While I could not hold up my promise to myself not to eat delicious pizza at 2 in the morning, I could hold up my promise to myself to finish my homework before updating my blog. In case any one was counting, yes, it took me all weekend to do my homework (and I'm not saying that to complain, I'm simply pointing out the inevitable - that I am a lazy lady).
The highlight of my week had to be receiving not one but two care packages in the mail. One I got from my good friend Leanna, she sent me some make up I ordered and lots of fun things including a very sweet post it wishing me luck on my first semester. The second was a BIG box from none other than the wonderful Alissa~ she sent me many great things from Trader Joe's (somehow we always ended up talking about how I need to try more things from Trader Joe's, which resulted in her just giving me Trader Joe's items one night at a party at her house lol) to make pad thai and stir fry, fabulous white chai candles, more soap (and I was running out of the Honey I Washed the Kids soap from Lush - she can read my mind!), and the cutest of cards along with an assortment of tootsie rolls. Needless to say, I am quite the content bean, enjoying her General Tsao.
The rest of the week honestly went by so quickly, I was rather surprised. It's only the second week of the semester and things are surely starting to pick up in my studies. In fact, they were picking up so much in my Japanese class I had to pay a visit to my advisor this week to talk about completing the courses for my major.
It got me thinking about what in the world I plan on doing with my degree in Japanese? At this point, I'm thinking like a freshman girl, I just want to go to Japan and offer my time, talent, and treasure to help people, in any way that I can. But I will not deny that I am also very passionate about music. I can see these two things working well together, but neither of them paying bills.
Back in high school I had a good friend who told me, "I want to be a music major, but I'll just be poor and stupid in the end, so I'm going to study computers." I thought she was silly to give up on her passion so quickly, and now I'm finding that I'm in a similar train of thought. Now, let's not forget, a Japanese major can take a person far, especially in today's world, and for now that's good enough for me. My ideal career as of right now, would be a full time volunteer, musician, maybe I'll get an office job.
As long as I can go back to Japan, home.
Today was grand, as most Sundays are here in San Francisco. I'm starting to find that while I am enjoying my classes as thoroughly as possible, church is probably the one thing I look forward to most in my week. Being at church, and with Jesus, is definitely one of those things that when I can only go once a week, or no more than three times a week (including Bible studies), I realize just how much I've taken it for granted. It's always encouraging and uplifting to be with the family of God and to pray and learn each week. I love it.
I'm also happy to have so many friends to go to church with and to talk about the Bible with as well. This week I was accompanied by a big group of City Cru kids, and we all jumped on the train to Reality. After the service I was able to enjoy lunch with a girl named Emily who I met in my freshman girls Bible study group. She had found a place that honestly felt tucked away called Dolores Park. Just a few blocks off of Market St, right across from the International High School of San Francisco, there's this lovely park, a pair of green hills with tennis courts next to them and trees dotted around. Since it was a beautiful sunny day (and warmer than usual, a stunning 77 degrees), there were masses of people out enjoying picnics and taking in the warmth.
Emily and I found sandwiches at the Dolores Park Cafe just across the street from the lovely green site. The shop is small, but busy and full to capacity in the afternoons. To me, it resembled a kind of South Coast Deli, similar vibe and all. I enjoyed a turkey sandwich with swiss cheese and so many other ingredients it was hard to tell what was what, but it was nothing short of delicious. We both had lemonades, fresh squeezed and absolutely perfect for the weather.
And then after taking the fun, fun M-line train home, it was time to get to that essay. Essay? What Essay? Oh right, the essay I'd been putting off since Friday. I'll just leave it at that.
The highlight of my week had to be receiving not one but two care packages in the mail. One I got from my good friend Leanna, she sent me some make up I ordered and lots of fun things including a very sweet post it wishing me luck on my first semester. The second was a BIG box from none other than the wonderful Alissa~ she sent me many great things from Trader Joe's (somehow we always ended up talking about how I need to try more things from Trader Joe's, which resulted in her just giving me Trader Joe's items one night at a party at her house lol) to make pad thai and stir fry, fabulous white chai candles, more soap (and I was running out of the Honey I Washed the Kids soap from Lush - she can read my mind!), and the cutest of cards along with an assortment of tootsie rolls. Needless to say, I am quite the content bean, enjoying her General Tsao.
The rest of the week honestly went by so quickly, I was rather surprised. It's only the second week of the semester and things are surely starting to pick up in my studies. In fact, they were picking up so much in my Japanese class I had to pay a visit to my advisor this week to talk about completing the courses for my major.
It got me thinking about what in the world I plan on doing with my degree in Japanese? At this point, I'm thinking like a freshman girl, I just want to go to Japan and offer my time, talent, and treasure to help people, in any way that I can. But I will not deny that I am also very passionate about music. I can see these two things working well together, but neither of them paying bills.
Back in high school I had a good friend who told me, "I want to be a music major, but I'll just be poor and stupid in the end, so I'm going to study computers." I thought she was silly to give up on her passion so quickly, and now I'm finding that I'm in a similar train of thought. Now, let's not forget, a Japanese major can take a person far, especially in today's world, and for now that's good enough for me. My ideal career as of right now, would be a full time volunteer, musician, maybe I'll get an office job.
As long as I can go back to Japan, home.
Today was grand, as most Sundays are here in San Francisco. I'm starting to find that while I am enjoying my classes as thoroughly as possible, church is probably the one thing I look forward to most in my week. Being at church, and with Jesus, is definitely one of those things that when I can only go once a week, or no more than three times a week (including Bible studies), I realize just how much I've taken it for granted. It's always encouraging and uplifting to be with the family of God and to pray and learn each week. I love it.
I'm also happy to have so many friends to go to church with and to talk about the Bible with as well. This week I was accompanied by a big group of City Cru kids, and we all jumped on the train to Reality. After the service I was able to enjoy lunch with a girl named Emily who I met in my freshman girls Bible study group. She had found a place that honestly felt tucked away called Dolores Park. Just a few blocks off of Market St, right across from the International High School of San Francisco, there's this lovely park, a pair of green hills with tennis courts next to them and trees dotted around. Since it was a beautiful sunny day (and warmer than usual, a stunning 77 degrees), there were masses of people out enjoying picnics and taking in the warmth.
Emily and I found sandwiches at the Dolores Park Cafe just across the street from the lovely green site. The shop is small, but busy and full to capacity in the afternoons. To me, it resembled a kind of South Coast Deli, similar vibe and all. I enjoyed a turkey sandwich with swiss cheese and so many other ingredients it was hard to tell what was what, but it was nothing short of delicious. We both had lemonades, fresh squeezed and absolutely perfect for the weather.
And then after taking the fun, fun M-line train home, it was time to get to that essay. Essay? What Essay? Oh right, the essay I'd been putting off since Friday. I'll just leave it at that.
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