me against the world

Summer school classes started for me this week and so far it’s been good. It’ll probably get harder as the weeks go on.

That’s ok… it’s expected.

When I went home for that week, I did a lot of random things. And I still didn’t do all that I had planned to do (including meeting up with more of my friends - timing wasn’t right and my parents still wanted me to come home before dark…*sigh*).

Highlights were:
- the Garbage concert with The Dead 60s opening… awesome awesome awesome! (just as cool as the show were the people around us joking and talking to us while we waited, and the three gay guys beside me who were talking and making me laugh hysterically as they made fun of “Holla Back Girl”)
- shopping at Eaton’s Center, Fairview and Markville…. *raises an eyebrow*
- watching movies and starting the catching up process…there are still so many I need to see
- starting my summer reading again :D Yay. (I had realized at the end of the year that I couldn’t read during the school year because I would be reading all day doing school work, so when I stopped to take a break and perhaps read fiction, my eyes and brain were too tired…)
- spending time with the few friends I did end up seeing….

I came back to London on Saturday, helped people move houses, and then had a barbeque. Then on Sunday we cleaned our house (spring cleaning baby!) and ran around to buy birthday presents.

Then we left for Niagara Falls and had an awesome time. I’m going to be posting some pictures soon.

Highlights:
- the drive there and back in two cars, each had one of the walkie-talkies I bought… so good, so funny
- me going to the casino and investing $5 and coming out with $9. Woo. (*laughs at self*)
- charades! wooooo!!! go team go! heh
- the haunted house that we ran through… lol.
- maid of the mist and getting soaked but so close to the falls and laughing hysterically with Chels…
- Justin at Boston Pizza (for those who didn’t go: a random drunk American approached us after I jumped up and down excitedly and pointed towards the arcade games. He kept throwing us his credit card to buy drinks…..)
- swimming in the hotel as well as sitting in the hot tub (*sighs happily*)

…. there’s more, but really the best part was just being able to spend some quality time with my friends and none of us having to worry about anything :D

Now we’re back in London and it’s odd because usually the city is bustling with activity, with students everywhere. Now when you walk around, it seems empty of young life.

Things seem weird because some people have left, people have moved houses, we have work to do but don’t at the same time, the weather has been odd for a while……

And I keep thinking about too many things that I shouldn’t be thinking about and remembering all sorts of memories. I’ve been thinking about a wide range of topics that keep randomly switching in my mind… It’s continuing to push me back behind those old walls that I used to have up around me…. good or bad thing, I don’t know….

And I miss some people already and the craziness we all had this year. These are some of the people who kept a smile on my face when things got hard…. *sigh*

Well, only a few months and we’ll all be back again ;)