knights_say_nih | (no subject)

Yea!! *Jealouses* *Will have to make due with DC*

Hey! I haven't talked to you in aaaaaaaaages, not since before I went black last March. How goes it?

DC is cool, though. Despite the crazy rain I'm hearing about.

o_O Since what? XD

And Yeah, it better be cleaned up by the time we go. I loff DC and rain but not together.

And I've been well. Had a few busy weekends lately, and a lot of working. Nothing terribly exciting though.

I cut myself off RPG's pretty much entirely last term to boost my grades and get good finals. Good decision, really. But now is summer and I'm back!

Keeping busy is always fun, if you have the disposition for it.

I almost envy you. Up here? Almost NOTHING. Hot and humid. Although last week we got the power knocked out by a bit of a blow.

Yea back!

Um, yeah, mostly movies, festivals, volunteering, parks, anime... That sort of thing. So it's a good busy. I can't stand sitting in front of the computer all weekend. Think I've found an apartment for next year too! *bounces*

Eek, yeah, campus lost power for a while, so a friend came to stay with me. But yeah, it rained like 4 days straight here. I like rain, but I'm glad it stopped for comfest.

*nod* That does sound like fun. I took the last couple of weeks off just to vegetate, really, and now I'm off for Thailand! *wildly excited* so when I come back I'm starting work, and then school is going to be BUSY next year.

I've been made a prefect, of all things, so life is complicated.

Yeah, I have 95hrs of vacation time, and DC is the only thing I can think of to do with it. Dude, I want out of the US. Still never been to canada and it's only 4 hrs away.

And I'm not really sure what that is, but congrats and bonne chance!

It's like in Harry Potter. Only way to explain it, really.

You shooooooooould come to Canada! We're fun! And polite! And hand out medicinal marijuana like tylenol! (not really but close)

Hit Niagara on the Lake. Especially if you like theatre.

there are peoples around canada i'd totally go visit. I really should. >_< But it seems complicated. Also, it's pretty. T-T *Is a lame american*

Ooh Theatre! Will do!

The problem with Canada is we're all very far apart from each other. On a map, I'm less than a centimeter from the border. That's a ten hour car ride.

Distances? Very, very misleading.

Yeah, well, I'd totally go to toronto, quebec, and (thunder bay cause it looks pretty) at the very least. So it's all within the easten half. XD

*snort* I was born near thunder bay. Had a lot of family there. It's pretty sweet, very laid back, last time I was around there.

Yeah? XD That's cool. I'm kidnapping someone from up there. It was sposed to be the other way around, but i figure since I'm older, I should prolly take the initiative. XD It's all for the pilot's license though, really. *Shallow*

Is it as easy to become a pilot in the states as it is in canada? Because I had a girlfriend who could fly at age 15

Hmm, I don't know for sure. He had his at 16ish, i think, though. I expect that it's similar, I've heard of people getting them young ish. Maybe not 15 though.

I guess it makes sense that you can fly before you drive. I mean, it's not like you're going to run into anything, right? And it probably makes for very cautious drives.

I guess, but if you do run into anything, it's a bigger disaster. o_O

But yeah, I could see the last bit. I avoided learning to drive as long as possible. Learning to fly is scary. Of course, I love being on planes.

I still haven't yet. Probably by the end of the summer. I've been ABLE to for ages, though. I guess with no car I haven't seen the point.

yeah...I'm 21 almost 22. Can drive, just haven't gone to take the test

*nod* Hopefully this summer, as I said. But our city has a brilliant bus system so it's great.

Ours isn't too bad. I just don't get the ones that vary in cost dependin on time of day and how far you go. seems confusing.

Once I start work I'm just getting myself a pass, and that's it. Be SO Much easier. Ours are generally around two or three bucks with a three hour transfer

Hmm, ours is 1.50. Just went up recently. And its 1.50 with or without transfer. Though they are only like 2 hours. All day passes are 3 bucks.

With my student ID, however, I get to ride free.

I was afraid I had lost my ID saturday though. D: We had a huge liberal festival thing and I was there ALL DAY. I couldnt find the ID on the way home. Finally did, but that was scary since it saves me 3bucks a day going to work.

Also, ours is Canadian money, which is cheaper, of course.

A little, yes, but not as much as it used to be. :D? I'm not sure whether this is good or bad. XD

At least the few dollars canadian that I have laying around may be worth keeping track of one of these days. :P

*snerk* I think it's good... but then, I'm biased.

Meh. Economy is shitty right now. *ignores* *wanders off to live in Morocco*

Morocco, eh? I wouldn't have thought of that. Then again, I'd live in Russia, which is worse really, so I'm prolly not the one to follow if you're looking for a good economy. XD

And all my friends here inna states are failing at job hunting. Stupid Bush!

*wince* Yeah. Not looking forwards to that. Leave me my bookstore and student loans for now, please.

Hee. Yeah, my loans finally tracked me down about 5 months ago. Been paying them back since. Not very quickly, but every little bit hurts. >_<

I want a new job, but I'm dreading looking for one. I hate the application process.

*nod* I'm working on it. And hopefully won't go TOO far into debt. Will turn out alright, I guess. We're travelling with the thai ambassador's daughter this trip so it's fairly cheap. Still not great, though.

Ooh, neat. What are you going for?

Yeah, I don't worry about student loans, because they do prorate them to what you can afford. Sure I may be paying them back for a long time, but I think the education is worth it. The current ones bug me though because I don't really have any credits. >_<

We're teaching english as a second language in an orphanage in Cheng Mai. Will be SO COOL.

I'm due for a lot in bursaries, lucky, and my important grades (drama, english, history) are nineties, so we'll see if I get scholarships. I'm applying a lot of places and seeing if anyone offers anything.

How long are you gonna be there again? And do you have to know their language for ESL? I have friends who have gone to teach English in Japan, but I think they were English classes in schools, which might be a little different. All I know is that they had to speak Japanese. Dude, I can speak English, I'll go teach, if it will get me out of here.

Awesome. Yeah, I was paying $125 a quarter with grants and such, but when I had grade issues at Uni, that kinda went out the window. Now I'll have to reapply, hope for scholarships, and hope the grant people forgot that I totally failed the first time. *Shakes fist at mother*

*nod* I don't speak a word of Thai. But there're only little kids so it'll be mostly numbers which we can do with out fingers, and little things like that.

Not too hard. We're there for three weeks.

Man, that sucks, ow. Good luck!

Gotcha. Still cool. And you'll prolly learn a bit while you're there too, which is always awesome. *Jealouses some more*

3 weeks. Not bad. Too much longer and it might get old, but that'll be fun. Do you get to be touristy too?

And yeah, thanks. I really still need to decide what my majors are gonna be when I go back though. >

We do indeed. Weekends and a couple of days at the end. We're teaching in two places, too, so there aren't even that many lesson plans needed.

Neat. I soo want to hear about it afterward!

I don't know much about Thailand, admittedly, so it will be the awesome.

:D

I AM SO JEALOUS I CAN'T EVEN SPEAK.