Guess who's 20?

A beautiful sunset outside my window.

I am!

Anyways so since the last post I have been very busy, the animal welfare forum was so good. It was a full day event. In the morning we had 3 speakers come in. The first spoke about the welfare of animals in the organic food industry. The lady who came in and spoke was from whole foods, which is an exclusively organic grocery chain. Basically the bottom line of the talk was that the welfare of organic animals in north america is lacking, but it's not quite the death pit most people make it out to be. Another speaker was from proctor and gamble's pet division. He spoke about the importance of different types of fiber in in dogs diets. The last speaker was a 3rd year veterinary student who had done work with vets without in Thailand. She spoke about the welfare of elephants in Thailand and how it differs so drastically from welfare here because of religion and culture. In the afternoon there were two more lectures. The first was comon surgeries, and what can be done to help prevent your pet needing it/ what the symptoms are. The other was how to better communicate with your dog.

Since the last post school has taken a hold, I had four tests in econ and 2 summaries and a paper in psych . Fortunately they were all the tests were online and not timed so i could use my notes and take as long as i needed. So it was more like 4 homework assignments.

Johanna and I have joined the rock climbing gym at school and we're having a blast with it. I'm not a huge fan of he walls but i really love bouldering.

On Saturday Jo and I headed out to XS cargo, which is a discout overflow/overstock store and we picked our selves up a DVD player for the apartment and a lovely roomba vaccuum. It's so nice to turn it on when you leave the house and come home to nicely vaccuumed floors. We've named ours Percival. We're strange like that. we name everything. Our plant in our kitchen is named Agador both of our computers have names. We're just strange like that :)

As always here are some lovely photos.

My birthday drink
2-3 oz pink lemonaid blended with ice
1 0z vanilla or regular vodka

Johanna and I bouldering around in the rock gym

Toast lazing around on my bed.

Getting into the swing of things

So, school has finally gotten into full swing. Econ is proving to be one of the nastiest courses I've taken. Fortunately as psychotic as my teacher might be, she is still excellent. She uses great examples and explains everything clearly. She is also very enthusiastic about everything she teaches so, I'm actually kind of excited to go to her classes.

Psych is good as well, the teacher is good not superb but still good. She basically reiterates everything we just read from the text but in different terms. So, If you didn't get what the text was trying to get across then the lectures are very helpful, if not then it's just a great way to emphasis everything again, or catch up on other work.

In other news our apartment is great, except for the fact that the people who had our phone number previously have a debt to settle with capital one, who keep calling at 8 every morning even though we were told we had been removed from their calling list, gah! So it's my job tomorrow to phone them..again.

I met with my CSD councilor the other day and she is really excited about me switching programs and said that my plan to take some of the base courses before I switched was a good idea. She said as long as I have a 70% average overall I will have no problem switching programs. Yay for me cause I have a 75!!!

I have a full weekend ahead of me. Johanna and I are off to ikea after classes tomorrow to get some curtains for our apartment. On Saturday I am at the farmers market bright and early and then at an animal welfare forum the rest of the day at the veterinary college. Sunday will be my workday full of nothing but econ and psych.

I have had some time to go out and take photos too, I had to make time because my apartment is right next to the OVC (Ontario veterinary school) fields, which means lots of horses and cows and sheep for me to photograph!

Three horse at Equine Guelph. The gray is for sure new since last year.

The one and only paint.

Took me a while to get this shot because the bee kept buzzing away but he finally sat still long enough for me to get a clear shot.


Our campus was busier than usual on Wednesday because the cast and crew of "the best years" were on campus. They film the whole show here so we are frequently overrun with cameras and yelling directors. But I thought it would be fun to snap a pic of them.

So, why the blog?

So, basically this blog is going to be a way of keeping family and friends up to date on what is going on in my life. I have a Heck of a lot of people who want me to keep in touch with them. Instead of sending e-mails to everyone I decided to just make a blog. I'll update on a semi regular basis, when exciting things happen. You can also "subscribe" to my blog so that it will send you a message when I update, that way you don't have to keep checking all the time. I'll also share some of my photo's with you to spice up this place.