Ever the Optimist...

Hello,

So something very... not wonderful happened today. I don't really want to get into it, but essentially it's helped me make up my mind about something. I've been considering getting up and moving away from home since last August, and now I finally feel like I can do that. The only reason I was staying here has been terminated (I tried so hard to make that not sound like someone died. No one died.) and now I think I have the nerve to do it.

So, my plan is to work really hard for the next four years both at a job and at my undergrad degree and then, after I graduate I'm leaving Canada. I'm planning on going to Paris for a year just to write (and improve my French). I'm lucky enough to have parents who are willing to pay my way in University, so long as I get good grades, so I can stash money over the next four years to make this happen. I've already researched the processes I'd have to go through to be able to stay in the country for a year and to gain residency, so I can live in an apartment for that year.

If I have enough money, that's what I'll do. If I don't have enough money for that, I'm relocating to Kingston, Ontario. That's where my mother was born and where my father ended up when he moved to Canada with his family and it's the only Canadian city besides Vancouver that I love more than Calgary. So, regardless, I am spending a year away from Calgary after my undergrad. It will be good for me.

Anyway, on a happy note, I went shopping today and had a lot of fun :3

I hope everyone had a wonderful day and a great long weekend (if you got a long weekend, if you didn't I am very sorry).
~Alexandra