Airplanes and updates

Hi! I'm back from my family reunion in Burford. We went rafting and the Grand River tore apart my $6 flip flops. It was humid and fun and now I'm back in the city. It's nice and cool this week and it didn't even get above 25 degrees today. It rained a little and now it's really foggy. But when I ask people if they think the hottest days of the summer are behind us everyone's like "probably not, Toronto weather is weird." One person said "it all depends on the pressure fronts..." and started giving me an in-depth explanation of how weather works even though I was just trying to make light conversation.




I've started going to the gym with my friend Jose every weekday morning. We try to get to Hart House by 7am. At first it seemed unnatural and like it was still supposed to be nighttime but now we're into our fourth week and I'm kind of getting used to it. We usually stay for an hour and half or so and by the time I get back it's not even a double-digits hour yet. I also started drinking tons and tons of water everyday which has really improved my skin! The downside is that I have to pee like all the time. But it's worth it. I'm also eating lots of vegetables and taking vitamins. But don't worry, I'm still getting very little sleep. One of my favorite things to eat now is pieces of cucumber wrapped in nori and dipped in shoyu. One of the characters was eating it in a Murakami book and it sounded really good. And it is really good!




I signed up for fall classes and I got into the first year Japanese course! I couldn't get in for the last two years so I'm very happy. The book I was reading at Indigo that disappeared a month or two ago is back and I'm about 40 pages from the end. I wish it was longer because I really like it and once I finish it I'll have to find a new Indigo book to read and it probably won't be as good.

Minna no Nihongo

Well I still haven't gone to get my film developed, so here is some old stuff that I never posted. This is the first roll from my Minolta Anscoset (this camera - I even have the same case!) that I got in a weird little junk store in Nova Scotia. These first three were taken in Corvallis during the summer. They make me wish the sun would come out.








The rest were taken in early September when my dad and I were traveling east with all my stuff so that I could move back to Toronto.








I've started trying to learn Japanese again. I've been wanting to do it all year but it always seemed like I should get all my school work done first, but school just kind of never ends. So I decided that I would be happier if I picked it up again anyway. I am much happier, and also my school stuff now seems easier to do. Sooo. Probably should have done that earlier...






I finally went and saw The King's Speech yesterday, I knew it would be good but I didn't realize that Helena Bonham Carter was in it! That made it at least twice as amazing. I really liked the cinematography too, so it gets an A+. I saw it in Oshawa with a boy. I don't think Oshawa is really as bad as everyone says it is.








I like these photos because I can really clearly remember taking each of them. That's usually the case actually, but with these it's like a personal record of a trip that I enjoyed. I would explain better but I'm not really feeling very good with words today and I think I'm going to go take a nap.