I can't wait.

Well, my week home has come to an end. I feel like I never even left, everything is basically the same.
It's as if I'm living two lives, one here in edmonton and one in boston. I can't wait till christmas when I can live this life again for 2 weeks.

Happy thanksgiving to my american friends. This week is almost coming to an end, this is the first time I've been away from home for sch and this trip home was great. I'm glad there's less than a month until I get to come back again. It's so easy for me to slip into the same routines, it feels like I never even left. I basically just have tomorrow left since my flight out is on saturday.

"What have you been doing? I must know for stalking purposes" you say? I wanted to see a move (the prestige) on wed but it wasn't playing.. they had changed the schedule because deja vu came out. So we decided against seein a movie and just walked around, semi-shopping. Then I headed to my grandma's house for a good ol' fashioned family dinner. We have a lot of these if you haven't noticed.

What did I do today? You guessed it, family dinner. It was my grandpa's birthday dinner, I love that my dad's side of the family is so close. It has definitely instilled some values into me that I couldn't imagine myself without. Quite a bit of snow fell today and made the roads extra slippery, and for some strange reason my grandpa chose to be a passenger in my car. (Why couldn't he have gone with one of my aunts or uncles?) Anyway, this made me drive extra careful. The stress of having precious cargo....

Well my american friends, I went shopping yest at the world's largest mall and took some tourist-y pics for ya. I also took a pic of the world's largest boot. I know you can hardly wait.

I'm home and it feels so good. Definitely made the right decision to come home, everything is the same yet slightly different.

My flight landed at about 1230 Edmonton time. First thing I did when I got home was eat the food my mom had made me, then I took a nap since I had only gotten 2 hours of sleep.
Went to my grandma's for dinner, then went to see the new bond movie. I really liked it, Daniel Craig did a great job as Bond. And the movie itself wasn't as corny as last time around so that definitely helped.
Today started off with dim sum with the family followed by shopping at e. centre. I bought gloves and a fall jacket.

So there you have it, retroactive stalker.

On a rainy sunday afternoon, I got bored with studying and decided to semi-pack for my trip back home. Basically packed the stuff I don't need here, clothes that I haven't worn, free pens and post-its I've acquired, dvd's that I've since watched many times, etc.

Good thing I'm comin home 'cause I am out of money. (I hate bank of america). Whoever heard of having to wait 4-6 weeks for a check to clear?

In a week from now, I'll probably be packing for my trip home! Words cannot express how excited I am. It's right about that time of semester when I could use a break from seeing the same people every day.

A few of us went to the bruins vs. leafs game last night. It was my first time at an nhl hockey game and I had a lot of fun; it was a high scoring game and the leafs won 6-4, so my ontarian friends were happy about that. Now I just need to see an oilers game and my life will be complete.

LESS THAN 2 WEEKS UNTIL I COME HOME! OK, sorry.. that's enough of that...

Post-exams, I find myself actually bored. Like there's not enough to study; if that's not sick, I don't know what is. There was some momentary stress related to my proficiency exam (like a clinical test, they judge us on how "proficient" we are in the skills/tests we've learned how to do so far). And I'm happy to say that I passed with flying colours! This means a lot to me, it's not some dinky cell bio quiz that's worth 1.25% of my mark. This is actually relevant to what I'll be doing in the future. So I guess the "take-home message" (as my TMVT prof would say) is that I'm havin a really good day today.

Lookin forward to many good days in my home town, see you all SOON.

2 weeks until I'm home! I feel like a broken record, but here it is: I CAN'T WAIT! There's something about the tackiness of the "world's largest" mall (and cowboy boot) about edmonton that is irreplacable. It's absolutely surreal here, we see the same ppl everyday and life in boston basically equals optometry for me. There's no way to escape it, I go to sch, eat, study, sleep, live and breathe optometry. 99% of my friends in boston are from my school so even when I'm just hangin out, talk of amblyopia (and other equally as nerdy topics) pop up. Luckily, I really like optom (I'm amazed at how much actually). I guess my mom was right.. *shudder*

Even so, I still need breaks away from it. Sometimes, it's hard to realize that even though optom will be my career, it's not my whole life. And I think a trip home is gonna do just that. Seeing my family and friends will remind me of who I am, the values that have been instilled in me which have been kept intact thus far. I haven't been corrupted by living alone just yet. That probably has something to do with the fact that I'm not legal drinking age here though.. but I'm gonna go ahead and take credit for it anyway.

I got all my midterm marks back and I'm happy with them for the most part, I know what I need to keep doing and what things I need to change to do better. Missin you all, counting the days until i'm with the ones I love.