Hello from ASTU. We're being productive in class :)

Note to self...

Start researching new cameras. The current one isn't keeping pace...

Today I declare, it's officially winter. Maybe it's not actually, physically, scientifically winter, but it certainly feels winter-ish.

I've been getting these whooshes of "Christmassy" feeling lately--an icy wind, the smell of a pine tree, not to mention the fact that Costco has been selling Christmas junk since September...which even pushes my boundaries of when Christmas spirit ought to start. When I started whistling "Carol of the Bells" the other day my mom flipped out. From her perspective, you're not even allowed to think about Christmas until the end of November at earliest. Oh, and I started Christmas shopping already--my dad always says he wants world peace for Christmas (which is obviously way beyond my budget), and I found a chocolate bar called "world peace" at Holt Renfrew. So ha ha ha, or ho ho ho (that's too cheesy again...), the Christmas season has begun...

Look what I found...

So I was wandering in circles during my ghastly 3-hour break yesterday, when I came across these huckleberries in that little forested area between Koerner and I. K. Barber. It made me happy, because I haven't tasted them in so long (not that they taste nice anyways, they're kind of sour and watery...), and it made me think of when I was little and we used to go for walks through the forest by our house.

No picture today...only a complaint. I WISH that you could stop the bus whenever you wanted, because I see so many picture opportunities from that muggy, bacteria-laden sauna on wheels every day. For example, on the way home tonight, there was the sunset over English Bay, which had these lovely stormy dark clouds contrasting with the sunlight. And then there were countless other mornings as the sun rose over the fields along Highway 99, and it was all foggy and pinkish-orange and heavenly... I guess the solution would be to drive myself to school, but then I couldn't really do my homework or cram for tests, now could I?