friends

I'm leaving for school in two days!

These last few weeks, I've been hanging out with my friends from high school and church and such. And it's been quite hectic if I do say so myself. I guess I didn't realize how many friends and how much support I had. I'm not necessarily "popular' in any way.. It's just that when I was in elementary and middle school, I struggled a lot with my friends and many times felt very alone and lonely. But through high school, I was able to make so many great friendships. I'm so grateful for all of the people that have supported me throughout the years and the only thing that really makes me sad about leaving my home town is the support network that I have here. Especially my church friends that I recently have been spending a lot of time with. But in two days; I will be making new friends and new support networks. It's scary, but I'm looking forward to this new beginning 

^ bye bye until next time 

train adventure to Santa Monica!

Today was quite an adventure. 

I took a bus and two different trains to my friend's house in Pasadena,

took three different trains and a bus to Santa Monica

and back. But it was great! Love public transportation :) 

The first place we stopped at was a little park next to the bus stop called Tongva park. The architecture of the park is quite modern with a lot of layers in the design. I don't really know anything about design, but I thought the park was put together quite nicely. It was slightly overcast as well, which made the stroll even more lovely  

 

Then we headed to the Santa Monica Pier, where we had lunch at a small hamburger shop. It wasn't the best, but it tasted great after riding the train and bus for two hours. And of course afterwards, we had an ice cream float because isn't dessert the best? 

And the sun came out! 

With the ocean breeze and the soft crash of the waves, it was the perfect day for the beach. 

 

After relaxing for a bit, we headed out to Urth Cafe where I bought a beautiful [hot] vanilla latte.. I got a cup of ice and made it into a refreshing cup of ice cold vanilla latte :) After some talk and some caffine, we headed home.

^ adventure's out there! 

no post this week..

I have learned that I am a very bad blogger and I should not set such high goals that I cannot achieve hahaha. well I am going to set a new challenge to myself: a 'blog' post every two weeks and an 'adventure' post AT LEAST once a month. I think I will be able to do this.. I really want to try and document my college life at least a little bit and hopefully my unseen audience (michelle and my future self) will be able to do so.

^ bye bye until next time! 

am I ready for this?

Hello my unseen audience, how are you today? 

In exactly three weeks, I will start my classes at the University of California, Los Angeles; otherwise known as "UCLA". One year ago, I would have never imagined that I would be studying Civil Engineering at UCLA.. In September of my senior year, I still didn't know what I wanted to study.. Or where I wanted to go (UCLA was actually at the bottom of my list.. ) I still am unsure of what I want to study or exactly how I want to spend these next few years. I think that's why I'm slightly terrified for October 2nd. Everyone around me seems so passionate and ready for the next few years. And I'm just this small little Asian girl floating around. 

Through my school years, I always needed some sort of plan to help reassure myself that everything was going to turn out fine. But I think that I've been slowly realizing that sometimes you don't need a plan and it'll all be fine. You'll look bad and think "What was I so worried about? It was all under control."

So am I ready for UCLA? Maybe; maybe not. But I think it'll all turn alright in the end..

^ bye bye until next time

a long road ahead

So... I haven't wrote a blog post for 28 weeks. I pretty much missed all the excitement of ending high school and summer.. oh well. It's already passed and catching up to that would be a pain. So I'm going to start today. and continuing. I challenge myself to write at least once a week for this upcoming school year. It's going to be a long road ahead.. but here we go! I have a lot to share with y'all (:

^ bye bye until next time.

and there will be a next time and many more to come! I promise :)