Your Assignment:

Country: Zambia

Program: HIV/AIDS Project

Job Title: HIV/AIDS Community Mobilizer

Dates of Service: 8/12/2006-8/11/2008*

Orientation Dates: 6/05/2006-6/07/2006*

Pre-Service Training (in Zambia): 6/08/2006-8/11/2006*

*dates subject to change

"Mail takes about four to six weeks from the U.S. to Volunteers sites and there may be NO TELEPHONE OR EMAIL SERVICE IN YOUR VILLAGE. You will live in a village earthen house lit by kerosene lamps or candles with meals being cooked over wood or charcoal. Drinking and washing water may need to be carried from as far as 30 minutes away on foot."

Lol...this will be so much fun!

First, I want to wish Varni a very Happy Birthday!! =)

Second, if we are going to eat out/kick it/karaokin/bar hoppin for Varni's birthday, would it be possible to do it this Friday rather than Saturday? I'm volunteering with Planned Parenthood for their Pro-Choice Prom from 7:45-10:00pm. If you guys are planning to get together after 10pm, then Saturday will work for me. Otherwise, Friday after 6pm would work.

Hope y'all had a good Chinese New Year! Sorry if I didn't txt you back...I've been isolating myself. Trying to find peace with my inner soul through yoga. =) This weekend was rough. Please refer to the ChongWa girls bulletin under Advice for more information.

Btw, check out ManHaters.com! Before you date anyone, please take a look at this site and research them. If they come clean, then maybe they're not too bad after all. lol...

You Are a Strawberry Daiquiri

You're a fun, playful drinker who loves to party.

You may get totally wasted, but you're always a happy drunk!What Mixed Drink Are You?

Fuck yeah! Me love anything fruity tutti baby.

Yes! So I finally cancelled my aol account. Been meaning to do that. Just been so busy dammit. I'm updating now just to let all y'all know. Best email address to get my attn is janeyngo@gmail.com, and aim and myspace is janeygyrl. Figured why would I need to pay for aol when I'll be gone for two to three years. Ahhh...Gummy just came downstairs! She's soo adorable. I bought her another bag of dry food and whiskas. The collar that Shuk got her looks gorgeous on her. I love how it jingles when she walks around. Awww she just put her two front paws on the family room coffee table to check out what's on the table. CUTE!!! Now she's sniffing the bottom of the front door...MEOW!

Being busy and spending more time with myself and Steph has been soo good. I've bought dumbells (sp?) so I've been working out my arms, and I've been biking from Eastlake to UW. I've tried to pick up keyboarding again, so I've been practicing some songs that I learned like what...three years ago? I've also bought a yoga mat, so I've been doing yoga while watching Simpsons and Friends (you guys got me hooked now!!!). Oh, and I've also been cooking my own lunch...o_O. Me eating healthier...no more pickles and pepperoni sticks!

Guess what I also found out? I was suppose to get benefits through UW since September! WTF! How the hell did that slip through the cracks? I even called benefits in September to check in with them about my status, and they told me that because I'm a temporary employee, I would have to wait six months before getting anything. So I waited. Then I talked to my coworker about it and he told me that he got it right away when he started working here. That's when I was like "oh nuh uh he didn't." So then I emailed the Psych Payroll people, forward my question to benefits, got the same answer. Then I emailed my supervisor asking her if there's any way we can bypass this, and she followed up with benefits and found out that I was suppose to it a long time ago. So now they're telling me that they don't know if I am still eligible for benefits because I WAITED! What the fucking shit is this? Y'all TOLD me to wait...and now y'all penalizing me for this (I've been hanging w/ this girl from the south too much at my new job...)?? Fuck, I hate dealing with people in benefits coz they don't care! I better get something by February 1st coz Leona told me they can only fix one quad at a time, meaning I have to visit the dentist four times to get everything filled. Just great. And Peace Corps wants this all done by the beginning of March so that I can get my invitation in April. dfjaiewoafjlsafjoiweavmxvnxcbhurtoqwrewoiwedsfk!

Anyway, time for bed. Gotta work tomorrow and then show Amber around Chinkytown coz she wanna know where she can get spices. Hehehe...that's so cute. And then I got Heidi's Bday party to go to, and then my coworker's friend's bday party on Saturday. So many bdays lately! Amber bday was Dec 29, and some other girl at work at her bday two weeks ago, and Kayla had her bday last Saturday, now I got two this weekend, and Caitlyn's bday is next Saturday. Then pretty soon it'll be my momma's bday on the 2nd and Varni's bday on the 4th. I think that's as far out as my brain can go right now. Aite, time to commite suicide so I can sleep peacefully. Aloha.

I've been at work since 8:30 and haven't done shit other than eat, drink, and talk. I feel very unworthy right now. If I was gonna get paid to do nothing then I should just get paid for sleeping. Whatever.

I've been kicking myself for not consolidating my loans after graduation, coz I had no idea that interest was going to go up on July 1st. Now that my grace period is over, I hurried up and made my first payment of $1000. Then I realized that because I sent in an application to get it consolidated back in June, I still qualify to have my rates fixed at when I was still in school. Crazy shit. So now I just have to sign that damn form, which I'm pretty sure I've already recycled.

Now working three jobs, trying to save and pay off loans. Hoping to leave for Mexico for a month either late March or early April. Shit..free room and board...how could I have passed that up?? Plus I'll be helping my good friend Heidi collecting data, and the resort is right off the beach. Tightness...Then on May 1st til the 15th I'ma be in Hawaii to visit my sweet friend Junko with Cuc and hopefully Marianne since I promised her I'll visit before I leave for Africa. Maybe I'll also get to check out Vancouver or Whistler once or twice again before I completely leave this continent.

Had the entire family over again last night...Grandfather's death anniversary shit. It was alright. Cutie Tony kept asking me what I was going to get him for xmas. Mimi kept yanking on Gummy's tail. And I spilled curry & pepsi in Steph's room. What a sexy night.

I guess I always got shit going on in my life, but as of this moment these are some pressing things on my mind. I'm going to be moving in with Leona and her gf basically this weekend in West Seattle. Was just informed today. Crazy ain't it? Rent will only be $280 per month, so not bad. Thinking of just buying a blow up bed coz I'm lazy to freaking buy furniture all over again. At least it'll also be close to my parents so if I ever need anything, they're only a ten minute drive away.

I also found out Wednesday that I may be losing hearing in my left ear after a visit to the doctor's office. Not quite sure what that's suppose to mean, but I guess if I go deaf I'll be learning sign language! Hehehe, I've always wanted to learn. The doctor gave me this nasal spray shit, hopefully that'll help improve my hearing if my loss of hearing is caused by my cold.

I finally sent out my medical examination forms to Peace Corps last night. I'm freaking excited. Very close before I get an invitation and know exactly which country I'll be sent to. I also need to send in my updated resume too so they know what trainings I've attended so far. Wish May was coming up next month, but I guess in a way it is right around the corner...

Shit Cuc's calling me and I gotta go meet her. Post more later!

Once upon a time, a woman dropped from the sky and into the ocean, washed away deep into the sea. Her mother popped out of a volcano and floated away into space. Her bones scattered throughout the universe - her skull reaching the silky moon, her toes reaching the mighty sun. Evil vultures from venus devoured everything else. Her daughter became a mermaid, after the hefty King Triton realized that she couldn't breathe underwater as a human. Soon after she transformed into a beautiful mermaid a fisherman ate her, thinking she was some kind of magical spell that must be stopped. What he didn't realized was that she was a magical spell, and thus by eating her up he died of poison and his body transformed into a bull. For obvious reasons a bull cannot survive off of fish since they cannot swim, so he sooned passed away due to starvation. After having most of his body chunked off by piranhas, the vultures from venus found its way into the Earth's atmosphere and ate the rest of the bull. Finally, the mother and daughter are united with their flesh and bones stored inside the gut of the vulture.

As the vultures set out on their next adventure within the milky way, an elephant came stomping through the ocean and smooshed the vultures before they could fly away. The elephant, thinking they're the King of the World, got jumped by the Dinosaurs and ran away like monkeys. The Dinosaurs, thinking they're now the King of the World, strolled around town like they're the shit. To their surprise, people weren't running away from them. Rather, they were running away from Godzilla. Godzilla, sent by the Fart God of Jupitor, kept releasing deadly toxins that would burn the eyes out of the people's socket and cause them to explode. Out of revenge, Team America was formulated to save the world from terrorists.

Due to low enlistment in the military, they are now looking into a law passed a couple years back that allow those who join the military to also serve time in the peace corps as part of their service. This is fucking crazy. Why? Because people all over the world already have this preconception that members of the peace corps are really CIA agents or spy for the American government, but we're really not. We are there to lend them a helping hand if needed, and now that they have publicly announced the military will be involved with peace corps, do you know how much my saftey will be at risk when I leave? This is just bull shit. Peace corps is NOT a military service, and if I really wanted to die abroad I would have joined the marines. But what can I do, right? If I was meant to die...then it was fate. =)

last night, i finally got my gu zheng (chinese zither)! hehe..too bad i don't know how to play it. it's hella big and i have no idea whea to put it. i still need a stand for it, so i guess i'ma tell my uncle to buy one for me before he comes over here to the U.S. My mommy and grandma is hella excited that my uncle and aunt is finally coming over here to live..they've been waiting for like ten years! damn..that's hella long.

today, kenji came by my work and got me some unagi..it was hella yummy. and he also gave me a lil gift for our 23rd month anniversary (wth). he got me this cute lil anklet. no one ever gave me an anklet before, so i was like huh? but its kyoote. he always seem to know what to get for me. too bad i can't really do the same =/

well tonight, me kenji steph tony and mommy are gonna go bowling and swimming. i can't fucken wait. it's way too hot today. my fingers are like on fire coz i'm constantly typing up crap at work. blah. and some bitch who doesn't even work here turned off the fan. wth. i wanted to say something but didn't wanna be rude so i just shut up. blah. i just glared at her.

why don't we all just have the bbq thingy tomorrow night? how does that sound? you know..maybe around 4 or something. i hella don't know how to bbq, so i hope you guys know how to. what are you guys gonna bring?? i'll prolly ask my mom to marinate some meat for us (probably ribs or something) and i'll go to safeway and buy some corn (hmmmmmm....). btw, where are we having this agen? i know is somewhere near alice, but i just don't know where exactly. =X well, i hope we can organize this thing asap. especially if maybe we'll have it this weekend.

damn..i got five more minutes before i gotta leave work and walk to class. grrr..i'm soo fucken tired. i don't wanna work or go to class right now. my seminar, differences across dialogues (or something like that ) is four freaking hours long. houy...i'm hella crazy for taking early fall start along with summer quarter. but oh well.

my summer pretty much went by hella quick. all i did was worked at the psychology clinic, went to class and studied. all that studying paid off coz i got a 3.6 in math 124 and 4.0 in soc 270. i don't know my gpa for soc 220 coz damn professor still didn't submit her grades yet. i e-mailed her and the undergraduate office to let them know they're late. blah. i just hope they have that grade up asap so i can apply to the soc dept.

anyways, i quit my job at the psych clinic and went back to the womens center coz i missed them and they missed me. awww..ain't that sweet? yesterday, me, cuc (my co-worker), sharon (assistant director) and nancy (program coordinator) all went to nancy's house and picked berries in her 12 acres house. her house is soo fucken big. she's selling it for 1.7 million. damn. i wish i had the money to buy it. it's sooo nice. she even have a chickens and a ranch! =>

well, its 12:15. gotta get to class now. hope everybody's having fun. we gotta have the bbq asap. ain't the younguns going back to skewl on the 3rd? maybe we should have it this weekend. *shrugz* just a suggestion.

hahha oopz i lied...alice did add me to her friend list!! hehe..=) i think anni told you...so umm..thanks anni! (i feel sooo fucken stupid)

grrr..i fucking can't sleep! it's been like this for the whole fucken week. ahhhh. i'm gonna go crazy! *deep breath* well since i'm starting to write something here, i might as well keep on goen. today was a fucked up day (or i guess now yesterday...wateva). this morning, i had a doctor's appt at hall health coz i wanted a second opinion about my back problems. my stupid doctor from the id clinic neva did anything about my fucking back, and now my back hurts soo bad i can't even sleep at night. so aniway, i went to the doctor, told her all about my problems (jumped out my window and landed on cement wen i was 14 and fell down the mountain when i was 15) and that my fucken backache won't go away. then she asked me all sort of questions and one of them was have i been feeling numbness around my back area. i thought about it...and shyte yesterday i felt some tingly feeling down my left hip and thought it was because i sat too long...but it hurted like hell. so i told her about that, and she said that something could be damaging my nervous system or something. and i was like wtf!! and my fucking doctor NEVER did anything about it! that makes me piss. and to top it off, my fucken insurance won't cover me if i get an MRI, an xray, or even physical therapy at hall health. i hafta get it through my provider to get coverage. ain't that a fucken bitch??? grrr...right when i was hella close to finally get help for my fucken back, my insurance won't cover. grrrr...i'm gonna get bald before i'm fucken 20! ai yah..*deep breath* i dunno..i fucken bawled this morning. i didn't know what to do. i knew i should have switched doctors long time ago at the id clinic, but i thought since my back problems were slowly goen away, that it will one day get better. but it hasn't, and i keep on goen back and telling her my back still hurts. she suggested yoga and i've been doen that for a whole month...and for some weird reason, i think its making my back worse coz my back hasn't hurt like this in awhile. on top of that my whole entire shoulder and neck is all tense from lack of sleep. ack. i dunno. fuck. i have another doctor appt tomorrow at the id clinic, but this time its with someone that has an MD for shure. i hope he can help me. i'm sick and tired and goen to people and telling them my problems all over agen. *sigh*

well..i do have some good news today. ummm...financial aid gave me 1500 buckz in grants!! kewl huh?? i was hella excited. coz i needed that money hella bad. *sigh of relief* that was the only good news today. i was too fucken crappy to stay happy for long. i kinna took it out on kenji today too..but oh well. i already told him about wat happened this morning. and he's aite about it.

i can't sleep i can't sleep i can't sleep! it's making me mad! *cries* i think i'ma just drink for awhile til i go to sleep. i'll show up at the doctor with a hang over. =X well..i don't have much more to say. cept that alice never add me to her friends list =(..and janny my lj page is fucked up...hehe..i don't know shyte about computers. its been fucked up for months. blah. well...i'ma try to go back to sleep. good nyte everybody.

August 7, 2003 @ Seahawk Staduim

$75.00

Still wanna go May?

hey may...did I left my umbrella in your car? =X

Damn, its been like forever since I posted on lj. But aniwayze, if all you guys haven't heard the news...I GOT AN APT!!! =D I'm sooo excited...=P. but yeah, i move in all my stuff tomorrow...can't wait! *gigglez*

Well last time i remembered, Janny suggested that I throw a house warming party this weekend since its a three day weekend. But steph just told me that the woo sisters gotta go to a baby shower...so now i'm kinna unsure. I'm still not really settled in yet, but i have a couch, a t.v., coffee table, bed, study table, and all that junk..and hopefully i'll get cable installed by this weekend. If you guys want me to have a house warming party this saturday...let me know! and what time too! okiez?? hehe...aitey...i gotta go do homework..=X

how could i have forgotten? but yeah..well...i spent x mas eve wid kenji poo...hehhe...since i decided to skip work. =X well...that night, me and kenji was asleep up in his room wen somebody decided to ring the doorbell at 11:30 at nite. kinna freaky since he lives near central. his older sister, dana, was the one who came and woke us up coz we sure didn't hear no doorbell (we were sound asleep)...and kenji went outside to check who it was...and it was some scrawny white mutha fucka wid some jacked up car and his hair was just all over the place. soo...we all got a lil shaken up...especially me since i just had a bad dream. well aniwayze, after that white dude kept on ringing the doorbell over and over...he finally decides to leave and we were all relieved. then his sister decides to tell us all these stories around his neighborhood...well...only two really...but one of them was how this family up the street got murder on xmas eve!! all because their kids opened the door to some dude who rang the doorbell!! ahhhh...and how some guy was about to rob them some time ago but was caught coz the nieghbor saw him peeking inside the window. aniwayze...right when kenji peaked outside agen to make sure they were completely gone..dude stopped his car...and started reversing back! shyte...that hella freaked us out...so kenji went to go get his bat. i started talkin kinna loud asking kenji wat the fuck do these people want...and kenji was all like how the fuck i shud know...but right wen kenji sed that, he realized that his house ain't soundproof so wat we say inside the house...people outside the house can hear...so we were like oh shyte. and the dude came back and started pounding on the door this time. ai yah..i was completely freaked out!! but dude eventually left us alone...but damn...i was sooo scared! i'm NEVER gonna stay at his house past dark ever agen!!

well..xmas is about to be over in an hour or so..but still. merry xmas! hehehhe..i didn't do anything today. just stayed home and chilled. but yeah. all i got today was steph's gift...pucca doll!!! =) makes me happy. hehehe..but yeah. my family gonna go to canada this weekend maybe. *shrugz* not sure yet. and ummm...yeah. kenji got me a laptap case, webcam, and a mouse for my laptap. kewl huh? and he got a digital camera too thas the size of a wallet..itz hella tiny. but aniwayze. *yawnz* i'm sleepy now..and i gotta go to work at 9. =X

i've never been to a rave

and i didn't know what to expect

but when i saw your face

my body started to sweat

you came up to me

and asked what nationality i was

i told you i was chinese/vietnamese

and you told me white/korean

while we were dancing

you asked for my name

i told you my name was jane

and from that point on my life changed

for some weird reason, i can't stop thinking of you

even though i know i won't ever see you

my heart keeps telling me that i need to be with you

i truly feel guilty

since i already got a man

but i can't let this feeling go

i just don't understand

after the party was over

i knew it was impossible to spot you

but i couldn't help it

but to look for you

i wish somebody can tell me

what the hell is wrong with me

coz if somebody knew

please tell me so i can forget this dude

i'm lyke at work ryte now...(funny how i'm always at work..) and like this mutha fucka (supposedly from sacremento) came up to my booth..asked me what my name was (and I had my name tag on,,stupid) and asked me what i'm doen tonite. i could smell all the alcohol he's been drinking too! yuck! i jess told him i'm gonna meet up wid my bf ( i lied) and he all looked at me suspiciously as though i was lying and den he asked me if i was lying and i was lyke do you want me to show u picture of us? and he was like nah..that'll prolly disappoint me and was like well..he better treat you right or else he's jess a foo and walked away. i was lyke uhh..okay..have a nice day. lolz..wth..his eyes were all fucked up and shyte..houy. but yeah..thas the highlight for today. =)

ack..i'm at work right now and itz just hella gloomy. not much to do or anything coz itz hella slow and stuff. u guyz wanna come down and see a laser show?? hehehe..j/joking. but yeah..dis week was the first week at uw and itz aite. i failed my math quiz today tho. hehehe..i hella didn't study..i didn't feel like studying last nyte..but at least my instructer will drop the lowest quiz grade. =) all the classes i want to take this fall are practically closed. wth..and i can't even register yet. grrr...this sux. oh well..i'll survive and all. so are we still goen to illusionz tomorrow? i wanna take sticker pix..hehe. i'm nervous about the luncheon tomorrow..do i have to give a speech coz i won that scholarship? i hella don't want to coz i'll freak out and i didn't even write a speech..but oh well..go wid the flow i guesh. =x mai life is boring..i don't have anything interesting to write coz all i have is school and work..blah. hehee..but mai math instructor is a doofus. fock...he's like an ugly ass geek and his legs are as skinny as my arms and he's bout 5'8" or something..yuck! hehhe..don't ever have pete couperous for math 124...he'z not that good in explaining anything..thas why i failed the quiz..=X anywayz..i dink i bored you guyz enuff...i'll bounce now..love you guyz much! *muahz*

i'm at work right now but i already signed out. i'm waiting for my coordinators to count me out and stuff. i was short 11 bucks last nyte. somebody stole my money. hehhe..oh well..i don't care. science center gets hella money from donations and stuff. but i'm hella bored. stephanie told me that u guys wanted to go to illusions next saturday instead of tomorrow, since i had to work 9 hours today and i'm hella tired. i dink kenji wanna take me to go see lilo and stitch...is that movie good? i dunno..looks hella kyoote. next saturday i have a luncheon at 1:00 for that golden grad scholarship i won..so i guess anitime after that would be fine. just let me know what you guys wanna do. coz i haven't been kickin it wid you guys and i miss you guys hella..*sniff sniff* hehe...early dis morn or like late last nite (watever u wanna consider it), my mom was telling me that jes when she was about to fall asleep, she heard somebody threw up and thought it was me since i came home late from work, but when she came out..she saw mai sister barfing all over the carpet outside her room. lolz..and i didn't hear a single thing and its just rite outside my room..hehhe..and i heard she barf again today at drill..houy..that girl..good thing we weren't gonna do something today or else she be barfin in my car and that ain't too good. =X but yeah...yesterday and today has been very long and boring and hot. and i got lost at uw yesterday trying to find the math department. i'ma need may or alice or both to help me out on campus this fall coz itz soo big! hehehe..but well..i betta get off the computer before my coordinators start yelling at me..let me know if you guys wanted to go to illusionz next saturday so i could mark my calendar and let mai coordinators know at work so they won't schedule me okayz! aitey den..love you guys all much!

fuck...stephanie tried to cook marshmellows in the microwave and fuckin burnt the plastic container she put that in..wth...who the hell puts marshmellows in the fockin microwave?! fuck..it hella stinks..houy..mommyz gonna be hella mad when she finds out that her plastic container thing is melted..lolz..aniwayze. the mary j. blige concert last nyte was aite. tweet was there as special guest. not too many people came for here...but when mary got up on stage hella people started to come in. kenji was being a lil bitch yesterday too. or maybe it was jess me pmsing but still..wateva. i can't believe stephanie tried to cook marshmellows in the microwave..i dunno...thats hella beyond me. but yeah..i jess got up not too long ago..i'm bousta go to uw and get mai student id. gosh..can't believe skewl starts next monday...=( i only had a one week summer vacation..hehehe..oh well. i gotta go help steph clean up the fockin mess she made...(i still can't believe she did that...)