Last night (and again today) I went to see the twins’ school show and it was GREAT! It’s not often you’ll hear me say that about anything remotely related to Rockland but in this case, they deserve the kudos! I’ll have TONS of pics online from the show within the next week or so… Thumbs up to the hippie van, it rocked! My little cousin Emmanuelle was the best pink-haired squeegie I’ve ever seen! Toight, man!
So… I’m in disbelief… Everything is fitting relatively well in my suitcases… Isn’t fighting with the suitcase, having to sit on it before it actually zips up part of the departure process? I MUST’ve forgotten something! For a girl to move away with nothing but two suitcases that are within Air Canada luggage regulations is… not right, is it?
So I bet tomorrow morning I’ll realize I forgot loads of stuff… but for the time being, let’s get some sleep… Tomorrow will be a very very long day… Next time I write will be from the UK…
I haven’t posted all week, haven’t really spent time at the computer this week other than to study for exams either! Which is rather unusual will agree those who know me 
So I do… I hate moving, I hate the process of living in boxes for the week prior to leaving, I hate the gloomy feeling of walking around my room trying not to trip on boxes and looking for something to do now that everything but my computer and school binders is packed!
Moved over 5 times in hardly more than three years, every time having to wittle down the quantity of junk I own, so now I’m leaving for England with two suitcases and one or two boxes labelled for my parents to bring in their luggage in July. Hopefully there’ll be one last move in the next year, when we finally buy our own place somewhere in England, then I don’t want to move for a while!!
At least our apartment in England is nice, and I don’t start humming the Mile End song every time I walk out the door of our flat! *keeps from complaining more about the crappiness of the Ottawa apartment — see previous posts for that* Lawrence Moorings is beautiful and so relaxing most of the time, and my only roommate will be the nicest boy ever! 
I need to go pile up my boxes in the living room so I can guage whether I need to ask friends to help or if we’ll have enough of my current helpers! Tonight’s the big move, I should get working!
Here are the pics from last night (minus the first three)
http://php-gallery.its-the.net/gal.php?user=raindrop&gid=48
In a week plus an hour, I’m on the plane, leaving the country… Can’t really believe it yet…
Anyone remember the Pulp song called Mile End? Was in the Trainspotting soundtrack… Check this link for the lyrics (only no-popups site I found, sorry if it’s slow) http://www.lyricmania.com/l24922
Anyways, the reason I’m bringing this song up is because today, the elevator in my building smelt of cow manure… I mean, I’ve smelled horrible things before in there — rotting wet carpet, weewee, chinese food, indian food, varsol paint remover… So everytime now, it just makes me want to bust out singing Mile End. Don’t EVER move into this building — or the one next to it for that matter — because you’ll regret it. Sure it’s cheap rent, but it’s also terrible building maintenance! The cake pieces that were dropped on the floor in front of the lifts on my floor on Friday were still there Tuesday… Don’t they ever clean?
And the garbage chute! AHHH People just seem to dump their stuff in the garbage chute “room” instead of down the chute! Granted the chute door needs to be bigger so you can fit normal bin bags, but still, it’s incredibly disgusting!
So… yeah, won’t miss this apartment, this building, this city… I’ll miss a handful of people who I hope to stay in touch with… I won’t miss the winters, or the summers spent working inside over-air-conditionned government buildings, wishing we could be having lunch in a park or at a pub… I won’t miss living next to the Queensway… I certainly won’t miss the tv shows we get here… except maybe the hockey games…
9 days and this chapter of my life is over… 9 days and… damnit I haven’t started packing yet!
Not long until it’s time to leave for England now… So many things to do and so little time left!
Yesterday was my last day at work. No more “Centre de Cyber-apprentissage, Bonjour!” for me! Tomorrow morning’s exam should go alright, since it’s an open book exam, I know my concepts and my notes are relatively organised Then I’ll have two more exams and one essay left to do!
Tonight was Game 7 for the Sens, and well… poor job by Lalime is all I can say… Letting in three goals in the first period killed them totally. This may well be the last hockey game I watch for another few years! Soon enough, it’ll be football games, sitting at the pub, being careful those crazy football fans don’t knock my beer over! 
Little else to say… I’m going to sleep early so that my brain wakes up tomorrow morning for the exam! Lately it’s taken me till mid-afternoon to get my brain working — even after today’s lovely walk in the market, it took a while for me to stop feeling dazed out and feel able to work on school stuff! Looks like my brain’s already on holidays!
Just one last little effort…
Last night was my hen night, bachelorette party, whatchuwannacallit going away party… It was really nice seeing everyone before leaving for a long time. We had dinner at Clair De Lune on Clarence St. and I had quite nice lamb, though I’m not sure everyone else had meals they really enjoyed… But the company was lovely and we talked for a while at the table.
Then some of us headed over to Bar 56, and Amy and I had nice Cosmopolitans (while discussing which Sex & The City girl we were). As most people had gone home, Michelle, Aaron and I attempted to find a pub that wasn’t packed tight… It wasn’t happening so we came back for a little drinky here and chatted till late. I’ve got such awesome friends
What was particularly nice was the little book Paola gave me, containing a little word from everyone… I read it once I got home, it makes me so sad to think I’m leaving all those lovely friends behind. I’m confident I’ll see a good few of them somewhere around the world sooner than later I also got an Indian cookbook from Ben and Andrianne — looking at it today, I was drooooooling! If I manage to find all the right herbs n spices, I’ll most definitely be cooking that at home! It’s got all the best recipes!
On another note, hey, the Sens are going to game 7! My building rumbled when the Sens scored the first time, but when Fisher scored in overtime, it really rumbled loud! If they win game 7, I’ll take cover, in case the building collapses!!
Alright, this entry contained way too many exclamation marks considering how unenergetic and tired I am at the moment… My bed’s looking terribly inviting right now…
*looks at bed*
*looks at essay papers*
*looks at bed again, jumps on bed and falls right asleep*
Tough luck, I’ll work on the essay later…
Hier soir, je suis allée souper chez mes grand-parents à Hull. On a commencé regarder la partie de hockey mais comme j’étais trop fatiguée pour suivre la puck, je suis descendue dans le studio de grand-maman pour admirer ses dernières peintures, et… son nouvel ordi! Wowie wow! Comme elle dit, elle fait pas les choses à moitié Très bon ordi! Donc, je lui ai donné un petit cours sur le fonctionnement de l’ordi et de sa connection internet sans fils (comme une mini station de radio!) et elle m’a montré son programme Tap’Touche pour apprendre le doigté. Belle soirée, j’irai l’aider une deuxième fois cette semaine avant de partir!
I have to point this out… Googlebot loves me! Can anyone explain why he’s been visiting me like 3-4 times a day? Next he’s gonna start bringing me flowers and jewellery! It’s starting to make my boyfriend jealous! But really, I wish I knew how I get so many visits so I could replicate that for our business site. It deserves the hits and the googlebot visits more than I do! Over 2000 hits to this site after removing all the visits that could potentially be from my computer or my parents’ one. That’s still a whole lot of blog-reading! (Springs to mind — Why don’t I have more comments? *sobs*)
So tonight’s my hen night… Should I be worried? Oh lets not think about it yet… Let’s just have fun
Tonight, I went for nachos at the Royal Oak with Michelle, who’s back from her South America adventures… Nachos? How unexpected of us! Anyways, we walked there from my place as it was quicker than the bus and it was just so nice outside. Walking together, I didn’t really pay attention to what was going on around me… We had a lovely evening chitchatting and catching up on our crazy crazy lives, watched a little bit of the hockey game as it was on tvs all around us, ran into her sister and just generally had a good time.
Walking back home, I realized how enjoyable walking is, when the surroundings aren’t too creepy! The only place I ever walk is from campus to home or vice versa; a shitty walk, where all you do is get creeped out by speeding busses and smell bus and car fumes, with the occasional sighting of rigor mortis rats. Now, I get to realize how close I am to the canal, to so many places to walk that I never took advantage of! Typically me, I notice that just as I have to leave the area for good!
So I need to make it a point to go walk around Sawbridgeworth everyday when I get to England! I need to get a bike so I can get slightly further too! If I don’t do that during my first two months at home, I’ll go completely coocoo… Not to mention I’ll get fat!
All that to say I quite enjoyed my little walk home and if I get the urge to get out of the house in the next little while, I’ll go for a walk to the canal and go for a beer at the Oak!
Oh and as an aside, the Oak is the funniest attempt at a British pub that I’ve ever had the chance to see… Big Boddingtons posters everywhere “The Cream of Manchester”… yeah like you wanna advertise anything is from Manchester… *snickers* And signs “To the Loo” pointing towards the washrooms… Funny how there is *also* a “Washrooms” sign next to it… I bet most ppl couldn’t figure out what the loo sign meant
Oh and another aside… Go Sens Go or something? Silly hockey fans…
I have a theory that the less time you have free, the more unexpected time-filling things pop up to fill up the liiiiittle bit of free time you have left. Change of plans, sudden invitations to go for coffee with people you’ve known for years but never really thought of hanging out with, phone numbers written on the smallest post-its (howcome I only find the smallest 3cmx2cm ones when I’m on the phone!?) for possible get togethers that’ll never happen, and just generally way too much too do, and way too little time to do it all…
So all in all, I’m feeling rushed and a bit freaked out that in less than 3 weeks, I’m in England for good and in less than 3 months, I’m Mrs. Peps! So much stuff to put in boxes, so many heart-wrenching decisions about what should come with me and what I should give away or leave here. I just wish I could put my friends in boxes and take them with me!!!
Just looked around, and was reminded by my book that I have an exam tomorrow for which I haven’t opened a book yet. Granted I’ve had that prof before and his exams are never very hard, I should still get kickin’ and read my notes over a few times. *scratches head* My whole evening was spent reading Acts of Gord, the Bible of a videogames shop owner in Winnipeg. Ya know, productive stuff…
I can’t wait for all this rush to be over! Exams, moving over, work, everything… I want to be sitting by the waterfront near the apartment, drink in hand, watching the three reject ducks (I’ll take pics of them someday) bimble around the moorings and get fat from all the bread little kids (and me) keep feeding them. I want to close my eyes and not see a list of a ton of things I need to get done. Or is this constant worrying called adulthood?
Bah, Mishu’s calling me for sleep. Nite!
…Oh and before you start thinking that I’m cheating on my darling, Mishu’s the teddy I’ve had since the day I was born… It just means teddy bear in Polish
