Well I'm back from China.  It was so fun there.  Had a great time.  Still felt as though it was just yesterday I was getting on the flight to go there.  I'll proly post some pictures after the whole crew gets back.  Left for two days and I'm missing people already.  *sniffle* 

And so the 2006 World Cup ends with Italy emerging victorious.  Yay!

When the whole competition started, I had some hope for Italy, after looking at their bracket and who they were up against.  After both Argentina and Brazil, both of whom I had thought would reach either the semi- or final, were defeated, the only previous candidate for me was Italy.  So ya I'm kinda happy.  One of the few times that I saw a team make all five of their penalty shots too.

Life has become very strange the past few weeks.  This is probably the first time that I have ever felt myself in such a cocktail of chaos and uncertainty as well as some bits of frustration.  Why is it that in most occasions and matters, people are not bothered the slightest bit but when something else comes by *I duuno what cuz it differs for each person* it causes them to completely crumble and in other cases, throw them into a rather disturbing frenzy?  It's as if that certain secret button in them was found and pushed until the mechanisms inside stopped functioning. 

O and did I happen to mention that it really sucks to have people in the world who always insist on being right on matters?  When I was working the counter at the office, won't say which one, I get a call from a person asking to be registered in a class.  When I tell him that the class is closed, he keeps going on about how it really isn't closed.  Then he tries to get me to squeeze him into the class after I tell him I can put him on a waiting list.  On another occasion, a person comes in and wants to register.  When she sees the class she wants is closed and I tell her a waiting list is available, she goes off on us being poor workers and on purposely limiting the amount of spaces available.  *Well when its the instructor and not us who decides, it's kinda hard to not put a cap on the amount of ppl we can take*

I can't deny them credit for at least trying to pursue the classes they desire but when they try to coerce people into giving them what they want is just unreasonable.  A note to everyone out there, make life a bit easier for everyone and give a situation fair consideration before you go off fuming about nothing.

Hey guys.  Hope ur all doin great.

Attended a volunteer convention thing in Ontario.  Lot of different people there.  Purpose was for volunteers to get to meet other volunteers from other cities and interact with them.  Had a get to know each other session, a game show session and discussion session.  I think I got the most out of the discussion session.  Reason for this is because the other kids here are volunteers and they should have a good amount of common sense in them as well as a care for others.  What shocked me was that so many of these kids were just completely full of apathy towards issues like drinking and drugs.  The discussion leader asked one of the people what he would do if his friend was on drugs, he said he would just ignore him because the kid is a loser.  The thing about this is that one has to prepare for a war that one will most likely lose if he or she wishes to help because the only one that can really do anything is the victim him or herself.  It really just pisses me off how some of these people react and it made me have a small look at just how much ignorance is out there.  Maybe stupidity as well but let's not go that far just yet.

To all the people out there: If you get the chance, try to make a difference.  Try to do something good so that these people who have not yet realized it will come to their senses.  It's a given that the road for helping someone is rough and maybe harsh but that is just the price everyone has to accept, like it or not.  Remember, preserving your friendship is more important that preserving that extra 5 minutes of "me time".

Still though, today was rather nice.  Got to know a few of the other volunteers in my group better as well as spend a little quality time with them since people were still going around according to the groups they came by.  This day gave us a chance to be a bit more open with each other on a lot of other things as well.  If anyone is interested in attending this thing, its going to be next year around the same time.  I'll mention any details of all this later if someone wants to know.