But to be honest, for now, I really just want to go home. <3
Maybe that is running away, but I just feel like being home would ease me into those difficult transitions I will soon have to face. I thought I was immune to transitions, they seemed like breezy, easy, time periods. But I’m scared! Of I-don’t-know-what!
Next to going home, I just want to stay in..to read. It’s been such a pleasure and I just want to catch up on all the reading I didn’t get to do this semester. I have books downloaded onto my kindle that I should get to. These past two days have been dedicated to Hunger Games (I found all three books equally good, though the writing of the ending could’ve been a little less abrupt. Maybe I’m just bitter the trilogy is over).
After that, maybe a hiatus. So Wednesday, I’m headed to St. Helena in Napa. (: Taking the trip alone to visit my mentor; it’ll be therapeutic.
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— This Means War 2012.
where would i be without them? :)
After a semester of misery (seriously) researching, analyzing, writing, complaining, tearing out my hair, dreading meetings, & other synonyms for STRESS, I finally turned in my 22-page, full French, thesis paper. I even stopped calling it an honors thesis for fear that it wasn’t good enough for such a title.
Then it was a week of waiting.
And I was pretty hopeless. When asked, How’d your thesis go? I could only say “I turned it in…” without much confidence or conviction. I wrote a reflection of the process to hopefully at least illustrate how difficult the process was for me.
Then French Commencement. Not knowing the results, I secretly dreaded seeing my advisor because it was almost embarrassing…but I told myself that it was my moment, my day & I tried my best. I approached him for some thanks & a hug & he said : good job on the essay” AND IT WAS SUCH A RELIEF.
” This is, generally speaking, a successful essay. While some errors remain, the quality of the French is quite good overall, and much improved when compared to earlier drafts.”
Here’s the rest of the report my advisor sent me (:
Prof. Karl Britto
Report on Senior Honors Essay
Yen Vu
“Autorité et ambivalence: les multifonctions de langage dans un œuvre francophone”
Buddha: First remove "I", that's ego, then remove "want", that's desire. See? Now you are left with happiness.
Woke up at 730 this morning, after 5 hours of sleep for a donut adventure. We hit up two shops featured in SF Weekly Blog.
Bob’s Donuts & Pastry Shop, located on Polk was first!
Dynamo Donuts, was also featured on the food network & has a variety of unique, interesting combinations. It’s a good dessert place, found amidst the cramped buildings of Mission District.
Was it a good idea to do both in a row though, hmm.
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