Christmas Party 2011

One of my student, Jisoo, is in 5th grade and made this 3-D Christmas card for me. It was spectacular. Even more amazing is that she's a 5th grader! It's definitely well-made. She said it's very simple to make and that she learned it from school. But I think it's still impressive.

Inside the card, it reads: Hello, I'm Jisoo. Thank you for teaching me. and I want to learn more

Continuing inside the card: (and I want to learn more) from you. It is very kind of you. Best regards.

I think the card was nicely written as well. Spelling and syntax were decent. I was so touched by this card. I gave her an Angry Bird Foam Bat for a present.

This is Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, as you can tell. For the Christmas party, I was in charge of the activities and games. Like for every party. I took pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and adapted it to pin-the-nose-on-Rudolph. I made him from scractch using colored construction paper and glue all within 30 minutes before the party started. Nice save. The red nose has Velcro on the back so the students can reattach and detach it as we blindfold them with a scarf and spin them 5 times. It was such a fun game. The students really enjoyed it. Even all the teachers and my boss gave it an attempt.

This is a Christmas tree that I made from green felt and colored construction paper, which I laminated later since my boss wanted to keep it for future use. It doesn't look too shabby. The snow is cotton balls and I bought actual miniature Christmas decorations that I hot-glued to the outside of the lamination.

Halloween 2009

In my sophmore year of university, my current at the time apartment roommates, Casey and Braegan, invited me to carve pumpkins with them for Halloween. Since we were just getting to know each other, it was a great activity for an ice-breaker. They had already lived together in the Woodlands Apartments for one year and alreayd knew each other becuase they were pursuing the same major. They were a little older than me. They were around 24 and I was 19 at the time. I was still walking on eggshells with them because I really didn't know them yet and I was the odd one out. So I took the chance but I didn't want to go by myself. I invited my friend, Renate B., to come with since she's imaginative and would love to have an opportunity to carve pumpkins. She had nevver carved a pumpkin before since she lives in Miami and it's too hot and pumpkins smell. We made a terrific jack-o-latern and named it Franky. I think Franky turned out pretty decent.

Peter Griffin/ Master Shake

So I loved mash-ups and I recall one episode where Peter Griffin (father character from Family Guy show) was in the prison yard and force to sing Milkshake by Kelis while crying and shirtless. Milkshake led me to recall Masta Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which I don't like the new season by the way. So I created a mash-up between the two.

Heart of Asia Festival

The Heart of Asia Festival in Gainesville, Florida celebrates a multitude of Asian cultures and history. The University of Florida Japanese Club also had a booth where we promoted Japanese culture by teaching origami and sold anime portrait of people for cheap.
This was the second time I went to the festival, and I contributed to the club since I'm a fellow member and I took Japanese language courses. This was my anime portrait. It looks uncannily similar

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