My Trip To LA

On Friday I left for LA with my roommate and members from the Pinoy Ako Club (PAC). We went down to LA for a fall retreat and to help support the API (Asian Pacific Islanders) Club from Stan State. The API Club was participating in Friendship Games at CSU Fullerton and we thought it would be fun to go and support them as well as see what the games were like. We left at about 11:00 P.M. on Friday and finally made it to the hotel at around 6:00 P.M. We then went to the Orange Outlets and walked around and played some games in Dave & Buster's. We had a lot of fun but had to go back to the hotel because we had a long day ahead of us. We finally went to bed at around midnight. My roommate and I woke up at 7:00 A.M. so we could have time to wake ourselves up and eat breakfast before we left at 8:45 A.M. We ate and got ready and left to go to CSU Fullerton. When we got there, it was about 9:00 A.M. and all the schools were still getting checked in, so guests could not go in yet. We decided to explore the campus but when we were done not all the schools had been checked in, so we went to Starbucks. When we came back we could get checked in and was able to watch the roll call which was all the schools doing a dance routine on the stage one by one. Most of them were amazing and fun to watch. Some of my favorite groups did 'oldies' songs and got the crowd pumped and the atmosphere was exciting. After we watch them take roll call we walked around a little bit and left to explore downtown LA. We ended up going to the Natural History Museum and it was a lot of fun looking at all the animals and dinosaur bones. After we were done we went to Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills and took a lot of pictures and looked at all the high-end stores. After we were done with Rodeo Drive we went to the Beverly Hills Outlets and looked at more of the stores. We then went to take pictures with the Lights in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). We took a lot of pictures because it is not like we get to see them every day. We went back to the hotel after we were done taking pictures because we were going to leave early the next day. We went to bed at around midnight again and we were supposed to leave at around 8:00 A.M. or 9:00 A.M. I had an alarm set for 7:00 A.M. again but my roommate and I fell back asleep and we did not wake up until about 8:45 A.M. and found out that everybody had slept in, so we did not leave the hotel until about 10:00 A.M. We stopped at Porto's because apparently you cannot go to LA without getting Porto's. We went to one, but they ran out of a certain pastry, so we went to the other Porto's in Burbank. After that we finally started our way back to Stan State. We made one last stop of the day just after the grapevine to get gas and lunch and then hit the road to come back home. the rest of the trip was about 6 hours and we finally made it back to Stan State at about 5:30 P.M. My weekend trip was super crazy, but it was a lot of fun.

Thanks for reading my blog! I would love to hear about a crazy weekend you have had.

Jenah

Floor Events and Too Much Junk Food

On Friday I went to my RA and PAL's floor event. We watched the Book of Life. It was my first time watching this movie because I never really had the desire to watch it, but I went to support my RA and PAL. The movie was super cute, and I am glad I went to watch it. They provided snacks such as popcorn, brownies, and soda for the people who went. My PAL offered me soda, but I said No thank you, I do not drink soda and she was shocked I said that. During the movie I ended up eating 4 brownies and I am not proud of that. After the movie was over the people who came to the floor event to watch it still wanted to watch another movie, so we ended up watching Corpse Bride. During this movie I ate about 3 solo cups full of popcorn and I should not have. My roommate had never seen it before and one of the RA's that was in the Residential Life Hub was shocked she had never seen it before. My roommate said it was because she does not like Tim Burton movies. The RA was shocked because she loves Tim Burton movies and told my roommate that she would only forgive her if she made her brownies or cupcakes. The next day my roommate made cupcakes and gave the RA that got mad one and she forgave her. I ended up eating 2 cupcakes and I am not proud of that either. I was not proud of eating the junk food because I have been trying to eat well but I did not.

Thanks for reading my blog! If you have ever watched a move expecting it to be low budget but actually turned out really good let me know!

Jenah

Remodeling

This past weekend I went home and it was crazy. My sister came back from a year abroad in Europe and the stuff she brought back is everywhere in the house. All of the new things she brought back with her do not have a place in the house so we decided to clean out our shared room to create room for her stuff. We started by going through our clothes and throwing out the items we do not wear (which is a lot). We then decided to switch my sister’s dresser with a different one and started taking some furniture out of our room. Since we took out some furniture and had some empty space we decided why not shift our bunk bed to a different wall. Do to the fact that we were going to move our beds we had to take out all of our furniture. Consequently my sister thought the walls looked ugly and asked if we had any paint. Also because we moved the furniture my parents wanted to put a new carpet in our bedroom so it turned into Home Improvement. Early on Sunday morning my mom and I went to Lowe’s to get the paint and some other supplies we needed to redo my room. When we got back we took the rest of the furniture in our room out and ripped up the carpet that was already in there. After the carpet was ripped up we started painting the room Ultra White and it took longer then excepted. Even though we are not done yet and I am back at school for the week I am excited to see how the room will turn out when I go back home.

Thanks for reading my blog! If you’ve ever started a small project that turned into a large one I would love to hear about it.

Jenah

Studying First Games After

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. in the Village Café there is a study night. All the PALs from housing have an hour shift to help the students who need help with a specific subject. My dorm mate and I have been going to them for the past month not because we need help but because it is a quiet place for us to study. We also get free snacks so that is always a plus My PAL has gone to every study night to support the PAL in charge of that study session and to also have a quiet place to study. Last Thursday, October 5, My RA, PAL, dorm mate and I all went to the study night. My RA worked on a study guide for one of her classes and my PAL was facetiming her sister to help her with a power point. My dorm mate was working on her music fundamentals homework and I was working on an assignment for English. After 10:00 P.M. the village closes so we have to leave but we all decided to go to the residential hub and play games. My dorm mate and PAL were playing Rocket League on the PlayStation while I started playing a game of Clue with other people that were there. They played two rounds and my dorm mate got crushed both times so she passed the control to someone else who then demolished my PAL. There were five of us playing Clue with a few people watching wanting to learn how to play. It was a newer version so the game went by very quickly and unfortunately, I lost. It was basically a game of who could get to the middle of the board first because we all knew who the killer was. After we finished the game it was time for us to go back to our dorms because the hub closes at 11:00 P.M. and the game ended a little before that time. The games were a lot of fun and I hope we do it again sometime soon. It is always a good idea to reward yourself or give yourself a break after studying hard and getting a lot of work done.

Thanks for reading my blog! If you have any crazy stories involving Rocket League or Clue please let me know I would love to hear them.

Jenah

Stressing Out

I have been having a lot of stress over getting school work done, having trouble in my dorm, and craziness with family over the past couple of weeks. Getting my school work done was not stressful in the beginning of the semester but with the problems in my dorm and the things happening with my family it has been hard to focus on school work and find time to get it done. In my dorm we now have a new person moved in and it has been very stressful trying to set up a time for all of us to make our new roommate agreement and actually all sit down and talk to each other. We were finally able to make our new roommate agreement on Tuesday at 10:15 P.M. It was a hassle to find a time because we had to deal with classes, people going home over the weekend and our RA to not be working so she could be there to help us. I admit over the past couple of weekends I had to go home to deal with the craziness with my family but that also is causing me to have stress. I had to go home because there was a death in my family and I am stressing out because it is very emotional and I cannot find time to do my school work if I am dealing with all the stuff at home. These past couple of weeks have just been super crazy. I hope that now we have done the roommate agreement and we had the funeral that I can finally just focus on my school work and not have to worry about anything else.

Thanks for reading my blog. If you have ever been stressed out like this do not hesitate to tell me because normally if you talk about it it can alleviate some of the stress or pain you have.

Jenah