timing is ironic ain't it.

a word before hand: for those of you who are grammar freaks (and I do know of a few who read this) please do not be distraught over the lack of capitalization ... :)

so monday and tuesday is first year first aid training. for second years, its reading week. however, our major english assignment was due on friday evening. so there's really no reading to be done. somewhat ironic. alas, there is still plenty of work to be done. these past few weeks (since getting back from project week) have just been a nightmare. i should have been prepared, everyone knows that november is the worst month at Pearson. but i was not prepared for it to this extent. so not much has been going on at all. at least in my life. nothing but the econs textbook and my math essay. latin american national day is coming up this weekend and for the first time ever i am not involved in anything. no dances, no choreography, not on the show committee, nothing. it's quite strange really. so i've decided that instead of getting depressed and upset about the whole affair, I will spend the saved time writing my EE. that way, when we start the prep for european national day i will have that much less on my plate to get done. 

so life did get exciting these past three days. on friday, all the second year economic students got the day off to go into town and participate in the Fraser institute economic conference. most people were really quite excited about the conference. basically, the fraser institute is an economic think tank which supports (and argues for) public policy rather than government intervention in economies. now, public policy sounds great and all, but as an economic theory it is not very viable and basically it means the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. as you may have guessed, pearson students are very much against such theories. so we had our own think tank on Thursday night with tea and textbooks and came up with a bunch of arguments to bring down the "other side" (being the Fraser folks). it was really quite exciting and a learning experience. boring subjects get that much more exciting when you get to use them practically and move beyond theory. so anyways, we hopped on the buses friday morning at 7:30 and headed downtown for the conference. but wait, I must back up. 

so on friday there were two major assignments due, my math essay and the world literature essay. so thursday night after music class (8:00pm) I went to bed. i intended to sleep only until 10:30, but i ended up sleeping till midnight. so anyways, i woke up at midnight and started work on the math essay, many cups of tea and four hours later i decided it was time to go back to bed. i wasn't done, but i planned to sleep for an hour then wake up, do another hour of math, go to prayer at 6:00 (i have no idea why we scheduled morning prayer at the end of the week where the average hours of sleep are the lowest for the entire year!!!) and then have breakfast and go to the conference. unfortunately, i ended up sleeping until francis and erica came to wake me up for prayer at six. kudos to me, i did not fall asleep during prayer. it was really good actually. we played the street invaders cd and just prayed. it was brilliant. then i went to the caf and had breakfast and go ton the buses at 7:30. this is where we return to the other story. 

so yeah, i could say lots about the conference, but i fear it would bore most if not all of you. basically, it was a really well put together conference. and there was good food on top of that! the presentations were short, about 35 mins. then there was an open microphone question and answer period about the presentation, then we would break off into discussion groups in separate rooms (which meant we got to get up and move about to get there) . the groups were small enough that you were comfortable speaking and that everyone got a chance to voice their opinion. and they changed each time. there were three such segments to the day, two before lunch and one after. all-in-all it was a great conference. and lots of economic ideas and discussion. i think samuel (our teacher) was excited to see us so excited about it. 

that evening when i got back to campus i went straight to the math essay. got it done a few hours before the final deadline. then i was meant to write my world lit, but i just couldn't bear it. i knew that the teacher was out for a vacation till monday morning, so i figured there would be no harm getting the essay in on saturday afternoon. turns out the deadline was extended to sunday night anyways. so i handed in the essay and went to find sarah, who was hanging out with sherdina. so after hanging out we decided that we wanted cheesecake. so we agreed to wake up at 8:30 the next morning and walk to metchosin for a nice breakfast and some cheesecake. so we did. it was nice. once we got back to campus i seriously considered working, but decided that i would rather go to bed for awhile. awhile that turned into 5 hours!!! but it was nice. and i really needed it. 

that evening was the first year theatre performance. in which my roomie Jn proved herself to be phenomenal. she stole the show. without a doubt. so so so good. i can't even get over it. absolutely breathtaking. the rest of the show was good too, but she was great. anyways, as soon as the show was over marina, rhubini and I jumped in andrew sewell's car and hitched a ride to town. there we met up with eve and sherdina and DANA! :) dana is our third year (sherdi and eve's roommate from last year) and she was in for the weekend. so we spent the night in a hostel just hanging out and having fun. it was nice to be away from campus, to be with people i love, and to see dana again. all in all it was a wonderful 24-ish hours. in the morning, we decided to go out for a nice breakfast. as we were leaving for the restaurant, i stepped on a piece of glass, now i've done this before with no repercussion, but this time it was different. it cut into my foot and i started bleeding all over the sidewalk and yeah .. it was interesting. rhubini just finished her first aid certification a week ago, so she was all excited to wash it and band-aid it and such. it wasn't really a big deal. but i was sad to see that somehow my feet had pansied up and become vulnerable to glass. it was quite unfortunate. i suppose i'll have to try harder. not sure how i really can, unless i start jogging on gravel! 

anyways, now i'm back on campus ( i wrote this on sunday night ... not sure when it will be posted) and trying desperately to finish my world lit. it has to be in tomorrow morning around 7:30-ish at the latest. shouldn't take me too long, after all its only a first draft. and then i'll still have two days of freedom. the most exciting part of that is that it's only three days of classes! later.