Thanksgiving

So ... its been a busy few days here at Pearson. I actually have lots of interesting stories to tell! On Friday afternoon we had a much needed break from teh rain. The sun came out and it got really hot and nice looking and generally pleasant. So I decided to skip matrial arts (it's an informal activity anyways) and go for a run on the Goose (a gorgeous trail thats close-ish to the college). Anyways, I had just gotten changed, put in the contacts, tied the runners, strangled my hair into a ponytail (its not that easy when you have dreds!) adn was about to go when Heather came into my room and asked if I wanted to go and jam for a bit. Well of course I did! So the two of us headed up to the Max Bell Hall to play for awhile. All she had was a TAB for some Argentinian punk song ... and no recording. So she played electric, I played bass and we both sang (the fact that I don't speak Spnaish definitely didn't hold us back at all ... I sang along as though i knew it!). Anyways, I played the tabs for a while and then just started comping. It was so cool! It's not as hard as I'd always imagined. We took turns soloing and yeah ... Anyways, we had played for about 45 minutes when Marina came in. Marina plays wicked guitar, so Heather moved to the trap set and Marina replaced her on guitar. And we had a female jam session. It was so good. We played for two hours. I got two huge blisters on my fingers. But it was great. We randomly made up lyrics to a song and soloed and laughed and made noise. then I dashed to supper, ate in seven minutes flat and ran back up the hill to the Max Bell for my first bass lesson. All in all it was a grand night of music.

On Saturday I headed into town for dance classes, but only went to one rather than the usual two because Rhubini and I had to go shopping for dresses. That's right, Ashley (one of our secondyear roomies) told us we had to go buy ourselves dresses. So beign good first years, we did as told. Value Village style! I ended up trying on this strapless red, white adn orange thing, but then decided not to buy it. So we ran back to the bus stop. Missed the first bus, almost missed the second bus, but finalyl got on and back to campus. This morning, I got up adn went to church. When I got back Rhubini had already left to go stay with a host famiyl for Thanksgiving supper adn a night off campus, but on my bed she had left the dress. I guess she bought it when I wasn't looking! I love my roomies.

The other intersting thing that I've gotten up to this weekend was filming a video. Every first year has a second year buddy, mine is Anne from Germany. Anne is an amazing film director. Anyways, for her IB diploma project shes doing an artistic film about a dancer. So teh school bought a new video camera that arrived on Friday adn seh wanted to test it out under different light settings adn stuff. So she, Rhubini and I went up there last night twice for one and a half hour shifts to film this video. Rhubini did lights and I basically improved. Anne would have specific shots of just feet or certain arm movements and stuff. It was realyl weird to not have to focus on holding my entire body within techinque all at the same time. Just the aspect she was filming. The funniest part came when Anne carried this wheelchair onto the stage. I was then seh sat in it and called Rhubinin down from the sound booth. You know when cameras are on wheels so that they roll nice and smoothly. Well Pearson doesn't have that type of technology. So Anne sat in the wheelchair holding the camera and directing. I danced and Rhubini ran back and forth between the lights and pushing the wheelchair. Thanks goodness Tawab walked by, we snagged him to do the wheelchair pushing so that Rhubini could just stay in the booth. It was really educational. Not to mention hilarious. Anyways, theres so much more I could say, but due to the constant distraction of MSN I've been in here over an hour already. So some other time.