F,Y.E. 10

I have been looking forward to Thanksgiving break until November 20th, finally at 4am in the morning my friend and I hopped in my cousins’ car and went to Baltimore Washington International Airport. My friend and I flew at 730 AM and arrived at St. Louis, Missouri at 9AM. When I saw my dad for the first time since August was unforgettable because I didn’t realize that I actually at home already and I hugged my father really hard.
The week went really fast because I went to my mom’s home and saw my whole family including my brother and sister. I didn’t realize that my brother is really TALL which I hugged his chest instead his head. My sister grew up and she will beat me by next summer. I felt I am the shortest but I will always be the oldest of the siblings and cousins. I ate two thanksgiving and I was so stuffed because I ate my mom’s weird style thanksgiving (turkey, mashed potatoes, chicken broth noodles, and corn) with my mom’s side of family and my dad’s famous HUGE thanksgiving (smoked turkey, grandma’s famous German dressing, homemade cranberry jelly, rolls, mashed potatoes, oven macaroni and cheese, and many MORE!)
Black Friday was a blast because I got up at 3AM and went to Best Buy and waited in a huge long line until 5 AM. My father kept complaining, I told him that the child should be whining instead parents. So he stopped and laughed at me instead. When 5AM has passed and everybody including me bursted in the store and grabbed all the things I wanted. I brought Nikon 65000 camera which was cost 800 dollars but on that morning, it cost only 600 dollars. Also I brought ten movies and eighth season of Smallville. All together costs me only 750 dollars. It was worth of waiting and saving for a whole year!
The last day, I woke up and cried in my boyfriend’s arms because I don’t want to come back to Gallaudet University because the dorm life. I don’t like the small room and nasty restroom which were trashed all the time by my party heads neighbors. But my dad told me it will be only 18 days left to go when I go back to home for Christmas break! I couldn’t believe it will be only two weeks to come back home for a MONTH!!

F.Y.E. #9

A superb thing has happened, I got a check from Gallaudet University that I got too much scholarship so they have to give me the excess money over the limit. So I got the check last week, I decided to talk with my father first. His simple words, “You are on your own, you are going to learn how to budget with this large amount of money. Once you spend on foolish, your loss.” So I decide to spend on goods and things I really need and is useful.
Last Sunday, I decided to go to Wheaton Mall, I went to Lenscrafter’s to buy a glasses because I have only contact lenses and really OUT-DATED glasses, I had that glasses since my sophomore year and I refused to use it in here because it is so embarrassing. The glasses have silver thin rims and really loose, like old grandma glasses. So it is time to CHANGE! I picked a cool Vogue glasses with thick black square rims with white and silver glitters on the ends.
I went to Forever 21 and there was a sale so I brought a cute red jacket with big oversized buttons on front and top of shoulders for only twenty two dollars. I saw exact same jacket in target and it costs fifty five dollars! Then my friends and I went to shopping spree in American Eagle which I brought a cute dark pink and white checkered buttoned shirt, dark loose gray blouse (good for covering a tank top under it) from Forever 21, cute “half” boots with fur which looks like slippers, black and gray skirt tights, and hair dye with dark brunette strawberry color from Target, liquid room scented “Christmas Cookie” with sticks to smell more around the room from Yankee Candles, “Pocahontas”, “UP”, “Tomb Raider”, and “Legend of the Fall” from a huge sale at F.Y.E., and a game called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from Game Stop for my brother (Which I lost a bet with him so I have to buy him a sixty dollars game!).
I came back to Gallaudet University with many bags and a huge smile because I am so GLAD that I actually brought what I really needed, especially for movies.. I am a movie freak so I am tempted to buy them. So I am done shopping for myself but I am so ready for Black Friday after Thanksgiving for my siblings and family’s Christmas presents!!!

On October 29, 2009, I was a usher at theater for Spoon River. I have worn black pants and white shirt. I came at 6:30 P.M. and helped the house manager by cleaning around the halls and chairs before 7:30 P.M. which the viewers will come. When the first viewer came, I torn his ticket and gave him a pamphlet for the show. The first opening night, we got around seventy-five people watching. At the middle of the movie, almost twenty-five people left because the movie talked too much and too confusing for some people, it was not confusing for me because I have the director, Ethan Sinott as my teacher in my class, Script Translation to A.S.L. every Tuesday and Thursday. Also I did read the book by Edgar Masters called Spoon River Anthology.
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Masters and adapted by Ethan Sinott talked about over 260 characters being ghosts and got up from their graves and told in backstabbing way against other characters, for an example, one person killed the talking character. Then next scene, the killer will talk about denying that he killed the character. The movie is so complex for some people who don’t know what the movie is about. They have to read the summaries from internet and read the book by Edgar Masters to understand. Many of my friends watched themselves and in the end, they asked me a lot of questions because they don’t even understand the movie. I think the reason they are unable to understand because of the movie was cutted into about 90 characters from around 260 characters because the director don’t have enough time to film and edit all of the characters.
I was a character in the movie, I was Daisy Fraser and I was the town prostitute. I looked a bright white ghost which that time I had blonde hair and was wearing a white dress. I stood behind white hall. So it was so fascinating for almost every viewers because they thought that was so tripping for a girl in white and signed with her hands which was so tan and her eyes was so blue. My favorite character in the movie is Mrs. Sibley because she got the shortest monologue than others but it was the most powerful which impacted me. She talked about she had sex with many men even she had a husband which was a priest. Also I liked her because she don’t like to tell everybody that she had sex with men and don’t know which one is the father. She died with the baby in her stomach and nobody knows who was the father ever.

FYE #7

Yesterday is Halloween! My favorite holiday and I am a college student at Gallaudet University. Gallaudet University doesn’t have any event on October 31st and that is so sad! So I decided to call my mom two weeks before October 31st and ask her to give me her wedding dress. She don’t care about the dress in her closet because my dad and her got divorced six years ago and she feel that dress is a bad charm in her closet. She wanted to get rid of it until I asked her for the dress. She was so glad to kick her dress out of her house to me. Last week, I got the dress and I rode the metro to Friendship Heights and went to Spirit Halloween Store. I brought white make up cream, white fake hair, black hair spray, long black creepy eyelashes, black lipstick, black eye shadow, and black nail polish.
Yesterday, I put a empty water bottle on my head, pulled my hair up to the bottle, and wrapped them onto the water bottle cap with a rubber band. Then I added a lot of adhesive hair gel to make my hair to stay up so stiff. When it is so stiff and I added black hair spray on it and fake white hair on top of my ears to the end of my hair on the top. I put a lot of white cream on my face, chest, and my arms. I added black eyelashes, black eye shadow, black lipstick, and foil frankstien necklace. When I am in my costume and I went to Chinatown with my friends. My roomie was in her 80’s clothes and my good friend was in her sexy tuxedo. We went to chipotle to get free food and we ate outside with lots of people staring at me because I am so awesome! When we decide to go to Georgetown to get more free food from chipotle, after eating more, we went out to the streets and showing off our costumes. Lots of people asked me for pictures because I was so unique and so perfect like the movie…. My dress is a real wedding dress, my hair is up with completely black and white stripes, my skin was so bright with white. My eyes was bursting with black… I was the BRIDE OF FRANKSTEIN!!!!!

FYE #6

I don’t have anything new since a week but I just was so busy with homecoming spirit week. Last Friday, my roommate and I went to Wheaton mall and brought many stuff from Hot Topic, Target, Claire’s, etc for our big spirit week projects. Our projects were to create a mascot, paint a banner, paint a class flag, made a class video, and create a float. My roommate and I searched all stores at Wheaton Mall and couldn’t find a black cat stuffed animal so we decided to buy “Hello Kitty” cat doll and we just paint it black! That assignment was a success!
A banner, we need a long banner which five people altogether can hold it up. So my roommate is an artist and she drew an awesome concept of design. We drew and paint all day on Tuesday, added some details on Wednesday afternoon. Finally the class took the banner to the event on Wednesday night and the chairpersons were so fascinated with our class banner, thanks to my roommate!
A class flag, on Sunday, all of us completely forgot that the flag was due that night so I spent my relax Sunday on that flag. We pulled the sheet up on our sixth floor wall and painted it with black, red, blue, yellow, and silver. Added our motto, Curse The Curse on the bottom of the flag. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to go to Home Depot and buy some poles. We ended up holding the flag on our hands all night. Other classes have beautiful flags with huge poles which they can put the pole in the ground and the flag will still stand! That is so unfair that we are freshmen and almost nobody have a car!
A class video, I was so overwhelmed with those five projects so one freshman young girl offered her help so I gave her my camera and the class script on Saturday and I hoped that she would follow the script and give me all the video so I can edit into a real movie at end of Tuesday. On Monday evening,the girl gave me the camera and I assumed that she actually did very well. On Tuesday when I uploaded all videos in the laptop, ehh, she went to the wrong way! She videotaped too much kissing, holding hands, hugging, and none of café chatting, studying, cheering at a game, and generally freshmen walking around the campus! So I kind of panicked and asked my best friend to help. Thank god that he is a expert with making a movie. On Wednesday, he gave up his free time and he videotaped all over again and he edited the whole movie until Thursday 4AM! On Thursday, he gave me the DVD and I watched the movie on my television with my nails biting and hoping that he went the right way! YES! He went to beyond than my goal!!!
A float, it is the most major project and the most HELL job! My friends and I spent all of our free time on the float since Saturday early morning. We finally completed the float on Wednesday late night. We created a go green float, all is cardboard instead plywood. We added some tissue paper and gift wrap of red, black, blue, and yellow. Spray painted all cardboard boxes with black, red, and silver. Decorated all over the float with silver and gold glitter and added some aluminum foil (look like silver) and white fluffy foam (look like spooky fog). At the end, we added our big cat mascot on the top! We actually appreciated our work!
Now we are so excited for this Saturday to show off our hell work with class of 2013 projects!!!!

First Year Experience #5

What a day, on October 15, 2009, I went to a food store with my friend, Jessica Israel and we got stranded on the parking lot because my cousin’s car battery went dead. When Jessica and I got in my car at Field House parking lot, the car refused start so we called the department of Public Safety to come and recharge our car. Jessica and I went to Blockbuster and rented “The Proposal” and brought a DVD, “Drag Me to the Hell.” After checking out the movies at Blockbuster, we went to the food store, Safeway next to the rental movie store.
I brought some soup and tea because I was stuffed with colds in my head and Jessica brought some stuff for the movie night tonight. When we brought all the food and stuff, we went out, and stuffed our stuff in the trunk. And when we got in with our teeth chattering because outside was raining and COLD! When I tried to start the car… The car refused start but only feel the clicking sound from the steering wheel. What a bad luck because my cousin was in a class and everybody we knew was too busy to check their pagers. So we got out with our thin sweatshirts and asking anyone who came out from the store, we were running around the parking lot and waving our phones with a sentence saying “Do you have a car jumper?? Please help us!!” Finally we got one, actually we thought she don’t have one because she is so old like a grandma and she drove a station wagon!
When our car was started again and we zoomed back to Gallaudet University and parked the car at SLCC area. Tonight, my cousin asked me if I can drop her off at her home because today her street needed to be closed for cleaning so I tried the car again… NO LUCK! So we waited for the department of public safety guy to come back again. We waited for almost thirty minutes and because they emailed us that something has happened at Benson Hall. We looked at each other and said, “Oh yeah, freshmen!” After another fifteen minutes, a policeman came out and he was carrying with a bucket with beer and in his other hand, a beer bong!!! We laughed and waited until he came back and recharged the car again! Gee, what a day with stupid car battery!!!

Library Research Project: Beauty Evolution

No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted...
Introduction Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TV_Avo4zg
An article from Dove.com, Nancy Etcoff researched about women and beauty and she found that all of women are struggled with their inner feelings being beautiful. Many women and men feel excluded from soceity’s sterotype of ideal beauty. Only two percent out of the women around the world feel that they are comfortable telling people that they are beautiful.

How we evolved from many years ago, beauty started in Egypt with Cleopatra. She was short, chubby, wide nose, and rings of fat on her neck but all the Egypt people worshipped her because she is so beautiful to them. In 1880’s recipe of beauty were wide hips, wide bottoms, show off your busts, and slim hips were hid under fake fat pads. That period were called the curvy period. IN 1920’s recipe, slim hips were accepted to the society, flat chested, corsets were used to hide the women’s breasts to sides, wearing push up bras or having a breast implants were a disgrace to the society. The beauty recipe for 2009 is very tall, very thin, small hips, big bust, large eyes, large lips, and small nose.
Over the years, the technology became a huge influence in media and it changed our perspective with beauty. Therefore, it gave us an impossible image of beauty because those beautiful models were cheated and rigged with technology of software with kind of Photoshop techniques. All of women actually believed in a fictional image. So the result was the women feeling down because they are impossible to meet the beauty images.
Beauty is a product of Photoshop and all the photographs are refined with kind of techniques to mess your eyes up. Plump or thin, tall or short, curvy or flat noses, bubbly or rosy lips, curly or straight hair are mixed into today. And today we were deceived by a false beauty images! So, how can we improve, only solution is believe in yourself and you can create your own image and you will be so beautiful.
Conclusion Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-fEsTMlq0&feature=related

First Year Experience #4

Last week, I started my first job as a notetaker for three classes. At first, my friends told me if I was boring all the time so get a job. I did, I went up to the career center and asked them if there are jobs available around the campus. They told me I have to go to every department and give them my application then they will email me if they have job openings for me. I don’t want to spend one day giving out my applications to every department around the campus. So I gave up and I walked down the SAC hall next to the bison bookstore sulking. And suddenly I saw one bright yellow paper sticked on a wall. It says that OSWD office needed notetakers so bad. So I turned around and went to the OSWD office next to the G-spot.
When I came in and I asked the front desk clerk where is the man who is responsible with notetaking. The clerk said “that will be me.” “Oh, okay. I am interested to be a notetaker.” I told the black man. He said “Well, do you have some notetaking experience before?” “Yes, I do when I was in high school.” “Oh great, you are hired.” He smiled and gave me a handout with how to note take and stuff like that. I was like SWEET! I AM HIRED! And then he took me in his room, asked me for my class schedule, and he found the available classes to fit in my schedule. He told me, “Wonderful, you will start working tomorrow at 8AM.” I nodded and grabbed the chance.
Since a week and half, I loved my job so much because I can learn a LOT more from those classes without doing homework and tests. I learned a lot about aging and development, communication between children and adults, and advanced Spanish. Those classes were interesting. The best thing is getting paid by learning. The worst thing is getting up at 8AM every Tuesdays and Thursdays. The notetaking job is my first job and hopefully I will continue this job for four years until I graduate from Gallaudet University.