life's too short

so in light of the shit load of drama that's been happening around me, i thank God that my family and friends are still well and have their health and i pray for them all to be super dee duper strong during the tough times they are going through. i cant believe the things that i've been hearing about lately. it's really sad the shit that goes down in this world and this is one of the reasons why i have no qualms about going back home to san diego and spending time with my family. i'm making like hispanics and enjoying the here-n-now before it's too late. sure the hard work is invested for the return later, but there's definitely good that can come from enjoying the present. plus, it's not only about spending time with my family because i will definitely be learning a lot when i go back home. hopefully i'll learn more about the community so that i can go to school and work in san diego in the future. plus, i can probably work the american lung association teaching those classes to kids - word is san diego just go mucho dinero to run these classes, and being a border city with mexico, it'll be prime location for me to beee. anyway, this is besides the point. anyway, just saying that life is short and time is precious and i want to spend as much of it as i can with the people that i love most = mi familia!!! i must admit that i will miss my friends from college mucho mucho but since they'll be big balling hopefully they can visit me in SD *wink wink* where i'll treat them to some good food and take good care of 'em.

i've just got in touch with mike zhang from kimball again. he's going to UW for an MDPhD. i'm so happy for him! he's also doing this biking marathon thingie for ppl with...oh shoot! i forgot. anyway, i donated dinero to the cause and i'm uber excited. i'm so happy that there are all these good people in the world. it makes me SO happy.


oh, and i should also note that i taught my first asthma classes today!!! it was a lot of fun, but i wish my talking were a lot smoother and polished. i was sorta improv-ing and i didn't like that. i really want these kids to take away soo much for this class because i'm told that they are soo useful for them, especially coming from lowincome backgrounds and having parents that dont know too much about asthma. i hope i will get better at this sort of thing because i definitely wouldn't mind if it was an integral part of my career in the future - teaching disadvantaged folks about basic health, etc...in san diego, hopefully i'll be able to continue teaching asthma to kids. eventually it'd be nice to teach about nutrition and other issues. i could come up with my own lesson plans and stuff! how fun would that be? i figured it could be a side job to being a doctor. anyway, the kids were way cute. i must say i felt more comfortable around the 6th graders because they were straight up ghetto and i was like YEEA and a little bit of my gangsta ness came out. lol. i think it's cuz at that age, the personality of the person who is teaching, i feel, comes a little bit more into play - which is to my advantage because i dont know if i teach that well but i make funny faces and do weird things which would appeal to their age group more, i think anyway. i dont know though. guess i'll find out eh?? anyway, i will definitely try to be more prepared for next week. i'll try. lol.

so i guess i jumped topics. anyway, point is, i gotta do what i love and i gotta be with who i love.