A lot has gone through my head since my last post, but I guess I haven’t felt the need to write about it. Or maybe I’ve just been too busy. Christmas was insane, and so far New Year’s has been also.
So what is there to talk about…
I played the role of a happy, cheery, song-leading Santa’s-little-helper-elf for the language academy’s X-mas party. I even had to fix Santa’s pants when they split. Thanks to a Chu-hi and beer vending machine, the humour of the situation, and my friends/coworkers cheering me on, I survived. I really enjoyed being an elf, for the most part.
I hope everyone got their X-mas presents. I was really happy about those. I also really appreciate the gifts that were sent to me. I got a lot of things to keep me warm until winter ends, including chocolate. Thank you.
I think that I may post some pictures of the things that I have knit recently. I have been more brave this year than I was last year. I am trying new patterns, and actually learning more abbreviations. I’m proud of my efforts, though I don’t want to focus on my projects with this page, I think it would be fun to show you what I have been up to.
As far as WOW is concerned…
Buring Crusade just came out, and we are now playing with more of our friends online. I still try not to play too much, but I have created a guild for our blood elves called “hair.” I am having so much fun with that. It has become a much bigger guild than I had expected. I guess it shows that many people don’t take this game too seriously.
Speaking of taking things too seriously…
I have sensed a change in myself, having lived in Japan for almost a year now. Maybe it’s teaching, and meeting many different kinds of people, I don’t know. I feel now that I was really worried I wouldn’t be the person that I felt I should be after having lived in Europe for a year when I first came back from France. I have felt a lot of those tensions dissipate over time, and now, well, I think they’re gone. Which is great. I can’t be anyone other than who I am, afterall. I think my students have helped me see this in myself, which says great things about some of them. Others…Well, I get sick of the royal English social hour (yes, I saw the Boticelli at the Uffizi, blah, blah, blah…meanwhile…), but I’ve learned a lot from them too. I’m becoming increasingly proud of my ‘country’ roots as I age. I often think about what one of my teachers (a sensei of kenpo) said to me about returning home. He told me I’d go back one day. I don’t know that I’m ready to move hack there physically, but my home is always in my heart, and I go there frequently in my mind. There’s a song by Loretta Lynn that I really like. Something about a mountain top she’ll never come down from…That’s not me, but I’m starting to see where she’s coming from, especially about knowing what you’ve got.
I still have a lot of countries to see. And a lot to do.
Finally, there’s a feeling that I attribute to the recent loss of Logan Whitehurst, and his courage. Live well. Carpe Diem, as I read it in a book on teaching and disciplining children.
Goodnight!
