YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE!!

This post has been certified “hockey free”!

*sigh*

So, now that the last meeting to wrap up my special ed course has passed, I am totally and completely finished everything school related (except for checking marks) for this term!! Feels good, it does. I’ve had a really good past week-and-a-half. I managed to get all the final papers done and handed in, on time!! As much as I love procrastinating, there is eventually a time and a place where it needs to stop, sometime. How many times can you say ‘soon, but not yet’? (I love Juba)

I've had a lovely visit with Mom so far (she arrived last Friday), and it’s been a nice conclusion to this almost 4-month stint in Victoria. We’ve done some hiking/climbing (low key) at Sooke Potholes and Goldstream parks, shopped downtown, walked along Dallas Road (by the ocean), and watched a couple of films at the IMAX (Greece: Secrets of the Past, and Mystery of the Nile; both were quite interesting, and I enjoyed the ‘magic of IMAX’), among other things. The weather has been fair most of the time, which was beneficial in allowing us to send a lot of time outdoors. Speaking of which, soccer this Sunday was pretty fun, and I even managed to sustain some injuries (especially noteable being the arm across the nose and the toe that is now purple). Fun stuff! I’m looking forward to getting back at it this fall.

Today's my second last day of work at the helpdesk, and glad will I be to leave the desk behind. It's been a pretty decent time, though, both as a source of income and as my first corporate-type workplace that didn't include a family member. This place is nothing like "The Office" of tv, thankfully. It must be said that if it were, I would not be the Gareth.

I am excited about heading back home (we fly out Friday evening) and seeing everyone again, and doing some fun stuff, like seeing Starfield 3 times (once with Hillsong United), playing tennis and volleyball, horseback riding ... maybe helping Dad with some stuff around the house, and being involved in a few other things (purposely unmentioned). Ah, good times to be had indeed. I’m still not sure what I potentially could be doing when I get back to Victoria, besides class, but there's still time to figure that out. At least I have a place to stay.