I pissed off a good friend last night. The last time I really offended someone was my best friend Mark, in grade ten. We were fighting about courses to take in the future and he was wondering why I didn't take "keyboarding" or "computer science" at all - you know, since computers are the wave of the future. I replied how those courses are a waste of time, I already know how to use a keyboard/computer. The argument then escalated, where I somewhat pushed him down the stairs in my frustration.

Our friendship never has really been the same since then - we grew apart, became friends with other people. Of course eventually we started talking again and everything was alright. (on an interesting side note, mark mentioned a month ago that what I had said about it being a waste of time - was 100% true).

I hope Sue can forgive me!

I actually started writing this entry on my laptop, but never finished it. It mainly was about how Canadians should be lucky how they can afford such luxery things as cars! The price I am willing to pay for a new car is what some people make in a life time! According to the World Bank, 2.8 Billion people make less than $2 a day. That works out to be $730 a year, if the worker decides to work every day out of the year. It would take him/her 41 years to earn the same amount of money I do in about a year. It's amazing how the human condition allows people to survive on ANYTHING.

I am starting to have second thoughts about this setle down, buy car, work for a few years plan. I really honestly want to see the rest of the world RIGHT NOW. Visit Sue and Toni in England, see France, Italy, Spain. Tour the rainforests of South America. Not to mention the deserts and villages in Africa, and taste the delicacies of Asia. In a way I kind of regret going to Australia first, it would have been a nice place to end my world tour and just stay there rather than return to Canada.

Yesterday, Pascal was homesick. He has been living in Australia for 15 years now, but wanted to return to France - his parents are there now. I can sympathise with him, when you are away from home (whether it be 1 or 15 years) you get bouts of homesickness. You can have a family, a wife/husband - a wicked job and killer friends. But nothing, NOTHING AT ALL will compaire to being back in your home country. It's hard to see why people are so patriotic and have strong feelings about their home country until you go traveling.

I have always regretted not going to University, I dissapointed my parents. I still feel that I have learnt more by travelling and seeing how other people live/work. I may not have a piece of paper that says I completed formal education, what I have experienced is much more than any University can give me.

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