See you Angel~

May.13th.2005, the Dinner with int' students at Tony's place

My friend, Angel, left Toronto yesterday to China to help disabled children in an orphanage. I've known Angel for three years and so. I remember the time I met him for the first time. I asked his name twice(Some Korean students here use English name for some reasons). He told me that his name is Angel. To be honest, I thought it is a funny name to be called. However, now, I definitely think he deserves to be called as an Angel. He used be the wheelchair basketball national team coach in Korea before he came to Toronto and what he did while he stayed here is mostly volunteering. I gave him a new nickname recently, "the King of Volunteer", because he always helped physically challenging people. He always told me that language isn't a problem but the important thing is your heart to help people. I found some Int' students looked down on him because he had been here over three years but his English wasn't improved a lot. Most of the int' student's main concern is English. Thus, sometimes they tend to judge other int' students with English level. Although, Angel wasn't valued well in int' students group, he got a good reputation from the volunteer world and I'm sure that the people who Angel helped love Angel.
Last Friday, the last day with Angel in Toronto, we went to Nenry's place after Fee's open house.


<April.27.2007. Angel's last visit to Fee's place. From the left, Emily, Angel, Fee, Nenry(late night?), Kayo, and me>

Nenry cooked Jajangmyun(noodles with blackish bean sauce) for us. It was so good. I remember that we had jajangmyun after graduation ceremonies in Korea. So, I thought it could mean to him that he graduated from living in Toronto with success. Afterwards, I said good-bye to him and wished him to have a good life in China. I gave him two keychains with my words, which are one from my cellphone is for him and the other is for his future fiancee(he hopes he marries in China). Last time I was here I collected 20 Cadadian quarters which has a maple leaf on it and went back to Korea with them; and I got them have a hole on it; and I also bought keychain rings and strings in Korea. So, I give one of them to people who were close to me when they leave here, but not two of them. Angel is a big person to me. I just wanted to give him two of them. Oh, he gave me a lot of more valuable things than keychains. kk. It was last Wednesday after dinner with a couple of mutual friends at St.Louis.


Last dinner with Angel in Toronto. Apr.25th.2007, From the left, Jun, me, Angel, Max, Isan

After dinner, I went to his place and stayed there until three AM. His place is 20 minutes far from my place on foot, so I walked back home with the things he gave to me ( Some Korean food, a pack of rice(8kg), a sun screen, a tennis racket and balls, 20 packs of ramyun, and etc).

He has left to China but I will see him some day in Korea and keep in touch with him. He is such a nice person who I can meet once a life time.

See you in Korea, Angel~

Another subway shutdown

After three days of skating from Friday to Sunday, I had a chance to execise more early in the morning Monday. I walked from York Mills to Eglinton subway station for 50 minutes. It was just crazy. I heard a TTC worker died by a working train last night and they shut down two subway stations for investigation. To be honest, I don't get it. As a result of shutting down subway stations, thousands of people were stuck in the subway station and couldn't be in time for their commitment. When I got out from York Mill subway station to walk to Eglinton, OMG, what a chaos, tons of people were waiting for the bus and I saw a long line of cars without any movement. It could cause another accident; maybe, it has already happened. I am being negative but I have to say that the way an accident is handled and a post response are different from the Korean way. Oh, well, what can I do; I live in Toronto, Canada; I just walked for almost an hour on Monday morning. When I got to school, I was already exhausted. It is going to be a tough day. I have two more classes in different places. I am not sure I can handle it.
However, I feel sorry about the worker who died in the accident.

Skating on Hamilton path

photo by Daniel

What a day~

It has been outstanding weather since Friday, so I have been skating with TISC skaters three days straight. It never happened before while I have been in Toronto. Today, I skated on Hamilton path with lots of(??) skaters. For the first lap, I did it with my zip pants and jackets on but it got warmer, so I took them off after the first lap. It is my first time skating with shorts and a short jersey this year. It means it was just beautiful weather.
Hamilton path skating is always fun because the surface of the trail is, needless to say, fantastic and there are no obstacles, unlike other trails. I did 3 laps as most other skaters did. Most of the time, I took it easy, focusing on DP. It was so fun skating with others with gorgeous weather on a perfect trail. After 45k skating, we headed to a restaurant named Emma's Back Porch. We all had a breakfast buffet which was so tasty and it is a reasonable price. Everything was just good.
I hope I can skate on Hamilton path a lot this year.


photo by Mike

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