Tagged...long ago

So I was actually tagged back in June by Tanya but have been quite lazy about it. Plus there has been more exciting stuff to write about.

- Each player starts with eight random facts about themselves. - Those who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight facts and post these rules. - At the end of the post, choose some people to get tagged and list their names.

1. I like swimming in lakes and oceans. It's much more exciting than swimming in a rectangular boring pool. If the pool has diving boards and water slides or waves then it's better, but swimming in a lake outside, and diving or jumping off cliffs, is pretty awesome. I don't mind the cold water. It's awesome to swim out to an island...a completely separate piece of land that people can't just walk to.

2. I volunteer a lot, of at least I used to. I can't say I've volunteered for much in the last few months. I was in the leadership ground in middle school and then student council for some of high school. At university I've been involved in so much stuff that I've reached the highest student ambassador level the program has and separately has become an inductee into the leadership society. Strangely they stopped inducting people after me. Or at least stopped putting it on their website. Also, through volunteering I met my amazing girlfriend Sara.

3. I have been very slow at getting my education. I am entering my 7th year of post secondary. I don't know if it's fair to say that though considering I have never taken classes in the summer and usually don't take 5 classes or even 4 in a semester. I'm going at it slow and for more than a year now I've kept jobs along the lines of what I want to do after I graduate. So I think it's all good. Still, I'm sure many people I graduated high school with have already graduated from university.

4. I seriously lack knowledge about music. Do not ask me who is in what band or who a song is by or what year it came out or even what the name of a lot of songs are. Hell, you may often catch me singing incorrect lyrics to a song. I didn't really get into music until after high school and before that mostly listened to what my parents had playing at home. I also never learned to play any instruments. This is not to say that I hate music. I don't! I love it, I'm just saying I know very little about it.

5. While we're on the topic of what I don't know about. Let's take cars. I also know nothing about them. Maybe being a guy means I should know all about them and which ones are good and which ones are crap and all the technical stuff about how they work or even the simple stuff that apparently everyone should know (according to my old roommates Rob and Q) but I do not know a lot of this stuff (Big run-on sentence there). So shoot me.

6. Apparently I can travel through time. I'm not sure how it got started (perhaps with a Balderdash game at Whistler when I was sick) but I have a time machine or I'm really from the future or maybe I'm from the distant past. Anyways, I'm reaaaaaly old (at least 30?) and I may be able to unmake you so you don't exist by getting rid of one of your parents before your date of birth. You've been warned! Check out the game at www.sheakoshan.net.

7. I have a really good sense of directions usually. I tend to remember where things are and like to figure out how to get places. Since I don't have a driver's license of car (see 5), it is often on the bus although some of it may involve trails through the woods. I don't like to use the trip planner on the Translink website as that thing can be seriously stupid sometimes and I may be able to come up with a better way than it.

8. I have some sayings that I say. Apparently I say some things with such emphasis that they get remembered and become quite famous. That or a fellow classmate and film maker gave me a few lines to say and chose some odd cuts of me saying them and it will be forever remembered in such a way. Anyways, how would you know, "You weren't even there!"

Now I tag Farley.

Birkenhead Camping

So camping was quite the trip!

We got a pretty good start and after I slept in the car along the way for a good hour we arrived at the campground around 1pm-ish. We being Sara, Tanya, Brad, Nate, Erin and I. Shortly after, Greg, Gordo, Murray, Jon, and Alex showed up. After some problems locating our sites due to Brad Slavin's name being mispelled Slaeir and not Brady, we headed down to the lake to go for a swim.

It turned out the lake had been flooded and the beach was underwater. Also, the picnic tables were floating. We spend most of our swim time out on the raft floating in the lake. I went back there and swan at least once each day except the morning we packed up to leave.


Anyways, the first day dragged on and Rob failed to make an appearance with his truck and most of our supplies and all of our food. You see, he had stayed behind to drive Jess and Adam and didn't have his truck until later in the day in order to load everything up because for some reason it was left in Langley. So he showed up at 1:30am long after the park gates were closed. Many of us didn't eat between 9:30am Friday and 6:30am Saturday except for a rice cracker or cookie or two. Rob, Jess and Adam had help from a park ranger to get some stuff into the campground but ended up at the Brady site until morning.




Complaining over with, the trip was a lot of fun. We had a ton of food aside from that day, continually making more than we needed. It was really good food too. I took a bunch of photos, played a bunch of games, and swam a lot.


Sara had never slept in a tent before when camping, and I think she had a lot of fun. Before the trip we had gone out and bought a tent and sleeping bag and air mattress to share and that was definitely a good idea.

Saturna Canada Day Weekend

So, another weekend, another getaway from the every day routine. Sara and I met up Saturday morning after she picked up her new camera phone. It's pretty sweet with a 2MP camera. I recently bought a new memory card for my phone so I was good to go and take a plethora of photos.


We took a small ferry to Galiano and then Mayne and then an almost as small ferry over to Saturna. My dad picked us up and we ate a late dinner at my parent's place. It turned out both my grandparents were over as my grandpa had come in from his sailboat. He's never missed a Canada Day on Saturna for the last 15 years.

The next day we woke up and headed out to the ball field at the other side of the island where the Canada Day Saturna Island Lamb BBQ always takes place. Here's a quick little panorama of it.

Here's a view of the fire where the lambs were cooked.


Here's a photo of the wooden training sailboat that decided to crash into the reef and may very well have leaked fuel into the ocean.

The next day Sara and I went for a walk to the General Store and the rec center. We also played Fluxx with my sisters and later poker with my brothers. It was a fun chill day.


On Tuesday we watched some home videos from 1986 and 1996 among other years and then Sara and I caught a couple ferries back to the mainland. It was a pretty good relaxing trip.



Next up is camping!