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Yo.

So yeah, haven't been on here in quite a while! ...annnnddd I don't have time for a brilliant post right now! Sooo this post is basically to say that there will be more posts coming soon. Good posts, about stuff. Yep. So keep your eyes open, cuz this blog is not dead.

Where to go???

So I'm trying to decide where I want to go for my Senior graduation trip. I just thought I'd post the options Im thinking about. There'll be a poll for voting on them too. We'll see if anyone votes at all :P Also, I've been wanting to start travel-blogging for ages now, so this is the start of that. Basically I want to cover the places I've been already, and then of course the trip im about to do.

But first here are the options for the upcoming trip.

#1. Malaysian Borneo.

This has always been my preference. I planned the trip here years ago, but now as we were gearing up to actually go, plane tickets have gone up and it looks like it will be too expensive to go. Sadness. The big attractions for me in Borneo include: Rainforest and its associated critters. Borneo has the some of the worlds best rainforest, and some really cool animals like Elephants, Rhinos, and Orangutans, and of course a billion different kinds of everything else. Biologist Paradise :) We'd also be doing a good bit of jungle trekking and caving which are super fun. Both national parks we'd be visiting are covered in awesome rugged jungle terrain, and have really nice places to stay and relax.

#2. Amazon river Cruise.

I've always thought this could be cool. Basically cruisin' down the Amazon in a riverboat for about a week, sleeping on board and taking side trips during the days. lotsa cool stuff to see and some pretty awesome rainforest. (not as cool as Borneo's though...) With this we might even add on doing some other stuff, and there are some other pretty cool options for that too.





#3. Costa Rica.

Yeah I know I lived here for a year and have already seen a ton of stuff in the country, but I LOVE Costa Rica. I dont know exactly what I'd want to do here but there is no shortage of awesome options that have and have not done/gone to before. Watching Volcan Arenal erupt at night? Going back to Punta Leona and hiking for miles down pristine beaches boarded by rainforest? Zip-lining thorugh the treetops at Monteverde? The list goes on and on. .........Oh and yes, the picture is Arenal. I have indeed been there and seen that. coolest thing ever.






#4. Antarctica.

Yup! I've been close. (As you look at a map of chile from top down, I've been as far as the first big island (Chiloe). This trip would mostly be in southern Chile, seeing tierra del fuego, the straights of Magellan and Torres del Paine, with a day trip to Antarctica. It's on the expensive side though, and this trip might be too much $$$. But it's still an option. A very cool (pun intended :P ) option. And besides, who do you know that's been to Antarctica? Yeah. Nobody.




#5. A few other Ideas
These Include: A trip to see Angel falls in Venezuela (Worlds tallest water fall); - A Carribean dive/relaxation vacation. Yes Ive been to the Carribean before. Haiti. Not a very pretty place. I'd love to just hang at some sweet beach and get some more great Diving in my log; - Or finally an African Safari and Rift-Lakes-diving trip.  Soooo what should I do???? There are just so many great options! :D

Fail.

So I pretty much gave up on that post about the windy city trip. Oh well. Whatever. :|

Chicago blog post coming soon. I hope.

I left my iPod somewhere again, and I hadnt got my pictures off onto my computer yet. :/ Hopefully by sunday i'll have a neat little post on last week.

Frost

I didnt get a chance to post this nine days ago, while it was still November, but I love this poem far too much to wait 'till November next to put it on my blog. Oh, and yes, I do read poetry every now and then, hopefully more during my holiday break. Obviously poetry, just like music, is only really truly good if the reader can apply it to themselves, and, for me, such is the case with this piece by Robert Frost. Enjoy.

My November Guest

My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
     Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
     She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
     She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted gray
     Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,
     The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
     And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know
     The love of bare November days,
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
     And they were better for her praise.

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Inception, Drakensang, cool words, annnndd... that's about it.

 I doubt anybody has really noticed, (therefore I am telling you :P ), but I havent been on IM, Facebook, or blogging hardly at all for a couple of weeks. Lets call it a hiatus. Just because "Hiatus" is cool word. Kinda like "Rakish" or "Rendezvous".... but now I'm off subject... ummm... oh yes.. my hiatus... It appears to be the effects of being really busy with work and classes, and getting a german-made computer game "Drakensang - das ague schwartz" It's pretty awesome (Although I'm currently stuck at this boss battle with a giant cyclops skeleton and a whole bunch of un-dead Grolms....) But yeah, cool game. However, since I'm not facing any classes for a week and a half, I can spend a little time doing my social networking. 

At the moment me, and a few other members of the fam, are eagerly awaiting the coming of Harry Potter 7.1. To help hold in our Big-screen excitement we all went to see Inception at the dollar theatre. It was interesting (as always with great movies) to pick out little details I had missed the first time 'round. There were a ton. (In defence of my movie watching skills, I was a little distracted the first time...). One thing I picked up was that the Chinese dude, Saito, who hires out the extractors, looks a heck of a lot like pastor Davy in a few scenes (or maybe I'm just dreaming things up, you tell me...) But mostly I just came away realizing just how many times the characters kill themselves. It was a little depressing.

Oh, and on a final note, I got my drivers licence a while back. yay. I no longer have to be thirty minutes late or two hours early everywhere I go.  And that's it for tonight. More posts coming up soon. Maybe.

Oh yes! The random picture of David Tenant... when I looked up the word "Rakish" on google images, nothing saying rakish came up, but his picture did, so I just had to add him. :D