How the WEST was won!: April 2007

wow, there has been so much going on! i hope i dont lose track of this blog.

i have been getting out a lot more. did another hike on sunday at the base of mt. seymour. it took about 2 hours and i complained the whole time. haha. i just am trying to get into this healthy lifestyle but its hard to curb the lazy ways that i have developed from years of university and years of korea! sometimes, its difficult not to be lazy.

but its now monday and its time to stop talking and start doing. so this morning i started my training for the Turkey Trot! a 10k run held over thanksgiving. it was my first day of running and i have a training program that i am going to use so i hope that i can stick with it.

it started with a 5 minute warm up of walking... then you run for 1 minute and walk for 2 minutes. You repeat this 8 times, then walk for another 5 minutes. I thought i was going to die about 1/2 way through, but i perservered and finished! amazing how out of shape i have become... hahaha... i am blaming the draft beer in korea for that!

its been good to be here because i am certainly not drinking as much as i was in korea. i can feel my liver rejoicing at this fact!!

last thursday, i went to TOJO's Japanese restaurant with Astrid and her family for her sister's birthday. it was my first real experience with sushi, and i can say with some certainty that i am not a fan! the first think that came out was a very large sea urchin, uncooked, still in the shell... it had the consistency of snot, and well kinda made me think that if sea urchin was a kind of jell-o, this is what it would taste like... i washed the piece down with sake! blech! i really dont like sushi!

i drove to the restaurant with Astrid's sister and when we got there astrids parents were already there.. as we were getting ready to sit down astrid's mom told me to sit at the back of the table, in the gay section! ok. the gay section? what the hell? apparently even though she is ok with gay, she doesnt exactly filter what she says and sometimes promptly inserts her foot in her mouth. haha, funny thing is, when astrid arrived there, she didnt have to sit in the gay section,so i spent the whole night by myself at the end of the table.! nice!!

i have also recently discovered the joys and absurdities of FACEBOOK. its kinda like myspace, but it seems to have a wider audience. you join and people can search by your name. i have been talking to lotsa people from high school and middle school. its so random and weird, but in a good way. its like a cyberspace reunion. its been really nice catching up with people that i havent seen in more than 10 years. seeing what people have been up to, and how many have kids and are married! surreal!

I finally got a job on friday. i am now a full time english instructor at vancouver international college. I will be starting in one week. i'm pretty excited about it, but nervous at the same time. i have a lot of experience teaching kiddies, but this is teaching adults which i imagine is quite different. only time will tell what's going to happen. in the fall i am going to start taking courses at UBC, upgrading so i can try to get into their urban planning program. i think i have to take math so that will be a real challenge for me!

well.. i think that's about it for here. Im going to see the vancouver canucks play tonight, game 7 of round 1 against dallas. I sure hope they dont lose. they were way ahead at the beginning of the series, but kinda lost momentum! here's hoping they can get it back...

that's all