Spring Break!!!!!!!

Leaving behind all the exams, mid-term essays ^^, group meetings, all nighters, waking up early in the morning, running to the writing center, etc, etc, etc….It’s Spring break!!! Finally, I had one whole week to relax, eat, sleep, and go to Houston. My friends and I did not really decide where to go for Spring Break until the Friday right before Spring Break. We usually don’t make any plan for it. “The plan is no plan.” Maybe because we had many home works to take care. We usually come up with many different places for a vacation: Las Vegas, Louisiana, Colorado, etc but it always ends up in Houston.
We like to go to Houston because we have bunch of friends over there so we don’t need to worry about the place. There are also good prices and good clothing for shopping. However, the most important thing is that in Houston, there are many good Vietnamese restaurants.
As other times, we started to go around 9:00pm so we could get there around 1:00am. Have a good sleep and enjoy the next day. We went to eat a lot of Vietnamese food there. There is only one thing that concerns me the most is that in Houston, they are all using cash and they not accept any credit cards - -.

During this trip, one thing that I remember the most is that when I went to the Galleria with my friends for shopping, I had a really awesome chance to see a Rolls Royce Phantom. I never saw that million beautiful car before by my eyes. It looked much more beautiful than in the picture. I wish that one day I can have one for my own.
Vacation time always flies. It passed so fast. It was Friday and we needed to go back to prepare for school. Haiiiiiii!! Time to study again….However, I have another encouragement that only two more months and it will be Summer!!!!

Second meeting with my partner Alicia

After the first meeting with my partner Alicia, I believe that we will have a great semester learning new things with each other because when I teach her English or about computer, I actually learn for myself as well. So this time, I showed her how to use computer because last time when we had our first meeting, she told me that she hardly knew anything about computer and she would love to learn about it. Feeww!! I don’t want to say that I’m an expert in computer but I’m good at it so I believe that I can help her a lot with my skills.
“So first of all, you need to log in to the computer .” I said
“But I don’t remember my …username ….and ….password.” She answered slowly
“Well, it’s 5 pm on Friday so the people who work at the help desk left already” I told her

Thus, I used my username and password to log in. However, before that I showed her how to turn on a computer and how to log in. Then I taught her how to move the mouse and click on the icon. She is a hard working person. She knows that she is not good at it, so she always tries her best and repeats the steps many times to remember. I really like her attitude effort. I was saying to myself “look at her and learn from her. I need to work as hard as her to get a better result for my works.”

Then I showed her how to use google to find anything that she wants by typing the main words. I showed her how to read the news and weather by typing the websites name or google it. Sometimes, I found it difficult for us to understand each other because of the computer’s language. However, with patience and the will to learn, we actually achieved a productive result at the end.
As you can see in the picuture, she is reading the sports news from ESPN

I was really happy because I could help my partner how to use the computer. Nowadays, computer is extremely important. I believe that with her attitude and effort, she will be good at computer and have good use of it. However, I need to help her with the username and passord first!! ^^

First meeting with Alicia Nava

My first meeting with my partner Alicia Nava for the community service was truly successful. I did the same project last semester so this time I know how to make it better with more productive and achieving a better result. I went to the library at 4:50pm (because we agreed to meet at 5pm, I just wanted to be prepare so I came early) at the lobby and was waiting for Nava. Here she comes! The first time I saw her, I knew that she was Nava because she was wearing the physical plant uniform. She came exactly at 5:00pm; she made her first impression with me.
This was our first meeting so basically, we tried to know more about each other because we would work with each other for the next 11 weeks. She told me that she would love to go by Alicia than Nava so I call her Alicia from now on. She is from Mexico and came to the U.S. 30 years ago. Wow! That is such a long time. She has been living at Fort Worth since then and she still has her relatives in Mexico. She usually comes back to visit them when she has long break such as Christmas or summer. However, the fact that she has been working for TCU for 15 years even made me more surprising. 15 years at TCU, she has experienced many changes within the school and many differences since then. Right now, her job is housekeeping at Waits. She is married and she has 3 children, two girls and one boy. Her boy is studying at TCU since last semester. She has the same hobby as me soccer. She loves soccer and we were talking about different soccer teams in Latin America.

She is an easy going and open-minded person. We laughed all the time. She told me that she came to the U.S. for 30 years but she hardly knew anything about computer. I told her that I would do my best to help her to be good at computer after this semester.
I expected that it would be a successful meeting but actually I went beyond my expectation. Last semester, I had problems with my partners and sometimes it made me frustrated. However, this semester, I believe that I will have a wonderful and successful project with my partner.