Amusement Park:
My favorite amusement park ride would probably be the roller coaster.
In all honesty, life terrifies me. Growing older, confronting college, grades, taxes, mortgages, the job process--- each time I ponder my future I am always confronted with the same feeling of nauseating fear and stress.
This, however, mirrors the rollercoaster as while the lulls in life are always stressful as I build to the next transition--- sending applications to college, receiving my next grade report, etcetera--- the actually meat of life--- meeting with friends, participating in a particularly engaging class, visiting colleges, dealing with family--- is, just like the downward turns of a rollercoaster, immensely enjoyable.
I always find the trick to enjoying life is simply trying to sit back and enjoy the ride and stop thinking of the numerous ways the ride could break down--- instead enjoy the exhilaration that comes with it.
After all, without the hair-raising ups, the rush downwards would not be nearly as fun.
Last Tuesday:
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of being in San Francisco. It was fabulous.
Perhaps my favorite thing to do that day was go carousing through Chinatown--- picking through the various open air markets, chowing down on delicious dim sung for a late breakfast, browsing through the interesting of shops for the perfect souvenirs for my siblings.
I had always been obsessed with Asian food--- confronted with my Dad’s near heart attack, the low fat content, though with careful moderation of sodium content, seemed like the answer to my problems. Meanwhile, with a family of seven, finding a range of dishes that the whole family would enjoy, including two especially picky younger siblings, for dinner was quite the hardship.
Therefore, seeing all the exotic and new foods available to be tried, hearing the rush of languages that were Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, French, German, and more, was like a dream come true to a language buff and cooking enthusiast as myself.
My only regret was that I had decided to wait for my senior year to take Chinese due to a jam packed schedule. Curse my incessant need to take copious amounts of math…
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