Leaving on Friday

Hey,

So, if I haven't mentioned this already, I'm going on a 10 day trip with the languages programme at my school to France and Spain. We're going to Paris via London between Friday night and Saturday morning and we'll do our thing there for a few days, we'll spend a few days in Toulouse, then we take the train to Barcelona and from there to Madrid and then home.

A few of the wonderful things we'll be seeing will be Notre Dame Cathedral, where we will be attending mass on our second day which is incidentally a Sunday, as well we'll see the Seine, the Champs d'Elysee, Versailles, the Louvre, and a bunch of stuff in Spain... I'm in the French programme so I mostly paid attention to the stuff in France.

Anyway, I did all my shopping today, and I'm packing tomorrow after I do my Theory of Knowledge presentation, and then I just have to say goodbye. I'm really upset about leaving all of my friends behind, but I suppose I need to learn how to deal with that kind of stuff considering the wonders of post secondary await us next year.

Anyway, I probably won't post anything tomorrow, so I'll post more in April when I get back, there'll be lots to say... I'll probably transcribe my travel journal 'cause I'll be too lazy to write anything else :P

Fare thee well!
~Alexandra

Reading Again!

Hello,

I finally did some reading today. I haven't actually read something for fun in months, so this was good for me. I had my Oryx & Crake test on Friday and I was still 70 pages from the end of the book, so I finished that off today. I really liked the ending, it kind of continued the feeling of the book and gave the reader the impression that life goes on regardless of what has happened. I was really impressed at how well she did that. It kind of reminds me of how I tried to end one of my stories "Don't Let Go". It's just raw and real yet beautiful.

I also started reading Angelology by Danielle Trussoni today. It's very well written, I'm quite impressed. I was lulled into a false sense of security by her writing style, it started out looking like a book about a nun in her convent and an artist who works as a P.I. on the side, and then there's an old man who was youthful in the early 1800's which completely threw me off and reminded me that this book does in fact have a fantasy element to it. A rather substantial one. I'm already 37 pages in. I'll be taking this one to Europe with me I think. It seems appropriate, as it appears that it will be set in Paris at one point or another.

Other than that my day was slow, I went out in search of Bromelain tablets for a biology enzyme lab I'm performing tomorrow, and I also picked up more hair smoother. Exciting.

Bye for now!
~Alexandra

Yeah...

Hi,

Been ignoring the blog for 5 days now... and I have nothing to post. I had an archery tournament today in which I took first for the individual round in my category and then 3rd in the grand eliminator (everyone took part).

D&D on Thursday, my group left me behind while they all went into a magical book and became awesome. I got 20 XP in pity points because I "was there" as the DM put it.

Been learning to play magic, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. My friend built me a deck in 15 minutes and I've actually got a good win/loss ratio going with it.

Nothing else has happened.

Bye!
~Alexandra

Splicing

Hello,

Well it was back to school with me today. Not a bad day, though, I understood Calculus, got a reading period in English, did my lab on Superworms in bio, did my oral in 2 1/2 minutes in French and then texted for the remainder of class in which everyone else did their orals. I joined my friends for Magic after class and we put me together a deck and I'm starting to play now! I am no good at all, but I'll learn.

Other than that... I gamed a little bit just now and I also put together a track for a belly dance performance. I don't know how choreographed it's going to be, and I also don't know if it'll be performed anywhere... maybe YouTube if it's any good.

Not a very exciting day otherwise. I'm just trying to survive. Every day I have to go to school I die a little bit inside. I hate it, it's pure hell. I just want to get the hell out of here and get to University, where I'll care about what I'm doing. There will be a legitimate purpose in studying what I'm doing there. IB is killing me.

I'll stop whining now and opt for something productive along the lines of freewriting. I think I'll do a freewrite meme actually... I haven't done one of those in a few months.

Bye!
~Alexandra

Perfect Day :)

Hey Guys,

I had the perfect day today. I got up rather early and went off to archery, ended up spending around 3 hours there just shooting. I fixed up a few form things and I'm trying to tighten my grouping up so I don't suck too badly in the near future. Then again, I'm not actually going to Provincials (in lieu of Europe) so there's no rush.

Anyway, when I got home I played Black Ops. For, like, 5 1/2 hours. So much fun! Did several TDMs, got a couple contracts paid, and tonnes of wager matches. Did some combat training with a few of my friends, got a nice ego boost from the high K/Ds! And zombies. We didn't do so hot on zombies today, but it was fun anyway.

I successfully relaxed this weekend, and had so much fun doing it. I can't wait until school is over and I can just enjoy life. Right now, I just pray for the hours to go by faster and I'm getting tired of living like that. Also, I'm getting NO writing done... I don't even know why. I'm still trying to get this story figured out and I can't get anywhere with it.

Anyway, I'ma go now and do YouTube related things.

Bye!
~Alexandra

T-Shirts

Hello,

The most interesting thing I've done all day was make up the t-shirt design for my archery club. A bunch of us are making designs and I think we'll vote or something. I'll take a pic and post it to deviantArt soon and then pop a link up here.

Other than that I played some Black Ops today, in which I was the top player on my team for a whole round, finishing 10 and 13, which should give you some idea of how badly we got our asses handed to us. I got a contract paid, AUG Frenzy or something... 50 kills with an AUG in 40 minutes or something. I tried using C4 and it didn't work out so well, I need practice with that one. Tried a Ground War, which didn't turn out well either. Tried a new machine gun, the PM63, and that's not going so hot either. Not a fabulous day, I just need to switch back to my Galil I think. It was a good gun... Also tried solo zombies and I made it to round 9, so I was quite proud of myself for that. I'm just waiting for my dad to go to sleep so I can sneak downstairs and play with my friend who's online just now, then we'll cause carnage together and it shall be awesome.

That's my day.

Bye!
~Alexandra

I'm not ignoring you!

Hello,

I promise I'm not ignoring you! I've been having a hell of a week. I finished the Historical Investigation, finally, and yesterday I didn't actually get in until after 10, I was participating in shenanigans.

It's all good today, though, I get to relax and enjoy my weekend since I finished the HI and it's going to be great! Archery practice on Sunday, for one thing, and there's the possibility of my group having another Dungeons and Dragons session sometime on Sunday as well, which I am looking forward to very much, I enjoy the group we have going. Last time, we accidentally knocked out a shop keeper so I took advantage of the situation and looted the register :P successfully converting myself from lawful good to chaotic neutral. I love D&D!

Um... yeah that's all. Loving the new computer!!

Bye!
~Alexandra