Mission Accomplished

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for..."

BEEN A WHILE: Wow checking my blog, I haven't made an entry since February!! The Spammers have taken over my tagboard and it's become a ghost town on this site. The funny thing is how all of a sudden blogger is making a comeback. I've noticed how people have all of sudden jumped on a blog bandwagon and started a blogger.com account. I guess gone are the days of xangas, live journals, and all those other ones people use to use. Since I really am too lazy to update on a daily basis, I had really hoped to update at least once a month. Apparently that hasn't been happening though ha. So I guess I'll try and attempt to recap what's been going on in my life in the past 4-5 months. Sidenote, firework stands are out which means my birfday is juss around the corner! yay!

ANOTHER CLASS, ANOTHER YEAR: Season 5 or 6 (I can't even manage to keep track anymore) of confirmation ended. This class year was a pretty good set of all around kids. Erryear I always seem to get the class that all went to school together at sPv together. Anyway, I thought it was a good year, created bones with many of the kids and with a lot of the kids from the other classes. At the end of the year, there's always a small group who want to come back and want to be my aide for next year. That makes me smile. Actually this was the first year too that I had gone w/the class on their retreat. Normally I opt not to go cuz of whatever reason, but this year I decided to go and turned out to be a great experience overall. I was kinda surprised cuz I decided to have an 'end of the year' party where they can decide whether to come or not, and majority of the class showed up...that was pretty cool. I'm still trying to discern whether or not I want to come back next year, I guess I'll leave that up to God and see where He wants me. Having Donne there this year too, helped a lot. When you have someone there who knows you and your spirituality makes a difference in the dynamics of the class. On top of that Donne, has grown so much in her own faith that she's juss amazing.

BEING A SPONSOR: So not only did I have to committ to my responsibilities as being a Catacechist at sPv, I had taken the responsibility of being a sponsor for not one, but two kids at holy fam. It was such a rewarding opportunity to walk with them throughout the year and juss guide them. And that is where amazing was happening...

WORK: The great state of California is not so great anymore thanks to mr. govenor and the thousands of people who voted him in, not only once, but twice!!! Now the state is so jacked up that it's probably going to take forever to get it fixed. Now I know it was bad already before he came in but he's juss screwed it up really bad. At the end of March I got my 2nd pink slip stating that as of June 30 I will be layed off. -__- However, I have hope that I'll get rehired back next year being that right before pink slips went out, I was at this two day training on autism. Wow! talk bout intense stuff, but I think it'll help in the long run the hard part is juss applying it all. As much as I dislike the administration for the school district that I work for, it's not like I can juss get up and leave and find something else. Errone is in the same position as I am. Like I said I have hope though, the family of the kid I work with knows my family really well and they love me and on top of all that they're mostly likely going to keep the same schedule as this year.

DEBUTS & WEDDINGS: Ever since January it's been a weddings and debuts. Mark and Abby tied the knott at the end of Februrary. Nice wedding, tons of people, and good times catching up with some old friends. Debuts...well juss one actually ha. Donna finally had her debut in March inside the hall. It turned out to be really nice actually, I wish they had an open bar though that would've been the perfect touch to it all! ha Mark and Abby's had an open bar that was legit! When it comes to open bars, you gotta take advantage of that stuff cuz wha can I say there's nothing like free alcohol! The funny thing about going to these events, is watching these kids grow up. You come to realize when you're a rose at their 18th birfday party that 'dang, I'm old!' On the other side, weddings are so fun to plan. I share w/people that I think weddings are probably the most exciting part about my job. Helping them prepare for this awesome sacrament and seeing them grow as they prepare for it. Now that is a win.

BSA: So I think it was in Janaury I got this random call from this guy who is actually HF parishioner but is a president of this non-profit organization called 'Blind Start of America.' He calls me on afternoon back in January asking if I was down to participate in his organization and compete in this event called 'The World Famous Mud Run' in June. I made my committment and said yes, cuz I felt like I was kinda put on the spot. 5 months later, I look back and realize what a blessing it was to participate in such an extraordinary event. The purpose of the non-profit was to raise awareness for visual impairement. It was another organization to get myself involved in. However I look at it as another way for networking and getting to know more poeple. I feel like in life, you can never get to know enough people out there. What a blessing participating in this event has been. One cool side note, is that I got to meet ABDC season 2 winners, 'Super Cr3w' hhaha as well as Kid Rainen from the Jabawockeez.

FIRST YEAR: In September I started a new position at a new school. With errchange, its always difficult in the begining. A new school, a new staff, a new administration to get use to. As time passed though the new job became a blessing. I slowly adjsuted and was able to get use to the whole new environment. I felt like I went from the ghetto to beverly hills, from the parent involvement, the high test scores, wow it amazed at how smart these kids were. Too bad I didnt get to see the last day of school and had to freakin fracture my leg! oh why?! Though errthang happens for a reason, I guess sooner than later in the summer. It juss sucks not being able to do a whole lot, praise God though I haven't had a whole lot of pain. This to shall pass, juss hope that its real soon!

TWILIGHT SERIES: Wow ! AS of this past month I've gotten sucked into the whole twilight series. I know, I know it seems so dumb to get wrapped up in a vampire-werewolf love story saga but its so good! I love the way the author juss describes errthang bout each character. Reading about each one and how much detail there is to each story makes hard to put the book down. In fact a lot of my parents at work was sharing w/me how they couldn't put the book down themselves. They were so addicted to it and they were sharing how emotionally connected you can get to each of the characters as if you're there in the story yourself. If you're looking for a summer book to keep you busy, then I would recommend the 'Twilight' series. That whole 4 story saga is a win.

WRAP UP: Wow, that was a lot to catch up on. Who knows if anyone reads this blog anymore, despite my lack of updates I dont want to shut it down. Too much good memories and stuff that I've shared over the years. Hopefully Ill get to update something again real soon, maybe after when I get my stupid cast off and I can walk again. Oh yeah I've also watched a lot of good movies as of lately too. Taking of Pelam 123, UP, The Hangover, Terminiator Salvation, Night at the Musuem 2, and soo much more. I think I've watched almost all the major hits that have come out so far. Speaking of movies, I can't wait till New Moon comes out in November. That one will be a win for sure!

"You say goodbye, I say hello." im done, im out God bless!

Daydreamin'

"The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you, you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any jobs; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no-' they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.' "

ANSWERED PRAYER: It's funny since week St. Therese seems to have come back in a sense. Here's a story for all of you. At end of last month the Confirmation coordinator's wife at holy family past away suddenly of a heartache. In fact the sad part was a couple of days before she past away, they had just celebrated her birfday. Anyway, I guess after she past he was a feeling a little sad and depressed. Well like myself, he has a devotion to St. Therese. So one nite he was praying to her asking her to let him know if his wife was alright and if she was in heaven. In his prayer he specficially asked for a white rose. He goes about doing this normal routine he comes back and there next to his bed on his desk was a white rose!! Alright so thas one story and here's another one. Im helping out a friend of mine put together a show for OLF. Well when he got the approval to go through w/the plans for the show the condition the principal wants it at the beginning of April. Wow! we all thought, freakin' april is juss around the corner there's no way. So I said let's pray about it and God will let us know if this is meant to be or not. That nite I asked St. Therese for her prayers asking if this meant to be send me a yellow rose. Before I left for work I went to get the mail and when I got the mail there was this small package with a rosary in it from St. Therese! Crazy huh! Now I know its not exactly my yellow rose soo I'm kinda praying for confirmation.

SICK: SInce Monday Ive been kinda stuck at home with this stupid stuffy nose. Tuesday was horrible I juss barely made it through the day. That maximum strength sudafed I bought though was legit. I took that thing yesterday morning and it's help clear up my sinuses. Little stuffiness here and there but its not as nearly as bad as Tuesday. I took yesterday and today off of work juss to rest up on top of all that I have a confirmation retreat I have to be at this weekend. A part of me doesn't really want to go but I already said in the beginning I would go. At least I wont be really running the retreat so that's kinda cool. Im leading a discussion group and I hope the talks and speakers are interesting. There's only certain people I can really sit and give my attention to when they're speaking-others juss kinda end up loosing my attention.

CHRIS BROWN: Maan all I gotta is kawawa Chris Brown. I dont know I really dont want to believe he'd do something like that. I always said he would be one entertainer that would be fun to juss chill with. I mean he looks so easy going and juss fun he doesnt look like the type that would have a temper unlike others ahem kanye west ha. Now they're saying this isnt the first time and rhianna is saying that this is happened before or something similar to that. Whaack. I think he's innoncent until proven guilty so hopefully they got him mixed up with some other crazy guy.

SPAM MESSAGES: The spam messages on the tagboard are getting really annoying. Errday I have to go and clean it up. It wasnt like that before how come they keep coming back!! And I really dont want to throw away my tagboard either. AHh I wish there was a way juss to block the stupid messages from coming in. Last Thursday over dinner we were talking bout blogs and old networking sites from when we were younger. Crazy how technology has advanced and changed over the years. I wonder if I would've had an ipod when I was in high skool or even maybe let alone a cell phone.

SPA: When I was in New Zealand there was this pretty tight spa place. It was named one of the top 10 spas in the world back like 2007 or something like that. Anyway, for $20 you can spend as much time as you wanted in these different pools of hot springs. Talk bout cheap and a good deal! Being in there was so relaxing and defintely worth it...too bad they dont have anything like that over here. Well I'm sure they do it's juss probably real expensive and well not as nice as the one in New Zealand.

DEBIT CARD: Talk bout missing something important! Last week I found out that my debit card has been compromised so to be on the safe side the bank said to cancel it and they'll issue me a new one. Maan not having it has been super hard especially since I dont carry any cash on me most of the time. So I had to go the bank last week to withdraw cash which was sort of an inconvenience since I had to make an extra stop before work agh!!

MOVIES: Last weekend was an eventful weekend, I had to make the most of my long weekend. Back to back movies, back to back hang outs, and back to back rain which is probably how I got sick oh why?! Anyway, first movie was 'He's just not taht into you.' Yeah I know but it looked really interesting so I had to watch it. The storyline is funny it wasn't what I had thought well sorta some of the characters did eventually cross paths. Overall it was pretty good, the ending was cute and wasnt as predictable as I had thought it was going to be. Saturday I went to go watch 'Push.' That one was aiight, the good thing about that movie was at least there was action throughout the movie and not all this dialouge then all the action at the end. The bad part was it really was like a poor mans heroes and they had gay names for their powers such as: 'sniffers' or 'watchers' or 'pushers' etc

OH WHY STORIES: So my friend showed me the other day this site called 'FML' which is funny cuz it's like there 'oh why?!' stories of people's misfortunate. Now why people would post their stories on a site like that is beyond me but it's entertainig to read.

"Wake up in Paris, chill in tokyo..."im done, im out God Bless!

On a brief splurge...

"We must acknowledge that God is happiness itself or we will never know what true happiness is!"

MEETING JESUS: Like with errjob, there are moments where you really enjoy your job and then there are moments when you're not into your job. Anyway, today was one of those moments where your job made you smile. It was so cute my little boy that I work with, well he has this other boy that he plays with almost errday. Anyway, the two of them were eating lunch today and his friend said to him, 'Kysen you're my best friend.' Awww I wanted to cry haha it was so cute. Then during P.E. the kids were learnign to throw the ball to each other. So when it was Kysen's turn to throw the ball, he threw it and it was kinda off then his friend smiled, winked, and gave him the thumbs up. Aww it was really cute one of those moments where you juss had to have been there.

"Reach for the stars..."im done, im out God bless

Who Blogs?

"We must acknowledge that God is happiness itself or we will never know what true happiness is!"

1 MONTH IN: It's funny how I had wanted to take it easy for 2009. Not get myself involved with so much and juss take it easy. Already 1 month into the new year and I'm committed into 2 major events. I got talked into doing a 'blind mud run' in June. For some reason I was one of the people asked to do it. It seemed pretty interesting you'll be in a team of 5 with one person being blinfolded and the other person giving directions, while the other 3 are juss there for support. I gotta start training for that maybe this will help me loose some weight and eat healthier too ha. The other thing I got myself involved in is helping to coordinate this play for OLF. Part of the reason I'm doing this is to help a friend out cuz he helped me out w/Oktoberfest. And I'm really big on helping people if they help me out. Then on the side I have all the other things going on UTC, Confirmation, weddings and debuts I'm invited to ahh the fun juss never ends.

SUPER CUTE: So my nephew and neice were over at my grandma's house last nite. My neice is like 1 and my nephew will be turning 3 at the end of this month. Anyway, my uncle was saying how my nephew kai for some reason likes or know the jonas' brothers something of that sort. Anyway, he was singing love bug last nite! ha it was so cute I wish I was able to record it but he was ksining parts of the song aha I was like awwww

TAXES: Im so glad my taxes are in, especially my state taxes! I heard the last day to file w/o having to receive an 'IOU' from the state was the 31st. I cant believe how bad our state is right now. The people of california were stupid to take Gray Davis out of office and now look. On top of that they decided to re-elect a govenor who is super stupid. Im praying that I still have a job at the skool next year. The fortunate thing is that I have a little bit of job cushion only cuz I work in special ed. and the parents of the kid I work with really like me. I think if anything the district should cut from the top and go then go from the bottom. I mean we have 2 asst. superintdenets in a small district made up of 9 elementary skools. To me if she cant handle that job then she shouldn't of applied for it. Anyway, errday it juss seems to get worse and worse :sigh:

iLIFE09: Last week I bought the new iLife for my macbook, it's pretty legit! I love the new features on it especially with the garage band. You can hook up a geetar or piano and has tutorial sessions on it teaching you how to play the instrument. Then when you're feeling pretty confident then you can pay for celeb artists like cobbie calliat and others to teach you some of their songs. The new imovie makes it easier to upload videos to youtube and other sites like facebook etc. on top of that they have cool new theme features you can choose from to enhance your movies. iphoto has this new thing too where you can post face picture of people to make it easier to find pictures youre lookign for it. ilife makes thigns a little easier to use I love it!

RETREAT: A couple of weeks ago we had our annual winter retreat with the youf. For the most part it went well. So many new faces and so many new kids. It brough back memories of when SH did their first youf and young adult LSS how that following tuesday prayer meeting was packed. In fact prayer meetings were jam packed with youf for the rest of that summer. It was great to see the energy and the passion to serve God. The hard part for kids is that they oftne get post retreat life, where it's hard to keep up they want to fall back to their old habits. Plus sometimes retreats for them can be real emotional like that touchy feely stuff it has to be more than that...applying what they learn in real life. Though I think growing up in todays genereation is more difficult then it was in the past. I mean I remember growing up and not having ipods or cell phones or mp3 players. I love ocming back home though after a retreat and juss being able to sleep in your own bed and juss having your own personal time again.

TAGBOARD: The tagboard is killing me cuz it keeps posting up random spam and I always end up ahving to go back and take it off. I dont remember it doing it this much before? Or maybe its juss cuz my tagboard is juss idle now and so its getting hit up w/the spam. Im almost tempted to take it off my blog altogether but I like having it there at the same time.

NOTORIOUS: Oh two weekends ago I watched Notorious with fred and rob. Oh man talk bout old memories ha well more memories for rob and fred but still. I totally remember hearing on the radio bout biggie getting shot ha my freshmen year in high skool. Then I ened up buying the 'Ready to Die' two disc CD. Its funny cuz I dont think kids today if they watched it would fully understand errthang in the movie. Nor would they be able to recall the time line of the events that took place. That guy who played biggie did really well. I heard it took him forever to get the part down on top of that he had to put on more weight too. Ahh the memories of the 90s!

ABDC: This season isn't all that great in fact last season wasn't that great either. I think after the first season the jabas made history raised the bar and that was it. I dont some of these girl dace crews either they tend to get on my nerves. Last week a lot of people were upset taht TM was kicked off so soon. TM was aiight but that group after them kicked ass no doubt! The whole cirucs theme they did with Brittney's song was siiick! Quest did pretty good too, but the other black group who did the mirror song oh man that was juss d0pe!! It'll be interesting to see how far Quest goes. I like telling the kids though the quest is endoresed by the church since quest learning center is in artesia haha. Oh isnt seeing Ryan on quest a dejavu from 'so you think you can dance' season 1?! haaha

"All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus..."im done, im out God bless!

4 & 3 & 2 & 1

"They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves..."

BEEN AWHILE: I cant even remember the last time I sat down to blog. It still amazes me how I was able to blog on a daily basis before. Now it's like I'm lucky if I blog on at least once a month. Crazy times! Oh yeah makeitclap celebrated its 5th birfday! Im glad to see that this site is still up and running, even after all these years. Ive thought bout juss shutting down altogether, but like with many other things I've put too much work into it. Anyway, so much to say not enough time and I know as tradition I know I normally do a 'year in review.' However, this year I think I'll change up the tradition a little bit and do a year in review with pictures. I know there has been at least one highlight each month. On a side note 2009 wow!!!

JANUARY 2008-The year started off fundraising some more with one of the biggest fundraisers of the year with Adopt a Youth. Asking the community to help send me and others to WYD in Sydney, Australia.










FEBRUARY-Helping the youf open up their doors to Christ in the youf ministry annual retreat. I have to say that I really loved the location, the fresh air, the big facility...yup cant go wrong. Then another WYD fundraiser with the 'I Believe in Love' Valentine's dinner dance fundrasier. Good food, good entertainment, and good people! I love dressing up! Oh yeah, I was given the chance to be a sponsor for RCIA this year too that was pretty inspiring. It helped remind me of that first time I fell in love with God. Continued to serve the parish in the annual lenten fish fry dinners, which are always fun. Congress with youf day has been a tradition that I've kept on going to since like '03. Like the Cerritos mall I always seem to run into people I know there. Holidays in February is somethign I always look forward to. Lunch and photoshoot and good times with friends...I love it. Debuts, debuts

MARCH-Easter came early this year. As I said earlier, being a sponsor for RCIA was humbling and watching my canidate well not juss mine but all the other ones receive their sacraments for the first time maan gives you that warm feeling inside. During Spring Break took a trip down to LMU to watch a show called 'Standing Room Only.'













APRIL-Season I cant even keep track of Confirmation passed. ANother year, another class however this season was definetly one of my favorite ones. It was a little earlier then normal, but it was coo it was done and out of the way. More debuts and the highlight of the month meeting the love of my life! Ms. Ramiele Malubay! ha



















MAY: Weddings and more good times w/mr. mandongo. A friend's 30th birfday party on those booze type of cruises. Drinks were coo, food was aiight, theme was coo.




























JUNE: Graduations galore!! T-minus one month before leaving on a jetplane to australia! Made new friends, more debuts, and I got to see N.E.R.D in person and got my cd autographed by them!






































JULY: World Youth Day, my 26th birfday, Cherry's 21st...and that was July.













AUGUST: I had a the opportuntiy to chair YPR 2008. It made me miss planning events. Abby left to go to Boston. Victorian Tea, WYD Reunion, SCRC it was a busy rest of the summer.








































SEPTEMBER: Got rehired back at Centralia School District, however different job title and different skool. A little dissapointed cuz you know it's change but I've managed. Im happy I have a job. Jaime leaves UTC, out with old core and in with the new, Bonfire, and FPAC.














OCTOBER: Oktoberfest, Oktoberfest, Oktoberfest! Oh yeah I went back to skool and started half semester classes.












NOVEMBER: Micah's Wedding and Thanksgiving.


















DECEMBER: And it brings us back to 'do...' Caroling, Christmas, Christmas Parties





























"Nothing compares, nothing compares to you..." im done, im out God bless

Cause Life is like a Slideshow

"When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer..."

GROWN UP: The other day I was at the Mejia's celebrating Archie's Birfday. As I looked around the room its crazy to see how 'grown up' errone is now. Its funny cuz I began to remember the first time I had set foot into that house. I was the noob coming in to a different environment that was out of the norm for me. Not that I was some type of troubled kid or I was kickin' it w/the wrong crowd it was juss something new and different. I walked in and some were in the living room on the couch watching Shrek on DVD and others were outside juss chillin. We were getting ready to practice for this skit for the annual SOL Youf Rally. Fast forward 6 years later, as I walk into the same house that kinda started the whole 'road of faith' for me not only are the same faces there, but new faces too...baby faces! I guess it felt like some type of tv show reunion. The ones after it's been together for 'x' amount of number of seasons and now errone is back together to share whas going on in their life. Yeaaah it kinda felt like that! I think the best part of all of this is that despite the different paths some of us have taken, we've all still managed to be there for each other. I have to say I'm glad that God has allowed me to cross paths w/these people.

OTHER NEWS: Historic election yeah? Not juss a historic election but a historic campaign season over all. From the Primary to the General Election wow its all over! The next 4 years are going to be interesting and I'm glad I dont have that type of pressure on my shoulders. I really do pray with the help of Congress that Obama can clean things up. I bet Bush is ready to go already, his bags are packed, and ready to give the key over to the Obamas. ha Barack's speech last week was real inpsirational, I love how he shared 'The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there. ' I was thinking of getting one of those Barack Obey shirts, but eh it's too trendy and I think some people juss wear it only becasue he was a black canidate running for president and not even really know who he is. Ah yes, a fresh new face and a new change coming to America, I believe it-Yes, we can! Oh random note on this topic it was funny on election night how they showed Oprah leaning her chin on some random guy's shoulder crying. YOu wouldve thought for someone like her would've had front row seats.

SKOOL: I've been taking 2 online courses. I hate how with this stupid art class she wants to analyze and critical think errthang. Then she sends us all these articles on these different artists or on certain art topics and some of them are at least 3-4 pages long! Now the music class is pretty chill, the only assignments so far are taking these online quizzes each week. I can handle that, it's pretty easy. I realized it's easier to take care of the homework and stuff at work, cuz it's less distraction then when I'm at home. I feel like when I'm at home I can't get anything done cuz there's too many distractions. ANyway, I hope I do well in both classes I juss gotta make sure to complete errthang and not fall into getting lazy.

YOUTUBE: The most amazing things you can on this simple website. Yesterday I was watching this video from this kid who well had a passion for singing but juss didnt know the songs very well. I mean I thought I was horrrible singing this guy is really bad. Some of the comments people left we're real harsh like, 'listen to the effing song before you sing it.' or 'I think he has down syndrome.' I have to admit it is kinda funny when you first watch it but it makes me wonder if he's singing only for the attention or does he really juss not get it?! On a more positive note, Mike found this guy who is sick uke player who's been doing all these hip hop medleys. Failblog.org is a pretty cool site too if you want somethign to laugh too! ha

WIIFIT: For almost a week now I've had family come over and visit from the midwest. A lot of the stuff we have they dont have at their own home. Not that it's not big out there or anything, its juss stuff they dont they feel they dont need to get. Anyway, so we intro. them to the wiifit and maan they love that game. I started playing w/them the other day and I realized how beneficial the fit can be for me if I used it on a daily basis. Too bad there's too many good shows at night to start wiifiting errnite! hhahahaa

"I can put you in the log cabin somewhere in Aspen..." im done, im out God bless!

I Know Right?!

"Read some chapter of a devout book. It is very easy and most necessary, for just as you speak to God when at prayer, God speaks to you when you read..."

M.I.A.: All I want to do is...haha Im sure you can finish the lyric to the song. Sheesh it's been such a long time since I've blogged that I almost forgot how to! The entire month of October I didn't blog nor did I even read a blog! So here I am catching up on errone's blog and seeing whas new out there in the blog world. Man September 18th since my last entry, that's a fail on my part. Hmmm so whas new well for one I feel almost at peace, juss a few small things here and there but I guess I cant complain I got through a very busy month!

OKTOBERFEST: A week ago I was getting the stage ready for Passion, Leejay, and Gabe to go out and perform. Counting down to the final hours of Oktoberfest hoping that I'd be able to win something in the raffle the next day ha. ANyway, this year I ran entertainment again thinking that it would be chill easy as it has been the past couple of years. I think God knew that I was planning on making this my last year doing it so he decided to challenge me a little bit. And that he did alright, which probably why it made it so stressful at times. Praise God that he got me through it and praise God he sent me help. I gotta say I was able to do more things this year festival weekend then in the past thanks to some help. When I first was asked to chair it again this year they told me to put together a committee so I asked Joel to help and maan that guy is awesome. Despite his own busy and hectic schedule trying to balance life, he came through for me that weekend. Overall I think it went well there was a good mixture of entertainment and the meet in greet went well it wasnt as crazy as last year. However, afterwards the 'after party' at albertacos wasn't as crackin as I was hoping it would be. -_-

CONFIRMATION: God gave me a really good set of kids this year. There's this one kid who's reflections and responses inspire me. The theme I'm trying to implant into them this year is 'Imago Dei' being the image of God to others. One of the refelction questions Ive asked is how they can be a stain glass window for others to see and this is what he said...In order for me to shine my light to others I have to learn to be a good example as much as I can. This way people will see the example I'm leading and will say to themselves, "That's nice what he did, I should think about helping someone out today". Stained glass windows are made of different colored pieces of glass put together to make one big picture. This means that we all have different characteristics, but the only way we can be a stained glass window to others is when we show the better characteristics in us. We don't only help our family or relatives, we have to help complete strangers, if they need it, and also our friends and teachers because they're the ones that have the most respect for you. The urge to help others and be a good example to others is an easy thought, but really helping them and being the best you can be in front of them is the hard part about it. You don't have to do anything big either, one little thing can take something off the shoulders of someone, no matter how small. Also it might just be a nice thing to do and that feeling is the best to have.

WORK: Work at the elementary school as mos def. gotten easier. I thank God that first off that I have my job back and two that it's good paying job. So I guess God pulls you out of certain situations to put you in better ones. THe kid I work is freakin' cute he can be a handful and challenge but at the same time he makes me laugh. The first month was difficult for the both of us trying to adjust but now taht we have a sense of routine going it's the work day is so much smoother. For me, I'm still adjusting to the new skool site, working w/a completely different staff has been a transition. Supportive yes, but sometimes I dont get the type of response that I did at Danbrook. Hopefully things will get better later in the skool year. Oh yeah, the neighbors over there are real crazy!!!!! On Tuesday I had this guy follow me, trying to take a picture of my license plate only because I didnt make a complete stop at the stop sign. He literally followed me for a good 10 min!! What a freak! Who does that?! The kids are putting togeher a thanksgiving performance and one of the song is 'Colors of the Wind' from the movie Pochanatus. I got the coreo on lock! hahaha Oh yeah funny story this happened to me on halloween during recess. So for halloween I decided last minute to be 'Troy Bolton' from High School Musical. I thought it would be an easy and simple costume. This is wha happened at recess time with this enounter I had w/one of the first graders:

1st Grader: (Looks at my shirt trying to read what it says) Can I call you Jonathan?
Me: Umm no.
1st Grader: So what's your name?
Me: Mr. Fish
1st Grader: So can I juss call you 'Fish?'
Me: Uhh no, you can call me Mr. Fish though

haha inside my head I was laughing though how random is that! Later on he asks me, 'so are you suppose to be Zac Effron or something?' I said yes. hahahahaha oh man these kids crack me up!

SKOOL: I went back to skool this year to catch up on a couple of classses that I needed to transfer over. With my schedule being real crazy I decided to take the online classes, since I'm online all the time. Man its been difficult trying to get back into the routine again, especially doing homework! Oh why?! Good thing Im at a computer all afternoon at my other job otherwise I think I would've dropped the classes by now. The art one is crazy cuz the stupid instructor wants you to come up w/all these critical thinking type of responses to the different pieces of art work. Agh! Like I said good thing I have the other job where I can juss sit and take care of homework.

ELECTION: Ive been able to vote in the past 3 elections and this year's election feels like it has been the longest election year. I cant wait for Tuesday so it'll all be over already! No matter where you stand on the issues, its good to see that voter turn out, especially with young people has increased. They've really been pushing people to vote especially that 'don't vote' commercial. I hate how I hear the stupid vote no on prop 8 commercials all over the radio. In fact I've only heard of one 'vote yes' radio commercial and I haven't even seen any tv ads for it. The crazy thing is if it passes(hopefully it will) California is only going to have a bigger mess that it started with! There's going be lawsuits up the butt that the final decision will probably end up possibly at the US Supreme Court.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: The other day I went to go watch high school musical 3. It was a random decision but I didnt get the chance to watch it last weekend. ANyway, it was aiight, not the greatest one. Maybe cuz it was all hyped up cuz its suppose to be 'senior year' and cuz it's in the theatres this time. Personally, my favorite was part 2 cuz of the music and wha not. I wonder if they're going to make a part 4, I hope not it would get kinda lame if they did. Its like one of those movies where the story never ends. Besides those kids are getting too old it would be weird. Well I guess thas all for now oh yeah makeitclap will be turning 6 this year! wooo!

"Its like the catching lighting, the chance of finding someone like you..."im done, im out GOd bless!