I wasn't there to pick up Calvin at the general meeting because I was studying for a midterm. I was super excited when I found out I got to keep him for the week!
   Our first meeting was at Diana's apartment for the Multicultural Fair Work Day (2/18-2/19). Calvin was there to see me spray paint the awesome looking (hehe) samurai and cut out cherry blossoms.
   Over the weekend, Calvin and I went to the Multicultural Fair. He had an awesome time touring the entire world, and taking loads of pictures with people. Calvin's favorite part was meeting all the different types of animals. He made 2 new friends (Koala Bears).
   Last but not least, I took Calvin to the scrapbook meeting (2/22/10)! He definitely enjoyed looking through all the pictures of fellow Circle K members. There was one picture of Vincent and Darrell at the Halloween Festival that was particularly hilarious. haha
   I had a really fun time with Calvin. I hope the next person who gets him will enjoy his company as much as I did.

~ Brian Chan

P.S. Apparently Josh knocked Calvin off the table before I can get him. >:O Thankfully Calvin's a tough bear and was perfectly fine. :)

I want to thank Calvin the Bear for helping welcome me to Circle K – I loved his company this past week!

Unfortunately, he caught me at somewhat of an awkward time. What with a computer science project due and three midterms to study for, I didn't have much time to bring him on any grand adventures.

Let's just say he spent a lot of time hanging out on my desk with Doug the Llama, Chubs the Gnome, and the rest of the desktop gang, though he did get to meet a few of my human friends as well!

Over the weekend, Calvin accompanied me to my hometown near Sacramento, with a pit stop at UC Davis. My family was very welcoming of him, though my black lab was wary when he began to walk around and growl.

In turn, I hope Calvin was accepting of my nerdy activities, including epic lightsaber battles and pokemon naming contests with my 15-year-old brother.


We watched the opening ceremony of the Vancouver winter olympics on Friday, along with several events over the next few days. Calvin grew excited for the upcoming Circle K Tahoe social ta the sight of all that snow.

Sunday was a big day – Valentine's Day and chinese New Year! What a LOVELy start to the year of the tiger. I, for one, had a delicious dinner of chicken crepes.

It's time to say goodbye for now. I hope whoever's reading this makes sure to give Calvin a thrilling week – he's (or she?) one awesome little bear!

-Katie

CALVIN and I unfortunately didn't get to spend a lot of time together. But we did end up watching the super bowl over the weekend – well watching the commercials and eating junk food. Other than that, we splurged on our meal points (well mine actually) at crossroads and foothill! He can be a lot of fun, except for the part where he snores when he's sleeping. :/.

It was great having Calvin stay with me for the week. I'll miss him so much – hope the next person has fun taking care of him!

-Liz

Wow! Cannot believe it has been an amazing week! From the first day Calvin made a new friend! Finally one his own size too :) Soon after I got to take Calvin to a chemistry midterm yay! He helped give me confidence and HEY what do you know? I did pretty good on it too.

But now the weather got really cold and I started to go project crazy going to events left and right that Calvin just was not prepared for. But thankfully, I got to spend lots of quality time with Calvin at study-a-thon and especially final chill night. He got to roam the floors of the SLC and help play taboo!

He accompanied me to my families social too! We enjoyed watching glee and eating yummy food. And now comes the week of finals! So much to do just hoping that Calvin won't be too bored. Ahhh! Well, thankfully Calvin was always there to give me confidence as well as force me to study. I got to thinking Calvin must know almost everything, being at Cal so long. Knowledgeable bear. Well I decided to take Calvin to my finals as good luck, hope it works.

But now its break! Ah so excited to show Calvin to everyone. We decided to go shopping and go all christmasy :). He's good at choosing gifts for people. We got to go to grandmas for Christmas lunch and dinner. I got to show Calvin some of the best Chinese food I have ever had! Yum. Wow, with all that's been happening I forgot to say how awesome it was to have Calvin through my FIRST college semester! Wow ah.

Well after Christmas we just decided to chillax with our friends, playing Xbox and of course, eating! Now Calvin got to meet my two cats, Chatic and Chowder which means new animal friends! Wow all of our names start with “C”! That's cool. Well unfortunately I had to get nasal surgery which meant I wouldn't be able to do anything for a week... grr. He kept me company and helped me heal :)

Afterwards, we took a trip to UC Davis and showed him the huge huge campus. It was a lot different than Berkeley. But alas, it was time to come home. For the next week, we enjoyed videogames, new friends, and even high school, just to visit. I feel like I showed Calvin a whole new world. But finally, it is time to leave Alameda and go back to Berkeley. And move in day, Calvin right next to me in the car. Evil bear almost didn't put on his seat belt. Tsk tsk. But now back to dorms and Berkeley and our fellow Circle K'ers. Finally moved in, reuniting Calvin with his friend from before break, poochie (see other page and picture).

And here comes the first day of classes. I got to tell Calvin all of my adventures through the raina dn in the world of physics, math, engineering, and demography. Clearly uneducated bear, Calvin already knew most of what I told him. But me and Calvin both don't particularly like rain or cold. Luckily for him, he was able to stay home and not worry about his grades. But it's been great being able to come home and just chill with Calvin. DEFINITELY going to miss it. But now it is time to return him to Circle K. Good bye Calvin. Until next time!
Circle K for life!

Hey look it's me again. Surprise! Me and Calvin were just given one more week to hangout, giving us a total of over 2 months together. Since December 1st to February 2nd. Amazing. Has to be a record!

But this week was awesome did so much. Including going to Circle K table while we got to see all of our Circle K awesome friends and Calvin got to see mama Sooyun. Afterwards we partied with Minji and Lily since we won a date with them during Fall Banquet.

We got a delicious dinner made by Melissa and we made dessert – apple pie, yum. We got to watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. YUMMY MOVIE! But this week went by fast and now it's on to first general meeting of 2010 and time to meet new people. Until next time, singing off!
Peace :)

-Chris

What a lovely week! The first thing I thought was that I get to keep her over thanksgiving break. Woot!

So on Tuesday, Calvin came back to my room and met my roommate. Wednesday, the floor was nearly empty. :( Calvin, my floormate, and I made snowflakes. With 3 stragglers, Calvin and I went down to Shattuck ate delicious sushi. Who knew Calvin was Asian at heart? Then, we watched “where the wild things are.” it was SO SCARY. Calvin made me close my eyes at some parts.

On Thursday we took the BART to the Oakland Airport. The plane ride was farily short. Calvin and I watch an episode of “Boys over Flowers.” Haha I love that Korean drama. Calvin thinks F4 (the 4 Asian boys) are very cute. Hehe.

So my mom & sister picked us up from the airport & we went straight to my cousin's house! All my cousins were impressed with Calvin's growl and her adorable personality! We ate delicious food. Calvin's kind of like me... she LOVES all the side dishes. She eats a lot for a bear her size!

We watched “The Ugly Truth” which was pretty inappropriate. It's okay though! I covered Calvin's eyes & ears when necessary. Friday, Calvin went Black Friday shopping with my sister and me. Oh man, that was tiring!

Then we grabbed sushi with my dad. Saturday morning, we woke up nice and early to go back to Oakland. Unfortunately, I checked in late and so I had to wait at the Oakland airport for 1.5 hours until my luggage came. Calvin and I had a deep conversation about life :)

For the past 3 days, Calvin has been helping me with my poli sci 3 homework. It was SO HARD but we finished now so it's all good. Bye Calvin! I'll miss you! Fek finals are coming up ><

-Shera

I was so surprised (but happy!) that I got Calvin for this week. It seriously made my week! We had an awesome week together =)


On Wednesday night we went to visit my best friend in Davis, and while she went to a IV frisbee game Calvin and I hung out watching glee with her floormates – they were all very impressed by his growl. Then we took Calvin on a hunt for yogurt and coffee, which lead to us not sleeping until the next day.

Thursday night he met some people from my church group and then stayed up all night with me while I did homework.

On Friday he decided he needed a rest from all these all nighters so he stayed in while I went to K-fam dinner. But he helped me and my floormates make cards for senior citizens later that night! Saturday day he motivated me to finally get going on my paper =) After fenton's he decided he needed another nap so he didn't go out with me but he made sure I was up bright and early sunday to do my paper! I kept getting distracted but he kept me on task! We went to bed for 2 hours and then he napped while I went to class.

Monday night I went to go see New Moon but Calvin hasn't read the books yet so he decided to wait. He kept me company until 5am when I (finally!) finished my paper and calmed me down when I woke up at 6 and realized I needed to RUN to the service project.

I will miss his company – especially during all nighters! But I'm sure he will be happy to get some rest and enjoy an AWESOME thanksgiving! Yay Calvin!

-Laura

Oh my goodness. I cannot believe that my week with Calvin is already OVER. :( I've done so many incredbly fun things and had the most awesome experiences with Calvin the Bear this week. I don't know where to ever begin... I suppose chronological order would be the best way to explain my week. :D

Tuesday 11/10: I was so so so stoked to find out that I get to be member of the week!!! yayyy~ So that night, I went out to dinner with some of my friends, and of course I introduced Calvin to them (they thought he was the cutest thing ever) while we ate Korean food (Calvin has a surprisingly high tolerance for spicy food! :O) And then, since we had the day off for veteran's day on weds, my friends and I decided to go KAROKE!!! We sang our hearts out and then proceeded to our little slumber party at one of my friends' lounges. Calvin showed off his awesome singing + dancing skills. It was a spectacular night!




Wednesday 11/11: I was uber tired from not sleeping the night before, so today was a mellow day. Even though I promised Calvin I would be productive, I ended up being a couch potato and watched Korean dramas. What a waste of a good day off. Oh well! At least Calvin got to learn a few Korean words! :) He's going international, you know. [Calvin wrote some Korean here] ← He wrote that :D

Thursday 11/12: Today, Calvin helped me get through one of the most important events I had to attend this week → My CALSO individual interview! I was really really nervous, but Calvin said to take a deep breath, relax, and have fun. And w/his advice, I think I manged to do fairly well. OH! And Calvin also helped me get some more info about my assassin, since we are playing an intense game as of now. Watch out, target!

Friday 11/13: Despite today being Friday the 13th, I wasn't having a bad day at all. There was even a unit 1 dance, so my friends and I dressed up in pretty semi-formal attire and was about to have a great time until... MY ASSASSIN CAME & KILLED ME! :( I guess Friday the 13th did have its effects after all. I was really depressed that I got killed off during the 2nd day... But Calvin knew how to cheer me up! We sang Aladdin (the theme song) together. It was very relaxing.

Saturday 11/14: I went back home to Pleasanton, CA to see my family. I actually only live 30 minutes away, so Calvin didn't mind the travel. My family loved him. My mom even cooked for him some yummy Korean food and Calvin enjoyed spicy rice cake dish a lot :3 :D

Sunday 11/15: When I came back to Berkeley my friends and I wanted to go to SF Japantown. I wished I could have taken Calvin with me, but I was just too afraid that something might happen to him, so he stayed home and guarded my dorm. Later, I showed him everything I bought. He loved it all :)

Monday 11/16: It was back to school work as Calvin helped me practice my Japanese. Also, my friends and I began our own round of Assassins, so Calvin told me to redeem myself from Circle K assassins FAIL and helped me kill 2 targets in one night. Mwahaha- we also went to watch the Leonid meteor showers! Calvin was amazed, though he stayed in this bag → it was freezing cold!

Tuesday 11/17: It's already Tuesday and i'm so sad I have to let Calvin go. I had so much fun this week and I will never ever forget these precious moments I got to spend with him. General meeting is about to start in half an hour so I must tear myeslf away from this passport. I really do hope that the next Circle K'er who gets to take Calvin really treats him well. He needs ALL of your love & smiles & cheering. :) Thank you UCBCKI for letting me make incredible memories with the mots incredible bear, friend, brother ever. CALVIN I'm going to miss you :(

-Sally