Everything and Nothing

Looking at my last update, I realize that so much has happened since then. July 2010 feels like a long, long time ago when the sun was warm, the grass was green and Minneapolis was home. Here in Winnipeg, I am very much feeling the cold. It has been terrible lately! I think that it is finally starting to warm up, thank goodness.

I am finishing up my second to last semester---that is my second to last semester at the University of Manitoba. I am lucky enough to be traveling again this summer! I leave May 3rd and return August 2nd. Expect many more posts this summer as I spend two months in St Petersburg, Russia and one month in Turkey, Wales, and Sweden. I get credits for the time spent in Russia, which is pretty awesome especially as they all go to my major.

More exciting news (hopefully): I just applied for exchange to Australia! I am trying to go to the University of Wollongong, which is an hour and a half south of Sydney. Picture a small coastal town...surrounded by beaches...everything in walking distance... So basically the exact opposite of the University of Manitoba. Change is good though, and college is the best time to travel as I can also work on a degree while sitting on a beach. This proposed exchange would take place in a year, February-July of 2012 so I have a bit of time before I start any planning for that.

Since I will be gone for so much of the summer, this leaves me with little time to work i.e. make money. So I will be taking fall semester off and living at home and attempting to make as much money as possible. I will also be rejoining community band, which is something that I have missed, as well as rugby. After my exchange to Australia, I will have one fall semester left and then I graduate!


After all of that, who knows what I will do!


Onto more current things:

I love being a Resident Advisor!! Its been such a great experience, a bit stressful at times, but overall amazing. Classes this year have been awesome, and really overall I have not had anything to complain about. EXCEPT that there are no buses between Manitoba and Minneapolis!! Silly bus companies and canceling stuff.

Other then that, my year has been fairly boring. My godfather recently died, so it has been hard for my family lately. Also, my cousin is in the hospital with a neurological sickness that mimics meningitis. But other then that, life is fairly uneventful.


Hope that y'all are doing well, and they next time that you will be hearing from me will be at the start of my travels!