Day 3:

Day three:

Today was really unproductive, although I did something for a while that I haven’t done in forever:  Read.  It’s unknowing that once you get rid of something for a staple amount of time how awake your body has become.  My body has said, “There’s no internet.  What should you – Oh, you have a book there.  Read and learn!”  That’s what I’ve been doing.  It’s been pleasant to realize that I am doing something semi-productive with my spare time without having to rely on a computer ALL the time. 

Just want to mention that I’m being careful around Irene.  She’s an amazing lady, but with us recently meeting, I want to be the best I can around her without eating all the food, and everything else in sight.  I’ve been careful about my humour, and found that she has the “morbid” humour a lot of First Nations’ have.  And yes, Shawna – she does eat a lot of fish.  (I had a salmon dish tonight, was quite delicious!)

Now, realize this.  I could probably name 20 of the people I know that don’t rely on computers all the time.  Unfortunately, that’s how society has become, and even though for a lot of things, it’s disappointing to see how we’ve become an android based society.  This is the reason why I wanted to come to Gitwinksihlkw, and this is one of my goals.

There’s one thing that sucks about not having Internet:  No Google.  I want to search up so many things at this time, but it’s not gonna happen.  Surprisingly, the main one is “In Hebrew, how are vowels written?”

My phone doesn’t have service.  Let me mention this:  Robyn, Jay, Darcy: you’re aware how I was without a phone for a few days.  I’m actually doing quite well at the moment!

It’s an addiction.  I’m a phone addict, and many of the people I do know in person do know that.  It’s not that I don’t check my phone every morning for messages.  No, I don’t.  I look at the pictures of the past year of my friends.  There’s that random picture of Jay’s ass that I took during the first snowfall.  There’s that picture of Robyn that I adore when she’s in Soviet Russia.  (Tentacle is raped by you).  There’s that one amazing picture of Cynthia, Charmaine and Robyn outside in the school when we’ve had a few drinks, and I’ve edited it to black and white.  There’s that one picture when I was in Target with Darcy, and I took the picture of the mischievous smile that he has.  That one picture I stole of Carlo, ALL of the pictures of Theis!  That scary ass picture of Loki and Thor – Dave and Jolene’s cat and dog’s awesomely hilarious Christmas picture.  Most of all, pictures of Alex, the sheep and my family as well.

Memories are sacred, and unfortunately, many people don’t create photo albums anymore.  I should start one again.  Buy a $6 disposable camera from the dollar store and start taking pictures.  Wal-Mart is in PG - it’s close by.  May as well!

My emotional health is going well, although there will probably be a backfire.  I’m going to guarantee that I will be at the school for a few hours tomorrow.  I’m going to have access to the Internet for the first time; it’ll feel like forever.  My first class isn’t until 6:30pm, but I guess it would be nice to catch up on facebook and such – I may not even do that.  I’ll just link to here and say “hi”, and then disappear.  Depending how I feel.

Everyone’s been in my thoughts.  Especially those who I had called the other night, you guys have been circling my mind a lot – yes, you too, Dave.

Yes, mum.  I’m getting food.  Yes, I’m being treated well.  No, I’m not enjoying this lack of Internet – but I’m making the best of it, without going stir crazy.  I believe Irene’s had people more dependant than me before, and she’ll know how to deal with it.

Also, my Spanish pronunciation is muy excelente.