As Busy as a Bee Should Be

I need to do more of this. Make my "weekend" full of productive things and have fun a little, even if it does mean lack of sleep... I can do that at night, when usually I would be doing nothing but sitting up on my computer and just ... well... doing nothing!

Yesterday, I ventured out on to the golf course in the sun, (even if it was a bit chilly!), and I felt I played well considering I hadn't played for 6 months.. I'm only a "fair-weather" golfer and hate playing in winter. Golf is just another sport that comes under my list of sports I play and even if the price has hiked up now I'm 18, I hope to play as much as I can.

As you can probably tell, I am waffling slightly as I try to not talk about work for one second. I realise most of my recent posts have been about the place I dread going to. Right.. that's enough about that..

I'd like to talk about something I have never mentioned before to anyone, ever. I have a pen-pal, (or more of an e-mail pal..), from Boston in America, she's 17 and we just casually send e-mails to each other just updating each other on our reckless and un-interesting lives. I met her last summer when she was on holiday in London. I was on a day trip with the fammo and I was sitting in a cafe, (sorry I don't have the little accent to go above the 'e' on my keyboard..), on my own waiting for my people to come back from a shop I didn't particularly want to go in.. and she came and asked for a chair next to me. I jumped, after being in a bit of a day dream about how bad things were, and spilt my drink over her shoe! It goes down as one of the most embarrassing things to have happened to me ever.. so, like the gentleman I am, I offered to buy her one and we just got chatting.

Turns out she was in there for the very same reason I was, as her family had walked off to a shop she didn't want to go in... (I don't know why). She seemed highly independant and intelligent, (for an American!), and we had an interesting chat for half an hour or so before we both re-joined our families. I never saw her again, but she had talked about her great number of pen-pals and asked if I wanted to join her extensive list. She showed me that list aswell. A moderate number of people from South America, Asia and the UK, (probably about 12), all pen-pals, (or e-mail pals..), with this solitary girl from the US. It made me think that this country doesn't have to stop at making friends with our own nationality, but can broaden our horizons and stretch out to make friends with other nationalities. I find it interesting to find out about other people's lives, miles away in some deserted suburb, even if it does sound a bit nosey!

Some of you may think it's a tad strange, (a couple of people spring to mind immediately!), but I'm not so bothered. It's amazing that 9 months almost to the day, that 2 people who will never see each other again, are still communicating..