Here we go Again?

I guess if you are like most adults, there must be times when you wonder whether life doesn’t go in circles and cycles. God bless the French who have just two words for that feeling – Déjà vu?
As my family and I continue to settle in our new community, some activities are becoming routine even if not boring. Some would argue that the repetitive activities lead to some order while other free-spirited souls would prefer a different menu.
Since our last ‘chat’, Danju has completed his volleyball tryouts and made the school team. Now that has meant practice after school three days in each week and weekend round robin tournaments out-of-town. Two weekends ago it was Stony Plain and on Sunday last week it was at the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton. The tournament began at 11am, which meant that we had to go for Mass on Saturday evening or we’d have been in a deficit in that department of Mass attendance.
To make the 11am coin toss at the U-of-A tournament, I had to rush Danju out of bed early on Sunday, a fairly uncomfortable assignment because the previous evening was loaded with Mass and buffet dinner at Beijing House restaurant to celebrate (albeit belatedly) Sampi’s 17th birthday which fell on weekday.

So I did drop off Danju for his tournament and rushed home to take Papa to the ultra modern football turf at Riel Park in St. Albert for his game against the Millwood Grizzlies. This was Papa’s second game for his new team – St.Albert Colts. The coach uses him in two positions – punt return and running back. Does this remind you of the Cincinnati Bengals Ocho cinco 85? The game went well and Papa’s team won. Papa took a ding to the head in his 30 yards touchdown run and had to seat out the second half as a precaution. He’s OK though and looks forward to this Sunday’s game in Sherwood against the Sherwood Raiders.


Today is Thursday and it’s Air Cadet night at the Community hall in downtown St.Albert. The children registered for this last week and we haven’t stopped talking about the huge opportunities that becoming air cadets in Canada presents the children for leadership training, obtaining air glider and light aircraft pilot licenses, learning to play different musical instruments, mastery in the use of air rifles etc. And top these with university scholarship offers and getting paid during summer camps; all at no financial costs whatsoever for us parents. Not bad at all if you ask me.

By the way, managing all these activities calls for effective time management because schoolwork doesn’t take a break and neither do the chores and responsibilities at home.

Such is life really. We all have various stakeholders and obligations and juggle all these we must if we are to maintain a good balance in our lives. Did I start this by saying déjà vu? Yes indeed. Here we go again! Thanks for keeping a date with us; and your time is appreciated.