HESHAM IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!! haha kidding, so far so good on that front :)
so this is long overdue! its been craaazy busy here....the drive across Canada was amaaazing, minus Manitoba and Saskatchewan, which were pretty awesome for about the first 2 minutes and then nothing changed AT ALL for the next day and a half. Seriously flat as a table. and just kept going and going and going....and going, like the energizer bunny. The best part of the drive tho definitely was the rockies from calgary to vancouver. Absolutely stunning! <3
Once we reached Vancouver we had to stay one night in a motel since we got there too late to pick up the keys, but we woke up bright and early the next morning to go get them. Not gonna lie, my first impression of our place was not good! it seemed a lot smaller than i had thought and the bedrooms are REALLY tiny. It also didn't really seem like the super had put much effort into cleaning the place after the last renters (who were evicted for not paying their rent....and trust me not the cleanest of residents). But we got the super up and I pointed out how it wasn't clean, and a few things that weren't working properly and she got the cleaning guy in there and cleaned it right proper :) It took a while to get the place furnished, but i made good use of craigslist and we got a lot of stuff pretty cheap. also made several trips to ikea, wallmart and the brick. Of course the tv i brought with me was "too small" so we craigslisted a new one....300 bucks for a 52" flat screen LCD! <3 so now our living room is pretty ballin haha
so I think i've gained 80 pounds since we got here, yes i am now super fat. the reason for this is our fridge. stupid thing. It wasn't working for the first week, so we had to eat fast food pretty much every meal (cheapest) and now I roll everywhere :( Fridge is fixed now tho, although i should mention it smelled like a mixture of chinese food and garbage (arm and hammer took care of that)
We had our orientation on tuesday! met all the guys in our class.....and yes, pretty much all guys, there's like four other girls. I'm so outnumbered. I volunteered to organize everyones emails and start a facebook group, so now I know a lot of names! we start class at ten on monday so I'll let you know how that goes later!
also met a girl in the acting program and we went out last night to one of the clubs here....WAY better than ottawa, seriously. They had a live band that puts ottawa to shame. soooo good! met a bunch of new friends there too....everyone is really awesome!
Waffles seems to be adjusting great! she acts like she owns the place. although Ahmad has forbidden her to go in his room, she quite often sits outside his room and waits till he's not paying attention, and then sneaks in while he's not watching. but when/if he does see her....she freezes and then runs out of the room. sneaky little ninja cat.
I have already found a great poutine place, dutch place, liquor store, tanning salon, hair salon, CIBC, grocery store, gym (for hesham, not me obviously), potential church, gelato place, and 24 hour mcd's....all within a 5 minute walk! And the shopping here is AMAZING, every store you could ever want including a gucci and burberry store are like a ten minute walk away! I know some ppl back home that would LOVE the shopping here!
The weather has been kinda rainy, but we've had a few really beautiful days too so I cant complain! I probably will eventually tho haha
I miss everyone sooooo much! i wish you would have all moved out here with me! <3 I'll try keep these blog posts a little more regular now that we're all settled down. also I'll be posting pics of our place (which i actually really like now) on facebook pretty soon!
Miss you all a lot! <3
I'll keep you posted on the rest!
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