A Week at Home

Been home for a week now and it's been great. My brother still had school so I had the mornings and afternoons to myself. Borrowed some books from Berkeley through my cousin and started studying. Sigh... wish I can just read fiction and relax. I haven't seen my cousin for a long and it was fun to talk to her and her mom. She just got done with her finals and her mom was going to pick her up to bring her home so I tagged along to get some books from the engineering library. Her mom told me how she got robbed at gunpoint right outside her house! She works nights so she gets home at around 3am. She said it happened twice this year... So scary.

Anyway, we went to this Mexican place for lunch and got some burritos. Her mom said she had something really good last time and wanted it again. But my cousin couldn't remember what it was so she tried to describe it to the guy "it had chicken and lots of cheese, very hot..." lol. no success. We ended up ordering twice and it turned out that what she had before were enchiladas. The burritos were really good and we ordered a couple more burritos to bring back for her sisters.

That was Tuesday. I spent Wednesday and Thursday plowing through some notes. Didn't get very far but... yeah.... On Friday, I went to visit my high school again. Didn't see many teachers this time since they're teaching. I saw the counselors, dropped off some books for my history teacher, and then went to my calculus teacher's room where I met up with Willy. Haven't seen Willy for 2, 3 years. We talked for a long time and there were some calculus students hanging about as well. Willy walked me to E18 and then went home since I was meeting up with some friends from middle school. I saw Benison the other day and it would be nice to get together for lunch sometime with some more people from ohigh. Especially since a bunch of us live so close by. I think Benison lives only a couple of blocks away.

I met up with two of my friends from middle school at the BART station. They both live in San Leandro and goes to UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. So they're not used to the "cold" weather. I had a fleece on and they both had big jackets and scarfs. I don't understand how people can wear scarfs all the time... My neck needs to breath too!

Anyway, I introduced them to the Bookmark Bookstore in Old Oakland. Neither of them had ever gone into the area. It's past Chinatown and they had never been on the other side of Broadway. It's a nice area that's very busy during the lunch hours. The Bookmark Bookstore is a store that sells second hand books and gives all the proceeds to the Oakland libraries. The books are all very cheap. We had fun and one of my friends got a William Hung CD as a potential gag gift.

Then we went to the D&A Cafe where we got cheap food. My family used to order out from there a lot and I had been there a few times. They moved to a bigger place just around the corner. Good thing I noticed it. They had happy hour from 3-6pm and we got huge plates of food for around $3 each. I also got a red bean ice thing. Yup. Food was greasy and the waiters just plop food down in front of you and rush about. But it was great. My brother got mad at me for not taking him and leaving him at home though...