First day of school to the rest of my life

The timing feels completely right for where I am. Each day feels like a whirl-wind! It has only been 4 days of classes and it feels like I've been here for 4 weeks! And the crazy part is...I've never been so involved in my own education before! I'm at school for 5-7.5 hours each day and I come home and get right to the readings and can easily be still sitting at my desk until after 10pm...and I love it! I'm even talking in class! Ha...something I've honestly never felt comfortable doing before. So, I'm in the right spot at the right time, for sure!

Three days a week, I'm out of the house by 7:15am to walk 9 blocks for the bus and I don't get home until either 4:30 or 5. I'm in a cohort of 38 people and the more I look around the room, I'm reminded how fortunate and blessed to have been accepted into this program. I already know that it's going to be awesome and I can't wait to get to school each morning! Don't worry, I'm just as surprised as you are! ;)

New beginnings...

I'm not even going to bother explaining why I haven't written on here lately...I just haven't. It's not as if nothing note-worthy has happened in the last 3 months but I hereby declare that I will write more often!

I have just moved into my new (little) suite in Vancouver. It's a bachelor suite (which doesn't mean that bachelors are lining up at the door to take me out on the town...I should've read the fine print!) and it has everything I need. It comes furnished with a bed and a big desk and the landlords upstairs are a dream! They are so welcoming and lovely! My Grandma met me at the house to help me move in and before I even went downstairs to look at the place, we were invited to tea and had a great visit in the back yard (beside the hot tub!!). Not only that, they were going to invite me for supper on my first night if I wasn't going to G&P's so instead, they gave me some bread, a new jar of peanut butter and 2L of milk for the morning! I'd post pictures but I forgot my camera at home (I know, I know...) -- I'm getting it this weekend so I'll be able to share the love.

The other day, my cousin took me on a transit tour. She grew up taking the bus and since I'll be commuting by bus and leaving Gladys to rest, I thought it best I learn how to get around the city. We started at my place to figure how to get to school...a cool 14 minute walk to the bus stop and a 9 minute ride and we're there! Easy as that. I've discovered that I'll be walking a lot (and there are more hills than I've ever paid any attention to in the past) and that's a good thing because who knows if I'll have time for exercise between my tasks of colouring between the lines! ;)

Well, this is just the beginning and I'm getting ready for the ride!

Happy Canada Day!