Super Camera! (If your name is Chris Harwood, you probably shouldn't read this)

Alright, so apparently my camera is the strongest camera on the face of the earth. It has fallen a great height, a height so tall that it would probably compare to the distance from the roof of the bell tower to the bottom of the cistern beneath it. As it fell out of my hoodie pocket I thought to myself, oh crap! now I have to buy a new camera, but when I got to the bottom I pressed the "review pictures" button and the display turned on, the face plate came off, but if I attach a piece of blue sticky tack to the front it will turn on and take pictures, so it is a bit of an inconvinience, but hey for falling like 20-25 feet it is doing pretty well if I do say so myself. To the right you will see two pictures, one is the last picture my camera took before its great fall, and the second is one it took after, notice the blue sticky tack.

I think I will always buy Olympus cameras

Thunderstorms

Last night was a crazy night! We went to bed at around 10:30, and I saw a little bit of lightning in the distance as we made the walk to our tent. I couldn't fall asleep because it was rather warm out so I began to listen to Japanese lessons instead, I made it through quite a few and finally by 11:30 I think i began to doze off and on, I was suddenly woken up at 12:30 by a raindrop hitting my chest, then another, I opened my eyes and my tent was absolutely white and flashing like a strobe light. The thunder roared! it was intense! I cowered under my blankets and then put earplugs in and slept quite soundly after that. In the morning I woke up with a puddle under my matress, hopefully that will dry over today, before the predicted thundershowers tonight. My night was not nearly as bad as Evan's though, he apparently tied his poncho to one of the pegs inside his tent and then ran it down to one of the bottom corners so that this way he would not get drenched by the water pouring through the top of his tent. I saw him crawl out this morning and his hair was dripping and I think most of his stuff is wet...

Ahh hooray for camp TESOL.

Welcome to Camp TESOL

Alright, so Evan Friesen and I have decided to save a bit of money for the summer TESOL courses and not live in dorm or be on the meal plan; instead we are living in two tents down by the rat river and eating those cheap noodle packets which are like 20 cents a pack, I bought some bananas and beans and carrots and lentils so that we can actually get some nutrients, but ya, so it will be an interesting month. My first sleep was crazy, I went to bed at 11 and actually didn't even feel like I was outside, but then when morning came it was quite evident. There was a bird that was atleast 1400% louder than all the others and it kept getting higher and higher pitched, and this happened at 5:30AM I heard Evan shuffle in his tent and so I wished him a good morning and then I attempted to fall back asleep. I did and then woke up for 7:30 showered in Amy's trailer and then went to class. It will be interesting to see how this turns out and whether I survive it. stay tuned for further details!

~Justin