Besides Hot Pot Heaven, I also have a day time job - a guidance advisor for Upward Bound at Windward Community College. Our program works with first generation and low income students to help them prepare for college. During the school year, I visit students at Kailua, Kahuku, Kalaheo, and Castle weekly. I get pay to nag them to get on with school works and share with them information about colleges. Once a month, students come to WCC on a Saturday where Upward Bound organizes different workshops for them. During the summer, students dorm at UH-Manoa while taking college credits as well as enrichment classes. Wednesdays, we go on field trips to see different college campuses, cultural enrichment places, as well as fun and sweaty physical activies such as hiking and swimming. Summer is always fun and exciting but it requires a lot of preparation and staying with 38 high school kids over nights -- well, you can imagine it :) Overall, I always have ton of fun and I get to really learn more about each individual student. I feel like I have become family with them as I know their talent, interest, passion, and their little quirks. I also learned a lot about myself - my ability to deal with problems that arised, my level of patience, and how to deal with teenagers :)
The program ended two weeks ago and I am still in the recovering mode. I am back to my regular work schedule at Hot Pot Heaven and also planning for our wedding on August 20th, 2011.
We will close this day for lunch and dinner. We will also close lunch on Sunday August 21 but will open for dinner.
I will now trying to make my goal of posting once a week into a reality! Thanks for reading!
