feeling jittery

ever since my music therapy internship started a two weeks ago, all i've really been doing is observing, going to orientations, going on tours, and more observing. tomorrow (yah, i know, working on saturday mornings suck) i'll be leading my first official music therapy session. it's my first time leading a session since i've been in school, and first time ever leading a group music therapy session on my own (at laurier they're done in pairs), so uhmmmm....yah. we'll see how things go. and hopefully they'll go well.

mandarin classes and othello

a super nice fellow at my church has started teaching people in the english congregation conversational mandarin. he is so nice. :) anyway, since my chinese is the suck (it is SO bad...i can't even handle cantonese very well) i decided to take up this offer and signed myself up for classes. at first, the lessons were focused on learning the phonetics of the consonants and vowels of mandarin and now we've moved onto actually speaking some sentences. oh dear.

i can now say, ni hao (how are you?), ta shi wo de baba (he is my father), Wo chi Zhangguo cai (i eat chinese food), and lo ren (old person), among a few other words/phrases.

yay! with my limited/broken mandarin, i can now have a very odd and random conversation with someone...given they can understand what i'm trying to say. ;)

anyway after mandarin class, adrienne, jo, and i, took a trip to toys 'r us. omg. i've forgotten how fun that store can be. i think we might have been the oldest ones there that were buying things for ourselves as opposed to kids. meh. it was still good. :P adrienne bought cranium, jo played a random paintball video game (which was kinda like duckhunt, only not as cool), and i bought this:

<-- othello, my favourite board game of all time!!

now that i've bought the regular sized version i'll no longer have to use the tiny miniature travel-sized version to play which is a good thing because i don't know what happened to it. oops. i guess it was too small to keep track of. :P

yay for big othello. i love it. :)

new beginnings

beginning #1:
evening course. today i started my evening course at ryerson. i suppose it's school, but it doesn't feel like it because i'm not a full-time student anymore. also, almost everyone in my class seems so much older than me so instead of feeling like school, it just feels wierd. haha. i suppose i'll get used to it. :P anyway, my prof seems pretty nice and easy to understand, and the people in my class are okay too, no complaints there. unfortunately, the same can't be said about ryerson's demented campus which doesn't make any sense. in other words, it sucks. it really does. from the time i got off the subway to when i tried to find the right bookstore (they split their bookstore into two different places...who does that?!) i got lost. then when i left the bookstore (with no textbook in my hands because apparently i was at the wrong bookstore) and tried to find my class i got lost again. good thing there are helpful people walking the streets of toronto because i had to ask a few for directions...yah. i miss laurier.

beginning #2:
music therapy internship. my music therapy internship starts tomorrow! i can't believe it's actually happening. my degree is finally going to be put into use, and i'll be one step closer to trying to figure out what i want (and not want) to do with my life. here's to trying to create a little niche for myself within the world of music therapy.

beginning #3:
worship team. the new worship team i'm on is meeting tomorrow. after three months of meeting up and playing with the summer worship team every single week it'll be wierd not seeing some faces and seeing new ones instead...weird, but in a good way of course. haha. i am so smooth.

beginning #4:
kingdom kids. i'm one of the counsellors for my church's fellowship for grades 1-5 (how did this happen?! haha) and we had our first official meeting last friday. it turned out pretty good, despite us not knowing what we were doing or what was going on, which ultimately resulted in us starting LATE. oooops. oh well, i'm always open to learning and i suspect i'll be doing a lot of that for sure.

so with all these beginnings i feel it's time for me to say good-bye to lazy summer days of doing absolutely nothing. they were great while they lasted, but now i'm moving onto bigger and hopefully better things.

a different kind of september

the "school bus" is here, but this time i won't be on it.

now that i'm no longer an elementary/high school/university student,

september just isn't the same.

so blessed.

1461 days . 48 months . 4 years
happy fourth justin, i love you. :)