3rd Official Day of Summer
Highlights:
- Finding an “excuse” to tell my parents to let me go to San Jose
- Going to Adrian’s house to chill
- Having Adrian persuade my parents to let me go to SJ
- Getting picked up by Sean and Christina around 11:30
- Picking up Jonny
- Going to In n Out for lunch
- “Go ask for special sauce.” “Isn’t that just thousand island dressing?” “SHH!”
- Funny conversations in the car
- Adrian trying to wear my size 28 cargos
- Matching with Adrian (kind of)
- “Hey, it’s 143 make a wish.” “Doesn’t 143 mean ‘I love you’ in a language?” “..Numbers?”
- Getting lost.. 40 miles later.. WITH a GPS.
- Taking 3 1/2-4 hours to get to San Jose Performing Arts Center
- Jonathan and Adrian running out of the car during a red light to save us a spot in line
- Changing into shorts in the car
- Seeing IP District Secretary, Willy Hoang, and IP Penguins D34S LTG, Patrick Lin :X
- Counting how many people would come up and say “Hi!” to Sean
- We reached around 15 within the first thirty minutes. We ended up with 36, but it would’ve been doubled if we counted how many people he went up to.
- $10 tickets
- Jonathan telling me to rub a dollar on myself and buy a raffle ticket
- “Just go! If you go by yourself he’ll probably give you like two extra.”
- The line finally moving
- No pushing, no shoving.
- Vendors selling shirts, but me unfortunately not buying one (at least I saved money).
- Getting perfect seats at the middle, middle.
- Meeting Sean’s friends: Stephen, Albert, Hyun, Michelle, &Maggie.
- “Doesn’t he look like Devin Castro?” Yeah, Stephen totally looked like Devin.
- Kenya Dance
- Seeing Jennifer Chung and RJ from Supreme Soul host the show
- Having the music surrounding and filling my ears.
- Watching performances by San Jose groups such as: GTFO, The Lost Kids, etc. Groups such as T.O.C. and Strikers All-Stars from ABDC came too.
- Hearing Jennifer Chung sing live
- The Lost Kid’s performance which ft. Glee at the end
- Watching the dance battle for an iPod Shuffle.
- Patrick Lim (aka “Usher) won in the end. Wow.
- More performances
- Being “upset” to find that Poreotix, Kaba, etc. were just invited—they weren’t really coming ):
- Walking out at the end to enjoy the scenery
- Meeting up at “La Victorias” (Mexican food)
- Seeing Joe Chung and Jennifer Chung there
- Getting a picture with them. “C’mon, this is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY!”
- “Key Clubbers?” “Yeah.. 7 South.” “Aw, man..You guys are crazy!”
- Jonathan taking the infamous Orange Sauce
- Meeting up at Yogurtland
- Jonathan using the bathroom first
- “..Dude, I ate so much beans.. I have to fart so bad now.”
- Going to Papa Beards to split a vanilla eclaire puff with Jonathan
- It was fucking amazingly delicious.
- ”Oh yeah, and there’s the $2 Japanese store.” “WHAT? JONATHAN, COME HERE.”
- Going to “Daisos” and going around buying cheap Japanese things.
- “THIS IS LIKE A JAPANESE DOLLAR TREE.” “If we had a Daiso in Elk Grove they’d be out of stock all the time.”
- Getting cheap yogurt consisting of tart yogurt and fruit and mochi
- The register lady looking like Triana
- Silly conversations and mingling with the Cupertino kids (:
- Sadly having to say goodbye at the end of the night
- Getting drinks from Safeway
- Not getting lost on the way home
- Talking about scary movies on the night ride back
- Talking about ’90s shows
- “Eggs.. eggs.. I got scrambled eggs.. Sunnyside up.. Poached.. p-poached eggs!” “You wish you were ONE TWO.”
- Unfortunately breaking the pact and falling asleep
- Waking up to Elk Grove
Overall:
I had an amazing day. It’s hard to believe that it’s only the third day, and I”m already enjoying this summer so much. Thank you Sean Feng for bringing us to San Jose. Thank you for showing us around, thank you for introducing us to your awesome friends. Thank you for Jonathan, Adrian, and Christina for being fun company. I love the city, so that’s why I absolutely adore road trips with friends. The feel is just so different. The tall buildings, the scenery, the atmosphere—I love it. It makes me wonder how life would be like if I lived in the bay area. It always feels weird coming back to Elk Grove at the end of the day, but hey, Elk Grove will always be home to me.
