Breaking Free!!!

So I am done my finals! Not with a final glitch before we headed into our final test...

I met up with two other girls this morning and we walk to the building where they have the finals. Our schedule had us writing in the Arena, so we walk over there and pass some of our class mates that tell us that our class isn't on the door that has all the classes inside that are writing. So they went to the gym to see if we got switched. Next we saw our teacher waling briskly down the hall, we ask him where the final is "Room 222, i'm trying to find the room now" and he keeps walking.... we all look at one another confused. Especially that our teacher doesn't even know where we are writing. So we go back to the arena and our class has congregated there. We funnel into the top of the arena above where everyone is writing, and find out someone screwed up and that we really had no place to write our final. So we hang out for about 15 minutes while some lady on the phone is talking with our teacher and someone on the phone at the same time. Someone possibly got fired today.

The story ends well, we ended up going to our regular classroom and writing our final in there. All was well.... except for maybe the heart palpation's that our teacher (Rodel) got. lol

Okay so it still hasn't clicked in that I don't have to study or go to class next week. I think it will be weird to get used to actually.



Things I will miss:

• Friends here in Calgary!
• Having my own space/place
• Everything within walking distance

 Things I won't miss

• The sketchy elevators
• Not having a car 
• Sketchy people on the C-train
• Having to carry all my groceries from the train to the apartment
• Taking an elevator in general like 50x a day
• A bed that is 4ft off the ground
• Living right next to the highway (so fricken loud)
• Getting little to no sleep almost every night

Now to get back to packing

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Okay so just finished writting my third final. I just about broke down crying around question 64. To explainw hy this happened I need to back up some.
Yesterday was Jenn's test, I find her class beyond hard. I studied excruciatingly hard for that exam. I don't think I've mentally worked for anything harder. I wrote it and had mixed feelings coming out. Come back to rez after writing it and my brain is just toast. I had a hard time studying for today's. I did study and I even group studied twice. I showed up early for the exam and one of my classmates was going on about Jenn's test and I overheard her saying something about the last two questions. Well turns out there was a massive blank and then two equation questions on the back page. I then knew I missed them as well. I got upset (not physically but mentally) because I know my equations so good and that could have been an easy two marks. So I went into the test today worrying about yesterdays and I know I had to concentrate on today's but I would catch myself drifting to yesterdays. To top it off it was freezing in there today. I had on a t shirt and sweater and I felt like my hands were going to fall off they were so cold. So around question 64 today I just about broke down. They were hard questions and some weren't making any sense at all and some had two really good answer so you have to think what would the teacher want us to pick. Ugh it was just upsetting. So I calmed myself down and finished but I don't have a good feeling about that test.

One final left

My wish: To just pass this year

Sunset last night. I'll post a better picture when I download them off of my camera

A funny

Have to remember to not let this happen

Long Distance

Long distance relationships are hard, add school into the mix and the can be disastrous if both people are not in it to make it work. Being in the middle of finals seems to be super rough.

My day lately consists
- wake up 6:30
- study till 7:40 and have breakfast
- study till 11
- decide I need a mental break and go to the gym
- work out for an hour ish
- have lunch
- study for another few hours
- classmate texts and asks to group study (awesome. and super helpful)
- come back and have supper
- group study again
- come home and study
- go to sleep

Repeat

So you can see that doesn't leave a lot of time to really talk to anyone. I do take small breaks when I finish a chapter or just can't focus anymore. I check fb, txts, and or bum around on the internet for 10 mins or whatever break time I take. I do try and text the boyfriend but I hate having to cut the conversation short when I have to go back to study. Sometimes I just so fed up I don't want to talk to anyone (don't take it personal, my brain is just uber fried)

So I was thinking of things to help your girlfriend through finals
- remember there brain is tired, txt them but understand if they can't get back to you right away
- send little gifts, funny texts, funny pictures. I good laugh break from studying is almost always appreciated
- send flowers (if she's a girl that likes that)
- make her supper or lunch (if you live in the same city)
- be supportive and ask to help
- when finals are done take her out

They only last two ish weeks for me. It will come to an end! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's small so far but it is definitely there.

Pictures

.. I'm weird, so what! I thought it was cute to have three different sizes of corn.

Found this and thought it was funny

So cute! Definitely want one!

Want to photograph this!

So funny!

Hilarious!

The contained explosion I have been living with

Countdown is posted!

Yup thats right I made a countdown. I can not wait for this semester to be over. my brain is truly done, I have to fight with it to make it through this last test and these finals.

If anyone has any tips on how to stay focused and no get to off track I would surly appreciate it.

I feel like I do my best studying when I am being asked questions/doing online tests type things. I found out my text book has online test so I am like CHACHING. So that's what I was doing tonight to help me study. I can't do the ones the teacher gives because after the first time I do them I am not thinking about the question my brain has just memorized the correct answer :/ silly brain. So I have taken the online ones from the book once and I will again in the morning. I'm crossing my fingers the are different questions or at least randomize them.

Calgary's weather has been crazy lately. One day super nice out and the next... well the picture above was just the start. I refused to go to the grocery store today because of all of the snow out there.

This is one of my friends and classmates Carla. We were having a good time practicing in open lab.

This is one of our three labs. Spend quite a bit of time in here.

Dear SAIT, this is what happens when you schedule us in the same room for 8 hrs. Ninjas in pajamas.... no idea the story behind it but, yup that's how it goes at the end of  the day when your brain is fried.

Collage on my wall. I miss summer!!!

Going through and editing pictures from April long. Chris is an awesome photographer :p lol love ya hun

Rachel and I went to China town this weekend and had "authentic" Chinese food. Rachel says this is about the closest stuff she's had. She also states she does not miss Chinese food lol. The finally finished the head sculpture in front of the new Bow building downtown.

The food Rachel and I had at the Silver Dragon. It was fricken delicious!

On my travels to find an unoccupied common room I found these people set up camp in my common room. Hooked up their lamp, had his laptop on a stand. I think they had or will be there for a while by the looks of it.


I may go into this in another blog entry but since I'm thinking about it I might as well put it down.

Friends

When I think about it, I don't really know how to make friends. I have met some awesome people while being at school and have become friends with a lot of them. Some more closer then others.
My thinking on this whole friends thing is that I will be nice to everyone, and if someone is nice in return and we seem to have common interest or get along great then awesome, friends!
Take Rachel and I for instance. I classify us as good friends, and I've had more then one person give us the sideways look and be like how did you guys meet and become friends. This relationship was more thanks to Rachel then me but I am glad she did what she did.
On my second day living in residence there was a campus tour, I thought what the heck why not and went down stairs and met the the other randoms in the main area. The Rachel comes walking in and starts saying hi, I see a few people ignore her but when she said hi to me I reciprocated and she sat down and we started talking. We talked the whole tour and that lead to the friendship we have today. Sometimes I find her hilarious in the fact that she just moved from Beijing and is still getting the hang of English slang (I laugh sometimes but always apologize and explain whatever I was laughing at. I hope you know Rachel I mean no offense by it). One of the things I think is the coolest is that we talk about the differences in culture, I find it fascinating! Also Rachel tries to teach me Mandarin... well lets just say she is a patient teacher.
All in all I don't walk around and pick people out and be like "yup I'm going to be your friend" that just doesn't work for me. I like the weird, and unique people, they normally give me a new look on life or at least have interesting conversations with me.

It's Alright

Okay so today was rough. I had an exam in which I studied really hard for, after I wrote it I came back to my room called my mom and had a mini break down. I'm pretty sure I didn't do so well on it. I really needed to get an awesome mark in the class to pick up my average. So as I sit down to study for my next exam on wensday I turn my ipod on and this song plays. It made me smile a bit. I'm hoping its a sign. I haven't listened to the song in a while so it was pretty random to come up.

Anyways 18 days and counting till i'm home! I'm super excited. Plans are already being made as far as a trip with Ally to go see my other half miss Sara.

Lately I've been trying to go to the gym a lot more to help fight all this stress i'm feeling. I'm also hoping to lose a bit of weight/tone more. I've lost half an inch on my thighs which to me is awesome :D I hope it keeps coming off :)

Yes this post is random, and all over the place. But when isn't my thinking like that :|

Pictars!

-not to many this time, haven't had time to take any/nothing to really take pictures of

So it's a joke to post facebook updates that your at the gym and that it only counts that you go to the gym if you make a status. So I instagramed post work out at the gym in hopes that it counted for double. Big awesome of that workout was I learnt to cross over skip backwards, its pretty damn confusing trying to teach myself to do it. I got it slow so next step it to speed it up. :)

This sunday morning it was super foggy out, couldn't even see across the #1 from my window. This is the tower I live in, I was coming back from my adventures downtown.

Downtown fog, downtown adventures were pretty tame this time around. I left early enough that no super weirdo's were out and the hobo's were all sleeping I think. It was pretty quite downtown. Went to staples and picked up pencils and these pens I really like in which my favorite ran out the night before.

Drunk people somehow rode this around and managed to get it to my floor and leave it there.... it's still there. No one seems to care, i'm kind of hoping it stays till I move out and I can use it to move  my crap out.

Creeping on a random truck at school. I like the grill and headlights. (it was a slow week since I last posted. This is about as exciting as it got lol)

Colour contacts hate me. I love them but they don't reciprocate. I wore these for only three days, always took them out at night and put them in fresh solution. (I had a problem with my last ones ripping really easily, so I made sure to take really good care of these) This one looked to have a thing on it so I put solution in my palm and rubbed it around and what looked to be something stuck to it turned out to be a crack and when I pinched the side and pulled up to remove said thought to be stuck item it ripped off :/ grrr thankfully I have a the rest of the box still but frustrating. I'll have to wait and deal with it when I get back to Regina.

Ohh also on the frustrating list is my laptop is being a PITA. (pain in the a$$) I think my charge cord is broken or frayed inside. I have to hold the cord at a stupid angle and hold my tongue a certian way and half close my left eye and then it will charge :/ jk but I do have to hold it a certain way or else it won't charge. Awesome time to be a dink laptop... just great. I'm crossing my fingers that it will hold out the 18 days. It's been just over a week of fussing with it now. I seem to be figuring out what it likes.

Release countdown is on!

End of term 1 is on the countdown now! Only 7 days of class left! Only 25 days until I move home to Regina for the summer. This school year has flown by. I thought it would drag out and I would miss home a ton, but in reality I rarely have time to think of the things I'm missing or people I miss.

This past weekend was the Easter long weekend and my family, boyfriend, friends, and godkids came to visit me. It was a busy fun packed weekend. I was spoiled by my parents as well. I got new victoria secret clothes, and lots of candy :D

Last week I was studying with Carla and turns out the elevator got stuck. Had a good laugh with the security guard that came to guard the stuck elevator and check on the people stuck inside.

Chris and I went to Big Cheese. They looked cool but didn't taste so good.

Took the kids to Ikea. Vik had to try out all of the chairs

My mom playing with Ethan

Went to the Hindi store for some food for my dads friend. Chris found these chips in the isle

Powered through this book the other day and it was really really good! It's about a lady who had Guillain Barre syndrome and how the hospital staff treated her.

Took studying to the next level

So true!

Dad's been trying out some new para cord as well as some new ways to tie the bracelets. Oh so cool!

Mom made me this wicked Peeps and Jelly beans basket

Told ya I was spoiled. Lots of pre made meals 

Regina has 3 weeks to figure out how to get rid of all of their snow and not flood. I will be home and wanting to drive my car.