like Saturday is gone

Well, last week was pretty good. I started training at Kumon, and am sure I'll enjoy working there, and I finished up my paper from the summer course I took. I had a bit of a cold through the week, which disrupted my sleeping and breathing (at least when exercising) but I'm finally pretty much over it. Umm ... yeah, this is all so exciting I can hardly bear to keep typing!
Anyway, I have a pretty open week ahead, with my only plans being for some hockey, soccer, working (painting and cleaning), and then packing and moving at the end of the week. Looks like we've got enough together to have an IVCF intramural outdoor team, so that's awesome! Oh, and I get to go out to Denman Island the second weekend in September, which will be wicked fun (well, not so much the getting there, as the being there, although I'm sure the going out there will have its moments)!!
In other news, the Sens jersey next year will be a lot uglier than in the past ... I never liked their black jerseys much, but I used to quite like their red ones ... I do prefer the new logo, however:

devastation and reform

Well, since I last blogged there's been a few developments:
- I have somewhere to live for the next school year (right by the water, with a lovely view, and blackberry bushes living the street)
- I have a part-time job with Kumon (look it up if you really want to know)
- I finished my summer course (well, pretty much, as tomorrow is a pot-luck, not class)
- So You Think You Can Dance (pretty much the only tv show I watch regularly) is over, with Sabra as the winner

Other than that, nothing much has been happening in my world; there's hasn't been time for much to happen, considering I had class every day! I've played a bunch more hockey (really enjoying the hockey camp I went to last weekend, especially being the only goalie, so getting one-on-one coaching!), some soccer, and spent a lot of the last couple weeks reading articles for class. I actually got some time to practice violin yesterday, and figured out the violin part for The Chairman's Waltz (a John William's piece, composed, I believe, for Memoirs of a Geisha). It's beautiful ... now I just have to get the piano part, and someone to play it. :)
Oh, and the Canucks camp is being held in Victoria this year (second week of September), so hopefully I'll be able to check some of that out!

Nostalgic for nostalgia

I was trying to think today what sort of overall impression I had from August, as for every other month of the year I have some sort of scents or activities or emotions that are immediately recalled when I think of that month. Not so for August. I like the name of the month, but other than that, and the revelation that when I was younger as soon as August rolled around I always realized the summer was half over, there's nothing. It's sort of strange. The only thing I could think of was either throwing wood in the basement, which usually happened in August, and going to Kingdom Bound, which is how I spent part of three August long weekends ('03-'05).
Anyway, memories of this August will seemingly be well infused with Leadership, Learning, and Social Justice, a summer class I'm enrolled in, that takes up at least 2 hours of each of my weekdays. It's pretty interesting, and we have some wonderful guest speakers with a wealth of experience, not to mention that of the classmates I have. A video we watched this week mentioned The Hunger Site, where you can click a button to feed a child for the day, and you can do it daily!! I guess they have a bunch of sponsors that agreed to donate for each person that clicks each day... There're also links to a few other causes that have the same situation (e.g. click to help child literacy). And at The Hunger Site they have a store where you can buy fair trade goods, anything ranging from jewellery to clothing to hammocks.

I'm not huge on jewellery (go figure), but I actually quite like some of their stuff ...