100 posts bittersweet...
...but not about blogging. Today marks the departure of he who I believe is the last of the Taiwan exchangees who came last January--Raphael. I believe over 20 people showed up to see him off at CKS Terminal 1. Scott, Etienne, Yujing, Claire & I got there a bit early, but we got to talk to everybody, incl. people we don't often see. It was all cool until shortly after our old mentor walked in through the secure departure gate, when we realised he was truly gone and not coming back. It kind of snuck up on me.
Afterwards, Scott and I got a ride back to the MRT from Wine (with Raph's host mother & Kelly, a fine lass from Zhonglun). At Scott's we commenced to watch 15 episodes of "Full Metal Panic" as well as laugh at a few things from Homestarrunner.com, notely the retro "Teen Girl Squad" as well as a few of Scott's favourites. Does anyone still have 'Rejected' on their computer? I liked that a lot but cannot find it on the internet anywhere so far.
Also, yesterday after a slow start Scott, Claire & I finished Season 3 of Smallville. Subsequently we watched a ton of special features and sometime in the future Season 4 must be begun; however, many people must be caught up first (Kaylee, Wil, Yoshiteru, Yujing namely).
Some random things: It's interesting to note this girl Nicole/Lucy on the Rotary exchange to Japan is apparently "coming home on the fourth of June" which struck me as a little odd. I mean, would one not want to stay just a little longer abroad in what may be a 'once in a lifetime opportunity?' I know I'm shooting to come back around the 15th of July. She is from Canada & probably the district that sent me. I feel just the most minute, tiny, tad resentful, probably because I just watched 6 hours 15 minutes of anime; however, I would like to think that given the same opportunity (I was passed over for her and 3-4 other individuals) to go I would have stayed longer. Like, 11 months or the full 364 days legally possible. Just a moment in the life of me though.
I'll try to get the rest of the trip covered later (with more pictures!) but this took me 1 hour 55 minutes. K out
2 Comments:
i have 'bout 4 copies of rejected on my comp...anytime just ask and i'll send! i've been feeling the rejected urges recently myself. there are some times you just need to see a banana state what it is enthusiastically in a way you won't misunderstand.
yeah, Rejected fucking owns. But As for the 'comeing home in june thing'..Yeah, I WANT to stay until July 31st when my visa expires, but I can't because as much as I don't want to think about it, I have to go back and get a job and work to make money so I can live next year as I move out. I'm prolly coming home about the same time as you, July 10th or maybe earlier. I really do need a job. I have NO money. even more so now that it's the equivalent of 5$ canadian for a CAN of vanilla coke or root beer. Gr.
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