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| Alpha Omega // AOFrom the beginning of July I've been caught in a non-stop, jammed packed schedule.. final for my summer class, last camp meeting/preparation, camp for 6 days/7 nights, and then keeping my visiting friends happy (= Now I'm back home and in my new house in WALNUT (yes, no more stupid Rancho Nachomucho) and I finally have time to slow down, relax, and just.. veg out haha.
So.. to be completely honest, I don't think I've ever done a camp completely 100% for the campers. I've always had more fun with counselors and staff than with the campers. That doesn't mean I didn't like them or anything.. I just always preferred doing the counselor stuff and I would really look forward to when we would spend time together. This year was completelyyyy different though!
I absolutely LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED the campers. I was convinced of this for sure when at the counselor party after camp, all I could do was think about them and I missed them soooooo much )= Oh dear.
They touched me like I haven't been in .. well, my whole life.
During the last night of high school camp, we had a staff/counselor meeting and we ended up going around, all of us saying one thing we got out of camp. With about 40 of us, this was no small task and I think we ended up talking for a good two hours with just that. It was incredible hearing some of their stories, I feel like this camp was really something different from all the other years and everyone was touched in some way. Some cried, we laughed, so many varied stories.. I had so many things I wanted to share. You know how you will remember some moments for the rest of your life? I felt like Camp AO was just a week full of those moments. So many moments touched my heart, I feel so blessed. And I'm not saying any of this with any amount of overexaggeration.. I reallyyyy loved this camp so much and the campers were.. wow. Just wow!
I want to just leave you with pictures now. I could talk about them forever, but their faces and smiles are what would win you over anyway (=
 
hahaha DONG JIM LINE ew gross!
  
 
  
.. I've even heard it was better than Camp Basic (ZOMG) tehe.
It was a lot of hard work, so tiring, time consuming, stressful, and frustrating.. but everything leading up to this camp prepped it to be the best week of my life <3
I wonder if next year will be better!!! It'll be HARD to even come close (;
*thanks to Jaime for all the pictures.. I got too lazy to look at everyone's and she had some good ones (=
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| You want the Truth?
You'll get it August 27.
And it's Green.
Hehehehehehheheheehheheeh
This summer is so amazing <3
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| Vicitimization, Placing Blame, and Pet Peeves"Woe is me, I am the only one who matters. I ask for help, but fail to get any. I have done nothing wrong, right? There is no possible explanation for why bad things just keep happening to me; I'm a good person! It's not like I'm asking for much either! What's going onnnnnn?" <-- every person in the world
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
I'm bored at work so I am reading featured xanga blogs and I see a recurring theme in most of them: I have some kind of typical problem that I believe (for some reason) is particular only to me.. now, where do I place the blame? Definitely none to me, of course! Who else can I blame? Society? My family? My friends? God? Anyone will do, as long as it's not ME!
Why is it always someone else's fault? And why is it that when someone else is wrong it is their fault while if it is our bad it's due to some legit excuse, or, pardon me, a REASON.
Now, I've seen a lot of sad stuff. Heard a lot of heartbreaking stories. But you know, there is no show-topper.. there is not one I can think of that has trumped all the others in terms of "who had it hardest." Cause there is no hardest! We all go through tough times. There will always be people better and worse off than you, we just need to stop focusing on our own crap and suck it up a bit.
I know that sounds incredibly harsh, but I really hate this victimization and placing blame thing. And what it leads to is people taking it out on other people--where do you think all this bad stuff is coming from then? It's a vicious cycle.
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Oh and pet peeves.. I wrote an entry about manners just before and man, I realized I have a lot of pet peeves. Mostly they are just about manners though and showing respect. Some of my biggest pet peeves are: hitting people on the head (Asian people do this a lot, I feel like it's degrading and is disrespectful regardless of age/gender), holding cell phone conversation when you have company or are out in public, staring (I HATE this one a LOT), and not looking at a person when talking to them. Yeah, it pretty much has to do with manners. It bugs me how it doesn't seem to be an issue at all nowadays, but I really do appreciate when I meet people with good manners. (= That was completely off topic from the rest of this entry, but I just had to get it out there. Reader beware--I will hurt you if you do any of these around me (except I won't hit your head lol).
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| Today is the day I was talking about, from 10 days ago.. from Time Summer Concert 2007 (translated by aatash)
"Aiba-kun cried huh. This is really the kind of group that Arashi
is. We may be bad at singing, we may be bad at dancing too, and the
things we talk about may not be interesting... but. All of it.
Everything we do, has feeling in it. With hopes that everyone is
enjoying them, wondering if people are enjoying what we do, we're
always thinking of all of you as we perform these concerts."
~ Ninomiya Kazunari, Arashi”
Too modest. They are not "good".. but that doesn't stop them from being the BEST (=
Non-fans will never understand what I mean.
Ahh, to hell with you guys then. They aren't one of the top groups in Japan for no reason. (; Tehe
25 today! And he achieved SO MUCH already! Go Nino, my hero! ^^
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| Manners Are Way UnderratedI haven't had a chance to work in retail yet, but I have had some experience dealing with "customer service" kind of relations (I work the front desk at a church so I get all kinds of crazies coming in). I don't mind the crazy so much, what I MIND is the Impatient Rude Parishioner. What I mean is the mentality of "the customer is always right" is so ingrained in the general public's mind that people believe they are the center of the world when they are the customer. "Why is this person not bowing to my every whim? I should be able to act as rude and inconsiderate as I want, after all, dealing with it is their job."
No.
No, it is not my job to deal with your frustrations that came from whatever you were doing before you came to me, no it is not my job to go run errands for you, and no it is not my job to take abuse from a jackass who feels some sense of entitlement, as if they are above me since they are a customer. I am giving you a service, you should be grateful regardless of whether it is my job or not. Simple manners. Just because a waiter is being paid to clean your table, that doesn't mean saying "thank you" is not necessary.
Sadly, this is a problem I seem to see most among the brash American stereotype. Yes, Americans are probably some of the rudest people. Everyone is so wrapped up in themselves that it doesn't occur to them to do simple things like say "thank you," hold the door open for others, say "excuse me" on the streets, etc. etc. And what makes it worse is that sometimes it is turned from good manners to a stupid equal opportunity mentality where people say "no one should hold the door for me just cause I am a woman, I can do it myself!" OMG this is not about whether you CAN or not, but showing manners! But the whole ultra-feminist thing is another matter I'm not gonna get in to.. it pisses me off too much.
Anyway, I just wanted to vent about that. Please be careful how you act, stay mindful of other people. (= Thank you!
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