us one break where Nicole, Beth and I sat there and released all our energy. We just talked about random stuff, "they should call her ___ No-Chance!" "wouldn't the house of delegates be better if they were allowed to cuss?" "you can cut off my fingers if I can have the last three hours of my life back! i wish i could just tear off this ribbon", I laughed so hard I was crying and I couldn't breath. It was great.. of course, everyone else thought we were insane. Didn't have to go to house III, and then went out to eat with some folks at a little restaurant nearby. It was pretty good. Closing Session.. sad... And then the Dance. This time I was there for California Girls. They had appetizers there.. I must have had like 10 Buffalo.. oh excuse me.. Chicken Wings. And then that night hung out a little in LaMissTenn people, and Cal-Nev-Ha people.. played UNO again. But everyone was pretty tired. But Anna wanted to stay up because she was leaving pretty early, so we went and found Mary, and hung out with her all night again, and then found Shannon and Jeremy. Shannon and I went to bed at 6am. Slept until 9am. Packed, cleaned up, ate breakfast in the hotel, and said our goodbyes.. *sad sad sad, and then I rode the $23 taxi to the airport. I hate taxis.. Flew out on a connecting flight to Baltimore again. This time I had an aisle seat.. :) and Michael from TO was on my flight, so I chatted with him. He's a pretty funny guy. It always seems you can chat with any KFamily person about random stuff when your bored cuz you have that one thing in common, which is nice. Got home, fought with dad, drove Kathy to Nicole's, stayed the night at Nicole's (haha I ran away from home), and fell asleep during Sex in the City, until the next morning. Ryan came over, drove to Torrance, ate at the Loft, picked up my paycheck, chilled, went to 7-11, and then they left. I packed, and then left for Taiwan. CRAZYNESS!

On the plane.. sat with Joan in Deluxe Class.. ooh. I felt way pampered. Ate airplane food, watched Shrek, (nice huh), and half of Heartbreakers. Slept some, listened to my cd player. Endured the 15 hour flight. Got to the airport, waited around for the shuttle to leave. Drove to Dou Lieu, where my Grandpa lives. Got there, went to this so so Chinese Vegetarian restaurant for his 89th bday celebration, a whole big family reunion sort of thing. Came back, chilled, and apparently I fell asleep because I don't remember much of that night. I remember being woken up and asked if I wanted to go with my mom, dad, aunt and sister to the night market saying that they were all going, and I remember them acting like they were going out partying or clubbing or something, or that's what it seemed like in my half asleep state.

The next day, which was Monday (I lost a day in the time change), we went to the marketplace and shopped. True to myself, I bought many many bags. And we ate shaved ice for $30 NT which is like $1. Yum! Played some Sims on Joan's computer, and watched Love and Basketball on Joan's computer, which is actually a really cute movie. The next day i woke up early to go with daddy to go visit his great-grandfather's grave, even though I HATE cemetaries, I agreed to go anyways. We tookt he train to JiaYi. And then walked around, I bought some *NSYNC stuff.. the first of many.. hahahah.. and drank Boba.. yum! And finally found a flower shop, bought flowers, took a taxi to the place where daddy thought there was the graves, but it wasn't! We didn't know where to go, so we just returned to back to flower shop, gave the flowers to them, and went back home.. blah.. it was just amusing that we just kind of wasted that whole day.. but it wasn't too much of a waste. My days are kind of blurry as to which day what happened.. but we went to this one temple at mommy's request. It was okay... nothing too special. The view was great, it was on top of a mountain. The highlight of my day was when I saw my mom's picture in one of the display pieces they had about temples in the US. haha.. millions of people in Taiwan look at my mom and her temple friends each day. hahah. We also went to the market place again, ate noodles, bought shoes.. yay, and ate shaved ice.. and split up.. daddy and I, and mommy and Joan. As daddy and I were going home, it started to POUR!! So we watched the rain, and the lightning and thunder for a looong time. My dad was convinced if we stood there long enough it would stop. wrong! this guy offered to drive us for $100 NT but we said no thanks, and started walking... but my dad started shrieking like a girl, and wanted to go back, so we took refuge under this little shack. I was laughing so hard, and my dad was just looking at me funny. Finally we just decided to go again, and started running. Then this very nice lady offered to give us a ride. Remind to me to do that for someone else someday. Then we took the train to Taipei, got picke up my Pearl Auntie's brother and his friend, and after much driving, found our little condo where we were staying. Then went to the Shihling market that night. Bought a few things, ate lots of stuff, and then came back. I'm now an expert on how to ride the Taiwan mass rapid transit system. It's a lot like Boston. Fun stuff. Next day went to a vegetarian restaurant with Pearl Auntie's family. And then to Warner Village where I saw this model search going on, and saw this chinese popstar that Joan said was worse than Britney. She hated her. hahah.. Then we went to the six floor mall and bought these handy sealer thingys. It was like a live infomercial demonstration thing. We got sucked in and bought NINE of them. haah.. Then went to go visit my dad's grandma (my great-grandmother) who's 99 years old! amazing, and then went and ate this great Japanese place with my great-uncle, and my dad's first younger brother. Then we also went to ShihMen market place.. which has a PiyoPiyo store!! And Joan and I after much much arguing were able to split up from the parents, and we shopped, I bought more *NSYNC much to my excitement, and ate McDonald's where their aple pie is fried! not baked.. yum. Then ate Korean bbq with my uncle, two aunts, mom, and sister, where we were late joined by my dad, uncle, and cousin. Went back.. chiled.. I watched my fabulous *nsync vcd's.. they're great. And started to watch Jurassic Park III on dvd. My uncle bought that and other illegal movies in China...hahahahah. The next day we just chilled, mommy had to pack because she was going back to Dou Lieu to be with her dad, and so we ate a quick lunch with beef noodle soup where they made fresh noodles. It was pretty good. Sent mom to the airport, and ate dinner near my grandmother's house with my aunt and uncle at this place that Joan loves. Bought some way cute stationary stuff, and went home. Wrote out my postcards, and the next day just chilled. Went out to lunch with my uncle at this really nice hotel, the Formosa Regent at this all you can eat buffet which had good food and haagen daas ice cream and tiramisu! yum!! Then went back, packed some more, watched more illegal movies, and then went to the airport, chilled before our flight and then flew another 15 hours in pampering deluxe class. Watched Someone Like You, The Mexican, Josie and the Pussycats, the end of Along Came a Spider, and the end of Monkeybone. All very interesting. haha.. got back.. shoved our 5 huge luggages in this one taxi, with a driver who had bad bad english, and didn't really know where he was going. And finally came home. *sigh. it's sad.. I was in Taiwan soo long where it's SUPER hot and humid, that this morning when I woke up I was cold!!

Yikes.. anyways.. today was errand day. But I did get to eat at El Torasco which is soooooooo yummy. Walked along the beach, took Eric to school, went to the GAP to get my paycheck, went to the bank, and the RETARDED travel agency, picked up eric from school, autozone to buy new winshield wipers, wells fargo for Eric and his mom, with the crazy crazy bank lady, and then to costco. Where I paid all that money to get the 1 hour developing, and I left them in the car so now I can't even look at them right now. *sigh. Watched some tv.. I was all excited about watching Big Brother, and this week they had the special episode that aired yesterday. Bites. pssht. Anyways.. I have to pack and junk.. leaving for Hawaii on Saturday.. *crazy. I feel like I have no time to breathe. Oh well it's going to be a good time right? I hope so. Anyways.. it's way late.. and I should probably get to bed before my dad wakes up and yells at me for staying up all night. *blah*

i just wanted to say hi from taiwan. i've been here for a week and a half... after i came back from buffalo, new york for international convention for cki and lssp. they were both amazing. i'm flying home tomorrow.. at an internet cafe paying to be online.. :( sucks.. oh well.. it's cheap. running out of time.. gotta go!