UGH! Well..it's a gray Vancouver/Richmond/Delta/Surrey/etc...day. When the high school out behind my house matches the sky...and the school is gray....Vancouver-sky gray....oh man.

On days like today I think that, no matter how hard/poor/without clean water/shoes/etc...it would be, I'd like to live on Atiu, working as a teacher's aid (helping kids read) for a few years. Or maybe just one. Long enough to learn to speak Maori. (beyond "kia orana" which is a greeting, and "pa-paa" which means "four layers" and is used to refer to white people [historical meaning: the first white folks were odd because they wore so much clothing....4 layers, in fact.]).

Another blog to check out...Katrina's...

It's amusing, and very much her. She has this little schtick where in almost every blog she says, "If I could be anywhere in the world right now, I'd be...." and then goes on to tell where and with whom and what she'd be doing...

It's charming, much like Mikael's tendency to speak in spanish...or Ash's tendency to freak out empty-headed, albeit nice, blonde clerks @ trendy clothing stores....