Blowing off the dust

"All I Have to Offer You is Me" by the Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau is playing on my music shuffle, and every time I hear a Hawaiian song I think about home. I was just there for the Thanksgiving holiday, and although the people I know don't really seem to change, the places do. And I'm not sure how I feel about that. Like my high school, Punahou. My friends that still go there are great. But my teachers and mentors are, one by one, starting to leave the institution. While I was visiting on Wednesday, I found out that my favorite teacher there, Lao Ye (Chinese 2H, 4H, 5H), is retiring at the end of the school year. And my class dean, Mr. Bowen, will go into a semi-retirement phase at the same time. And the beach off the Outrigger Canoe Club is slowly shrinking. My house is sinking into the mountain side. And my old neighborhood in Palolo Valley is experiencing change as well.
Anyway, I've decided to blow the dust off of this blog. I started a blog sort of on a whim, since Nick decided to quit Facebook (WISE CHOICE) and blog instead. And we were talking about it on Skpye one day and it seemed like a cool thing to do. But as many of my other projects end up, I sort of neglected this blog as the semester chugged on and I had other things to do.
Well it's the day before my last week of classes, so I have a little more time than normal. So much has happened this semester, way more than I can encompass in one blogpost. I joined a community service fraternity, started planning the Hawai'i Club lu'au, met many new people, had a lot of crazy moments, went to Santa Barbara, and yeah.
Last night, though, was one of the greatest moments of the semester. The annual USC vs. UCLA football game was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and it blew my mind. All last year, I had so many doubts about whether I made the right choice to come to USC. Like I loved it and everything, but I always asked myself, "Would I be having a better time at Georgetown? What about BU? Or even Harvey Mudd??" After seeing the amazing camaderie in the Coliseum, though, I was sold. I don't have any more doubts about my choice, and I can't even think about transferring somewhere else.
Anyway, this post is kind of all over the place, but whatever. Time to get back to physics homework.