Some people out there won't believe how early the sun comes up in Canada; not even I understand it fully as I am at the lowest latitude in the country. This shot was taken in the early morning on a longboarding adventure. How early? Try 5 a.m. on a school day when your school starts 4 hours later (enough time to watch 4 episodes of Dexter... O.o). The endeavor was not simply to go on a longboarding adventure, yet, if I never had a longboard, I would never traverse all that land so early.
Everyone is talking about the Soccer World Cup lately. If for some reason you're ill-informed, listen for the sound of buzzing bees; this will not lead you to a hive, but most likely a T.V. blaring the sounds of the infamous vuvuzela. Yes, I got up at 5 a.m. (Already bright outside) to watch the opening ceremony and eventually longboard just before 6 a.m. in order to get to a friends HD TV in time and add my friend to the convoy on the way.
My friend, Connor, can be seen on the left, exiting his abode with his school bag, a longboard (of course), and a bowl of yogurt (of courser-er). To my understanding, this is the first footage shot of this being at the fresh hours of 6. For those out there that know anything about longboards, YES, that is a Dervish, flex 1 with Sabre trucks and Orangutan wheels O.o . Does it make early morning endeavors easier? I have no idea whatsoever. I suspect so, unless that yogurt packed some galactic punch (I am referring specifically to the milky-way when I say "galactic punch") that got us up the hills of Cordova Bay.
We got to our destination in time, and watched the soccer. If anyone out there that reads this knows me, they know that I do not ever watch soccer. HOWEVER, THIS IS SOUTH AFRICA IN A WORLD CUP ON HOME SOIL AND I AM MISSING OUT ON IT! IF THERE WAS A HIGHER ''CAPS" BUTTON I WOULD PRESS IT! So in an attempt to make a connection between myself and my lifelong chommies back home who are on 5 week vacation to party their asses off where 18 is legal, I am watching the soccer. Longboarding this distance to get the best experience possible (I don't own an HD TV) is not the only odd thing I have done to assume this connection.
Yesterday I found myself glued to a school computer in the career center after I was kicked out of the library for streaming video. I was streaming the opening ceremony, live, from the other side of the world (almost literally - how many people can say that with and edge of truth?) during lunch and my third block when I should have been in class.
Now, for another story, completely separate, but oddly directly related. Centurion Mall, 3 years ago: I happened to be there while a free concert was happening with Prime Circle and an opening band I never had heard of, The Parlatones. I found them odd (The Parlatones), especially with a megaphone blasting away at the mic a metre in front of me. It's taken three years for this band to progress to where they are now, and as I sat in the career center streaming the footage live, they came onto stage and I experienced them from the furthest point imaginable (not really). I'm not a major fan, but it blew me away how much they had progressed since I had seen them a couple of years prior. A career choice in music is a tough choice, but obviously good things do happen. It is still an aspiration of mine; however, we shall see how life progresses in the future. For now, I have 5 DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT. Let me tackle that first.
Oh, DRAW FOR SOUTH AFRICA? SAY... WHAAAAAT? This means that we're on par with the entire group and still stand a chance of breaking through into the knockout stage. I won't get my hopes up, though. France is a killer team.
Vuvuzela's seem to be a killer South Africans are immune to, not the French.
*chommies - Friends
