I am reading an amazing book called Finding Alice... it's about a female university student who, in her senior year, starts developing signs of schizophrenia-paranoid. As her mental illness progresses, she ends up locking herself in her apartment for weeks and then hitch hiking to another city to live on the streets. It is a heart-wrenching story (fictional, I believe...but it gives you a first-hand idea of what people with this disorder are dealing with) that reminds me of the movie A Beautiful Mind. John Nash, a Nobel prize winner, dealt with the same illness as Alice, the main character in this book. I am not finished it yet, but I can't put the book down!! (Which is not a good thing when this is my only day off this week and I have an economics exam tomorrow night). Anyway, I highly recommend this novel!

(FIFA) Fútbol Update

- Argentina defeated S. Korea 4-1 (I totally predicted this)

- Greece won against Nigeria, 2-1... interesting game.

- Mexico beat France 2-0, which was surprising. Vive Mexico :)

 OLE OLE OLE OLEEEEEEE...

First Dutch Victory

I watched part of the 2nd half of the Netherlands vs. Denmark game this morning... and watched the Orange score their second goal and win the game! Woot!!! For those of you who don't know, all of my grandparents are landed immigrants from Holland. I grew up in a Dutch community and we take our football allegiance very seriously :) Here are a few pics of the team -- from fifa.com. Peace!

Cambodia Project Makes News

The Cambodia "business plan project" I was part of this past semester made the university headlines this past week. :) I am so excited to see the ideas implemented over there. Check out the site for our project partner: People for Care and Learning (PCL) and the news article.

I ♥ Nannying

This summer I'm a part-time nanny for a wonderful 7-yr old boy. It's a great deal of fun -- today we played around outside and went exploring in a forest, made pancakes, went to a bookstore, cruised the neighbourhood in a golf cart, drew some pictures, and dressed up in crazy masks and ran around with BB guns. Love it!

Bowling Balls

If arachnophobia is a fear of spiders, what on earth do you call a "fear of getting your fingers stuck in a 10-pin bowling ball"? Just curious. Not that I suffer from this or anything...