I'm Back!

So ... I'm here, in the Pearson College computer lab. However, getting here was definitely no easy task. Let me enlighten you to the hazards of booking your plane tickets five months before your take off ...

So I flew to Winnipeg on Friday afternoon, got picked up by Mrs. Goodspeed. Went to her PentHouse Suite (not sure what that means, but the button on the elevator said PH ... I assume its not the measurement for acids and bases). Then I went over to Ruth and Peter's for wonderful conversation, a thorough discussion of dreadlock maintenance and teh best meal I could have wished for before heading back to cafeteria food! Anyways, so I awoke early in the morning at Mrs. Goodspeed's and headed to the airport (early being before 8:00). I tried to check in but the woman at the counter told me I was too late to check-in. I explained that my flight didn't leave till 9:00 and it was slightly prior to 8 o'clock. She then explained to me that on July 23rd (yes ... July 23rd) my flight had been moved forward an hour, thereby leaving as I stood at that counter. So I got redirected to the booking table where a terribly kind gentleman rebooked me on flights that actually got me to Victoria earlier than afore planned. He also neglected to charge me for my 13 pounds overweight! So overall, I must say that my first experience in missing a flight was actually not all that bad!

Anyways, I met up with Michelle in Calgary airport ... she was surprisingly the only one on my flight though. So we chatted. It was crazy, as we sat in the airport waiting at gate 17A, four supplementary televeisions had been rolled into the room so that the masses of travelling peopel could watch the finals of the world junior hockey championship thinger. We were called to board just as it was announced that the game would move into an overtime period. It was the first time in my life that I ever saw people striving to not be the first at the check-in booth.

Anyways, I was overjoyed to land in Victoria and get rained on as I walked into the terminal, however there sitting dejectedly at the gate were Naomi, Omar and the lovely Nova Scotian, Sarah MacVicar! So we hung about for a bit before Papa Jim came and picked us up in the van. That night was a whirlwind of hugs and screams and greetings and such. It was depressing to be in our room though, since only Ashley and I had returned to campus so far.

Then around came Sunday. The day started off with church and then moved into a lovely hike through the woods which ended in a tree climbing session and a pact to build a tree house before we leave Pearson. Then on Monday classes and activities started. As well as opera rehearsals. Oh opera. Such a lot of work. Seems that our plan to reduce the production didn't get communicated clearly to Anne Bateman so since Saturday (I didn't make the Saturday or Sunday rehearsals ... they were three hours long each and I had people to catch up with and trees to climb!!!) we've been blocking and choreographing and memorizing and finding costumes and such. It's quite a lot of work really. But on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 it comes to an end. We put up the show and then forget about it. It will be a god experience, just right now its a lot of long and seemingly unproductive rehearsals.

Anyways, on Monday night the long lost roommates showed up! It was good, though the jetlag was definitely a problem. Anyways ... further updates to come but right now I'm late for a dance rehearsal. I get to relive my days of beign a peacock in the Dai (chinese ethnic group) Peacock Dance ... for those of you ex-NBA-ers you haven't forgotten the glorious peacock dance yet have you !?!?!