My Lip Piercing Story

Last month, I went to get my lip pierced. I was supposed to do it on one weekend but postponed to the next weekend. Then I got sick and my brother was going to postponed to the next weekend but I told him no I already waited enough I wanted it now. It was Friday night. He say fine, do it the next night.

It was Saturday. I slept all day and did not wake up until 7-ish. I felt really sick and so tired. But I still wanted to go, no matter what. I was very determined to go. It was raining that night too. My brother and I waited outside the campus for the public bus to come. We stood for like half an hour because we had no idea when it was coming. Finally the bus came. It was a little bit crowded. We rode the bus to Adams Morgan. When we got off we walked a little bit until we arrived to the place.

When we went in, we waited a few minutes and looked at the designs. I asked the woman about the piercing. She said it wouldn’t hurt, just sting. I ask if I can still get it pierced even if I’m sick and she said yes. That was a relief because I didn’t want to go all the way there and come back with nothing. We went to the back and I sat on this chair. I wanted to video it but the woman said no. She prepped my lip with alcohol swab thing and I rinsed my mouth with mouthwash too. It was time to get it pierced. I was very nervous I don’t know why haha. As she put it through it was fast, but then as she put a ball on I felt pain. I don’t handle pain that much, even though I have a tattoo on my back. When she was done I felt relieved again. No more pain. I looked in the mirror and it looked great.

After that, it felt weird having a foreign object in my mouth. I kept playing with it even when I was not supposed to. I took care of it everyday by washing with mouthwash. Now I haven’t been doing that. I still use mouthwash at least once a week to make sure I don’t get it infected. I wear retainers so it has been a conflict like my piercing back gets stuck in my retainer. It happens a whole lot! Sometimes that does hurt. Or if I accidently hit my piercing. Now that really hurts. But I am glad I have it now.

My Thanksgiving break, part 2

On Friday, my sister and my brother and I all went black Friday shopping. We left around 4 in the morning. I was tired and sleepy. When we got to the next town I was awake and couldn’t wait to check out the sales. We went to Target, Kohl’s, Wal-Mart and the mall. It was dark out. It felt like night. We went inside Target and I saw my ex and his family and his girlfriend. I said hello to everyone but didn’t talk much. My brother was chatting with my ex. Awkward! I looked around the girls’ section to look for a coat but couldn’t find one to my liking. When we got to the mall, we went in a few stores. That mall is my favorite mall because I always shop there and I used to work in it. Anyways, I wanted a ninja turtle hat but my brother and I decided to wait until after Christmas or something. The only thing I got in the mall was a pair of pants. I needed that. I still could not find a coat. I must be very picky about coats now.

We did not get home until 11 that morning. We all went to take a nap. My sister had to go to work around 4. After that my dad picked my brother and me up. We stayed at my house for a night. I live with my dad and my brother lives in Florida. My sister lives with my mom. We played with our baby sister a bit but we were so tired so we slept early. I am sure my dad was wondering what we were doing going to bed at 10 at night. The next day, my brother’s friend came to pick us up. I have not seen her since August I guess. We went to look at stores and his other friend came. I have not seen him since Homecoming. After my brother’s friend left, my sister and her friends came and met us at T.G.I.F.s for dinner. After that we went bowling. Bowling was fun. I haven’t been bowling in a long time. It was nice to go out. At least we spent time with our sister. A couple of her friends left so it was my brother, his friend, my sister, her friend and I. Then my brother’s friend left. We left around 1 to go back home. We didn’t go to bed until 5-ish. Today is Sunday and I am going back to D.C soon. I didn’t do much today, just chilled at home and packed.

My Thanksgiving break, part 1

I came home this recent Tuesday for thanksgiving break. I had to wait until nighttime because I had a presentation in ASL and plus I had to wait for my brother and our ride home. I said bye to some of my friends and we were on our way. We stopped by 7-11 to get snacks for the ride. I was pretty bored in the car because my phone had died. So I just listened to music and played a game on my Ipod Touch. It helped pass the time and pretty soon I needed to use the restroom. I was about to tap my friend on the shoulder and ask if we could stop somewhere when I looked out the window and saw my familiar surroundings. I had arrived to my mom’s hometown. I was pretty excited. It took us hour and a half. I was surprised because it usually took us around 2 hours. My brother woke up.

When we got to my mom’s house, my mom greeted us. she hugged us and kissed us. she said she missed us. aww. I missed her too. My friend left so we sat in living room and mom was asking us how college was. Later that night, me and my brother walked a couple blocks to see my friend. He owns a bar here in my mom’s town but lives on the same road my dad lives on. Strange, isn’t it? Anyways, my friend wasn’t there but his daughter and his girlfriend was. So I chatted with them. my friend’s daughter was telling us how much my sister has grown. She showed me a video of her dancing. She was soo cute. I missed her. Me and my brother came back to the house and waited for our older sister to come home. We chatted and watched a movie. Then we went to bed.

The next day, Wednesday, my dad and my sister came to visit. I haven’t seen them since August. It was good to see them. my sister has grown. She walks a lot now and always getting into things. After they left, we watched movies all day and just chilled around. My older sister had to go to work. So it was pretty boring for a while. I started to eat a lot of food cuz I was hungry and bored. Everytime I get bored I eat food, I don’t know why. Ahh.

Today is thanksgving. I woke up around 11ish because my mom woke me up. I watched t.v. until 1:30 ish when my mom said dinner was ready. We always eat holiday dinners early. I only ate one plate because I had snacks the night before. After that my sister dyed my hair. Then we watched more t.v. I did my homework too so I don’t have to worry about it later. Its all good. J

My night in the hospital

So eh.. Last monday night I did the unthinkable.. I did it. Yes I did. I.. drank. I know what you're thinking, "What? Monday?!! you're crazy!" I wasn't planning on drinking. I planned on sleeping until 12 because I don't have a class until 2:30 tuesday afternoons. It was night and I was in a friend's room. I was supposed to be responsible for this friend so he wouldn't drink. I ended up drinking and I had a few shots. I kept telling myself "one more drink." But I see the alcohol and I just grab it and drink more. I did it until I started feeling out of it. 

Pretty soon, I blacked out. I didn't remember most of it. I came back when i was in friend's room and I asked to use the bathroom. I went then blacked out in there and came back again with me in the bathroom with other people. I then blacked out. I came back again with me in the living room and my friends trying to get me to my room. I don’t remember what happened after that but the first thing I remembered after my friends got me in my room was I was in the bathroom at the sink. After that I somehow ended up in my bed and DPS and RA in my room.

The DPS came to my bed and asked if I was all right. I said yes just tired. I tried to go back to sleep but wouldn’t let me. I saw my vomit on my bed and I was thinking, “Oh sh**. I’m in trouble now.” The DPS said I needed to go to the hospital. I said no I don’t need to go. Not necessary. We were arguing back and forth for few minutes. I turned to look at the RA and she was standing looking all serious with her arms crossed. I wanted to say, “Why so serious?” but I knew this wasn’t appropriate. Hehe. Then I started bawling like a baby. All because I was afraid I was in trouble. They too me to the hospital and took my blood and put clear liquid in me.

I woke up hours later (I think) and they put me on the bus and I woke up back at Gallaudet University. Thing is, I don’t know where I put my discharge papers. I may have lost it on my walk back to Gallaudet. If you find it, please give it to me. Thanks J

Ps- that picture I posted on here is my supposed bac. I had to take this alcohol due to an previous trouble. I know, I couldn’t believe it too.

FYS experience 5

One Sunday afternoon, I was on my way back to the campus when my two friends, James and Jared asked me to go out to eat with them. I said sure because we never had a chance to hang out. So we went to Union Station to eat Chinese food. It was good and I put a lot of bourbon sauce on my chicken. I asked where to go now and they said I pick. I decided to go outside and walked around Union Station. I then asked them if they wanted to go see George Washington University because I have a few friends there. They said sure!! So we walked towards the university but after an half-hour we were getting tired of walking so we went to the metro and met my friend at Foggy Bottom stop. I introduced them and my friend showed us the campus. It is pretty spread out! I haven’t looked in the gym but it sure does look big on the outside.

            We went into the library and it was big. I don’t remember how many floors but I think 8 floors. It looked pretty nice. There was on good advantage- there was Starbucks next to the library. They are lucky to have that. They got something to drink then we went to my friend’s fraternity- Kappa Sigma. I already know the people in KS because my brother’s in that fraternity. My friend introduced them to all the members and pledges. Then we left because they had a meeting. At the metro, we pretended to be statues by sitting still and posing. It was pretty funny because a woman kept looking at us. we got off at New York avenue metro because the shuttle wasn’t running. We walked back but we had fun though. After that we went to Jared’s room and played his videogame Burnout. It is a pretty good game. I love racing.

            Looking back on that day, I realized I haven’t had that much fun in a long time. I felt like I had a chance to be myself, that I didn’t have to worry about what people thought of me if I did silly things or crazy things. If I am with friends I am comfortable with I will be myself. It was a good experience for me. I am glad my friends asked me or I wouldn’t had fun like I did with them. I hope I will be able to do that again with them!!

FYS experience

I am asked to do experience paper but this week I have none. So instead I will type on how my week was. Better than nothing, right? This week feels like a blur really.  On Monday, I had English, FYS and math class. English class was good but I was a little tired. We were discussing the chapters about argument and evidence. We also discussed Purdue University’s OWL. It stands for Online Writing Lab. It is a very interesting website because it has almost everything you need. It has literary analysis which is good for English Class. In FYS class we had the author Hands of My Father come to our class and talked about his life. It was pretty interesting. I did not go to my math class because my former school was here visiting for open house and I have not seen my best friend since August. I am sure I missed nothing so it’s all good. I wanted to spend time with her before she left at 3.  I saw some of my other friends from my school too. On Tuesday I had Linguistic and ASL class. Linguistic was a little fun. We talked about scores on our test and overall grade. Then we talked about different types of system of communication. We partnered up and identified one video and tell how we identify it.  In ASL it was pretty interesting. We talked about name signs. We learned about ANS (Arbitrary Name Sign) and DNS (Descriptive Name Sign). Mine is ANS. We then learned all of our classmate’s name sign. People can have both. I think the professor said something about ASN cannot overlap ASL signs? Something like that. Interesting huh? I think so too. Backtrack to the weekend!! I save the best for the last. This weekend, wow. Friday was good. I stayed up and talked with friends until 7 in the morning. I was planning on going to the football game and help with my brothers fraternity on Saturday but…. I overslept. Damn it. It’s the second time in a row. Next game, I’m seriously getting up. That day, there was a club event hosted by my brother’s fraternity, Kappa Sigma. The club was banging!! I met their hearing fraternity brothers. They were very nice. I love the Kappa Sigma fraternity. They are very nice and have interesting people in it.  Kappa Sigma is internationally known. Most colleges have that fraternity. If you want to know more go to http://www.kappasigma.org/

NSO week

During NSO week, I met many different people from everywhere. I also met old friends. I met my roommate again. I had already met her when I stayed in Florida for the summer. I participated in some things but some I missed because I either overslept or I was busy doing something with my brother. He is a junior here. He helped me get to places I needed to go on campus. I went off campus to get things for my room so I can feel like home. That week was a good week because I learned a lot about people.

Job Fair

For my learning experience, I went to the Job fair on Thursday.  I dressed up nice and went to the Kellogg hotel. It was pretty nice inside. Anyways, I went in the fair and there were a lot of tables set up. There were different companies like the FBI, SSA, Federal Aviation Administratrion and Federal Bureau of Prison. When I am looking at all the fliers I realized they're all government. There was also the new communication system called ZVRS. It looks cool.

I have always been interested in FBI because I always wanted to work there. I learned a few things while I was at the job fair. There were 46 tables. They were all interesting because there were different things. I stopped by almost all the tables and took their brochures so I can learn more information.  It was a good learning experience.