the walk

So I copied Aaron's idea of taking a walk and then coming back to reflect on it in my blog. I took my dog for a walk around the neighborhood like I usually do about once or twice a week since my dad and my sister alternate with me taking her walking. I usually let my dog choose where she wants to go unless it's somewhere extremely dangerous, then I'll jerk her away from that direction. Ever since I first started taking my dog on walks, I noticed that she finds some interest in gutters. Everytime we walk by a gutter she pokes her nose in for a few moments and then I jerk her away and we move along. I don't know why she finds an interest in the gutters, but I get kind of paranoid when she's around there because one day she could jump in if she really wanted to. If my dog jumped in the gutter, that would be the end of her and I would probably never see her again. Anyway, that's just one of the odd things that she has an interest in when we go on our walks.
Of course like any other dog she stops to sniff at telephone poles, light poles, and other dogs' mess. She usually causes rucus when we pass by houses with dogs, which is almost every other house in my neighborhood. It's a bit embarrassing, but I, unlike Aaron would not want to take my dog on a walk at night. It's too scary for me and my dog would not protect me against any predators because she simply does not have the physical ability to do that.
There's one house about ten houses up the street from me that my dog usually likes to visit. It's a small yellow house with a fence in the front of it. At that house lives a small male Yorkshire Terrier. It's very cute, and rather friendly. It doesn't bark at us unlike all of the other dogs in my neighborhood, and my dog finds a cute interest in him. They sniff at each other's noses through the fence and in a way get to know each other? We don't stay long, but I can tell that everytime we visit this terrier, they remember each other from previous visits. Sometimes my dog will bark at the terrier, but most of the time they are friendly towards each other. They have a love hate relationship towards each other I guess.
I can't believe I'm writing about my dogs love relationship with another dog. Haha...

hawaiian food

We got hawaiian food for dinner tonight and it was very "delish"(aka delicious). We bought the pork and chicken laulau, and my grandpa made poi. I quickly scarfed down a lot of kalua pig and some laulau, and now here I am writing this blog. Eating Hawaiian food for the first time in a long while, I started to think about how much I'm gonna miss it come next year. I often find myself reflecting on how different and weird things will be next school year when I'm off living somewhere else and joining the college scene, etc. I can't really imagine myself in the college scene slash being independent slash being without my family and friends etc. Even though being away from my parents sounds so exciting, I know I'm going to miss them. I know I'll miss high school, even though it really sucks right now.
Many of my friends can't wait to get off the island and start living the college life. As much as I want to get off the island I can't help but feel scared and sad. I'm going to miss all of my friends and all I'll have to take up with me will be all of the good and bad memories we've had. If someone were to ask me what I'm going to miss most when I leave for college, I have no idea what I would say. I would miss a lot of things, I can't just name one. I've been trying to make the best of my senior year in terms of trying to make new friends, trying to rekindle old friendships, and of course maintaining my relationships with old friends and making them even stronger. Despite the occasional drama, I find my senior year to be somewhat dramaless and carefree. It's so hard to concentrate on my schoolwork this semester...which is the direct opposite from last semester when I would be so hardcore at studying and doing my schoolwork.
This is a slightly random blog...but I'm hoping some other seniors can relate? Hmm...