It's Thursday night, 11:30PM, beautiful CA time! The weather has been everything I wished Boston weather had been over the last academic year. I am even starting to my get true skin color back! If California does not make me caramel colored...Rwanda certainly will. But I find myself in a blogging kinda mood.
I've really been enjoying this stop in California for some reason. I mean, I always love being home, but something about this one just makes me smile more. Blame the weather, blame my family, blame my friends. I think I just feel good. MIT is over for a bit, I can focus on things that I really enjoy like educating these kids in Rwanda and learning Chinese. I'm really grateful for my partner, Zach Hynes. He and I work really well together. We haven't had to reschedule a single skype call this whole week. In fact, I think we have talked almost every single day for at least half an hour since the semester ended. We made our first LAB together on Data Structures today...I know, it's a bit weird for me to start saying all these computer science terms, but it's gonna kinda be my life for the next two months. I'm still looking forward to it though.
I looked up the exchange rate for Rwandan money (which I found out was the Franc) today. It turns out you can get 600 Francs for 1 American Dollar. The only question I had was: How far does 600 Francs get me? Hopefully pretty far! It's only when I travel that I truly value the worth of the American Dollar. There are few currencies that really compare. Last summer when I went to Shenzhen (深圳), I felt like a I became rich when I exchanged money....I wonder what it'll feel like in Rwanda!
At this point, I'm trying to find the perfect balance between the work that Zach and I still have left to do to prepare the curriculum that we'll be teaching and time with friends and family. I'll be spending some time with some friends tomorrow and Saturday! Jenecia and I are supposed to go and see the exhibit about CUBA at the Getty Center! Now if you know me at all, you know how much I love my Cuban Heritage, so this exhibit should be a great look at the changes Cuba has undergone over the past 80 years or so. I'm really looking forward to it. Be on the lookout for my experience at the exhibit.
As for now, it's about midnight here and I'm starting to get a bit tired. I've actually been getting more than decent sleep (8-9 hours per night!). I hope I'm able to continue that through the entire summer (and next semester? Maybe that's asking too much). I have ONE full week left in California before venturing off to Africa, so I hope it's a great one!!!
Buenas Noches de Los Angeles,
William
P.S. I have to give a shout out to the following cause before I get some rest. My baby brother, Julian Yuen is going to be working as a Camp Kesem counselor this summer back at MIT at the end of August. If you don't know, Camp Kesem is a summer camp for kids who's parents have either died from cancer or currently have cancer. He's currently trying to reach a goal of $400.00, which he is over half way to accomplishing (Proud of you, baby bro!)! I would really really REALLY appreciate it and I KNOW Julian would also super appreciate it if you could give ANY little bit you can :) You can donate to his page here
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