I’m going to California next month on 2/2/2010 and coming back 5 days later. 
This trip would be exciting and significant in many ways. At this point, I can only share the following reasons for this trip:
- Visit my aunt’s family in Saratoga, CA.
- Physically meet and connect with friends who live in the Bay Area.
- Visit Palo Alto High School and its journalism classes.
- Meet and talk with Paul Kandell, Esther Wojcicki, and Ellen Austin, journalism advisers at Palo Alto High School.
- Attend Teens in Tech Conference 2.0, which is being held at Google’s San Francisco office on February 6, 2010. Connect with new friends at the conference!
On a side note, it’s great that this short trip is practically free. I got the plane tickets with my mom’s old US Airways credit card mileage points that we thought we would never get to use before the expiration date. Plus, thankfully, I am staying at my aunt’s place during the entire trip. So the total comes down to: $35 for plane ticketing fees and taxes + $50 for the Teens in Tech Conference ticket. Woohoo!
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Happy to meet you up in the teens in tech conference, maybe as well as other places. And your trip is very worthy in terms of the total cost.
I really look forward to meeting you guys in a month or so. It'll be so cool! I've never actually been around the Silicon Valley area, so it'll be great to go to other places as well, like you mentioned. Yeah, definitely worth the total cost
Look forward to you coming to my school. I'll see you at TinT too. It's like all those bullets have to do with me. Except the one about you visiting your aunt—I'm pretty sure I'm not your aunt.
See you then! Yay.
Just curious, why did you switch to IntenseDebate? If I recall correctly,
haha, yes, you're not my aunt. lol
I switched to IntenseDebate because of an absurd reason: My site's Wordpress admin section had been really slow, non-responsive, and unstable recently, so when I contacted Rackspace Cloud to figure out what the heck was going on, they finally told me that "your plugin called 'DISQUS' is causing the problem and trying to reach an unknown IP." I said, "Do you know what DISQUS is and how many people use it?" The customer rep said, "Sorry sir, but I am not aware of a plugin called DISQUS." :O What??!? So I changed my comment system to IntenseDebate to see if anything is different. Surprisingly, so far so good…