Where I've been

February is nearing its end and I thought I would take this time to tell you all what has been happening in my life so far, the bubbles that I have blown....or popped lately!

Last semester in school I had an old friend as my roommate and we got along beautifully. We spent many a night watching Gilmore Girls, which we sadly finished (7 seasons!) last night. Now that it is over I don't know what we are gunna do..... :P

I went home for Christmas....and spent over half of it de-stressing from school and the rest stressing about where I was headed in life and school.

Yet this semester I thought that I would move out so I am now going to school still but living in a 2 bedroom apartment where I have a bedroom and bathroom to myself and am sharing the place with 2 other great girls.

I was super surprised to find out that I passed my Philosophy course last semester, granted it was a D+ but it was a pass. If you know me I am not a philosopher. I will talk about a philosophical topic for 5 minutes before I become bored...much to the chagrin one of my friends (M.P. :P).

I failed my first University course, History. I tried to like history and I did LOVE the stuff about ancient Greece but the other stuff, there was so much to memorize! But I won't make excuses, I could have studied more, although in University you can always study more!

As of the 3rd of this month I am now 20. I am no longer a teenager and I feel like I should grow up or something.....naaaah!

As of the 4th of this same month I have been dating my boyfriend for one year! And it has been an awesome year, and I am not just saying that! Although we both often lack the funds to go on many dates he always does something sweet like making me breakfast before an exam or because its a special day. Or watching a chick flick with me even though he wants to. Although I will say that time we watched Twilight it was not totally my fault and he insisted on finishing it even after I told him we could stop 5 minutes into it!

I got a new job. Although I have yet to start there since it hasn't opened yet. I will be a prep-cook at a health cafe/restaurant which is 5minutes from my house! And I start at $11 which is nice considering I am definitely fitting into the 'poor college student' section....although thankfully not to the point where kraft dinner or noodle bowls are my main menu options!

Lets see what else did I do? Not much!

So what have you been up to?

Where Was I.....

Now my last blog post about what was happening in my life happened during midterms of last semester and in about 3 weeks I will be starting up midterms once again. Both a lot and little has changed since that point, if that makes any sense. And so this post will be about school.

So I did fairly moderate on all my midterms and continued to finish last semester with a "A", "B", "C+", "D+", "F" and a "W", which pretty much covered all the letter grades if you do not take into account + and -. A was for Choir which the only way to get a bad grade is not to show up. Surprisingly I passed my dreaded philosophy course with a D+ something I did not expect to pass. Now I was trying my hardest but I am anything but a philosopher as I am sure a few of my friends will agree, so passing this course was a huge surprise. The one course that I did fail, and can I say that it is the first University Course I have failed, was History to the 1500's. Parts of this class I found riveting while others almost had me falling asleep in my chair. Due to the large amounts of writing and unfortunately the hated having to memorize things I didn't fair to well on the final. Of course getting my second lit review all messed up may have attributed to it (Although I did a good job on it....). As for the W I chose to withdraw from the course to make it (a) easier on the rest of my work and (c) it was the final day to drop the course and I was NOT understanding anything (and I didn't miss a single class!).

So what do I have planned for this semester? A couple English classes, as well as a couple Choirs and a Discipleship and Mentoring course. While I love my school and the people in it I am not 100% happy with my program and the courses that they have to offer and so I have decided to take my ECE (early childhood education) certificate starting next year. I love little kids and since it will be a long time before I have any of my own why not take care of others? Unfortunately the College I was going to take the course at no longer offers the course so I either have to take it at a different campus somewhere else (Vancouver perhaps?) or take the 4 year course out here. So which will it be? I must say I'm tempted to take distant one because I can get the same piece of paper for half the amount of time it will take doing the course out here.

So how is school going for you?

Procrastination

So it is 2:26am as I sit here writing this blog post for you all. Just another way of me procrastinating. So far I have completed two exams last week, one which I am very disappointed in and the other was okay. Then today, or technically yesterday I completed two more exams, one at 4:00pm and one at 6:30pm. And guess what! I have another exam at 9:45am! So what am I still doing up? I am studying...or pretending to at least.

After my last exam of the day I took a break and chilled, meaning eating a toasted bagel with cream cheese and strawberry jam and cuddling with my boyfriend. And then I pretended to study while surfing the net until floor meeting. After floor meeting there was 15 more minutes of cuddle time before curfew where I did some more internet stuff, saved all the documents I wanted to read for my history exam tomorrow. I then set about trying on my Halloween costume, after roping my roommate into doing the same, I finished up an energy drink as I tidied up a bit and then once again attempting to study I showed my wonderful roommate, Kathryn a bunch of videos from my first year at University. And so I have wound up here.....but honestly....how am I supposed to study?! I have already studied so much my head may explode....actually I think it may already have and now it is like a deflated balloon.....I can't fill it again. Yay for History that requires a lot of memorization. Oh well, I'm not tired so I will still get a good amount of studying in (too bad I'm a bit sick....thanks roommate...I had given it to you for a reason!). Actually I doubt I will sleep tonight, I may have to drink some Orange Pekoe tea (my favorite) or maybe another energy drink (my second full one in my life! within 5hours!) but at least my head will contain some knowledge that will be gone by 11am tomorrow!

So how are your exams going? How do you study?

Stable Unstability

Due to the lack of internet connection and time I have not been able to keep up-to-date on my lovely blog here even though I have had many that I would have loved to write. But finally I am in the midst of unpacking my room in residence, preparing for my second year of University and finally adding some stability to my life.

Over this summer I have done a fair amount of traveling, spent multiple nights in several different places, even settle down in several places for a while...only to have to get up, move and have to settle down again. And over the course of this summer I have finally discovered that I actually NEED some source of stability in order to survive.

I made many good memories and had a lot of fun throughout the summer but for some reason....as I lay on my bed writing this post....all I can really think about was how stressful and tiring this summer was.

Now time to start school...and for some reason I feel that it might be more relaxing then the summer even though I am taking 5 courses, 1 lab and choir each semester.

Missing You

So I haven't been updating my blog a lot lately but with my wisdom teeth putting me outta commission temporarily I have some free time. I have finished my second semester and first year at University. And in retrospect I have had a wonderful year.

Hightlights would consist of:

• Building Snowmen - my fun friend Michelle and I had fun in the snow and built a handsome snowman, unfortunately he was drop-kicked and destroyed (which kinda looked cool but when you spend several hrs working on a master piece you don't want to see it destroyed right after) but a bunch of our awesome floor brothers helped us recreate him. A while later Michelle, Heidi and Andrew K. and I all make a huge snow woman who must have been about 9feet tall. Andrew, who was tall had to stand on a chair and stretch to fit the head on. Lots of fun in the snow!
• Christmas Banquet - while I didn't go with a date I went with some awesome friends and the theme of the banquet was awesome! It was a Maquerade! Like from phantom of the Opera! I had fun with it and made my own dress (which was technically an assignment for my Theatre Class) and a cool matching mask. The food was awesome and the entertainment was entertaining!
• LotR- Yes I watched Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life as well as several other movies that I have never seen and people are shocked to hear that...and there are many movies to go...any suggestions?
• Boyfriend - definitely a highlight, I started dating this guy who is commonly known as Pajama Boy for wearing pajama pants to school. He is also known to be one of the kindest guys you will ever meet and is just a sweetheart. I have also found out that he is a very fast runner and will follow through with his threats...the reason I have been thrown into a snowbank about 3 times....I guess I might have deserved it.....
  
• Brother - I got a brother this year! Being 1 of 4 daughter I have no brothers but was adopted by Andrew Love as his little sister...who is only a couple months younger then him. He scolds me when he needs to, we have fun coffee times, are still planning a fight to the death (him being a vampire and me being a werewolf and all [previous blog post explains that]) and I make him laugh and give into almost anything with my cutsie girl act (why doesn't this work on Jesse though?) NOTE: My brother is not to be confused with my sisters 'brothers'. Her brothers are not mine, mine is not hers and neither of her brothers or mine are related to each other. Simple as that.
  
• Friends - Friends as always are fun. I have been teased for almost every reason, mostly by my roommate and an old friend from camp. Together my friends from Ambrose have had awesome times as we have played many different games, shared jokes, gone on hikes and just grown together. I also had an awesome time when my Abbotsford friends and a friend from Vancouver Island came to visit me!
• Playing Sports - Every semester we had at least 1 intermural sport. I was involved in both flag-football where I had the joy of scoring my first ever touch down again my profs (yes we get to play our profs in our school - beat that!) and futsal (indoor soccer) where I had fun playing as much as I could and getting some really nice bruises. Also throughout the year it was fun to play futsal, basketball and frisbee with my friends and schoolmates!
• Coffee Times - Waves Coffee House was finished and ready for business in the second semester and I must say that it was an awesome place to go to for a nice cup of white hot chocolate (YES!!) and a nice long talk with my sister, my brother, my friends or just on my own to study.
• Growing - Finally (because there are many other highlights but these cover the majority I suppose) I found that it was fun to see how each of my friends grew in their own ways, how their lives changed, some in big ways some in small. I also found that I grew in many ways too....all but in height that is. Ambrose was a great time of learning more about who God wanted me to be as a student, friend, sister, and as myself. I learned many valuable lessons both in the class room and out of it and am glad that I decided to come here

I have really enjoyed my first year as a University Student, from staying up for all hours, going to a pub for the first times (for cheap chicken wings and coke instead of beer of course), to hanging with friends to going for walks and talking to God. Ambrose has been a place of Love, Laughter and Learning and this summer I am really missing everyone and everything there but am looking forward to the new memories, adventures and lessons that the new school year will bring.

So how was your year? What were your highlights?

Catching My Breath....

I have decided to take a breather between exams right now. So far I have completed 3 out of 5 exams. I had one last Thursday, one yesterday, one this morning and I have one this afternoon too. Then I have a 2 1/2 day break until late Friday afternoon where I have my last one. I am a tad disappointed that I have to wait so long to do my last exam otherwise I would have been able to go home sooner. You may say that it gives me more time to study but how much can you study grammar? I understand that Effective Writing is good and maybe even necessary but I like to think I know how to use a comma by now....thanks to my mom making me do grammar books every single year for at least 5 years (thanks mom!). But then there is always something new that you can learn and I guess this gives me extra time to hang out with my friends before Christmas break...and maybe even pick up the Effective Writing book and actually do some studying.

So what do you need a breather from?