In all the years encompassing this blog, many different things have been tried. This year, I will mesh many of the previous projects together for an Epic “Project 26”.
This project will comprise of multiple challenges that take place in 26-day sequences, which will include a variety of different elements of things in the past.
Why 26? This is such a random year of my life, that I feel the need to make it more important than it will ever be in the future. The moment to live is now.
Phase 1: 365 Project for 26 Days
Day 1: The First Meal (UCSD Friends)
Day 2: Free Pizza…. at the Gym (RAHS Friends)
Day 3: We Died (RKMS)
Day 4: The Death of Me (Meetup)
Day 5: The Worst of News (Planet Fitness)
Day 6: Self Defense 101 (RKMS / Meetup)
Day 7: The Bar Scene (Meetup)
Day 8: The Ultimate Love Confession (UCSD Friend / Meetup)
Day 9: Tai Chi (ALHAMBRA)
Day 10: Pizza Forever (RKMS / UCSD Friend)
Day 11: Goodbye Forever (RKMS)
Day 12: Finding Mrs. Tran (RKMS)
Day 13: LA Art Show (RKMS)
Day 14: MLK Day of Service (RKMS)
Day 15: Toilet Troubles (UCSD Friend)
Day 16: Boba Land (TRAN)
Day 17: Singing, Churros, and Food Trucks (RKMS)
Day 18: Parent ‘engagement’ (RKMS)
Day 19: OTP (RKMS)
Day 20: Vegan food…
Day 21: Free Vinyls (DTLA)
Day 22: Flashhhh Floooddd (TRAN)
Day 23: Black Out (RKMS – Planet Fitness)
Day 24: A Teaching Comparison (RKMS – UCSD Friends)
Day 25: MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY (RKMS)
Day 26: Suicidal Thoughts (RKMS)
Phase 2: The Music Project for 26 Days
Day 1: All Time Low (RKMS)
Day 2: Beautiful Lights (TRAN)
Day 3: What We Live For (UCSD – Friends)
Day 4: Final Song (RKMS)
Day 5: Starving (RKMS)
Day 6: Jai Ho (RKMS)
Day 7: How Far I’ll Go (RKMS)
Day 8: Colors (RKMS)
Day 9: One Year Six Months (Acoustic) (Planet Fitness – TRAN)
Day 10: Run or Hide (FHAC – Friend)
Day 12: Best Days (RKMS)
Day 13: In the Meantime (RKMS, FHAC – Friend)
Day 14: Nova Theme Song (RKMS)
Day 15: Power Rangers Samurai (Theme Song) (RKMS)
Day 16: Everything is Awesome (RKMS – TRAN)
Day 17: Close to You (Planet Fitness – TRAN)
Day 18: Heal the World (CONCORDIA)
Day 19: All Black (RKMS)
Day 20: Got Rice? (RKMS)
Day 21: Holding On To You (UCSD – FRIEND)
Day 22: Come Clean (TRAN)
Day 23: Mesmerize (RKMS)
Day 24: Sunday Morning
Day 25: Shelter (Planet Fitness, RAHS – Friend)
Day 26: Bright Star Creed (RKMS)
Phase 3: Cooking for 26 Days
Day 1: Spaghetti (RKMS)
Day 2: Eggs (Planet Fitness)
Day 3: Flaming Hot Day (RKMS)
Day 4: The Music in Me (RKMS)
Day 5: R U 4 Cereal
Day 6: Macaroni and Crap (RKMS)
Day 7: Pop goes the poptarts (Planet Fitness)
Day 8: PB&J (RKMS)
Day 9: PB&J Redemption (RKMS)
Day 10: Soccer Sorrows (RKMS)
Day 11: Get Out (CSUF Friend)
Day 12: Vermicelli + Egg Rolls (RAHS Friends)
Day 13: Aloe Vera (RKMS, Planet Fitness)
Day 14: Medieval Times (RKMS)
Day 15: Rigatoni (RKMS)
Day 16: Mandarin Oranges (RKMS)
Day 17: Vanilla Pudding (RKMS)
Day 18: YOGO (You only grill once) (RKMS)
Day 19: Cooking with Mommy (TRAN, RKMS)
Day 20: Another Dolla’ (RKMS)
Day 21: Breakfast of Champions (RKMS)
Day 22: Worst Yoga Teacher Ever. (RKMS)
Day 23: Cracking Eggs (RKMS)
Day 24: Enchiladas (RKMS)
Day 25: Freaky Philsday (CSUF Friend)
Day 26: Salad (RKMS)
Phase 4: Poetry
Day 1: A Poem (Concordia, Planet Fitness, CSUF Friend)
Day 2: A Rant (RKMS)
Day 3: America Has No Talent (RKMS)
Day 4: Exhaustion (RKMS)
Day 5: Go Go Power Rangers (RKMS)
Day 6: Beauty and the Tran (TRAN)
Day 7: Butterbeer (UCSD Friends)
Day 8: Essays (RKMS)
Day 9: Ednovate (Planet Fitness)
Day 10: rkHs (RKMS)
Day 11: Reading (RKMS)
Day 12: I killed a baby (RKMS)
Day 13: Go Angels (RKMS)
Day 14: oversleeping + overeating (Planet Fitness)
Day 15: Jeopardy! (RKMS)
Day 16: Stolen Pizza (RKMS)
Day 17: Grading Struggles (RKMS)
Day 18: Useless Day (RKMS)
Day 19: Bunny Ears (RKMS)
Day 20: Let’s go to the mall… today (TRAN)
Day 21: Beach horror stories (TRAN)
Day 22: High School Never Ends (RAHS Friend)
Day 23: Hot Cheetos Burritos (RAHS Friend)
Day 24: Phils #122 (CSUF Friend)
Day 25: The Night Sky (UCSD Friend + RAHS Friends)
Day 26: The Last Poem (RAHS Friends)
Phase 5: #26reasonswhy
Day 1: Mom & Dad (TRAN)
Day 2: Thiep Mai (RAHS)
Day 3: Alethia Yu (UCSD)
Day 4: Amul Shah (UCSD)
Day 5: Theresa Bui (RAHS)
Day 6: Earle Tabula (RAHS)
Day 7: Julia Peng (UCSD)
Day 8: Bijan Fazeli (UCSD)
Day 9: Annie Tran & Jenny Tran (TRAN)
Day 10: Noelle Herrera (FHAC)
Day 11: Andy Phan (CSUF)
Day 12: Nhi Nguyen (RAHS)
Day 13: Tracy, Thomas, & Tammy (TRAN)
Day 14: Tiffany Saw, Michelle Wong, & Louise Chan (UCSD)
Day 15: Karen Saturday (FHAC)
Day 16: Sid Sharma & Henry Lu (UCSD)
Day 17: Fiorella, Michele, Audrey, & Mileth (VEGAS)
Day 18: George Tello (RAHS)
Day 19: Elizabeth Goodrich (UCSD)
Day 20: Adam Radtke & Jessica Daggett (UCSD)
Day 21: Lauren Coleman (UCSD)
Day 22: Jerick Galang & Brian Vo (RAHS)
Day 23: Chevonne Miller (FHAC)
Day 24: Nandhu Reddy & Clifford Mao (UCSD)
Day 25: Tanya Tran (RAHS)
Day 26: Anjella Manucat (CRAM)
Phase 6: Movies
Day 1: Memento (RKMS)
Day 2: Dangerous Minds (RKMS)
Day 3: Life is Beautiful (TRAN)
Day 4: Mrs. Doubtfire (TRAN)
Day 5: The Truman Show (RKMS, Planet Fitness)
Day 6: The Pursuit of Happyness (RKMS)
Day 7: Singin’ in the Rain (RKMS)
Day 8: Home Alone 2 (RKMS)
Day 9: Space Jam (RKMS)
Day 10: The Simpsons Movie (RKMS)
Day 11: Donnie Darko
Day 12: Terminator 2 (RKMS)
Day 13: Rear Window (RKMS)
Day 14: Groundhog Day (RKMS)
Day 15: Inception (RKMS)
Day 17: Back to the Future (RAHS Friends)
Day 18: Interstellar (Planet Fitness, Tran)
Day 19: V for Vendetta
Day 20: Requiem for a Dream (RKMS)
Day 21: The Graduate (RKMS)
Day 22: Freedom Writers (RKMS)
Day 23: Aladdin (RKMS)
Day 24: 12 Monkeys (RKMS)
Day 25: Jumanji (Planet Fitness)
Day 26: Mulan (RKMS)
Phase 7: Music Albums
Day 1: Let Go (RKMS)
Day 2: My Head is an Animal (RKMS)
Day 3: All Things Bright and Beautiful (RKMS)
Day 4: Love Drunk (RKMS)
Day 5: Dreaming Out Loud (CRAM – Friend)
Day 6: The Spirit Room (TRAN – UCSD Friends)
Day 7: Boys Like Girls (RKMS)
Day 8: Fearless (RKMS)
Day 9: The Human Condition (RKMS)
Day 10: The Listening (RKMS)
Day 11: Breakaway (RKMS)
Day 12: American Idiot (TRAN, FHAC Friends)
Day 13: Run River North (RKMS)
Day 14: The Young and the Hopeless (RKMS)
Day 15: The Days / Nights (RKMS)
Day 16: Heroes and Thieves (RKMS)
Day 17: All the Little Lights (RKMS)
Day 18: Paper Walls (RKMS)
Day 19: How to Save a Life (RKMS)
Day 20: Native (Tran)
Day 21: Music from the O.C. Mix 1 (RAHS Friend)
Day 22: Ocean Avenue (RKMS)
Day 23: Under My Skin (Concordia)
Day 24: Flight of the Crow (AX)
Day 25: One (1) (AX, RKMS Friend)
Day 26: The High Road (AX)
Phase 8: Cities
Day 1: Los Angeles (AX)
Day 2: Koreatown (AX, RKMS Friends)
Day 3: Laguna Beach (Tran)
Day 4: Atlanta
Day 5: Amsterdam
Day 6: Amsterdam (Red Light District)
Day 7: Rotterdam
Day 8: Gent
Day 9: Champagne
Day 10: Verdun
Day 11: Strasbourg
Day 12: Interlaken
Day 13: Zermatt
Day 14: Lugano
Day 15: Florence
Day 16: San Gimignano
Day 17: Milan
Day 18: Garden Grove
Day 19: Santa Ana (Tran, RKMS Friends)
Day 20: Corona Del Mar (FHAC)
Day 21: Irvine (CSUF Friend)
Day 22: Anaheim (RAHS Friend)
Day 23: San Diego (CSUF Friend + UCSD Friends)
Day 24: Westminster (RAHS Friend)
Day 25: West Hollywood (RKMS)
Day 26: Fullerton (Tran)
Phase 9: Short Stories
Day 1: Symbols and Signs (FHAC, Tran)
Day 2: The Gift of the Magi (Tran)
Day 3: The Rocking Horse Winner (Tran, Planet Fitness)
Day 4: A Hunger Artist (UCSD Friends)
Day 5: The Most Dangerous Game (UCSD Friend , FHAC Friend)
Day 6: The Lottery (Alhambra, RKMS)
Day 7: The Lady or the Tiger (CSUF Friend)
Day 8: Hills Like White Elephants (RAHS Friends)
Day 9: Three Questions (Concordia)
Day 10: The Bet (Tran)
Day 11: A Sound of Thunder (RKMS)
Day 12: Araby (RKMS)
Day 13: The Story of an Hour (RKMS)
Day 14: Cathedral (RKMS)
Day 15: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (RKMS, RAHS Friends)
Day 16: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (CRAM Friends/FHAC)
Day 17: The Monkey’s Paw (Alhambra)
Day 18: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (RKMS, Alhambra)
Day 19: The Raven (RKMS, Concordia)
Day 20: Because I Could Not Stop For Death (RKMS)
Day 21: The Necklace (RKMS)
Day 22: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (RKMS)
Day 23: Annabelle Lee (Alhambra)
Day 24: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Alhambra)
Day 25: The Tell-Tale Heart (RKMS)
Day 26: The Road Not Taken (RKMS)
Phase 10: Every Year of my Life
Day 1: 1990-1991 (VIETNAM)
Day 2: 1992-1993 (VIETNAM)
Day 3: 1994 (Tran)
Day 4: 1995 (Tran)
Day 5: 1996 (PYLES)
Day 6: 1997 (PYLES)
Day 7: 1998 (PYLES)
Day 8: 1999 (PYLES)
Day 9: 2000 (PYLES)
Day 10: 2001 (STANFORD)
Day 11: 2002 (STANFORD)
Day 12: 2003 (ALAMITOS)
Day 13: 2004 (ALAMITOS)
Day 14: 2005 (RAHS)
Day 15: 2006 (RAHS)
Day 16: 2007 (RAHS)
Day 17: 2008 (RAHS)
Day 18: 2009 (UCSD)
Day 19: 2010 (UCSD)
Day 20: 2011 (UCSD)
Day 21: 2012 (UCSD)
Day 22: 2013 (CSUF)
Day 23: 2014 (CSUF)
Day 24: 2015 (CRAM)
Day 25: 2016 (RKMS)
Day 26: 2017 (RKMS)
Phase 11: Teachers that have taught me
Day 1: Mr. Johnson (RKMS)
Day 2: Ms. Goss (RKMS)
Day 3: Mr. Ritchie (RKMS)
Day 4: Mr. Pak (RKMS)
Day 5: Mr. Sinohui (RKMS)
Day 6: Mr. Brown (PYLES)
Day 7: Mr. Durand (RAHS)
Day 8: Mr. Choi (RKMS)
Day 9: Ms. Smith (RKMS)
Day 10: Mr. Yamashita (RKMS)
Day 11: Ms. Fernandez (RKMS)
Day 12: Mr. Murray, Ms. Schirmer, Ms. Bunnell (RAHS)
Day 13: Mr. Conlay (RAHS)
Day 14: Ms. Lee (PYLES)
Day 15: Mr. Ngo (RKMS)
Day 16: Ms. Chauhan (RKMS)
Day 17: Ms. Diaz (RKMS)
Day 18: Mr. B (RKMS)
Day 19: Mr. Hahn (RKMS)
Day 20: Ms. Robinson (RKMS)
Day 21: Mr. Hoffman (CRAM)
Day 22: Ms. Sherman (RKMS)
Day 23: Ms. Snyder (RKMS)
Day 24: Mr. Hanna (RKMS)
Day 25: Ms. Kimly (RKMS)
Day 26: Ms. Kim (RKMS)
Phase 12: Third-Person Object Point of View
Day 1: Keys (RKMS)
Day 2: Hawaiian Lei (Tran)
Day 3: Sunglasses (Tran)
Day 4: Wedding Dress (Tran)
Day 5: Airplanes (Tran)
Day 6: Door (RKMS)
Day 7: Toty’s Tits (RKMS SD Trip)
Day 8: Phil’s Ribs (RKMS SD Trip)
Day 9: Potato Chip (RKMS SD Trip)
Day 10: Neon Lights (CSUF Friend)
Day 11: Settlements (RAHS Friends)
Day 12: Iphone (Tran)
Day 13: Textbook
Day 14: Credit Card (RKMS)
Day 15: Digestive System (Tran)
Day 16: Laptop
Day 17: Pok-a-tok (RKMS)
Day 18: Pikachu Ears (RKMS)
Day 19: Socks (RKMS)
Day 20: Buffalo Wings (RKMS)
Day 21: Poster of Hate (RKMS)
Day 22: Fortune Cookie (Alhambra)
Day 23: Massage Bed (Alhambra)
Day 24: Complimentary Pizza (Planet Fitness)
Day 25: Popeyes Box (Alhambra)
Day 26: Old Newspapers (RKMS)
Phase 13: Guest Blog Posts
Day 1: Appreciation Blog – Michele Gauthier from Vegas
Day 2: I Am The Mountain – Richard Myers from RKMS
Day 3: Untitled – Kevin Kim from RAHS
Day 4: Choose your Own Adventure – Brady Pak from RKMS
Day 5: Opinions of a 16 Year Old – Anjella Manucat from Cram
Day 6: Ratchet World – Ronny Hoffman from Cram
Day 7: RKMS Teachers as Hockey Players – Eugene Hahn from RKMS
Day 8: NOW SHOWING! ME! – Rachell Bunnell from RAHS
Day 9: Jars – Ebony Redondo from RKMS
Day 10: Friendships After College, Karl – Karl Yabes from CSUF
Day 11: Venturing into Buckethead – Amul Shah from RAHS
Day 12: Mindfulness – Michelle Wong from UCSD
Day 13: Less than 3 but not really – Jerick Galang from RAHS
Day 14: Lil’ Bro John Tran – Eliza Kim from RKMS
Day 15: Poor Lonely Women – Fiorella Carhuaz from Vegas
Day 16: How We Are Nailing Our Own Coffins Shut – Jessica Daggett from UCSD
Day 17: To Be or Not to Be – Genesis Guzman from RKMS
Day 18: Math Jokes – Michelle Smith from RKMS
Day 19: Volunteering – Louise Chan from UCSD
Day 20: Jack of all Trades or Jonny of Many hobbies – Jonathan Elizalde from UCSD
Day 21: John Tran – Angela Garcia from RKMS
Day 22: Work-Life Balance – Nandhu Reddy from UCSD
Day 23: My Least Favorite Human – Jessica Luna from RKMS
Day 24: How Hard It Is to be a Teacher – Noelle Herrera from FHAC
Day 25: Blog Post – Procrastinated – Laura Fernandez from RKMS
Day 26: John Tran’s Teacher of the Year 2016-2017 Acceptance Speech at the Evening of Excellence – Sam Choi from RKMS
Phase 14: Any topic of my choice
Day 27: Thankful Outsider – Duke’s Guest Post from Tran
Day 26: I do what I want – Earle’s Guest Post from RAHS
Day 25: Educational Failures (RKMS)
Day 24: The Last Night of the World
Day 23: Why I Teach Pt. 1 (ThinkTogether, Santiago, Cram, RKMS)
Day 22: Why I Teach Pt. 2 (RKMS)
Day 21: Why I Teach Pt. 3 (RKMS)
Day 20: Why I Teach Pt. 4 (RKMS)
Day 19: Top Played Songs of 2017
Day 18: Million Miles Away (RKMS)
Day 17: Winter Quarter, Fin (RKMS)
Day 16: Rolling Loud (RKMS)
Day 15: Movie Reviews, 2017
Day 14: $250 Grant (RKMS)
Day 13: The Latest Trends (RKMS)
Day 12: GOP Tax Plan
Day 11: Top 5 TV Shows of 2017
Day 10: Servers of the World (UCSD – Friend)
Day 9: Top Blog Posts of 2017
Day 8: Reflection on 2017
Day 7: Merry Christmas
Day 6: The Evolution of Social Media (RAHS)
Day 5: Slots vs. Poker (RKMS)
Day 4: Roulette (RKMS)
Day 3: Black Mirror Season 4
Day 2: My Life in 5 Words
Day 1: Project Rankings