Parents Visit Means Food

One of the most important element of a college student's life (besides studying and studying) is good, healthy, cheap food. Sadly, you can only have one of the three. Thankfully, parents are the guardian angels...and they're that for reasons other than food, but right now, I'll just focus on food.
Due to exams that seemed to pile on every two weeks, the last time I went home was Labor Day weekend and that was nearly a month ago. Hence, I was short on food. I could just eat the food from the university center, but hell, I ain't doing that now that I have a kitchen to utilize. So, I did the next best thing. Rice, soy sauce, cucumbers, tomatoes, and eggs. Simple. Cheap. Partially unhealthy. Luckily, my parents came over the weekend and brought me food! And enough to last me two weeks until I would be able to go home (the strange, but much appreciated three day weekend in October). My mum, being an awesome person and an amazing cook, made me bún bò huế, which is a vermicelli soup dish that originated from central Viet Nam. It's filled with spices, literally, since it's spicy. Anyways, she packed me about seven soup bags, so now I have bún bò huế stock in the freezer. Love. She also packed me caramelized pork and eggs, again frozen in the freezer; organic tomatoes and cucumbers-because that's how we roll.
But anyways...I went to Target over the weekend as well to buy some stuff for my room. I found Febreez Reed Air Diffuser with a willow blossom scent and I fell in love with it. It is now making my room smell woody sweet. Today was the Make-A-Wish charity day that Coldstone Ice Creamery holds annually in which Coldstone gives out a free ice cream (although it's charity, so you should be a good Samaritan and donate money!). I came out of lab at around 7 and my friend and I drove to downtown Stockton to find Coldstone so we could get free ice cream. Downtown Stockton is freaky. If you're in the wrong part of town. We had to take a detour because the road was blocked by some weird festival or concert of some sort, but luckily my friend managed to memorize the map (the only time she had ever looked at the map itself and not just the directions), and we wove our way to downtown. Negative side of downtown streets: one way street. So we were going in circles. We turned into the Stockton Police station, we drove through a Greyhound station, turned onto a creepy/shady street, and voila! We managed to find a parking spot one block away from the plaza where Coldstone was at. It was such an adrenaline rush being out in downtown Stockton at night. But, we made it back in one piece AND we got to eat ice cream.

Now that all these adventures are over, back to hitting the books. Ochem and microbio exam are on the same week...AGAIN.

Corner Tip #10: The worse thing you can do when getting lost on your travels is panicking. The best thing you can do is to calm down, enjoy the view, and know where north, south, east, and west are.