days gone by...

So as you've noticed, it's becoming rather difficult to keep my blog updated. I spent the last several days thinking to myself "I just updated it," but then last week all of a sudden ended, and this week all of a sudden began, and I realized "just" was over a week ago, and that perhaps I should take a few minutes to blog.

Autumn is now officially Fall, in my opinion. There are now way more leaves on the ground than on the trees, it's pitch black by 5:30, and the thermometer is slowly starting to drop. Last week the weather forecast was saying 5-9 for this week. now the high is 5, and the low is -5, and there's snow in the forecast, but it comes with rain, thankfully. On the up side, Sunday is supposed to be 13, but I'll believe that when I see it.

The end of last week (Friday) came with the end of my midterms, and I am so glad that they are finally overwith. This month's challenge? Three 10 page research papers, and a presentation in both French and Spanish. Life is grand!

Nothing gigantic happened last week, if I can recall correctly (Except the weekend, which I'll get to eventually). Taylor and I noticed two rather funny things out the window: the first, was watching someone in the building next to us roll and then smoke a joint. The second, just after hearing some loud screaming outside we looked out the window, in time to see two naked people walking around their room with the window wide open. I closed mine on both occasions. Also this week most of the leaves on the otherside of the canal fell overnight. Maybe I'll post some pictures if I get this finished soon enough!

Other random things I enjoyed this week? Receiving official emails in Frenglish. Not French followed by English, or vice-versa, but Frenglish. Oh, and discovering some amazing words by accident: first, gazump, which I noticed why trying to look up a different word in the english side of my spanish- english dictionary. It then lead to the discovery of other words when I looked it up in my English dictionary.

Gazump - originally meant to swindle, but now has to do with raising the price of a house after informally accepting a lower offer.

Galumph - to move in a clumsy, noisy, or ponderous matter

Garrulous -to be excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.

Gambol - to run or jump about playfully.

One thing that was challenging this week was watching Taylor's friend from home having a bit of a breakdown. She came over and spent the night with us, we stayed up trying to comfort her most of the night, and her dad came to take her home in the morning. It was really hard seeing her so upset, and not being able to do anything about it. I can't imagine how Taylor must have felt. I think it'll be good for her friend to be at home - she'll be happier there. But I know it's going to be hard for Taylor not to have her here.

So now, since that's all of the things I wrote down to blog about for the week, I guess nothing else really happened? I did get some good marks back in English and Politics, (A-on a term paper, 85 on an exam) and I think I did reasonably well on my Spanish midterm, although I wont find out until tomorrow. And my note didn't include the weekend, but my blog will!

Saturday I spent the day listening to creepy music, creeping on my house via webcam when nobody was home in an attempt to surprise my mom for her birthday, and creating my halloween costume - to be the paper bag princess. Amber and I went trick-0r-treating at the Prime Minister's house, although he wasn't giving out candy when we got there, but at least we went. We also went to the governor general's house. The original plan had been to collect non-perishable food items afterwards, but it took way too long to get to the PM's house, and we were really cold by the time we got back to res. We ended up making cookies from bought dough in the toaster oven, and playing apples to apples. Oh, and I forgot to mention that I finally tried a beavertail, it was delicious!

And speaking of forgetting things, before I can explain Sunday I have to explain Tuesday, which I apparently didn't do before. I met up with Lane at a store called the Tea Party for "Tea and stories" and it quite literally was tea and stories. We had caramel-apple tea and listened to professional story tellers. I was expecting that it'd be them talking about there lives - but it was actually them telling story-book stories. I strongly suggest looking up the story "The wolf who cried boy" it was so funny! Anyway, why this was important is that Lane some how roped me into going to church with his family - which I usually do - but going to the pentecostal church his sister goes to, and watching her be rebaptized. (yeah, long story there too) This meant that I had to wake up on Sunday morning at 7:30 in order to be at their house in Orleans before 10, so that we could go to church. Then, after church and a gigantic lunch of french toast, sausages, and bacon, there was a party for all of the youth who had been baptized, and supposedly, their families. Because Lianne said Lane had to go, Lane said I had to go (so that he'd have some one to talk to, again) and off to the party we went. Now, this would have been somewhat awkward if all of the other youth's families had come, but only one or two other families had come, and they all knew eachother. So we were the only youth there who didn't fit in, and Lane's poor sister had to go her party with an entourage. She took it better than I would have!

After the party we did homework, went on a walk, and had dinner, which strangely enough wasn't 5 times larger than it needed to be! It was still delicious. Dinner was followed by Banana-grams (my new favourite game) and dessert. By the time I got home it was 10:30, and I pretty much went directly to bed.

Yesterday all I did was work, laundry, and some other little errands that I had planned. Nothing exciting!

And that leads to today, a day full of classes, and when I'm not in class, research, and when I'm not researching, updating my notes for Spanish. Fuuuunnn.