June 2011
1 post
1051200 Minutes (while I'm stuck in this airport)
Really though. How do you measure 2 years? Here are some random highlights in no particular order.
- Apple picking for the first time.
- Fame
- Phantom of the Opera
- Wait, you mean there’s no walls separating our classrooms?
- Checkpoints
- Disney on Ice
- “Shut Up!” Arnel.
- 2011
- Eviction
- Wait, why did I leave SoCal?
- FASAmilia
- The Lions meeting was cancelled? I’m treasurer?...
March 2011
3 posts
my heart and prayers... →
February 2011
4 posts
“I did not fight with the thought of becoming a hero – I just did what I was...”
– Faustino “Peping” Baclig, Filipino World War II Veteran 1922-2011
Rest in Peace Manong Peping. What a loss for the Pilipino community. Yet another reminder though that we are part of a greater movement, fighting not just for ourselves and for now, but for those who came before us and those who will...
I'm sure someone's got to have asked this...
As I’ve been reading, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” and concluding my last couple months here in Las Vegas, I’ve been thinking about the purpose of and need for ethnic studies.
Although I cannot claim to fully understand it, nor do I consider myself adequately immersed in it, I do know that Las Vegas is a very interesting/unique community. While there are always...
Sometimes...
I wish I had gone with my 12 year old ambitions of working to become a Laker Girl.
But really, sitting here in the airport to fly to DC - it’s amazing how our dreams change as we learn more about the world and ourselves.
December 2010
1 post
This may be morbid, but...
I’m in Simi Valley for a funeral. I can’t even remember how many funerals I have been to…I think this is my 8th? Maybe 9th?
Anyway, I’ve come up with some plans for my own final bash:
1) No regret. They people coming can’t feel any regrets. I’m just saying…in the off chance that we had a fight, or for some reason one couldn’t make it to the...
November 2010
1 post
Note to LA
I may have just voted as a Nevadan, but I’m about to (potentially) spend 3 weekends in November in LA.
Cray cray.
August 2010
8 posts
Day Eleven: A Letter to Someone Deceased
I know this is cheating, but I saw that tomorrow is supposed to be a letter to someone who is deceased, and in light of recent events…well, this is where I’m at right now. I’ll do day 10 tomorrow.
Dear Matt,
You left us way too, soon, but I’m pretty sure you didn’t plan that. How could you have? It was the freak kind of thing that only happened on dramas like...
Day 9 - A Letter to Someone you Want to Meet
I can’t think of anyone I really want to meet right now…except for a friend in Vegas that I can kick it with and with whom I can have random conversations at a coffee shop, so here it goes.
Dear future Vegas Friend,
I’m sad that I’ve lived in Vegas for over a year and haven’t met you yet. It’s been pretty lonely. Sure I had fellow teacher friends here, but...
Day 8 - A Letter to Your Favorite Internet Friend
To all the friends that I hit up on g chat/all the friends that hit me up on gchat:
I’m sorry that I randomly stop responding without any warning. I might try to work on that but I figure it’s important, you can call me or I can call you. Because we’re friends in real life. And I’d like to keep things that way - you know, where my internet friends are my friends in real...
Day 6 - A Letter to a Stranger & Day 7 - A Letter...
Ok, so I didn’t get a chance to post last night and I know I’m cheating just a little, but I don’t have any exi-es so I’m combining Day 6 and Day 7.
Dear Stranger,
My parents taught me to avoid you. But now you are everywhere. I listened to my parents growing up, but now I know that I should open up, at least a little. You’ll always be a stranger unless one of us...
Day 4 - A letter to your sibling
Dear Little Brudder,
I’m sorry I call you stupid when we fight and that sometimes you take it seriously. I know you’re not supposed to name call when fighting. That’s probably one of the rules I break most often.
I wish we talked more about everything, and I’m sorry if I haven’t looked out for you as much as I should have. I really do love you and often feel...
Day 3 - A Letter to your Parents
Today, one of my students said, “I’m scared of the police. They look scary.” I’m 17 years older than this students and I still think that.
Mom and Pops,
I can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of fear (or at least I would be hella afraid) that you both dealt with on a daily basis. The fear you felt during martial law, the fear you felt when you first came...
Day 2 - A Letter to your Crush
So I don’t have any “main crush” right now, no person/people I’m actively pursuing. But I do have random people I find attractive and admire from afar, like Victor Kim (look him up on youtube!), the musicians that perform at Soulful Monday at the Olive, and others. Thus, this will be a collective letter to the folks that make me swoon.
Dear Wonderful People,
Thank you...
Day 1 — Your Best Friend
So I don’t really have a “best friend.” No man/womyn is an island, but I think I would consider myself a peninsula - I’ve got my space but I’m always connected to/supported by amazing people.
So this letter goes out to the friends that I consider family. I miss you more than you know. And I know I say I miss you a lot, but really what I mean to say is that without...
July 2010
2 posts
I need to get into Vegas....
I’ve been living here for practically a year, but I’ve been on survival mode as a first year teacher for almost all of that. It’s been really hard to hang. There have definitely been some fun times with my friends, and my students are all amazing. I love them with all my heart. I never thought it would be possible for me to look at a group of children without being completely...
Personality Test →
Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are not looking merely for a girl/boyfriend - you are looking for your life partner....
June 2010
1 post
June = Crazy effin' month
If you will be in the same city as me at any point, please hit me up because this ish is going to be insane/tiring/awesome/exhausting….
June 3 = Last day of school at Cecile Walnut (Las Vegas)
June 4 = Family Fun Day for all our students
June 5 - June 6 = San Diego for the weekend
June 7 = begin work at a new center (and so not ready for it..I feel bad for my kids who will have a...
March 2010
1 post
Tentative Spring Break Plans (Mar 27- Apr 3)
and by plans, I mean food I want to eat…hit me up if you are free and can join in on the festivities! I miss everyone.
Saturday: arrive in SD at approx. 8 pm
Sushi Deli
Gaslamp, Dave & Busters or some dive bar in the late PM
Sunday:
Breakfast: OHOP
Lunch: Crab Hut followed by TapEx and/or Yogurt World
Fusion?
Dinner with the Family + Starbucks + Scrabble
Extraordinary...
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
Well, that was different..Today,
- 1 of my students called me mommy. Then the rest of my AM class thought it would be a great idea to call me mommy for the next 3 or so minutes.
- There was a giant spider on the ceiling that one of my students pointed out to me, which then freaked out the whole class and their arachnophobic (if that’s even a word) teacher (aka me!). We then had to evacuate the room so that they could bug...
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
5 posts
to being "pushcart educators..." →
“…you are the change that you dream as I am the change that I dream and collectively we are the change that this world needs to be.”
question to self: Am I actualizing the change that I dream?
“The easiest way you can contribute to the death of education is to be complacent...”
– Layhannara Tep (via rrrogerthattt) (via jastengco)
Long Overdue
I acquire online journals/blogs like I do the paper kind. I get one because I finally commit myself to documenting my thoughts and my life so that one day I or my progeny can read through my incoherent mind and my not so extraordinary ridiculous life. With each new journal, I break ground on a new start, a new phase or a new mindset. But with the fading of the newness comes the fading of my...