A text update

Ok, so i went to a b'day party on saturday and i came to the conclusion that i still really feel weird even around people who aren't soka people. It's kinda bad...but whatever. I'm trying my best to create a comfortable environment for people around me, even if I don't know them well. Perhaps it was because I still feel alien in certain parts of this US of A.

I am going to miss my friends. I will live, I'm good at doing that. But I know it won't be the same without them...so I am trying to enjoy their company as much as I can...the question is am I forgetting things in doing so? Ahhh, the wonders of the world.

I will start work soon, I'm happy. I have to do taxes soon, I am NOT happy.

I made an ·espanya· CD, I am VERY happy. Some other people on campus found out about O'zone, I was happy for a while, but realized it's kinda stupid to be happy about those kinda things, but I still decided I should be happy about that.

There's a cute boy on campus, and I can't talk to him. I wonder if he knows i think he's cute. And I also wonder if i should do anything about it. The workings of the mind amaze me.

I want to carry my determination from in front of the gohonzon into my life. Step 1 has been completed, i think.

I want to support my district, while not forgetting my family and my friends.

Daily 1 hour of e'mails!

L-R: Jess, Pili, Ann. During our murder mystery dinner last weekend.

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A tree at Soka

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(L-R): Dad, Kochan, Mom.

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I actually got a foto of ann. Amazing...eh?

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Pues, claro.

So, while I was home...i watched a f-ing lot of TV. And one thing that I noticed was that 9News has some pretty good looking weathermen. Uufh!

Nothing else, just wanted to let y'all know about the random stuff going on in my life...which is nothing much.

I went to a Study Meeting at the Santa Ana Community Center, with another 50 or so other Soka students...very scary to be in the majority all of a sudden, yet again. It was really nice, though I don't know if I got the message he was trying to get across. However, I am really motivated to shakubuku someone this year, in this semester. I really want to bring Sensei to SUA and to the OC.

Pues, nada mas.
besos

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El Periodico

La justicia ucraniana ratifica a Yuschenko como presidente - El Periodico

I haven't died

Although, with some of the homework I've got, I may want to :P.

Anyways, I just wanted to let y'all in on what's going on.

Started Swimming, pratices are good, but I'm wondering why I'm not that challenged by it. Perhaps it's next year that I'll be really challenged, or is the challenge just to stay interested in this sport.

School is off to a running start and I feel like I'm running far behind where i should be. English-wise, I'm doing okay. I know that I could make more of an effort.

As for friends, I'm so glad to be back. But I miss, for all their faults and lackings, the other half of my class. Without us whole, there's like something that's missing from campus. hopefully i'll be making new friends and new soka peeps.

Ok, so here's a definition. Soka Peeps = those people who definitely aren't aquaintences, but they aren't friends either. I'm sticking to a rather strict definition of friends and aquaintances. You know they could become your friends with a swith push one way or another, but yet they still remain not-yet-a-friend, and not-really-an-aquaintance.

So many people have changed a lot, and really it's been for the better. I wonder how the other half of the class fared.

Ok, really don't have time any more. I gotta go get to doing gongyo and then down to swim practice. Yay!

I hope you guys are all doing well. Besos.
-andy-

I did not die

I was just sitting around with out a computer.

First day of classes in English didn't kill me! Neither did Swim Practice! Yay!

Let's get it started in here!

And the base keeps comin' comin' comin'...

Some thoughts for a wednesday

Favourite movies, huh? I dunno. I think maybe Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke to y'all Angloparlantes). Or Hero (??). And maybe even Amelie. I like a lot of movies, and I rarely find many that I would say more than that. These three are the favourites I have right now. I do have to say on the drama level, One Hour Photo and Crash are also high up on that list, but I don't like them as much as these three movies. Mononoke-hime because the animation is some of the best I have ever seen and the story is very good. Hero is just a good wushu movie overall and since I'm a visual persion, the colours amaze me. Amelie, I really like because of the cute story, the cute boy, and the amazing way the story is told.

I can't think much right now. The pressure has gotten to me. Argh. Em told me today that she really feels like she wants to crawl under a blanket and just stay there for a week, and then when she comes back out, everything's the same. I want that too, but I know that that won't happen.

Sometimes, I don't know why I choose to like the people I do. I just do. I fear that this non-thought-out process for making friends and other interests is perhaps not the best thing I could be doing. This is not in reference to the people I already know, but in reference to the people I may meet in the future. I guess you can't really force people to become your friends. Or maybe you can. I don't know.

Hmmm. I guess my forte is thinking. I don't know what it is about my life that allows me so much time to think, think think think!, yet still I can't get things done. I.e. Capstone at the moment. Perhaps I'm a born thinker, but only in situations that force you to think--kinda like maybe college and high school.

I wonder if I've grown since I've entered here. Can anyone tell me? I think I have, but I wonder how much. I don't always know. I don't always care to see if I have. Sometimes, I'm afraid that maybe even I haven't changed or maybe I've changed so much that I don't realize it. Either way, I'm afraid a bit to self-reflect on that point. I feel like me, but is this me the me of two years ago or have somethings changed? Is change a good thing? has it been bad?

I wonder what it is about myself that brings out the bitchiness?

What do I seek? Who can I trust to understand what I want to get? Who do I trust? Where is my wallet?

I have no money. I'm broke. I just got my paycheck and I'm already broke. Thank you loan corporation for takinga bout 173$ in loan fees. I guess it's not that bad considering how much was loaned to us--it still sucks. Speaking of which, my brothers still have to give me that money they owe me. And I still owe Lei some money.

Happy New Year!

I hope y'all have had a happy new year's day. I have. I have many things yet to do while here at home, but I hope that I can make the best of the last 5 days I have here.

I wish you all a happy and healthy new year and I really mean it.

/Kisses
(it sounds better in Spanish!)
/Andy/