Last Big Weekend…

Down to my last Monday working at this place! Hard to believe it has been three years! SJ came over last night and we grabbed some dinner and then enjoyed some rye and coke. She has figured out the science of a perfect one and happily while trying to pack her place found a whole bottle of Canadian Club. It was a good night and we talked about all sorts of things. SJ and I arrived here at the same time and so did all the orientation and first weeks stuff together. She’s been a bit of a rock for me since moving here. Our friendship is very big sister/little sister and doesn’t require a lot of work or maintenance. We don’t see each other that much but when we do.. we talk about absolutely everything and it’s always good. She’s called me on a lot of stuff over the past three years but I never get defensive about it. She’s “good people” and I really will miss her!

Prom was a success! My dress was NOT. I went to get it on Saturday morning and it was atrocious. How do bad dresses happen to good people?!? So I need to figure out something to do with it but I hates it! Fortunately I had packed a little black one and so with a few last minute pullings together I ended up looking okay. It was a good prom and the kids looked great! It was wild though… seeing them decked out in $3,000 gowns.

Then I took a cab into the city and met up with MK, GT and PAM at The Dharmawangsa for killer chocolate martinis. We were going to head to X2 but my students were having their after prom party there so we hit up Blowfish for a few hours and danced the night away. We spent the night at The Alila, a cute little hotel and it was a nice way to spend the last weekend here! The club was good and the music was great for a consistent few hours. The vibe in the place was cool.. just people having a good time but enough freaks to keep it interesting. I hadn’t ever gone out with GT and PAM before but it kinda worked.

So here is this week. Only 4 days with kids and a final morning to clean up stuff. I’ve got some fun things on this week so I’m thinking it’s going to fly. It’s craaaazy! And then there is Bali….

Boys and such..

I have been keeping in touch a bit with a guy I went to Teacher’s College with. We did the commute together and so spending hours driving to Buffalo New York every week got us to become somewhat friends. He’s a quirky short dude with major self-esteem issues that he’s turned into some form of brilliant self-deprecating humour (I dig that) and we can make each other laugh a lot so it’s fun. We both aren’t each other’s “types” so its always been a safe kinda thing where we moan about lacking love lives etc. Anyway he wants us to co-write a screenplay this summer and today told me that if a movie called Beverly Hills Chihuahua is set to be released this summer.. we can surely pound out something a tad more brilliant in a month. I don’t know although I think we’d be a good creative combination.

However, I only have a month in the Home and Native Land and I don’t really want to spend the entire thing writing something that probably won’t come to anything.. I have Him to seduce after all. I was talking to JC about Him and she thinks we’d be good together. I told her that Him (this name is going to present me with some grammar issues) is the only guy who could get me to move back to my parents town and get all married and babied. I don’t know what it is.. but there is something about him that I really like. So we’ll see if JC and I can come up with a plan.. she’s great for things like this and being the friend we have in common.. helps!

Oh and I eventually stubbornly sent the X a message but haven’t heard anything back. It’s okay though.. I’m over it. That was just a temporary freak out kinda thing. SJ was over the other night and she was reminding me how in love with him I still was when I moved here but how he treated me like total garbage. So that was good to recall..

So yes.. I received a grand total of one text from GFG and it was about left over salad! (You know you’re messing around with a gym instructor when…) It’s only been a couple days but still.. a girl has to wonder. Maybe it’s a one time thing but maybe not.. either way it’s okay I think because I’m getting out of here…

Speaking of getting out of here, my new school wants to send me to Greece for training. Not a bad deal, I say. However, turns out since I requested that I be flown from Canada and back to Canada.. they would prefer me to pick one close to home.. like in big bad Arizona or Florida or… yeah. So I’m trying to get them to let me go to training in the fall.. then it’s in a cool place like Cairo or Madrid. I’ve already received the training from my current school so it’s not even really necessary but we’ll see…