procastinating from study

As a side note..You know your getting old when.. you think before you put a candy necklace around your neck..think about the dirty pores on your neck, the unseen grease or dirt that will touch the small, colourful pieces of candy. Back to reality - tomorrow is my last exam, and there shall be freedom! The plan is then to start work full time on April 31st. I cannot express enough how relieved I will be to leave BP. At the end of May, I will have worked there for exactly 2 years and 9 months. That's a long time to carry home the smell of restaurant many nights a week, serve new people every night, and put up with the same old crap and people day after day. That's a lot of yam fries, spaghetti, and perogy pizzas i've eaten :S On the other hand, I know I will miss a lot of co-workers who have now become good friends. Good and bad. Life seems to balance itself out. Next week will be so nice! Knowing that school is over until september and that most of my next couple months are planned out, I will be able to relax - especially when I'm laying on a dock out in the middle of nowhere in the hot sun, with the waves crashing up against the shore, surrounded by two of my most faovourite people in the entire world. I'm going to Oma and Opa's!

hello april.

(i wrote this a few days ago, was disconnected by my internet, it saved, and i am continuing on today) Today is the official last day of march, and so much to reflect on! A month of no posts should mean one big long one, but I think I might try to sum this time up shortly.. Today, actually, has been interesting. Before I left for school this morning I decided to open up my bank statement, pay my cell bill and get it out of the way so I didn't have to worry about it all day. I almost shat myself when I looked at it. Someone anonymous person withdrew a very large amount of money from my account..nice.. Obviously, I freaked out. I called my bank right away and dealt with the manager of Loss Prevention at TD blah blah blah.. Anyways it turns out that I've been a victim of fraud, and the type of fraud I've experienced has been happening frequently to many people lately. I'd gotten a couple emails from "TD Canada Trust" marked as urgent, stating that I needed to confirm my online banking information by clicking on a link. I obvioulsy thought this was legit because a few months back I had tried to set up online banking but couldn't figure it out so I just gave up.. anyways I clicked on the link on a couple emails and everytime got re-directed to a broken link.. SOMEHOW some nasty people got ahold of my account information that way and took a lot of money out. :( By the end of this week, I SHOULD have my money returned to my account. Hopefully?  This month has been a lot of answered prayers. God really is pressing into me that I need to trust him with so much more than I do. I worry about mostly every important decision in my life and even the little things, most of the time not even thinking for a second that I can let God handle it.. I want to be able to know right away that the Lord is taking care of me and my steps in life and the second I start to worry or try and handle it on my own, I want to let God carry it. Some exciting things, I am officially accepted into Langara College in Vancouver for the 2010 fall semester. Vancouver is only two months away, so surreal. There is so much to do before then that I keep putting everything off, and all I want to do is not think about it and enjoy the last two months that I have left here. My class 5 driving test will be on tuesday, yay! School is also progressing really well, exams will be in about two weeks and I feel like I've really just coasted through this semester. Jason's family invited me over for Easter breakfast tomorrow, so looking forward to it, they still and I htink always will feel like family to me. Especially now, almost more than ever when I feel like I don't have family support here anymore. I want to make sure that these last two months are meaningful, that is, I want to connect with important people before I leave, and really prepare myself for the rest of this year. I will do more blogging over these next few weeks..

Love,
Karoline

meet charlie

 

isn't he the cutest!?

 Meet Mel's dog Charlie. This little guy likes to wake me up in the morning, cuddle on melissa's bed, and play with his many dog toys. Today was a packed day. Actually, this week has been crazy. I have officially been moved out for 4 days. Moving out was definitely hard. The feeling of knowing I'll probably never go back. Of leaving "home base" for the first time and venturing out and depending on myself, along with a whole new list of responsibilities is overwhelming to the MAX. Moving into Melissa's place has been a really good transition. A really cute house (will post pics soon) with a basement suit that we just have to do a few things with this weekend to get it all ready for me to move down to. For now, I'm staying upstairs in the guest bedroom. Settling in has been pretty good so far - figured out bus systems, alarm clocks, and emotions. Having a roomie has been so fun! Our schedules are pretty different, but we see each other in the mornings usually, in the evenings too. Tonight I attempted to make dinner for when mel came come. Chicken pesto ravioli with homemade alfredo sauce. The pasta worked out, but I clearly lack some common cooking skills when it comes to sauces and it turned out, essentially, in a goopy, cheesy, white mess. Bless melissa, she still ate it, and loved it - and off to G4G we went. Today was an early morning bio lab. I will have to get used to waking up at 6am and have

ing 8 hour school days. A mini-sleep in the lecture hour of bio and a coke zero at 3 helped me make it till the end of the day. Thank God the bus runs right from the school ten minutes after my last class and i was home at 4:20ish.. Took this little monkey for our first walk! It's so fun living with a dog, especially one thats small and cute! We had some fun bonding time today, hope you enjoy these little excerpts from our walk! (PS. just bought this new camera, and really impressed with the picture quality! Love having a camera again and taking fun little pictures:) )

Love,

Karoline

a start

Hello,

This will mark the official first post of my blog. I thought a lot about what would be a start, a beginning to series of many posts.. I was expecting something thought-out, meaningful, poetic maybe..but, in light of "recent events", I think it would be appropriate to mention the Olympics. I have recently been watching some live footage of the games and read up on a few articles. There's really so much surrounding them I want to comment on a lot but won't go into too much detail. Firstly, watching live footage and listening to interviews of Canadians evokes a proud little spirit in me. Hm, I guess I am proud to be a Canadian, and more so a native of Vancouver, or the surrounding area. To have millions of people from around the world travelling here to be a part of something huge - it brings a spirit of unity. Also there is an expected 3 billion people that will be watching the games - that is crazy! Imagine that many people, plus the millions that will be IN Vancouver and taking part brought together for a bigger reason than the games, something bigger than anything else in this entire world. Just to think that the Olympics have this much influence is crazy.. I was recently in Kitsilano, Vancouver visiting my sisters and brother in law and on one day Melissa took me downtown to show me the activities, scenes and feel of the 'olympic downtown vancouver'. There was lots of people, tourists, and fun artsy stuff displayed - also construction on minor projects was STILL underway! Looking at some of CTV's live footage today I saw lots of the same sights, and the area around the countdown that mel and I checked out, now full packed with hundreds of people, press, and this big wooden sort of hut, shelter which only 3 days ago was unfinished, is, well, finished :) Very neat to see lots of attractions that I've seen so many times being broadcasted on national television! Also, some news is bringing light to the protesters of the games, the anti-olympics. Its interesting to hear their opinions - the arguement is mostly that the government should be and could be spending our billions of tax dollars of providing public housing in downtown, and providing better services in vancouver, since many have been cut these last couple years. One interviewee mentioned that the HIV rate in Vancouver is actually equal to that of Botswana Africa - and Vancouver is home to the highest child poverty rate. Its hard to pick a side really. The Olympics have a huge history, and bring the best athletes from all over the world together. However there are bigger issues that need to be solved, but do we put a hold on world entertainment for these? Just earlier today a "luger" was killed in training. He was going "too fast" and coming around the corner on the last 200 m of the track when he got flung off. At about noon today  Nodar Kumaritashvili was pronounced dead from his injuries. I can't imagine being the family of Nodar, some being in Canada and some not, finding out that their loved one who has trained for years for this event, just died only hours away from the competition while training. The luge track built in Vancouver is said to be the fastest track in the world. I'm assuming the architects knew this when they were building it, and then I question why? Just watched a clip from the recent press conference regarding this accident, and people are saying that the cause of this accident was mostly due to the fast track - and the angle of that particular corner. They mentioned that another olympian the previous day had also had a crash on that same corner but her injuries weren't severe because she was going much slower. I wonder how all the lugers representing all the countries feel going into the competition tomorrow - I would think I would back out - I wouldn't want to go fast enough or take the risk of death - but then I probably wouldn't win due to a slow time. Then again, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for most people. But enough banter! The ceremonies start in 2 hours and fifiteen minutes. Go Canada! So, not quite the nature that I thought it would be, but you have a little insight to my olypmic-scope :) This concludes my first post!

Love,

Karoline