First solo flight

I am now back in Malaysia for the summer, and boy does it feel like summer. If you have ever been to Malaysia -- or know how it feels like to be in a tropical country near the equator, you know how I feel. After 6 months of freezing cold to chilling winds and mildly hot days, I am now melting. Boy, have I have missed being sticky and sweaty.

Anyway, to get back to Malaysia I had to fly alone for the first time. I actually thought I would be pretty scared and nervous but surprisingly I was not. For some reason I was really chill, which makes me wonder if I was on some sort of morphine high or something because I was TOO chill. But it was a cool experience. I've been on a lot of flights before so I guess that helped a lot.

In total along with transit time, my journey took 25 hours. Well if I start from the time the shuttle picked me up, that would be 3 1/2 more hours, so 28 1/2 hours. And by the end I was feeling like I had been on a plane for my whole life.

And now that I am back, it feels as though I have never left. Still, it is too hot. Too hot. Can't wait to get back to Canada now!

World Partnership Walk

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, I was lucky to be part of this huge event here in Edmonton. I volunteered to help out and got assigned to be a route volunteer. The World Partnership Walk is a 5km walk to raise awareness and funds to end global poverty (especially those of mothers and children) and 100% of the proceeds goes to the Aga Khan foundation. A spectacular event with a huge turnout of more than a thousand people walking with a purpose. And I know approximately how many people walked because I had a counter (those old school clicky ones) and did my best to count every person that passed me.

It was a pretty fun day and I was standing 90% of the time, so am pretty exhausted right now. But the main advantage of volunteering at events like these (apart from helping a good cause) is that you meet new people and make friends. I have definitely become more open and less shy around new people since I've been here and that's a good thing. I'm not saying I'm no longer an introvert (I'm pretty sure I always will be), but that I am now less uncomfortable and awkward around those I have just met.

I feel like I am experiencing life right now, and what better time than in university huh? Being all on my own and exploring new places, opportunities, people. These few years are going to be fun. I'll definitely want to help out next year (this is a yearly walk).

To end, here is a picture of me at the event grounds: