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Tabitha said:
This summer I am off to India to volunteer at a health centre serving a "low resource" area (aka poop). I will be supervising 4 OT students from McMaster in Hamilton Ont.
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McMaster students are awesome! I love having them around on placement. This will be life changing for all of you. Kudos to you for doing this Tabitha.
 
Greywolf - sorry to hear of the death of your friends. It does indeed make us ponder when such things happen ... even at any age. Sudden and expected death is kinda like that I think. Will you be able to go to any memorial services for them?
 
I saw the information, @Greywolf336 in the local paper. I am sorry for the loss of friends. By the bit that I read, many will be missing these young men who were lost in this tragic accident. Take care.
 
Greywolf336 said:
This past weekend two guys were killed in a car accident near Killarney Provincial Park. I went to school with both, one since grade 6 and the other through high school. I did not know either well and while I am saddened by the news and so sorry for their families, for me personally it has made me think of our mortality.

I was discussing with my bf and a friend and we all agreed that in some ways, death is more expected as a teen (drinking and other accidents) and then as you approach 65+. But, for some reason none of us really though about death and people we know dying in that middle area. It is a sobering thought and one I am still pondering.
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I am wondering if this is a sign of our privileged normal life not meeting and dealing with death too often in those younger years, or if it is a development of the brain, reflecting more on death as we age. Wondering how young people in war torn countries perceive and reflect on death. If it is similar to the age group all over the world? Just thinking how often young people risk their lives. Is there an awareness that matures with age? If there is, it strikes me as useful- if young people don't have the drive to take risks, change would be slow to happen.
 
I have been busy writing my " personal directive"- a legal document in which one can determine a "delegate" to make decisions for you in the case you don't have capacity to decide yourself. I believe it is a provincial law, but other provinces have likely something similar. Going to Germany again this year, I also made one in German, as my only English speaking delegate would have some trouble dealing with it if something happend to me in Germany. Supposedly, less than 20% of people in NS have made their wishes clear , leaving relatives to make guesses as to what they really want.
 
Mac is like ham in ancient linguistics ... a dark art ... and thus dark masters? Thus the Shadow effect ...

Metalanguage, or metal anguish for those unable to hammer it out like the Maccabees ... spirit of the sting ... in the dark space between the ears a solution ... containing old salts ... Ca, Mg, Na, K ... Pot ash is imperative! Thus the Asher factor ... allowing the sparks across the voids of synapsis ... that lightning thingy?
 
Well as of monday we will have another 2 members of this household. J a civil engineering co-op student and a cat will be moving in until Sept. I have invited her to share suppers with us (as I'm already cooking for 3 until the end of June). My 16 and 16 year old hockey players like to eat so 4 at the table ! I'm relieved as it is someone in the house while I am away.
A co-worker asked me as her friend is J's mother friend. It feels like a blessing just dropped in and all I had to do was say yes.

Well that and move my wind-trainer bike out and clear out the closet-Weekend plans I guess.
 
So, I just found out Little M is going to be away on the long weekend (camping with friends after the prom on Friday night). And Mrs. M isn't back until the night of Victoria Day. So I'm apparently going to be all by my lonesome for most of that weekend. On the one hand, it's something I've been wanting and waiting for. Watch movies that I want to watch, maybe binge watch a TV show or two. On the other, I'm alone so rarely anymore, not sure how I'll feel when i get there. Be careful what you wish for, as they say.

Oh, and Little M's friends are a mixed male-female crowd so now I'm wondering if a "Daddy talk" about taking certain supplies is needed. I have no reason to believe he's actually involved with any of the girls (not that I'd complain, they're all nice, smart young ladies from what I know of them), but on a weekend away after a prom ... yeah.
 
Last evening at the square dance banquet Seelerman and I were presented with a graduation certificate stating that we had completed instruction at the plus level in square dancing entitling us to dance at this level anywhere in the world. Of course we still have a lot to learn, and we will make mistakes, and hope that more experienced dancers will gently guide us back on course, but it's nice to know that we've been introduced to all the calls at this level and now we just need the experience of dancing them until they are as familiar as do si do.
After the presentation I thanked the caller and 'all those experienced dancers who were patient with us, guided and corrected us, and sometimes told us where to go.' A few laughs for that one.
 
Definitely a Dad chat Mendalla! Condoms, and gravol & tylenol for the hangover - been there done that! (as a parent that is! ;) )

And you'll be busy with the WC2 upgrade, right? Shall we send you some pizza & beer?
 
Carolla said:
WOW - 'anywhere in the world" - that's cool Seeler!! congrats
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Apparently square dancing is big in Japan, and they use the same or similar calls.
I've seen videos of square dancing in Germany - the same.
And we had a man from Holland, visiting in this area, attend our group for about a month this past winter and although his English was limited (but better than our non-existent Dutch) he had no trouble dancing (and helping us) at the plus level.
Do si do, and allemande, and promenade are not English.
 
Seeler said:
Apparently square dancing is big in Japan, and they use the same or similar calls.
I've seen videos of square dancing in Germany - the same.
And we had a man from Holland, visiting in this area, attend our group for about a month this past winter and although his English was limited (but better than our non-existent Dutch) he had no trouble dancing (and helping us) at the plus level.
Do si do, and allemande, and promenade are not English.
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Imagine that - it's a universal language!
 
I gave my son's brand new suit to a cousin who was graduating. Nice suit. Never had the occasion to

wear again. The cousin's mom checked all pockets. Found the unopened condoms in

inside pockets. lol. Yes, Mendalla, get the supplies or he will get them himself.
 
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