Sunset

Artist: Farrah

On Tuesday of last week, I had the chance to go down to Waterloo for a couple of nights. I originally had planned to only go down for the night, but it soon became obvious to me that I would need to spend another night there running into friends. To go into detail about the few days would take far too long, so instead I’ll mention a few of the highlights.

• going out with Chantal, Kai, Brad, Lisa and Mary to share stories, pitchers, and a massive brown sheet to colour on (instead of crayons we used pastels; it was beautiful!)


• tossing the caber with Brad (which included finding a caber)


• having Jordan introduce me to the World of Warcraft (with me only getting his character killed once)


• drinking cans of beer with Eric at another first bomber Wednesday


• having Jackson host Jordan and me as we talk about only interesting things (including physics classes!)


• running into Abbie at unusually perfect times so that we could plan where we would wander


• phoning dons and enjoying their confusion at not knowing who I was, but then being disappointed when they figured it out


• enjoying Kai’s ultra-soft REV couch for the two nights I was there

There are of course other things, but the single greatest fun was right after Bomber on Wednesday night. I headed back to Kai’s place, where we chatted, and then chatted with a resident. Chatting turned to laughing, laughing turned to pastel drawings, and then other residents came and joined in on the fun. We eventually were so tired (do to it being considerably late), that we had to pull ourselves away from each other so we could go to bed/couch.

The whole experience meant a lot to me. It solidified in my heart that I liked drawing with friends, even people I had just met, more than going to the bomber (maybe that happens to everyone when they’re 24), and that I missed having residents of my own to draw pastel drawings with (and all the rest of the jazz that comes with the job of being a don). But I wasn’t sad, just very aware of how my life is different now from back when I was in Waterloo.

But this is House of Pastels, so I should probably talk about the picture. The following is from Farrah, which she completed in 5 or 10 minutes (probably closer to 5). Seeing such pretty art like this, coming from such a short period of time, reminds me how much I still have to learn about drawing.