Ok, finally and The Rattlesnake means finally I am able to do something with this thing again. One thing that happened last week that I wanted to point out was Wednesday night. It was great, to go out to Olive Garden for a great big dinner one last time with Lynnette and Erick. Achi left for China already and I heard that she is ok so praise the Lord for that. Erick is leaving this Saturday, and I think back about the first time I met him. The one thing I'll miss most about Emoy is our passion for WWE. Now I got no one to talk about that with at CBC. Good luck to him though as he departs to Beantown, I'm sure gonna miss him as well.

So today it was pouring rain, and I'm walking out thinking dang it I forgot to close my moonroof. So I'm walking out, close it and I come back in. Next thing you know people are pointing at all these different cars with there windows down. So what did I do? I decided to break into all those peoples' cars and roll there windows up for them. I come back in, and people saw what I have been doing so, for those with power windows, gave me the keys to there cars to do their windows. By the time I was done, I looked as if I rode Snake River Falls a couple of times.

So tonight all my pals, went to go see Lilo & Stitch. Yeah I wanted to go see it with them and chill with them. But a couple of my cousin's friends wanted to play b-ball. And we played for money 2 on 2 b-ball at Basketball Zone, and one my opponents was All State. So I didn't want to go to high on how much we are playing for not till I scouted him first. After one game up to 21, it was 23 - 2 my cousin and I just laid the smackdown on them. The funny thing was that I scored all 23 points. So I'm thinking either they are just messing with me to hustle me for $$$ or this guy couldn't make the All Neighborhood team. So a couple of more games which actually got closer, but my cousin and I remained undefeated and we made a nice little profit. Here's the worst part though, I scored more points in that first game (23 pts.) than my opposition combining there first 2 games.

Another thing is that, some people say that this is gambling. I tend to disagree with that playing b-ball for money. I used to do this as a kid, because it was the only way to make some $$ for myself. I look at today as a side job which I worked hard for and made some cash. Gambling is going to the casino, playing b-ball for money is just a job. It was a nice feeling to be victorious and to take my shirt off with like a pound of sweat all over it. Yes today was a wet day for me.

Finally, praise God for bringing Team Alaska home!

Midwest Swing

Woohoo finally I am able to submit my entry in. It took me like a week to figure this thing out. So my last entry that reads July 13th should actually be July 7th. Dumb blogger!

Anyways, yeah a lot has happened to me this past week with my ACA kids. I've built a closer relationship with Crystal and Wei's family. You'll hear about it more this week because I need to get my booty to bed in order to wake up in time to worship Our God. And I tomorrow I got an interesting b-ball game at Metro Hoops. My cousin Damon needs me to be his partner to play against these 2 guys he knows from work. One of them is supposedly All State a couple years ago from Lanse Cruese. Ummm can you say the Butt Pilots from what we used to call them. Anyways yeah 2 on 2 seems harmless right? Oh but no, there is money involved in these games. So hopefully I can make some quick cash against these guys. Time for bed!

Rhythm Of My Heart

This is probably my most emotional blog ever, ok so I said the day before that yesterday was gonna be an emotional day for me at ACA. Never did I imagine how emotional I got as the first half of camp just ended. Throughout the day, Sophia kept crying because it was her last day and her family is moving to Windsor this Saturday. Let me tell you something about Sophia, she is still one of my fav's even from last year. Because she was my first pokemon of the camp last year, I named her Pikachu respectively. She is my little buddy too, and she always tells everyone about how much I make her happy and that I'm her best friend. She wrote me a letter to the best of her ability and I will keep it with me forever. As her dad came to pick her up, she was crying so loud and so I decided to walk her to their car. As I put her in the back seat, my eyes started to water but I kept my tears in because I knew between the two of us I had to be the stronger one. Then I got one last wave from her as her dad drove off then I just sat at the corner of the street, and finally let my tears just all come out. Crystal came out to see if I was ok and she tried to comfort me by giving me a big hug. But I told her to just go back in and just let me be alone. I walked back in after my tears were gone, and yeah Elaine and my supervisors were giving me a hard time about my crying. But it's different for them, because I built a strong bond with Sophia from last year. I wish her the best of luck as her family crosses the border. She is my little buddy and will always be my little buddy. I pray that God will guide us to crossing paths in the future.

The whole crying incident reminded me of that episode of Full House, when Uncle Jessie told Michelle that he and Becky were moving out. Uncle J cried after he walked out of Michelle's room. Anyways, so as I was just talking to Crystal, her mom comes to pick her up. And my mood suddenly changed, because her mom talked to me about maybe babysitting Crystal and Henry in the near future. She also gave me there info to keep in touch just like Sophia did. Her mom told me to come over whenever I feel like it. Crystal invited me to see her and Wei at ice skating practice, so I think I will do that after work this Monday. After she left, my supervisor wanted me to go to a group dinner with her and a bunch of other clubs of Detroit. As I drove to the dinner thing, I drove right by Nancy riding her bike on Forest, and dang it for that one way street. So of course I was late for the dinner thing, because I tried so hard driving all around WSU looking for Nancy. Then I was upset again because I couldn't find her and I just sat at dinner bummed and left out because these people seemed pretty high up on the club heiarchy, while me is still at the bottom.

So after dinner, I was still kind of bummed and I couldn't see myself going to soccer practice. So I called, Jamie and Jessie's mom (other fav's of mine from this past session) to let me know that Jamie left his pencil pouch at ACA and that I can drop it off sometime next week. Her mom was ok with it, but I could hear Jessie's voice in the background saying "tell him to come now" repeatedly. So her mom told me to come over because Jessie really misses me already. I never realized that I made such an impact to Jessie to saying that because she was always so shy during camp. When I got to her house, as usual she was shy, and her mom was telling me before I came that she kept telling her "I miss Kenny". Their parents invited me in and the longer I stayed, Jessie told me that she misses me 100%, and I told her the same because she is my little brain. One thing about Jamie and Jessie is that, Jamie is unbelievably smart for his age. However his little sister Jessie, is the type of kid you see and say awww how cute, but she can cause chaos and get away with it. I can't believe her parents talked to me till almost midnight, and they let me say good night to the kids. I was also excited to hear that their parents would call me if they ever needed someone to look after Jamie and Jessie.

I'm still kind of choked up because of the fact that I might not see some of them ever again. And right now it's been hard for me to focus on anything but the kids, well God first then the kids. I'm not even sure if I can keep focus for b-ball tomorrow. When I first started this job I looked at all the rewards from meeting these kids. Now I see the painful side of this job. Again, I love these kids and I miss them already, and I doubt the next session will be the same as this past one.

Lord may You look after all of us and continue to protect us. Please lift up my little pal, Sophia, so young but yet going through adult like feelings already. Will I see them again? Only You know and I hope that I get that chance.

Amazing Grace

Thick and thin
From beginning to the end
Never do I lose
All I do is win

It's wierd how exactly at this time last week, I was driving through that never ending state. One thing that I was thinking about is that I'm glad that I'm really flexible with a lot of things in life. Like I can see myself totally living in NYC, because I love all the walking around and riding the subways. Another thing that was cool was enjoying some real bubble tea after all this suffering over here. Also Saturday night, we went out to dinner at Planet Hollywood and it was both our first time being there. So we tried to be sophisticated with the rest of the people eating around us, and we just went crazy ordering different type of drinks. Not your typical coke drink but like cocktail type drinks, and it's great that we were able to get them without the alcohol. It was even sweeter that we enjoyed every drink that we ordered.

Working at ACA today gave me a headache because a lot of these kids are spoiled. In a perfect world, yeah I would love to treat them all equally but some need different types of treatment. One of the kids, Phillip has now cried 3 times these last 2 out of 3 days. Like dude you're going into 4th grade, suck it up because all he keeps complaining about is how something is unfair. The first time was when we were playing a game, to teach the kids about prejudice and discrimination basing the game on income status. The kids who had a triangle are the poor peeps and the ones with the star are the wealthiest. So Phillip is crying because he had a triangle and that he wasn't getting as much money as others, which is the point of the game to show how people get treated differently because of income.

The 2nd time was today when we went back to our garden, and I was playing with these little fuzzy balls that came off this plant and it sticks to your shirt like velcro. So I was throwing them at everyone, but by the time we left, I threw them all away. However Phillip wanted to bring them back to ACA and I told him to get rid of it because dude I can totally see him throwing this stuff in the room. What happens, he cries because he said it's not fair that other kids get to bring back some plants while he can't bring back these little fuzz balls. Then I had to deal with his little sister, Emily who was complaining because Crystal wouldn't play with her and would play with Jessie instead. And she kept complaining about how it's not fair, that Crystal likes Jessie more.

And now the 3rd time of Phillip's crying was at the end of camp. Elaine, Crystal, and I were playing Scooby Doo Monopoly, and so Phillip tried to get his own game of regular monopoly going. He really wanted to play but yet he was complaining that he wanted to play but did not want to set it up. So Elaine made a comment and told him to stop whining, and I followed by asking him why does he like to whine so much. Again he starts to cry because we made those comments, and this time he went to the corner and had his little temper tantrum. And his little sis keeps asking me to tie her shoe, umm hello you can tie it yourself. And she keeps saying like "I'm waiting" or "Come on move it" like who the GG does she think she is, Princess D?

To me obviously is that these two are spoiled like crazy. And I don't know how they are treated at home but when you're in my camp, dude if you act like that then you're gonna get some tough love. To me is that they gotta start realzing that they can't get everything they want. My supervisor talked to me suggesting that maybe I should go a little bit easier on some of them. It's not like I'm trying to run a boot camp, but they have to start realzing this otherwise they are gonna continue to act like this. I'm glad that Elaine and I are on the same page with this. Plus I'm glad that she has as much passion as I do to really teach these kids and not be like just come in and play with them. Tomorrow will be an emotional day for me at work as well because it will be the last time I see my old fav's from last year, Sophia, Wei, and Jennifer with this year's fav's Crystal, Nancy, and Jessie. I'm gonna start praying that I can get some sort of chance to connect to them after tomorrow, to see how they are doing over this summer and build friendships as a counselor/student even deeper and get to know there parents because I really pray that one day they can attend CBC considering most of them are believers.

Are you still down?

What a rough day at work this morning, because I finally it happened. I was late to work by 10 minutes because I overslept. Actually I would of still made it there on time if it wasn't for these two GG heads who can't drive on 696 that had to hold all the cars up from the 75 exit all the way to Van Dyke. Then by the time I made it out to 75, dude what the GG is with all the traffic? It's because of bonehead drivers that made me late today otherwise I would of made it to work at a new record time.

I took my kids out to the International Institute today and I saw someone who really disliked me from last year. She is one of the peeps who run the II and I remembered last year she reported me to my supervisor because of my inappropriate behavior and my unwillingness to cooperate with her and instead took my kids to do other activities. But dude considering this is an international place and all this talk about unity amongst minorities, this lady today I felt like isolated my kids. And to make sure that it was just me, I asked my fellow counselors and they all said they felt offended by how she treated our kids. She was kind of like singling them out because they are the "chinese kids". Yes they are chinese, but dude you don't see me calling her kids, the african-american kids, I call them by there group's name such as Global Journey.She lucky we were only there for today otherwise I would of layed the same smackdown I did last year. However today after work I got to spend some time with one of my fellow counselors. And she asked me about my faith, and if I was a "hardcore Christian" or more of a Sunday Christian. I'm thankful that I got a chance to share with her my faith and where I stand, and it was cool to listen to what's going on in her spiritual walk. Somethings I was shocked about and hopefully I can be a good witness to her as well. You can bet I'm gonna pray for her too now.

After work I went to my grandparents place, and I stayed there till v-ball. Boy did it bring back memories because my grandparents are now babysitting my cousins Victor and Sonny. I feel bad for Sonny because for his age, he still can't really talk well. I think it is because he hears all sort of languages at home, my aunt would talk to him in Korean, my uncle would hit him up with Cantonese, and my cousin Vic would talk to him in English. Anyways staying at my g-parents place reminded me of how much I was raised in that same place while my parents were working. I'd remember going there early in the morning and seeing my cousins Alan, Wendy, and Fred and we'd all be playing outside. Then I'd bring my SNES and we would all play games. Now a days I always get annoyed with my grandparents because they do a lot of snobbish things sometimes. But I should be thankful that they helped my parents raise me and my sis. Staying there today made me realize how much toy-san (sp?) I forgot and I wish I can remember everything they have taught me. Whoa it's 3 a.m. I guess I better hit the sack if I wanna be at work on time at least.

Hmm let's end it with my saying from this past weekend,
All for you ;Þ