Baby Shower Part I

I thought I would use this whole picture uploading thing to post some of these for you guys! There's a lot, so I'll have to make a couple, or few, posts. I don't know how to get them in the order I want, but oh well. This'll have to do. Enjoy! P.S. If you don't want your picture up here, too bad!! P.P.S. these were taken by my dad, so sorry if some of them are blurry! He doesn't quite know how to use a camera yet ;)


Awww look at Melissa!
Little baby Benjamin
Joel, Elyse and me...mmm food!
Melissa and Mrs. Grant
Nathan and Dave (he's come out of hiding!)
Food...Abe, Joel Terry, Mrs. Terry, Mr. Grant, Mr. Terry and Mr. Timmerman
Jamie and my mother
Mrs. Timmerman, and yep, that's my mom!!
Joel Terry, Richard and apparently me
Celia, Joel is hiding, and Richard. I'm guessing that's half of Zachary too!

These Days

This would be Nate, Kev and my dad at the Fox
My dad thinks he knows what he's doing!

And he goes for the swing!!

Not sure what happened with this one, but there's Nate showing his skills!

I never knew you could do pictures!! This is great!! haha

Well, I don't have much to say, really. I'm going away this weekend to Brockville (up by Ottawa) from Thursday to Sunday to visit my friend. His brother's getting married so I get to go to that! I like weddings! Anyways, so I've been busy these past few days getting ahead on school work so I don't have to worry about it. Speaking of school, I'm still pretty much loving it. I particularly enjoy my Religious Studies class because I'm learning a lot about the Bible and challenging my professor because he doesn't believe the Bible to be 100% true, so that's interesting. Also it helps with studying the Bible and being able to pick apart little things and really disect the Scriptures to understand their true meaning. Sometimes I get in the habit of just skimming it, and so this acts as a focus for me.

For my Social Justice class I have to do volunteer work with a group and we just got our placememts yesterday, so I am at the Y.O.U. Youth Opporunities Unlimited, I believe. I don't really know much about it yet, so I'll let you know how things go with that. It didn't really matter to me which place I got, but I had a couple I know I did not want to get put in and that was the L'Arche one because my heart isn't really for the disabled community, although I do have compassion for them and believe in treating them fairly, but I'm not sure I could work there; and also the Cross-Cultural one, also because my heart's not there either. I don't really care to help immigrants get settled in London. Again, I have nothing against them, I just don't feel I'm the right kind of person to work there. I'm not one for patience, as you all probably know.

On a different note, I rear-ended a car the other day. Quiet! It was NOT my fault! Well, I'm sure you law people would argue it's my fault, but technically it wasn't. I was going through the University and I had the green light, but some woman pulled out in front of me and slammed on her brakes, so I had to slam on mine, but the brakes in our new car aren't the greatest and I didn't stop in time and so I hit her. Not really hard, but just enough to jolt her car forward. There was no damage or anything. In fact, she didn't even get out of her car, she just glanced in the mirror and kept driving. Boy, she's lucky she didn't because I probably would have bitten her head off! All you drivers out there, ya don't do that! Why she slammed on her brakes I don't even know. I should have shot out her tires or something. She doesn't deserve to drive if she's going to pull out in front of people like that, especially when I had the right-of-way.

Yep. That's all!

Time Flies

Yes, yes it does. I'm in second year? What? But I swear I just started university! It feels weird to be older than people now. I'm not sure why, but it does. Now I don't have an excuse for not knowing my way around, although, I've never actually had a problem with that.

Well, classes have now begun and frankly, I'm excited! Working with kids for the past 4 months full-time has just turned my brain to mush. The question of the day will no longer be, "Do you have to go potty?", or, "Here, let me wipe the snot off your face", for if I were to say that at school, I'm sure I'd get a few looks. Well, I had to go to the Academic Dean's office and get a few things straightened out since they switched one of my classes on me (Soc. 239, social inequality, the one I really really wanted!) so now I can't take that until next year and I have astronomy instead. haha yes I know, a bit of a difference, but I need a science credit to graduate, and this class has actually become the one I look forward to most, except for the fact that it is a 1st year class. That's kinda weird. I don't know why, but I've noticed their significant level of immaturity. But I'm sure all you who are ahead of me feel the same way about the people in my year.....so it all balances out...sorta. ANYways, my astronomy class is on Main, and I never really realized just how big the campus is until I had to find the building and parking, etc. Although I was quite disappointed at the size of the class because there is less people in it than in some of my classes at King's and I was a little curious as to know what it would be like to attend a larger class than the ones I am used to. And the building's not very nice either. Oh well. The professor is a little strange though. I noticed that when he's speaking to the class, he always looks as though he's looking out the windows at the back of the room and not the students. That bothers me a lot. But he knows what he's talking about nonetheless. There's a lot of work ahead of me for that one. 3 exams, 10 pop quizzes, readings, and 8 assignments. But that's okay. I get to stare at the sky and actually know what I'm looking at.....so there's a bonus. We were talking about scales yesterday and wow, I just can't rap my head around just how big the universe is. It's crazy! If I could post the pictures from my text I would because it's so mind boggling; very interesting, I must say.

One thing I'm excited about, for my religious studies class (101a, 102b) my text book is the Bible! I think that's cool 'cause if any of you have seen my house, we own at least 14 Bibles. BUT, the downside, well I shouldn't classify it as a downside, but I have to read pretty much the whole Old Testament in the next 4 months. You know how much reading that is on top of everything else?! Oh well. Maybe I'll learn something important that I never knew before, which is highly likely. But I'm looking forward to that class as well, especially since my prof. likes me from last year because I always participated in his class and actually knew something about religion, so that's decent.

I can't believe how much they charge for parking. It's ridiculous! I parked for a little over an hour and I had to pay $4.50. Stupid rip off. And I have class on Main 3 times a week. I think I'll take advantage of that "free" bus pass. Yes, I know that was random.

When I was walking to class yesterday morning from my van (I strategically parked 2 blocks down so that I could go over the time limit and not get charged.....like last year....hahaha I almost got away with parking in a 1 hour for 3 hours for a whole year, but then I got a ticket right at the end) there was this old lady lying on her front walkway bleeding. There were about 3 or 4 other people there helping, so I stopped and asked if everything was alright and they said that she tripped and fell; and since there were already people there I kept on going to class because I couldn't do anything else and it wouldn't be very nice to formulate a crowd. But the ambulance showed up and everything and when I passed her house on the way back to my van, there was blood all over her sidewalk. I hope she's okay.

Anyways, I should probably do some reading. I hope everyone else is enjoying school, and/or work, and those who are overseas, whatever you're doing! Have a great day!