Wow. I leave for Europe on Monday. That is really soon! I’ll be posting from there when I get email and, if I am as ambitious as I was in China, I’ll be emailing home from there. Let me know if you want to be included on the list!
Nat and I spent all afternoon planning out stuff and booking some hostels online so we have places to stay when we arrive after a flight or something. Its looking pretty good!! There are some links and a rough itinerary down the side…
Author Archives: Gillian
more of my music
I don’t know why it bothers me so much, but I hate it when musicians I enjoy and like are picked up and their CD’s are sold in Starbucks or their songs start to be featured on the mix CD’s played by American Eagle/Gap/Chapters etc. Its not like I resent their success or anything, it just makes it seem so… commercial or something like that. Case in point: today I was in American Eagle (as much as it pains me to admit even that, I was there, I was shopping, I regret it: it is only 4 days before school starts and it was a zoo) and they were playing Imogen Heap’s “Goodnight and Go”. It just seemed so wrong.
School
So sad leaving Victoria today. I don’t know when I’ll be back next. I love that city! I walked over to campus Monday morning and wandered a bit while I was waiting to hear from a friend when he’d get to town. I was wishing that I was going back again this year – this is the first year in the last 20 that I have not gone back to school in September. Crazy. I realize, however, that the wishing to be at school would last about until my first exam or paper was due if I was indeed returning to school this year. Its a good thing I’m leaving the country and expploring otherwise I’d probably go crazy not knowing what to do with myself.
my favourite things…
I have decided to post in honour of my favourite coffee shop in Victoria which I will not be able to enjoy for a long time now.
Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting Mirage Coffee. Previously, there was just the one shop on Blanshard but now there is a second one on Government close to the inner harbour. I still like the one on Blanshard better but I can never find it. In addition to being beautiful, it also tastes good… and they never think I’m crazy for asking for a soy mocha. Mmmm.
the bicycle
I was in Victoria for the last few days. Monday morning I decided to walk over to UVic, for old-times sake and all that. It was also nice to be on campus before the hordes of students arrived (especially those annoying first years… was I ever one of them?!?) I have been parking my bike in pretty much the same place for the last two years. There is a bike that has been locked up that entire time. It has not moved. In fact, it is still there! Whose bike is it anyway? Did they not want it anymore? Did they loose the key to unlock it? All I know is that at the beginning of each semester I looked to see if it was still there of if anyone in campus services had removed it. It is still there.
books
help!
I think I have the most vexing decision of all to make now: I have to decide what books to bring with me for a 3 month trip in europe. I know I can always pick up new ones over there and swap the ones I bring at hostel libraries, however it still remains that I need a book or two to start with. Part of me wants to bring an old favourite like one of Madeline L’Engle’s journals or other non-fiction, another part wants to bring a really good theology book I have never gotten through from cover-to-cover like Packer’s Knowing God, or another part says bring the longest fiction novel I can get my hands on… suggestions?!?
Attention Victorians
Hello to all of you lovely people in Victoria! I’m coming over tomorrow (Thursday) and I’ll be there until the beginning of next week (departure undetermined – may head up-island for a day before I leave the island).
I’ll be sharing at my church, Victoria Pacific Rim Alliance (Townley, off Shelbourne near Hillside), at 10:30 on Sunday if you want to see pictures and hear about my time in China. Otherwise, call me on my cell and maybe we can say hi sometime!
Mt Seymour
Yesterday, Dad and I hiked up Mt. Seymour. It was a spectacular day…
For another perspective on our trip to China, try here!
gillian's island 