February. P.S this is sad so don’t read it unless you want to be sad.

I’VE MISSED BLOGGING SOOO MUCH!!! I’ve just been really bad at balancing out my life and February happened to be the busiest time of my life I had a lot on my plate for a while, but now I can finally breathe and do the things I haven’t been doing during February 🙂 I’ll just update you the misery I went through last month. I don’t know why February was such a living hell for me.

During the first week of February, I could have sworn I had an appendicitis that was ready to burst. I don’t even know how to describe the location of where my pain was exactly because I could barely remember it now. People just kept telling me they’re PMS cramps, but I’ve never experienced cramps where they would last over night for a week. The pain was gone after a week, but for that whole week I kept screaming, “MY OVARIES,” whenever people would make me run or laugh. One of the worst pains I’ve ever experience and then my period came.

After my period was done, I experienced AN EVEN MORE DREADFUL PAIN. I got sick. SUPER SICK. Man I was having the worst luck during that whole month of February. It was like problem after problem for me. I took care of my sick brother one night and then two days later, I was coughing like crazy. My coughs weren’t the type of coughs where you just needed a cough drop, they were the type of coughs where my throat and chest would start burning and aching. I went on like that for two weeks because my mom wasn’t able to fit in any time for me to go to the doctors. It was awful.

I had hell week for Hairspray around the time I was getting horribly sick. I’d stayed at rehearsals until 10 working my butt off while I was in so much pain. I didn’t want to take any days off or miss rehearsals. I’d cry going home from rehearsals because my voice would crack when I sang and I was just really scared of performing on stage while being in that condition. Those two weeks were a pain, but I’m actually proud of myself when I look back at that. I stayed committed to going to school and staying late for rehearsals even when I felt like I could barely make it through the day with my sickness.

I eventually went to the doctors and was prescribed to all of these. 

I didn’t think it was that serious, but they drugged me up and I got better by the time we were performing the last two show nights for Hairspray. For those first three nights we performed and the day I had to speak on Fox40, I was still extremely sick and some nights I’d accidentally cough my life away even when I was on stage. I still did it. I also lost 6lbs so bonuuus. LOL Just kidding.

I don’t really want to get into too much details of how bad February was for me. I’m not a big fan of making sad blog posts, but I just wanted to let you know, this is the reason why I never blogged during February. I just wasn’t happy. I was abandoning my homework, social life, Giant Step, and health. I only have myself to blame for that because I didn’t know how to balance out my life with rehearsals. My next blog post will be up soon and hopefully this is the only sad blog post I ever make. I didn’t blog in March either because I was still busy, but happy. Here’s your update and stay tune for happy stuff!

January 2015

I haven’t blogged in so long and I feel super bad 😦 I guess I just didn’t make the time to either because I was too busy or lazy. I might as well just write about what happened this whole entire month LOL. I can honestly say I’ve had a productive month. By the way, my vlog should be uploaded on January 31st hopefully if I find a better video editor than windows movie maker because windows movie maker is seriously not the business.

In the beginning of the month, Elijah and I adopted some kids! 😀 Basically in first period drama, the old kids who were in drama 3-4 before adopt the new kids who enter the class this term so they could follow us like a little shadow and learn what to do in the class from us 🙂 Our son looks just like him! Our children’s name are Karissa and Bryan ❤

Here’s our family picture 😀 Yeah, we’re a pretty big family. Our daughter is next to Elijah and you could probably spot who our son is.

Another thing that happened in the beginning of the month was that both of the leadership classes got a chance to go to winter camp!!! I finally touched snow for the first time too! I actually was going to do a separate vlog for camp, but like windows movie maker sucks and everyone who’s waiting on it needs to be patient please You’ll see what went on during camp when I have the video ready 🙂

This was a group picture Max took, but it came out blurry 😦 IT’S STILL CUTE THOUGH!

This was our funny one 😀

I’ve also been busy with rehearsals for our upcoming musical Hairspray!!!

I can’t really talk about rehearsals until after the show is done because we were told to not post anything about the rehearsals on social media so I guess I can talk about it when the show is over 🙂 But yeah come through!

I love getting back to dancing and hopefully I get involved with Sariwa again because it be nice to work and improve on the way I dance.

My delta class finally started too and it feels great to be back in Hanna’s class. I love English and it’s most definitely my favorite subject,

I never really got a chance to talk about my schedule so might as well talk about it now.

The classes are somewhat in order, but I’ll just explain it.
1st: Drama
2nd: Stugo
3rd: English 1A(Mon, Wed, Fri) / TA for Grandpa Areida (Tues/Thurs)
4th: U.S. History
I also have both lunches!!! 😀

I was going to challenge myself this year by taking APUSH, but the class wasn’t offered during 4th period. I didn’t mind though. I like my classes and schedule 🙂 I’ve managed to keep getting straight A’s ever since the day I’ve received straight A’s for the first time 😀 I’m pretty proud of myself for that.

I took my SATs for the first time today and it wasn’t as bad as I imagined it to be. I’m not expecting such a great score either considering I didn’t study. I just took the test for the experience so I have an understanding of what it’s going to be like next time when I take it seriously. For the nest one, I really need to get out of my seat once to stretch or something because my body was aching after just sitting there for like almost 6 hours. I wasn’t even tired afterwards surprisingly. When the test was over, I treated myself to some miso soup to reward myself and my aunt and older brother took me out for some chinese food 🙂  Today was an overall great day.

Okay here’s your update and I’ll post another blog post about winterfest week tomorrow for sure for sure. Yeah this blog was kind of lame, it’s not as happy and extremely joyful as the others, but you have to remember I woke up real early today just to go test for 6 hours and I STILL HAVEN’T HAD A NAP YET FOR SOME REASON. Probably because I’m just attempting to fix my sleeping schedule. Just to let you know, the reason why I blog is to remind myself of the happier things in life. Like I could have had a bad day or week, but if I were to blog weekly about the great things that had happened in the week then my life wouldn’t be so sucky or horrible. That’s how I like to think when I blog about my life.

I apologize in advance if there were any typos. Anyways, Happy Saturday! ❤

New Year, New Mindset and Goals.

I hope you guys like my new background!!!! 😀 “New year, new me.” LOL no. I don’t really like changing or becoming a whole brand new person, but I do like setting new goals for myself. I feel like when you have goals set for yourself, you have a purpose in life. At least that’s how I feel. I guess that’s how I make my life interesting even though that sounds kinda lame.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This blog post will just be a quick update of what’s happening with my life.

• Going to Winter Camp with Leadership Jan 9th to 11th
• Auditioning as an ensemble for Hairspray this Thursday
• VLOGGGGGINNNGGGGG!!!!
• Posting a blog post every Sunday ❤

Now I could start with the goals for 2015

• Receive straight A’s for the rest of high school
• Better time management / Learn to do homework RIGHT AFTER SCHOOL
• Vlog monthly
• Socialize
• Commit to blogging weekly
• Commit to reading a new book once a month
• Eat breakfast daily
• Get my life together lol

What I mean by getting my life together is like having a healthier lifestyle (such as cleaning the house more often, going on walks daily if possible, eating fast foods/chips rarely, drinking water as often as possible, or doing small cardio whenever I have time), ACTUALLY STUDYING, being motivated, less naps, and determining what I have my mind set on for the future. I think I have some of my future figured out, but in reality I always question myself on it. I don’t know I’ll get back on that. But yeah! I’LL POST A BLOG THIS SUNDAY ON CAMP AND I’LL BE POSTING A VLOG ON JAN.31ST OR FEB. 1ST!!! YAAAY SUPER EXCITED ❤ 😀

P.S. my blog looks better on the computer than on mobile 😦

Community Service Pt. 1

Last weekend on November 15th and 16th, my weekend consisted of community service. I love doing community service because giving back to the community makes me happy. Another reason is because I’m Buddhist and Buddhist people do things like give service or help out in general. Well, I’m not sure if that’s right, but I believe I’ve heard that from somewhere. I’m going to separate this into two parts because I have a lot to say about what happened during the weekend.

On November 15th from 8 A.M. to 2 P.M. , I volunteered with the CSF club to attend the Sharing and Caring Coat Drive at the Stockton Arena. I woke up around 6:30 A.M. to get ready and got picked up at 7:30 A.M. to head over there. When we first arrived, we had to hang all the donated coats onto hangers, put the blankets in an organized area, and organize the new socks in order by size. I took care of the coats with a certain amount of people and when we ran out of hangers, we stacked the coats by size on the table.  My group and I were in charged of the boys’ section for their coats.

There were many more coats than this.

This coat was really expensive and new!

Look at the price tag!

It made me really happy to see the little kids find what they wanted because they had genuine smiles and who doesn’t enjoy seeing the pure happiness coming from a little kid? Not many families can go out to afford new clothing for themselves or for their children and to know that we have organizations like this to help truly makes me happy. To know that I could help too makes me even happier.

Look at how adorable he is!

These kids are too precious!

There were many coats and I thought it would be enough for everybody, but I thought wrong. When people began to not find what they needed, I felt really bad because those who came early found what they needed and those who didn’t couldn’t get what they need.. Overall, we did a good job at doing the work that needed to be done.

Afterwards, they fed us with Whirlows food for lunch and I forgot to take a picture lol. It was a chicken sandwich with salad and a cookie. Then we began to pack everything left into bags and that was probably the end of everything.

This event was lots of fun and I’m so grateful to have been apart of it.

The Lulac Conference Pt. 3

I swear I had a lot to say about my life,  but in reality my life seems to be so boring and plain. The only thing I remember that I had to talk about was the Lulac Conference at Delta. Delta is actually a great community college now that I’ve gotten a better look at it. I would suggest for anyone, who doesn’t have a lot of money to afford to attend a CSU or UC, to go there instead because it may seem to be a waste of time to some people, but it really isn’t. Especially if you didn’t do well in high school to impress CSU or UC, you can make it up at Delta because when you transfer out from Delta to a CSU or UC they only look at the transcript from Delta and not from when you were in high school. That’s just a little heads up for people who didn’t know that. Delta isn’t bad as it seems to people who don’t even go there or know anything about it. I find it funny that people want to brag about attending a CSU or UC and then eventually become in debt because of it.

The Lulac Conference was basically about information for college and getting into workshops that you found an interest in. I went into the theater workshop and everything about the workshop was amazing to me. The more I got into it, the more I could see myself becoming a theater major. We saw the scene shop, the costume room, the makeup room, and what the stage was like behind the curtains. The way I’m explaining it doesn’t sound so amazing, but if I had pictures to show what I saw, I think you’d understand why we were so amazed.  We were suppose to go to this forum about saving money for college, but my group honestly skipped it and just sat down for a while until it was time to go.

I really want a camera so I can start vlogging and so I can start having better pictures for my blog. Sometimes I forget to take pictures for you guys to look at because I’m so caught up in the moment that I don’t even want to take out my phone just for a quick picture. All of the pictures I take are taken from my phone and it’s honestly not that great. I don’t have many pictures from this so I’ll just post two.

I caught my friend off guard LOL. This was us in the makeup room.

I ran into my cousin Vanessa at Delta!!

This post is really late and it wasn’t as interesting as my other ones.. It must be because I’m really tired and I just want to post something for the part 3 that I promised on. Okay I’ll begin a new one asap and it’ll be post by tomorrow about what I did during the weekend before this week. Thanks for reading ❤

A Late Post about My Sweet 16. Pt 1

I haven’t been updating my blog lately and I kinda regret not making the time to every week so sorry about that for those who read my blog -sad face emoji- but I do have a lot to write about because I feel like a bunch of things have occurred since the last time I wrote. c: I’ll just make this post like a “part 1” type of thing and complete another blog post either Friday or during our four day week. Be ready for 2 more upcoming posts!!

These are my friends who attended my birthday 😀

For my birthday, I did have a mini sweet 16 and it was more fun that I thought it would be! I’m not good with hosting parties because I just enjoy kickbacks with a group of people, eating food, and watching movies which is why the party was kinda awkward in the beginning somewhat, but eventually everyone got comfortable with each other and it was super fun! I got a lot of money and a few gifts and like the spender that I am, all of that money went down the drain lol. I spent that money on clothes, shoes, and on my friends because if I had a bunch of money to splurge, I’d definitely spend it on my friends. I like the thought of making memories more than worrying about how much money I’m going to have left in my life. That’s going to be bad for me in college too. I’m going to learn how to save money when I get a job this year. Hopefully I do this year.

Urban Decay’s Naked 2 Pallet.

I’m going to tell a small story about this gift because I think it’s pretty special to me. This is the Urban Decay Naked 2 makeup pallet that my best friend Daniel got for me! During the summer of this year, we hung out at the mall once and I was giving him makeup tutorials in the Sephora section in JCPenny. I was telling him about how much girls love getting this pallet because of how pretty the eye shadows are and how much money they’re willing to spend just for pretty colors. The pallet was about $50 and he was pretty shocked to see how pricey makeup can be. I thought he was joking about getting me the pallet for my birthday considering that during that time my birthday was going to be 4 moths later and he’s super forgetful. He was able to surprise me and get this gift and I cherish this little makeup pallet so much because of how thoughtful he was to actually remember the fact that all girls love this.

Yeah this is just my part 1 post to update a small part of what has been going on in my life. I can’t wait for you guys to read about part 2 and part 3! -Big smiley face emoji-

My Birthday and Week was Great!

Finally, I’m officially sixteen years old since Wednesday!!! I finally have more advantages of getting a job now because I’ve been dying to get one since last year. I’m not trying to worry so much about a job yet because I honestly have more things on my mind to get done as of right now instead. For my birthday, I went to school, rehearsals, and went home. It felt like a regular day in my opinion, but that doesn’t bother me because I was completely fine with that and I’m not the type to expect so much. The only thing different was the small gifts I received and having people come up to me wishing me a happy birthday. That made me really happy because it was so sweet of everyone to come up to me and wish me a happy birthday! I had a very exhausting day for some reason too. When I came home, I went straight to sleep. It was a good day overall though and I had a wonderful birthday. (:

Castanon happens to be my birthday twin!!! He’s finally 21 and I’m finally 6 😀

This was super sweet of student government to do c: I love my poster and I loved how they sang really off to me.

On Monday, I got an early gift from my Giant Step Youth Group and they gave me cupcakessss! They were delicious and I was super happy c:

Yeah I had a really awesome sweet 16 because everyone definitely made it sweet for (:

Other than that, my week happen to be really great and tiring again like always. On Monday, I had a blast with my youth group. On Tuesday, I went to delta and passed the test I took! On Wednesday, I had a great birthday. And today was half day.

Today after school, me and a few of my friends went straight to the mall to go see the new store in the mall called H&M. It was disappointing to us. I mean everything is so nice and big, but I think our only problem had to be the fact that it was crowded and too overwhelming. Since it’s opening day today, of course it would be pack but we also couldn’t find anything really appealing to us. I’ll look more into the store when I have money to spend. We ended up walking to Buffalo Wild Wings to eat some comfort food. We bonded and shared secrets and then headed to target to try on some ridiculous costumes and play hide and seek. LOL. I love my friends. Then we had rehearsals and college night to attend so it was really fun today! I’m living a happy life (

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My friends are awesome. -puts heart emoji-

School always keeps me busy.

I don’t know when there’s a day that I’m not busy with school. Honestly, it makes me happy that I’m always involved with something because I’m just that type of person who likes to do the most. I’m always out trying to find community service opportunities, events at school and in the community, and things to get done for my grades. Which reminds me that I need to go on this one website to find upcoming events for this month or next month that Interact Cub can go volunteer at. I’m vice president for Interact Club and it’s basically just a club ran by Rotarians where we go out to do a bunch of community service. We have upcoming community service events every week for this month so if anyone attending Chavez would like to get some community service hours, make sure to come to D202 for quick meetings after school on Tuesdays.

I’m also busy with drama for this whole entire month since our upcoming show is October 23rd, 24th, and 25th. It’s called, “One of Our Clowns is Missing.” The genre is comedy and drama and to me, I think it’s more funny than dramatic. When we talk about something dramatic, I think about A Piece of My Heart all over again. That play was too intense, but worth it. The show this time seems a lot shorter and I don’t  have many lines as the last one. The last one I had over 200 lines and for this show I only have 35 lines. I’m so thankful that this show isn’t going to get me emotionally drained. I’m in charge of publicity and I need to make a due date of when I’m going to get that poster done. I mean it when I say I’m a true procrastinator. I really tried to make a list of how to manage my time wisely today and for some reason my day never goes as planned.

The number on the dates for October show how late we’re going to stay after school until the show starts.

Here’s the script for our upcoming show.

Since I’m involved with journalism too, volleyball, kilusan, and pancake breakfast are a must to attend for my grades. I love being a part of journalism because it gives me a chance to enjoy writing as a hobby and the work I put into for this hobby gets graded on too. I may slack off, but I’m really trying to pick myself back up to get my life together. I have to attend volleyball games to find out what the scores are and I have to attend kilusan and pancake breakfast for pictures and to write my story on pancake breakfast, It was my first time publishing something into the news article that’s coming out tomorrow I believe and I feel so embarrassed that I caught an error in what I published. It’s okay I learned my lesson.

I really appreciate all of the people who follow and read my blog. It means so much to me c:

This week is going to be exciting!

I think that Chavez’s spirit is going pretty good this week considering how fun this spirit week is! I don’t understand people who say they don’t have anything to wear for this spirit week because I’m pretty sure you can go to the thrift store and find something. I love how the buildings are decorated, I’ll walk by A-Building and think about how amazing everything looks. I’m not so sure of what to wear for Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I’m most likely going to dress up as Hillary considering that I can borrow stuff from my mom for that.

The building that the Juniors did was E-Building and I think it looks amazing! Especially the huge brick wall that has “Class of 2016” tagged on it. People are really trying to dress up this year even if it’s not that noticeable at least they’re still trying. Hearing the music from our spirit weeks is nice to hear as we walk by the buildings to our classes. I remember in my freshmen year, the homecoming theme was Disney and everyone was so cute that year! The Disney music was on point and seeing people dressed up made me happy. I wasn’t in student government that year, but man I wish I took advantage of all of the fun stuff that we did freshman year. Hopefully we do something Disney related again,

This is what I wore for Grease day and this is also the amazing brick wall that c/o 2016 did!

Anyways, I’m rambling a lot but I usually do this when I’m really happy.This week is a new week and I’m just trying to be a positive person when it comes to anything headed towards me. My weekend was pretty bad because of an incident that happened, but lets focus on the goods instead of the bads. On Saturday, I went to a leadership conference with my officers from Interact Club. We headed to Modesto to meet up with other Interact officers from different schools. We got a chance to meet new people and brain storm some community service ideas for our club. I had a lot of fun being there and hearing everyone’s ideas. On Sunday, I went to West Lane Bowl to spend time with my uncle and siblings. I use to think bowling was really hard, but I was better than I expected! LOL.

The banner we received from the leadership conference for our Interact Club.

I can’t wait for Friday. We have a Morning Madness Rally, throwdown, and the homecoming football game all in one day! I’m going to be extremely exhausted considering that I have to be at school by 5:30 AM and leave school at 11:00 PM. It’s going to be a long tiring, but fun day for me. I’m not really stressed anymore from planning out this rally. I’m basically done with everything now. I’m starting to learn how to manage time wisely. I got a lot on my plate and honestly, I have nothing to complain about because I’m enjoying everything in my life as of right now. I love blogging and how I get a grade for it. I’m going to miss doing this.

Don’t forget about the rally Friday! Here’s all the info for it (:

A Piece of My Heart was a Success.

WE’RE FINALLY DONE WITH THIS PLAY! I’ve never been so emotionally drained in my life. This play made me seem so bipolar because of all the scene changes and going from one emotion to the other. It was simply too tiring to handle. To be honest, I’m happy that I got to be a part of this. Sure this show has had its pro and cons but man what an experience this was. Drama usually does a lot of comedy plays and I actually realize why now. Comedies are way more easier than dramatic plays. That’s just in my opinion. There really isn’t much of a difference besides the emotions you put into make a dramatic play good. Castanon said that the reason why he wanted to do this play this year was because he finally found the right group of girls who could handle it. Let me list these pros and cons to being a part of this play.

There were many pros to it and I feel like the pros are more significant than the cons. For the first time ever, I became close to a group of girls without feeling socially awkward. Don’t get me wrong I also have girl friends aside from the ones in drama, but the thing is the girls in drama are a whole together. We did everything together during this play. We went out to eat, nap at each other’s houses, got into circles to share secrets and rehearse lines, and grew a bond with one another as the play was coming together. Nothing is better than that to me. I’ve always felt as if I’ve never belong with a certain group or certain people and being with them made me feel like I was at the right place. This was also my first speaking role and main role for a play. I felt so proud of myself for getting so far with not much experience as the rest of the group. Even if this play was all seriousness, we’ve made inside jokes from it and unforgettable memories with all of this stress that the play brought us. Man I could have sworn there were more pros to this play but I guess there really isn’t much. Maybe the pros were the fact that our bond together has grown ever since the play began. I guess that’s all that really matters to me since it is the best part of being a part of this.

Now I can get started with the cons. I was totally stressed out, but I only had myself to blame for that. I was moving unexpectedly, I didn’t manage my time wisely considering how involved I am in school, and I was being the same procrastinator/slacker I’ve always been when it came to school. I need to learn from my mistakes. Now I am currently sick and still wasting my time laying in bed when I can use all of this free time to get work done. Anyways, another con to this play was it definitely made you emotionally drained. I don’t get how actors do it. We would go from crying to laughing to being stressed and panicking. We would go home and want to rest but couldn’t because we also had homework to get done before we slept.

Through all the good and bad times of this experience, it was all worth it. I will always look back at this like it was one of the best times of my life during high school. On the last night, I cried after curtain calls. I thought about it like it was my one time experience in high school. That’s going to be the one time where I’m going to get to say, “this is my first main role and speaking role.” That was the one time when those five girls and I were going to get a main role all together. This is the best one time memory I’m going to cherish forever. I’m so thankful for getting to be in drama.

This was an intense scene for all of us.

The main cast (: