Terry is coming home today! =D
I woke up at 6:30 am this morning because I had to drive Tina to an animal hospital where she has work experience. After I dropped her off at the hospital, I drove to Blockbuster to return the movies that I rented on Saturday. I only watched two of the four movies that I rented because I didn't have time to watch the other two. The two that I did get to see were Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Calendar Girls. They were both pretty good movies. The other two that I rented were 50 First Dates and Along Came Polly. I didn't feel like watching the other two so it didn't matter if I returned them without seeing them. Although Blockbuster has a larger collection of movies, I still prefer Rogers Video because they allow you to keep the movies longer. At Blockbuster, you need to return the dvds and videos by 10:00 am on the designated day. Rogers, on the otherhand, require you to return their movies by 11:00 pm on the day they are due.
I spent the afternoon doing chores yesterday. The house was pretty dirty so I vacuumed and mopped the floor. I also dusted the living room and everybody's rooms including mine. My mom, sister and I drove to English Bay after dinner last night. Because it was a Sunday night, it was difficult to find a parking space. English Bay is usually very busy during the weekend and last night was no exception. I spent an hour looking for a parking space before we finally found one near True Confections. We initially planned to get some gelato at Mondo Gelato, but we decided to have dessert at True Confections instead because it was near where we parked. Tina had strawberry shortcake while I had dark chocolate Belgian mousse cake and a cup of Floral Jasmine tea from T, a tea company based in Vancouver. My mom didn't order anything because she preferred to share with us instead. The cakes tasted much better than the ones we had at True Confections in the West End. It wasn't too sweet and sugary. Even my mom liked the cakes as Chinese people generally do not have a fondness for sugary foods.
Here is another list that I scrimped off of Mike's blog. Below is a list of books I have read that appear in College Board's list of 101 Great Books.
1. Anonymous, Beowulf
2. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
3. Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
4. Bront, Charlotte Jane Eyre
5. Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
6. Dante Inferno
7. Golding, William Lord of the Flies
8. Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
9. Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
10. Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
11. Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Morrison, Toni Beloved
13. Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
14. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
15. Shakespeare, William Hamlet
16. Shakespeare, William Macbeth
17. Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
18. Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
19. Sophocles Antigone
20. Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
21. Voltaire Candide
22. Walker, Alice The Color Purple
23. Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Titles and authors listed in italic are ones that I have left unfinished.
Mike and two of his friends have posted their reading lists online and I thought it was a pretty neat idea so I have decided to post one too. This is a list of books that I have read or am currently reading. I read some of them in elementary school and high school while others are ones that I had to read for my English and History classes. There are a few titles that I currently have in my collection that I haven't read yet. Note that the titles and authors listed in bold are ones that I have already read while those listed in italic are ones that I still need to or didn't have the chance to finish. The ones listed in bold and italic are books that I have bought but have not had the chance to read yet. As with all book lists such as this, it is biased in favour towards European, American and a smattering of Canadian novels while it ignores other modern and pre-modern works of literature from the non-western world.
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
1984, George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch, George Eliot
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm, George Orwell
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Far AWAY From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
The Stand, Stephen King
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
Mort, Terry Pratchett
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
The Magus, John Fowles
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
ERROR MSGLord Of The Flies, William Golding
Perfume, Patrick Susskind
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Ulysses, James Joyce
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Holes, Louis Sachar
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Magician, Raymond E Feist
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Katherine, Anya Seton
Top-Hotel Reservierungen ToulouseKane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
The Beach, Alex Garland
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Shogun, James Clavell
The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt
The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
It, Stephen King
James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
The Green Mile, Stephen King
Papillon, Henri Charriere
Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
River God, Wilbur Smith
Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The World According To Garp, John Irving
Lorna Doone, R.D. Blackmore
Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
The Far Pavilions, M.M. Kaye
The Witches, Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
Silas Mar(i)ner, George Eliot
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Goosebumps, R.L. Stine
luxury hotels in ArlandastadHeidi, Johanna Spyri
Sons And Lovers, D.H Lawrence
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
The Truth, Terry Pratchett
The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
The Once And Future King, T.H. White
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Flowers In The Attic, V.C. Andress
The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien
The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
The Married Man, Edmund White
Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
Equus, Peter Shaffer
The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
Anthem, Ayn Rand
The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Tartuffe, Moliere
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Summerland, Michael Chabon
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Candide, Voltaire
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
Ringworld, Larry Niven
The King Must Die, Mary Renault
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
The Lost Princess of Oz, L.Frank Baum
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
The Cay, Theodore Taylor
From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, L. Konigsburg
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan
Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
Haunted, Judith St. George
Singularity, William Sleator
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Different Seasons, Stephen King
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
Illusions, Richard Bach
Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Cider House Rules, John Irving
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
Cyteen, C.J Cheryh
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (William Goldman)
Beowulf, Anonymous
The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
Deerskin, Robin McKinley
Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
Passage, Connie Willis
Otherland, Tad Williams
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
The Genesis Code, John Case
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Phantom, Susan Kay
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
Sati, Christopher Pike
The Inferno, Dante
The Apology, Plato
The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Our Town, Thorton Wilder
Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
Time for bed by David Baddiel
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
Jhereg by Steven Brust
So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Neuromancer, William Gibson
The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
The Gunslinger, Stephen King
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
The God Boy, Ian Cross
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), Philip K. Dick
Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb
number9dream, David Mitchell
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
Yann Martel - Self
Totto chan - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Underworld, Don DeLillo
The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
To Ride Pegasus, Anne McCaffrey
Riding a Pale Horse, Piers Anthony
The Blackstone Chronicles, John Saul
Runaway Horses, Yukio Mishima
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac
Trents' Last Case, E.H. Bentley
The Popes Rhinocerous, Lawrence Norfolk
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
The Thought Gang, Tibor Fischer
The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks
Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway
American Tabloid, James Ellroy
Confessions of a Homing Pigeon - Nicholas Meyer
An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
Blindness, Jose Saramago
Maurice, E.M. Forster
Symposium, Plato
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones
Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake book, Laurell K, Hamiliton
Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K, Hamilition
A Caress of Twiligh, Laurell K, Hamiliion
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
I Have Lived A Thousand Years, Livia Bitton-Jackson
Something from Nothing, Phoebe Gilman
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Sabriel, Garth Nix
Ring of Endles Light, Madeline L'Engle
44 - Dublin Made Me, Peter Sheridan
To The Hilt, Dick Francis
The Andalite Chronicles, K.A. Applegate
Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison, Bobby Sands
Sybil, Flora Rheta Schreiber
Confessions of an Actor, Laurence Olivier
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter
Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck
Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood
Three, Ann Quin
Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Barbara Kingsolver - Animal Dreams
Robert Heinlein - Time Enough for Love
Robert Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
Cunt - Inga Muscio
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Lirael, Garth Nix
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
I woke up at 8:00 am this morning. My mom and I drove Tina to Auntie Phyllis' place where she has math tutoring sessions with Auntie Phyllis' husband, Uncle Alfred. After we dropped my sister off, my mom and I went to the Jazzercise class at Collingwood Neighbourhood House. We went to pick my sister up after class was over and promptly drove to Seton Villa to see if they need any volunteers in their library. I asked the lady at the front desk for information regarding volunteer opportunities at the villa, but she told me to talk to Beth. Unfortunately, Beth is not working today so she gave me a business card with contact information of the villa and told me to call her at 9:00 am on Monday because that is the best time to call Beth.
Seton Villa is actually an apartment complex that had been converted into a retirement home for seniors. It's a very nice place where one can look at the beautiful view of the city from the penthouse. The penthouse is actually a lounge where the residents can socialize, watch tv, read and borrow books from the small library located in there and residents can even get their hair done at the salon. One need only to sign up and have their payment ready. I was looking at their schedule for this month and they do have quite a variety of events that the residents can partcipate in. They even have things like daytrips and one-day cruises within the city and province. It's just as good as the retirement home that my great-grandmother lives in except that this is a "high-class" care home in the sense that the fees are higher at Seton. We haven't made a thorough and detailed assessment of the place, but judging by what we observed so far, most of the seniors we encountered appeared very happy to be living there.
After we left Seton Villa, we had lunch at the White Spot on Lougheed Highway. When we came home, my mom was listening to some voice messages and found out that the Vancouver Public Library called me back about volunteering. Joan, the lady who left the message, gave me her number and told me to call her on Sunday or Monday morning. I have no idea what I'll be doing at the downtown branch and I don't know how many days I'll be required to volunteer, but I am happy and I look forward to speaking with her because right now it feels as though there are no longer any obstacles between me and the difficult terrain of the path before me.
Auntie Cecilia, Uncle Pat and Lillian will be visiting Vancouver from July 1 - July7. I am looking forward to their visit and I am eagerly anticipating their arrival. =)
I just received an e-mail about Mike Cheung's biking accident. Let us pray that he will have a fast and less painful recovery.
Saturday:
-Flew home from Edmonton. Got picked up by dad and sister at the airport.
-Opened some mail addressed to me that had accumulated while I had been away from home and found out that I received the $1000 James Barrington Prize for Southeast Asian History. I was very excited when I realized that I won the award. I wonder who nominated me because I have never taken a course in Southeast Asian history and the only Asian history courses I have taken at the U of A were East Asian and Chinese history courses. Nonetheless, I was very happy to receive this award. I will be picking up my cheque at the Student Awards office in late-September. =)
-Had dinner at Dr. Xu's with my family.
-Went to my paternal grandmother's house afterwards.
Sunday:
-Went out for dim sum with my family.
-Went grocery shopping with my family after dim sum.
-Rented four DVDs with my sister at Rogers Video.
-Went to visit my paternal grandmother after dinner and had gelato with my family at English Bay after dinner.
-Went home and took Lucky out for a walk with my mother and Tina after my father left for Seattle.
Monday:
-Submitted applications and went looking for volunteer positions at various libraries throughout the city with my mother. When I submitted my application to the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library, the lady said that the coordinator will give me a call on Wednesday so I am feeling quite hopeful. I really want to volunteer at a library because I am quite serious about doing a Masters in Library and Information Science.
-Stopped by Brentwood Town Centre for some frappucinos at Starbucks. My mom didn't order anything, but I had a Vanilla Bean frappucino while we got Tina a Tazo Chai frappucino.
-We went out for a walk at around 9:00 pm and we were planning to take Lucky out for a short walk after we came back, but it was too dark by the time we came home.
I have switched to Movabletype. I will make some changes to the template later, but this should suffice for now.