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Name: Jo Lu
Birthday: 7/9/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: bball...hangin with friends...watchin people act stupid...watching animal planet and the food network...
Expertise: braiding/cutting hair...making fun of people...being a bitch...keepin clean while eating with sarah
Occupation: Sales
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/20/2003
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| So I'm officially done with my third year. One more to go! I am just so glad that all the stress of finals are over, but I'm left with a bittersweet feeling. Time that is much needed for relaxing will be spent running errands and getting ready for my semester in Australia. I will be leaving in less than two weeks, and I'm beginning to feel the effects of the magnititude of my decision to live abroad for the next 6 months. I'm sad about moving out of the apartment that I've called my home for the past two years and I'm dreading all the goodbyes I have to say before I leave the country. I'm going to miss so many people when I'm gone, I just hope that too much doesn't change without me. I'm sure that it will but, i will hang on to hope. eehhh I'm starting to get mushy on the web, so i gotta end this entry fast. Anyway, all I wanna say is that I hope I can stay in touch with everyone while I'm gone. That's why you should add me on facebook or myspace if you have one!!! I will rely heavily on the internet to keep me in touch with all of you wonderful people! If you have time, call me up for lunch or dinner or just a little talk time before I leave. Joana out. | | |
| Hey Everyone!!
Just to let you know, next weekend I'm participating in a fundraising
activity for the American Cancer Society (ACS). It's called Relay
for Life, which is the ACS's largest source of revenue. More than
90% of the proceeds go directly towards research. The rest of it
goes towards developing medication and treatments. If anyone
would like to donate to this cause, please click on the link that takes
you to the American Cancer Society's website and use your credit card
to help out. Any amount will be appreciated.
CLICK HERE TO HELP FIGHT AGAINST CANCER!!
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| so it's finals week. I am coming to the end of my third winter
quarter...kinda scary but good to see all my friends online this
week. haha. I guess I'll give you all an update since i
have four finals to study for this week. So school is going well
i suppose, aside from wanting to be over, i can't complain about this
quarter much. I am borderline in a lot of my classes so i have to
bust my ass to keep my A's. Going for the gold again.
Work has been very chill. I don't do much. It's usually
very slow...all the time, but it gives me time to do other things like
homework or time to update my xanga.
Spring break should be fun, im going to Berkeley/Norcal this friday and
staying for the weekend. Im just going to random hit up people
and that are from the area. So all you bay area kids, watch
out! The following weekend i will be hitting up vegas with the
family (yeah i know, it's not really vegas if its with the family, but
I get to hang out with my cousin who I haven't seen in the longest
time...WOOO!!) Between the two weekends, all i have planned is
work...that should be fun i guess.
My preparation for studying abroad in Australia is coming along.
I'm doing my research, checking out maps and bus routes and all.
I'm starting to plan my classes and all the things I want to do
there. Trying to find cheap airline tickets is a bitch, but I'm
slowing sifting through student discounted tickets and all that.
Aside from that my spring break will consist of chillin, hanging with
my friends and my pookie, and watching JACK BAUER save the country, yet
again.
I am also desperately awaiting hot weather so i can soak up the sun
before I depart for the world 'down under' where it will be
winter...kinda sucks...but the winters are supposedly pretty cool and
not too chilly. Let me know if you want to hit the beach as soon as the
weather warms up a bit.
Well those are my updates. Your turn so I can have something to read while I'm supposed to be studying!
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| It's hard to believe that in about a year and a couple months from now
I am going to be graduating. When I graduated high school, it
seemed like it would take an eternity to get through college.
That, however, is not the case. So here I am, right smack dab in
the middle of my third year and I've realized that there is so much
more for me to do. And I'm not just talking about life in
general, I still have so many things to accomplish before I walk the
aisles of my graduation in 2008. I'm glad I'm finally starting to
kick it up right now, still a little late, but better than
nothing. I'm happy I finally picked a major and a minor, I've
gotten into research, I've worked while going to school, I'm getting
into community service, my GPA is looking good, everythings really on
the up and up.
Sometimes I think of all the things I could have done in the past and
kinda kick myself in the ass because I didn't do it. I really
don't know what I was afraid of at the time, but I've learned now that
if I just suck it up and take a chance, I can't ever let myself have
any regret. Even if things don't work out the way they plan, you
can honestly say that you gave it your all, and that it took you
somewhere you would never be if you never took the leap. So now
I've decided that I want to take another leap, a big one before I
graduate and start thinking about getting a job or applying to grad
school. I'm really working my ass off right now to get myself
into studying abroad in Australia. Why Australia? Well,
it's kind of an impulse thing. I've just heard so many great
things about the cities, the wildlife, the schools, the music, the art,
and the people. It's just, you know, on the other side of the
world, and I've always been told that it's a good idea to look at the
other sides of things. So that's what I'm going to do. Now
I have a total of 5 days to put this application together, which
includes an statement of purpose essay, two letters of recommendations,
getting a transcript, an academic course plan signed by my counselor,
and not to mention the entire 8 some-odd page application. And
after I get all that stuff done, I have to make about a million copies
of each document and assemble them into packets (it's more like four
copies, but you know what i mean). I'm three days into it, and I have
the bulk of the work done, thanks to some really great TA's and
Professors that we willing to write me letters of recommendations in
less than a week. Right now Im working on my statement of purpose
and I'm putting a lot of thought into it, maybe a little too
much. The writer's block just keeps closing in on me, but
hopefully things will work out. Soonn the hard part will be over,
and what's left will be the part that's going to serve as the
foundation for the bulk of my anxiety over the next couple months:
waiting to see if I've been chosen to be a part of this Education
Abroad Program. So I'm wishing to the stars. Here's to luck
everyone!
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