Brazil Fund

I am going to start a Brazil fund.

You know why.

There is no place like home

VANCOUVER!! I love you!

I've been home since Tuesday and I already love it.
Europe was amazing though, it is such a wonderful place to be. There are so many beautiful things to see, so much delicious food, beautiful people, and the continent is full of so many languages!
I'll go back for sure.

Now that I'm home, I've already gone to the beach three times, and I'm hoping to go more because the sun seems quite scarce!

I hope to be able to see some cool stuff while I'm here. I went to "Party This Weekend", a production done by some people I know at UBC, and it was the coolest thing! You get to follow a character around a house during a "house party" and see them interact with the other characters, and because you can still see and hear the other events going on, it makes you want to come back and follow a different character! A very cool concept.

Anyway, here are some photos of the start of my summer in Vancouver...

Kits Beach

Viva Vancouver

English Bay

I also had a dericious Japadog. It's a new one, the Yakisoba:

Rhyme time

I want to live

in summer skin,

with endless sun,

and warming wind.

The sun on our face,

our feet on hot sand,

sun-kissed and golden,

my skin, how it tans.

The tide draws near,

the sky turns pink,

the sun disappears,

and all I can think

is of tomorrow,

when the sun breaks,

forth I’ll go,

with new memories to make.

A promising summer

I think I finally get to do Europe justice this summer. For once, I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars just to visit a boyfriend in one country. That was pretty great though, despite the fact that the only way to see each other was to spend lots of money only to really spend not much actual time together.
There's a giant theatre festival happening in Prague this year called the Prague Quadriannual, and in it is a Scenofest which holds lots of great theatre design workshops for set, costumes, lighting, sound..etc etc.
Afterwards, I'm planning to go around Europe a bit with my best friend and hopefully land in New York and Montreal before flying back home. I remember a few years ago I was ambitiously planning to go on a HUGE European backpacking trip by myself but that fell through as I never got around to working and saving enough money for it.
But now I finally get to backpack and hopefully travel around Europe :)
Sometimes I also think about living on an organic farm and/or vineyard in the south of France or in Italy, where my only concern should be whether I've fed my goats, or whether I need to head into the local market and get some ingredients that I'm not currently growing in my garden. I would really like to try WWOOFing or something similar, and learn more about agriculture and cooking organic foods.
AHHH the travel bug has just been rekindled.

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

So this is turning out to be an ok night.

At the beginning, I was with my awesome close friends, pre-drinking, ready to hit the club and dance the night away. Everyone was pretty drunk except for one girl who spent the entire night sober! She is so h-core, haha. We get to the club finally, and one of our friends has trouble getting in because someone else had signed off on her name. Betch. But she manages to get in anyway. In the middle of that, we lose one of my other friends, and I practically spend most of the night there trying to look for him. I stay with my friends who are still in the club and make out with them for the midnight countdown, then I'm off to find my lost friend. A couple of my other friends were trying to help me find him, but I suspected he'd gone home because he lives close by. So I take a friend with me to his place, luckily we get in the building, and he didn't lock the door. And voila - he's there in his room drunk off his ass. I'm kind of mad and irritated that he left for no real reason, but glad that he's ok, despite how frustrated I was while at the club trying to find him.

I tell my friends he's at home and ok, and they come back too and now they're all asleep. I fed them all water, had the sofa bed laid out, and the night is at peace for me! I could be kind of irritated to end up being the sober one at the end of the night (did NOT expect it to be me because last night I was fucked up, and was pretty drunk earlier), but I am not. I am so happy to be sitting here with them, all safe and quiet. I'm about to head out to meet another friend at her apartment and celebrate with them for a bit, then I'll be back here at my friend's to sleep and see them all in the morning. Back at the club, I thought this was going to be the worst night ever, but right now I'm pretty darn happy.

I love my friends and couldn't be happier to be with them on New Year's. They say that how you spend New Year's is how you'll spend the rest of the year? If that's the case, I'm definitely looking forward to being with my close friends in 2011 :) Not that a new year makes any difference to whether I spend time with them or not :P.

Happy New Year everyone. I wish you all the best in 2011.

Merry Christmas

I feel really lucky to be where I am right now. I have a lot of great people around me and I cannot have asked for more, and sometimes I don't deserve it. But sometimes I still feel like I am competing with people to achieve goals, and that I am constantly bending over backwards to ensure that I am not boasting, or bragging, or being too overly confident, or helping someone achieve their goals over mine. And I do that because I believe in karma and feel that modesty is a really good trait to have.

I do think I should be a little more selfish and try not to think of what others would think of me and how what I do would affect them. I feel like this isn't a time to be best friends with people (who are competing with you to achieve the same things), but instead to look out for myself. But I always feel guilty and always try to please the other person and place them before me.

Blargh.