Check out the new apartment!

Here are some pics of my new apartment. :D

SO exciting!

Hiding in clothing racks.

Did anyone else do this as a child? I distinctly remember how appealing it was to climb inside that little fort-like place and hide until my mom was done shopping. I found shopping reaaaaally boring. Oh those were the days. I wish I could go back to being a child. So few cares... so much time!
Now I have bigger things to worry about. And increasingly more boring things to endure.

Oshawa in a week.

Oshawa. Home sweet home?
I'm not sure if I feel good about going home to Oshawa for the summer. In fact, it's a little scary. I've been away from Montreal before, but the longer I'm here, the more attached I get to the city, to the people and to the ministry. I wish it wasn't so hard for me to change places. As I've said before, I love routine. I like when things stay the same. This is gonna be tough.
Things are so uncertain. I don't yet have a job, and need one. I have so much debt already. I don't have many friends to hang out with. And I really desire to be a part of a community, even if it is only for 4 months.
I'm just really hoping God's got this summer in his hands, and that it won't be a big waste of time.

Sometimes good, sometimes gross.

Today I gagged on a piece of rice bread. Why, you ask, do I eat rice bread... with its intense dryness, sandy texture and bland taste? I eat rice bread because it's the best thing going for people people with wheat allergies and gluten intolerances (i.e. celiac disease). It's usually ok. It doesn't measure up to a real piece of bread, but it does make life a lot easier. I love sandwiches; I like toast when I make eggs in the morning, and I love peanut butter (which just isn't the same by itself).

Today was just a bad situation.

I made my lunch the way I always make it. A sandwich, an apple, a jar of baby food, raw veggies. I'm a creature of habit and I love my routine. Two pieces of rice bread: this time the one with the flax seeds, sometimes it's plain, or brown rice, occasionally the really yummy six-dollar loaf of almond or pecan rice bread sweetened with fruit juice. I put them in the toaster (which you'd think would make the bread even drier). I was in a rush, so took them out before they were done. I spooned the last of the egg salad on to one piece, threw the sandwich into my bag and was out the door. Little did I know that on the way to school my bread would decide that it hadn't been toasted long enough and would be drier than I've ever tasted. :P It was really gross.

I was just grateful that I had a lot of water left in my water bottle as I made some strange choking sounds, to the amusement of some people sitting near me in the cafeteria.

John Mayer!!

Yep... tonight I was at the Bell centre as Johnny Mayer rocked the house!
What a talented guitarist! What a beautiful voice! What brilliant lyrics! WooooO!

John Mayer puts on a great show. He is one of my all-time favourite artists. What's yours? I like hearing about others' music tastes.

Today I finished my first exam and a large computer science assignment, so it was nice to take a little break, relax and listen to some really awesome music.

My friend Jozef and I went to the concert together. We've had tickets since Feb 26th and I've been so excited about it! We sat and stood and clapped and danced and yelled. It was pretty chill and relaxed. But the girls behind us screaming "WE LOVE YOU, JOHN! YOU'RE SO HOT!" didn't really enhance the experience. However, I have to admit that with the way he dances and the way his curls bounce around when he bobs his head, I think he's pretty cute.

The show was great, but it did leave me a little unsatisfied. He didn't play some of my favourites, like Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, Come Back to Bed, Something's Missing and Bold as Love. Here's what he did play (in this order):

1. Vultures

2. Good Love is on the Way

3. Why Georgia (my favourite from his first album)

4. Some older song that I didn't know the name of, maybe from Room for Squares

5. No Such Thing (with the best guitar solo from the whole concert)

6. The Heart of Life (with an added line from In Repair)

7. Bigger Than My Body

8. I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)

9. Belief

10. Waiting on the World to Change

11. Gravity

12. Your Body is a Wonderland

13. I'm Gonna Find Another You


That's from memory... pretty good, eh?
Here's looking forward to his next album!

Good times.

Friday night I had my NINTENDO PARTY! What an amazing time!! Eight people came out, and Peter brought over 60 games for us to enjoy! My favourites quickly became Trog (an old favourite) and Boulder Dash (a new fave). We ate lots of good food and played Nintendo for hours. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it! What a good investment! :P I had friends from several different places (friends of friends, friends from classes, friends from Campus for Christ) and Nintendo just seemed to bring people together so much more quickly than just hanging out. We played Track Meet for the first while, and I laughed a lot as people raced each other in the 100m dash and the 110m hurdles! Who knew Nintendo had a Track and Field game with a DDR-style pad? What a blast! Brad came late, after most people had left, but I was still in the mood to play... soooo we played Marble Madness (although I died pretty quickly every time) and Boulder Dash because we really really wanted to get to the Ice World! We stayed up until 3:30, but I don't regret the lack of sleep I suffered the next day. Oh man... so much fun!

Then... last night Dorrie returned home and her, Brad and I watched "Children of Men". I thought it was really well done! However, the end looked kinda low budget, with very little props and set. I didn't like that it ended so abruptly. But, I loved the political side to the film. Those crazy fisher people!! They make me so mad! The music was great, and the characters were really interesting.
I'd be interested to hear comments from anyone else who's seen the movie, so leave them!

Starting next September I will be living with Aviva, the girl from my church, as well as a friend from residence first year. Her name is Krista, and she's really great, really easy to get along with. I am so blessed that she asked me to live with her. She has a three-bedroom apartment and her two roommates are moving out. It's located on the border of the student ghetto and the infamous Montreal Plateau. It's a really cute place and it's closer than I've ever lived to campus! Yaaaaay! I love the 10 minute walk to the Trottier building.
Ahhh Trottier. Most of the students you'll find in Trottier are from Computer Science, and Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering. Most of my time on campus is spent there, working away on the computers, finishing programming assignments. I like the atmosphere, the community... I just have to meet and make friends with more of the students in my faculty.

One of my many goals for next term.

Here we go again!

This is the beginning of the exam period. How I looooove exam time. Yes, you might think I'm crazy. But understand that having no classes is very freeing. Everyone is studying, and you can have study parties. People are available to hang out, even if it is just to study.
Exams are like three-hour long games. You race the clock to solve all the problems.
And once it's over, it's such a great feeling. Such a sense of accomplishment!

I've found another way to procrastinate from studying this year...
Tomorrow night I'm having a Nintendo party. I bought an original... yes, before Wii, before the Playstation, before Sega....those of you born in the 80s will appreciate this: the first NES. Yay Nintendo! I'll admit I've been playing Super Mario a lot.

The only bad thing about exam period this year is that it's snowing. SNOWING IN APRIL! AFTER EASTER! Who woulda thought? It's cold and it makes me tired and chilly right down to my bones!

No cars go

We know a place where no planes go
We know a place where no ships go

No cars go
No cars go
Where we know

We know a place no spaceships go
We know a place where no subs go

No cars go
No cars go
Where we know

Us kids know
No cars go