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Name: Cathy
Country: United States
State: California
Gender: Female
Interests: Going online-+-Driving-+-Watching anime-+-Playing games-+-Painting-+-Singing in the shower
Expertise: Playing the cello and piano-+-Fencing-+-
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
3/31/2003
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| A couple days ago, I found out Sarah, one of my students I tutor, is leaving the US and going to Shanghai to be with her parents and study in the international school there. <: (...I'm going to miss her...I've watched her grow for almost three years! Teaching her and Eric both at the same time, I was there when she was most immature, and while she grew up, I could tell how she was maturing and being less selfish, as most kids are. It was almost like parenting, teaching kids how to interact with each other and letting them learn and solve conflicts on their own. From the days when she and Eric would argue almost every day and cry how they hated each other, to now when they only seriously argue twice in a year; she really grew up quite a bit! Well, they both did...but Eric isn't the one that's leaving.
There is one last thing I want to teach her, though...but I'm not going to write it here. ^_^ It's for her only! I hope, if I see her many years from now, that she'll grow up into a wonderful lady.
Bye Sarah!
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| Every once in a while, I'll be inspired to look up fencing around me, and today I found....
http://www.southcoastfencing.com/staff.html
holy cow, I know for sure 3 of those guys! They haven't changed at all....I used to go to the fencing club at UCI with my dad and my brother at night....2 times a week? This was when I was.....I don't know....5th grade...or middle school....I still think about it from time to time.
It's expensive though...I think I have all the equipment, except for the women's uniform, because when I fenced way back then, I wasn't a women! And I don't think I can just take my dad's old outfit, and my brother's outfit is pretty boyishly small for me I think. Anyhow....the center that's closest to me looks like to be near South Coast Plaza, and that's too far for me. The other option is the fencing club at UCI, but I don't live in Irvine....It's still far. This sucks....maybe I'll just have a couple duels with my dad in our backyard and call it a day. En garde!
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| Want to know just how nerdy and what a dork i am? I had a WoW/rl dream last night. From what I can remember, it was something like this. I was a backup performer for a play. It was shakespearian i think....and I was like....not main character, but the main character's friend or something. And I forgot the play, but it was a cross between Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. ....which is like..what?!?! but anyway, the main guy that is supposed to do my part couldn't do it, so since I was back up, I did. But I forgot my part! It was in the car that I drove, and since me and everyone else decided to take another car, I forgot my part and I don't know any of my lines so I'm screwed! So I call my brother who I decide in my dream, must be near a computer and is wired to the internet somehow (yeah, actually this is a real life fact) and tell him to look up my part on the internet and read to me my lines so I could write them down. But my brother is unwilling, so I have to do some kind of quest in a huge castle. This is where WoW comes along because the castle looks like Karazhan and I have to do a quest to find 3 keys to get into the library or something (Karazhan library is pretty cool too). So I'm doing these quests, I finally get to key. The play is an hour away. The manager at the castle (wth?) sees that I'm in a rush and asks me why I'm in a rush. He says he's going to the play too. I end up not finding the part to the play in the library. Flash forward to I'm at the play, and I'm talking to this really tall guy I just meet about my situation...and he's trying to comfort me. And I tell him I don't even know my lines. And he starts reciting it playfully...and then "aaaaaah" aura comes over me....."Hey! Why don't you do my part in the play???" Tada! Crisis averted. He agrees, and I give the guy at the front of the theatre my ticket....except my ticket doesn't work...it's already torn or something...... and then I wake up. wow. I think I got romeo and juliet from the Romulo and Julianne event in Karazhan too. That fight is pretty awesome with the talking and stuff. It's just like you're in the play...except you kill the two lovers on purpose. ^_^. Star-crossed lovers......more like axe/sword/firebolt/SWP/arrow crossed lovers. Oh, and it's my birthday today ^_^. | | |
| So I'm taking my first political science class, and we had a discussion post this week about gay adoption and the 14th amendment. Usually, these topics are kind of.....mm...something I don't really care about and so I end up not writing to much, or to fill up in length, restate stuff over and over -__-". But this week, I think I had a little more to write and I felt a little passion in my heart! I guess it's a good feeling. Here it is:
I like strawberry ice cream.
Not everyone likes strawberry ice cream. Some people can't even eat ice
cream at all because they are lactose intolerant. Does that mean I
shouldn't be able to keep my rights as a citizen, or adopt a child
because I always keep strawberry ice cream in the freezer?
To
me, the 14th Amendment protects all U.S. Citizens. It doesn't make a
difference to me the sexual orientation of a biological male or female.
Everybody has an opinion and a preference; why should that affect one's
constitutional rights?
The topic discussed is about adoption of
kids by homosexuals. If I think solely about adoption, I would want
whatever is best for the child being adopted. There should be no
requirements for a loving family and loving families can be found from
people least expected. I remember hearing a story about the tragic
tsunami in the pacific, and how a baby hippopotamus, after losing its
mother, found comfort and became emotionally attached to a large
tortoise to become her parent. As long as there is a nurturing
environment for a child, adoption should be okay. There are no
guarantees in any situation either. A child released to a male and
female parent family should have the same amount of risk as a child
released to a same sex parenting family. Every child and family should
be viewed on a case to case basis, as the essay states.
As long
as the constitution that our country was build on is working and no one
is getting harmed, I see no reason to change things as they are
written. I realize that because these are amendments, that means they
are changes to the constitution, and that some changes are for the
better. I do believe that right now, homosexuals have the right to be
protected by the constitution and should maintain their rights. People
should be able to keep their rights, until they break a law and that is
when they should be processed as a citizen just like any other citizen.
If a gay adoptive parent does do something wrong with the child, then
that person should be taken to court as would a straight citizen would
be as well. With rights in place and working, what is all the big
debate about? I don't understand why people should care so much about
the lives of other people when they are not directly affecting your own
life. Personal opinions and beliefs should be kept just that: personal.
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Originally, I typed this out on word, and copy pasted it into the text box online....but right before I pasted it, I was suddenly inspired to write the beginning strawberry ice cream bit. @_@ I hope it wasn't too out there @_@.
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| Okay....is Avril Lavigne really that popular.....? Come to think of it..when her second album came out, it was kind of a big deal in Taiwan when I was there. And i remember she said she had a lot of Japanese fans.... But this might be too much. She has...7 different versions of her new single "Girlfriend"...and that's not counting her explicit/edited versions of each and her English one. There is...Italian, German, Portugese, Spanish, Japanese, Manderin Chinese, French!....seriously...@_@. I was browsing through my Sony Connect music store because I have free credits..and I came across this. So...I just had to download the Chinese version after listening to a clip of it. It's crazy....but she actually does pretty well sing parts of it in Chinese. She must have really practiced all those languages. Since I don't speak the other languages, I can't vouch for her language abilities there...but her manderin is pretty good ^_^. That's enough about her. If you want the manderin version of her new single, AIM me and I'll send it. | | |
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