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Going Away and Birthday Party

July 28, 2013

My Oxford broskis ~

My PK homies <3

My birthday is actually on September 7 but I'm going to be gone so my mom wanted to celebrate it. (:

My parents (:

OC Fair Performance

As you guys may or may not know, I am in a traditional Filipino dance group and this past Friday (the 19th), we performed at the Orange County Fair. It was really fun and I'm really looking forward to next year's performance dancing as a senior. 

The Pinoy Kids aka PK perform at the fair every summer and we also perform at local cultural events, birthday parties and stuff like that. We also carol every Christmas season to raise funds because our group is made up of families just working together. We don't get paid for our performances and we make time to practice. I'm incredibly grateful that I was introduced to join this group because they have honestly become my second family. As an only child, I was always alone but when I'm with them I feel like I have a million brothers and sisters both young and old. (lol so sappy) 

Anyways, I initially wanted to make this post to talk about how busy I was this whole week but then I turned sappy so... I basically spent six consecutive days with these kids for practice and then a party. But before practice, I was at school working on my remaining credits so I could graduate early. (btw I finished on Thursday! :) It was really tiring but I got through it and ended up with ten more stars on my Starbucks card. Yay!

Time is flying by so fast. I can't believe that my going away party is a week from now! I know I alway say this but omg this is cray. And I know in the last post I said I wouldn't write until after my French cousins come but lol I just wanted to mention this.

Here are some pictures~

EDIT: One of the moms uploaded a video so here it is (:

Approximately One More Month

August 11th is coming so close it's crazy! It's still pretty surreal that I'll be leaving so soon to another country where I don't even speak the language.

July has been and will continue to be a pretty hectic month because once August comes, my family will be busy tending to our European visitors and there's a lot of them.

Anyways, college admissions classes started yesterday and it's still a little bit daunting that I'll have to apply for colleges while abroad and also without having visited them. But I hope that when I finish this class I'll be prepared for the college admissions process. Speaking of college, my AP scores came in and I did not do too well in chemistry but whatever. Chemistry and me were not meant 2 be. I got 4s in Language & Composition and US History, though. I'm really happy I passed my expectations for those two classes.

I have also been doing summer school to finish my credits and it's a lot of work. I really have to focus and be self-motivated in order to finish all the work and graduate early. I think that the self motivation will help me in Germany because I won't learn all the German I need in language camp. I still have to work on my German like learning new vocab and grammar. I've been doing Duolingo but I don't think it's helping much because it just tells you that you're wrong and then gives you the correct answer without any explanation.

I still can't believe that a year from now I'll be back home but with a full exchange year behind me. And I'll be able to speak a new language! But before I leave I have to pack for the year and I'm having a really hard time with that. It's incredibly overwhelming to have to pick and choose parts of my life that I'm going to bring in just one check-in bag. I've been postponing starting to pack because it just feels like too much to handle. I'll probably start packing next week, though.

The next time I post will probably be when my cousins from France come. I'm really excited to see them~

Bis bald!