Andie in the big city!

So today was officially my third day in the capital city that is Ottawa, and I love it here. Everything is so beautiful, there are many stylized new buildings but there is still an amazing essence of oldness to the city, with the parliament buildings, and even the university! And its so green, everywhere I turn theres at least a tree or an ivy vine going up some building.

Although I do find it lonely here at times. I came to the city not knowing anybody, and its hard to randomly introduce your self to someone and not come off as a creeper! So far I have met my room mate, who is a sweet heart, and a few others from my floor, but other than that no one really, which makes it lonely when walking through the mall or to the grocery store. But I'm once classes start tomorrow it'll pick up.

I made my first trip to Quebec on sunday for a school party. I thought there would be like a lights and at least a sign saying, "Bienveny Au Québec", but no, we passed over the bridge and that was it, but it was still a neat thought that I have finally been to another province in Canada!

Dorm life seems to be alright, the dorms were bigger and cleaner than what i was expecting, (don't get me wrong, they are still small and not the cleanest). Bathrooms are kind of sketchy though. On my floor there is probably a little over 20 girls, and only two showers. Great.... And the toilet stalls all have a whole in them, so hopefully no peepers around! Theres also construction going on in the res because apparently the top floor flooded, and since everything leaked down to the basement the radiator blew up, and now they are doing repairs. Ok, if the radiator is going to blow again and I'm here, will probably have a heart attack! Another minus is the fire department is around the corner...there are sirens going off, ALL THE TIME!!

Oh well I suppose it is residence, and probably by the end of the year I won't even notice these little quarks.

So tomorrow is my first day of classes! Wish me luck!

P.S

My R.A. is really really REALLY good looking with a fabulous accent...I think I will count that as a plus!

The List

So recently I took on the task of creating my bucket list, and it is huge! I want to do so many things, from reading all of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales to climbing a mountain. Again, I think it might be a little crazy, but I think everything on that list is quite achievable.

One of the first things I want to is to get into amazing shape, and maintain that. I was talking to my online friend, (I met him over a year ago, we've never met in real life for the simple fact that he lives in North Africa and I'm in Canada, and we Skype every now and then). He's a great person to talk to...except when the day comes when its been a couple months and when he sees my face he tells me its gotten fat. F. M. L. I know I gained weight but holy heck! Fat face...not cool.

So I have been looking up health and fitness activities that are available at the University. New school, new home, new body, new me!

Worms in the tummy

So when I was little and whenever I was nervous I always thought I had worms squirming in my tummy, not butterflies fluttering (because shouldn't that be a pleasant feeling?), no I had squirming worms. Well those worms are creeping up on me.

I looked at the calendar today and I am officially one month away from moving to my new home in Ottawa. New home. New school. New language. New life. Now I am excited for this change, but there are the worms there. It could possibly be because I know I am going to miss the most important people in life. The fact that I could fail, and then what? Or maybe it's just the simple fact that it will be one of the biggest changes of my life. Thinking about saying good-bye to all the people I love, makes me well up...but when I also think about what an amazing experience I am going to have, I smile. It will be hard, but the more I think about it, I am ready to say good-bye and start a new chapter in life. I will be sure to visit and re-live some of the moments I've had, but the future is bright! One more month....I better make it a good one!

Thank God for shopping!

So last friday I spent a night with my mother in London. We were originally going to go to the Home and Country Folk Festival but we ended blowing our pay checks on new cloths. And I had forgotten how therapeutic it is! Usually I can't find things that fit right, and its a bust, but this shopping trip was different, I finally found my stores! The stores that have great clothes that fit, and are my style. I was thrilled to bits. And after spending all my money on new shirts and a pair of pants I was feeling fantastic....no wonder it can become and addiction.

Yay for Macbook!!

So this post is being typed up on my brand spakin' new Macbook!! I was so excited when it arrived in the mail!! And I have only had it for a few hours, I am completely in love with it!! I can't wait to discover all of the new things I can do, and make new exciting things with it!!

One thing that is so wonderfully great, is I ordered it with a French-Canadian keyboard, no more guessing which keys are which, they are all marked according!

I think this will turn out to be one of my better ideas!!

Huh...

So a little idea poofed into this wonderful knoggin' of mine...I sort of want to write a book, but then that idea quickly faded, because who am I kidding? A full fledged book?? HA! But then I'm thinking a little more and more about it...and I really want to write one...I don't know about what exactly...but I just do! Oh the sillyness of me! But I've decided I'm going to try!

I have also started a little journal today, and I'm writing it all in French, I figured I better get to practicing if I'm going to be in a French setting everyday for school next year. Since its 15,000$ its sort of important! So if there happen to be any wonderful francophones that stumble upon this blog and want to chat it up leave a comment and we'll take it from there! Merci! Becs!

Some People

Lately I've been getting really angry and annoyed by some people, and thats not usually like me. Sure I get the annoyances now and then, and I bitch about it, but to actually feel angry, not so much.

First, how rude people can be! I was quite aggravated when I was on formspring.me and I saw that certain people were commenting on a friend of mine, telling her to lose weight, and that she was a cunt. Really? I mean really?! How pathetic are you, that all you have is sitting behind a computer insulting others anonymously?

Second, my job makes me want to shoot myself. I clean in a denture clinic. Ok. But my main issue is how lazy and slobby the people in there really are. How hard is it to close a drawer? So difficult you have to leave it hanging open so that I can smack my shin into it? Or its so hard to leave your slobbery gloves on the counter for me to pick up instead of just taking the half second to re-direct your aim to the garbage bin? I mean, seriously...come on!

Thirdly, when you ask to borrow $500. oo, its natural for me to hesitate! So don't call me stingy! Especially when I agreed to lend it to you! I just want it back!!!

OH MY GOD! GRR!!

.....ok...I'm done now.

I must be crazy!

So yesterday I took another exciting step toward my future by registering for my courses for when I start University in September. And I am pretty sure I'm insane. Because every course I am taking first semester is taught in French. Oh merde!

Not that I'm bad at French, over the last year I have improved greatly that I can hold my own in a conversation, but it will still prove to be difficult for the first while I'm sure. My courses are Philosophy, 18th century French, French Literature Genres, German (my only non French course and its still not english), and Anthropology 101 (minoring in anthro. would have taken that in english but it was full so I had to take the french course).

So either I am going to pick up on French like no other and be fabulous, or I'm going to crash and burn, flunk out and move back to Wallaceburg and spend the rest of my days working at a place like Little Caesars and be a sign shaker and want to commit suicide by jumping into the on coming traffic. So everyone wish me Bonne Chance with my studies!!

Australia, There she goes!

So I am making this blog to reflect off anothers blog, because yesterday we received our grade 12 highschool year books...our last ones, and I read one of the messages that one of my dearest friends wrote to me, and i want to give her a shout out about how much I love her, and how freaking AWESOME she is!

Her name is Sarah and her blog is 'Just Keep Pushing' (you can see it in the blogs that I am following), and I have known and been friends with her for a long time, but I felt that this past year we have gotten extremely close, and I know that if she ever needed anything I would do everything in my power to help her. As I say that the thought of her flying 30 hours away to the great land of Australia kills me, (not that I don't want her to go and have the time of her life, I'm just going to miss her more than anybody!)

So Sarah, I would just like to shout it out that I cannot wait to be pen pals with you, I would be so honored if I were to be your maid of honor (OMG!) and even if I'm not I can't wait to visit you and get a tan (probably a burn but one can hope!) Have the GREATEST time in Australia, and I am going to miss you like no other! LOVE YOU! Y-.-Y

Work

So today I feel a little overwhelmed and a bit...ok a lot bit tired. School is coming to and end in 7 days, so all the teachers like to put a bunch of crap on you, as well as review, and I also work about 3 jobs. Now these are odd jobs, nothing overly serious, just stuff to get me by this summer...but they are quite tiring and make your back feel like crap, jobs. Grr.

It sucks that this day and age we can get as paid as much as we do but still have no money...I mean really?? I make the Canadian minimum wage of 10.25 an hour and still at the end of the week it feels like I have 0 =(

Oh well, I guess thats what it's like being young, without a career, and only just starting out. But damn...I really wish that I was born rich, and could just sit on a pillow and bon-bons all day, (not candy, bon-bons, their way better). But thats life for ya.

Prom

Oh Prom, how you never fail every year to bring students of the senior class together, all bedazzled and intoxicated, to sweat on the dance floor, and puke on the pavement outside.

As I'm sure you might have guessed it was my prom yesterday! And it was really nice, I personally had a great time. My date and I and a few other friends got done up, took lots of pictures, and danced the night away. Although Prom wasn't without drama for some, (like I said, drunkenness, which always leads to problems for some people.) Now I am not against drinking, I enjoy going out and drinking, but when you know crap is going to happen, or you can't hold your liquor, then whats the point??

Oh well, I suppose it is their lives to live, I'm just glad I wasn't apart of that crap. Overall it really was a great night, when it was time to leave we went back to a friends house and camped out in her back yard, and in the morning her mother and father were generous enough to cook us breakfast! YUMMO! It's a good feeling knowing, and being friends with such amazing people!

About me

So to know a little bit about me so your not completely confused when reading later posts; my name is Andrea Lauren Lalonde, I am 18 years old, graduating from a small town highschool in two weeks, preparing for the huge step of moving to Ottawa to attend Ottawa University.

I live with my mother, stepfather, older brother, and two younger sisters. My father lives in St.Johns Newfoundland because he is in the Canadian Navy.

I love traveling, I took a three month exchange to Switzerland last year and its killing me that i can't go back this year to visit, or actually even go anywhere new to see, gah! Thats the sad thing about travelling...can never really afford it. But I know I will get to see all the places that I want to, even if I have to hitch hike around the world!

So I think thats about all I can really tell because I will hopefully be updating this often so that you can get to know me more and watch me grow as a progress through life, and one day I can also look back and see how I've changed as well!

So until next time! Becs!

Yay for Neon Trees

So this is a start to what I hope to be a long, on going thing of writing down my life, and share it with people anywhere and everywhere!
So the title of my blog comes from the song Animal by Neon Trees, (a friend suggested I use song lyrics for a title, and that just happens to be the song I was listening to at the time, if you have yet to hear it i'll try and put a link in and you can take a listen, great song!)

So here we are! Heres to a start of something, hopefully, fantastically great and wonderful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY--Yu4kzz0