It's about time for some good news

"Welcome to Stanford!
Your acceptance of the offer of admission has been recorded."

A smile broke on my face (again) when I clicked the "accept admission" button. I am so incredibly happy to finally be going to my dream school. Ever since I was in elementary school its been my dream to attend Stanford. I remember I wrote down several life goals, one was a 4.0 through high school, the other was to go to Stanford. Well skipping a year of Spanish screwed up the 4.0 :p, but I finally made my way to Stanford for grad school! It's going to be soooo fun. Some of my friends from Cornell will be there and my California friends will be there. I can't believe it's actually happening. Haha, the weather will be so much nicer than here too :p.

Well, that was the thing that ended my awesome week, the other was when my best friend from Tokyo surprised me (and everyone else) by showing up at my door! I totally did not expect it! His girlfriend had said something about him trying to come a long while back, but I forgot about it and I didn't think it was going to happen. I was absolutely in a daze for the first few hours he was here, I couldn't believe he actually came. It really gave me an emotional boost that I desperately needed. I dropped everything, even skipped a class just to find time to hang out with him, he was only here for 1 full day (2 nights). I noticed that when he was around, everyone in our group appeared to be a lot happier. I mean, some of that is from the simple fact that he came back - some people hadn't seen him in over a year - but I think it was also the feeling that our group was complete again, there were no more missing pieces. When will this happen again? We definitely need to plan for the future, a five year reunion, meet some place "central" (considering we'll be all over the world, that could be anywhere). That would be great - but until then I'll miss everyone.

One more thing happened that made my week: after three years of trying, I finally got a Dragon Day T-shirt. Every other year they were sold out. And the bonus? It was the colour I wanted :-D.