‘Sup With Pete

This is a picture of me at the bar last night for Halloween. I was a pirate. I’m sitting with Toby who’s also a Pirate and Ollie who’s an Iraqi solder or something.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005.

Hey,

It’s been a pretty nice week so far. Saturday night was interesting with the time change. I had stayed up late carving pumpkins, then was messing around on the computer and managed to stay up till 2:30 – which I didn’t realize my computer had reset the clock automatically. So, when I went to bed I realized that it was actually 3:30 in the morning and I was severely overtired. It was good though, I was still able to sleep in until 10:30 (which was actually 9:30).

Sunday was a good day. I had two field hockey matches. So I had to meet at 10:00, in the pouring rain for the match. By the time we drove the 45min to get there, the rain had stopped and the sun was out (right in my eyes, which isn’t too helpful when you’re playing goal). We played well, but lost 3-1 that match, the team was good and kept the ball in our end most of the game. The second match was against the vets – they were mad at us for beating them 13-0 last time, so they brought all the good players and would let their less-experienced players play. We were tired too from the morning’s game, so tried our best, but also lost 3-1. Still loads of fun though. The rest of the day I did mostly work and got my laundry done. Also went to a ‘Quiz Night’ at the bar, and my team got second place. I did manage to mess up who one the last superbowl ( I could only remember 2 years ago, because last year I was studying for my Stats midterm the next day, and barely watched the superbowl). I was helpful in everything else though.

HALLOWE’EN!!! Monday is the LONG day. Classes all day, but fortunately two of the lectures were moved to Thursday, so we were done at 4pm, and had a long, long lunch. Came home, ate dinner, and worked on my wondrous pirate costume. Consisting of my white dress shirt, my brown cargo pants rolled up to my knees, belt buckles made of cardboard and chocolate bar tinfoil, my leather belt set around my waist, a tea towel bandanna, and a sword made from my ruler. I then found out that in England (because Halloween is not big here, that people generally dress up in lame costumes, like ghosts, witches, wizards, bloody things and skeletons. Nothing creative like at home). Generally my pirate costume was well received, and two other guys were dressed up (in the photo) – one also a pirate, and one as and Iraqi or something. I stayed in to save money, and had some beers in the hall. It was fun.

Tuesday: My day off. I FINALLY HAVE MY BANK ACCOUNT. One month to the day I’ve been here, and I finally got everything worked out, and my money in the bank. Spend my afternoon playing seven games of squash, and still managed to go for a run. Did some homework, and watched the football match (Liverpool vs. some Belgian team) in the bar. Now I’ll be talking to my parents and getting to b-e-d.

Extra: I’m really sad to hear that the late night bus has been cancelled at the moment in Guelph. That thing is a great service for students, and is good for safety, and it’s free! I hope they get that sorted out, and that people realize how nice it is to have while it is gone. Also, there’s a term here that everyone uses instead of saying ‘tired or hung-over’ called “Knackered” – for the longest time I have thought people were saying “Nah-ked” because of the accent. This sounds a lot like NAKED. So, I never really used the term, even though Knackered is commonly used. Someone recently cleared this up for me. (yikes).

Hope all is well,
-Pete