Mamma mia
Fri Jun 22, 2007 20:29 (UTC -5)Last week, I got a message from Sylvia (who I used to go to school with), saying that her younger sister Sabrina was coming back home after being in Italy for a year. Sylvia had a plan to welcome her back: get all of her friends in a limo and surprise her at the airport. Since Sylvia said that anybody could come along, I let my sister and our friend Lisa in on the surprise. After all, they know Sabrina too.
We got to Sylvia’s house and met up with the people, some of whom we knew. After a while, the limo came. It was a some Cadillac SUV (maybe Cadillac only makes one SUV; I don’t really feel like doing any fact-checking here), so it was wide, and since it was a limo, it was also long. So there was enough room for the Sabrina’s family along with her 15 or so friends. We were crammed in pretty tight, but we did get in there. The drive to the Miami Airport was pretty long. When we got there, Sabrina’s family got out of the limo to look for Sabrina. The rest of us went away for a while and came back later to pick them up.
Sylvia’s plan was to point at the limo when it pulled up and say, “Hey, look at that limo,” and walk toward it and look inside, which she knew would freak her sister out. Sabrina, however, noticed the giant limo when it came up and was curious about it. She was still freaked out when her older sister went up to it and opened the door, though. Sylvia told Sabrina to go up and look inside, so she did — and found a bunch of her friends in there with noisemakers and such.
On the way back to Sylvia and Sabrina’s house, Sabrina told us a little bit about her adventures in Italy. She was on the east coast of central Italy, she said, and it was really nice there. She also spent a week in Spain. Of course, the girls had to ask if she made a special friend during her stay in Italy, and she apparently did. I wonder how she’s going to live without him. It makes me thankful that Natasha and I are at least on the same continent.
After having delicious “Benvenuto Sabrina” cake at Sylvia and Sabrina’s house, almost everyone went out to Friday’s for dinner. It was a lot of people to have at one table (actually two tables put together), but it was still fun. After that, it was getting pretty late, and we went our own ways.
After a meeting with Ms. Vazquez last Wednesday, which also took Michelle, Luke, Brian, and me to the beach and various thrift stores, Luke has been interested in meeting Mr. Miller. Our time for chatting it up with and saying goodbye to our former teachers is running out. Ms. Vazquez evidently moved to Texas last Friday (hence our get-together), and Mr. Miller is going to be pretty busy this summer. After this summer, everything is a no-go because we’ll be in… college… and we’ll be lucky if we ever see each other again.
Speaking of being lucky (and… college…), I got a letter today from the state Department of Education or something saying that I had received a scholarship that I vaguely remember applying for. The amount: $1,500… per year! High fives all around, everybody. Hey, I know my sister got a scholarship for $3,000 per year, but I need to bask in some glory and pretend that this money is going to solve all my future problems. $1,500, on top of the 100% paid tuition I’ve already been guaranteed. Housing might just become affordable! I might just not go into debt too much! Yes.
Why do Japanese people have weird emoticons? It’s because they read faces differently than we do. They tend to express emotion with their eyes (^_^) while Westerners focus on the mouth :).
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