Plans to Visit Different Places

One day when I’m finished with college, I’d love to travel somewhere foreign such as Japan. Of course, I’d have to be careful of what countries that are safe to be visiting otherwise I’d be in a lot of trouble risking getting robbed, or something worse. It would be awesome visiting somewhere beautiful, with my friends or family and having a good time on vacation. I’ve only been out of state a few times, and only one time out of the country, so I have a lot of options to visit in the future. I think it’d also be very cool to meeting new people during my travels, and what stories they’d share, similar to how people in This I Believe II told their own personal experiences that they’ve lived through, good or bad, just learning about their version of life within a simple conversation. If I could travel to any place in the world right now, I’d probably love to visit a place where there’s lots of food, to be honest, because I love trying new foods (meat related obviously, the good stuff), or maybe even seafood, but I have to avoid certain fish like tilapia since I’m allergic. Overall, I hope to visit as many places as I can once I officially settle down and become my own independent person in the world. I don’t want to live too much of a boring life, but just enough to where some places that are listed as popular tourist places, or even certain quieter places with the surrounding nature is pretty good, indeed.

A Month Left of School

It’s almost the end of my first semester of college, and all I can say is “whew”. Honestly, it’s a mix of both a relief, and stress. Just thinking about our finals versus having a month off of relaxing, it’s mostly a stressful time right now. Most of my classes have a some simple finals, such as a presentation, or test, which I usually don’t mind. However, I’m more concerned with my Chemistry-Lecture final, as we’re tested on eight chapters of content, and chapters 4 and 5 were the most tough ones yet. I’m going to be studying my Chemistry notes, as well as doing some practice problems so I can prepare myself for our final coming up. I’ve got to do two presentations, one for geography, and one for English, and my geography one isn’t so bad actually. For geography, we sampled some water around the local area, such as in Turlock, or each others homes, and we got back some interesting results (Patterson got that stank water watch out y’all), and we just have to do a brief presentation on our findings. Once winter break starts, I won’t have to use my alarm for awhile, which I’m mostly excited about, because sleeping in on a cold night with a warm blanket is one of the best experiences in winter. I’m also looking forward to our annual family gathering, which I mentioned in a previous blog, about how I meet all my relatives and cousins, and we celebrate a holiday, for Christmas, and I honestly can’t wait.

Hallo-weenie

The group and I decided to get together and have a mini party, since there was a holiday coming up. That holiday was Halloween, and it just so happened to be on a Monday. Usually, I hate going out on weekdays to attend some party because I’m just used to hanging out on weekends, but I made an exception because why not. We arrived around 8, when there were only some trick-or-treaters walking around the neighborhood, and some came up to the garage for candy because that’s where we were hanging out at. Everyone brought something for the party, and we got chips, meats, some brownies, etc., basically the good stuff. We set up for a game of water pong, supposedly they were going to drink, but I’m a good boy so I never drink. Because there wasn’t any, we decided to use money instead, but no one brought money, so we thought of a disgusting punishment: drink a blend of ice, potato chips, some sausages, and some Canada Dry. Of course I lost, so I was one of the teams that had to drink that garbage. It was all bad, as we were gagging/puking just by smelling it, but we just had to drink about ¼ an inch into the cup. It was pretty bad, but I managed to finish it, and I’ll never forget the texture/smell/feel of it. The smell of the sausage was pretty strong too, so I plan on staying away from sausage for awhile.