It's been a little while since I've last blogged, but no worries! I have every intention of keeping this blog going over the next year, it's just that circumstances have a been a bit chaotic over the last few days.

I've made the move up to Edmonton. On Sunday night I stuffed my car full of boxes, clothes, mom's leftovers and 2 teddy bears, and drove up. Monday morning I started my orientation along with about 125 other aspiring doctors and 30 dentists. So far it has been incredibly overwhelming. It's as if I've travelled backwards in time to first year when my gaels were throwing us into pits of dirt and shaving cream and the frecks rocked my taxi as we drove into campus for the first time (remember this Ah Ling?). Only this time there is very little dirt and definitely no purple people; just a class full of the intelligent, talented and very motivated. Somehow, this is scarier than being surrounded by the purpled, kilted, and mohawked.

I have been living out of my suitcase for a few days now and it will still be a little while until my phone and Internet are up and running. So to those whom I owe emails: I'm very sorry, I will try and get back to you as soon as I can, but until then please know that I love you regardless of how removed I am from civilization (ie. my beloved computer).

Dez's Classifieds

Any Kingston people looking for furniture? Dez is selling for CHEAP!!!

Desk and Chair
Futon (use as bed or couch)
2 Bookshelves
Chest of Drawers
Nightstand
Microwave
Iron
Vacuum Cleaner

Please, please help me get rid of my stuff people. Not even looking to make money, just need to clear out my housemate's storeroom because I've been a nuisance long enough. Thanx!

The word 'honor' is one that's rarely used nowadays. To me it implies a sense of integrity, a strength of character, trustworthiness. The ability to rely on a person's word once they've given it. I'm sad to say that my family and I have found out the hard way that honor, in our world at least, is a very hard thing to come by. And from fellow Christians nonetheless. How very disappointing.

If we are willing to cheat, lie to and swindle our fellow Christians, how can we possibly expect the people of this world to trust us and our message? No wonder we are so often accused of hypocrisy.

Despite how well things are going for me right now, I find it funny and sad how the smallest things can send me into downward spirals of self-doubt. This growing up business is strange. I am to be discovering who I am, what I am supposed to become, who I will be - but in the middle of the night, in my "naked" moments I am not so very different from who I was. The smallest look, the slightest comment, the very little failure of someone else to validate my own self-worth can trigger the fears that were not as dormant as I had believed.

Yay for the Olympics!

Absolutely my favorite couch potato time of the year (uh...4 years...) because there's something good on TV 24 hours a day =)

My squishy bear turned 18 yesterday. I suppose out of respect to her newly-acquired adulthood I should call her something other than squishy bear or squashy bear or another of her myriad of nicknames...

Whoo!

I'm in Edmonton and the sun is shining and the birds are singing and I have a beautiful apartment that's so close to school it's practically a part of campus =) Gas fireplace, hardwood floors, my own bathroom, huge kitchen and living room and a really nice roommate. What more could a girl ask for?

God has been so good to me lately, it's been amazing. It is truly when you're at the end of your rope, when you've accomplished everything that you can on your own and you'll settle for practically anything that he reminds you of the incredible blessings that he has in store for you, if only you are willing to ask =)

Andy, my girl, just remember, like a free gift with purchase okay? There is so much more out there for us. As good as it may seem, there are so many more things that he wants to bestow upon you.

Finally back!

I think I've travelled more in the last 2 weeks than I have in my entire life, and it's still not over! Next weekend I'll be back in Ontario packing up my stuff and getting ready to move back.

Australia was great. Some of the most amazing wildlife you'll ever see. Kangaroos (50 million of them) and wallabies (basically, little kangaroos), platypuses, echidnas, dingos, birds, fish, koalas and Tasmanian devils (which, I am disappointed to say, spent the entire time sleeping). If given the opportunity, absolutely everyone should go down and see the Reef. Pixar must be making a killing because I swear that every single child I met yelled out "Nemo! Nemo!" anytime a fish swam by.

I've also been doing a little house-hunting up in Edmonton. Beggars can't be chosers and I'll take whatever I can get, which means that I might have to do quite a bit of busing this year but oh well! I'll be very glad when all this housing business is settled so I can have some quality bumming time =)