Hemaggulutination

sooo I had a really great talk this morning in my cell bio lab. before i tell you about the talk i must tell you that this talk really made my morning because: a. i was up till 3:30am completing lab homework b. none of the before mentioned homework ended up being due c. my lab is at 7:30am which means I literally had about two and half hours of sleep...so anyways i really wasn't having the best morning* of my life today!

Nam, is Vietnamese and is in my lab group. He is at least 45min late everyday and flirts with our TA to be able to take the quiz that late. In fact most of my lab group is at least 30min late....leaving me and Nicole to do all the work. Well, today I was the first person in lab from my group, as usual, and start the experiment. When everyone else got there I stopped working on the experiment and decided to do my prelab. Nam walks in and decides to write his prelab with me. We were talking about random stuff and then I asked him if his culture is really strict about dating outside his race. He said yes, and that believes Asians are extremely racist. He said that his parents would be extremely upset if for instance he brought home a white girl. He said that his parents are very afraid that he would lose his culture. We proceeded to talk about what it means to blend cultures and not choose one over the other and how the 'right' girl would never ask him to compromise his culture but would embrace it and celebrate it with him and that he should do the same with hers, whatever it may be.

We talked about that for like an hour and then I asked him if he would date outside his race if thats who he fell in love with. He said YES! very exciting! I love when people realize things about their parents/culture/upbringing that aren't in line with what they really want for themselves and then actually live differently than that. Mainly because I am trying to do that and some things are a reallly big struggle for me and it assures me that I'm not the only one plus other people are examining their own lives as I have with mine recently.

Fun Fact: In Vietnam you say your last name, middle name, then first name. So Nam's name in Vietnamese is Viet Nam! He said his parents named him that so that he would not forget the culture of his 'homeland'. It was pretty interesting!

*On the way to school I did turn the radio to KLOVE randomly, a Christian radio station here but it is broadcast nation wide, and loved all the songs that came on! It was pretty awesome because I was in a really sucky mood and really needed like an outlet (which is what worshiping is for me - its very powerful) since I was gonna be working in a group dynamic. Also, one of my classes was canceled today so I got my nap! YAY! i acutally just woke up from it :)

PRICE OF LIFE IS TONITE AND I WILL POST ABOUT IT TOMORROW BUT ITS GONNA BE SOOOO INCREDIBLY AWESOME! i am acutally looking for my camera now so i can post pictures :) hmm but sad day ::: havn't seen my camera in a week....and ive been looking :(

im reading this blog for grammar uhh changes (?) i dont know the correct word but if you look down here DOWN you will see the time this is posted.....ITS WRONG! weird
peace out