Leaving it Behind...

I think the fact that I won't be here next year is finally starting to sink in. Six months ago this didn't seem like such a bad thing. I wasn't really connected here. I was a semester behind everyone at school, I had lost touch with most of the people I knew from high school and new connections just weren't happening. Fast forward six months. I am going dancing with ten plus people Friday night whose company I really enjoy. Rebekah and I have lunch twice a week, I have a strong home church to check in with once a week, my relationship is on the up and up and I'm reconnecting with a few of the people I lost touch with after high school. So I should be really happy right? I am except for the fact that in about another six months I'm going to have to pack up and leave it all behind. I'm accepted, registered, and set on moving to Taylor University College and Seminary in Edmonton in September. I'm excited, terrified and now a little sad because I finally have a life and it seems a shame to leave it behind to start over in a place I don't even know if I'll like. I will miss this.

Cinnamon Buns

I don't do this very often so it is always an adventure. Kitchen Chemistry has always been something that yields unpredictable results - even more so now I have to use alternative flours to the conventional ground up wheat kernels. Today was no exception. I decided I had to have cinnamon buns so I threw together a haphazard mixture of corn, potato, rice and tapioca flour and went from there. It was all going well and I was almost ready to subject my handiwork to a dehydrating temperature. However, it was at that point realized I had forgotten to add the sugar. I usually do this, I have no idea why. Anyways I had to kneed in the sugar with my hands but everything else went well after that. Of course there is the fact my carbohydrate creations look like lumpy lumps but I assure you they taste great and I even remembered to clean up after myself. I really don't know what the world is coming to.

Loving the Political Spectrum

I was having a bad day

an up, down, all around bad day.

So he explained to me that

happier = sadder

and degrees of freedom are only one less the original number.

Love is more political

than rays of light

or visible radiation.

Socialists become reactionaries

far faster than the Canadian right ever will.

Crossing the floor leads to burnt bridges,

attack campaigns take precedent over the truth,

and it is taken for granted that promises will be broken.

Yet we still vote…

at least

I do.

Edmonton

So I just spent the weekend in Edmonton and despite the icy winds and lack of snow removal it was a lot of fun. Except for the gut wrenching terror of course. OK I'll explain. I'm going to have to put my New Zealand plans on hold so I can go to school next year - that is if I want any money for tuition. Anyways I've been accepted into a Christian University/College and though I really do want to go I'm terrified that I will either come out brainwashed or get kicked out for immoral behavior. So I'm scared but excited and tropical beaches sound really good right now.
I got a quick peak at the residences I'm required to live in because I won't be 21 until next March. They remind me a little bit of some of the hostels I stayed in when we went across Canada only dirtier with a lousy kitchen. Luckily mom said she'd help me wash the walls when I move in.
Still It's very scary because I know Jesus loves and accepts me but I'm still a little unsure if they will.

New Zealand

So I desperatley want to travel to New Zealand at some point in the next few years so i've been doing a little reading on the country. Here are some fast facts:
1. bungee jumping was invented in New Zealand
2. the Kiwi has stuby wings so it can't fly
3. they have every environment in the world except for a desert
4. the temperature only varies about 10 degrees between summer and winter
5. the canadian dollar is worth about 1.28NZ$
I still have no idea which parts of the country I should visit though so if you have any ideas send them my way.