Rain Rain go away, please come back another day....It has been raining for a week now...Just like Vancouver...make it stop before I drown on the way to school..

Sayonara Canada!

My Canadian kids left this morning, and with them my link to home. It was nice to have a piece of home with me here in Japan, even if it was 19 crazy Canadian teenagers....

Man I am old.

After spending a week with 19 Canadian students from Saskatoon. It hit me that I am no longer 18 anymore. I am officially old. You know, you are 25 but you never really believe you are 25 until you are surrounded by 17 and 18 year olds talking about how wonderful and awesome it will be to start university next year...."been there done that feeling came over me"...Especially, if they call you Miss Phung...I have never been Miss Phung...I am old...boo hoo...

Refocus your priorities and start looking for a husband.....

Wisdom passed on from my sister this week...Did I mention it is from my older sister, who by the age of 30 has a mortgage, a career, a husband, makes car payments and wants kids...hmmm...let's just say that those are not my goals for me to reach by the time I am 30....Okay well, the husband part maybe....

I was talking to my sister this weekend and I was telling her about some of fears about going home. I jokingly said that I do not want a mortgage and make car payments. She said that that I would probably need a job first and probably a husband to get a mortage...(hmmm...I think she is wrong there, when I become this world famous kinesiologist and people are paying me millions to come palpate them and ergonimically assess their workstations...;) ) Anyways, I said something like well I don't think I will ever find a husband. This damm, involuntary relationship abstinence thing... Anyways, she goes on to say that my standards are perhaps too high...come on me....6 feet or taller, Masters or Phd., semi-pro tennis and volleyball player, master chef, loves cleaning, and is a certified massage therapist...(hee hee..like someone like that exists). Well, my standards have come way down now, trust me after living in Japan I am attracted to people that I never thought I would be attracted to.

She went on to say that perhaps I should settle down, I should refocus my priorities. Instead of focusing on seeing the world and travelling I should settle down in one spot and start looking for a husband. I should stop travelling and put down some roots. I started laughing, I really do not think that is going to be likely any time soon. Let me think, act grown up with car payments and mortgages or go skydiving over the Great Barrier Reef, Have tea with a Monk in Tibet, or sit in a cafe in a quaint street in Paris. I think the choice is pretty easy. I figure I can always have a family and a career when I am older. I have the rest of my life for that, I am only young and carefree for a little while.

As you can tell, my older sister and I differ greatly..hmm...baby seats and careers, or seeing the world and having great adventures???

Let me know what you think about settling down.