Growth

Omg! How long has it been since I have written in this thing?! I almost forgot I had it!! I mean, I wanted to do regular blog postings, but I didn't have access to a computer so yeah~.

Anyways, it has nearly been 8 months since I had first landed in Vancouver and it's only a few weeks till I leave and it has really got me thinking whether I had achieved anything while my stay here at all. There are a list of things I had accomplished, but there are also a list of things I hadn't.
One of the highlights I guess was that I got to meet my good friend Kana and got to go travelling with her. I got to travel to the places I had wanted to go before, but there were some other places I really would've liked to go, but couldn't. Hopefully I'll be able to go someday in the near future. Self improvement-wise: I guess now I know that I can make it on my own (even though I already knew that) and my cooking has improved greatly (I actually do it now). Also I wasn't really expecting to grow and learn much in terms of love and relationships and stuff, but I think I have become a little bit more wiser in that department than before. I know more than ever before what I want and don't want and what I need and don't need in a relationship.

Before I came to Canada, I had a plan of how I would spend my time here and had plans for when after I had left Canada. Some of my plans worked out, but most of them didn't. Now I am going back and I don't really have definite plans in mind. I guess I'll just have to go with the flow~. If someone were to ask me if I was ready to leave Canada, I really wouldn't know the answer to that question. In a way yes, I am ready to leave. I got to do the main things I wanted to here and I'm ready to move on from here. But also in a way I would like to stay here a bit longer. If my life in Canada were to be on a line graph, this is what it would have looked like:

April-May: going up 　↑
May-June-July: going way up　↑
July-August: peak　↑
August-September: downhill　↓
September-October-November: rock bottom　↓
November-December: making it's way up again and still going　↑

I would have liked to reach another peak or close to it and done more things before I had to leave... But I guess I do still have a few more weeks!!

I, the Princess

Okay, so here I am in downtown Vancouver, trying my best to live it on my own. After the first day of staying in the shared dorms with that crazy lady, I thought I was going to die. Until I met Mai!! Yay!! Well, Mai and I had got the same plane from Japan to Canada and found out that we were staying at the same hostel, except she was a bit more rich than me and was living in a private room all by herself!! So then, I crash in with her and now that I am away from crazy lady and have someone to talk to, life is just a little bit easier :)

Anyway, I was planning to eat out everyday until I found a place to rent, when Mai told me I should just use the kitchen in the hostel. I was like omg, that is so gross and like I didn't even want to wash my hair cuz there was no hair dryer!! So anyway, I went to check out the kitchen, and I saw that nearly everyone was using it and cooking. Even the guys were making really yummy looking pastas and that was when I felt really stupid and decided I was too much of a princess.

Now I cook dinner everyday since it is soooo much cheaper and healthier and I also wash my hair, even though I don't have a hair dryer. I've learnt to live more simply now.

Impressions of Vancouver

I have finally actually made it over here!! I feel quite tired and am really dehydrated, that I need water, but I have to stay at this internet cafe for 20 more minutes. Well, my first impression of Vancouver was that it's f**king cold!!! Omg it is sooo cold!! Anyway, Vancouver reminds me of Sydney very much, so I kinda feel at home :) The cities and towns look like Sydney but Vancouver has bigger and nicer looking trees lol. But seriously, they do! We have like gumtrees and stuff, but Vancouver has these tall posh looking trees and stuff. And their buildings are really tall and are all made of glass. They all look so new. I saw a lot of tulips on the way, like a lot! But they were really pretty~.
Omg what I'm writing isn't making much sense at all, probably cuz my body and mind is a bit f**ked since it's like 4pm here and back in Japan it's like 8am and I didn't get much sleep and the fact that one of my roommates at the hostel is a full on lunatic -my mind is not at peace. I really need to find a place to stay quickly!!
Oh yeah, like way lots of moments later, I realised that the bus was driving on the wrong side of the road (well, not wrong side but my friend calls it that, cuz for us it is the wrong side) but then it didn't actually feel that weird.
But the scenery of the skyscrapers, then the ocean, the city, with those tall trees then the big mountains with snow at the top were really beautiful. Vancouver really is a chic, posh town. Well, as far as I've seen. I wanted to wander around downtown area, but I am too tired and not in the mood for it yet.
Oh well, only 10 minutes to go, then back to the hostel to check on my things to see whether crazy psychopath lady has done anything to my belongings. Oh, I need to buy a bottle of water first! I am so thirsty!! I so hope I find a place to stay over the weekend!!!!!!!

It's Really Happening...

OMG so many things happened since I last posted on this blog!! The major one was LOVE (^-^). Who would have ever thought I'd fall in love??

Anyway, so the tickets are booked, the hostel reserved. All I have to do is get my ass on that plane and I will be in Canada!! I still can't believe that I am actually going and that it is really happening!!

From Home to Back Home

Well it is finally the second last day staying at home, until I go back home. Gosh, that sounds so weird..... Anyway, these 7 weeks had really gone quite fast! I mean during it it was so slow, but now that the time is up, it feels like it had just gone by. I only just got 実感 when my friend hugged me good bye and said she hopes I have a nice flight back that I really realised that I was leaving. And then my cousin hugs me last night saying she wishes I could live with them forever..... awww it was sooo cute!
Since this time back, I was here for much longer and I worked and did things, I felt like I was just back living in Sydney and the fact that my friends expected me to have another farewell thing, I really did feel like I just belong here.

Anyway, I realised that I appreciate this city even more now that I had been away from it and I have come back. I am gonna miss it so much!! Man,I really don't wanna go back to freezing cold weather!! (>_<)

Growing Up

Love is like a hundred butterflies fluttering in your heart.

It seems like everywhere I turn, there is love everywhere. So many of my friends are getting married, already married and having children. As I look at my little cousins, I get reminded of myself and my childhood. Man, it feels like it was ages ago. I mean, I had forgotten a lot of things, but after living with people so young and so small and living with a thousand toys in your room (and sometimes finding some buried in your bed or waking up to a beeping tamagotchi), it's hard not to remember things and think back.

I remember feeling really small and tiny when I was in kindergarten, and looked upto the 'big kids' in Year 6 and thought we had ages to go until being one of them. When the time came and we were in Year 6, we all thought we were 'adults' and knew everything then. Then we started high school, and then we became the babies of the school again and reality kicked in that we still didn't know anything and had many more years till we were the 'big kids' again. It had seemed like agaes. Now that I've finished uni and am working, I still think there's so much to learn and know. I still feel like a baby at times. Then I see my friends who I went to school with, starting families and doing these grown up things, and I think to myself, "When did we grow up so fast?" It seemed like it was still ages to go till we were in high school, and university and getting married.....

As one of my friends wrote on her blog, it seems like there is a boom in marriage. Everyone seems to be getting married and having babies. I guess this is a good thing though.

YES!!

I woke up today to see the sun just rising. As I walked out, I saw that the sky was a beautiful sky blue. A cloudless sky~, I knew it was going to be a good day :)

And it was!! I passed my L's exam!! Yay!!!!!

Now, I just have to do 50 hours of drving and get my P's......