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Monday, June 23, 2008

A Home Away from Home

Morocco - the stories that I have to tell of Morocco that I've told a million times over by now and it's exhausted me even more so than the trip itself. What else can I say about it? First off, it was nothing like what I expected. There were stray dogs, cats, even donkeys roaming the dry, rocky mountains. Goats were dangling on trees as if they were monkeys and poor, poor camels forced to carry stupid overweight tourists (like myself..ehe) around the beach just to get a few dirhams (currency in Morocco). My heart did go out to those animals and so did my left over fish-heads that I fed to little baby kittens. :]
Then there was hiking around mountains and boulders and rocks that could have left half of us stranded or at least scratched up and wounded; swimming and surfing to the extreme in the African waters off the Atlantic shore which left us banged up, bruised up and wounded; fishing in the middle of the night, risking the lives of the only three men who protected us from everything only to catch one fish the size of a dinner plate (and was quite tasty when it was on a dinner plate the next evening). It was the most exciting and risk-taking time of my life. I don't ever remember a time in my life where it was in danger at so many points and I did not care because of the people I was with and the thought that there were more important things in life than my life itself.
Then there was the people of Morocco - the villagers, the city dwellers, the Arabic, the Berber - a whirlwind of a culture so fascinating and a lifestyle so simple that it makes me
....to be continued, i have a sleeping puppy who needs to take a restful nap ;]

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Africa, here I come...

i've prepared as much as i can. i've got everything down to the survival kit. now the only other thing i have to worry about is bringing the appropriate attire for the weather and the activities.
it hasn't quite hit me yet that i'm traveling across the ocean and to a completely different country. i'm sure that it'll hit me at some point, maybe when i'm sweating to death in the blazing heat... i don't know, we'll see what happens. but i am excited, a little nervous, a little oblivious, and a little cautious, and hoping that i'll be at least somewhat prepared for the unknown.
just a few more days, sunday evening then a 12 hour-flight, then casablanca, here we come!

Monday, May 05, 2008

even though finals have ended, it is still crunch time yet again. it just seems as though life just passes me by sometimes. there is this weight just hanging on my shoulders that i can't get rid of... it's a mixture of guilt, sadness, regret, an emotional outcry really. i just desparately want to feel a sense of relief and accomplishment. it's a downtime, it is, and i've come to realize yet again what i told myself during the last downtime, "take it slow and conserve", but i never do and it just always takes me back to the same place. i truly am a walking contradiction.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

it's mid-finals week and i'm still slacking! eheh, ridiculous, i know. two more exams and 4th year is over, at least i hope so - i just need to pass the finals that is. i wish we were going on a trip right after school, like last year when we went to Vegas - not that it made us study more, eheh, it just motivated and excited us to know there was yet more to come after finals. i suppose it's okay, since we do have pretty big trips coming up. Africa in June and Vietnam in December - i guess that's worthwhile and worth-waiting for, ;]
i really hope i pass the finals. i know fear comes with the territory and every finals week it's not just a struggle to prepare, but it's a pain waiting for the results. i know every year we pass (barely pass), but we do pass and i think to myself, "of course we passed, how could we not have?!" BUT, there's always that slight chance of getting just enough wrong to fail the class, and that scares the begeezes out of me! speaking of, it would be smart of me to return to my studies, since my exam is at 8 AM tomorrow. *BIG SIGH* another sleepless night, but just two more and then party, party, party for my birthday!!! i can't wait.
this year we've decided to celebrate at Mohegan Sun, so it's something different - not done before, so i'm really excited. i just hope everything falls into place, which i'm sure it will because as long as my close friends and fam are there, i know i'll have an awesome 22nd birthday. OMG, i can't believe i'll be 22 in just close to 2 more weeks. now that's ridiculous!! i still feel young and immature, lost in a world with old people - of which i'll be contributing to the population soon. it all goes downhill from here, at least that's what everyone says, and although i'm still shocked at how i was able to get this age group, i'd like to think of as aging with class and elegance. it doesn't go downhill from here for me, the doors to opportunities only increase in number and i can't wait!! : D

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

2 weeks and 4th year is OVER!!!

4th YEAR: should i repeat, OVER!!! then only two more years to go! time does fly by, i wish i was already just working so that i wouldn't have to study for any exams. but i know i'll miss these work-free days where my agenda is limited to what i say it is.
UPCOMING TRIPS: i'm super-excited about my upcoming trips!! one in june to go to africa and then another in december to vietnam. and maybe some in betweens, but i'll keep that in my own personal journal. ;] i'm super-ecstatic because finally i'll be traveling outside of the US. i applied for my passport and should be expecting it in another week or so, i expedited it for africa. gosh, i just can't wait.
LOVE-LIFE: gosh, what's changed?? nothing. jk, hopefully something.

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my1passion

- Name: Kao Yeng
- Country: United States
- State: Massachusetts
- Metro: Boston
- Birthday: 5/14/1986
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 4/13/2005