Day 350: Rancho Revisited

 

December 16th, 2011A revisit to my former high school this morning gave me a chance to reflect on all my high school memories, and how they have ultimately prepared me for the pending graduation that will come next year. If anyone has ever bothered to read my flashbacks on my website, you would know high school were some pretty tough years in my life, mostly due to my melodrama and lack of a decent self-esteem. Eventually, things would start peaking up as I accumulated more friends, more confidence, and eventually achieve my rite of passage through graduation.

2004-2005: Freshman Year
2005-2006: Sophomore Year
2005-2006: Sophomore Year, Pt. 2
2005-2006: Sophomore Year, Pt. 3
2006: Junior year – Discovery Science Center
2006: Junior year – Mile Square Regional Park Public Lands Day
2006: Junior year – St. Polycarp
2006: Junior year – VOC Auxiliary
2006-present : Stories from the Workplace
2007: Junior Year – VOC: Basic Needs
2007: Junior Year – OC Food Bank
2007: Junior Year – Mile Square ABI Day
2007: Junior Year – VOC: MS WALK
2007: Junior Year – AIDS WALK
2007: Junior Year – Beach Cleanup
2007: Junior Year – Muckenthaler Center
2006-2007: Summation: Junior Year
2007: Math Poem
2007: End of Junior Year
2007-2008: Senior Year Summation Pt. 1
2007: Summer 2007
2008: Senior Year Summation Pt. 2
2007-2008: Senior Year – A Visit to UC Campuses
2008: Senior Year – Winter Formal & Prom
2008: Senior Year – UC Dinner
2008: Senior Year – Freaks & Geeks
2007-2008: Senior Year – VOC Cumulative
2008: End of Senior Year
2008: Senior Year FACT Newspaper
Summer 2008: Summer 2008

In the morning Hiep quickly alerted me she would be unavailable to pick me up. I panicked contacting Earth, who eventually contacted Chris, who eventually picked me up. We arrived at Rancho to Hamamoto’s classroom to give some wonderful advice to the kiddies back at the school: in attendance included me, Chris, Eva, Earth, Jonny, Nhi, Lina, Howard, & Hiep. The class of 2008 quickly dominated the forefront of the conversation leaving the class of 2011 in the ruins. Afterwards I would visit Ms. Lockhart’s class with Earth and Hiep (and talk to a bunch of underachievers), talk to Ms. Blandford, and eventually Mr. Durand and Mr. Murray simultaneously. It was not until all of us (minus Lina and Howard) went to Harry’s Cafe afterwards (walking) that I realized how much I had missed the memories we had all shared. It was only roughly 4 years ago that I would go into the same Cafe and have long conversations about life as well as several Calculus study sessions. By the time we got bored of one another, we all parted ways to hopefully eventually meet up sometime again in the near future.

I went home to relax and talk to my sister for a bit, before Nam came over. Annie, Nam, and I all went to the asian mall so she could buy origami and I could look for a potential white elephant gift. While she suceeded, I failed in doing so. We ended up rewarding ourselves with Volcano Tea afterwards before going home to eat dinner, and pretty much doing nothing for the rest of the night. I stayed at home and did various activities which included: reading Atlas Shrugged, watching How I Met Your Mother, and catching up on my blogs.

In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny. OH AMERICA <24.

Ron Paul’s Tea Party moneybomb was today. Go donate at ronpaul2012.com

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