Colleen is in town! She came in from Winnipeg to hang out for the weekend. Unfortunately, i have exams all this week so i could only spend one night with her. But oh what a night! The all day hard work push was TOTALLY worth it to hang out with her!
First we went out for dinner to Da-De-Os..amazing Cajun food! Has the 50s feel and has the New Orleans flavour.
The picture is of all the food we TRIED to eat. Who knew the portions would be SO big!
I thought about roaming up and down Whyte ave to work off some of the food we ate, but then we walked outside and I started shivering. See, she was quite used to the weather because Winnipeg had a cold streak of -50 for a week. So -25 was BALMY!
We decided on sitting in a local 2nd cup, warming up from the 4 minute walk with some tea and chatting the night away.
My friend Morgan was working (I've known him since junior high!) and he was sweety that gave us a free tea! woot for coffee house hook ups :) Free is one of my favorite words!
Colleen and I had a great time, chatting about anything and everything from boys to language to culture to judgement to creepy hobo guys on whyte ave!
Then we took some random ass pictures and videos involving fish lips and fortune cookies (yes, they gave us fortune cookies from a Cajun style restaurant... go figure!). All in all, GOOOD night.
Currently Listening To: Duele el Amor by Aleks Syntek feat Ana Torroja off the album Mundo Lite
The last two weeks have been a whirl wind. I was invaded by 7 individuals from Winnipeg, Vancouver and London, Ontario.
The people that invaded? Martin, Uttam, Pedro, Alex, Chris, Danny and Rainbow.
Do i miss them already? YUP!
Things we did? Hit up west ed (more than once!), drank (more than once!) and went to the Oilers vs. King's game.
After the invasion came NC 2007. It was definitely a different experience.
I was one of 8 facilitators (faci's) at the conference. Being a faci gives you a different perspective to the conference culture. As a delegate you get in there and party and try and stay awake during sessions and scream your head off and meet new people.
hard to meet people) and gain a new appreciation for the MC and OC.
The parties were NUTS. Alex and I had too good of a time. It was awesome to party with the aiesec Canada crew one last time (well last time for now). Themes? Cowboys & Indians (hey, I'm Indian and dressed up like a cowboy - looky me! doing both themes...), when i grow up, i wanna be...... (a pimp..ya it was AWESOME...we had magic sticks, pimp cups and hats) and 70s (oh the Afro..need i say more?)
It was also super sad to see everyone for the last time. There were tears - which spurred from tiredness and alcohol OR sadness OR a combination of both - you decide.
So after 7 days of craziness... was post conference. Danny, Jen, Rainbow and Karrolyn stayed at my place for a few days.We slept for the first day and a half..it was gloooorious! It was supposed to be a movie day... i watched 1 out of 4 movies!
We hit up whyte ave for a bit - the girls shopped while Danny and I caught up at 2nd cup. Jen had her Alberta steak and we all had desert at death by chocolate (mmm SO good).
We went to a movie (a good Shepherd...SO bad..don't waste your time or money).
Danny and Rainbow left the Sunday before school started. It was surreal. As soon as they left I had to think about school, work and life in general.
Work is remedial as usual. School is going to be difficult. It hasn't even been a week of school and I can already tell that it's going to be a hard semester.Boo Urns
PS. Edmonton cleaned out at the awards ceremony, winning 3 local awards and 2 individual ones. Congrats to John (from Edmonton) who was elected the new president of AIESEC Canada. :D
PPS. I'm in MIS class right now..and obviously paying attention :)