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Angel_Rannychan
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Gender: Female
Interests: Social Justice, bringing out each individual's full potential, providing equal access to quality education. incorporating culture into life, celebrating diversity and uniqueness, anything that deals with art, learning, doing everything I can to educate other on the impact both positive and negative on the world
Expertise: considerate and caring towards others, Art, kind, gentle, patient, being there for people, enjoying everything that life throws @ me, pursuing my goals and realizing my dreams, not allowing money to be my main motivator for seeking a career
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education
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Member Since:
9/19/2002
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First of all CONGRATULATION TO ROGER FEDERER!  You're the greatest tennis player of all time.
Waking up at 6am was hard and tiring, but so worth it. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, haha I was even praying that you'd win. That's how great of the game Andy Roddick had. Roddick really did his best and it was extremely laudable. But I'm so happy for Federer, watching his match is like true genius =) They way he strategies each shot and angle, wow.
My second summer session started today. One of my classes is Foundations of Special Education. At first I was like "Man why do I have to take this class? Or why is this class required? I'm not teaching Special Education" But after today, I'm so excited and glad to be taking the class. It's really allowing to reflect about myself and my capabilites. It also making me ask questions about myself and how I can be a better person.
The discussion questions were:
Why am I here? On this earth/ taking this class
Apparently 74% of Americans don't really know why they're here on earth and what purpose they serve. It was really interesting to find out and I'm glad that I have something to work toward.
No offense, but I don't think money is the best motivation for people, I think it makes happiness dictated by materials. Will people remember you for all the things you owned? Or what you achieved? It's nice to have things, sure, but in the end, what do you want to get out of life?
I think people should take a step back and ask themselves that.
What do I want to get out of life?
I want to find true love and be loved for who I am.
I want to help others become more understanding and open-minded
I want to give back to my community and help others realize their potential.
I want to help give others opportunities that their social economic status might deprive them of.
I want to explore and treasure all the beauties of the world.
I want to give voice to those who can not speak for themselves (environment, animals)
and most importantly
I want to be happy =)
Here's some inspriation quotes I like =)
 
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| Sorry to all my friends, I've been so swamped and it's sad because I can tell how people lose touch with their friends. Life gets in the way and there's just no time. Well you can make time, but it just makes things more stressful.
I really want to start calling people and I feel like adding a texting plan can help with the communication, especially with friends not in SD.
I always say, ok I'm gonna call this person today! or I will plan a get together or some kind of meal with a friend, but then I just delay it. My friends are important to me and I need to make more of an effort..
Being enrolled in my teaching program has been a great experience. Unlike my past experiences with school, even UCLA I have to say, I couldn't really picture myself applying all the information or concepts I learned to real life. It all just seemed like information just to understand and be familar with. Everything I learn from my teaching program can be applicable to me as a teacher.
It's really been tough being a cluster sub at National City Middle School, at times I wonder if it's all worth it and if I can make a difference in these students' lives. My professors really helped me put it into perspective. They reminded and reassured me that being a subsitute is completely different from being a full-time classroom teacher. TThey also gave me suggestions and feedback on how to handle difficult situations with students. I'm pretty good with handling behavior, but sometimes it gets really hard and I actually had to raise my voice, which isn't fun at all.
I really didn't know how to handle students who would speak ill of me in the classroom in Spanish and when they used racial terms when seeing me. I now understand that it's ok for me to address the issue right away and say that it's inappropriate, I can also engage students in a discussion. As a substitute, it's hard to know what I'm allowed to do in the classroom. I also really need to speak to teachers and the principal and establish a better connection wit them. Everyone understand and knows I'm a great subsitute, but they don't know specifically. It'll be a little nerve wrecking to have the principal observe me.
I taught my first real lesson today regarding adaptation. I stressed so much about it, but received great feedback. I guess at times, well actually most of the time I have super high expectations which isn't necessary and can make things very stressful.
I found out today that someone likes to speak ill of me. Someone I don't even know. There's so many people out there that want to see you fail and I really think this negativity is a form of comfort for people. They make themselvs feel better by putting others down. You just shouldn't let that pessimism get to you, your view of yourself is most important. It's hard for me not to care, but in the end I have to tell myself, "who cares," it's just their thoughts and I know it might be mean to say, but they mean nothing to me so their thoughts are also not valued.
I know who I am and I know what I want to do with my life, no one can compromise that.
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|  RIP  Michael Jackson June 25. 2009 
I'm currently listening to Michael Jackson's music as I write this much deserved tribute to the king of pop. Life is really too short and just when you think you have so many more years to come, it can be taken away so quickly. We aren't as invincible as we think we are.
  Michael Jackson was a great musician, performer, and person. Even thought he'll be praised for how much he revolutionized the music industry, he was really a philanthropist. No one really mentioned his generosity and everyone seemed to be consumed by his flaws and eccentricities. Sure, he didn't live his life like most of us, but that was his choice and it's just terrible how people just blew it out of proportion and let it influence their view of this kind person. Michael Jackson was really a victim of the media. Everyone has their reasons for doing things and of course people aren't going to understanding their logic, but as least they could of mentioned it.
I find it really ironic because these same media stations who spent so much time ridiculing Michael Jackson now speak of him as if none of the horrible and false accusations they made occurred.
Really, is it so wrong to protect your children from the media, but hiding their identity. Once your face is shown, you're like a target, especially if you're the child of a legend. People really just loved to blow everything he did out of proportion and always with a negative tone, which was so unfair to him, they couldn't just stop picking on him. Even some stations now still have the courage to mock him. Just the tone they used and how they presented him was in such a biased perspective.
  I was really looking forward to Michael Jackson's come back tour. I knew he'd regain his reputation (not like he really needed to).
Everyone has a choice in how they live their life and really its none of our business. It's really sad how people believe and completely take what's presented the media as fact. People should learn to make their own judgment instead of having the media telling them how to view a person.
I always believed in Michael Jackson, I never doubted him and knew he couldn't be any of the things people accused him as. I understand his logic and it's really so unfortunate that so many didn't and let their closed-minded-ness cloud the honest truth about him. I understand how sleeping in a bed with a stranger can be strange, but that's because everyone seems to sexualize the bed or the bed room. They don't understand that the bed can just be a place to sleep.
 Every person has calling in life and a cause they want to contribute to. For me, it's animals and the envrionment and for Michael Jackson it was the children. There's nothing wrong with that. Michael Jackson really did the best he could with the life he had.
  I think we are all fortunate to have lived in his life time to experience his greatness live. I remember just jamming to his music. My mom's friend bought us his Dangerous album and i just completely fell in love with it. HAHa I think when I was like in elementary school, his Remember the time Music video totally captived me and I thought he was so handsome! Even though his appearence motified, I still think he's a beautiful person. It think it's really true what they say about you don't know how great someone is until they're gone.
  When people said there could never be a person like Michael Jackson, the magnitude of this global influence will continue to live on throughout the generations and I really hope people remember him for not only his musical contributions, but his role in healing and improving the world and society.
  If you listen to his lyrics you can really see his soul and what he values. If only music now could be like that, now and days it seems like a song just needs a good beat to be popular.
     
Thank you Michael Jackson for enriching my life and allowing be to reflect through your amazing lyrics. Thank you for working so hard and remaining ture to yourself. Your efforts touched people like me on many levels. You are such a beautiful and wonderful person and I hope people will finally realize that fact. The world is mourning the lost of it's king of pop.
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| Wow has it really been about three years since I wrote in here? I want to start writing again, I tried writing in my journal, as in physically using a pen and writing, but there was too much to say and it hurt my hand with all the scribbling.
I want to begin reflecting and jotting down my thoughts again, it is a great stress reliever and it helps me evaluate my actions.
One thing that's on my mind, is WOW teachers have to go through so much and for such an essential position, it's really a shame how unappreciated and under-valued they are. Despite this knowledge, I'm still passionate because its worth it to change, improve, or open one students life. I'm learning so much from my courses I'm taking for my teaching credential, I'm really looking forward to having my own class =)
So much more to say, but I'll save it for another day, I have to finish constructing my lesson plans for one of my teaching courses.
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| watch ABDUCTION soon to be know as Megumi in Fall in Japan, today, really sad and moving. It was a documentary about this 13 yr old girl who got abuducted along with 13 other ppl by North Korea. They didn't find out till like 20 yrs later that Northern Korea abducted them. But it was so sad and eye opening. The parents of Megumi, kept looking for like 27 years to try to find what happened to their daughter 27 YEARS, that's even longer than I've lived. That's a lot of commitment and determination. I signed their journal and just showed them how much I appreciated their efforts and my heart really goes out to them. Amazing people really.
I really admired their courage to bring it to the attention of the government and media. It just made me realize how much the government is hiding from the public and how much people are suffering. =(
The ending was not a solution, basically, Northern Korea sent back 8 of the 13 and said the rest "died" but they won't say how. They even sent fake ashes back the Megumi's parents. It's just crazy.
Oh I got interviewed by this Tokyo media thingy, so I might appear on Japan's news or something and I met the first lady/ prime minister's wife from Japan, She flew in just to watch the movie.
I love KATHY for taking me and let me be her date. HAHA KATHY"S THE BEST DATE EVER!!
Why can't people love each other more and stop the madness. Everyone is human. Everyone feels pain just like everyone else.
People wonder how I stay positive, it's a challenge sometimes, but it's better than dwelling in the darkness.
Oh the positive, I get to go home, see my awesome parents (yay for dad coming to get me, yes bonding time when we're stuck in traffic lol) my sis's b-day. Get to see friends and spend time with people I really have been wanting to =)
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