When I told Alex, my housemate, that I brush my teeth three times a day - before and after breakfast, and before I go to bed, he was a bit surprised.. he said I was hardcore. Thinking about this, it was back in the summer of 2004 that I picked up this habit. When living with Tim and Thomas, I found out that one of them (or both of them) brushes his teeth before breakfast. It was smart because I frequently had to leave right after breakfast since I was in such a rush to get to morning class. So I started brushing before breakfast. But soon I gave myself more time in the mornings, and I continued brushing my teeth after I ate, going about the way I grew up. Brushing before you sleep is just something you need to do, there’s no weirdness about that.

I picked up a lot of stuff from living with those two guys. Cooking, separating my meat into meal-sized portions before I threw it into the freezer, using spices when cooking, how to maintain a clean kitchen. When I think back to that summer, I remember when how I wouldn’t do very much schoolwork since I was taking 3 DE courses. I remember how I stayed up till 3am some nights in bed reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy that I borrowed from the school library. We had so much time, I would cook my own meals for dinner almost every night, if not at least every other evening. We would cook our meals, eat together as we watched the evening news at 6pm, go off to do a bit of schoolwork, then re-gather to watch CSI or Canadian Idol. We didn’t have cable, but since we were on the 7th floor of 16 Wilsonview, we could pick up TV signals from a good bunch of channels. I remember when we would stay up late playing Worms World Armageddon on Thomas’ computer, challenging each other to game after game, as our pride was at stake.

What a life. I’ll never forget my first summer in Guelph. It’s a bit sappy to start reminiscing now, but I believe that when you start to remember good times, you appreciate each day more and more.

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