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The Last Days: Memories w/ Meikai (yr. 2 – pt. 2)

Posted in Random with tags farewell, meikai, memories on March 30, 2008 by winjuroo

Fast forward to after I drop them home —> (Trung, Alfred, and Jonathan came to my house by this time)

It was time to start the endless nite… making all the gifts for the Meikai students we knew. Early in the morning, Alfred and me stopped by Publix to get stuff to make sandwiches and cards for all the students and even earlier, I grabbed a big bag of sand from Clearwater Beach. We decided to fill jars w/ the sand so that they could take a piece of my hometown with them back to Japan (sounds kewl, rite!?). Jonathan decided to compile a DVD w/ a movie he was making and most of the pics that I took during my time w/ them. It took us most of the nite, but we finally finished filling out all the cards, making the DVD and sand jars around 7:45am.

The Last Days: Memories w/ Meikai (yr. 2 – pt. 1)

Posted in Random with tags farewell, meikai, memories on March 30, 2008 by winjuroo

These are the memories and emotions that have been brewing in my mind for the past couple days. This entry is definitely the longest one i’ve written, but it’s also my most heartfelt one, next to my entry to Minju…

Hometown Road Trip.

Posted in Random with tags 2-flo, clearwater, meikai, road trip on March 25, 2008 by winjuroo

Kinda too lazy to write what we did on this trip in detail, so I’ll just write the gist of things. Shopping, Pier, Beach, Food. Good enough? LOL. Altho, I discovered that Yasuko is very photogenic. Maybe a photo-shoot before she goes? Maybe… Anyways, it was a great all-day trip and it’s a shame we didn’t get to spend more time at the beach… check out the gallery link for the pics.

Click here for the gallery! (I had to put these pics in the same gallery as the Kennedy Space Center ones cuz of Flickr’s limitations… sigh… time to find a better image host. Any suggestions?)

Downtown Disney.

Posted in Random with tags downtown disney, hangout, meikai, thierry, tony on March 14, 2008 by winjuroo

My recent life seems to be one of a chauffeur so far… it’s all i’ve been doing for maybe the past two weeks and boy… I guess I at least get outta the house these days, but shoot… it seems to be getting old. Well, we’ll see how it goes.

Shuttle Launch.

Posted in Random with tags kennedy space center, launch, meikai, shuttle on March 12, 2008 by winjuroo

So I got a chance to check out the night launch yesterday at Kennedy Space Center. Technically, it was early this morning (2:28am), but w/e. I went there with Alfred, Alissa, Yancy, Lucy, Trung, Aaron and some of the Meikai transfer students.

Curry & Dorama Night.

Posted in Random with tags aaron, curry, dorama, fl mall, meikai, winfield on March 5, 2008 by winjuroo

Well this was sorta unexpected… having curry made by the lovely Meikai ladies and some J-dorama to top it off a great night. Other than my voice starting to go away, it was all gravy~.

Kennedy Space Center.

Posted in Random with tags alfred, kennedy space center, meikai, nasa, tony, trung, yancy on March 3, 2008 by winjuroo

So Sunday was my first time visiting Kennedy Space Center in maybe 15 years. I don’t really remember much from that time, but this visit was well worth my $20 (woo! student discount!). Using the Meikai students as an excuse to visit, we made our journey there at 10am. Tho, due to us being asian, we were naturally a bit late… Some complications and an hour later, we make it to NASA a little before noon.

First on the tour was the rocket garden. Pretty self explanatory, it’s quite literally a garden of rockets. lol. Got some kewl pics out of that and by the time that was done, the Meikai students were hungry… so off it is to eat. I didn’t get anything cuz I didn’t wanna get ripped off by the outrageous tourist food prices. So I did what any poor college student would do, stare at others eating… haha.

So after that comes to an end, it’s off to the bus tour (2 hour tour!!!). The wasn’t as bad as initially thought. It took you beyond what was possible. You get to see the launch pad from the closest you can get! Then you also get to see a GIGANTIC Saturn V rocket! Pretty freakin amazing. It’s moments like this that make you proud to be American. There was also an exhibit on the International Space Station and the future of that.

I guess what made the trip more worth it was that we got to show part of our American history/heritage with people not familiar w/ American culture and history. Enlightening minds and broadening horizons is something I feel should always be done and I think we accomplished that today.

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