Upcoming year plans

My plans for the next year are simple. I just want to start my studies in pre-nursing and get my Social Security Number, so I can work.

Also this year after my parents will come here we want to move to California and  I want to transfer there to a different College.

Another thing that I want to do is to take my flying license and visit as many famous cities other important cities like New York, San Francisco etc.

I also want to earn my driver license here so I can drive, and I want to buy a car, because I want to be on my own, and not to depend on someone else, and I want all my family to be together.

One other thing that I want to do is to start another program called CNA, is related to nursing and is just nine months, and after I finish this program I can work and I can continue my studies in pre-nursing.

I don’t have too many plans but I hope I can accomplish them all.

My future plan

My plans for the upcoming year

The last week of summer program is ending. I can’t believe that six weeks come and gone - too fast. I still think that we were on the first session. As you know, I just graduated from pharmacy and I need to take this career for my whole life. I am making plans for the next year to do many things and I have many choices to make.

First, I’ll go back to Thailand at the end of January for my commencement ceremony and meet not only friends that I haven’t seen for a year since I finished pharmacy but also my beloved family, father and sisters. I think it will be the happiest moment that it can be. After the ceremony, I plan to visit Australia to travel with family. I’ve heard that there are beautiful place even Australian accent is not popular.

Friends and me

Next step, I have other choices to make. First choice is find job as pharmacist position at some international hospital, so I can use my English skills that I’ve learnt from here. Second choice is to go back to the US and gets the American pharmacy license. Then I can live here and take care of my mother.

Another plan is to keep studying, I am interested in the clinical pharmacy program or doctor of pharmacy program at Oregon Health and Science University. Maybe I will attend at that college.

Whatever will happen in the future let it be. All I want to do for this moment is take care my parents as much as I can. They’ve taken care of me for twenty-four years. Now it’s my turn.

"Tobacco offering " by Mansour Fheed ALmutairi

When Ed EDMO finished his tour, he took out a cigarette and said he was going to a “tobacco offering” and pray. That was a surprise for me because it is a different culture between me and ED. In my country we have five prayers every day. Also we go to mosques to pray, if possible.  Most companies have a small mosque inside of them.

Mountain Hood and Indians

An American Indian History Lesson by Azanfirei Florin Emilian

The most interesting part of the trip was the last two days. On the first day we visited a place near a lake, were we met an Indian guy called Ed. We had lunch together and after that he started to tell us some stories and legends. He also showed us some photos and some old objects and instruments that the Indians made.

Then after the lunch and legends, Ed took us to visit the sacred land of the Indians where again he told us some legends, and we saw some old drawings on the stones called hieroglyphs.

The hieroglyphs were a sun, an owl and some circles.

On the last day we headed to the Discovery museum were we learned again about Indians and how they used to live, their lifestyle.

Also we learned a lot about their trades with animal fur. They used to trade animal fur for guns or other things that they didn’t have.

After the museum we headed to Mount Hood where we had lunch and we had the chance to have a snow fight.  We all had a really great time together and I hope we could do that more often.

Mt Hood, My Natural Refresher

Mt Hood, My Natural Refresher

On the last day of our most recent trip, we stopped at Mt. Hood where snow still covers the top even though the temperatures have hit 90 degrees so far this summer. On the way to the mountain, we killed time playing a game, named “last letter game,” and to make Sheila stayed awake and alert at the wheel.

I had been to Mt Hood, once five years ago with my mother and uncle. I was still excited to visit this place again. When we arrived at the top of Mt. Hood, we prepared picnic stuff for our  late lunch, found a picnic area, and had lunch. For lunch we had sandwiches with different ham style, because of our variety of religions, and cherries as dessert. We were so lucky. Classic Car Club visited this place too, and we had a great opportunity to see the classic cars.

After we checked out the classic cars, we moved to the snow area so fast. Sheila laid down on snow and made a snow angel. Each of us grabbed snow in our hands and threw the snallballs at each other pretending we were in a war! That was so funny. Before we went back, we made small snowman, this was my first time. This moment made me so happy and then it was time to go back home. 

Aviation Museum by Nicky

Aviation Museum

The first time I heard that we were to go to the Aviation Museum I felt excited, because I never been to museum like this before. I imagined that it would be a lot of different types of airplanes and the real historical airplanes, too. I couldn’t wait to visit there.

            Friday morning, July 27^th, we arrived at the museum late. We missed the Lewis and Clark biography movie. But that was not a big problem; we could watch it on YouTube. Then we moved to the next step because we didn’t want to waste too much time worrying about the movie. We saw a lot of commercial aircrafts and fighters. My favorite one was the big airplane; its wingspan stretch along one side of the building to  the other side. Some planes we could go inside but some airplanes, we couldn’t. We also explored the evolution of the airplane from the beginning of the era until now. However, I was even more excited to see the space museum, in another building. This was my first time for the real space shuttle that I’ve learned about for many years in books. There were many things interesting to discover like the Lunokhod1; the moon walkers, The US Air Force shuttle and the iron meteorite. The last thing stunning to me was the Evergreen Water Park. The water park was not too big but it’s unique because of the big airplane stand on the top of the roof. Two sliders lie down from the airplane on the top through the roof and into the pool inside the building. This was amazing!

This was one of my best memories that I will never forget. It made me think that learning from the experiences is better than books.

The Evergreen Water Park

Aviation Museum by Azanfirei Florin

                                   

On Friday we visited the Aviation Museum, and it was an interesting experience for me. I had the opportunity to see a lot of airplanes, helicopters and some of the NASA projects.

We saw pictures with the first man landing on the Moon, and the food that they used to eat in their spacecraft..

I had seen some of these airplanes before; but there was a big collection of them that I had never seen, some of them were recent models, but a lot of them were old ones, no longer used.

My favourite airplane is the business airplane. I like this type of airplane because it is fast and luxurious, and I’d like to have one.

Something that was strange for me was a rock of iron meteor that fell on Earth in 2006 in Africa. I just can’t believe that was an iron meteorite, and I believe that was just a piece of metal, but not from space..

The trip was interesting and I would like to visit again sometime.

Pangu Separates the Sky from the Earth

Pangu is the primary God of ancient Chinese legend, the creator of the world. Before the world was made, the universe is like a big muddy egg with chaotic mixtures. A guy named Pangu, the giant, has been sleep in the “big egg” after waking up about 18,000 years. Pangu then opened the world by his divine power, which separated the sky from the earth. His left eye became the sun, right eye became the moon; hair and beard became the stars in the night sky; his body shaped the end of East, West, North, South and magnificent mountains; his blood becomes creeks and rivers; teeth, bones became the underground treasures and mineral deposits; skin and fine hair became the vegetation on the land; sweat into the rain. The soul Pang became human being when he died after the grand creation of the world.

Bangkok City Pillar Shrine [NICKY]

Bangkok City Pillar Shrine

When I was grade 12, my school took us, my friends and I, to visit Bangkok,  the capital of Thailand. We saw many cultural places such as the Grand Palace, the Emerald Temple and the Bangkok City Pillar Shrine. The teacher told us the story about the history of Thailand and the legend of Bangkok City Pillar Shrine. That was interesting to me.

Bangkok City Pillar Shrine or Sao Lak Muang in Thai was created by King Rama I when he established Bangkok as the capital of Thailand. The shrine was raised and blessed before construction on the Grand Palace, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and the rest of the city, it was actually the first building of the capital.

Before The Bangkok City Pillar Shrine was built, the king ordered soldiers to make 4 big holes at every corner of the City Pillar Hall. Then they went to the city and made an announcement of volunteer recruition, 16 people were named in the list.: four good meaning and the four names in the lists were In, Jan, Mun and Kong, the meanings are enduring and strong. Before the ceremony, all the men were fed with the best food of the country. Then they took four living men into each hole and overlaid the holes with the big logs.  All 16 men finally died. The four logs that overlay the holes were built to be the shrine, covering the city pillar. They believed that the spirit of the 16 men would be the guardians and defend the city from the bad things. And this is what I heard about the Bangkok City Pillar Shrine

The most influential person in my life

The person with the most influence in my life is my mom. Her name is Felicia Azanfirei. My mom is not so tall, has red hair, and she is all the time well dressed. She is a very friendly person. She was a few years ago the co-owner of a bakery, but now she is not working.

She influenced me in a lot of ways. When I was in high-school, she was in America, and because of that I could do whatever I wanted. Bad grades started to come, I made a lot of friends  with bad habbits and all my life changed.

But my mom heard about me and she returned home quickly. Good grades started to come again, I quit the bad habits and I finished high-school with a high grades. All these because of her, and i am thankful.

One memorable story is when I prepared a surprise for her. It was her birthday and I decorated the entire house with balloons and a lot of other decorations. I invited a lot of relatives and friends. I also ordered a lot of food and drinks. Everything was perfect.

When she came home, she was so surprised, and she started to cry, and she told me the she wasn’t expecting that I could do something like that…But this is just one of them.

Me and my sisters still like to make her a lot of surprises. We try to make our mom happy and proud.

Ramadan by Naif Aljeddani (and Hessa Almehmadi)

The Three Days Trip To Seaside

As the title said, a three-day trip to Seaside should be a very good journey and adventure. However, I got a case of very bad carsickness during the whole trip, so the trip wasn’t a nice one for me as it supposed to be, still, I had a great time while staying at the motel.

The trip virtually starts at the stop by Lincoln City. After about one-and-a- half hour drive, I started to feel a little bit carsick. Therefore, for the rest of the activities I practically did not pay attention. Cheese factory, historical lighthouse, I just remembers they were all looked very wonderful under the blue sky, but other parts of memory seem lost.

When, on the first day, we arrived at Seaside, the weather was beautiful in the evening. Lying on a couch, I felt peace and tranquility that calmed me down. From as far as you could see on the left and right was open water and sand. The splash was open water and sand. The splash of pieces of seashells and driftwood lay scattered on the beach. The wind felt soft and warm and the water not very chilling. Far in the distance the sun was changing color from a yellow to an orange and then to a red ball hanging over the horizon. The horizon was a long gray line broken once by the outline of a ship or a fisherman’s boat. Then, everything was attributed to calm.

Due to the sickness, I unfortunately did not go to any of the adventures or exploration in the trip plan. It’s good for me to have a relaxing time by the sea however.