hay suzie & dandrew; our one hundred day challenge

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China AIDS Fund/Pen Pal Program Summary o:

Days: Saturday June 13th —> Friday June 18th

Place: Henan in Zhengzhou, China (basically, the middle of nowhere. wheat fields, huts, NO CIVILIZATION D:)

Background: Henan endured an AIDS epidemic in the past two decades. It began very folktale like. Village. Poor people. Oh, modern dude comes by. ‘Sell me your blood. I’ll give you x dollars’ Those x dollars was how much they made in 3 months so they all sold blood. Dirty equipment. HIV. AIDS. Parents died and passed on this disease.

Objective: Meet with the orphans. Get their name. Become penpals throughout the year in order to encourage them to study.

Hmm, i really don’t know where to begin with this. It was such a life changing experience. I guess it can be considered going on a church mission, but there was no God or religion involved and we weren’t going with a church group, but with different families. (My mommy came :D) I’ll just list the stuff we diddd.

• Arrived in Hong Kong on Sunday night. Same flight as Janus but didn’t talk to her D: Hung out with Matty and Chris (my two fake older brothers ^__^)
• Went shopping with Matty and Chris cause all of me and my mom’s luggage got lost T__T
• Hotel with Matty and Chris … really pretty Hyatt. The bathrooms were so pretty and had like 10 windows to my mom’s room LOL. I liked poking my head out and saying HI MOM and she’d be like ?! :3
• Huge breakfast with Matty and Chris
• Wandering around the airport with Matty and Chris. Matty bought me earphones (which i had to work off as a slave T__T) which i’m using right now hahas .. met up with Janus and we played cards until we practically missed the plane roooofls
• Met cute little children from the Children’s Center (:
• 4 hour bus ride to Henan. Janus and I doodled pictures to the kids since they couldn’t speak English and we couldn’t speak Mando ._.
• Arrival at the first children’s center. Played jump rope and introduced ourselves.
• Dinner. Sleep. Cards in Matty and Chris’s hotel room with all the ‘kids’ (kids = not an adult which was like .. my age through college. i was the youngest girl xp) The hotel room was like .. really aslkdjaskld though. It smelled like dead things :(
• …Alright all the days are a blur and i don’t feel like it’s necessary to remember everything on here LOL

Basically, this trip showed me how poor and unfortunate some people could be. Like you see it on TV or hear about it from UNICEF but once you SEE it … it’s so sad.

There was a boy … his father was dead. His mother was getting treatment for her HIV (when they get treatment it takes about 3-6 months in the “city” which is far far away) His brother took care of him but he often was at school. When we visited the boy, his door was boarded up and bricked. We asked him to come out and he crawled out of a HOLE. My first reaction was “OMG HOWD YOU DIG THAT HOLE” but then i saw how many bugs and dirt was all over him and i was like >__<

There was a girl … she was 19 but i thought she was 9. Malnutrition? She could speak a little English. Her parents were both dead from AIDS. She had a twin. Both of them studied like crazy and were extremely kind. Their dream is to travel to America which is near impossible, but they dream of it often.

There was a girl … 10 years old. Her dad died from AIDS and her mother left the family. She lived with her Grandmother. She was one of the “richest” families because they had a garden of fruit. Every day she would give fruit to her friends during lunch. When i visited her house, she held open the “door” (a piece of cloth) for me and handed me a “chair” (it was like a reallyreally small chair less than a foot tall) .. she stood while i sat and talked to her. At the end when we gave her a red envelope (with money) she immediately gave it to her grandma unlike the other children who ran out to spend it.

This has gotten really long. I don’t think anyone is gonna read it but it was a really amazing but sad experience. Hopefully i can go back next year and be able to communicate better. :P

Suzieeeee , i always said “omg i feel so bad for where you live” but now i can see there are worse places too . T__T Dandrew, you always told me to appreciate what i had but i didn’t understand it until now D:

SkillsUSA Summary :D

Days: Monday June 7th —> Saturday June 12th

Place: Kansas City, MISSOURI ( not Kansas!! )

Vivian, Andrew, and I were a team for tech prep. We placed 6th which is pretty amazing considering we’re only freshmen and most of the people there are either to-be seniors or graduated. Lucas and Emma were also freshmen who went. 5 freshmen. Pretty amazing <3 (And like 10 other upperclass men + Chef B + Mr. Lang x])

Highlights of the trip:

• THE FOOD WE HAD. Jack Stack’s Steakhouse, Hibachi, Lydia’s Italian Food, Panera
• Learning that Mr. Lang has a funny/nice side
• Placing 6th (and learning how we can hopefully place 1st next year ;D)
• Drinking Emma’s super tea
• The final night we had together
• Seeing 10,000 red blazers in one arena :)
• GETTING A GUAM PIN AND HAWAII PIN FOR FREEE :D And getting the navaho nation pin for us as well
• Meeting people from all over the USA
• Watching news about the Gulf Coast in the living room until 3am while Vivian and Emma slept
• Robot. Unicorn. Attack. ;D
• Seeing Lucas medal SECOND as a FRESHMAN in his SOLO COMPETITION :o
• Getting closer to everyone on that trip :3

Hopefully we make nationals again next year.. :D

Summer Update ~

So i really have not updated in a while. My bad. :( I’ve been lazy lols. T__T

I guess i can break up my summer so far into 4 parts.

• SkillsUSA Nationals Competition in Kansas City
• Henan, China to help HIV/AIDS kids
• Hong Kong to hang out with people
• (now) Bunch of random things in NJ

I’ll juss make a big post with each of these things to ‘catch up’ hahas xp

Suzie, daniel, idk if you guys will see this but uhmm , suzie, i havent talked to you in SO long. i still think of yo uand stuff but we really really need to find time to talk on aim. Like, i will stay up to 4am to talk to you if that’s what it takes. :( ! Dandrew, i hope you’re having fun in koreaaaaaaa 8]

Picture of the Day (41)

- Hotel room :)

- Jack Stack’s Steakhouse

- Tomfooleries for dessert (dump truck ice cream thingy :D)

- PRAAACTICE -__-

Day 41 - To Kansas City ~

Kansas City is in Kansas. Missouri.

So funny right ? (: This was written on Monday on the plane to Kansas :D

Helloooooo. Okay I’m on the airplane on my way to Kansas City … which is in Missouri. Ahahahas.

I think it’s so funny that Kansas City’s in Missouri. xD

I’m typing this on wordd. I’ll prlly fall asleep soon. Andrew’s asleep. Vivian’s playing with her mp3 thingy.

Ahh I’m so nervous for skillsusa ): !1 NATIONAAAALS !

It was only in September when Andrew and I watched that slideshow and were like woah I wanna go there. That looks cool.

Now we’re GOING THERE. We MADE IT. We WON GOLD AT STATES. >__<

We’ve come so far we can’t screw it up right ? I hope not hahas. But regardless, we all learned a lot and got experience. Like I know it sounds corny but it’s true.

Vivian, Andrew and I still joke about how we still don’t know what skills exactly is and we still really don’t know. We’re juss going with it and hopefully it’ll be fun ^__^

Soo, highs and lows. I haven’t done this in awhile.

Highs:

* GOING TO KANSAS CITY ~!

* Dennis surprised me todayyyyyy . I lovelovelove his music and he put it on a memory stick and attachced it to my iPod. He kept txting me whether id have my macbook and ipod on the plane and im like …yes? Hahaahas. Now I see why (: So now im listening to his pretty songs and about to fall asleep I think. X]

Lows:

* THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT LOOKS LIKE MRS DELFIRE (sp?) She’s so scary.

* Aero and Ponics (the plants Vivian grew in the aeroponics machine) couldn’t sit with us. I hope they’re okay. ):

Pictures of the Day (35-40)

Day 35 (Tuesday 6.15)

Don’t remember -__-

Day 36 (Wednesday 6.16)

Don’t remember D:

Day 37 (Thursday 6.17)

Don’t remember ):

Day 38 (Friday 6.18)

Picture to be uploaded when i get home :3

Day 39 (Saturday 6.19)

Picture to be uploaded when i get home :3

Day 40 (Sunday 5.20)

Picture to be uploaded when i get home :3