February 9&10

February 9^th Bus 447.

Normally on the buses i ride they are the old style with the plastic seats but apparently someone has gotton tired of cleaning up even those spills so i see now in the bus there is a no smoking, no food and no radios sign. This makes me sort of sad because before i knew when i could bring a coffee onto the bus if i needed to, not that i ever did, but i could have. Now that peace of mind is a little lost on me. Such are the perils of riding the bus. My co passengers to begin with are two girls one blonde the other brunette. The blonde one is sitting in the coveted seat just bekind the back door. Why you may ask is that seat coveted i'm sure it has something do with being able to leave quickly and a little more to do with the increased amount of leg room. The bus seems to be leaning much to the right i wonder if the combined wieght of the two girls is enogh to make it tip. I am on the same side as the girls but i am accounting my weight equalized by the bus driver. In my back corner here there is a little draftt it seems when we slow down i wonder whati is causing such a thing caus it is quite cold and a little annoying. There was a girl dupont who i have seen a couple of times get on at Mindy's old stip i wonder where she is this morning. Well at least she will be warm in her dupont jacket. We picked up a girl at church stop i have never seem her before. And yet another girl who looked very cold got on at Gregorov's stop. They are doing work on the corner by the KFC so the elderly black man who wanted to ride this morning had to walk across a lane of traffic in order to get on.February 9^th Bus 447.

Normally on the buses i ride they are the old style with the plastic seats but apparently someone has gotton tired of cleaning up even those spills so i see now in the bus there is a no smoking, no food and no radios sign. This makes me sort of sad because before i knew when i could bring a coffee onto the bus if i needed to, not that i ever did, but i could have. Now that peace of mind is a little lost on me. Such are the perils of riding the bus. My co passengers to begin with are two girls one blonde the other brunette. The blonde one is sitting in the coveted seat just bekind the back door. Why you may ask is that seat coveted i'm sure it has something do with being able to leave quickly and a little more to do with the increased amount of leg room. The bus seems to be leaning much to the right i wonder if the combined wieght of the two girls is enogh to make it tip. I am on the same side as the girls but i am accounting my weight equalized by the bus driver. In my back corner here there is a little draftt it seems when we slow down i wonder whati is causing such a thing caus it is quite cold and a little annoying. There was a girl dupont who i have seen a couple of times get on at Mindy's old stip i wonder where she is this morning. Well at least she will be warm in her dupont jacket. We picked up a girl at church stop i have never seem her before. And yet another girl who looked very cold got on at Gregorov's stop. They are doing work on the corner by the KFC so the elderly black man who wanted to ride this morning had to walk across a lane of traffic in order to get on.

February 10^th bus 401

This morning i had another quick conversation with bus drive John. It is nice that he recognized me it just makes you feel special. We are probably going to have another really high rider count cause there are alot of people who have an 8:30 class. I'm going to call him Chu in hopes that he rides this time of day regularly. Yesterday on the way home i saw stephanie and a bunch of her friends they all got on around church stop. Elementary kids are so funny.it is fun that the lights are on inside of the bus, i somehow feel special that others can see me taking the bus as the solo it in their gas guzzling trucks. Just kidding i and not that green all though i think it is interesting that they would leave the lights on inside. It is not a particularly cold morning the temperature went up and waht came down none other than a blanket of snow, just a light layer that covers the town. Chu is sitting there reading a textbook of sorts from here it looks like a history text book. There is an older lady who has just sit down at the front he has on a pink jacket and is reading through a pretty thick novel. I wonder where she is off to. Maybe a university professor. I call her Gloria and if any of you have ever watched scrubs you have an idea of what she looks like. There was a lady who was obviously waiting for the number 16 bus but she did not know that this the 17 and the 16 go the same place right to thte university. So bus driver John rightly told her so and let her get on here so that she did not have to wait our in the cold for another 10-15 minutes. This girl just got on and graced the back of the bus with her presence. I feel almost special. She is really tall well dressed and has short blonde hair, she will from now on be known as Shannon. Josh just got on the bus and has gone right to the very back behind me which is a bit unerving cause he can now read what i am writing so i am going to stop now. Have a Great day and God bless you!

January 27

January 27 bus 417

This morning my father made me breakfast and coffee. I love my family so much. As it always is on tuesday and thursday it is dark as the sun has not even begun to rise. For the first time in a very long time there were two other people waiting at the bus stop. It was sort of weird. And the bus driver was not my usual so i was sad to see this young guy but i'm sure that he can drive great. Aside from the three of us who got on at the stop there were three other girls on the bus. The one sitting one row ofrom the back on the opposite side of me has her head focused very intently on her book highlighting things as she reads. The other is wearing a coat with dirty blonde hair and she looks rather tired as she listenst to her music head bobing slowly with the bumbs fot the road. Four make that five people at the next stop bringing our grand total up to 11. the last one to get on was an older getlemen who did not have a bus pass and wore blue jeans and a leather jacket so that makes me thing that he is a biker in summer and busser in the winter four at the roger and amada stop none of them are roger and amanda. I miss seing the same poeple in the morning. On mornings like this where roughy four people get on per stop it is hard to give them all names. But there is a familiar face in tim. He has ridden this route and i have reconized him a couple times before because he so reminds me of a tim i know once. Only one at gregorovs stop an older lady. This new bus stop sign is really throwing me off i am just not used to the bus pulling over there. Coke truck by the high school thats good get thos kids caffenaited. Sort of a bic commotions as music sleepy girl dropped her phone maybe she did fall assleep tow more beside the elementary bring the grand total to who knows what.Maybe Beauty (sleepy music girl) fell asleep and that is why she dropped her phone. That wold be quite comedic. And now i expect at the nest stop 7 little dwarves to get on. And maybe once at the schoolshe will need her prince charming to drag kiss her and woo her off the bus..

January 26

Bus 425 January 26

This quiet wednesday morning is not one bit my idea of an ideal way to start a morning. In fact you could say that is sort of sucks. First of all i woke up 2 minutes before my alarm without know it went back to sleep for 30 seconds and ba bam as if it was saying “take that sucker you have to wake up and go to school now.” Then while waiting for the bus i was about to take my last sip of my cup of coffee and i spilled it one my freshly washed hoodie i'm sorry mom. So i got out of my crookedly parked car(because apparently know one else knows how to park) and got on the bus and there was a lady in my spot. She was there yesterday. And the day before but come on really she should know i like my spot. I should ask the bus driver if he could reserve it for me. But God is good. There are just six of us on the bus including the driver as we come to the new 4way stop sign placed by the first school stop where ashley and baljeep used to get off. I never see them anymore or stephanie i wonder how they are doing. I see police club every now and then usually on days like today on my return trip. Nelson is an intersting one. She has her blonde hair tied up in a pony tail with a and is very keenly dressed. This is a new one two people just got on on the seveth street stop. And 4 people got on at 7 11.

There was a girl whol go on after 7 11 who i would picture as either a kniesiology or pharmacy student. She just has that air about her. Lost in her own world dressed very nicely yet not extravagantly. The streets are brown with slush and it seems february is about to be in full brew. Supposed to get more snow in the next couple of days i hope that is does not turn into freezing rain though. I have never felt the bus lean that much it was almost scary it felt like we would tip over. Anywell got to go now have a day.

January 18

January 18 bus 448

I feel sort of special today the bus driver talked to me. He asked me isn't it a bit early today. So i told him i had an early class. He is a pretty cool guy i guess. Tuesday mornings before 8 there are alot of people who ride the bus. There are already 4 on and there is one more getting on make that 2 as aguy just ran across the street before church stop to make it onto the bust ontime. Numbers seven and eight got on at church stop. One guy in a burton hat makes me think farmer just with the rest of his apparal. Number nine just got on she reminds me of a sarah i know with longer blonde hair that has some very nice curls in it. 10 an older lady who is obviously going to work, wait scratch that she has a u of s backpack. 11 and 12 a girl who has come all the way to join me at the back of the bus o that she would grace me with her presence. 13 if this continues i might have to find a new seat for my lunch and mittens as all the others will be filled up very soon people are going to have to sit on the same benches as other people o the attrocities. Dont they know that people at this time in the morning are just as likely to punch a person who sits next to them on the bus as say good morning. 14 and 15 now 16 17 they just keep rolling on. 18. And i think all but one of the people on the bus are university students. O how lucky the older east indian lady who got on at my stop obviously after doing some shopping. Just think she is so unique and special. I love the morning bus i must say especialy when i am not to tired.. Josh getting on the bus is number 19. a regular all the way from last year. 20 and 21 are a guy and a girl the guy with nothing but a warm coat and the girl a backpack. 22. The older lady who i thougt was not a university student early but is she is reading a book by rick warren, I did not catch the title but he is a christian author maybe just maybe there are at least two of us on the bus could be more not that i would know. I think we have taken to much into fitting in if only there was something that we could wear i wish it we had the gut just to stand out a little bit more from the crowd. How will people know who Jesus is if we do not proclaim it. And to face the ridicule we are to stand together and if we all oppenly identified ourselves wouldn't it just be easier. Fish T-shirts? Anyway i am going to leave now as we are passing the ronal mcdonald house how will people recognize you today?

January 10

January 10 2011 – bus 821

Welcome to the first chronicle of 2011. Today is a monumentous day. Well not really it is the first monday of the 2011 winter semester. The first of 12 or so that will mare this year with either glee or woe. To most the Monday is a woe a way to start the week usually on a more negative note. Alot of people wish it would just be done away with but are we not suppose to make the most of every opportunity that is given to us. The bus has a couple more people on it than it used to . There are two more university students on the bus both male one dressed in regular guy attire the other is more business like. Also there is a female aboard the bust as well I will call her chantellle in hopes that she rides more regularly and besides someone named chantelle has signed the seat in front of me. He is wearing his timberlakes costly blue jeans nice jacket and canadian olympic mittens.

There is a another gilr show it seams will be a regular she wears a dupont jacket an old jeff gordon original there fore i will aftly name her dupont. It is sad to simply drive by the bus stop of Roger and Amanda now that they are not here barely anyone sits at the front. In fact the person closest to the front is dupont and she is just infront of the rear door. Since this is a larer bus all the smoker kids normally congregated by the macs are in class burning away all that they have learned. Pedro has just got on by the school. It is hard to name people knowing that they very well may not be regulars. It will be interesting to see who is on in the early morning tommorow.

I love the fresh blanket of snow that has covered this city in a sheeny white. I love snow i just may have to be a little more careful on it. That will be all for now Have a great day filled with his love and glory and may God bless you as you step into it.

November 8

November 8^th bus 436

The days are getting just a little bit darker. The sun is no longer up as i drag myself out of bed in the morning so that i can catch the bus to school. But yet i thought this would be a day filled with longning to sleep and be at home with my sister who is back for the week. But alas I get to learn and it is great. Gwen and hwen are on the bus just being their usual chatty kathys with one another. And it seems we have a new addition to our daily bus ride. I call her stephanie and she reminds me of the typical young elementary girl. She is on the bus when i get on and gets off rather quickly. Quickly being she gets off where roger and amanda get on. Her hair is usually done up in a double pony tail with a decorative hair band to match the elementary kid look. O elementary a time when you were excited to see your school friends, learn some things from your favorite teacher, then rush off to recess to use your brilliant imagination to create worlds and games that parents just dont understand. On tuesdays when i take the bus i go by an elementary school in full swing of reces and it is in a word wonderful. Kids just being kids. Sort of makes me long for camp where the kids aren't worried about anything other than when do i get to play and for how long. It is really disheartening now to drive by the high school and see the teens who have lost that innocence of youth. Instead of filling their minds with imagination and creativity they fill it with drugs and alchol they exchange the great time of a child for what they think are the great times of an adult. Smoking outside the mac's all in a big group. “No one can touch them.” I wish they would find Jesus maybe in a youth group or a school teacher but there needs to be more witnesses to them cause they are the new generation coming up. It is a generation being brought up by more and more lax morals till i fear what kind of generation they will rise up. We need to pray more and more not just for ourselves and Mrs. Johnsons toe but for out neighbors and for the schools that Satan has so deeply infultrated. Pray for the children and generations to come.

October 27-29

October 27 – bus 983

Well this morning i am late to getting started to writing this wonderful story. I guess the busses rund later on days with icy ground. He did not stop at my spot for the regular 10 min that usually happens. Nope he was just driving by and I bstrly got on. There was a new high school student today he looked pretty cool. Police Club got on with the same mittens and hat that i saw her inlast night when i got off the bus with her. They are the first eddition olypic canada mittens from the 2006 torino olympics. I could barely recognize roger and amanda when they got on this morning cause they were bundled up so much and with the hoods on i oculd not see their faces. It has been a really interesting ride cause i think for the first time we had two people get off the bus before 8^th street. I wonder where they are going. Mindy is also on the bus this morning sporting her baby blue jacket and jeans to match. There was another girl who got on the us with her. She looks like a high school student not to happy eithershe sort of had an emo thing goin on with this deep red and black hoodie with big white stripes in a plaid fashion. It is realy cool we are following the the sixteen bus andt they are picking up all the people and we are just following them around i think they are communicating between the two busses now, Maybe the sixteen will go past the next stop and we will pick up the people. Plaid girl pulled the line and is requesting the next stop. I wonder where she is going. Maybe she works at the daycare or clarence market. Nope. Poor police club looks really tired she is almost sleeping wobbling back and forth. Normally she has big headphones in but this morning she has ear buds. I think ibuds from ipods and she has an itouch. Maybe new well she should realize that the ibuds suck on those and she will go back to her skull candy. We are moving really slowly now. O well this gives me the chance to talk about this girl sitting across from police club. She has this very nice pink adidas back pack. Ok just to give you an idea on how slow wer are moving. This girl missed the bus and and were a ways from the stop by now and she was able to walk catch up to the bus and yeah quite sad. Ok so now these two guys are trying to cross the street to catch up to the bus. I just saq this biker on his way to somewhere he was wearing ski goggles very logical but funny looking. Well i am going to go now this has sure been an eventful ride but i just feel that any more writing would just be rambling. And besides i want to read Phillipians.

Oct 29 bus 419

so this entry is different from all the rest sofar as it is written on the way home not to school. And right now i just want to share some thoughts about halloween. Usually most stories end with the good moral just be yourself you don't need to be like anyone else or act like them but just be yourself. But what is halloween about. Dressing up and going to get candy from others. Tow girls just got off the bus probably going to get their costumes ready for the halloween party that they will be attending. Back to the original thought. Halloween is really all about being someone else and becoming their persona. Then you parade that persona around town going from door to door expecting them to give you candy. Which makes me think about the other part of trick or treating. What no one seems to expect the trick part. I wonder how many people actually trick others or try to scare them with tricks. I wonder what God thkns about trick or treating. Man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart. Isn't that the whole picture. I believe that in north america we say we want to be unique and individual yet everything thing we do we do usually for the aproval of others. To often we are worried about what others are going to think. What will they think if my hair is messy. What will they think if i wear and old t-shirt to class. What if they find out i buy my clothes at wal-mart. What is cool and is not cool is not by any means important to God and he does not care if you have an Armani suit dulche and gabana hand bag or even roxy jeans. All God looks at and cares for is your heart and if that is not in its right place what do you need to do to make it right. Have a great day! God be with you..b