Friday, May 22nd, 2009
I went camping on Friday the 22nd of May, an hour after school let out. We packed the SUV up with all our belongings and waited for my friend's family to show up. At 4, my friend's family showed up, so we headed off to South San Jose, to pick up some ...Vietnamese Ham?(I don't know what it's called in English) from one of our friends who was also going to come with us, but arriving the following day. After that, we drove for about an hour down to Gilroy and up a mountain there until we reached the camping park which was called Mt. Madonna. We booked a total of 4 campsites, 3 of which were going to belong to us officially the next day. After we arrived, we settled in, set up the tents, and ate dinner. We then went to sleep, since it was already late. Boring much?
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
We woke up at 7-ish and ate porridge for breakfast. The outside of both our tents were pretty wet, due to the dewdrops dripping off the tall ass trees onto them. My other friends started arriving to camp at around 9 or 10, while we were off hiking the murky trails. I forgot to change shoes so I ended up getting my converses pretty dirty, but then it all came off later. We went back to camp and ate lunch, which ended up being Vietnamese rice noodles with this meat and fish sauce. After that, all of us headed to the shopping outlets in Gilroy to look through stuff and pass the time. I found some pretty cool shoes for about $9.04. They were 40% off :]. Yay for Memorial Day sales! Around 4:45, we went to church which lasted for about an hour and a half. Church is SUPER BORINGGG >_>. But I guess it was okay since my eyes were caught by all those prettyful decorations hanging from the tall ceiling. At around 6:30, we went back into the camp and found that my cousin had come up. Everybody was here, yay! Sadly, it was near the end of the day already so we basically just sat around telling jokes and laughing really loudly until the darkness slammed in on us. We lit a fire around 8:30 and then went to sleep around 9 or 10 ish, since all of us were tired from running around so much.
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Woke up around the same time again. We had noodles and porridge in the morning. The ladies all went off to walk around the camp while the guys just did whatever. At around 10:30, the ladies came back and we all hopped into our cars and drove to this Buddhist temple, since we were going to have lunch there. I thought it was a little weird at first, but once the rituals and ceremonies began, it felt like I'm experiencing a whole new culture or religion. Buddhism is very interesting, even though I'm a Roman Catholic. o_O. They don't believe in eating meat and they believe that when you cook, you shouldn't be mad or else you will poison the food. Things were pretty different from what my side came from, yeah? O-o. Okay, so we ate lunch and let me say that vegetarian food is pretty good, =). It's different, but I really like it. I should seriously try new things more often. After lunch, we went around the temple and took pictures. I LOVE PICTURES <3! They make me think back to all those fun and hilarious times I've had throughout my life. But dang, my life hasn't begun yet. I'm still 15, I gots a LONGGGGG way to go.
Later, all of us went back to camp and some people went shopping again. As for me, I stayed back with my friends Andy, Brian, Kaitlin, and Alyssa to just chill and hang. Alyssa and Kaitlin started chasing me around D:!, soooo I ended up chasing them back and trying to "eat" them. LOL :]. The adults came back a few hours later and we ate PHO! =). I loveeee pho, it is like near the best thing in the world! =]. It was super delicious that I ended up eating nearly 3 bowls of it. Talk about being a fat ass. Ahaha.
Anyway, dinner ended and nighttime slowly fell upon us. We lit the campfire and this time stayed out much much longer and talked about random stuff like dances, food, eggs, scouting, school, and eavesdropping on gossip from the parents. =D. I like eavesdropping on the parents. I'm soooo happy I can speak and understand Vietnamese extremely well. It lets me get in on the latest things that have been happening over the months. =). Knowing another language really well is the shit. <3.
Gah, I don't know what pictures to put in here so I guess I'll just throw in whatever I can find. Anyway, I'm home now and today is Monday the 25th of May. Happy Birthday to Justin Mickanen! I hope tomorrow will be fun, although I have a presentation in 3rd period and a lab in 5th period. Ewww.
Laterrz, lovely ladies and gentlemen. Jamie is now going to rest his chinky eyes. LOL. ..And, omg. I love Gucci, Versace, Coach, and Ray-Ban brand sunglasses. >=).
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