To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded. - RW Emerson

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Blogs

I don't really know why I have a blog...but I found out yesterday that nearly everybody does. I'm not sure why I like having a public journal, but I do. Obviously I'm not going to write about anything extremely personal, or anything that could possibly offend anybody, but I feel like it is a place where I can write anything I want. I truly am growing up in a social media world.

Oh, and only 11 more days until I go to Ghana!!!!! I am pretty stoked...except that I currently have post concussion syndrome..hopefully that will get better in the very near future.(One of the many joys of cycling is crashing...it is just part of the sport.)

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Numb

I had a Lumbar Sympathetic Nerve Block yesterday. How was it? Weird. For about four hours I was a total paraplegic...couldn't feel or move anything from the waste down. Apparently the numbness was only supposed to last about half an hour...four hours later... They said I would be ready to leave by 10 am...3:30 is more like it. Yesterday was weird...ketamine is trippy and epidurals are really quite painful.

I guess it is just another experience right? I think I have to do it again to...I don't really want to...it wasn't really fun...or nice...but if it helps the pain then I guess it is worth it.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

GO Canada GO

The day I found out that Vancouver was hosting the 2010 Olympics, I was ecstatic. I thought it would be so cool to graduate the year that my province hosted the Winter Olympics...and it I was right.

This past weekend, I had the incredible fortune of being able to go to Vancouver and experience the spirit of 2010. I ran down the street next Wayne Gretzky as he carried the torch out of BC Place, I watched the Swedish Woman's hockey team beat Switzerland, I saw my first Ballet, waited in line to get into the Bay, and watched figure skaters fly through the air. It was a really cool experience, something that will only ever happen once; for three days I was a part of something so much bigger than myself.  

Monday, February 8, 2010

Right of Passage

There are certain things in life that you just have to do, and if you don't...well, then you miss out on a lot of stuff. And there are things that you just must do or else it is difficult to pass into the next stage in your life.

Last Thursday I passed my road test and got my N. I can now drive without an adult in the car...pretty scary, I know. But, it is just one of those things that every teenager has to do, it is something that has become a right of passage. Now...only if I had a car...