it´s possible i thought that i would stop procrastinating after i was done university. you know, real life, real job.. no more procrastination.
i was wrong.
i am here, writing an entry about nothing really, listening to salvapantallas by jorge drexler on repeat and just pondering the work that i should be doing at 730 on a monday night.
i got on the bus after school on friday, ready to work hard all weekend. of course! i have 68 communication assignments to mark, two quarter exams to set, 3 ´adjusted´ quarter tests to come up with (for students who have joined us late), a brasilian visa excursion to organize, a letter to get back to canada, and lessons to plan for next week that involve making rice krispie squares from a DNA recipe strand. great!
as we were rolling down the mountain, i was telling paola about all the work i was going to get done this weekend. but when i got to mentioning ´the 68 communication assignments´ i realized, eff, i forgot those on the table in my classroom. oops!
maybe that was the jenga block that made the tower fall.
because i didn´t do any work this weekend.
and it was just lovely.
sigh!
Monday, January 22, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
can you believe it?
i thought i would share this extREMEly exciting piece of information that ryan emailed me the other day. yesssss chs.
lucky canterbury kids.
do you think if i told them that i was a chs grad too they would come play at granadino?
Arcade Fire Take Over School Lunch
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Arcade Fire to play for area high school
Chris Lackner, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, January 16, 2007
One of the hottest Canadian bands, the Arcade Fire, are treating
Canterbury High School students to an impromptu concert.
While the Arcade Fire's upcoming five-night stints in Montreal and New
York sold-out within minutes, the indie rock super-group is offering an
informal concert at Canterbury's school cafeteria on the evening of Friday,
Jan. 19.
They are donating their time to support the Canterbury Arts Centre
Development Association, a charitable organization that raises arts funding
for the Ottawa school.
Bandmember Richard Reed Parry, both a guitarist and percussionist with
the group, was a 1995 graduate of Canterbury's literary arts program.
The Montreal band's critically-acclaimed 2004 album, Funeral, brought
them international stardom practically overnight.
Their new album, Neon Bible, is set to be released on Mar. 6 and is one
of the year's most anticipated releases.
The band's pending 15-city European tour has also sold-out nearly all of
its dates.
Tickets for the Canterbury show are open to students, grads and CACDA
members, and can be bought for $25 at school lunch hour today and tomorrow.
There are limited tickets remaining and none will be sold at the door.
lucky canterbury kids.
do you think if i told them that i was a chs grad too they would come play at granadino?
Arcade Fire Take Over School Lunch
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Arcade Fire to play for area high school
Chris Lackner, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, January 16, 2007
One of the hottest Canadian bands, the Arcade Fire, are treating
Canterbury High School students to an impromptu concert.
While the Arcade Fire's upcoming five-night stints in Montreal and New
York sold-out within minutes, the indie rock super-group is offering an
informal concert at Canterbury's school cafeteria on the evening of Friday,
Jan. 19.
They are donating their time to support the Canterbury Arts Centre
Development Association, a charitable organization that raises arts funding
for the Ottawa school.
Bandmember Richard Reed Parry, both a guitarist and percussionist with
the group, was a 1995 graduate of Canterbury's literary arts program.
The Montreal band's critically-acclaimed 2004 album, Funeral, brought
them international stardom practically overnight.
Their new album, Neon Bible, is set to be released on Mar. 6 and is one
of the year's most anticipated releases.
The band's pending 15-city European tour has also sold-out nearly all of
its dates.
Tickets for the Canterbury show are open to students, grads and CACDA
members, and can be bought for $25 at school lunch hour today and tomorrow.
There are limited tickets remaining and none will be sold at the door.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
more photos from canada.
before i head back, here are the highlights.
check out these albums.
http://queensu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2067634&l=9e034&id=81006693
http://queensu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2067646&l=1c819&id=81006693
yesss.
check out these albums.
http://queensu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2067634&l=9e034&id=81006693
http://queensu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2067646&l=1c819&id=81006693
yesss.
changes.
that´s just the way it is.
i am so hesitant about change and i´m really not sure why i don´t embrace it. i tend to be a relatively positive person, but when it comes to changes in routine or location i generally have a negative outlook.
one week before coming to canada from manizales, anxiety set in. i have to go home for awhile. i have to leave friends and special ones here, and i won´t see them for three weeks. i can´t imagine what i would do if i wasn´t coming back to manizales. i´m not ready yet to get back to canada. i don´t know what the eff i should bring home. it would just be easier to stay here.
spent a day or two at home in ottawa feeling a bit culture shocky but adjusted relatively quickly. especially when it meant hanging out with some of my favourites here, seeing movies at the bytowne, playing catan seafarer´s at andrew´s farm, going to kingston to see my grandparents, indian and thai food, hanging with the fam, buying new pants that are long enough for me, and spending some time at cisv winter camp.
now that i have gotten used to being back in canada, a form of anxiety has set in again. tomorrow i am going back to bogota, and then sunday back to manizales. it´s as if i have come back to an old life i had here once, gotten right back into it and now i´m moving back to the new stuff in colombia that has been at the back of my mind since arriving here.
i think while i was away, i forgot how much i love being here and being close to people that really, really know me. sometimes it is hard to find that other places... or atleast it takes more time than a few months.
i know that once i get back to manizales and my ´new - old´ life starts up again, i will feel lots better. i always forget the wondrous things that are awaiting me there: latin music everywhere, salsa dancing, 2000 peso cervezas, friends and ferias, warm hearts and warm weather, diego´s cooking...
yes. i am excited to go back.
i am so hesitant about change and i´m really not sure why i don´t embrace it. i tend to be a relatively positive person, but when it comes to changes in routine or location i generally have a negative outlook.
one week before coming to canada from manizales, anxiety set in. i have to go home for awhile. i have to leave friends and special ones here, and i won´t see them for three weeks. i can´t imagine what i would do if i wasn´t coming back to manizales. i´m not ready yet to get back to canada. i don´t know what the eff i should bring home. it would just be easier to stay here.
spent a day or two at home in ottawa feeling a bit culture shocky but adjusted relatively quickly. especially when it meant hanging out with some of my favourites here, seeing movies at the bytowne, playing catan seafarer´s at andrew´s farm, going to kingston to see my grandparents, indian and thai food, hanging with the fam, buying new pants that are long enough for me, and spending some time at cisv winter camp.
now that i have gotten used to being back in canada, a form of anxiety has set in again. tomorrow i am going back to bogota, and then sunday back to manizales. it´s as if i have come back to an old life i had here once, gotten right back into it and now i´m moving back to the new stuff in colombia that has been at the back of my mind since arriving here.
i think while i was away, i forgot how much i love being here and being close to people that really, really know me. sometimes it is hard to find that other places... or atleast it takes more time than a few months.
i know that once i get back to manizales and my ´new - old´ life starts up again, i will feel lots better. i always forget the wondrous things that are awaiting me there: latin music everywhere, salsa dancing, 2000 peso cervezas, friends and ferias, warm hearts and warm weather, diego´s cooking...
yes. i am excited to go back.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
nada se pierde, todo se transforma.
Tu beso se hizo calor
luego el calor movimiento,
luego gota de sudor
que se hizo vapor, luego viento
que en un rincón de La Rioja
movió el aspa de un molino
mientras se pisaba el vino
que bebió tu boca roja.
Tu boca roja en la mía,
la copa que gira en mi mano,
y mientras el vino caía
supe que de algún lejano rincón
de otra galaxia,
el amor que me darías,
transformado, volvería
un día a darte las gracias
Cada uno da lo que recibe
y luego recibe lo que da,
nada es más simple,
no hay otra norma:
nada se pierde,
todo se transforma.
El vino que pagué yo,
con aquel euro italiano
que había estado en un vagón
antes de estar en mi mano,
y antes de eso en Torino
y antes de en Torino, Prato,
donde hicieron mis zapato
sobre el que caería el vino.
Zapatos que en unos horas
buscaré bajo tu cama
con las luces del aurora,
junto a tus sandalias planas
que compraste aquella vez
en Salvador de Bahía
donde a otro diste el amor
que hoy yo, te devolvería...
Cada uno da lo que recibe
y luego recibe lo que da,
nada es más simple,
no hay otra norma:
nada se pierde,
todo se transforma.
. jorge drexler .
this is such beautiful poetry.
merry christmas all.
luego el calor movimiento,
luego gota de sudor
que se hizo vapor, luego viento
que en un rincón de La Rioja
movió el aspa de un molino
mientras se pisaba el vino
que bebió tu boca roja.
Tu boca roja en la mía,
la copa que gira en mi mano,
y mientras el vino caía
supe que de algún lejano rincón
de otra galaxia,
el amor que me darías,
transformado, volvería
un día a darte las gracias
Cada uno da lo que recibe
y luego recibe lo que da,
nada es más simple,
no hay otra norma:
nada se pierde,
todo se transforma.
El vino que pagué yo,
con aquel euro italiano
que había estado en un vagón
antes de estar en mi mano,
y antes de eso en Torino
y antes de en Torino, Prato,
donde hicieron mis zapato
sobre el que caería el vino.
Zapatos que en unos horas
buscaré bajo tu cama
con las luces del aurora,
junto a tus sandalias planas
que compraste aquella vez
en Salvador de Bahía
donde a otro diste el amor
que hoy yo, te devolvería...
Cada uno da lo que recibe
y luego recibe lo que da,
nada es más simple,
no hay otra norma:
nada se pierde,
todo se transforma.
. jorge drexler .
this is such beautiful poetry.
merry christmas all.
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