Don't judge me too harshly in these one guys, I swear I'm not an alcoholic! However I was afraid alcoholism was going to be one of my souvenirs. Either way, it was a really fun first night in Venice.

( We're in mafia territory now, watch yourselves. )

When I move out I'm going to do it right. Get your friends to help you all day then give them beer and pizza.

Been catching up with these, I'm even a head by a whole other post! I've also been studying and practicing piano. Today has felt productive. Other then the part of re-watching the whole first season of the IT Crowd, oops.

( Today we salute you Misses Impulse Helmet Buyer )

I love summer school, I even love that I have homework, I feel like such a keener and it's great :D But now I need to try and finish these trip re-caps up or I'll be working on them forever! I even had to divide Croatia into a whole other post. WARNING: Image heavy, but they are beautiful.

go to croatia

( We are climbing that mountain no matter what! - oh crap, is that lightning? )

Internet has been down at home since Saturday, the Shaw guy was going to come and fix it this afternoon but I wanted to take one last try and fixing it, so voila! Working internet again.

Went to my brothers convocation last night, he got a scholarship! Well 1000$ to put towards his school, which is a little maddening since it's more then I got. But it's due to the school he's going to, and that his average is kept at a good level from his slackers courses. Seriously?! Two music classes?

Anyways, time to get ready for work.

( We are standing right next to the ocean - do they really need this wall of animated water? )

My brothers grad was almost more fun then my grad. No pressure, just look pretty, catch up with old teachers and even some of the other kids I graduated with. Even got a free bottle of wine from one of our teachers since he felt bad for having to move Sam H and I away from our families. But really, this move probably made it all the more enjoyable!

Only two more countries after this, but we spent 6/7 days in the next two so I might have to break them into separate post because there is just too much to say.

( The Quest for the butterflies! )

Today is my brothers' graduation dinner, meaning I get to dress up pretty :D And to think, we were almost worried he wouldn't make it.

Picking up a few extra hours here and there for work, which is very nice since I need to make all my money back!

( This says 500 Crowns, how much is that? - No idea, just buy it. )

I've fallen behind on my write ups since the weekend was spent helping Samm film her movie for her film class. I was the boom operator in a really small, AC-less, pretty much window-less and doors closed room. Still fun though, and I'm looking forward to the finished product. It will have greenscreen-ed ghost and everything. Coming soon to a YouTube near you.

( Amplemanchen Man says walk )

Continuation of Contiki coverage. I may have to start directing rl friends and family to my lj so I don't have the say the same stories 20 times.

( If it's not legal here, it's probably legal there )

Hello lovely LJers! Did you miss me?

After 28 days I'm home, brought about 600 pictures, some new cloths and British Pink Eye back with me. The trip was AMAZING! I've never had so much fun in my life, and I'm really sad that it's all over. Thankfully through Facebook I've been re-living the whole thing since I got home, haha. And for the next few days I'll be trying to re-cap the highlights here before I forget all the interesting side stories.

( Leaving on a jet plane, arriving in Paris )

So tomorrow is the big day, and apart from the minor panic attack that I'm working my way through everything is good.

This, is the tour I'm going on, plus five extra days in Manchester, England.

I'm finally ready to call my packing done, other then the stuff that can't go in till tomorrow. Hoping that I didn't forget anything important and that I have enough room in my bag for buying stuff.

The hardest part of this trip so far is just leaving the gliders behind, I get sad when I'm just going to the bar for the night and don't see them for one evening. 30 nights is going to be hard. Not to mention how much I'll worry about the rest of my family looking after them. Next worry is navigating Paris in hopes of arriving at our 'Contiki Village', thankfully we can all speak and understand French so that should give us a leg up. After that we will have all sorts of language barriers but the guide should hold our hands for the rest of the trip.

So I just wanted to say goodbye internets! Hopefully I will come back to you with all sorts of awesome stories :)

Not much feel as good as an honest days work, even if I'm lumping a whole day into about 4 hours. I finally got around to giving the Sugar Glider enclosure a big overhaul, which I do every spring. I meant to do it on Saturday but I didn't feel like hosing a cage down in the snow.

Been filling time with preparing for my trip, reading around 11 books since school ended (moving into adult level reading at that, haha!) and watching downloaded Asian Cinema. So nice and relaxing. Bloc Party was great too!

However I am afraid that I might kill Braelin in Europe, there is only so much of her I can take here and I'm afraid it might be doubly hard to be around her out there. Means I better try hard at making new friends.

I'm sure I had something a little more productive to mention when I started to type this, but it has since disappeared. Hmmmm, oh. Maybe it was that I got my final grades back from Uni, imagine a drum roll because this is some good stuff.

Three B's, one B+ and one A. Sure, mediocre overall, BUT it means I pulled off a B in the class I was afraid to fail. I even pulled off a B in the class that I spend half the year getting C's in. So overall, very comforting to know that I can work, go to school with a full set of classes and still not turn my brain to mush.

Tonight is the beginning of finales for the large amount of television I watch! Strange how it worked out perfectly to still be in the country while they were airing.

With the end of school I've been able to re-claim my love for books, spending my days re-reading the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce, yes, they are nice and simple young teen novels, but I needed something to easily get through before I started reading nice deep books. (Which I already have waiting on my shelf, even picked more up today. Used book sale!) And I'm also thinking I may finally be able to part with these books having read through them all once last time.

Since I've been reading when ever I have free time I haven't been spending much time online, just checking RaL pretty much. Haha, I also need to re-learn my appreciation for the computer after recovering from those essays.

Spent some time pre-paring for our trip, 18 days and counting! Time files when you're not in school. Still have a lot to do to be ready for it. I'm even entering the 'theworldisgoingtoendwithoutmebeinghome' phase of things. Because my mom is possible leaving for one of the same weeks, meaning my dad and brother are going to have to feed my babies! It is a very worrisome situation.

I just opened up iTunes for the first time in a while and a large amount of my music files can't be found. Ugh, this doesn't look good.

Bloc Party this Sunday! I keep forgetting about it, which is sad, the trip is just a little over powering. I'll also be giving blood at my old High School on Friday (if they accept me that is). Also finally had that skin tag removed from my nose, now it is beautiful and I only have one deformity on my face, haha.

Hopefully more regular lj updates from now on.

So I've been stuck in this ugly study bubble for about 4 days now. 5 more to go. I just want to run away from them though :( Politics is going to seriously kill me on Friday, English on Thursday could do some serious damage to my hand, 3 hours of non-stop writing. Human Evolution can go okay if I can just keep studying.

But I'm a terribly study person. Always have been. Which is probably why I started sleeping so much and having long showers. I also work 1-8:30 tomorrow, so there goes a whole study day. I just want it all to be over so bad. Then on Friday, after my last exam I'll go to work, then I'll get someone to drive me to the nearest store I can buy Pokemon Platinum at and just let my brain turn to mush as I catch 'em all.

Yesterday for Easter we did an evening egg hunt. Yes, me and my brother are 20 and 18, my mom still hides eggs... and I still enjoy it. And not just for the basket full of chocolate at the end.

Got Wii fit for my mom for her birthday and I've managed to play for over 15 minutes for 6 days in a row. This is probably the first time I've done any store of exercise since volleyball 4 years ago. I've gotten my Wii Fit age down to 20 for the last two days too, meaning I'm "fit", haha.

Eeee, tomorrow is April! When did this happen?

This time of the year I'm always thinking 'To Script Frenzy or not to Script Frenzy?' April is a terrible month to undertake any sort of writing activity, finals, last bits of homework, just crazy time all around. Last year I tried any way and only got 5 pages in, didn't have a story other then people being stuck in an elevator.

I love writing dialogue, but 100 pages is a lot. I'll probably start writing something tomorrow when ever I stall on my next paper but I have low expectations, maybe when I'm finally done with school I'll finally be able to commit to writing a full script in a month, but for now I'll just take it as a formatting learning experience.

7 more days of school! And only one last terrible Tuesday!

Down to my second last essay, time is flying by and the exams that I haven't even been thinking about are quickly approaching.

Just got a Twitter update about a fire at my school x_x It was in one of the buildings I've never been in. Apparently there was a hazardous materials crew working at the scene and they aren't sure if there is any more danger. Does asbestosis get dangerous when it burns?

Jen and I went to a Wedding social last night from my cousins friend. The cool thing about socials is the wide range of music they play, Sexy Back to Doctor Jones by Aqua. I may now have to dig up my Aqua CD. We bought tickets for the silent auction but didn't win anything, but one of their friends one twice! Didn't stay too long though, Jen wanted to get up early to work on her essay, so we were home by 12:30, which was funny because she dropped me off at the exact same time my brother got home. That's pretty early for him considering that some times he doesn't even come home at night.

9 days left of school, can't wait for it to be over!

So today was an adventure. First thing in the morning I got an e-mail from my Intro to Archaeology teacher to tell us class was canceled again. Meaning I only had one class, debated going, but I had books to drop off so I decided to go.
( Frodo made it, so can I )

Ugh, it was only a consultation, and not even with a plastic surgeon, just a dermatologist. Now I have another appointment at the end of April. I'm so tired of doctors appointments :( At least they didn't charge me 65$ just for the "consult".

My life is still pretty much just school and work all the time. Trying to spew out two essays this weekend, meaning writing a whole 10 page one today. Really worried about the 15 page one though x_x

However I did go out last night to watch Samm's boyfriends band play, they didn't get on stage till after 1 so we only stayed for a few songs, which was fine with me, had to be up at 7:30 today anyway. But I was pleasantly surprise, they were better then I thought they would be, I always have my doubts about small bands.

Going to see a plastic surgeon tomorrow morning, 'cause I'm Hollywood like that. But not really, I'm just having a skin tag removed from my nose. Then on Thursday I'll go see the neurologist to find out if I get my license back!

But for now, I'm going to drink my tea, ignore all the noise being made in the kitchen(Mom's putting tiles on the walls) and keep writing.

I'm trying to cut back on complaining about school work around here (since it's all I ever do it seems!), so this entry only talks about good news!

First bit needs some back story. Last week our Intro to Archaeology teacher came to us saying that the mid-terms went really bad, so bad that the average was 54% and that was only because there were a few A's. This is terrifying because I'm never one of those small group of A's but, I looked over my past stuff in that class and I have gotten A's on all the projects so far and I had also felt really good about writing that mid-term, but it was still very unnerving. We had a whole class discussion about what to do with it, in the end the marks got curved 9-10%, which our prof had to fight for.

We got the marks back on Monday, counted up my score and had 85%, without curve, add it and it jumps to 94%. Which is an A+! Makes it my first A+ for the year :D

Other news, our trip to Europe has been booked and paid for today. Jen, Braelin and I will be touring Europe for 23 days in May-June with a tour group company, as well as spending a few days in Manchester to visit Jen's internet friends over there. We had wanted to have the whole trip in May but that one was full when we went to book it, so now it just means we have to move our Summer courses around. It just feel much more real now that we've paid for everything. Exciting!

Other news, which is bitter sweet really, my cousin had to back out to going to the Bloc Party concert since she's heading back to Alberta to work for the summer. But I txted Katherine pretty much right after finding out and she said she's game! So everything is still working out, eeeiii. Too much excitement! Homework time!

Why is fake Hugh Jackman following me on Twitter? I make one tweet about the Oscar performance o_O Then there is one other random fellow with no personal information, so that's strange too. And I was a little weirded out when CBCManitoba watched me back. Generally I only tweet about my essay progress anyways, I use it more to follow people/news.

I'm skipping English at the moment, I was having my first real good sleep in months and decided that just what I would keep doing. I'll go in for my other classes though, getting mid-terms back today, even if there is one I really don't want to see the results of. I blanked on it and it should have been easy.

Anyways, no more slacker days for me, had my break. Got work tonight, where I plan on working on my next Historical Archaeology assignment, maybe all of our strange weather has ruined the rinks and no one will want to go skating. Then again, it's not the skaters that are distracting, it's the kids who aren't skating who'd rather just run around and make noise >_