it's my birthday! i accept flowers, cards, presents of all sorts, money in quantities of $20 and chocolate cupcakes with candles.
(just kidding guys, all i want is a little love!)
hope everyone enjoys my birthday as much as i do!
love 23 year old
kristin.
chad just came over. we had cereal. chad and i have a long history of eating cereal together. all of our cereal choices were healthy ones tonight, until i found the reeces puffs hiding in the pantry in the laundry room. (yes, that is where all the goodies hide in this house). however... we decided to choose the healthy choice, and ate some Quaker Harvest Crunch. delicious! i am suprised and delighted at how far along "bran" cereals have become. it used to be that we simply had raisin bran. i like raisin bran to this day, however i usually put some brown sugar on it, and then it's not so healthy afterall. anyway chad and i had a lovely chit chat about nothing particularly important, yet delightful none-the-less. yay chad for being a good friend.
i got to catch up on days of our lives this afternoon. a person really only needs to watch that show once a month or so to catch up with. i'm very confused though because at the very end, STAN showed up... at Sami's wedding. i thought stan WAS sami. in fact, i KNOW that stan was sami, so tony dimera must be up to something very very sneaky once again. in other news, i hate that mimi and belle are no longer friends... it truly saddens me, and i hope that mimi doesn't turn into the next evil villan. because i really liked her before.
kristy-anne was in town this weekend and we had so much fun catching up, her, me and lynnel. what a delight that girl is. we stayed up till 2 in the morning, a phenomenom for me. and tanis was also in town with her little sweet baby, Kennedy, which was a lovely suprise as well. oh girls, why do you all move away from me?
tomorrow i start my volunteer work with the Good Food Box organization. should be interesting i guess. they give us a free lunch at the end of it, so that's a bonus. i should feel happy by the fact that i will be working with 3 people who i don't know, so it will be a lovely opportunity to make new friends. i have a little problem with feeling comfortable with my little circle of friends, and not feeling much of a need to get to know anyone else! i've been working on it though, especially with people at school. there's one girl i've been hanging out with that i graduated high school with, and haven't really seen since we graduated. she's in my major, so we have a couple classes together and i really am happy that we are friends once again. oh what a nice story!
if anyone is looking to buy a new cell phone, please let me know, i'll do the 2 for 1 thing with you... thing is, you need to take my cell (it's only a month old) and i will get a new one, which is actually the exact same one as mine, but it's PINK. i want it so much because it is so so cute. so yes, please let me know if you want a new phone immediately.
YAHOO i just found my long lost jack johnson cd!
ooh speaking of music, i am so excited because lynnel and i have tickets to go see CATS! i LOVE broadway musicals so much. this one will be great. even the MOVIE, phantom of the opera... amazing. the show just haunts my mind... not as in "ghost" haunt, but in my mind i think of it and i get this whole dreary, but wow feeling about it. the music is so amazing. i don't think Cats is quite as... disturbing... as phantom is, but it will still be great. i've downloaded all the songs so that i can sing along in lynnel's ear the whole time. i'm sure that she will think that is really nice of me, just in case she misses a word or two. my most favorite show ever was seeing one in Prague in the national theatre. it wasn't in english but it didn't matter, they translated the words on a screen in english... and there were two girls from switzerland beside me and they let me look through their binoculars as often as they did. it was so incredible.
goodnight my friends, sweet dreams.
i have been in this screen numerous times this evening, trying to figure out what to say. at one point i was all ready to get started, but then the boys came home and turned on "that 70's show" and i got out of the mood. i like to blog when it is quiet and when i am alone.
well i'll say a bit about school. i think i will do alright this semester. the two classes i'm most excited about are History of the Developing World and Global Health and Community (CHEP for short, don't ask me why). The CHEP class is through the College of Medicine and it's a fourth year class that is half med students and half international studies' students, so it makes for a really interesting mix. the class is gonna be more work than i've ever done but i've also never done fourth year classes, so perhaps this is the norm? i guess so. in our second class we already had mini presentations on particular diseases... guess what i had to do? diarrhea. oh yes, it was fabulous. once i got over my own silliness with the word diarrhea and started to learn about how many children in developing countries die from it and other related causes like dehydration, it really wasn't funny anymore. for this class we also have to volunteer at a community organization, so me and 3 other people in my class are working for Good Food Boxes, which packs healthy food and distributes it through Saskatoon. really it promotes healthy eating. should be alright, i like the people i'm working with so that is a good thing.
i'm thinking about applying for an overseas internship this summer. i've started the application process for two CIDA (canadian international development agency) sponsered internships, once in Ethiopia and another in Gambia. i would really love to go anywhere... lately i've been leaning towards Haiti, but that scared my mom a little bit. she said i couldn't go but i told her she can't tell me no anymore. we'll see how it works out. these internships get a lot of applications and only a few get picked, so the chances are slim.
i took a biotechnology class for one day (i've since dropped it) but i did learn one funny thing. scientists are currently working towards putting the hepatitis B vaccine in carrots. yeah, so instead of getting a needle, one day you might just have to eat 10 carrots. don't ask me any questions about this, i have just given you the extent of my knowledge on the hepatitis B/carrot issue. i just thought it would be handy because it would prevent other students just like myself from fainting in grade 6 after your hepatitis needle. eat a carrot, save face. why didn't i go into marketing?
my other classes are geography - environment, population and human. my minor is human geography. i am in my third year university and i have just recently figured out what human geography infact is. basically its the study of human interaction and their effects on what goes on in this earth. that's pretty broad. what i've just said is everything that happens can be put into the catagory of "human geography." wow am i ever going to be smart when i graduate, i am literally going to have to learn everything.
that's a very overwhelming statement.
we had a guest lecturer in one of my class last week and he was awesome. he totally made me realize that i do love what i am learning and that i need to keep at it. people who want to do everything end up doing a whole lot of nothing, right? i'm learning about stuff that i am passionate about, but i get easily frustrated because there are no clear-cut jobs out there that are looking for ME. i think when the time comes i will find what i am looking for with this. sometimes i feel dumb when people ask me what i'm taking and then the "oh so what are you going to do with that???" question and i have to answer "Um i don't know... save Africa?" i'll find something, but in the meantime i have to work hard and educate myself so that i can save africa, or at least one little african girl or boy.
i hope someone else needed that pep talk besides myself.
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