Weddings and Wild Animals

This week has seen it's ups and downs.  Last weekend my family hit the road.  We headed down to San Diego for Olin and Jentry's wedding.  There is nothing like  a good old road trip to make me miss the 8-10 hour bus rides on dusty roads from Tacloban, Leyte to Allen, N. Samar.  I find that such road trips help me think, or at least give me plenty of time to do so.  In this case it also gave me plenty of time to text ;)

Funny story:  I was texting the whole way down to San Diego.  Just as we were almost to our hotel my phone started acting up.  The predictive text was no longer predicting text, or so it seamed.  I soon realized that it was texting in SPANISH!!!!  It had switched languages on me and I couldn't figure out how to switch it back.  So to this day it is still in spanish, adding yet another reason to why I plan to get a new phone.

The wedding was beautiful!  Olin and Jentry are so perfect for each other.  The San Diego Temple is as beautiful as everyone says, even if it is a little noisy, (being that it is right on the high way.)  

I have been home from my mission for almost 8 months and in this time I have had one sibling and three cousins get married.  I myself have probably put in too much thought about what my wedding is going to bee like and have often asked myself, "When is my turn?"

The trip all in all was fun.  Rachel and I spent a little time at the beach.  We all went to the Wild Animal Park and got attached by wolverines.  Kyle and Suzane went, as did Kelsey and Sam, so our family was all together.  In all it was was a very enjoyable trip.

So i don't like reading really long posts so I am going to end this one, but there will be more to come about the last week, don't you worry!

My Magnificent Obsession

Bowling has begun to obsess me!  For work I had to watch "The Magnificent Obsession."  It was a great movie and although the obsession spoken of in the movie to to help others, and bowling may not be as noble an obsession, I do think it a truly "magnificent obsession."  I am not sure how it started, I think it may have been with grandma getting a Wii for Christmas, but I am now addicted to bowling in all forms.  Meaning to say Wii bowling, Buddy Bowling, lawn bowling, ibowl on Toni's iPhone...I wast way too much time on it all.  My scores vary depending on the type of bowling.  The important thing is that I enjoy it!  I am down with a good challenge, (I am not too sore a looser.)  

Oh yeah, and I even enjoy going to the bowling ally every once in a while.  The other day I went to Cambrian Bowling Center with a bunch of buddies.  It was a blast!  It is fun to give each other a bad time and pointers and act like we are all pros...and than look over at the lane next to us and see the old guys bowling all strikes.  Once I had people over to play Wii bowling.  I was on and off the bowling lane, AKA grandma's TV, from 3pm to around 11pm.  My arm was sore for a few days after that one.

I think it fair to say it's an obsession.  I think it healthy to have a few obsessions in your life, as long as you keep a balance between them.  To me it is magnificent, to another it may be a total wast of time.

Cheek out my new gadget at the bottom of the page, you can bowl right here! :)

What's my major?

It is natural for people to ask me about what I am studying and what not.  After all I am 21, in my first year of college at De Anza and probably appear as a fairly grounded person.  I get asked on a very regular basis what my major is. 

I never wanted to be one of those who are always flip flopping majors.  You know, those kids that have a new major every semester.  And than there are those that get a degree in some crazy subject that they love to study but have know idea what they are going to do with, or are not going to enjoy what they can do with the degree.

I have been a fan of deciding what I want to do and than working on a degree that will allow me to get there. 

The problem is that the more and more classes I take and the more I explore opportunity the more I realize how wide the range of my interests are.  Three months ago I was thinking that I would go for a Business Administration degree, to go into international business.  Than as I learned more about industry and business through work I have been growing more interested in perusing a degree in an engineering field, like electrical engineering.  Than as I got into my current classes (English 2, Econ 1, and Cultural Anthropology) I realize that I love critical thinking, expressing my ideas/opinions and working in groups, and I love public speaking.   So now I am going back and forth between wanting an engineering degree or a public relations degree...in short now I am "one of those."