dozen

i've got a dozen more days before i go home. i can't wait! i'm itching to get out of here. too much drama and stress.

i feel like i'm in highschool. in an uncomfortable he-said/she-said. unsure of what i what i should let on about what i know about so-and-so.

i can't wait to drive around vancouver. lounge in my house. sleep in my own bed with my head on my own pillow. space out walking through granville island. visit with friends and students. spend time with my family. sleep in. eat at griffin's and laugh a lot.

i think 3 weeks is brilliant. it'll be just enough time to relax and get my fill of left coast life and i'll begin to miss life in brantford.

i'm on my way. today, we're doing bus travel. it's a good thing i have my monthly bus pass otherwise, i'd be shelling out $5 for a day pass. and today is the last day for the pass. sweet.

i think it's great that we get to go out into the community and people actually get to see what they do. a lot of them will come up and ask questions and that's awesome. yesterday, the cute bus driver made conversation while Kate was under blindfold and he was flirty with me. loved it. i got to play bus driver on the model bus that the transit authority lent us. i got to open and close the door. it was wild. then cute bus driver drove by and it was a big happy wave. he's a taller version of jerry o'conner. dark hair, blue eyes.

i'm totally bored with the long cane lessons. i'm totally ainsy. i don't have patience for it anymore. watching the lesson over and over again is not my idea of an ideal learning situation. suckeroonis. i just want out. i ask about lunches and end times because i can't wait to get out of there. it's brutal. yuck.

so i'm off, i have to wash my face and the dishes.

transfer, please. ding. next stop.

kidding me

you've got to be kidding me. seven in the morning and i hear my cell phone going off with my alarm clock. i got to bed at 5 in the morning and i was in no mood for a non-emergency-seven-in-the-morning phone call. missed call. it's christal. check the mailbox, no message just a click.

10 minutes later the house phone rings. tom has to get out of bed to holler at me to get the phone. he wasn't angry, just loud.

turns out, she's insecure about her project. she's going to drive to the project area and check things out and come over to use my computer to make changes to her assignment and print it off here.

i have that airy just-got-up voice and she's like, did i wake you up? i'm like, yeah...grrrr. come over. are you sure? yeah, come over. i'm so sorry. yeah, come over. click.

so she's coming over and she's giving me a ride, big whoop. i would have preferred the sleep.

she called me 7 times on saturday and 3 times on sunday. i'm totally christal saturated. ugh. i'm soooo tired and i'm going to be super grouchy today. i might even leave class early. but i've got to be bold. keep on carrying on and apologize for an overzealous groupmate.

drop off

so today was the day of the big drop off. this is when they blindfold us. drive us around and then drop us off. we have an hour to make our way back to our starting point which for me was a house.

i was nervous. even had a dream about it.

so, how did i do?

i did really well. within a minute of being dropped off, i figured out where i was and i went for it. yay. 2 long blocks, 3 street crossings in 15 minutes. on the very last block i had to check out my landmark a couple of times, but i kept on going and got to my target.

2 of my group mates took a full hour. and they got lost. the other groupmate, nailed his drop off and got back without a problem.

it started snowing during kate's drop off. she was sooo cold. karen took us all out to tim horton's and bought us a soup meal deal. she was very generous.

big giant snow flakes. lovely lovely dancing on the air.

so today was a good day.