Awkawswardness

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille ball) from I Love Lucy.

I have discovered that I am less skilled at using chopsticks than Lucy Ricardo is at singing. If there was a chopstick competition, I wouldn’t just get last...I would get disqualified and thrown in the county jail.

It all started at the "O-Zeki Japanese Restaurant.” It was one of the traditional sushi places where you take off your shoes and sit cross legged on cushions. I accepted the awkward/awesomeness (which I will now call awkawswardness) with a smile. Then I saw my competition. Chopsticks. The foreign objects seemed to smile at me as I sat down, as if knowing the horror they were about to put me through. I glared right back at them and in triumph moved instantly to grab a fork. I happened to be sitting at the one place setting without one. Of course.

I begrudgingly picked them up and they slid clumsily from my hands. I noticed my uncle had them situated perfectly in his own hands, and he clicked them together once or twice to make sure they were placed correctly.

“Hey uncle Mario! How do you use chopsticks?” I looked at him in hope, and he gladly showed me.

“Just pinch the top one and balance the bottom one in between your thumb and pointer finger.” He showed me. I tried. The term ‘easier said than done’ has never been more suitable. 

This was me:

 

I have decided to leave the chopstick usage to the professionals, and embrace my awkawswardness joyfully.

Besides that, Canada is amazing! The fall colors are GORGEOUS and the family time is even better. My family is crazier than I thought! The day included:

*Eating walnuts off of a walnut tree (did you know they come in a paper shell thing that you need to peel off? I didn't!)

*Doing a faceplant onto pavement

*Riding the ogopogo monster replica

Me riding the 'Ogopogo monster'

*Climbing through trees

*'Jecuzzee-ing'

*Getting lost three times

I must admit, I miss my friends and my cat...but this 'vacation' is a wonderful and much needed one. :) Who knows what tomorrow will hold! Aye?