Haha totally stole this from cornerofmadness :

The Internet proudly presents: The Find Sherlock Holmes game!!

1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) Click Random Article (on the left navigation bar)
3) From there, only using links in articles, navigate yourself to Holmes's page
4) Post your path here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Colombo (Umberto Colombo)

Hmmm.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France (France)

This is gonna be so hard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Channel (English Channel)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England (England)

Getting closer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature (English Literature)

Am I hot or am I hot? lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_literature (British Literature)

Why am I not finding Doyle anywhere?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Haha nevermind. <3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)

MUHAHAHAHA!! XD

I've never felt this sad about getting a call from my manager saying I didn't have to come in today before. I usually felt happy because that meant I got more time for myself, etc. But this is like the second time this week and I'm actually stressed about this. Less shifts means less income meaning less money for my tuition and spending stuff I get. Ah, the joys of being an adult now. This money situation sucks. I only have like $400 in the bank still. It's going to go away real soon if I don't get more shifts. Ugh, working at an ice cream during the winter sucks. D:

That and I suck at writing thesis' and conclusions. History paper due Monday and I'm still writing it. Hopefully I can finish it tonight and edit the heck out of it all day tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

Shit. Just got off the phone with my supervisor...supposedly, my shift started at 5pm...not 7pm. So here I am, showing up 2 hours late for a shift. Fantastic.

Other than that, I'm feeling stressed with finals on the horizon. It's like only 2 weeks until I really need to be cracking down on studying. It's going to be a blast! /sarcasm I'm just glad all my finals hit me right away with no breaks because I get to go home early because of it. I'm hitting the road Dec. 16th! yay!

Right now though, I should be getting back to writing my history paper. It's on the origins of psychiatry in the 18-19th century and I'm using some guy in Acadian/Nova Scotia to use as an example of the early physicians' treatment of the mentally ill. More fun! It's only like 5-6 pages so it's not too bad. I'm on the 3rd page already. :D

Oh and I lied about my courses. I even changed my major officially. I'm now a psych major taking:

Intro to Psych 106
Intro to Sociology 101
IDIS
Eng 104
Rels 102
Intro to teaching ESL (Linguistics) 268

Yay!

I thought I'd write a post since I haven't since the beginning of the month and that one didn't count...

So university's going great so far. I've ran into some issues but who doesn't? I guess I could say I'm struggling right now with deadlines and the school work in general but that was to be expected and I don't really mind it. And another issue would be that I don't seem to fit in with my dorm hall. Idk they're so many personalities in there and I tend to be the shy, keep-to-myself kind. Which ultimately doesn't allow me to be heard above all these loud mouths and socialites.

But don't worry. I've found tons of friends and a bunch of people I tend to hang out with like almost every waking hour of the day. I go over to a couple other dorms too where I have a few friends to hang with and study in their rooms. I've found plenty of ways to avoid my dorm most of the times. Don't get me wrong, I do like some people in my dorm but it's just too much drama to be in there all the time.

Other than that, I've chosen my courses for next semester and I get them finalized with my adviser tomorrow morning. So far I'm taking:

Psych 106 (intro to Psych)
Education 211 (Psychology of teaching)
IDIS (which is a requirement for all first years)
Linguistics 268 (Intro to teaching ESL)
Religious Studies 102 (New Testament)
English 104 (Short Stories and Literature)

I'm pretty excited. I managed to take no morning classes; the earliest I have to wake up is for a class at 10am. <3 Oh and I also can't wait for Christmas break; I miss my family so much. I think that's been the hardest: transitioning into adulthood and leaving the family behind. I've been homesick this whole time (and not at an exaggerated rate where I'm crying all the time). I've been missing them and I always wish they could be here with me experiencing all this. But they can't and I have to learn how to live for me now.

It's all a work in progress and I have God and friends to help me by. <3

Catchy tune. <3

I thought I'd post an intro link to a ton of documents that give you a basic understanding of what Climate Change means and what is. It gets rid of all those rumors and myths right away before I want to jump into things we can do in our daily lives to make our Carbon foot print smaller:

http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/climate_change_101

And here's a link that brings you to a list of 15 different carbon footprint calculators to see where you're at already and see if what you're already brought into your life has done for our Planet Earth:

http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/climate_change_101

And finally, to finish off my quick Blog Action Day post for the year, I wanted to leave on a lighter note. Here is a website which explains 10 possible solutions to Climate Change for your perusal:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=10-solutions-for-climate-change&page=2

Helping Climate Change is something we need to work together at. Don't think of this as a thing you have to do alone because if each person gave up one bad, anti-green habit the world would already be a different place. We need to learn how to adapt to these new changes and take them in stride as we change our own private lives. <3

Go Green!

I'm lazy so I used my journal assignment for the week as a LJ post as well because it sums up my life this week so far. lol I asked my teacher who's reading this questions but feel free to answer them:

How's your week been? Mine's been picking up the pace for sure. I was feeling unimaginative so I thought I'd play it safe and stick with the journal prompt from the syllabus which was "Keeping your life balanced". Overall I guess I can balance my life but lately it hasn't felt that way. I've been feeling a ton of stress with 3 mid terms coming up within 2 weeks and 2 papers due. It's overwhelming to say the least. I've had no social life and the Thanksgiving weekend, though such a blessing, didn't help with the homework weight. Speaking of Thanksgiving, I rather enjoyed myself as I visited with my family. Coming back was the worst though. I'm a family-centered person so leaving them behind again was heart wrenching. I really hope the 'goodbye's get easier with time because with my PMS lately I've felt so homesick this whole week since I returned. I love TWU but it's not like home. It's not my home yet. I'm sure all these crummy feelings will pass though; they have to with all this homework and work piling up on me. Yikes. Other then that though, my life is balanced. I've always been awesome at closing and locking the doors to my life and working on school stuff so that won't be a problem.

I just can't wait till December to see my family again! <3

Comment and leave me blurbs about your life too. I want to hear from you guys and I haven't been doing great with reading and keeping in touch.

Had a wonderful Thanksgiving with the family. It was so wonderful in fact, that I didn't want to come back to school. I suddenly felt so much homesickness since I got back that I cried nearly all day yesterday. Luckily, my dad rocks because after talking with him, I was cheered up a bit and distracted. It still sucks that I want to go home and be with my family but I need to push through this and learn to be an adult on my own. I've just never felt this loneliness in awhile, since I was in Japan actually. It's not the greatest feeling in the world but with the friends I've made here, they've been helping me so much, that I'll be fine now. <3

That and I'm getting my period any second now. I've had the pimples, mild cramps, and these emotions and tears are definitely magnified by the upcoming monster. ARGH!

Yay for busy weeks. I'm actually learning that I prefer busy weeks over weeks where I get everything done right away and have time to do nothing. I don't like doing nothing. I actually get depressed when I do 'nothing'. You might be asking why my week is busier than others? Well that's because I'M GOING HOME THIS WEEKEND FOR THANKSGIVING!! I get to see my family and I'm so excited; it's been like, a month since I've been home to see everyone so I'm beyond stoked. lol

Uni's going great. I'm enjoying what I've been learning so far. The only thing I'm struggling with is whether or not I want to stick with my Education degree or not. Linguistics is looking promising and I'd be getting my ESL certificate anyways...idk. It's tough deciding what I want to do with my future.

So haven't posted anything as of late but I wanted to post something today. My head's been feeling scattered and I'm beginning to feel vulnerable again. Some insecurities that I thought were gone are rising up to the surface of my thoughts once again. I was scared but of course, once I realize that this is happening I begin the process of healing once again.

It all started only a few days ago when I began the terrible habit of comparing myself to others. It was as simple as knowing that everyone in my bible study had already experienced a missionary trip here and there and I hadn't (or course, logic doesn't exist in my head and the fact that they were all born-and-raised Christians and I have only been a Christian for a year has nothing to do with anything...). I even pushed myself out of my comfort zone and showed up for some Comedy Improv Workshops; this was mainly because I wanted to grow a bit more on my weaknesses of stage fright and insecurity.

It's going to be a hard process to get myself out of this zone I'm in but it'll happen and I'll be back to my normal and confident self soon enough. It's a character-building thing I'm dealing with right now and I know it's all good for me. lol

Other than that, homework's overwhelming already (more so the stuff that I know is coming in the future) and my social life that was is no longer. lol

Off I go back to study for a Midterm already coming at me next Monday. Peace!

Classes are finally getting really started but homework still isn't really a problem. My pre-med friends are having a field day with theirs as it piles up. lol I feel guilty though that I don't have alot of homework yet but I know it'll catch up to me. I just have to develop a good schedule so that when it does I won't freak out. lol

Other than that though, I've been joining in on a few groups. Joined a bible study on Tuesdays and I want to get involved in the on campus newspaper (first meeting this afternoon). Then there's all the regular social events that I always want to go to...it's going to be a fun year. <3

That and wow, I haven't watched the latest episodes of FMA:B....wonder when I'll ever find the time to do that.

So today was the day I got to experience one of the first huge TWU traditions. It's called the Banana Challenge. It's a huge relay race where each dorm represents itself by dressing similarly and racing around and passing the baton, which is a banana. Basically each member of your dorm had to choose which event they wanted to participate in and I chose the chugging of a 7-up and eating of the banana/baton after it was all done, so I was the last event. To make my task harder, I had to do this while balancing atop my dorm mates on a human pyramid.

There were other events I could describe but once my friend posts the videos, I'll simply show you them. All you need to now though is, we won. We won our heat by a landslide then continued to dominate the other girl dorms. So we are officially the BANANA CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS for the girls OF 2009/2010!!! WOOT WOOT!!!1

Okay, wow. Where do I even begin?! Basically I had a huge Orientation week experience this entire past week since Saturday. Classes officially began Yesterday and...ok, I think I'll go day by day?

Last Weekend:
Okay, arrived on campus with all my stuff. I was moved in and helped by the SOS leaders, who are a huge group of older students helping the first years on their transition. I unpacked some, toured the campus with the fam, then went to a first year assembly where my parents took off. I cried really hard later that day. Sunday was my first day away from the family and it was tough but I made friends fairly quickly which was nice and made my transition into uni life so much easier. I've been making friends everyday ever since.

Monday to Wednesday:
We experienced several cool events for first years to bond, get to know eachother, and meet profs, etc. Monday was a huge uni party. It was all jungle themed so I backcombed the hell out of my hair and threw leaves in it and called myself a tree. lol There were so many cool outfits. Tuesday, we visited a prof's house. We traveled about an half hour to Dr. Joel's house where she served us Tim Horton's donuts and hot chocolate. It was an amazing night and the prof was hilarious. We then finished the night at her house playing apples to apples. Fun. Wednesday we all loaded the buses and headed to Stanley park where we played a huge relay race. Then we finished the last couple hours there playing whatever. I actually started up this huge volley ball game where our record for keeping the ball up was 30-something. XD

Thursday:
I had my first classes yesterday. I woke up to English 103 where I was intimidated and exhausted at the same time. I noticed my prof goes off on many tangents while talking so I'm worried it might distract me from the lessons in the future. Can't have that happen. Then I had my first Religious Studies course which I think I will truly fall in love with. We're studying and analyzing the Old Testament which, being a history dork, will entertain me for hours on end. Then we had our first Dorm Date. This is where, if you ask and plan it, can set your entire dorm hall on a date with another dorm hall. So it was like 17 girls dating 14 guys at some Bubble Tea restaurant at 9-11pm last night. Fun. We tried this speed dating thing where we all rotated and dated each other for a minute. I talked with every guy and some guys I hit it off with and some guys were just awkward. But nonetheless, I had a blast and made a bunch of guy friends so what's the hurt in that? lol

Friday:
It's been a pretty slack day so far. I only had one class scheduled in for today because the others were discussion groups I hadn't had the classes for yet so I didn't have to go to them. I had my first Human Kinetics course which sounds interesting. Then we had our daily Chapel at 11am where we sang worship songs on the grass with everyone. Loved it. I really enjoy having a half hour Worship everyday. <3

So I'm sitting here in the lobby of my dorm hall attempting some English homework. Fun. This post was long but I haven't found the energy to write anything remotely close to it in awhile. So here you go! I'll try updating shorter entries throughout the week instead of one bug clumped-together one. <3

Got back from a big 'good bye' dinner with the family a couple hours ago. I was surprised that everyone who was invited came: my grandparents, aunties, uncles, a friend of the family, my family....ah, just makes me feel loved. <3

It was a blast getting to chat and visit loudly and obnoxiously in a local restaurant. But it sucked when we were all leaving and saying our goodbyes, hugs, and best wishes because it finally hit me that I was leaving and going away for awhile. It definitely sucks but I'm not changing any of it because I need to move on and grab 'adulthood' by the horns. I just wish I didn't love my family so much so that this whole transition of leaving them behind for months at a time would be a bit easier. :(

I have tomorrow all day to pack up everything else then we're heading off to Langley. I check in early Saturday and then my Orientation week begins. Classes don't start till the 10th.

My little sister started crying tonight and I teared up a bit. This is not going to be an easy weekend Gosh Darnit! Give me strength!! D:

PS: Lighter note? Downloaded the Lifehouse's latest CD and the Juno Soundtrack. I <3 them soooo much! :D

Do I say seven? There's:

• Tokyo Tower
• Eiffel Tower
• Great Pyramids of Giza
• Leaning tower of Piza
• Rome (everything)
• Grand Canyon
• Niagra Falls
• Forbidden City in China
• Mt. Fujii
• Vatican City
• New York (everything)
• Great Wall of China
• Hagia Sophia
• Taj Mahal
• Chichen Itza
• Jerusalem (everything)
• Great Barrier Reaf
• Northern Lights
• Machu Picchu
• And so on...

I know there are others but this is me in the morning with no brain....at least I named more than 7. Crossed out ones are the ones I've had the privelage of seeing. <3

My step dad's coming home tonight! He spent a long 3 weeks in Nairobi, Africa on a missionary trip and he just got off his plane from London and he should be flying in from Calgary soon. <3

I can't wait to hear all his stories and see all the videos and pictures he took. OOOOOOh I want to travel so bad!! My university offers a trip to Israel so you can definitely be sure of where to find me when I've saved up. lol

Paper Route...but waking up at the crack of dawn every morning got old very quickly. lol

Wow. It's nearing 1 in the morning and here I am feeling giddy that I've finally got my room organized and ready for packing? I wanted to go through and chuck stuff, etc and use this moving experience as an excuse to get rid of all the stuff I seem to accumulate. So I thought I'd go to bed tonight, walk in to chaos--formally known as my bedroom--and realize I can't sleep in this wreckage. So I cleaned it and packed a bit more of the more sentimental stuff that falls under the categories "I'm not taking this but I want it still" boxes. <3

I finally feel like I've got a handle on that room of mine and ignoring the previous run-on sentences, I'm happy. I can actually get some sleep. I'm always uneasy when something's amiss like that so I'm glad I figured out what was bothering me and dealt with that room of mine...even though it's past midnight. :D

Night folks! XD