me against the world

This morning I woke up and realized that with just one blink, two and a half months have flown by.

What happened?

I don’t even know where to begin.

This is turning out to be one of the best summers of my life so far. Not only is work great, the people I’ve met, the places I’ve gone, and the things I have done have been amazing.

I haven’t smiled this much, laughed this much, sung this much, danced this much, or even loved (or felt loved) this much, in a long while.

We have been playing sports, biking, watching movies, driving around, eating out, going places, and fooling around like children… just enjoying life to the fullest.

I’m happy.

My recent highlights have been:
- The random trip to Lake Simcoe and being thrown into the water fully-clothed
- Watching the World Cup matches, all the way to watching the final amidst the French fans at the SkyDome.
- White-Water Rafting and camping with friends in Ottawa
- The numerous trips to Unionville Main Street for ice cream and gelato… mmmmm.
- Canada Day randomness at Em’s house which featured yummy food and exciting sparklers
- Our random trip to Playdium where Anila almost killed us both during the go-kart race and where a few of us tore up the dance floor on DDR ;)

Among all of this wonderful stuff have been some serious things, some of which are still going on, things that have had me offering support and trying to help in every way that I can, and some things that I’m still scared and worried about.

It’s been a summer that’s changing me as I move from one phase of my life to the next. I’m realizing what life is really all about, what things do indeed matter more than others, and what do not.

I am not looking forward to September when life changes yet again and a lot of my friends here move back to school.

I already know that I’ll be asking people to “wake me up when September ends”.

One humorous highlight from this past weekend occured while sitting in the Skydome (sorry. the Rogers Centre) watching people and waiting for the World Cup final to begin.

The dome of the stadium was open, and I looked up to see a helicopter pulling a large advertisement across the sky for Superman Returns, with (of course) a giant image of said superhero.

I could not help but point up and say “Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird!”
And Anila (nicely done) followed with, “It’s a plane!”
And together we exclaimed, “It’s Superman!”

Cue the stupid laughter. Good times :)

I can’t believe I was actually wise enough to say this…

Emily says:
that’s true… sometimes i wish that things were filmed…some things are so much easier to interpret from afar

Uma says:
lol, or rather, OVER ANALYZE

Emily says:
yes yes, lol…. like we do with tv shows or at least, i do

Uma says:
hahah yeah totally… “hold on, what just happened?” rewind, replay, rewind, replay, rewind, replay

Emily says:
although i guess in some way the mystery is half the fun

Uma says:
yes i think so

Uma says:
if we could keep rewinding and replaying, we’d never actually press play and find out how the story ends.