The weather is so hot in Sacramento in the summer! AC has become my best friend :) Even though we've been in Sacramento for 2 years, I'm still trying to adjust to the over 100 degree weather. I'm not the only one, Oski thinks it's hot too. He used to love roaming in the backyard in the afternoons, but now as soon as I open the backdoor, he runs inside the house.
After hiding indoor in the AC rooms all summer, I decided to look for swimming pools in the area. I've found an outdoor pool that is 20 minutes away from the house. I've only gone there to swim twice this week, and I've already got tanned lines!
I start my first year of teaching next week. I don't know if I'm more excited or more nervous. I had a nightmare last night about my first day of school - All the handouts I had made were missing, and my students played tricks on me. The last thing I remember was students playing hide-and-seek in the classroom and hid in the lab drawers/closets! Sheesh, at least it was just a dream...
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Bday Celebration
Thanks to all of you that emailed, called, left messages, imed, and visited with birthday greetings! I felt very blessed :)
I went out with some of the Canaan gals for dinner last weekend to my favorite Taiwanese restaurant in the southbay (yum, shaved ice!). This past week, my inlaws drove up from LA to visit and took me out for my birthday. It was fun hanging out with my inlaws, we ate a lot. After they left on Thursday, I weighed myself and found out that I gained 2 lbs within 2 days of their visit!
After walking Oski on Friday morning, I found a sweet message on the answering machine from my parents. With the time difference, they must have waited until it was late enough to call in the morning. But I missed it by a couple of minutes. It was a cute message. In the afternoon, I got a surprise flower delivery sent from Eva. Well, I actually missed the delivery. My neighbor received the delivery for me and thought it was my anniversary. Anyways, it was still a pleasant surprise (thanks va!)
After Tomio came back from the hospital, he took me out to my favorite Italian restaurant in Berkeley for dinner. I was really touched because I could tell that Tomio was really tired from working all day with minimal sleep. And he still took the time and drove a long way to take me out. We also got a chance to drive by University Avenue and talked about how it has changed since we were in college.
If you ever go to Berkeley and feel like eating pasta, check out this place. It's a small family owned restaurant on College Avenue.
After dinner, we went to Fentons for dessert. We shared a huge toasted almond and vanilla ice cream covered with chocolate and caramel sauce and topped with almonds, whipped cream and a cherry. It was sooooooooo good.
I went out with some of the Canaan gals for dinner last weekend to my favorite Taiwanese restaurant in the southbay (yum, shaved ice!). This past week, my inlaws drove up from LA to visit and took me out for my birthday. It was fun hanging out with my inlaws, we ate a lot. After they left on Thursday, I weighed myself and found out that I gained 2 lbs within 2 days of their visit!
After walking Oski on Friday morning, I found a sweet message on the answering machine from my parents. With the time difference, they must have waited until it was late enough to call in the morning. But I missed it by a couple of minutes. It was a cute message. In the afternoon, I got a surprise flower delivery sent from Eva. Well, I actually missed the delivery. My neighbor received the delivery for me and thought it was my anniversary. Anyways, it was still a pleasant surprise (thanks va!)
After Tomio came back from the hospital, he took me out to my favorite Italian restaurant in Berkeley for dinner. I was really touched because I could tell that Tomio was really tired from working all day with minimal sleep. And he still took the time and drove a long way to take me out. We also got a chance to drive by University Avenue and talked about how it has changed since we were in college.
If you ever go to Berkeley and feel like eating pasta, check out this place. It's a small family owned restaurant on College Avenue.
After dinner, we went to Fentons for dessert. We shared a huge toasted almond and vanilla ice cream covered with chocolate and caramel sauce and topped with almonds, whipped cream and a cherry. It was sooooooooo good.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Vancouver
I spent almost a week in Vancouver attending ChemEd. ChemEd is a chemistry conference for educators that takes place once every two years. Teachers from over 50 countries attended the conference to exchange ideas. I attended over 15 seminars and visited many exhibits. Many presenters demonstrated their best chemistry demo and blew up lots of chemicals. There was even a mole breakfast and a mole run (6.02km run, get it?!) Even though I had a blast, I must say that parts of conference were way too nerdy for me, especially when the teachers started to sing "chemistry songs" about moles and avogadro's number.
My flight from SFO to Vancouver was a disaster. Thinking that Canada is outside of the United States, Tomio dropped me off at the international terminal. After waiting in the "Vancouver" line for over an hour, the flight attendant informed me that I might miss my flight because I was waiting at the wrong terminal. Apparently the line that was labelled "Vancouver" was for the morning flight. The flight attendant said the flight leaving in the morning to Vancouver is considered international, while the flight leaving in the afternoon to Vancouver is domestic. I didn't know that flight time determines whether or not a country is international or domestic... There was another guy that was on the same flight waiting in line at the international terminal (See, I wasn't the only one that didn't know), so we ended up running to the domestic terminal together. By the time we arrived at the terminal, they were calling for last boarding. Thankfully, we made our flight. I wonder how they define flights that leave in the morning and arrive in the afternoon?
Time flies, my summer vacation is almost over. There are only two more weeks left before school starts :(
My flight from SFO to Vancouver was a disaster. Thinking that Canada is outside of the United States, Tomio dropped me off at the international terminal. After waiting in the "Vancouver" line for over an hour, the flight attendant informed me that I might miss my flight because I was waiting at the wrong terminal. Apparently the line that was labelled "Vancouver" was for the morning flight. The flight attendant said the flight leaving in the morning to Vancouver is considered international, while the flight leaving in the afternoon to Vancouver is domestic. I didn't know that flight time determines whether or not a country is international or domestic... There was another guy that was on the same flight waiting in line at the international terminal (See, I wasn't the only one that didn't know), so we ended up running to the domestic terminal together. By the time we arrived at the terminal, they were calling for last boarding. Thankfully, we made our flight. I wonder how they define flights that leave in the morning and arrive in the afternoon?
Time flies, my summer vacation is almost over. There are only two more weeks left before school starts :(
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