4/7/09

San Fran Part Pi

Welp, Spring Break is well under way. I'm up in San Francisco with my family, looking at colleges. I really do love San Francisco though. It sort of wraps Hong Kong up with Manhattan Beach.

The weird thing is, I really don't like the downtown of my home town. But I love San Francisco. They have a freaking CHOCOLATE store up here that has a dark chocolate fudge to DIE FOR. You just go it and you melt into a pile of goop when you taste it. Soooooo gooooood. x____x;

We're staying between North point and Fisherman's Wharf. Pier 39 is really awesome; the sea lions there are SO FRIGGEN ADORABLE, D'AWWWWW. Some of them stay year round, though during the winter there can be as much as 500! When we went there was about 150ish.

The Dim Sum here was also VERY good. Not as good as Vancuover or Hong Kong of course, but the China town here... Woooow. Feels like I'm almost back in Hong Kong. Except no place can replace HK. But still.

However good the food, the service is quite mediocre. And the prices are sky high. We went to Denny's this morning and the service was TERRIBLE and the food was SMALL and the prices were GIGANTIC! DENNY' MAN! EVEN DENNY'S!

We also bought Monk seasons 1-6 and Two and a Half men, seasons 1-2. THEY WERE SO CHEAP UP HERE. GEEZ, THESE BAY PEOPLE. EXPENSIVE FOOD, CHEAP TV STUFF o___0;;.

So the real reason I'm here; Colleges.

Visited UC Berkeley and Stanford yesterday. Honestly, I liked Berkeley better. I mean, Stanford's pretty I guess, but it's so distant from the town. Berkeley is almost interwoven into it. Stanford is sort of quiet, big and a bit lonely. Berkeley was smaller, but it was more connected, more real. It kind of felt like Westview, oddly enough. Alot of asians, alot of goofballs, alot of overachievers.

... Of course, Berkeley was much PRETTIER than Westivew, but well.. xD

So here's my new list of colleges I'm planning on applying to;

- UC Berkeley
-UC San Diego
- UC Davis
- U of Southern California ( USC)
- CSU Long Beach
- U of Washington.

If you've looked at my previous list, you see it's changed. I think I've realized... I was born and raised on the West Coast. This is where I belong, and where I plan to stay. At the moment, I'm trying to aim for Berkeley, but who knows.

Welp, I still have til Thrusday up here. I really like the bay area so far... x3 Hope everyone's enjoying there break!

1 comment:

Dobutsu said...

our downtown has a Gharadelli! YEAH! WE OWN FOR THAT! AND COMIC-CON (for now)! XD

YES! I'm so relieved you're staying in the west coast!!!!!! :D