Waiting

Hey.  So I'm sitting in my uncle's living room waiting for my friend S to come and pick me up for coffee, so I thought I would put up a little post of some random thoughts and facts from the past few days.

1. The flowers are so much bigger and happier here in Guelph than back home (at least right now since there has actually been some warmer weather here recently)

2. I love having family that lives in different cities than me so that I have an excuse to go on a little trip

3. I am super excited about watching two friends from camp get married this saturday

4. I am even more excited about having coffee with said friend this morning and catching up on a year apart

5. Solo shopping is not that much fun.  I had a couple hours to kill yesterday before I needed to head to the airport so I browsed around, but it wasn't nearly as much fun as when I'm with friends.  Walking around with my pack on my back probably didn't help my shopping mood either.

6. I found out the other day that I will be teaching 1 class of math each day while I'm in China along with working with language learners which is exciting, but also means I actually have a class I need to prep for during the rest of the summer.

7. Fresh coffee with cream is a delicious way to start the day!  

Ok, i think I"ve moved onto random ramblings so I'm gonna close it off here.  Make it a great day folks!

Time Off

It's day 2 of my summer vacation and so far it is lovely. I have been doing some little jobs here and there like organizing my school stuff and starting to make phone calls to get things settled for China but mostly just relaxing and enjoying the beautiful spring sunshine. Yesterday I went for 2 long walks and it was fantastic. It is so fun to watch all the trees getting their new leaves for a new season. The grass is turning green and my spirits are definitely lifted.

I have also gotten my baking hands back to work. Yesterday I made falafels for supper as well as a carrot cake (with cream cheese icing of course!) and a big batch of granola for the family. I missed cooking while I was away student teaching so it's nice to be at home in my own kitchen again (well technically my mother's kitchen but she doesn't seem to mind sharing!)

I've also been busy help plan some birthday parties since my parents are both celebrating their birthdays next week. But mostly it's just nice to be able to do whatever I want without that niggling guilt in the back of my brain for all the school 'stuff' I could/should be doing. I have already started to fill in my social calender for getting together with people the rest of this week. I have a feeling it won't be hard finding things to do every day...just different things than when I am officially working:)

I'm off to finish organizing all my school stuff. Right now my bedroom floor is covered in papers which is a little inconvenient for getting to anything else in the room:)-