Good Luck

She is a professional now, so watch out

Break Time

HangN out with Gina on her break =)-

Supnet Reunion

It's A Beautiful Thing....Family

New Edition to the Family

Hello little Aliyus!!! Congratulations Apol and Henry!!

Kayla's Hero: Mozart

Well, for those of you who didn't know, Kayla was in the hospital on March 23, just after midnight. She was in there for three days with a case of viral meningitis. Thank God she's fine now. I must say, it was one of the most scariest times we have experienced.

The interesting part of all this is Mozart, the unlikely hero. If it wasn't for him, we probably would not have found Kayla passed out and unconscious. Who knows how long she would have been unconscious and perhaps suffered some long-term damage.

It all started on Saturday night after dinner. We had a late supper (after 9pm) and went into our room to watch T.V. Mishal and Tati followed us to the room to watch as well. Kayla went to bed and was talking on the phone. She said she wasn't feeling too good and she thought she was getting the flu. Mom just got home from the "Valley" and went to bed early. I think it was around 10:30PM when Mozart started to bark. I'm guessing at this point that he wants to go out for his nightly duty. As soon as I opened the door to our room, he darted towards Kayla's room so I followed him. He never acted like this before. So I followed him to try to get him to go by the back door.

As I came into Kayla's room, Mozart jumped right on Kayla's bed, something he NEVER does. It was weird because I yelled at him to get off, which he did but did not run away. He just started to bark. That's when I noticed that Kayla did not yell at him, something like "Stupid dog, get off my bed!" as she normally would have. When I looked towards Kayla, that's when I realized something was wrong. She was slumped over on the side of her bed partially on the desk next to her. She was also making a "snoring" sound but it didn't sound right. Thinking she was just asleep, I tried waking her up. She wasn't responding and Mozart was going crazy barking and jumping on my back. I started yelling and that's when Mom and Tati came to see what was wrong. I told Tati that something was wrong with Kayla and to call her mom and put Mozart in the crate. Debbie and Mishal came out screaming and everything was in chaos.

Debbie called 911 and I carried Kayla from her bed to the living room. She was not responding to any of us calling her name but at least she was still breathing. The paramedics where there a few minutes later but it seemed like forever. It's hard to explain the feeling of helplessness as I was holding Kayla. We didn't know what was wrong or what to do.

During the ride in the ambulance, Kayla was coming to but was totally out of it. She could not remember anything that happened. She was very incoherent through the whole ride and even when we got to the hospital. When we finally arrived, they started running some test by drawing blood. It was about 11:30pm now. Based on her symptoms, they took a precaution and made her wear a mask because they thought it might be meningitis.

So five and a half hours later (5:30am), they performed a spinal tap to see if it was meningitis. The test results came back positive after 8:00am. We were now waiting for a room which didn't become available until after 12:00 Sunday afternoon. Kayla was in isolation for her stay at the hospital. All visitors had to wear gloves and a mask. She was put on antibiotics for the virus.

Wednesday afternoon, her Infectious Disease Specialist cleared her to go home. During her stay, she had lots of family and friends who visited. She was still nauseas for at least a week but eventually recovered fully.

We would like to thank everyone who visited and kept her in our prayers. Kayla is doing fine now and we have a lot to be thankful for, especially for our unlikely hero, Mozart.

First Day of Classes

Howdy family! I just finished three of my morning-afternoon classes [Well, actually I got out at 2, but then I had to walk back to my dorm, go potty, and decided to do a load of laundry].

My first one is from 8-9:30a.m. It's in the Evans building, which is like an ugly grey and I heard that a few people committed suicide off of it. It's my math 16A discussion class [analytical geometry & calculus]. I thought this one dude was being a smart a** because he looks REALLY young and was standing at the board, but it turns out he's the T.A./ GSI for that class! Haha...shame on me for jumping to conclusions. His name is Morgan Brown and he goes more into dept about our lectures with our professor [Woodin], which is a different class. Morgan's pretty coo;, he plays the violin & seems pretty chill.

My second class is from 10-11a.m. It's not too far from the first class and is in Hearst Gym, which I find really weird because it's like regular classrooms and what not. Oh and it said Hearst Gymnasium for Women, but guys are allowed in there. [Go figure that one out.] That's for my Phys. Ed. 64 class [an introductory seminar for martial arts, that teaches the "cultural, historical, philosophical, and social impact of martial arts"]. My instructor for that class is cool too (Dr. Ahn). He has a 7th degree black belt (or some sort of another) in Taekwondo and a masters in Taekwondo as well. Pretty crazy right?! AND to add on to that, he has a Ph.D. in linguistics. Freakin` GENIUS if you ask me. There's only 12 of us in that class, so I think we'll be pretty tight knit..maybe..

Afterwards, from 12:30-2p.m. I had my Math16A Lecture class. It was SUCH A DRAG! I seriously felt like Prof. Woodin was just talking to imself and repeating the same things OVER AND OVER AND OVER. It's in this big lecture hall and there's so many people in there. After a while I just started writing down the whatever he wrote on the bored because, for some reason, all I heard him saying was...mumbles. Haha..I'm planning on taking this course along with Math 16A where you get EVEN MORE help with the work. We'll see how that works out tho.

Now I'm just relaxing in my dorm until I have to go to my LAST & FINAL class of the day, which is from 5-8:00p.m. Don't worry thoe guys; I know EXACTLY where the class is and it's right on Bancroft, only a couple of blocks away from my dorm. AND my friend Mike said he'll meet me and walk me home. Everything's all cool beans.

I don't know if I'll be able to make it back this weekend for Jaylie's birthday, but hopefully I will. We'll just have to see. =T

I love all of you and thanks for replying to my emails!

Tati