A Request....

I don't know if any of you read my blog, but the dear family friend passed away. Please keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers, he had 3 sons ...
Thank you.
R

Dearies

Hello!

In response to your blogs:

Yeana - I do in fact believe that humans can have the ability to sense something, similarly to a 6th sense. I know that when someone I am close to is going through something hard for them, I will just have a feeling I need to text or call them becasue I know something is up. I don;t know if that is what you mean, but that is how I take it. And I want to read/see your script/play!! It is a great idea!

Tracy - I know you are a busy girl, but BLOG!!! I worry about you and I enjoy reading your blogs, i can hear your voice in my head :) What's new?

Wendy - Welcome home!! Unless you are reading this on your trip back. I am glad that you had a fab. time in China, but the US needs you :)

As for me....

Alaska was great, it truely is one of my favorite places I have ever visited (which isn't saying all that much, but nevertheless) I loved it there! It was so nice and the air was crisp and clean, no humidity or anything like that! I have a partial album on facebook if you would like to browse...

As for the daytime, I am now babysitting my butt off, which has its pros and cons, but hey, it is a job, and a good paying one nonetheless!

As for the musical, I am in the production of Once on this Island. It is a good show and this is my second time doing it. A lot of my friend friends are doing it and it is so nice to spend time with them doing what we love. I am just a storyteller, but the understudy for all the female leads.... ahh! :) But, as I am sure all of you know, there are divas in the show. And there is one that I have done community theatre with before and she keeps throwing backhanded comments about my singing to me thinking I won't pick up on them..... ugh, I hate divas, they are so annoying.

I try to keep myself busy to keep my mind off the bad stuff, but it always creeps up.

The day that I returned from Alaska my mom told me that a very very good family friend was diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer of the stomach and they aren't hopeful of his survivial. They give him a few months, hopefully. If you could just keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers? It seems it always happens to the nicest and most generous people.
I think, as stupid as it sounds, that it hurts me personally that cancer is taking another person I love away from me. I know that is personalizing it too much, but still. #4 this year.....

And then the friends problems still continue. I have my moments of having a good time and feeling so included, but more often than not, I feel left out and disconnected. I am having a crisis of what to do and no matter the advice I am given or the actions I take based on that advice, it doesn't seem to be getting better. So I am at a loss of what to do. I would rather that these 'friends' just walk up to me and say their grievances and then let us both move forward, but they won't so we can't, and moreso I can't.

But I have finished my college resume, and am on the 3rd draft of my main essay for applications so i am kind of on the way..... I am rethinking everything I think I want to do every day. I want to work with kids but I also want to work with adults, so the only thing that I can come up with is highschool principal, but is that what I want to do? All I know is that I want to be a wife and a mother, but sadly, there is no college major in which that can be accomplished. I will probs double in education and buisness admin. I know, they are opposite and different, but I am just lost on this, and basically everything in life right now........

BLOG!!!

Yeana, i hope volleyball tryouts go well!!

Love you all!
Rosie

Hello from China!

Mua ha ha...how do I mysteriously get on pages such as our blog and facebook, you ask? o.O
NOT TELLING YOU.

Lol, j/k. ^.^ My aunt has a company VPN (I don't know what it is exactly, just a program I guess) so I use her laptop when I'm at home to check out all the sites the Great Firewall of China doesn't allow. :D

Anyway, I should get to sleep soon because I have work tomorrow, but I need to respond to your posts and update y'all briefly. :D
Basically, I am having a fantastic time here in China. I love the city life and I'm learning sooo much at my internship. I am working at NBA China, where my uncle is one of the marketing directors. He hooked me up, and is really showing me what business development/marketing is like. I love it there! I feel like we're all on the same boat...NSLC has all made us realize that law isn't something we might want to pursue. LOL. Kinda ironic isn't it? Speaking of which...All this talk about our one year *anniversary* (LOL) makes me sad. :( Yeana, you'll probably find wonderful people at the new camp and an awesome roomie. JUST DON'T EVER REPLACE ME WITH HER!! Lol. :P I hope you have a great time, though I don't want you to have too much fun that you find it better than NSLC. Hahaha....I am selfish. >.<

Tracy, I am so glad you posted. You sound so busy these days! Hope all is well, and don't worry about college, even though all of us are like freaking out about it. Hahah. You are bright and will find success no matter where you go. :D

And Rosanna, I've already said what I have to say in our ongoing email. :P

I'm thankful for this wave of new posts. You all know I get impatient sometimes...XP
I will blog much more (expect a longgg rant) once I get back from China, and I'll definitely leave short posts during my time here!

Love and miss you all,
Wendy

OHSNAPS

ohsnaps indeed

I've been in and out of the house after summer 'cause i started working at the restaurant!

I wake up early enough to shower and check my email

then I go off to work around 11AM

and I get home around 11PM TT_TT

by then, I check my email again, check just the notifications for facebook and then I go crash on my bed and sleep /:

I'm so sorry ladies ):

I'm especially sorry to wendy 'cause she went on so often ><

but yeah, arthur's in china too so i heard that you can go on google & gmail, but facebook is blocked O:!

and gah, yeana i'm so jealous i want time to read ):

I only have two days off a week and some people asked me to save dates in advance so i rarely have time to just bum out and read ;_;

But yeah, about the sixth sense

honestly?

I believe it.

I believe that human beings have a soul, or something in them that makes us the way we are, animated- life, and if I can believe in souls existing, then why not a sixth sense?

AND I WANT TO SEE YOUR PLAY ):

I HAVE YET TO SEE YAGMCB ;__; and whenever a friend mentions snoopy or something i say to myself outloud (LOL) "You're a good man charlie brown..."

and they stare XD

and rosie-anna!

my brother just graduated too & he's going off to college as well :'D

he's going to Boston U, so it's not that far away TT v TT

though i dislike how I have to start applying to colleges.

it's strange, but i honestly just want to go to a college where i'll be happy

I think so long as the facilities are decent, then i'll be fine

mostly because I don't know what i want to do

NSLC actually helped me realize that I don't want to pursue law. It was interesting as hell, but I couldn't see myself doing it in the future. ohboy, you can imagine how my parents reacted to that

but yeah, i think i'll just apply to a state university

I think your camp sounds amazing, and it's fantastic that you know what you want to do C:

and a cruise to alaska! O:! HAVE FUN :D

I was happy to discover today that I wasn't the only one who thought "today is the 1 year anniversary since I met my NSLCers..."

(:

I love you all <3>

I know I don't go on often /:

But I really do miss you all ):

Love Always,

Tracy

Guess who's back?

:D C'EST MOI!

Okay...first of all, apologies...

I promise this will be long...or at least as long as I can make it. :D

Not much has happened...I have a bit of summer reading to do, so I'm getting that done. I finished Frankenstein a while back. I read it expecting to be scared out of my wits, but I wasn't...so I was disappointed a bit. I think I'll have to read it again so I can really read it without expecting so much from it. I need to delve into the prose and symbolism of it...bleh.

But as of now I'm about halfway through One Hundred Years of Solitude, and despite its lack of a distinct plotline and infinite accounts of incest, I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It's very deep, and once I looked into the history behind the book, it's even more fascinating.

I have a question for you all; do you believe that humans possess a sixth sense? In the book, Ursula, the mother and leading conservative figure of the town in which her family resides, has an uncanny ability to sense certain moments when some of her children are in peril. When I ask you this question, I don't mean anything that specifically; what I mean is do you believe that humans have an actual ability to tell when someone is staring at them, or perhaps, if something bad happened to someone who is close to them?

I have to finish this book; then I have to read Catch-22. I hear lots of differing opinions about it; if any of you have read it, please give me your own opinions!

Wendy: How on earth DID you access this site from China? O_o And, by chance, if you get to access it more while you're there, tell us how it's going! I hope you're having lots of fun and discovering more about yourself. :]]

Rosanna: How's the new theatre company? I'm very excited for you!! What shows are you planning to be in? And how's life, really?

Tracybabe: Where ARE you?? :[

My friend and I are in the process of writing a play. It's about nothing at all. :] It's practically a show in one act; it's composed of approximately 15 short monologues through which teenagers complain about various random things. It sounds really dumb right now...but it's fairly hilarious. :] We're about 3/4 done and we're very proud of it.

In about a week I'm leaving for Stanford; compared to my 6 hour plane flight last year it's a very very short trip of 1 hour by car. But compared to last year's 10 days, it's a daunting 3 weeks. I hope I can last.

Which reminds me...

It's a full year to the day we met. I miss all of you very much...I'll be very lucky if the people I meet at Stanford are anything like you, and the bond that I will come to share with them; anything like what we share to this day. I'm also praying that I get a good roommate...Wendy, I don't think I'll ever miss you more than I will in the next few weeks to come.

Volleyball is starting for me very soon. I have to shave down my mile time to less than 8 minutes in less than a month...currently it's at a little less than 10 minutes =.= I have a long long way to go. I suppose this means I'll have to exercise while I'm at Stanford. SIGHHHHH.

I hope you are all having a wonderful and safe summer. I will blog more! :]

I love you lots.

<3, Yeans

Happy Birthday, America!!!

Hey Girlies!!

I am sorry that it has been a while since I have blogged, it has been a busy few weeks for me.

Wendy - Isn't this website not allowed? How did you break into it?

Tracy -How are you doing???? Can you please blog?

Yeana - Same for you, what's been up with you guys?

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Do you realize that tomorrow, it will be a year exactly since we all met? It's kind of freaky especially since, to me atleast, it has been longer than that....

For me atleast, it has been a long few weeks. School ended two weeks ago, thank goodness! I have been waiting for summer all year long!

My brother graduated and is now off to college... but he isn't going that far away :(

This past week was so busy for me. I had been helping organizing a special needs camp that is run at my church. It was so rewarding and fun, but also a lot of work becsaue each child there has some sort of special needs: autism, down syndrome, ADHD, basically anything.....
Becasue of this camp, I am now considering a job in special education, like a behavioral therapist or something. I am not too sure that law is what I want to do anymore...

So that camp was from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. And on top of that, each night, I had rehersal for a new theatre company I joined. So from 5:30p.m. to 10 p.m. I was rehersing and dancing my butt off! It has been tough breaking into the new company with a name, but I think that I have achieved it and the driectors and crew like me for me!

Now I am packing... Tomorrow I leave for a two week trip to Alaska!!! I am really excited because my family and I are doing a land tour and a 7 day cruise! It will be my first time out of this time zone, and I am very excited about that as well!

So I know this was a short post, but I have a lot of packing to do and prep for the trip. Hopefully, i will have acess to computers throughout the trip!

As Wendy would say, "BLOG!!!!" :)

All My Love,
Rosanna

ARGH.

Blog, people!

I am halfway around the world, and I've managed to get on our blog...

You all are testing my patience. grrrrrr. >.<

Love,
She-who-is-the-only-one-that-blogs-now-even-though-she-has-been-working-nonstop-in-China.