Road Trip with a Purpose

I am going to Winnipeg tomorrow morning WOO HOO!!! It's been 4 months since I left my course at uni there to come home and do my internship for my course requirements. I'm excited for the class that I get to take that is a semester worth of learning crammed into 6 days, I'm excited to see uni friends and camp friends and hopefully go to my church, I'm excited to go to my favourite cofee shop and favourite resturants for a few dinners. I'm excited to take my sister up to camp and to hear what amazing things God will be doing through her this summer. And i'm also excited because I get to attend a wedding while I am there too! It's going to be an extremely full 9 days!

Pain

As many of you know, I broke some toes on my right foot a week ago. With the broken toes, I also recieved some torn muscles along the top of my foot. It hurts quite a bit, but doctor's won't cast broken toes unless all 5 are broken. So, a week has past and one of the reasons i think i am still having plenty of trouble with it is because i haven't stayed off of my foot properly like the doctor told me i should. Lots of you know what it is like to not be able to take a break completely away from things - places to be and committments to keep are all part of my problem. Thankfully now though I am taking the next 3 days off before i go to Winnipeg on Thursday. I tried driving to Moose Jaw on saturday night and it killed my toes, that was only a 30 minute round trip, so imagine how my foot is going to feel during an 8 hour drive. So the plan is to attempt to stay off of it for as much as possible, but that's easier said than done!

Terms of Endearment

For females the use of the terms lovely, and dear when referencing a close female friend are perfectly acceptable because we are female and allowed to do so. We as females don't think much of it when we do this to another (usually). When it comes to my guy friends, they usually stay far away from using any sort of those type of endearments. So, imagine my surprise today when a good guy friend of mine whom i have know for quite a while, and was chatting to on msn today, called me honey for the first time ever and then signed off with an x - as in the x0x0 type x. Any one have any advice? Is this a normal term used towards just a good mate....or is this person turning into more than a mate? Don't know and really don't want to analyse this at the moment, but some advice would be helpful.......PLEASE!

Finished!

My internship is officially done for my univeristy requirements!! Now, I only have 8 more courses to finish before i graduate next year. Due to the fact that I am going back to Uni in 2 weeks for a week long course, come September I will only have 7 more courses to do. I am very excited for this because it means my last year won't be quite so hectic uni wise which gives me more time to work at a paid job some where else.
My next two weeks will include me transitioning into my paid position at the place i did my internship, taking a few days off to get ready for my trip to university, and then actually driving to Winnipeg which is an 8 hour drive from where home is.
I hope you all have a great Easter weekend and can experience Christ's sacrifice, love and redemption in a way you haven't before.

Exciting Opportunities are Ahead!

As my msn name reflects, and so does the title of this blog, there are indeed exciting opportunities ahead. There was a course back at my uni in Winnipeg being offered at the end of the month that I was originally not going to be able to take due to financial means and work committments, however, yesterday I found out that i now do indeed get to take the course; Commercial Recreation and Major Events Planning. It will definately be nice to go back to Winnipeg for a week and see all of my uni and camp friends, plus I get to attend the wedding of my Friends Glenda and Tim! As well, I think I'll be having a job interview while I am there to be the manager of my uni women's basketball team. They play in quite an important league, and would be great experience, so we'll see what happens with that. As well, today it really sank in that I am finished uni in a year because today I filled in the first stage of an application process for a job in...........France! Very excited about this, and we'll see where it goes, but i'm not getting my hopes up to much at this point. I may not even make it past stage 1! It's for a Christian Recreation company. So, like I said, Exciting Opportunities are Ahead, but from what I hear and read from other people, I'm not the only one who are possible great things ahead! Fill me in people on what those are please!!!!

You are a Nanabush

My dad is a 100% Nanabush! For those of you who are not up to par with their Native American languages, a Nanabush is also known as a trickster. My dad phone pranked me a good one this afternoon. Even though he is essentially my boss, he does not work in the gym like I do because he has so many other job titles and works in the main academic building. He found a way to call me so that when the phone rang, it didn't ring as an interdepartmental call. So i answered by saying "Good Afternoon Clipper Athletics". and the voice that replied over the phone was the most unhuman voice i had ever heard. It was high pitched and nasal toned. It was surreal, but for some reason i just didn't think twice about it. So I asked how I could be of help, and the voice wanted information about sending all 5 of his kids to our sports camps this summer and was wondering if there was a family discount for that. I was staggering for appropriate replys and trying not to laugh because the voice that i thought was truly real at the time was so idiotic and i didn't want to sound rude. However, my common sense kicked in and i realised that a voice couldn't sound so utterly ridiculous and so I said (taking a chance with it) "I know it's you dad". we burst out laughing and everyone in my area of the department could hear me laughing from my office and telling my dad off for pulling such a good prank on me. I should have known that my dad sooner or later would pull a prank like that on me, but it sure did make for a good story to tell at the dinner table tonight!

Feeling very inadequate as a writer on my own blog! I read everyone else's, and their's are witty and funny, and mine just seem plain dull.....it could be a reflection of my life at the moment....yes, a little dull. However, there have been a few things that have been thrown into my life over the past day that could prove to be quite exciting if all the details can be worked out satisfactorily.
I've been surrounded by constant complainers lately, or those who aren't willing to admit they were responsible for their actions. It's been really quite annoying really, and not sure how to deal with it all in a calm and mature fashion.
As well, this next year is going to be extremely busy. I'm going to have to take a full course load, find some sort of stable part time work, adjust to once again living back in Winnipeg with new housemates, try to graduate with some resembalance to having honours or the deans list, figuring out what to do after graduation, and deal with the intense feeling that all I can think of is going back to England: Some would say obsessed, others would say it's possibly a God thing, and right now I say it's kind of distracting! My life for the time being in here in Canada, in between Caronport and Winnipeg for the next 13 months, but i'm impatient for life outside of uni to begin and wanting to go back to England long term just doesn't help things at the moment. Some people here in Canada don't think i have realistic expectations of wanting to go back to England because they think i've built it up in my mind and that i'll be sorely dissapointed if i return there.....which doesn't make matters any better, because as much as i do think they are wrong, part of me feels like they could be right which scares me. Plus to top it all off, i have to stay out of certain people's ways to make sure they don't think I am too controlling (they said it not me) - some of you know that story and other's don't, but for now that is alright.
Quandries, Quandries,Quandries....what to do about them?