Hey everyone!! Here is url to Tamu and I´s new blog for our adventures in Spain and Turkey. Check it out http://tamuandvicky.blogspot.com/
Much love
Vicky
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Happy Birthday!
I got you this ecard, so that I could send you some love from afar. I hope you enjoy it. I enjoy you. Kisses and have a great day. Oh and try not to watch this until Friday... if you can wait.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Campus is emptying out....
So as of last Friday, campus has been pretty empty. Students were required to get out of the dorms on the 25th by6 7pm. With the exception of a few who got permission to stay over night, all the students have left. YEY. Oh I am so fortunate to have nights where I can sleep peacefully now, and not be forced to get up in the middle of the night to regulate rowdy kids. I forgot what it was like to not hear loud pounding music while trying to sleep. The first night with students away was glorious. I slept well and deeply.
a while. Boy did that hurt my legs. My thighs were screaming at me afterwards. After that I jogged off the pain and returned back my dorm. Then I took the longest shower and fell asleep for 2 hours. When woke up to a call from some of my staff to go eat breakfast/lunch. So I decided to goin the gang. We had good laughs.
He is dancing to Toni Braxton's song "Maybe". Good sigh..its good stuff.
Then Liliana (me and mu's tennis buddy) happend to stop by the office and convinced me to leave early and go with her to play some tennis. So thats what we did. It was soo fun. I hadn't played tennis for almost 2 years now. I felt so good to hit that tennis ball again, and to just do what I onced loved. I mean I still love it, just not as much. But yeah as always is the case when I play tennis...muscles that I hadn't paid much attention to for a while were used and my body was sooo sore! But it was a good sore. At first Im thinking...oh maybe I am just feeling the run from this morning. But nah...it was def the tennis. Anywho..as soon as I was dropped off at the dorm my baby called. It was perfect timing. I was so happy. Sooo happty to hear to his voice. I could see that he was just as happy to talk with me. We talked for like 2 hours. It was great. I miss him so much. I can't wait to see him again.
Wooo....5 more weeks left. I am so excited!...Even though 5 weeks is still too long if u a ask me :P
Wooo....5 more weeks left. I am so excited!...Even though 5 weeks is still too long if u a ask me :P
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Finally getting the chance to write
So its 2:40 in the morning and I am not sure what to write about at all. Its been such a long time since I have written anything and so much has happened. I guess first I can talk about the usual, which is missing mumu. I miss and love you sweets. It has taken me so long to write because classes have been literally strangling the life out of me. This by far has been my most intensive semester. But due to God's blessings, it has also been one of my most accomplished filled semesters.
I have Aced all my classes except one - which is advanced writing. I still did well in the class though...just didn't get the highest grade I could of cause I lost the ability to care about halfway threw it hehe. But yeah, I pulled off a great 10 ra programs for this semester, got a teaching assistant job for next fall, have been putting together a very good grad application that will God willingly make me irresistible to grad schools :P. I also got asked by both the ra and part-time job to stay on for the summer. YEY to making money is the least I have to say about that.....So yeah I have been busy. Things have naturally picked up at a fast pace since you've been gone baby. I have been focused on what I need to do despite my mind being on you. Although it has been a hard semester with you leaving, I am so happy that you had the wonderful oppurtunity of studying in Ghana for six months!! Do you know how many people get that oppurtunity!?! Not many. I am elated that God has blessed you to stay safe thus far. He has had his hand on you mu, from the family you were blessed to stay with to the obruni's that you have been forced to be around, everything has worked out for the good. I love ya cuffy. Im so happy you made the decision to go and accomplish your dream. This time away from each other has only strengthened us and has made us ever so ready for whatever lies ahead.
With that being said...I am pretty happy right now if I do say so myself ;) The semester has come to a close for me. I finished my last final yesterday at 9:00AM YAHHOOO!!! I felt like a huge weight was lifted off my mind. lol u do not understand how hard it was to write that last paper for Business Government class. My mind has literally never been stretched so much. Till this moment I don't even know how I wrote this paper cause I had nothing in that head of mine at all. After last thursday I got the lazy bug and I did absolutely nothing! My body was already in shut down mode even though I had one more final. But yeah I am so fortunate cause right now - everyone is still working on their finals and I...I am chillin! Wooo..it feels great. Even though it feels kinda lonely cause everyone is still working so hard and i am the only one on vacation so to speak... eh.but I'm still all smiles :) :). My baby is coming home in exactly 6 semanas. YEy!! In the next 2 week Ill be preparing to move out to my new apartment, start a new semester of classes (which I am not ready for :/..im think i may be too burnt out), further secure future plans and oh yeah..do something for my birthday ;). May 9th yall..yeaha!!!
P.S. I want to make a special request for everyone to show me as much love as you can and as soon as possible if u haven't already. My baby and I leave for Spain and Turkey in literally 2 months so imma be gone before ya know it. Imma need yall to get your Vicky time in now before its too late lol.
I have Aced all my classes except one - which is advanced writing. I still did well in the class though...just didn't get the highest grade I could of cause I lost the ability to care about halfway threw it hehe. But yeah, I pulled off a great 10 ra programs for this semester, got a teaching assistant job for next fall, have been putting together a very good grad application that will God willingly make me irresistible to grad schools :P. I also got asked by both the ra and part-time job to stay on for the summer. YEY to making money is the least I have to say about that.....So yeah I have been busy. Things have naturally picked up at a fast pace since you've been gone baby. I have been focused on what I need to do despite my mind being on you. Although it has been a hard semester with you leaving, I am so happy that you had the wonderful oppurtunity of studying in Ghana for six months!! Do you know how many people get that oppurtunity!?! Not many. I am elated that God has blessed you to stay safe thus far. He has had his hand on you mu, from the family you were blessed to stay with to the obruni's that you have been forced to be around, everything has worked out for the good. I love ya cuffy. Im so happy you made the decision to go and accomplish your dream. This time away from each other has only strengthened us and has made us ever so ready for whatever lies ahead.
With that being said...I am pretty happy right now if I do say so myself ;) The semester has come to a close for me. I finished my last final yesterday at 9:00AM YAHHOOO!!! I felt like a huge weight was lifted off my mind. lol u do not understand how hard it was to write that last paper for Business Government class. My mind has literally never been stretched so much. Till this moment I don't even know how I wrote this paper cause I had nothing in that head of mine at all. After last thursday I got the lazy bug and I did absolutely nothing! My body was already in shut down mode even though I had one more final. But yeah I am so fortunate cause right now - everyone is still working on their finals and I...I am chillin! Wooo..it feels great. Even though it feels kinda lonely cause everyone is still working so hard and i am the only one on vacation so to speak... eh.but I'm still all smiles :) :). My baby is coming home in exactly 6 semanas. YEy!! In the next 2 week Ill be preparing to move out to my new apartment, start a new semester of classes (which I am not ready for :/..im think i may be too burnt out), further secure future plans and oh yeah..do something for my birthday ;). May 9th yall..yeaha!!!
P.S. I want to make a special request for everyone to show me as much love as you can and as soon as possible if u haven't already. My baby and I leave for Spain and Turkey in literally 2 months so imma be gone before ya know it. Imma need yall to get your Vicky time in now before its too late lol.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Movie Day!
Today was a good day. I had one of the best workouts I have had this semester! I went to the gym at 6:30am and worked every single muscle in my body. Woo..It felt good. Needless to say I was wobbling like a penguin by the time I was leaving the gym hehe.
After I got back I took the longest, warmest shower. Then I ate some cereal while watching Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech. The man is a the bomb speaker! He comes across as so sincere and honest it is insane. There are very few people that I meet or hear speak that actually speak with such conviction, purpose, and passion. He was so clear in where he was going and where he had come from. His speech didn't feel written or rehearsed but genuine and at the moment. Since his speech was in fact written, his words seemed to form the perfect essay. You know, one of those essays that follow a clear, concise and moving thought. It was good. He was good. I hadn't gotten a chance to watch his speech cause of my schedule, so I took the oppurtunity to get caught up on things.
After breakfast and Barack I felt so good that I fell asleep for the next 3 hours. After my nap, I woke up, looked over some homework and convinced myself that I should cleanup my room so that I could be more productive. My room was a hot mess! I hadn't cleaned it for 2 weeks - for the 2 weeks..I was stressed and busy..so you can imagine how it looked. Well I don't think you could imagine..cause well even I surprised myself. This was the worst it had ever looked by far. hehe.
Anywho...I cleaned and listened to some Jamie fox, Boys 2 men, Chris brown, and Whitney Houston's old jams. I had a "private party" as India Ire would say. It was very nice!
After cleaning I did homework and at around 6:30 I went to the cafe and had a good dinner. My goal has been to not eat after 7 or 8 the latest so 6:30pm was perfect timing. I had broccoli, rice and meat. It was delicious. My belly felt great. It was a nice day out, and I was dressed just right for the weather. I had on the warmest turtleneck I own, thick jeans, warm boots, the warm coat my baby bought me, and his warm wool scarf. I was good. Good to go. I went back to my room to pick up some gloves and decided to take advantage of the day and go on a walk. Originally I was going to just walk to best buy - look at some ipods and then walk back. But before I left my room I thought - You know what!? I am going to see a movie. Thats right. I looked up the first couple of movies that popped up in yahoo's movie list...and I went for it. The whole time I walked with a smile on my face. I had stayed away from the movie theaters in particular since mu's been gone cause we had gone so many times together..it just didn't feel right to go by myself. But I finally took myself at 7:40pm today...and it was fantastic!!
I saw Vantage Point. It was so great. It was everything I needed in a movie tonight. It was action filled, mystery, jumpy, creative, funny. It was so good! Much better than I expected. I would harp on the creativeness the most cause it was unlike most movies. Baby..you would love it too. All I will say is that this movie is like the show we watched with taye diggs having to repeat the same day over and over again. Vantage Point is like that but better. The movie does the same moment in time over and over again but from different peoples perspectives...so the whole while you are solving the case just as the actors or movie investigators are. It was engaging! While I was there I made friends with a woman about near my mom's and dad's age, and we just talked, laughed and screamed the whole way through. It is soo great...yep..thats all I can say...good sigh
Needless to say..I walked there with a smile, and I walked out with a smile. It felt so good to see a movie and for it to be good - especially the first time seeing one for 4 months.
Good sigh..its been a good relaxing day. I could have done more hmk but I needed that movie and I think I deserved it :).
After I got back I took the longest, warmest shower. Then I ate some cereal while watching Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech. The man is a the bomb speaker! He comes across as so sincere and honest it is insane. There are very few people that I meet or hear speak that actually speak with such conviction, purpose, and passion. He was so clear in where he was going and where he had come from. His speech didn't feel written or rehearsed but genuine and at the moment. Since his speech was in fact written, his words seemed to form the perfect essay. You know, one of those essays that follow a clear, concise and moving thought. It was good. He was good. I hadn't gotten a chance to watch his speech cause of my schedule, so I took the oppurtunity to get caught up on things.
After breakfast and Barack I felt so good that I fell asleep for the next 3 hours. After my nap, I woke up, looked over some homework and convinced myself that I should cleanup my room so that I could be more productive. My room was a hot mess! I hadn't cleaned it for 2 weeks - for the 2 weeks..I was stressed and busy..so you can imagine how it looked. Well I don't think you could imagine..cause well even I surprised myself. This was the worst it had ever looked by far. hehe.
Anywho...I cleaned and listened to some Jamie fox, Boys 2 men, Chris brown, and Whitney Houston's old jams. I had a "private party" as India Ire would say. It was very nice!
After cleaning I did homework and at around 6:30 I went to the cafe and had a good dinner. My goal has been to not eat after 7 or 8 the latest so 6:30pm was perfect timing. I had broccoli, rice and meat. It was delicious. My belly felt great. It was a nice day out, and I was dressed just right for the weather. I had on the warmest turtleneck I own, thick jeans, warm boots, the warm coat my baby bought me, and his warm wool scarf. I was good. Good to go. I went back to my room to pick up some gloves and decided to take advantage of the day and go on a walk. Originally I was going to just walk to best buy - look at some ipods and then walk back. But before I left my room I thought - You know what!? I am going to see a movie. Thats right. I looked up the first couple of movies that popped up in yahoo's movie list...and I went for it. The whole time I walked with a smile on my face. I had stayed away from the movie theaters in particular since mu's been gone cause we had gone so many times together..it just didn't feel right to go by myself. But I finally took myself at 7:40pm today...and it was fantastic!!
I saw Vantage Point. It was so great. It was everything I needed in a movie tonight. It was action filled, mystery, jumpy, creative, funny. It was so good! Much better than I expected. I would harp on the creativeness the most cause it was unlike most movies. Baby..you would love it too. All I will say is that this movie is like the show we watched with taye diggs having to repeat the same day over and over again. Vantage Point is like that but better. The movie does the same moment in time over and over again but from different peoples perspectives...so the whole while you are solving the case just as the actors or movie investigators are. It was engaging! While I was there I made friends with a woman about near my mom's and dad's age, and we just talked, laughed and screamed the whole way through. It is soo great...yep..thats all I can say...good sigh
Needless to say..I walked there with a smile, and I walked out with a smile. It felt so good to see a movie and for it to be good - especially the first time seeing one for 4 months.
Good sigh..its been a good relaxing day. I could have done more hmk but I needed that movie and I think I deserved it :).
Staying busy!! and grad school
Exams..exams...exams..I guess might be my theme up until the semester ends. I have a funny feeling about it. Starting this Monday, things were a little less intense because I finished my powerpoint presentation. However activities of each day still deprived me of sleep and kept me on my toes.
The good thing that happened this week, was that I got a chance to talk to mumu a good amount. I talked with him many more times this week that I have ever before. Due to great news that I got the RIGHT phone card finally. I was able to go the sprint store and spend less money for more minutes with my baby. So that was good. It felt so good to be able to say "baby, im going to call you tonight." Our convo's ranged everywhere from the underdevelopment of Africa to our love for each other to our future goals. It was great stuff. Talking with mu made this week much easier to get through.
This week was fairly busy but everything is coming together so smoothly. One of the biggest things consists of me applying to grad school. I already have the two people that are doing my recommendations and now all I need to do is my personal statement. Which is the hardest part. jeez...its yet another paper...and I want it to be so good yet I have no idea what to say...so the process is stagnant at the moment :(. But yeah there are so many options for grad programs I am kind over whelmed. So i am still in the process of panning everything out. I'll make sure to keep you up to date with the latest in that area.
Anywho..this week is practically over. In about 2 months my baby will be back. Once April 17th comes...time will go by even faster! Yey.....:)
The good thing that happened this week, was that I got a chance to talk to mumu a good amount. I talked with him many more times this week that I have ever before. Due to great news that I got the RIGHT phone card finally. I was able to go the sprint store and spend less money for more minutes with my baby. So that was good. It felt so good to be able to say "baby, im going to call you tonight." Our convo's ranged everywhere from the underdevelopment of Africa to our love for each other to our future goals. It was great stuff. Talking with mu made this week much easier to get through.
This week was fairly busy but everything is coming together so smoothly. One of the biggest things consists of me applying to grad school. I already have the two people that are doing my recommendations and now all I need to do is my personal statement. Which is the hardest part. jeez...its yet another paper...and I want it to be so good yet I have no idea what to say...so the process is stagnant at the moment :(. But yeah there are so many options for grad programs I am kind over whelmed. So i am still in the process of panning everything out. I'll make sure to keep you up to date with the latest in that area.
Anywho..this week is practically over. In about 2 months my baby will be back. Once April 17th comes...time will go by even faster! Yey.....:)
New York Weekend
The weekend of the 15th my family and I with the exception of Neil took a road trip to New York. We went because my Mom's Dad is very sick. So we all went to Brooklyn's Hospital to visit him along with other family members on my mothers side. It was quite interesting - the whole experience that is. It started with the morning. Mom, Dad, Trina, Stacey and Victor and I helped pack a whole bunch of fruit, crackers, chips, veggies and drinks in the back of a rental van. We then took off at around 7:30am and headed to New York. Both my Dad and Victor (brother in law) took turns driving. Surprisingly we got there pretty fast. We arrived in Brooklyn at exactly 12 noon. And the trip felt shorter because it was enjoyable. Well the whole time my nose was in one of my books for class - no doubt making the time go by even faster cause I learned a lot in my reading -but still talking with the fam made the trip less long. Oh and it also helped that we had really good directions..thats always good!
I have never been to Brooklyn New York before. The most I had ever gone to was Manhatten and another city....which i forgets its name. But yeah for the most part, what I saw of New York was always the places that were wealthy, and suburby. However Brooklyn was nothing like that - well atleast where the hospital was. It was actually quite ghetto to say the least. When i stepped out the van, I felt like I was in another world for a bit. I kinda felt depressed at the thought of living there. If we had ever lived there, I know I would have def been successful cause I would have used everything in me to escape that place. When I was there, all of those movies - when you see a kid growing up in the ghetto and wishing "one day I'll get out of this place" came to mind. It felt just so hopeless as I looked around the streets. It surely made me appreciate my neck of the woods up in the Bean!
But yeah, the hospital was cool. My Mom's dad was so sick that he couldn't even speak to us really. All he did was stare at us and not really move. He has a whole bunch of things going on, but to this day I don't really know what his illness is. From the trip I just know he had many strokes, his memory comes and goes very very frequently, he can barely speak, and he falls asleep every 3 minutes atleast. So while my mother cared for him, we all just really stood or sat around while he just staired at us. He remembered my Mom which would make any daughter happy. Aside from that..we really just stood around and stared at him. It was hard for me to say much or even touch him because I really didn't know him. I don't ever remember seeing him - even though apparently I did when I was toddler. I never heard from him as I grew up...nor even knew what he looked like till that weekend. So yeah...i felt just a little detached to say the least.
Later that day, my Mom's step mom came and my mom's sister came (of which she has not seen for 40 years). It was crazy!! I can't imagine not seeing my family I had once lived with for 40 years....mm..wow..yeah so they were happy to see each other as you can imagine. Her sister brought her daughter in law which was cool. She was fairly newly married like Stacey and Victor, so naturally the people in that age group bonded.
Trina, Dad, and I just sat around and listened while family talked until I turned to my Dad and saw him falling asleep. Then I would nudge him back awake and tell him that I was hungry. With it getting late..my Dad jumped up, had us all hold hands around My mom's father, said a prayer, and before you know it we were back on the road headed to Boston. We stayed there for a little over 3 hours and we got back to Boston a little after 7pm. Exhausted upon arriving back home..some of us fell asleep while others hung out in front of the tv, while still others roamed the rooms of the house looking for something to do (me for the most part).
At 10 that evening, Neil dropped me off on campus on his way to work. It felt good to be finally back in my bed. I went straight to sleep because I knew I had to be up at 5 the next morning to study for more exams.
I have never been to Brooklyn New York before. The most I had ever gone to was Manhatten and another city....which i forgets its name. But yeah for the most part, what I saw of New York was always the places that were wealthy, and suburby. However Brooklyn was nothing like that - well atleast where the hospital was. It was actually quite ghetto to say the least. When i stepped out the van, I felt like I was in another world for a bit. I kinda felt depressed at the thought of living there. If we had ever lived there, I know I would have def been successful cause I would have used everything in me to escape that place. When I was there, all of those movies - when you see a kid growing up in the ghetto and wishing "one day I'll get out of this place" came to mind. It felt just so hopeless as I looked around the streets. It surely made me appreciate my neck of the woods up in the Bean!
But yeah, the hospital was cool. My Mom's dad was so sick that he couldn't even speak to us really. All he did was stare at us and not really move. He has a whole bunch of things going on, but to this day I don't really know what his illness is. From the trip I just know he had many strokes, his memory comes and goes very very frequently, he can barely speak, and he falls asleep every 3 minutes atleast. So while my mother cared for him, we all just really stood or sat around while he just staired at us. He remembered my Mom which would make any daughter happy. Aside from that..we really just stood around and stared at him. It was hard for me to say much or even touch him because I really didn't know him. I don't ever remember seeing him - even though apparently I did when I was toddler. I never heard from him as I grew up...nor even knew what he looked like till that weekend. So yeah...i felt just a little detached to say the least.
Later that day, my Mom's step mom came and my mom's sister came (of which she has not seen for 40 years). It was crazy!! I can't imagine not seeing my family I had once lived with for 40 years....mm..wow..yeah so they were happy to see each other as you can imagine. Her sister brought her daughter in law which was cool. She was fairly newly married like Stacey and Victor, so naturally the people in that age group bonded.
Trina, Dad, and I just sat around and listened while family talked until I turned to my Dad and saw him falling asleep. Then I would nudge him back awake and tell him that I was hungry. With it getting late..my Dad jumped up, had us all hold hands around My mom's father, said a prayer, and before you know it we were back on the road headed to Boston. We stayed there for a little over 3 hours and we got back to Boston a little after 7pm. Exhausted upon arriving back home..some of us fell asleep while others hung out in front of the tv, while still others roamed the rooms of the house looking for something to do (me for the most part).
At 10 that evening, Neil dropped me off on campus on his way to work. It felt good to be finally back in my bed. I went straight to sleep because I knew I had to be up at 5 the next morning to study for more exams.
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