but today's post isn't really exciting. i guess none of them were....

well one exciting part's jin receiving her own Gohonzon!!! XD yayyyyy. she's gonna actually chant at home now~ hopefully haha. im pretty sure she will ;)

so we were told that the bus was going to leave from the culture center at 7 am. and we go there and wait for more than an hour to leave..=_=;;

during that time, jin slept and slept and slept

other members waiting together to depart

finally on the bus!!!

LOL at morgan

loria's face's covered by the sunlight haha

i feel like jin poses and looks the same all the time....haha

at first, we had the bus all to ourselves hehe >:D until they told us that there was another bus leaving soon and there was plenty of space for us D:

so we had to take all the instruments and go to another bus

i forgot what they were doing haha

morgan moved his head too fast. fail. lol

yay~ success! XD

after about 30 minutes (i was asleep for more than half the time), we got to Francis W. Parker School. it's a private k-12 school in Chicago

and this is where the symposium took place & we also performed here:

i thought it was as big as the one in NW, but i saw downstairs later and decided that it was a lot smaller haha. but it looked nicer though

jinny hiding from me >:/

jin sleeping again

rachel/jungmin

why's everyone rejecting me? D:

remember how i wrote on the last post that we had to wake up at 5am? yeah, not a lot of sleep and lengthy speeches don't exactly go together. so hyun oppa and i went out to search for starbucks (while loria, jin, kenji, and morgan were asleep, and jinny, rachel, and sabrina went off on their own), but we went the wrong way :( and ended up getting can coffees

hyun oppa got the coffee for me, and i shared it with my sister. yeah, it didn't help AT ALL

jin sleeping AGAIN

us just bumming around outside the auditorium

rachel and sabrina rejecting/"hiding" from me

sabrina still hiding

and they gave up hahahaha I WIN >:D

i dunno why, but my sister noticed that hyun oppa, her, and i all had our legs the same way, so it just seemed funny at that moment haha

so after bumming around, we went to eat ahead of other people because our perf was right after lunch. i didn't take a picture of my lunch cuz we had to eat fast and go. but we had turkey sandwich from potbelly

i don't have a picture of the actual performance yet, but there were people there who took pictures, and i think they're going to give them to us. so will post when i get them :)

after the perf, half of the members left, and we (nick, sabrina, morgan, loria, jin, and i) had to carry extra drums -_-

and also jin slept MORE

i made a fortress of drums around her HAHA

the symposium ended at 4 pm, and from 1 pm till then, we got starbucks, and i finished learning the entire piece and bummed around haha

ride back to the culture center was louder than the ride in the morning, so i just plugged my earphones in and fell asleep. and we were gonna go eat ice cream after putting away the instruments, but it was too cold so just ended up eating and getting hot drinks

my #8 on the menu HAHA i don't remember what it was called. big n' tasty bacon & something? lol i dunno

and guess what's in all of them? blueberry hot chocolate! hahaha. jin, loria, and i all got the same thing. but mine was too sweet so couldn't finish it D:

after we finished eating, loria got some make-up removers from jewel. and we went back to the culture center and bummed around till the general director Danny Nagashima's gosho lecture.

well i did find yuko to sign jin's paper for receiving the Gohonzon and gave it to the people. but anyways, there's nothing much in between so let's jump to the important part ahaha

so jin was the only new member receiving a Gohonzon today haha (there was another person, but she wasn't a new member) and few of the leaders recognized that jin played the drums at the symposium and got really excited and even made an announcement saying how it's awesome to join with a performance haha

jin receiving her Gohonzon, me following her hehe

a fail picture of the two of us. my mom fails

after she got her Gohonzon, Nathan Gauer, our national youth leader, gave a brief talk, and it was time for Danny Nagashima's lecture~ and i didn't think i would be able to catch everything if i took notes, so i just recorded his entire lecture haha. i think it came out to be a bit more than an hour.

i was so tired since we got back from Parker School, and i'm more tired now. i don't even know why i'm doing this...

but we wanted to celebrate jin receiving her Gohonzon, so my mom was thinking about getting a champaign, but jin just wanted to go home haha. so we just drank mint tea together :)

while we were drinking tea, cassie was drumming haha

i just noticed that i cut off minnie and...i forgot the other ones name haha donald duck's gf LOL

anyways, took a picture with her polaroid since today is a special day hehe :D but cassie kinda ruined the picture....she was watching and singing to happy feet...

well congrats again my ddarling~♥