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    yanpu  40, Female, California, USA - 10 entries
12
Apr 2008
9:43 PM EDT
   

Julie and I stayed in Beijing to wait out the riots in Tibet. Now that things have calmed down, we are going back to Qinghai. Before I get into our trip back to Qinghai, let me update you on what we've been doing here in Beijing. Last week Julie and I spent created a volunteer training program for HBV volunteers. The volunteer program is called Sunshine Volunteers.�A few years ago the Beijing HBV Foundation set it up to promote HBV awareness amongst college students in China. This year the Foundation asked us to put together a training program for the new volunteers. They wanted us to utilize training experiences from the US to create a fun and interactive training program. Julie and I dug through our previous experiences, asked some friends and came up with a training program with a lot of interactive games. We also brainstormed various HBV promotion activities they could organize on their own college campuses. The training session was a great hit. The volunteers had a lot fun, learned a lot and were excited to put together their own campus activities.
Tomorrow Julie and I are returning to Qinghai for a week. We will be assisting with the education program in Xining and monitoring the final shot in the 3 shot HBV series.
Here are links to pictures from my last trip to Qinghai: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2068596&l=ed32d&id=13301826
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2068595&l=c50ca&id=13301826
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    matt1691  41, Male, Kentucky, USA - 4 entries
11
Apr 2008
1:49 PM EDT
   

My beautiful Alessandra came in today to KY I am in love more and more everyday. A whole week of fun with her...
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    anelson313  30, Female, Illinois, USA - 6 entries
08
Apr 2008
9:02 PM EDT
   

I Hate Feeling Like This

��������� On Tuesday, April 8th, 2008, my grandma passed away. She was in rehab and we all thought that she was getting better. Then over the weekend we found out that she had caught a disease and was in the hospital again. It was called C-def or something like that and it messed with her intestines. Also my parents told me that her pnemonia came back.

�������� Monday night� someone from the family called and said that her blood pressure had dropped dangerously low and they rushed to the hospital. Grandma had hit lows before and i hadn't worried much about her. My parents were there all night so i went to sleep. The next morning my dad called us into their room. My mom told me that my grandma had passed away. Her blood pressure had dropped so low that her heart finally stopped. I have never cried so hard in my entire life.

������ How could this have happened? The last time before she was in the hospital, she looked totally healthy. Our year revolves around her. Every holiday is spent with her. I can't imagine not seeing her up at the lake, or at christmas, or at easter. Next time mom doesn't know what to do she can't call her. Its almost surreal that she's gone. I'm going to miss her so much.

������It feels like someone has clawed at my heart. Just thinking about her makes my heart, and body feel like its being weighed down. I went to school today and i thought of her almost all day. Every one said i was sorry. I have no idea what to do with that. all i said was "i'm fine" and "it's ok". I didn't know what else to do. tomorrow is the wake and friday is the funeral. I have no idea how i'm going to deal. All i can think about is running. Its the one thing that i've done today thats made me feel GOOD. i'll probably run all weekend.

��� What makes it worse is that she hated all of it. I couldn't even go into see her the first month or so. I was scared. I had never seen grandma sick, and seeing her anything but healthy scared me to death. I thought that if i saw her really bad i would never have hope that she would get better. Finally when i saw her i�was not scared, but heartbroken, to see her that way. she deserved better. she was an amazing woman and didn't�deserve how to go through that. I hated how she was weak and� it hurt to see her that way. I might have been happier�if i had more time with her,�and i�would have been more than delighted for her to�not have gone in that�way. Hopefully the lord is treating her the way she deserves. I am going to miss her so much. that phrase is said�so many times, and until�you�have lost something, you never truely know how much�meaning�it really has. �

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    moonbay72  32, Female, Oregon, USA - 20 entries
08
Apr 2008
8:09 PM EDT
   

questions to daddy's little girls

how do you call�a man dad?/
why do you call him so?/
is there a reson that for a man to stand so tall and�offer for your trust you have never known?/
questions due pleage my mind and yet there seems to be no answer to them./
so i as a young woman who has never call a man so,/
with truth and love in her heart and voice refure to a man that she has never turly�known./
she asked truth fully "�who, what is a�dad."/ �
nani ookami's questions to all daddy's little girls
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    ashley<3'sU  32, Female, California, USA - 12 entries
06
Apr 2008
7:11 PM EDT
   

im back...

well well well im back... hows life now...? so much better things are finally going how there supposed to be going... life is great i hope evryone else is feeling the same way..well i guess thats all i got to say write back soon...kk
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    stranger  36, Female, Philippines - 2 entries
02
Apr 2008
9:31 PM EDT
   

hai. haha. gud day! just wanted to�tell more about myself. hmmm. just a simple junior student. well, my life isn't too hard coz i have�many friends out there. and�of course i had my family.�.�at this very young age,�many trials and problems has come in my life. problems on friends, family. haha.�but proud to say i overcome it all. well i just do�the things that�can make me forget and overcome it. haha.�...to be continue�

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1 comment(s) - 05:12 AM - 05/21/2008
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    marilyn385  73, Female, California, USA - 11 entries
02
Apr 2008
7:28 AM PST
   

The Rubber Stamp

The Rubber Stamp
I routinely stamp the invoices with�“date entered”.�I enjoy this task, the clicking sound of the self –inking stamp, the repetition, the neat uniform size of the letters and numbers.
I remember as a child wishing for a rubber stamp.�I used to cut shapes out of pieces of potatoes and use food color to press images on my books.
This fascination began with trips to our neighborhood library.�Back then libraries were still quiet.�No one ate or chewed gum in the library.�If we were even whispering we would get a “Shhh” from the librarian.�She seemed to know off the top of her head where all of the books were and could answer any of our childish questions. She would patiently explain to me time and again how the Dewy Decimal System worked.
The librarian wore a dress and I remember her bracelets that tinkled as she stamped the books.�I was mesmerized by this motion and sound of the repetition of the stamp, her bracelets and the scent of her perfume mixed with the smell of the paper and ink.
In my bedroom I was the librarian, checking books out with my potato stamp, wearing my mothers bracelets.
Today I have a “real” stamp and I get to use it as part of my job on a daily basis.�Most times it is just a mundane task but today I recall the Librarian and realize I now have what I always wished for, a rubber stamp.
9/28/06
1 comment(s) - 11:09 AM - 06/24/2008
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    Anonymoustar  31, Female, Pennsylvania, USA - First entry!
31
Mar 2008
6:37 PM EDT
   

So the other day I was checking my facebook and like an old man was apparently checking out the people on the�flirtable application.� So he like clicked on like the yes button like I am flirtable or whatever and it's like OLD PEOPLE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THESE THINGS!!� That's just like not right...at all.� I've had an old man come up to my mom and I in the gym and told us that we knew how to shake our butts.� He kept on checking us out after that and then my mom gave him a nasty stare and he left us alone.� I really wanted to curse that guy out so bad.� I mean that's just like not cool.� They should go after old ladies with wrinkly skin who they think are hot not my mom and I!� Old people have to realize that once they look all wrinkley and shriveled up that nobody is going to go for them anymore!!

♥♥Moi♥♥

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    nothingleft  42, Female, New York, USA - 3 entries
29
Mar 2008
4:32 PM EST
   

All alone 2

This weekend I had my friend over and thinking that I wouldn't feel like shit and still I do. This really sucks and I don't know how to get me out of this mess. My heart breaks more and more. I cut my wriste to help with some of the pain that is my heart because I admitte it I fucked up. Everything is my fault I try being nice and calem and it just back fires in my face. I want Joshua Noel Martinez from Yonkers, New York. I just want him I don't care how I get him. I can change for him anything I have to do.

I will even kill myself if he doesn't come back since I am about 7 months with his kid and he know.

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1 comment(s) - 08:38 PM - 04/06/2008
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    cio  37, Female, California, USA - 6 entries
29
Mar 2008
4:28 PM HNE
   

for me just be independence and fun as long u having fun going to school,workfun and dont think anyone to fool you, in the life u need to accomplish your goal do workout and just be happiness ur life if u single thats me rigth now i been single just playing around here
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