it's good to hear from you joanne. wow, i can't believe how knowledgable you are about childbirth, and i didn't know there were different types of strollers (i guess ones that fold up and ones that don't?) very interesting. when is your aunt's due date?

my first english tutorial was pretty embarrasing. i promised myself i wouldn't get embarrased too easily but i think everyone can agree with me that this one was pretty bad. Our TA asked everyone to write a review on a book or a movie (if you don't read...which i seldom do) that you saw recently. the only thing i could think of was Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which i saw the previous night. so everyone was writting away and i didn't know what to put at all...and the TA was hovering above me so i had to put something. and i remembered this scene where the girl breaks up with the guy in the beginning and he drops his towel in shock (he was in the shower) and there was this really unexpected full frontal scene, so i wrote about that and how funny it was. later on in the class we were all reading a poem to ourselves when the TA said aloud "full frontal nudity?" and he was holding my paper and looking at me. yeah..the rest was mostly me blushing and trying not to sound too perverted talking about full frontal nudity in the first tutorial.

on a more serious note, my really good friend's dad just passed away yesterday. i'm really worried about her but i've already called her yesterday and today and asked if she wanted to talk. she sounded really depressed, and the worst is i don't know what i can do, and that really depressed me too. i don't know if i should do something, anything. if this had happened to any of you would you want or even expect me (or any of us) to do something comforting?



ann