Er... hello ^^

Back to reality, now I am. I just watch Amélie. It's a french movie that has become quite well known over here. It is actually quite cute. weird, but cute. Although I am very much fluent in French, even I had a hard time understanding the fast dialougue except enough to know that the subtitles were very much loosely translated. Oh well....

Kiyo-san, so here's the Air Cadet site. Just..... read.

Aaah, I've been so lazy *wah* about posting..... Sorry everyone. Yes, to you viewers (however few there may be :p ), thank to reading this.... This is really short.

Last night was the first night back of cadets.... that was the biggest waste of time ever. I have (another) senior cadet meeting this sunday, while I am supposed to be at Theatre Tech!

Oh, I'm out of time, but I'll explain cadets later, ok?

Today is "9/11". I am not going to rant on and on about how horrible it is, I'm not that type. The WTC collasp was a horrific event. Over 3000 people were killed. Some were Canadian, but that is not the focus of this rant either.

I don't know whether I can really say that the Americans had it coming - most developed nations may be in the same position at any time. I can't say that the "all evil" Taliban, as some people put it, was that way at all. Sure, they suported terrorism, and women were suppressed in society to a point where I was surprised that the UN didn't do more. But does anyone remember who trained and put that same political group in power?

The Americans have had a long list of political boo-boos in it's history. A few words changed in a treaty between the US and Japan caused resentment that eventually led to Pearl Harbor. A faux pas caused the Americans to be beaten by the Canadians around 300 years ago during their quest for land.

Hey, Canada's reccord may not be squeaky clean - we've commited enough of those faux pas ourselves - but the Americans have this "Who me?" approch to laying blame when a disaster happens. Pearl Harbor was a direct attack on American Freedom - the WTC collasped because the Taliban maliciously attacked them because of democracy! Helloooo? Wake up Mr. Bush! You and your nation has continually placed the equivilant to a big bulls eye on the US because you don't have the foresight to realize that you set yourself up!

Ok, ok, now I am getting a tad bit carried away. Back to the WTC. My main pet peeve about all of this is that the first thing you do after this is go over to Afganistan and proceed to destroy the puppet government you put in place. In the process, killing several thousand civilians while you are at it. Civilians.

And you complain that only 3 thousand of yours were killed?

The US, when it comes to military always has a "act first, think later" approch to defending themselves. Willing to shoot anything in their way that seems to be a threat, they kill many people. Both Civilians and Soldiers. Fratricide (the military uses this term to refer to killing a soldier on your own side) is a major cause of senseless deaths among soldiers. And who says that the Americans, who bring peace, freedom and democracy, are incapable of such things.

Well, just got back from school. Nothing much. Finished CALM module #2, read #3, might finish that tommorow.

Tonight will be the first night for theatre tech. I am really looking forward to it. This year, the play is "Les Miserables" (sans accents :p ) but even though I can only do a little bit of work, Mrs Towsley, our director, said that anything will help. So off to tech I go!

I've been trying to download anime, so I signed up for streamload. But I can't download ANYTHING!!!!!! Free users can only download 50 megs a week, 10 megs at a time. 10 MEGs? Arrrrg!

The worse part is, that I need 5$ USD and a credit card to upgrade the account. 5$ can be arranged. Credit card I can arrange. But to do that, I will need to go through my parents. Why do I even bother? They don't understand this sort of thing but I really really want to get this anime, and this is one of the more popular methods of sending it to people. Maybe I can ask Leanne-sama. She has a credit card and would most likely be willing to accept the equivilant of 5$ USD and help me, but I don't want to be a pain. And it takes a while to send money to people, and it's expensive. *pouts* And I don't have the time nor the extra money.

Ok, now on to today. CALM, CALM, ever more CALM. I got module 1 completely done, will finish #2 tommorow. #3 by the end of the week. #4 if I'm lucky. But for my extra module, I'm to do a journal. Hehehehe..... e-a-s-y! Basically, I hope to just edit this one. All I need is 25 entries so it won't be too bad.

French is becomming a joke, but I will sereously sit down and actually read my novel at lunch for the rest of the week. I have no idea what I'll do after that but it's not my main concern at this point. So far the book is pretty stupid. A bunch of Boy Scouts (not entirely sure because of the language barrier, but it makes sense to me anyways) are out on a hiking trip and find a tame wolf in the woods and decide to take care of it.

For some odd reason, it almost seems like a bad translation that I'm reading, but it is "Quebecois" enough to make it possible that it is a french novel. Has enough lack of plot to be one.

My art project is turning out well, as I started printing with these big rubber blocks that I carved on to "stressed" and dyed watercolor paper today. Tommorow I'll use my last block and plaint something onto it with my watercolor paints. I hate using acrylic paint so I refuse to use their poor excuse for professional paints to work on my composition. I'll make sure to atleast take a photo of it for you all.

Well, yesterday was interesting. I did pretty much nothing until I got a phone call from Chris (from Air Cadets) about a senior's meeting. So I went down, threw a BIG wrench in my commanding officer's plans by reminding her of my exchange. Or I should of said a big wrench in the CO's kid (Chris)'s plan. He's Sqn. Commander (lucky brat) this year. Well, anything's better than Neil, last year's Sqn. Idiot, er, Commander.

But besides causing a tad bit of chaos that way, the meeting went on as normal. Lots said, nothing done. Got a ride home with the speed demon a.k.a. Dave. 120 kmph going up the steep valley road is just plain stupid, especially when the max. speed limit is 60 kmph!