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I just realized that I haven't really posted much last year...like once...what's up with that??? Well seems as though I totally missed a whole lot of stuffs with you guys (does anyone read this?)...so I shall recap for you my 2010 (beginning in March...only fair since my last post was in February):

• Got into Shidler College of Business, with the intent to major in Marketing...yay!!! One step closer to that all mighty goal--> GRADUATING!
• Steak Dinner Fundraiser: Held a major fundraiser for my Okinawan dance school in April, we raised I believe about $8000!!! That was our very first attempt at doing a major fundraiser in the school. The only thing we had really done in the past was chili tickets and stuff like that. So this was a major hurdle that we leaped for :)
• In June, I got a great opportunity to got to Okinawa again (this was my fourth trip to Okinawa)!! I felt like this was a great experience with me really getting to soak in a lot of what I missed before. I feel like now that I am older, I really do appreciate all this good stuff. It makes me wish I was a lot older (and more mature) the first time I went, mostly because we did all that tourist-y stuff that really teaches you about the history behind the old Okinawa. Anyway, that just gives me a great reason to go back one day :) I will attempt to do a post journeying through that trip.
• After I came back, it really wasn't much. However, a couple of friends and I started a new outing event called Second Saturdays :) A spin off of the First Friday they do in Chinatown. We find something to do on the second Saturday on each month, starting in July. I really like this regular outing. Because we are all doing our own thing (my friends have "real" jobs, and me still in school), we don't get a chance to really hang out. We have been pretty regular with it, and will continue to be!
• As always Okinawan Festival came around. This year was an ok year. I didn't have to do a ton of stuff, just had to make sure my senpai was ok. And again, we only had to do one dance. Lots of people say that's such a waste doing the hair and makeup for one song, but in reality, I like that I don't have to stress during our segment trying to change, and making sure to be ready on time...it was chill :)
• So, apparently our dance school is not the only Okinawan organization in need of financials...Jikoen, the Okinawan Buddhist temple in Hawaii, had put on a fundraiser event that mocked the Okinawan Festival slightly, held in October. We danced, and I committed one of the worst fashion crimes of the century...and we're only 10 years through this one! Anyway...I'll leave it at that...no need to know details, if you were there, then you are lucky to have witnessed it, I guess...
• So by December, I had finished my first semester at Shidler. It was a good experience. This semester, I got to experience all different kinds of teachers: a new teahcer, a crap teacher, a teacher really dedicated to the subject, and a teacher really dedicated to the students. I won't name names, but you could say I had a rough semester, but it's fine because I know it only gets harder from here.
• Since the semester was so hard and work has been nuts...I am glad that I got to partake in a few wonder celebrations of the holiday season. A co-worker hosted a wine party at her house, where I discovered wine is not just rotten grape juice ;) That stuff can actually taste good! Of course we had our dance Christmas party, where we had to dance a classical dance...made me soooooo nervous, and it made me more nervous that Sensei said it was training for the all mighty recital (that will NOT be in 2011). After dancing the only hurdle is doing door prizes, and that's not horrible. And my good friends and I celebrated the holidays with karaoke :D After we sung our lungs out and partaked in a bottle of moscato, we headed to Dave and Busters where we exchanged gifts, and had a drink, then played games till we were sober enough to leave. Wonderful night of singing, drinking and gaming. We even gathered enough tickets for a pocket simon game for one of us.
• And to end the year, we did not do the traditional grandma's house ritual of fireworks and ozoni, which kind of sucked because this was the last new year's eve that fireworks would have been legal...I don't know what I'm talking about, I don't even do that crap...but IT'S TRADITION!!! You don't mess with that. I hope someone is working on repealing that. New year's won't be the same without the thick blanket of smoke covering the Hawaiian sky...

So here I am...recapped about ten months of my life in a few paragraphs. I really do hope that I do more blogging...let my thoughts flow a bit more, so things can be documented a little bit more detailed :)

Till next time...