wow okay it's almost midnight and i have to get to school tomorrow at 6:45 for asb stuff, so i should definitely go to bed soon. i really wanted to write a quick entry first though. it'd be wrong to not write an "end of the summer" entry. haha. seriously, so i'll try to be concise like carolineeee. haha. the past two weeks have actually been quite eventful. there was tiffany's bday party. i felt so bad cause i had to finish 7 entries before my mom let me go, so i was two hours late. hahah. and after getting there, her mom had to go through the trouble of getting out the food cause everyone else had finished and was watching the movie hitch. i ate a lot. yum. haha. the movie was funny. i stayed after everyone left to just talk with tiffanyyy.

i lagged on entries, but i finally worked up enough motivation to finish by wednesday. i was very proud of myself. haha. the days before wednesday, i watched some movies we rented. mmm thursday, we had the simple faith leadership meeting. it went pretty well, and in the afternoon, an asb meeting. that night, was the sleepover!! jee, karissa, and i slept over at helen's house, but we talked at jee's first cause helen was still at dt disney. anyway, that was fun. we watched "a lot like love" and only the first part of "the notebook" cause the quality was bad so we couldn't finish it. "a lot like love" is cute. sweet like all chick flicks. anyway, talked until 5:30, when karissa and jee fell asleep. those weaklings. haha, but helen and i went ahead and did day-one of The Purpose Driven Life together, talked about spiritual matters, until my stomach started grumbling so loudly that helen had to make me chicken pasta at 6 in the morning. hahaha. it was good. we talked about other things, tried to go to bed but couldn't so we went for a walk around her neighborhood at 7 in the morning! it was already sunny, the birds were chirping, the lawns freshly cut and green, very pretty. haha. usually, i'm never up early enough to experience the essence of a morning day. that sounded corny. anyway, we finally went to sleep at around 8:30ish in the morning. karissa woke me up at 10 am and we started joking around even though i was dead tired. left helen's cause i had to be at ashley's by 12 to make the food for the iron-chef competition at our church. was late, like usual, cause i went home first. ashley had most of the stuff made already. OKAY SHORT AND CONCISE. i couldn't sleep all that afternoon cause guests were over and so when the time for praise night came around, i was pretty darn tired. i invited jeeyoung and helen to come with me and i am so glad i did. =)

praise night was the best. the cultural food booths (each home group prepared the food of a certain culture. it was part of the iron-chef competition) were nice. didn't eat much. surprise huh? hahah, just tried a little bit of everything. the worship was amazing. god just really touched my heart throughout the night and graced me with his amazing joy. it was so fun to be filled with the spirit, jumping and dancing next to my sisters helen and jee. we had a great spiritual talk afterward at my house until 2 in the morning. before we even got to my house, while driving, we were singing PRAISE SONGS IN THE CAR. just belting it! "deep, deep, oh deep down down. deep down in my heart i love my jesus!!!" and all of these other songs. it was such a blessing really to be able to share god's love with my sisters in christ, to feel love for my sisters too. at our house, we had a deep talk and we even started crying. it was truly heartwarming.

i'm so happy to be blessed with these sisters and to be blessed by God, period!! He works miracles. he brought me back to him/gave me the fire for him again, through a praise night that i KNOW was meant to be. we sang "what i like about you"-- that's not even a worship song but what's ironic is the fact that jee and helen were originally gonna go watch a taping of the show "what i like about you", instead of coming to praise night. like that's just amazing ya know? now jee's gonna read purpose-driven life with us, and the three of us are gonna have mini bible studies. at the end, we prayed together and it was just so natural, comfortable, and intimate. the joy and love we received from the night wasn't fleeting pleasure like the things of the world. it was real, and from God. we were really just so happy and now we truly want to live for god because that's what it's all about. yes, i know that i may still falter and go through slumps, but who can stay away from such joy for too long?

saturday, i hung out with caroline. i drove ALL the way to chino hills. man she needs to move closer. hahah, but it doesn't matter cause she's going to ucla to live with a half greek and half chinese roommate. how cool is that? haha. we talked at her house-- she filled me in on her exciting life. hahah, and then we went to mimi's cafe for lunch. i had chicken and fruit. seriously that's what the dish was called. it was gooood. mimi's cafe gives the best portions, so much food for only 8 bucks. caroline got this dessert. the ladies at the table next to us praised us for our great meal choices and ended up ordering the same things. hahah. and finally today, church was great.

i'm really just so unbelievably thankful for everything. the love that i feel is indescribable. fjadlkfjakl!! hahah. anwyay, i guess i wasn't able to be so concise with that, but it's okay. tomorrow will be the first day of my senior year. crazy. this summer's been pretty cool, especially the last few days. i probably won't be able to wake up tomorrow but that's fine. i'm excited for next year. good night!