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| I just realize some very important things about myself today. I am very impatience and I can not hold grudge on a friend no matter how hard I try.
I guess not being able to hold a grudge is a good thing but it really frustrating sometimes. When someone does something to upset me, I want to be able to stay mad at that person so the person can see how much it upset me and maybe stop doing it. For some reason I just can't stay mad at person for a long period of time. Sometimes I feel like people are not considerate of my feelings because I tend to hold in my anger when it comes to close friends. I guess I just care and love my friends too much to stay mad at them. I have the fear of if I actually stay mad at them, they would not care and I would lose them as a friend.
Today Dong was testing my patience to the max. I can honestly say I fail miserably. Although I spend the majority of the day yelling at him, thankfully I didn't say or do anything that I regret. That guy is ADD to the max and omg sometimes I just want to pull my hair out when I'm with him. I was oh so mad at him but some how in the lunch room he was still able to make me laugh. It drove me nuts cause I really wanted to show him that I was upset but I couldn't bring myself to stay mad at him, in return he didn't take me being upset too seriously. After some reflection, I came to the conclusion that I was totally over reacting today and I have very little patience. I have to thank Dong for that. The funny thing is, me yelling at him all day didn't do much to him, I think he did a lot of that on purpose to try to teach me a lesson. Well by the end of the night I apologies to him and everything is all good again. Although he was never mad at me for yelling at him, I just felt the need to apologize to him for my own sake.
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| I just witness some of the guys here eating blazing hot buffalo wings and I was nearly on the floor laughing. I myself took one bite of that thing and ran for water Good Times!!!
I honestly truly love it here. I feel such a great sense of community here with the guys. Not a day goes by that I don't go to sleep without a big smile on my face =]. I honestly feel loved and needed here and that God is watching over me.
The other night, one of the ESL guy came knocking in my room at 1:00 am, asking me for help with his English homework and I was more then happy to help him. I am taking Vietnamese this year (reading and writing) I'm already fluent in speaking it . Every day I would go to the ESL guys to help me with my Vietnamese and they would go to me for their English. I just love how great that set up works out! We joke around and call my Vietnamese class VSL instead of ESL haha.
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| I learned that with the right people and the right attitude, almost everything you do can be fun. Take for example my work study for this year. This year my work study is to clean the bathroom on the upper dorm room. That pretty much the worst work study you can have here. When I first heard about it, I was pretty upset about it and I tried to changed it. Then when I actually started doing it, I realize it wasn't so bad. I actually had fun doing it with the guys and we joke around and make the best out of it. If it wasn't for my work study, I don't think I would be as good friends as I am now with the guy who was also assign to clean the bathroom with me.
This year I am very bless to have my good buddy Dong here. Dong was the guy that rode his bike to the airport to see me come home for summer break. That is about a 15-20 minute drive! Dong is like the little brother I never had. I truly care and love him like he is my brother. We had so many fun and crazy adventures here. We explore rooms that I'm pretty sure were not allow to go in to, we go into the kitchen late at night looking for food and we turned the lecture hall into our personal movie theater. Our latest crazy fun adventure was....
 
Going into large dryers in the storage room down in the basement. Obviously he takes much better pictures then I do haha. Good Times!!
Having him here really just makes everything that much funner! He a pretty weird guy and I thought Martin was weird! lolz.
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| Wow it been a while since I blogged. I been back in Iowa at my school for about 2 weeks now and I am very happy to be back. I can honestly say I am truly happy right now.
I have to say I had a pretty amazing summer. I keeping saying it but it is so true, I have really amazing friends! On the day I left for Iowa a group of friends came out to have some dim sum with me and then they took me to the airport to see me off. I am so very touch by their kind gesture.
Here are the group of friends that went to eat with me on the day I was leaving to Iowa.
Dominic, Brian, Hugo, An, Me, Khoa, Tina, Khoi.
I would be lying if I didn't say I'm a little sad that I have to move far away from all my friends, but I am so very happy to be back in Iowa. I learned so much over the summer and I grew closer to God. This new school year for me gonna be pretty awesome and I am very much looking forward to it. What I learned and took from the summer gonna help me survive homesickness and any other battle that comes a long my way. I am so very excited to start my new and fresh life =].
Things here at my school is a lot different. The guys that kind of picked on me last year that I didn't get along with too well all left and the vibe here at the school is totally different. We have a lot of new students coming in this year and I got to say I'm getting a long with them pretty well.
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. I am so freaking lame when it comes to driving and directions. I freaking get lost every where I go and this time my lameness effects other people. 