sunday.

so i think i was dreaming about winning the lotto last night.

the first thing i was going to do was to pay off my car payments ( i'm selfish, i know), then pay off my parent's mortgage, then pay off my mom's grad school loans, then pay off my brother's debts, then pay off my under grad loans, then give money to my friends (enough so that each of them could pay off their car payments), then give money to church/charity/missions (but i think this might take a while because i would want to research different organizations, different churches across the country, different missionaries around the world, etc...i don't want to give one HUGE lump sum to just one church...but i'm wondering, could the greater impact be seen by giving a lot of money to one church, or could there be a smaller, but wide-spread impact if i were to spread money around the world. maybe the church i give all the money to would spread it out. i'm not sure how churches organize finances. i mean, i would give 10% to the church (gosh, which church would i give it to? i still feel like kcpc is my home church), but the the rest i would want to be given to other organizations.  then again, spending money on church/missions should have been my first priority, but i'm being honest in the order that i would spend the lotto money), then i would take all my students to Sea World on a fieldtrip and i would also take them on a fieldtrip to the Cerritos Public Library. i would hire 2 TA's or teachers using my own money to help in my classroom so that we could break up the students by levels. i would buy each of my students at least 5 books. then i would want to give money to Reading is FUNdamental - this organization that gives books to children for free. next, i would take my entire family to the doctor to get physical exams, and then i would take my whole family to the dentist to fix up our jacked teeth. then i would take my mom and dad to the optometrist because they need new glasses. then i would pay to have our kitchen and bathroom remodeled. as we're doing that i would re-carpet our house. and then i would buy my mom a full-sized grand piano. oh yeah, i would want to fly my entire family over to korea so we could say hello to relatives and give them some money (they've helped us financially for years and years and years) and have a little reunion. i would then put $20,000 away for my future wedding/moving-out-of-the-house fund. and lastly, i would want to take all my friends out (but this would be hard since we're all over california...maybe i'd have to fly some people over here so we could eat dinner together)

then i would hope that there was no more money left. 

you see, all the things that i spent my money on wouldn't really change my life much. the main difference would be that my family wasn't in anymore debt. oh! and we'd have new carpet and new linoleum and cabinets in our 30 year old kitchen. we'd be healthy (or we'd find out if we were sick), we'd have good dental hygiene, and we'd have a new piano.

that's it.

that'll be enough. (but already, that's asking for too much...in reality, i have enough as it is)

oh! and also my students will have gone out and seen 2 new places in the world and would receive more differentiated instruction according to their learning style and levels and would have more books to read.

the end of my lotto-winning dream.