Visiting Thailand!

Nope this Aint Thailand, Its Denver Thai temple!

Our Thai friends Guy, Piaw, Palm (not their real names ok?) are celebrating their new year and they were on the search for their Thai temple ever since they got to the USA. Luckily, they found one which was 2 1/2 hours away from Granby, the place we work. Since all of us, Me, Sherly, Jane and the Thais need to get our Social Security card already, our Resident Assistant Courtney (Gisele) took us to our social security and since we have about 4 hours free time after getting the SSC, we took the chance to find the Thai temple with the help of my epic GPS, good thing it worked though. haha! Anyway We found the temple and the Thais were happy, it was just simply amazing, the giant Buddha statues and all those Golden things. We also did try our fortune from "Buddha" apparently my fortune isn't that good, so I flushed it down our toilet, haha! After the prayer at the Temple, our Thai journey should never end there, we went out to find a Thai restaurant and so we did, we ate at the Thai house just nearby, the food was great and spicy! :)) after that we went to the mall and shopped :) THIS SURE IS ONE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET. :)

Asian Food festival!

ASIAN FOOD FEST IN COLORADO USA

APRIL 2nd 

There are about 20 of us Asians from Thailand, Philippines and China who are working as international staff at the Y and one of our goals is to share our culture, especially the food. One of our American friends have decided to have an Asian food fest where we cook our traditional dishes. They all enjoyed it and loved it! I, being a sushi/maki lover, made my very own maki rolls, salmon and crab, where I only used a plastic folder to wrap it, haha! Plexy and Earvin Cooked the Philippines very own, Adobo which everyone loved. Piaw and Chadchapon "Guy"  from thailand cooked their Chicken soup and Thai Spicy Noodles. Will, the brains of this event was in charge of dessert, he got us Apple Pie and Ice cream! this sure is one YUMMY NIGHT, one of the nights i will truly miss. :)

I always tell her that she reminds me of Gisele Bundchen :))

My "crib" in Granby

Wanna know what my, in that case, OUR room looks like in Colorado?

Before we even flew across the world for our US practicum, we already requested to be room mates together, unfortunately, wish not granted, so my bro-from-another-momma waited about 2 weeks till we move to a new room, since only boys and boys, and girls and girls can stay together and Sherly and Plexy are already room mates. But they moved us to a fresh new room. room 3084 of Blueridge lodge. We had no one else in the room with us for 1 month, and on our last month, since that the number of employees are growing in the summer, we had to pick 2 room mates, so, we got our Thai brothers, Mint and Arm :) I just miss my life in the USA, and I miss my friends there, and my room. 

VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW  (c) sony w570 digicam (March 22, 2012)

HOW WE LOOK AFTER MOVING IN! :)))) 

AS OUR THAI ROOM MATES SAY: LOOM MATES :)

I MISS

HOW OUR ROOM LOOKS LIKE WHEN WE MOVED: MARCH 22, 2012

HOW OUR ROOM LOOKS LIKE BEFORE WE LEFT: JUNE 14, 2012 :)))))) DISASTER 

Flashback, Cake Decorating

2 days before we leave for the United States...

March 2, 2012-FRIDAY

So, our professor required us to join the cake decorating contest sponsored by Goldilocks bakeshop in order to fulfill our final exam. So, we did. Me, P and E joined this contest. Plexy and Earvin as partners, and Me and Ivan G. So the main concept of this contest is to incorporate artistic skills in decorating a cake... So, I decided to create a white and red cake with the theme: LOVE. I put my drawing skills into it and made a couple in a beach with the sunset as the main attraction of the cake and put some garden-ish style in the sides, unfortunately we didnt win anything nor be in the top 7, well, we didn't give a shit that day. coz we were about to leave for the USA and our minds were somehow floating somewhere in the blue. 

I do remember how we were in "panic mode" during these days about packing, getting papers ready and all that. But we get to bring home the cake, so we ate it and gave some to our friends!

At the end of the day, we went to our dean to say goodbye. all our stress just evaporated out of our body, and we just cried because our dean was so happy about us being the 1st batch to leave for the United Stated to have our on-the-job training. 

This is one of THE most unforgettable days of my 2012.

OUR CAKE :))

Whoever's cake is this. :)) 

Campfires, always better in SMR!

Lets sing our C-A-M-P F-I-R-E song in the Snow Mountain!

Late March of 2012

So one of the activities provided by our company, Snow Mountain Ranch is the Campfire night, we all gather at the campfire area near Bays 0. Evan, being the R.A. that time provided us with some marshmallows, chocolate bars and biscuits, and these make= SMORES! That night, we Filipinos decided to cook our favorite PH dishes and we enjoyed some S mores too while chilling with the heat of burning wood in the snowy mountains

Sherly and the strawberry shaped like her face, hahaha!

A photo of Us with Evan, good man, good man

Danielle, I, Plexy, Earvin, Val and Chase

You gotta love this shit

Strawberries and Vanilla ice cream=heaven

How to distress yourself

THURSDAY HASSLE 

19th of JULY, 2012

             This semester, I only have Mondays and Wednesdays 6:00pm-9:00pm, but since I am the newly elected Student council President for the college of International Hospitality Management, I do go to school to do some paper works and tasks. So today, July 19, I went to school to fix some important council papers, where I had to run back and forth to our building (IHM building) and the old grade school building and to the photocopiers and have to deal with questions, and many many other pending tasks,  so today was just really tiring. 

What I usually do to alleviate the pressure of my day, I pass by SM Southmall, which is also the way going home,  just to buy a DQ milkshake, vanilla milkshake to be exact, I bring it home and drink it while eating the chocolates I brought home from my USA expedition and just lay down in my bed and listen to my favorite music (specifically Adele, The Naked and Famous, & John Meyer) as well as taking deep breaths    :)) 

Ya'll should do the same:

SWEETS+MUSIC+BED+ AIR CONDITIONING +DEEP BREATHS

FAQ: SWEETS ARE GOOD TO ALLEVIATE STRESS, SADNESS AND PRESSURE.