But, what I’m really getting to is that I went to a bonfire after — to see one of my friends and help her run a bit of an event for one of the residences. Aside from the fact that I’m pretty much awesome at starting bonfires and that I may have almost pushed 3 random people into a lake, what I wanted to say is that Japanese kids are effing cute beyond what should be reasonably allowed! One of the families that came out had two daughters. If I had to guess one was around 7 and one was around 5. They were so polite! And they just came to Canada only one week ago — in fact, they didn’t know the place they were moving into didn’t have furniture, so they had to sleep on the floor But, they’ve also never had smores! Now, I’m sorry, no pictures — but picture the cutest kid ever having a smore for the first time ever and I think you see what I’m getting at here. She took a bite, got some on herself and then with a huge smile she turned to her mom and she was like “Oishii!”.

It was great!

Bonus was that the waiter at the place where we went to have dinner after didn’t subtly hit on me. That’s almost always a nice thing XD

So lets get on with this, shall we? First of all, about half a year ago Alice sent me an email to join Twitter. At the time I definitely just skipped over it, but now that I’m finding that Facebook is more and more of a waste of my time and I can’t seem to keep this thing updated; Twitter actually makes sense! So more frequent and possibly more pointless updates there

Those flowers were really pretty — when they were around. This is now about a month old now. Yep, took me that long to get around to getting it from my cell camera to here! But it also makes a really nice cell phone background, maybe it’ll work well on the new iPhone?

We’ve been getting a lot of rain here lately. Which is really nice, especially when it’s been warm. If I had the time I’ve usually taken the opportunity to just go outside and bike around in the rain and through some puddles. It’s sometimes hard around here because you gotta find the puddles where the geese haven’t made a mess!

Yep, getting really used to clouds like that. It was just raining earlier and there was lightning, really high up though, the thunder takes forever to get to us.

In exchange for that we’ve been getting some fantastic sunsets. While I haven’t captured them all and my camera continues to be pretty much a failure in comparison to anything that’s actually a camera, I thought I’d still share some of them with ya — time flies by the way — these are over the length of a month that featured midterms, games upon games of volleyball and soccer, a bruised something in my chest and a walk in the Relay for Life.

It rained later that night. On the way back from volleyball.

It was really, really awesome to just see it over the whole sky. This was over CIF on my way back from a volleyball game.

This was a rarity for a while. The sun just peeking out of the cloud.

Just took this one about an hour back, the burning sky in the background

And that’s about all for now. Say hi in the comments if you haven’t in a while!

I’ve chosen to support 2 of these guys! How many are you willing to commit to?

I’ve taken an interest in keeping an eye on marketing campaigns this year — after taking an economics marketing class as part of my program. It’s an immensely amazing and expensive field that has a lot of variety. I’ve actually not seen this particular campaign when it aired starting 2000, but now having run into it as part of my YouTube browsing I find it absolutely amazing.

I think some clips work better than others, but even the weaker ones carry across the message so well. They inspire and invite and carry an ulterior moral message.

The clips in order are titled: Courage, Bronze, Giant, Silver, Rimes, Smile, Adversary.

For me, the standouts are the Silver/Bronze duo and the Smile ad, which goes so hand in hand with the spirit of the speech I did for my public speaking class. The Silver/Bronze spots do an amazing job of painting the Olympic celebration as a victory for all competitors, just watch them, you can’t fake elation like this.

Which one did you like? Why?

I went home on Friday to go to a friend’s birthday party. That wasn’t really too new in itself, but the bus ride I was on was different. I ended up on the bus that doesn’t take the 401 and goes through the back roads and through the smaller towns on the way to London. As we were passing a sign that said free corn and also included a small horse buggy manned by two Mennonites that were selling syrup — the whole entire bus came to a stop just off the road, close to a ditch. The bus driver casually got out of the bus and decided to help himself to some corn and purchase some syrup!

That same bus driver was also responsible for breaking more laws in relation to stoplights then I’ve seen anyone else do in a while. We ran 3 red lights. I’m not talking about lights that turned red while we were in the intersection, no, we straight up ran 3 lights that turned red before we got to them. This guy was intense! We also stopped to let off a passenger in a spot right next to the sign that so clearly said no stopping. Possibly because it was on a sharp curve of a one lane road. How does this guy even have his license anymore?!

The bus ride back wasn’t as exciting. It was pretty standard all in all and I thought that the weird transportation sighting from the weekend were over.

As I got off the local bus on campus, I decided to go visit the plaza as I had nothing to eat or drink really and I was at least really thirsty. Now, we have a railroad track that crosses the edge of campus and I had to go across it. And there was a train on it. You’re wondering how that’s exciting. Well, it was stopped, still running right next to the crossing. And there was no one inside. That’s right, a whole train was just sitting there for anyone who sort of felt the urge to become a train engineer at that very moment. Maybe if I wasn’t so tired I would have taken this situation on as more than just an offer =P

As I was deciding where to visit and spend some money in the plaza, a man in overalls and with a bunch of pens in his chest pocket passed me. He also had a sub and a fountain drink in hand. It clicked in my head that that was probably the engineer from the train that was just casually sitting on the tracks. At this point I had to make sure, that this entire train was just left running at a crossing so this guy could get his early lunch — so I followed him back. Sure enough, he got on the train.

So there you have it, if you feel like some food, just park your train on the crossing and just sort of hop out and leave it all running and open. As long as you get tired and unenterprising students like myself passing by, it probably won’t get stolen XD

Our last game was close. We started off by winning the first set 25-13, and losing the second set 22-25. I think maybe we could have had the second set, we just got off to a slow start, and when we started working them again we were just a bit too far behind. We lost the tie breaker set 13-15. As you can see, it could have gone our way. But I’m not even angry, I’m being so sincere right now… (is that song ever going to get old, nah!).

What I also want to talk about is teamwork and fun. And the reason it comes up is simple. Today, we had fun. Which I feel is a lot more important than the experience that 4 people got on the opposing team. Yep, that’s right, after the first set, they literally almost sat 4 people on the sides and definitely didn’t play them in the tie-breaker set. I mean, yes, I would have liked them to play their weaker players as it means we probably would have definitely won. But that’s not it. Who makes a team with friends and tells their own friends to not play just for the win. That mentality never made sense to me. Ever. We lost, and I’m sure every person can say it was close and they personally had fun. Sure those 4 may have won, but were they even part of the team in the first place?

Hopefully we can get most of this team together for maybe next fall. It would be pretty awesome, we were all kinds of sweet sauce by the end of the season, and half of us can’t even jump to reach the top of the net! XD