smile for me. (:

so after three days and two nights spent retreating at lake arrowhead, i am back, blog. :)

staying up late at night 'til four am for the past two nights and waking up at seven because the dear girls needed to shower, i was tired.

all us kwans were supposed to nap together and then go out except our beautiful plan was ruined by the evil BAD MOOD. well we were dead beat :) and our dear mother wanted us to clean clean clean but it took so long to clean because we kept LAGGGGGING. and clean we did but during that time we decided to be hostile to each other which was more than partially my fault. -_- (sorrie guys.)

-_- this is how we felt:

so christina and steph stayed up because they're odd. (heh get it? they're the ODDS: number one and three) and after showering, i hopped into bed with angela because we're the evens. :)

well so it was six-eleven and we were supposed to nap until nine except i found myself trying to blink away sunbeams. but it was all in vain because the sun wouldn't budge. -_-

i scrambled up and looked at the clock..six forty-eight erhg only took a thirty-seven minute nap OKAE go back to sleep. but then the sun kept flashing and flashing at me.. wait it's SUPER bright.. so it can't be evening. and the sun is rising on the east and not setting on the west. it's MORNING! yees! i got twelve hours and thiry-seven minutes of sleep! crying with glee, i jumped out of bed. :) no more of those three hours of sleep. and now my liver won't die because i slept at least from eleven pm to two am.

looking at the clock again, it said six fifty-two. but that clock was twelve minutes fast (just in case so that every time i woke up for summer school i'd panic at the time and hurry up so i wouldn't be late..which was FUTILE (sat word!) because i was LATE ANYWAY AND USED UP ALL MY TARDY PASSES -_- and so i had to come to school on the last day of summer school which was pathetic because none of the teachers took roll that day because they had to turn it in the day before and eighty-five percent of the class was gone and everyone who was there was just sitting around gnawing on krispy kreme doughnuts and five people were playing monopoly and some people were even reading the news--so me and steppie kuoch, and evan (we have the same name ^_^) decided to leave even when we couldn't afford to have another absence. :) and then i surprised my mother and went to sleep until it was time to go to aci.) and it was so early so i tried to force myself to sleep but i couldn't so i just decided to talk to you, blog. :)

so while the epic (college) girls lived in a cottage, us BASIC (high school/junior high) girls lived in the dear dormitory cabins. our cabins connected so i kept walking back and forth through the rooms.

i lived in room 104 with tiffany chang as cabin leader and lisa, carrie, rachel and mimi.

next door in room 105: megan, jessicawa, vivian, christina hsu, jessica kaokao, ivy and angela.

and then the one next to room 105: jessica li, sacha, elizabeth, nicole, michelle yu, and stina.

entering our cabin the first day, i found the bathroom door tilted. -_- or i should say lopsided like this:
so the handyman came and fixed it. :) but i was scared that the door would fall down so i never went in.

on the first night my cabin slept. i had a sleeping cabin. -_- and i was sad because i couldn't sleep. and no one wanted to talk to me in my cabin because they all wanted to sleep. so i wandered through the other ones. where cabin 105 kept telling scary stories that i didn't want to hear so i went to room 106 where it was girly talk.

and i thought i forgot to bring my contact case so i was stressed about trying to find bottle caps so i could lay my contacts down to sleep except i could only find one available one so i stuck both of my contacts together. which was all for nothing because when i came home and unpacked my contact case was in my bag next to my extra box of toothpaste. -_-

then on the second night only carrie and rachel slept and there was a "girl talk." more embarrassing moments, school, relationships--after listening to the girls talktalktalktalktalktalk my ears almost fell off. -_- yes. girls DO talk too much. @_@ heh don't worry i still love you guys. :)

so there's a purple group, pink group, green group, blue group, orange group, yellow group

and now *DRUMROLL* the mentionment of *DUN DUN DUN*

the mighty invincible RED TEAM!

heh. :) i was in the RED group, blog. i was group leader but maybe it seemed like chrisl should've been the group leader since i was so INCAPABLE. -_- (oh well. maybe he thinks faster and knoes more but he's not a girl.)

so every time i yelled: RED TEAM! everyone covered their ears. -_- and briaan always said: turn down a notch please. and aaron would tell me i'm hurting his ears. but in order to be heard, i needed to shout since everyone else's leaders were yelling too. i HAD to be the loudest. :) IT'S ALL ABOUT THE REDS.

our red team consisted of jessica kaokao, aaron, sharon liao, johnsonny, nicole, jessica li, chrisl, and okman (but he didn't show up). we didn't knoe if okman was supposed to be pronounced as OK-man or oakman. so i just decided on ok-man. but it didn't matter because he didn't show up anyway (he was sick). -_-

so the retreat started out horribly. -_- the red team lost on the puzzles.

see us working hard on the puzzle (and we even had extra help from other groups. -_-)

sarai had put together a five hundred piece puzzle then broke it into seven parts. and each group had to put their part of the puzzle together. as God allowed it, the red team ended up last to finish the puzzle. *sob* long after everyone finished, we were still working on it--and even stephen (green team), jessicawa (green team) and joseph (yellow team) helped us.

oh well. we got the hardest part of the puzzle, blog. christina's team (yellow team) won since they got the EASIER part.

with all that hard work and skipping dinner and endurance and suffering (other teams downing us), all we got was one point. -_-

next game, we had to use a straw and pass on peachOs and christina's team (yellow) won in that one too. ERHgh.

that's okae. with our nice slogan: RED TEAM REVENGE!, come the next day, we won the tarp game, stick game, second in stepping stones and tied? in apples with yellow group.

talent show--our group couldn't think of anything at first. -_- i was stressed because i'm not a good thinker nor a planner.

we were thinking of rapping but uncle [dennis] and josiah already did a rap. (: heh. uncle rapped eminem style. beautiful.

so since chrisl was being so mean all we came up with was that chrisl was the one caused disunity because he was being so horrible and jessli brought up the dream.

with no more ideas left, we decided on a plot that chrisl is this mean man who was unkind to his neighbor (jesskao), defrauds his business partners (sharon and aaron), distant from his daughter (jessli), rude to his mother (nicole) and cheated on his dear wife (me). -_-

i didn't want to be the wife and i wanted sharon to be the wife except chrisl kept saying that josiah would really die of a heart attack even if sharon was ACTING as chrisl's wife.

so it started out that God (johnsonny) talks to chrisl through his conscience while he's drifting off. so he dreams that everyone he wronged comes shouting at him.

chrisl said it would be a bonus if i could cry during my part..

so during when i had to walk up there to scream at chrisl, i cried because it's so hurtful to have "my husband" cheating on me. my heart was hurting when i was crying and i started to hate chrisl. :)

so as i sobbed on, everyone was laughing because they thought it was hilarious. -_-

and christina tells me that jessicawa and steph were laughing so hard that they started crying. and they said it was like a soap opera.

excerpt from steph's blog:
team red (evangeline’s group) busted out some cheap sob story action and evangeline cried cuz she was acting as chris’ wife and he supposedly had cheated on her and we all cried when she cried because it was so heartwrenching because she really was crying and we all thought chris was a bastard.

heh. :) but the story goes on, and i throw my ring at him because i'm "tired of his promises" and everyone comes back yelling at him in his dream

us yelling at him:

and chrisl wakes up traumatized by his dream and he apologizes to me and we said this prayer to unify "our marriage" again. -_-

like this: dear Heavenly Father, thank You for this wonderful day. we thank You for reunifying us together in our marriage. help us to value the importance of our marriage, our commitment and most importantly, our unity in this bond. thank You, in Jesus' name Amen.

aren't you proud! i memorized it, chrisl!! :)

except we couldn't memorize it up there and read from a little piece of paper. @_@

it wasn’t a “cheap sob story” -_- i had to work really hard to cry. -_-

it was bad enough to have to cry in front of everyone and having people say: WOW you can cry on command! CRY NOW! NOW!!

and it was badder to have chrisl put the ring on my finger and have everyone say "OHHHHHHHHH" or "EWWWWWWWWWW" from the kwans. and i almost recoiled but i remembered just in time that it was only a skit and that we HAD TO WIN for the talent show so i endured.

but to make things worser, after the play everyone kept calling me "mrs. leung" *SHUDDER*which will never evereverever happen i can assure you, blog. (it'll only happen when pigs fly.)

but to make things worserERERERST, the next day christina said: yea evangeline and chrisl makin' love! BUT what she really meant was evangeline and chrisl love each other. (because she likes to make fun of me and cause me pain. -_-) I WAS SO EMBARRASSED, blog. i felt disgraced. ASIDJASD. and steph said uncle [dennis] had this bewildered look on his face.

like steph says: my dear sister christina needs to learn what “making love” means so she’ll stop busting it out inappropriately.

anyhow sharon liao is crazy. :) she led us in the apples game and she had to go against dchang and another rematch and it got so gungho that we were all going crazy and i was so scared that the red team wouldn't win--because the last round of apples decided who won overall. and yellow team was so close to winning.

it was so scary, blog. -_- christina's group (yellow) did it on twisted fables: instead of the three little pigs they were the "legally blonde" girls with the "bend and snap!" heh. :) and dchang was the big bad wolf and joseph was red riding from the HOOD. (:

here (s)he is: the pretty red riding from the HOOD

the big bad wolf and the PIGs (pretty intelligent girls)

jessicawa/steph's group (green) talent show was supposed to place at least third. zooming in on tima's life. :) getting into the world of super mario, getting beat up, and class time with steph as teacher.

"no class, two plus two equals four!"

well it was FINALLY announced that the red team WON!! YEEEEEEEEEAAA GO RED TEAM!! :) *HIGH FIVES* A:SOIDJ:ISAJD i was SO SOSOSOSSO SUPER HAPPY that we won, blog, that i almost cried! :) everyone kept asking me if i was crying. -_- heh NO MORE CRYING FOR ME!

I'M MIGHTY PROUD OF YOU GUYS!! *HUG* heh IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RED TEAM! i love you guys!

heh. next year all the kwans are going to be in one group for the talent show (steph, evange-me, stina, angela, abraham, and marianna) and we are going to win FOR SURE! or i mean FASHO MAN. :)

jonathan messed up the picture and briaan knew but he took the picture anyway. -_- (i love you jessicawa!)

no this is NOT a flirting picture. >_< it's just me and joseph.

johnsonny me briaan (two webbies and a wilson)

kevin lawrence trying to act hip evange smiling off and jason obssessed with his arm

christina hsuhsu evange jesskaokao (they LIKE me!!)

our dear eyebrows (jason and johnsonny can lift both of them separately)

the bunny ears didn't get to the top of uncle[dennis]'s head. -_- (i'm going to grow as tall as him by the time i graduate.)

and that, my dear blog, is not everything that happened at the retreat.