In New Zealand one of my favorite experiences was going to an Irish Pub in Nelson. I loved this place b/c a bunch of Irish folks from the town got together for a seisiun. In a seisiun people come together with instruments you've never seen before, sit in a big circle, and just jam off each other. The sound is truly magical and makes you feel like your right in the middle of that scene from the titanic with kate and Leo dancing. (haha). If your ever in SF check this out Tuesday night at the Plough and the Stars. The place also had great live music other nights. The adventure actually ended up being the trip to this place. We got dropped off at 800 Clement, but needed to be at 100 Clement. Andrew Sam and I enjoyed putting the phrase"It's not the destination, but the journey that matters" to good use.

Ahhh! 2 of my roomies from Fall semester 2006. Exactly a year before I met you guys! It was wonderful to catch up with Negar (middle) and Saili (far right). Saili just finished her second year as a special ed teacher with Oakland Teaching Fellows as an SF State Grad student. She is also going to do some community service work in Morocco this summer. I'm so jealous!! And Negar just graduated from Cal! She is wonderful and always brings me back to my meditative routes. She practices Sufism. We enjoyed a great conversation about the fact that Sufism can make one feel like they are completely full of love, uncaged, and at peace with oneself and the world.

It was tough to have a peaceful dinner with Saili and Negar at Raleigh's b/c of all the uproar over the Celtics Warriors game! Unfortunately I've been dragged into the hoopla and have watched pretty much every game in the series. It's the best players playing the best players which makes every game exciting to watch! God, I hate to say it but I'm pulled to Kobe and the Lakers. He's fun to watch.

At 6:30 on a Saturday morning I dragged myself to a used gear sale at REI. You'd think nobody would be there, but this sale offers such good deals over 100 people were already in line in front of me at 6:30. You get your raffle ticket and then you get to go into this small room for 20 minutes when it's your turn and grab shit as fast as you can! I ended up getting a 120$ sleeping bag for 50$!

Brandon and I went to a great comedy show at Cobbs comedy club in Sf. We saw Arj Barker from flight of the conchords and doug benson from the marajuanalogues.

And one of the highlights of my week was meeting up with my best friend from 6th grade!! Caitlin and I did everything together when we were younger. It was amazing b/c I felt like we were basically the same people as we were back then. I remember when we were younger playing soccer together and dressing up to go to the mall all we did all day every day was laugh. We still laughed a lot together and it feels so wonderful to have recovered a friendship from back in the day. I'm hoping to never lose touch with her again!

I'm off to work. I'm really sick Ariane...this sucks! I miss you guys and am wishing you health and happiness :)