Day 129

Day 129

Fri. Jan. 31, 2014

Happy Chinese New Year to all! My walk to the shuttle bus was a cold one and I had to leave early due to the fact that I needed to mail a points card back home to my parents. It seems like people rarely mail these days and I kind of miss it.

GBDA102 in Stratford had two country presentations. South Africa and Scotland were interesting presentations, but were not convincing enough for me to visit there. We worked on our group discussions on our own country's currency and examine how it affects trade with Canada. The Australian dollar has been strong in the past year and I remember it well because I always check the Australian dollar at work in the airport.

In ECON101, the class was very dry and slow. Not sure if it was the food coma or that the presentation was very confusing and had little engagement. This class worries me because I don't think I can do well.

I spent the remainder of the day chatting with my girlfriend and trying to get as much time I can with her before her Florida vacation. In the back of my mind, I miss my Aussie friend. I tell my girlfriend this and I ask her if one day we can visit Australia together and she said yes. Somehow everything revolves around Australia...

Day 128

Day 128

Thur. Jan. 30, 2014

I woke up early to get ready to meet up with my friend to sign up for Human VS Zombies and then had a meal. Feeling thirsty, I swiped my WatCard on a vending machine and it dispensed nothing and took my money. I guess I have to suffer with a lost overpriced drink due to some technical malfunction.

In the afternoon, my mate and I did the ECON101 quiz and got a pretty decent mark together. We went our ways for the remainder of the day before we meet again in INTST101.

In INTST101, we talked about religion and how conflicts have risen due to religious beliefs. I learned more insight about the Israel and Arab conflict and the China and Tibet conflict. Later the night, I called my family in Taiwan to celebrate their Chinese New Year. Stratford is tomorrow so I better sleep.

Day 127

Day 127

Wed. Jan. 29, 2014

I woke up to a snowy afternoon and received a text from my friend about Human VS Zombies sign-ups on campus. Since last term I missed out, I figured I'll meet up with him tomorrow and sign up for the game. I figured to kill two birds with one stone and that we should buddy up for the ECON101 quiz.

ARTS111 in the afternoon was a typical class so there was nothing to report. I think the only thing to report is this international student from China. He always seems to have something to object or counter the instructor's points and following down our lessons for the day. Sometimes I wish he respect the Canadian culture and not bring his culture to ruin the image for Asians. I have been in stereotypes where people think I'm my China, but I'm not and I don't carry their attitudes and values.

Day 126

Day 126

Tues. Jan. 28, 2014

Today was a day that involved me resting in my house and spending my time go over my GBDA102. There was also a meeting for our GBDA102 group to work on our Australia country research. Stayed at the campus for a few hours and then we went off on our ways. I've been thinking...all this research about Australia is making me crave to visit the land down under.

Later the evening, I spent the day Skyping with my girlfriend and found out that she is going to Florida next week for a short vacation. I think I need a vacation too...to Australia.

Day 125

Day 125

Mon. Jan. 27, 2014

ARTS111 today was a good class talking about factors influencing career decision due to sexual orientation and role models. To come to think of it, I don't really have a role model and it's a shame.

Poker night with friends was awesome despite me losing again. Play for fun not to win right? That's the idea I use and perhaps that's why I am losing. It was a long night of poker, food, and wierd conversations. I'm tired so I'll call it a night.

Day 124

Day 124

Sun. Jan. 26, 2014

I must say when I woke up to read posts on Facebook, I was surprised by the tremendous amount of support and compliments on my leadership skills on my resignation post. It was definitely a morale boost and confidence that from the standpoint of my people, I did well and I carried my integrity and pride with me.

The day seemed to be must more...free. My girlfriend was right, the game was too serious for me and that this break was necessary for my health. As one of my friends told me that you should always listen to your woman when she complains and that I did. Tomorrow is Poker night and I look forward to it. For now, enjoy life and relieve the stress that has been accumulating.

Day 123

Day 123

Sat. Jan. 25, 2014

As I wake up and stare outside my window, I see a field of white and strong winds. I was not going to head outside despite my food supplies dwindling. I plan to get supplies on Monday after I head back from ARTS111.

Today I have truly found the origin for the cause of stress. It has been this computer game that has been bothering me lately. Since I was the leader of a community for a bunch of fellows looking to make friends and have fun, we have encountered a group of bullies within the game to change our values. Drama such as spies, trash talking, and threats were made to us and I maintained peace for my community. I realized that I have been demoralized and stressed out over this game and it was affecting my health and school. I have bad sleep patterns and self esteem issues as a result of this. As I openly discussed my issues with my supportive girlfriend, she suggested that I take a break from the game as I should never be too much into a game. She was right and I wrote a resignation letter as long as an essay to inspire new leaders in my community and to inspire others to take my place to stand against bullies.

The following is what I wrote in the event I need to refer back on how I write formal notes:

Friends and allies of NB,

Over the past few months, I've had the honour and privilege to meet and be friends with you from a game since the founding of NB. Some of you have become more than just friends on a game from this NB community.

I remember when we were all lower level players looking for a sense of belonging and a place to social and have fun. Before the merger of sectors, NB was the great community protecting 1600 from insectors and intruders. We were able to protect all the gates with the formation of EB 1623 and SB 1614 forming a sector response time of less than 30 seconds.

After the merger, chaos erupted and challenged our peace and unity. First the NOMADS arrived and then the VIKES. We endured the wave of insectors as SB became the first base to fall. When the NOMADS and VIKES left, then came the Spaceballs who further challenged our rightful place of a peaceful home by attacking NB and EB. We were no match for the high level players and it was decided that we evacuate all NB and EB lower to mid-level players into 1300 allied territory to strengthen ourselves while me and some higher levels stayed behind to watch our home. When GG came and wiped Spaceballs off, we immediately brought all members home with us alongside with our new ally from 1300 called MoB where they had lost control of their sector.

Over time as we continued with our ways of maintaining peace and unity throughout the sector, MoB grew rapidly with their presence being known. We respected each other as we helped them recoup from their loss of 1300 sector to insects. As they increased in numbers, EB's leader joined all his members into MoB and decided it to be a recruitment facility. That day, EB fell and NB remained the only native group to remain prior to the merge.

As MoB's power grew, their ways that we knew was less visible as they were the first planet to ever enforce a No-Fly zone in 1600. Freedom was starting to fade and random hits were authorized by them to enforce that rules. When more and more members joined the MoB for a symbol of power, they brought their own personal values that mixed with the original MoB's values. From protecting everyone in the sector, they protected their own even if their members were at fault. No one could stop them without being put on their personal Hit List or any level of management of MoB prevent this injustice.

MoB's values began to clash between our values of true freedom, peace, unity, and civility. Tensions were rising and luckily we were part of a 1500/1600 alliance with HGRD, SIN, and some smaller groups. Negotiations began and they were always biased and turned to favour the MoB. Despite the outcome of the negotiations, we made rules for both NB and MoB to respect which NB distributed the info to all the members while MoB did not and caused them to test the waters of the negotiations. During this period of time, NB members left to MoB and some spies began to stir up trouble from taking things out of context to spark an unnecessary war.

Amidst this chaos, the 1500/1600 alliance lead by a certain leader has a conflict of interest in her duties to conduct diplomatic ways for a high council. I was told that MoB was deciding to stay in or leave the sector and that we were not helping the situation. She was in favour of MoB staying so that they have a force powerful to control and defend the alliance and thus silence our voice in the high council by removing NB members from a seat in the council without any formal notification and elected a MoB member into power where she added two more members into equal power.

Corruption in politics, spies in parties, and bullies will exist anywhere you go in life. Whether it be a game or it be in real life, these things will always exist. 

As history shows us about natives and colonists, I'd ask you to think who was here first and who came as the colonists? Ask yourselves whether the natives lost or the colonists lost in the end?

From this whole experience as your leader in NB, I was told that I was unfit and too young to run this group. I was also told my styles of leading should be reviewed and that a new leader should run this group. I know I am not the best leader nor I am the oldest one with the most life experience, but I know that I am not a corrupt leader holding onto power and forgetting the voices of NB members. Perhaps it's time for someone to shine in the spotlight as I gracefully and humbly step down from all this recent events that NB has faced. I really never saw myself as a leader, but as an equal where everyone deserved the right treatment and respect.

In all honesty, I am posting our NB history down so that you do not forget who we are and continue to drive NB into a brighter and better future for all. Not just ourselves, but for others outside NB. For equality and mutual respect, that is going to be the best possible sector.

With these accumulation of various events, discussions, and talks regarding NB and me, I am stepping down to remove myself from this game and all the stress I have procured while giving NB its voice and the individuals who are not affiliated with any groups due to the fact that I am not feeling well. To be honest and open to you about it, I have went into a state of depression from this game and is not capable of leading NB to my full extent. My girlfriend urged me to take a break from the game as it should never affect anyone's real life and she is right. I will be taking a break from all of this and hope that I do get better into a more stable mindset and away from my depression.

In closing remarks, I'd ask that you remember what NB stood and continues to stand for my fellow friends and allies. We are a community in which we all have fun, be respected, and make new friends. The day we turn into a clan is the day we militarize and lose our autonomy and identity of what defines us and thus makes as the same as any other group out there. Never forget who you are and how you got into NB. Never forget the little guys as we were once low levels. Stand together united and be proud and we shall see the peace and unity we longed for. 

When the sun sets and the moon rises, the sun will rise again. I will return…

Sincerely your friend,

Charlie Chu

NB Member

Seeing how much I wrote for my community, I realized that I have made so many good friends from around the world and I am honoured with tears. Note to self, stand up and speak out against bullying and never stay silent.

Day 122

Day 122

Fri. Jan. 24, 2014

The walk to shuttle bus for Stratford was chilly as winds reached below zero degrees Celsius. GBDA102 was a good class as we had a debate challenge on the topic of market intergration and trade. After that, our group conducts some research about CETA which was apparently a free trade agreement between Canada and the EU. I was surprised I never saw what the Conservative majority government did and was against this CETA after I read how it could hurt our national soverignty and our public sector jobs. The day Canada's public sector becomes privatized is the day health care goes up and other things we only favour the rich.

Next was ECON101 where it was going to be another tough day learning about the material. The instructor went over the quiz which we all struggled due to the wordings. He admitted the wording was bad and that some questions were easy and some were higher level material. The fact that the badly worded questions were not omitted from the results proved to be slightly unfair despite a change in our percentage.

When I went back home, the winds have picked up and snow had begun to fall. The next wave of winter is about to begin as the razor sharp winds cut my face like a thousand needles.

Day 121

Day 121

Thur. Jan. 23, 2014

Over time here at Waterloo, I've faced a lot of struggles not only physically, but also mentally. I've been following a downward slope for quite some time for an unknown cause. I really need to look into where is the origin of this mess.

The only thing I look forward to today is INTST101 because of such a fun interesting class. Today's discussion was about the environment and theories of global warming and greenhouse gases. It was quite a compelling and controversial topic to be discussed, but I felt that the professsor handled the distrubtion of points in a fair unbiased manner.

After the class, me and my mates went to Burger King to eat a light snack before heading our ways. I must say it was a good day due to the INTST101 class. The day was left celebrating with my girlfriend of our five month mark. It was great!

Day 120

Day 120

Wed. Jan. 22, 2014

Today was the supposed online quiz for ECON101 and I knew I was going to conduct my readings after I finish ARTS111. The morning of the day was spent on organizing my desk for a better study environment.

ARTS111 discussed about gender differences and expectations in career and then looked on the basics of creating an E-Portfolio which I had acquired the skills in ARBUS200. Every day in class, I can not help, but think about how this class will help me discover who I am and what my potentials are.

After ARTS111, I went home and began studying two chapters worth of material for a span of three hours listening to concentration music pieces on Youtube. When I did my ECON101 quiz, I realized that the questions were badly worded, tenses were different, and material not covered in class. Upon submission, I received a near passing grade which definitely dropped my level of confidence and affected my morale.

Day 119

Day 119

Tues. Jan. 21, 2014

Despite finishing the poker early last night, I slept in today. I heard that there is an ECON101 quiz coming up and that I should be really reading the material. I don't know what's going on lately, but I feel like procrastinating. In the back of my mind, I know that I can do it tomorrow so I put the work aside and get on my computer to play some games with friends.

Let me be honest here, that's what I spent the full day doing...computer games. It sounds bad and nasty, but I just want to get away. Away from all this work and stress and I even forgot to do the weekly laundry. What am I becoming?

Day 118

Day 118

Mon. Jan. 20, 2014

I'm looking forward to having the full day off today followed by my friends in the program to come for a poker night. I must say that this day was started off late as I slept in into the afternoon and then I cleaned up the house with my roommate before my friends arrived for the games.

I came in second last and decided that my beginner's luck had ran out and I guess it's time for me to really learn the game. I'm not much of a bluffer, but it appears that bluffing plays a huge key in winning a round. When everyone left, it was a surprise that it wasn't too late to do other things. Perhaps watch some Youtube videos?

Day 117

Day 117

Sun. Jan. 19, 2014

Today I stayed home the full day and relaxed knowing that I get the Monday and Tuesday off. I watched Ender's Game as suggested from my friends and I must say it's an amazing space movie since Star Wars and Star Trek.

Later the evening I decided to order pizza online from PizzaPizza because I had a good time time experience with them. The reason I didn't order from them anymore was that their goods are very expensive compare to TwicetheDeal. Anyways, I waited for 32 minutes and had a very rude and impatient delivery man which has totally blown my chances for giving them a second chance. With more money paid for a product and service, I would expect it worth my money. Goodbye PizzaPizza, please take your business elsewhere until you train your employees well with the expensive products you sell.

The remainder of the night was enjoyed by me gaming with my friends and eating expensive good pizza.

Day 116

Day 116

Sat. Jan. 18, 2014

I must admit, I've been slacking a bit lately due to me sleeping in. Most importantly what's really going on in my head is that I know today will be my last and final day to bid farewell to the Australian girl that I onced chased. Yes, I recalled from my previous entries about a girl I chased for over 1 year plus...well, this is her. Despite having a girlfriend at this moment in time, my girlfriend is aware of this Aussie.

This Aussie had been a very nice girl and became one of my closest friends to me. Like my girlfriend, I have developed a sense of closeness, trust, and loyalty to her. She told me her final school year was going to be very busy for her and that she must close off all un-school related things to focus if she wanted to go to a good university. Truth is, we developed a really close friendship for the past 1 year 9 months starting the day I met her. Letting her go and the thought of never seeing her again was the hardest part.

Why am I writing so much for just one girl? She's not like any other girl that's for sure and I know she deserves much more recognition for what she's contributed to my life. At the end of day, we said our wishes and did not give goodbyes hoping that that was not the end to our friendship. Hoping that one day our paths will cross again...

Day 115

Day 115

Fri. Jan. 17, 2014

I woke up this morning to a bright day and light snow for my Stratford Fridays. I've come to the realization that Term 1's Stratford days were much better mainly because I had a class to look forward to which was GBDA103. Now, it feels like classes are dull and not interactive.

GBDA102 was a fine class other than the fact that one of the group members was totally disengaged from group discussions. Since she was not present in last week's discussion because she didn't attend and now her lack of interest reminds me of ARBUS200 struggles with a bad teammate. I guess that's life...you always have the bad team players.

Anyways ECON101 was a long dreadful class as I had a very dry presentation and that I wasn't able to relate and connect the concepts. Not sure if it was the presentation of the material or my lack on interest in economics…

Later on the bus ride back, I had a discussion with my classmates and overheard them thinking of leaving this program or transferring to something else due to the practicality and relevance to a future job. The main point was discussed that we are learning things where a job has not existed yet.

What am I doing here? Have I made the right choice?

Day 114

Day 114

Thur. Jan. 16, 2014

I woke up midday and did my pile of laundry. The laundry room was pretty occupied today and I had to wait around ten minutes before there was an empty space.

It started snowing later in the afternoon and had accumulated a fair bit for my INTST101 class in the evening. The class was a very though-provoking class as we reference USA to an empire. Is USA an empire? After a long discussion about revisionist theories and their reasonings, I am nearly convinced that USA is an empire and that we've become so unaware of it. Then again, I may sound like a conspirator to plot against USA and be jailed for treason or something.

Another late night with my Aussie friend before she disappears into her busy schedule and may never come back...

Day 113

Day 113

Wed. Jan. 15, 2014

ARTS111 today looked at my Career Thoughts Inventory score and it turns out that I have a lot of issues with me deciding my career due to uncertainties. Let's be honest, I have no clue what I want to do upon graduating my GBDA program. I'm not sure of the career possibilities I have or the right credentials needed for a specific job.

Today was supposedly going to be my laundry day since I skipped out yesterday and clothes weren't piling up that substantially. It will be a must tomorrow as I am not the kind of guy who leaves dirty clothes all of the place.

I spent the remainder of the night catching up with my Australian friend, whom I will not say,  talking about life, school, etc until I nearly passed out.

Day 112

Day 112

Tues. Jan. 14, 2014

Today is the day where I get the full day off and I know I should use this day for laundries, but I totally slept in by accident. So, I plan to do laundry later in the next few days.

I went to campus today and tried to see if I can fix an error with my Quest profile about course enrolment. It later turns out to be a glitch...oh well.

In the evening, I went over my ARTS111 homework and realized I did the wrong package. After fifteen minutes, I sorted the mistake out and was glad I had time to go over it again before handing it in for tomorrow's class.

All in all, a short day and nothing too much to log.

Day 111

Day 111

Mon. Jan. 13, 2014

A Monday without needing to get up early for GER101 and dealing with the stress caused by the structure of the class was a good day to start the week right.

ARTS111 was today and we learned more about career decision making. After the class, I went home to complete my career thoughts inventory package due for next class and I realized that I really have no sense of direction of what I'm doing with my life.

Later the night I had a long phone call with Statistics Canada about some things in my life and I've come to realize that I haven't been eating healthy or exercising as much. An action plan is needed!

Day 110

Day 110

Sun. Jan. 12, 2014

Today is the day where I officially drop GER101 despite having paid around $80 in textbooks. I realized that the books from previous term has been sitting here doing nothing and decided to try out the FEDS bookstore. It turns out that they do a consignment and is not an instant sell. So I got ENGL100A and GER101 textbooks wanting to go on a quick sell. I'm thinking of selling as low as 50% off the price I bought.

Now that my GER101 course is dropped, I plan on using my time available every mornings to get my rest and utilize my full Tuesdays off as a personal time where I can reflect on school and life. What are my interests? Filming, directing, writing, gaming, and managing...can I connect a career? ARTS111 has begun to slowly craft my distorted mind into a clearer image of what my life really is.

Day 109

Day 109

Sat. Jan. 11, 2014

It is certain that I am looking at dropping my GER101 class as it is too stressful and challenging for me to handle. I have discussed it with my parents and they suggested that I pick up SPAN101 either in a spring term or fall term to make up for the lost language course credit.

As for other courses, I need to buy my required textbooks for GBDA102 and INTS101 on Monday to complete my readings and an online quiz. If I drop GER101, I may be able to focus all energy on the remaining course. As for my GER101 textbooks that I have already bought...I will need to sell it under retail price by a lot since it is of no use to me anymore.

I really hope ARTS111 help me in discovering what my career really is as I have no clue at this time...

Day 108

Day 108

Fri. Jan. 10, 2014

Stratford Friday and it was slightly snowing in the morning. I was a bit curious if my bus to Stratford was going to be delayed due to the snow. First class of the day was GBDA102 on International Business. The professor reminded me of my professor from ARBUS200 mainly because of the presentation of the class and experiences he had. We were assigned groups to go to and I realized that some of my classmates in this GBDA program had dropped out for various reasons. Some reasons included the impracticality and relevance to future career while others had other reasons. For GBDA102, we needed to begin a research of a specific country other than Canada or USA and I managed to get our group a good country to research on...Australia. I've always had a thing for Australia if one knows about my past. It's always been in the back of my mind as the unattainable dream and the land of the free.

In the afternoon, ECON101 was quite an interesting class. When I say interesting...I meant to talk about what the professor's jokes were which can be read as totally controversial. The first one was about income and lifespan of people from different countries from 1800s to present. Going over a chart, he pointed out that the the folks from Africa had a low income was due to the debate that they were blacks and that blacks had higher crime rates resulting in these data. I found it to be stereotypical of the comments he had made and intriguing.

The next joke was about a trend that make China drop in numbers of lifespan during the period of "The Great Leap Forward" concept. He stated that the previous class in the morning knew the answer to the question when asked about the dip in the data was solely due to the fact that our GBDA student list was split halfway. He stated that the top of the list was all Chinese because their names are all the same and that the afternoon class didn't have it. Hence the morning class knew the answer because they are Chines. Now, being a guy from an Asian country with a Chinese last name "C", I was in this afternoon class not because of what he said, but because it was randomized. I spoke out to my classmates that I beg to differ on what the professor had made having taken offence to it.

One thing I will be certain of this whether I have experience or not in Economics, is that you can't assume everyone is the same. Stereotyping the blacks and Chinese for being a specific type of person or what they do is not acceptable even coming from a person with experience and respect. If we still continue to act this way so blatantly, where is the freedom and multiculturalism that we, Canada, have worked so hard to achieve as the country that accepts different cultures?

Anyways, as time flies closer to next week and being stressed with GER101 and various decisions. New options are being considered with consultation with my parents on Skype. Is the University of Waterloo the place I want to be? Is GBDA program the right program for me? Should I even be in university? That...is the question.

Day 107

Day 107

Thur. Jan. 9, 2014

I slept in today knowing that there is no GER101 lab in the morning. As I woke up in the afternoon, I began to go over my weekend German homework. That is when I became insane after seeing the assigned pages were all written in German. I can not even understand what the question is asking me since we have never been taught about phrases or words. I was at a disadvantage here since most folks in my class have some sort of German background while I had none.

INTST101 was scheduled during the night time. The professor was very funny and very enthusiastic about what he was teaching. The special thing about this course was that he wrote all the notes and ideas on the whiteboard and did no presentation slides. Since I take notes by hand in all my classes, this note taking was really easy. This brings me the idea that if he can write a lot of notes...so can I.

I'm looking to alternate options to GER101 as I discussed with my girlfriend and my parents about dropping it. The question is if this GBDA program was suitable for me or whether or not I should even be in university. Tough choices...life changing once I make them.

Day 106

Day 106

Wed. Jan. 8, 2014

GER101 today and we learnt the alphabet. We only did a little practice and then started looking at verbs and translation which was the hard part because I had no clue which verb fits with each subject. The instructor gave out assignments and informed me that there will be no laboratory tomorrow.

Once I headed home, I did my laundry of the week and decided that it be best to do my laundry on the Tuesdays since I only have one class in the morning.

Later the evening I had ARTS111 and it was a very interesting course about career. I'm starting to wonder if this university program is the right career for me. Especially GER101 which made me see things differently about my program.

Day 105

Day 105

Tues. Jan. 7, 2014

The only day with one class and it's got to be GER101. The air and wind today was very chilly as I struggled through the arctic cold weather to campus. I could feel the air I breathe out of my nose freezing within my nostrils. It was painful despite having all other winter gear that I brought from home. It turns out that the wind chill was at -35 degrees Celsius and I was not used to this cold. I guess it's being a true Canadian eh?

Today's class was difficult was well. Not learning the correct pronunciation was difficult to comprehend the reading material as well as the lack of English instruction. I know how they say you learn a language best by living in the environment, but that was not the way to go as I had completely no clue. Some classmates have a bit of German background and was an asset to them. At the end of the class, the instructor said that we will learn the alphabet tomorrow. Thank goodness!

In the back of my mind, I had a dilemma...endure or give up. I don't really have a choice to give up. I need a language course for my GBDA program. Endure then...

Day 104

Day 104

Mon. Jan. 6, 2014

First day of classes and it's bright early in the morning. The cold winter trek to campus was brutal in the morning. Unshovelled pathways and chilling winds were a nuisance. GER101 was the first class of the day and I was already intimidated when the class started off with the instructor speaking full on German at us. Back in my mind, I was trying to find any evidence that this course was a beginner. Since we already started dialogues on the first day, I can't even get my pronunciation correct. To top things off, we never got to learn the phonetic alphabet and it made me feel like I had missed a couple of classes.

Next class was ARTS111 on career development and I must say that this class seems much more open and comfortable than GER101. I feel like this instructor is much more understanding and caring from the rapport she gave me.

Later the night I struggled through the GER101 textbook reviews as the whole beginner book was written in German. Only like 1% was in English and it was starting to stress me out. This remind me of ENGL100A and I feel pressured into dropping it. Must need more thought.

Day 103

Day 103

Sun. Jan. 5, 2014

I woke up real early around 6am to the sound of annoying crows all perched on nearby trees. Fantastic alarm for my upcoming early classes, but today was not the day I wanted to get up early. Feeling annoyed and irritated, I had no choice but to get up and go over my classes.

I intended on going to campus to see where my classrooms are and it turns out the school is closed. What a magnificent trek through snow to reach disappointment. I headed back home and watched some Star Wars Clone Wars online and spent the remainder of the day on the computer de-stressing for whatever Term 2 holds in store for me.

Day 102

Day 102

Sat. Jan. 4, 2014

2014 a new year means a new start! A cold windy arrival from an oversold Greyhound bus to Waterloo coming from Toronto was expected. However, an arriving snow storm was not what I had in mind. Once I had arrived early for my residence, my girlfriend warned me to start packing up food while walking was still easy. Funny thing is, later the night, my parents warned me about the snow storm and I was already prepared. My girlfriend's care is faster than my parents...I'm impressed.

Anyways, lots of unpacking to do and a lot of drowsiness from jet lag. Get some rest and let's get ready for school.