Bluebellia

You may have noticed that there was no post last week. It’s because Arwen and I went to Montana visiting my family for a week. The week went by really fast and now I want to look back and see what we did during that week. I haven’t done diary-style posts like this for quite a while so click on! There are pictures too! Day 1, Wednesday We flew the whole day. At first it was nice and Arwen thought her snacks were interesting enough and took a picture of it. Then it got really boring and tiring, so we decided to take some funky pictures together. Here are some: After 7 hours, we arrived at Bozeman, MT at 8 PM. Howdy, MONTANA! Then Mom came pick us up. Then us being tired and sleep. Day 2, Thursday The second day was a shopping day, since we didn’t finish our Christmas shopping yet. My brother Holden drove us to three different stores then we had lunch at Burger King. Good time. Then we went to Petra Academy, my high school, which was now much diff...

I love books. In fact, when I am no longer nomadic I would acquire so many books and stare at the shelves and feel excited. I also like collectibles – the “cool” things from this and that; statues, swords, stuffs. And I like video games a bit too much. At the moment I am enjoying Blizzard Ent.’s Diablo III, a fantastic game about the eternal conflict between the Burning Hells and the High Heavens and the struggled humanity living in between. And this is what Arwen gave me for my birthday: Diablo III Official Strategy Guide, Limited Edition ! The perfect combination of books, collectibles, and Diablo III! How awesome is that? I was speechless. I am such a lucky person to have a girlfriend like that. Here is the picture of the gift: (From left to right: the hardcover strategy guide, the bonus binder, and the sculptured metal bookmark) Just so you know, I don’t usually get collectibles of any sort. Those always are the things I would drool on forever and never buy....

As I was looking through my old documents of the past, I found this short essay. I wrote this for my ICAP class in Summer 2010. I do not know what the assignment was about, but I chuckled when reading it again recently. I share it below here and hope you will find it funny as well. I spent my twelfth grade year in Montana as an exchange student. One day I came back after school and felt starving. It was when a smell coming from the kitchen got my attention. I had never smelled anything like that before, but it was one of the most delicious smells ever! So I walked to the kitchen, determined to find the source of the goodness.  There I found some newly baked cookies in the yellow cookie jar. Though cookies were popular, and I had watched the movie “Over the Hedge,” but that was the first time I ever saw them in real life. With the round and crunchy shapes, the delicious smell wandering in the air, the reflective dark brown color of the chocolate chips, the cookies were unbeli...