Not sure why, but I found myself wishing for winter today; which is strange because I don't normally enjoy winter, and I generally rejoice everytime it's hot, and on the reverse, mourn when the sun decides to take a holiday. But today, sitting inside Tous Les Jours with a latte, watching the rain fall steadily outside, I found myself wishing it was snow falling instead of rain, that the ground was covered in white and would give me that satisfying crunch as I made footprints on the way to school. I wished I wasn't in a Korean cafe, but inside a bustling starbucks with a Philosphy book in my hand (also not sure why I was wishing for school work) and snow covering the Hamilton streets outside.

I miss those days of attempting to study for winter exams with good music on my ipod and a warm coffee in my hand, watching all the different people coming and going, looking forward to the end of exams and being home for Christmas.

I'm sure that feeling will pass. It hasn't really felt like much of a summer and I don't think I'm quite ready to say goodbye to the warmth yet. Plus, fall weather is incredible here, when its not raining. Clear skies, sunshine to kiss your skin with warmth but a cool breeze to make it just that perfect temperature so that you can actually enjoy the rays instead of sweltering under them.

It feels like summer only just got here, that I just got back from Malaysia, and yet already its rolling into fall. My friends and family back home have started school- either attending classes or teaching classes themselves. We had our Korean thanksgiving holiday- spent some time climbing the biggest mountain in Korea in the rain and then hanging out by the ocean; and now looking towards Canadian thanksgiving (whether or not I will do anything for that is another story) and fall colors.

It's weird how life tumbles on without you really realizing it. I mean, I'm barely aware of the passage of time here until suddenly its a few months later and its cold outside. But back home life has continued to race on without me- friends have gotten engaged, others married, others even got pregnant or had babies! Friends have real jobs, my little brother has a wife and is fixing up a home, my siblings are all taller or at least more mature and everyone is making friends, footprints, and memories without me.

I wonder if I'll really be able to go home and get my seat back on that train that so quickly moved on without me. Or if I'll have to get a new one.

Anyways, classes good, kids good (most of the time), friends good (the ones that haven't left/ aren't leaving me!), home good (new wallpaper!), and life: pretty stellar.

And that's all she wrote...