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I've been MIA from blogger again but I have a good excuse...I've been sleeping about 14 hours a day. Really a DAY as in I'm up until 6am and sleep til 8pm. But besides that I've been busy too. I've been researching colleges. I have a spreadsheet of originally 31 schools and 20 aspects I'm look at. So far my top schools are Cal, UCSD, Penn State, and Drexel.

Before my nocturnal beast mode, I came home from Berkeley. Barely slept one day and went to an Asian buffet, Walmart, Great Mall, and the Cheesecake Factory for my brother's 14th birthday. Happy Birthday Viet.

the land of cheap labor

$5 sunglasses, yes he bought them haha

I'm such a shorty next to him

happy birthday!

After my brother's birthday I packed and was off to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a Scholars Reunion Weekend for my scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

About JKCF: Basically 60ish kids are picked every year when we're in 7th grade through SATs and interviews and such and we stay int he program through graduate school if we wish and they pay for everything academic, i.e. my college apps, my summer programs, flights to the weekend/summer programs etc. They also occasionally send us books and such. I think the most useful part of the foundation though is the educational advisor each of us has who guides us through...just about everything.

Okay, so back to the point. So on Wednesday morning, I arrived at SFO to find out my flight to Chicago-Midway was delayed by an hr. great Then at Midway, my flight to BWI was delayed 3 hrs. FML. I finally arrived on campus and moved into my room by 2am EST. What a day...

camerawhoring during my delay

SEAWORLD!

Then the next morning, we had breakfast and went on a JHU campus tour. After that we had lunch and had 3 orientations. At one of them we opened letters from a "Welcome Weekend" we had back in 2007. Apparently the 13 year old version of myself wanted to go to UCLA and major in mathematics haha.

Then there was much networking with the older scholars. As high school students, we're called "Young Scholars," young scholars who go to college are "College Scholars," there are also "Transfer Scholars" who are people who went to a jr college, and lastly there were "Grad Scholars," grad students who were college or transfer scholars. I was offered an internship at CAISO. (:

Then there was horrid dinner, a dessert mixer, and more seminars and such.

before our tour

EE Class <3

at the dessert mixer

playing ninja

we won "College Jeopardy!" haha

On Friday we had a college essay seminar and then a formal banquet that made us all feel a bit older than we really are haha. I'll let pictures tell the story.

essay seminar

tuna

Paul; college scholar

look at that mingling and networking!

Marvin is so tall!; young scholars

our little "group" haha

dinner; yummm

fresh and custom made right in front of you. blackberry creme brulee. Arko and I had 3 rounds haha

fancy drinks with Arko. we go wayyyy back to like...12 years old?

a building? haha

Saturday was a HORRID day. We had the worst seminar in the JHU gym...with NO AC. I don't even want to talk about the day haha. The night was fun though because all of us scholars finally relaxed and on Sunday I flew home. (:

chilling and waiting for pizza!

say what?

should be a subway ad

at around 4am?

to the airport

chilling in terminal A before our flights

home sweet home

my luggage boy (:

After my lonnnng trips. I managed to go back to school shopping with my friend Wendy and today I went with my family. I plan to do a more beauty/haul post right after this. But basically we went to Great Mall, Target, and Sizzlers. A very fun day and today I went to H&M and Nordstrom to get a dress and Toms. (:

these are always fun

mattress topper at bed, bath, and beyond?

friendship bracelets

I love target :D

penguin cupcakes

and pandas!

I got 10 sharpies for $4 for yearbook signing (:

haha I wanted to get these for Dylan's dorm

I want a room with this theme

nom nom nom

more nom nom nom!

I'm off to LA tomorrow! I'll be back Sunday night in time to start S E N I O R year on Monday morning.

Okay so this post is back in "real time" haha. I'm actually back home now but I'm leaving on Wednesday again for a scholarship reunion in Baltimore and then possibly going to LA afterwards because my parents want to visit my grandparents...did I mention senior year starts in 3 wks from today? This has been such a busy summer.

So I got home yesterday and crashed for 16hrs or so...and today I woke up and went to celebrate my brother's birthday but I'll blog about that in my next post. Let's back up a bit.

So after I wrote that last post, I took a one hour BART ride out to SFO to pick up someone (cough Dylan haha cough). At SFO they have two arrival areas for the international terminal, A and G. Everyone was coming out of Gate G so there I stood...then suddenly someone was behind me, Dylan and his family came out Gate A -__-. After 10minute hugs and showing me a giant stuffed penguin named Poof Poof, we camerawhored and I BARTed back to Berkeley.

still as silly as ever..

freeeeezing

BART

The next day we went to the Giants vs. Mets game but really all we did was eat over priced (but delicious) garlic fries and get sunburned. I also confirmed that I HATE baseball...sorry for those who love it, I hate it, it's sooooooooo slow and boring. Basketball season, please start soon :D

free ticket? haha

camerawhoring

oh so bored

nom nom nom garlic fries!

After the game, we camerawhored around Berkeley. Or rather, I got really good at autotime pictures haha. I think I want to do my prom photoshoot at UC Berkeley this year because everyone and their grandmothers do it around San Francisco and plus, Berkeley has some nice looking libraries haha. We also had dinner at this cheapy Italian place.

I like our smiles here

on the bridge between Hillside and La Loma

our relationship

whispering bench

chicken marsala

and I was crying on the staircase...

...begging you please don't go

...and I said...

...Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone

accidental but I like (:

I carried him!

...weirdo

I feel like Cinderella (:

lounging on the patio/balcony

one hour later...

On Monday Dylan and I had super fatty fries for lunch and then at night we wandered downtown Berkeley for a fish and chips place but ended up at Blondies. During the day we did my laundry/taught Dylan how to do laundry haha, preparing the boyfriend for college. While the clothes were in the machines, Dylan showed me all his China pictures and we lounged in the sun.

garlic fries

curly chilli cheese fries

nom

super nom haha

in the student plaza-y place

shirts from china! can you read em? haha

sunbathing

laundry

Blondie's

Sather Tower at night

Tuesday was FREEZING. My roomie and I walked down to Telegraph to get lunch because the dining hall was closed. I got the Mexican Tortilla Chicken Soup from SF Soup Company and she got Subway. Then I went into the Foothills kitchen to find random ingredients sitting around so I made Dylan a sandwich because he's been asking me to for months. -__- Then at night his mom picked me up because she works in Berkeley and I had dinner at his house. Nom nom nom. I ate like 30 of his mom's Kimchi Potstickers :D

my soup and Dylan's sandwich

the sandwich (:

look how big POOF POOF is!

Wednesday was the worst day ever. I had an on going cold building up and Wednesday was where all hell let loose. It was freezing and Dylan and I wandered for an hour looking for a fish n chips place that turned out to be a catering business -__- Then we settled for quickly's which was horrible for me and I was like fevering/chills-ing and vomity feeling. Blehhhh. We finally made it back to Foothills and I defrosted but still had a horrible headache. For my Abnormal Neuropsychology class, we took a field trip down to Cal's MRI machine and scanned an RA's brain. Fun stuff (: RA bonding night was also Wednesday and we went to SF's Japantown to get our nails done. After running to catch the BART and taking the 38, we ended up in Jtown. Sophie's! I love crepes (: It was a nice bonding night but I was just so sick the whole time ):

really just feeling horrible

brain scans!

strapped him in good haha

pretty drink bottles

peach italian soda and chicken pesto salad crepe

Helen and her crepe

damn son

Helen and I

Thursday was a blur to me. Dylan brought me lunch and sat with me while I recovered from my cold and worked on my power point last minute. Afterwards I packed up my room and went to the final formal banquet. Food was mehhh...but the salmon was great. I then stole several cups of "milk tea" and enjoyed a skype date with Dylan in my comfy PJs while the other kids had a "dance."

my fancy French salami sandwich

Dylan's lemon gingerbread pancakes

he didn't wanna get more sunburned

glare ): couldn't see my power point

camerawhoring before the banquet

our lovely servers haha

salmon was good...pasta was uhhhh yeah

stolen tea

notice how he removed his sweater

Helen and her cake haha

lights!

Friday was a touristy trip of SF which was rather boring to me but apparently amazing to everyone else haha. I had a very nice dinner with Dylan though and we played in a playground afterwards!