man..who woulda thought that going back to church again for the first time in a year would be so fun??.so here's what happen. i figure u guys would like to know concrete events going on in my life instead of just random thoughts every once in a while. ok..so first on sunday i go to 9am mass, blah blah blah, same old same old..then after mass benny and agnes almost literally forced me to play violin for the xmas eve program and the mass. i agreed, not as if i really had a choice. anyways, tuesday my dad takes me to church at 3:30 pm, we get there before anyone else does. i sit around until 3:45 waiting for the other violins to show up. steven and his little brother get to church same time benny and agnes do, janice and albert show up a little after that, mabel and christina never showed up..everyone's all dressed up except for me, who's wearing soccer slides and cargos..wwoooppss..hey well i did bring a change of clothes..then comes the fun part.we go into the chapel to rehearse for the pre program..OMG the little kids were sooo cute!!.they had to do a xmas play, but they ALL talked in chinese!!!..aahh it was so cute, all these little kids running around on the stage..>)..finally got through rehearsal at 4:45, the program started at 5pm. of course, there was almost no one there to watch it cuz mass didn't start until 6...so people started showing up around 5:30, when the play was almost done, then the little kids started to get nervous and mess up.^_^.still cute anyways..oo and they gave us all candles too!!!..i wonder which crazy person thought up that idea..who in the world is gonna trust a bunch of 5-8 year olds with LIT candles???..luckily nothing happened..then mass started at 6..it was freezing cold in the chapel!!!...janice and me were shivering like crazy the whole time, we could barely hold our violins..speaking of violins..we had to play during mass too...it was hilarious! the violins didn't have half the service music, so we had to wing it half the time..somehow we made it thru..but what was really funnie was during peace...since the mass was done half chinese/half english, the peace part was in chinese..i guess they do it differently during chinese mass, cuz instead of the piano playing the music, everyone sings "pin an, pin an" in chinese instead, to a TOTALLY different tune...in the middle of it ( i guess agnes didn't know or sumthing), agnes starts to play the peace song from english mass..hahah it soudned sooo funnie!!...even people not in the pews were laughing too...everything went well tho...after mass first thing i did was change back into my khakis..there's no way i was gonna be spending the rest of the nite freezing my butt off in a skirt. we had our church dinner then, that was fun,getting to spend time with the rest of the youth group...we spent all of dinner fighting over dessert and throwing chocolate at each other.haha what a waste of good chocolate..oo yes, and we played "jedi master" with the plastic shepherd staffs too...trust me, we discovered a lot of useful things to do with the staffs.. so that was about it. pretty fun, i wish i'd gotten to talk to some of the college ppl tho, they don't come back very often..whew that was a lot.gotta go eat now..hope all u guys have a great new years!