i actually got to celebrate chinese new years!!..yeah!!...cuz at first i wasn't gonna be able to go cuz my brother was gonna go perform at some kind of concert..houston young artists i think..but then teresa called and asked if i wanted to go over to her house for dinner..hehe it was soo fun!!...and peter was there too!!!..lol...and it's not 8 years, it's 7 years!!...*dances around celebrating*...hehe as if that made a difference..everyone else there was so old...it was church people, but all the kids were already outta college...1970s babies!!..hehee...j/k!!..i actually got to talk to him!!..i'm not skared anymore!!...lol.man this is SAD...hehehe...ok, so we all just basically ate huo guo (i dunno..my pinyin is terrible) and talked at the table...but there were very interesing conversations..for example, alex told us how his chinese teacher tried to help them cheat on their Chinese IB exams ( basically, the same thing as AP exams)...HAHAHHA...that's the first time i've ever heard of a teacher cheating....like when he was taking the exam, his chinese teacher somehow got access into the room they were testing in and whispering answers over their shoulders..and she also tried to show them all the oral prompts!!...ahahahaa....well alex is a smart guy, i'm sure he woulda done great on his IB test anyways..but still, that's kinda odd...that teachers musta really have wanted to keep her reputations up...hehe that reminds me of mrs. hall ("all my calculus BC students get 5's on their APs!"..hehe..stacy and me just stared blankly at her..lol, but no, she doesn't walk into the AP testing classrooms during testing)...well at least mrs. hall is a really really really good teacher..seriously one of the best i've ever had..there ought to be more teachers like that..hehe..ok anyways, back to last nite...so it was fun...good food too...then all us "kids" went upstairs and looked at teresa's pets..she has a gecko (mr. G), lizard (happy buddha), and a parakeet(zuppa)...hehe the bird is like hyperactive...it was squawking away the whole time we were eating dinner...watched the lizard eat two crickets, (we lost a cricket tho...it's jumping around sumwhere in her room)...and then when we took the lizard out it jumped on teresa's face!!..hehe..it sure beat having to stay at home all nite...i wanna go back...it's one of those days i wish i could relive..(heheh teresa u know exactly why..lol)..anyways...yall should be proud of me..i fnally updated my blog!!..guess i'll blog later...but i'm mad cuz i didn't get to go to church today...cuz i know he was gonna go too..lol...wutever...