Mmmmm, this week I was lucky enough to get a sinus infection!!!! Yeah, they're pretty much as gross as they sound. A sinus infection includes some lovely *hemhem* snot *hemhem* pouring out of your nose by the gallon (not dramatized at all... ;-) ), impaired hearing, a sore throat, and a killer ear ache. And its put me way behind in school, i'm so screwed for this term now :-P
But hey, at least I don't live in Japan too. Cuz that would suck even harder than a sinus infection. Seriously. If you don't know what happened or you're a little hazy on the details, I encourage you to check it out. Get yo Google search on, baby! But basically, an 8.9 or so magnitude hit Japan Friday night (our time). Saturday night while I was watching the news, it was 24 hour later and they were still getting 6.8 magnitude aftershocks every 15 - 30 minutes, there were an estimated 1300 dead, and thousands are reported missing. Here on the west coast got a Tsunami warning (fun fact - Tsunami is a Japanese word for Harbour Wave), and even though nothing cool happened here in BC, 4 people got swept out to sea in Oregon (they were fine though, they got rescued almost immediately)! California got a bit of action too, but nothing like Oregon did. And Japan is in a state of nuclear emergency (as a precaution) because there was an explosion at 2 nuclear reactors. Inside the containment buildings, radiation is at 1000 times its normal and safe level, and outside of the plants these same levels are at about 8 times the normal and safe level. Now no one's allowed to get closer than 10 km to the plants. If radiation leaks into the atmosphere, this could end up being the worst nuclear disaster in history, even worse than what happened in Chernobyl, Russia, in 1986 (another fun thing you can Google). However, our smarty-pants world leaders and scientists say that this probably wont happen. *phew*
I found this really cool map (Google, you're probably my hero), you should check it out. You can select different options on the left of the page and see different things regarding the earthquake, like the epicenter and affected areas.
- http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=japan+earthquake+epecentre&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
But since last time I posted, I did some fun stuff! I had a Nerf War for the first time (epic, gonna do it again fo sho, because my friend I was warring with said it was like Call Of Duty in real life), and I had the best Sunday School moment of all time. It happened last Sunday when I was teaching Kindergarten/grade 1 sunday school with 2 other guys. Naturally, the guys got the kids riled up right away and we got nowhere with them after that! But while one of the guys was pinned on the floor with 5 little boys on top of him, a little girl wearing a big, flowing dress walked over and slipped the skirt of it over his head.... I died laughing!!!
Blonde joke of the day -
What do you call a pack of blondes in the refrigerator?
- A bunch of Frosted Flakes!! BWAHAHAHA
So, yeah. Have an epic Sunday :-D
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