Today’s the first day of classes.
I still can’t believe I’m here after how awesome the 2.5 weeks before I got back on campus were. It was the most relaxing 2.5 weeks I’ve had in a lonnggg time, and yet really productive…meaning I did everything. This calls for a list! Yayyy
In order of what comes to my head first (sort of)
1. I biked (to the library, Phillips middle school, to the library and through booker creek w/my dad)
2. went to the US national white water rafting development center in charlotte and in addition to WWR…
a. didn’t fall out of the boat...
i. carl did
3. I rock climbed…and made my forearms tight for the next two days
4. Completed a high ropes course…
a. Pretty sure it was b/c of this that I strained my lower back muscle
5. And thought I was going to die when I went down a zipline
6. Visited Louisa before she left for Belgium
7. Visited mary at UNC
a. Ate at jack sprat for the first time =)
8. Played tennis w/peter and Terrence at unc
9. Played ping pong w/jae and jimmy at unc
10. Had a free lunch @ Lenoir w/molly
11. Had lunch w/peter and Jessica
a. at panera…
b. And again the 2nd week, had an egg platter at the Ye Olde Waffle Shop
12. Watched jasmine win as east’s #1 tennis player…vs. rival chapel hill high
a. Thanks for not telling me about the game not being rained out vs. the good team…Jessica.
13. Visited jean
a. Ate at devil’s bistro à ran into joon à who went to central with me and saw the newspaper’s managing editor, toni, at the chronicle office, where she sat on a couch and talked to us but still managed to boss and direct 4 or more people around
14. Played cards --zhaopeng you!
15. Watched molly play soccer again at the unc club soccer game vs. ecu
a. Remembered that ecu is still really hick
b. Saw molly’s room…she has a slide from her bed!
i. Went down the slide while gripping her pillow…crashed into the bookcase 1 ft away from the bottom of the slide and bumped my head on the bottom of the chair of her roommate, katy perry.
16. Visited duke and saw jean and joon
a. Finally got to sit on the rocking boat chair thing
b. Saw toni for like a minute
17. Biked to Phillips and saw ms Campbell…
a. And Ms. Bryant! I didn’t know she still taught there
18. Had lunch w/lisa @ unc
19. Went on a walk w/Katie at duke
20. Bought the 4-pk of yogurt parfaits and yo crunch yogurt
a. Washed and saved the containers…
21. Read something borrowed by Emily giffen…
22. And then borrowed Something Blue the next day from toni
a. Which reminds me that I accidently made the cover of toni’s book blue with a big smudge of my thumbprint…SORRRY ><
23. Also read a Thousand Splendid Suns
a. I feel like I’m forgetting another book I read…
24. Bought two former nytimes #1 best sellers for $1 each at the library
25. Went to PF Chang’s with Toni’s family like old time’s
a. PF Chang’s was surprisingly yummy
b. Got free lettuce wraps b/c
26. Built the Titanic...which also crashed...
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can't you tell it's the titanic from the two towers?
27. Made dumplings w/my parents
28. Watched Salt (AWEESOMME movie btw) w/David and Sean when they came to my house
29. Skyped with Louisa in Belgium
a. And Jeremy in Germany
30. Got super hugs on my last day
31. Blogged
32. Got my retainer reglued to my bottom teeth
33. Watched movies
a. Too many to think of right now, I’m sure I left out a lot: Salt, Ratatouille (I really liked this movie!), Up (disappointed by this one), the kite runner (not sure how to feel about this movie), Michael clayton, half of the curious case of benjamin button (why did it have to be so loonnng, I want to finish it), body of lies (pretty cool movie)
34. Watched the US Open at Jessica’s
35. Watched some tv
a. Simpsons! Friends! ANTM hahah
b. Does it count if I streamed the season finale of monk at school, but before classes started?
36. Ate yellow peaches. FINALLY!!
a. I think I averaged 5-7 a day depending on how big the peach was. Mmmmm peaches
37. Had tons of grapes and watermelon!
38. Ate yummy vegetable dumplings
39. Ate many lobster tails…as in I had mine and most of my mom’s and dad’s, and even a bite of victor’s
40. Ate seafood pan fried noodles at HK restaurant
41. Ate couscous and realized it tastes better than my 6th grade memory of it
42. Balled at the community center
a. 1st week home, played full court pickup on Wed at 7 – 830 AM; Friday from 620-8 AM; 2nd week: Wednesday from 620-8 AM.
i. I’ve never been so glad to be jetlagged
43. Stared at the BLUE SKIES EVERY DAY
44. Enjoyed the dry heat and how a “bad” weather day was better than average in Beijing
45. Did I mention the deep Carolina blue skies?
46. Baked peanut butter butterscotch cookies…but cutting the sugar in half and accidently putting in half a stick too much butter made me make the crumbiest cookies I’ve ever made. Literally and taste wise, as in they were probly the worst cookies I’ve ever made. One touch and they’d fall apart and the cookie part wasn’t sweet at all, it only had a light taste of sweet…so pretty much my “cookie” became crumbs and butterscotch chips covered with cookie crumbs. Haha since I just got back from china tho, I liked them because they weren’t too sweet.
47. …and white chocolate blueberry bars
48. And peanut butter nutella cookies…
49. And Oreo brownies…
50. AND Raspberry Tiramisu cupcakes with two of my oldest and best friends. Although it took us three hours…by us I mean me and toni, because Jessica came, left, and came back to eat the food from my house and not help hahah. Look at how complicated the recipe was!
a. Discovered that the little yogurt containers I saved are PERFECT cupcake holders! =D
This is what we baked:
Well, attempted to bake at least.
This is how ours turned out:
Check out the cup cake holders!
Yay for reusing!
Quotes after tasting the cupcake: "I want 400."..."Those cupcakes are sooo freakin amazing!!"
Maybe I'll just open a bakery after I fail this semester.
Wow, you still have time to write your long blog.
ReplyDeleteThe cupcake has used the most expensive material, two top college students for 2.5hrs, made 15 cupcakes. When you have money to open a bakery store, I will help you to bake something to increase your production. Yogurt cut reuse is good.
To be more precise, you have ate more than 40 pounds yellow peaches.
Blueberry bar looks very good and taste very good, it is better to eat when it is warm.
To be sucessful, you have to believe yourself and have the commitment.