Some Pics of Me

First Night of Italian Class!

I started my Italian class tonight at San Diego City College!!! It was so much fun!!! I was so excited to come to class, meet my professor, make new friends, and have fun learning Italian! I love learning different languages.

Vietnamese was my first language. At the age of 8, I started learning English. At the age of 12, I started learning Spanish. When I was at UCSD, I started learning Japanese at the age of 23. I started learning French at San Diego City College when I was 31. I'm 33 now, and I'm still enjoying learning a new language.

I want to watch Italian films, listen to Italian music, and practice speaking Italian with my best friend Celeste. I think this Italian class is going to be so much fun because I have a cool friend to hang out with, ask questions, study together, and gossip with...lol

So why am I taking Italian? Well, I love the way Italian sounds, and I like the way Italians talk with their hands---they are so expressive. I've been wanting to travel to Italy. I think my experience would be so much more enjoyable if I could speak with the people. I'm planning to visit Rome, Florence , and Venice in 2009!!! Ciao!

The Holidays

Christmas was great! I had dim sum with my family at a Chinese restaurant. Nobody felt like cooking..lol....I don't blame them. My family is huge. I have 8 siblings. Not all my siblings were in town for Christmas, but including my in-laws, my nieces, and nephews, there were 16 of us! Needless to say, we had a great time! It was nice seeing my family. My nieces and nephews are so adoreable! I recently got 2 new awesome little nephews :)

Lately, I've been to a few art museums. I visited the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in La Jolla, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Saw a lot of cool stuff. There was so much to see at LACMA---I was quite overwhelmed!

Here's a list of some of the art museums I have visited so far:

The Louvre, Paris
The Prado, Madrid
The Guggenheim, Bilbao
The Met, New York City
The Guggenheim, Las Vegas
Art Museum, Saigon
Art Museum, Taipei
Art Museum, Seattle
Art Museum, San Francisco
The Getty, Los Angeles
LACMA, Los Angeles
The San Diego Art Museum, San Diego
MOCA, San Diego

I forgot the names of a few of the art museums I visited. My art museums wish list include Italy, Thailand, China, and Japan. Would love to travel to one of these countries next year.