MUY FRIO!!!******

So apparently today in the office it was SNOWING! =/ It must have been 0 degrees at GCN. NOT FLY! =[ I needed some kind of mittens or something. I could have sworn it was still summer. I spent some time trying to register for my fall classes (I know I'm late doing in) and WOW getting classes is so much EFFORT! lol I mean I knew college wasn't going to be easy but jeez just for my courses its like I have to fight for them. =/ NO BUENO. I think that was a reality check for me to realize I have to stay on my "A-GAME." I haven't even started and I;m already dreading this semester =[ and people say college was the best experience they've had. Well hopefully as goes well and I get all my classes. I wasn't able to do much transcriptions like I hoped to because we had to leave the office early but I think I'll be able to finish it within the next 2 days I go in.

UHHH?????HUH????

So Nikki, Uncle Joey, and I called Diana today to check in and give her an update on our progress. She told us about coding and what the purpose of our transcriptions were, man another SUPER LONG PROCESS! I don't think it's worse than transcriptions. =] We learned about Margaret Mead, an Anthropologist, who traveled to Samoa and lived there for 10 years. Mead wrote a book about the sexual tendecies of the young Samoan women. We also talked about our focus group and what we have done for that. I'm excited to see how the focus group goes and what everyone says about the program they are going to be presented. I hope within the next 2 or 3 days I will finish my transcriptions! YAY! I'm almost done! WOOT WOOT!!! =] This long process will almost be done so that I can do other stuff with Diana. hopefully these next 2 or 3 days go as planned! HAHA! :D

WAY TO DIFICULT

COMPLETE EPIC FAIL! So since the UCLA workshop was cancelled, I decided to come into GCN with Nikki to work on making up those hours. It's such a fail! I'm so tired and I'm trying hard not to fall asleep listening to Uncle Joey's voice. =[ I can't concentrate when Uncle Joey made me drink a 2oz shot of wheat grass. NO FLY! That totally killed my Jamba Juice. And I'm STARVING! Not HUNGRY! There's a huge difference! I'm taking a break from transcriptions because I think I'm going to die! But I gotta get it done. Yay???? =/

RING...RING...RING...

Diana had Nikki and I calling who we thought were Community Leaders to come join our focus group. It was kind of nerve racking to have to call people and invite them to something they probably had no idea what it was about and hope they would show up. It got pretty easy once we fgured out we were calling our own Aunties, (I even called my mom.) So far everyone has pretty much given us a "YES" answer so it wasn't to bad. Now back to TRANSRIPTIONS!!! Ohhhh Joyyy...

Not to Good...

WHERE TO START!!! I totally ruined this day with Diana. I was supposed to be at GCN at 10 and I didn't get there till 11! =0!!! I didn't have a ride into Long Beach so I had to take the bus and train all the way in. I was SOOO late! And I knew Diana had left because no one was there to open the doors. This was definitely a one time thing! I'm never going to bus it in Monday morning. I rather bus it in Sunday night than to be late again. I don't want to waste anymore of her time. LIFE LESSON 1,000,000,000 NEVER BE LATE TO WORK!!!! (UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES)

CARSON COMMUNITY CENTER!

Today we went to watch the NHPI Community to talk to the Mayor of Carson and to some Commissioners about the needs of the NHPI. It was really cool to see presentations of other organizations who are trying to help the PI Commnity. Also, it was amazing to see how the ENTIRE PI Community is involved and how everyone is helping everyone else. OCAPICA introduced the Pipeline interns and everyone was so proud of us and what we're doing for our Community. Hopefully the Commissioners can help out all the organizations that presented.

July 29,2010

Today I finally started my transcriptions with the interview between Uncle Joey and Diana. She told me it was going to take me at least 10 hours to finish a 1 hour interview! =[ So today was the first step in this life long process. I get to hear their beautiful voices!