GRAD

Ok so here it is, the pictures from my graduation that happened on Friday. Even though I still have 6 weeks left of classes it's sad that this part of my life is over, not that I'm not excited to start a new life and move on it's just moving on kinda scares me...it should but it does :P anyways here are some of the pictures:

here's what my hair looked like from the back, suprisingly it only took one hour.

Here's a family photo, notice that even with me wearing heals I'm still short :P

My brothers and I :D

My parents and I

Me :P

My Friends and I

Hasn't Set In

I can't believe that I have been to Europe...everything just seems so sureal, I saw so many cool things and tasted the best pasta in the world and I even threw a coin in the Trevi fountain. I still can't believe that I've seen everything that I have, and it probably will take me a while for everything to set in. So instead of talking about my experiences because there are so many to name I'll just show you through pictures with some captions:

Here's one of the Efile Tower, we didn't get to go up it because it was on strike but it was cool to see it up close.

This is Notre Dame, we didn't have time to go inside but looking at it was enough for me

This was at the Juno Beach Cemetery, this was one of the parts of the trip that I actually teared up, for those that don't know Juno Beach was one of the most significant battles for Canadians because we lost so many people, and seeing the number of graves there was pretty powerful.

The Arc de Triomphe

Me standing by the Louvre

A church in Florence built many years ago, it was huge!!! and Florence was by far my favorite part, I am going back to Italy someday I swear!!

I just wanted to show you how green Italy was :D

Yes this is defiantly the Coliseum...it's so pretty and amazingly beautiful

This is the inside of the Coliseum

I almost cried standing here, this is the Trevi Fountain...it looked so gorgeous and especially at night!!!! I loved this night, we walked around the city at night and everything was so pretty I could hardly believe it!!


After visiting the Vatican City we were in St. Peter's Square and we saw the Pope!!! here's the one in the middle.

Ok so that's a taste of what I saw in Europe, it was definatly a life changing experience and I hope that I can go again some day.

Bon Voyage!!

Ok so I haven't really updated this much in the last few weeks...I promise I'll do better in the future. So I am heading off to Paris in exactly 4 days!!! and then spending the next 10 days traveling around France and Italy. After I get home Tammy basically has claim on my life until grad is over, which is actually 2 weeks from the time I get home. I really don't know what I'm going to do with my life after the next month is over...study for exams I guess :P Oh and I forgot to mention that I now have my dress!! Here's a lovely picture of what it looks like, you'll have to wait until after grad to see it on me :D

So I leave from the Calgary Airport at 1:15 pm on Tuesday and after a connecting flight in Toronto I will arrive in Paris at about 10:15 in the morning...so basically I will have to sleep on the plane or risk being totally exausted all day :P I can't wait to visit sites such as the Efile Tower, the Vatican City, the Trevi Fountain and much, much more!!!

What I am also looking forward to is visiting Juno Beach, the location of one of the most significant battles for Canadians durring World War Two, many people died there and it's just one of the many pieces of history my class and I will be able to experience. I will post some pics as soon as I get the time to, so for now bon voyage and talk to you in a few weeks!!

Almost done!!

Ok I would like to announce that basketball is almost over for me which means I will never have to work another game again!! As much as I know I've grown from the experiences over the last 4 years it still feels great to know that I am almost done.

With baketball almost over I can now prepare for the next few months because they are going to be CrAzY with Europe in just over a month and grad in 8 weeks I doubt I'll have time to breathe. But then again I am so excited to be able to go to Paris and Rome and actually see what we've talked about in social for years :P and strangly enough our grad theme is Rome so I can bring home some things to put as center pieces, if I can find anything small enough that is haha.

Young Women's Camp

So I got back from young womens camp yesterday and actually had an amazing time!!! I love being in the mountains and I surprisingly wasn't all that cold, the weather was beautiful and our camp site had this view, I love looking at nature <3

Also our leaders were great they took good care of us and never complained however we did...wel at least I did because I do not like camping outside especially in winter but like I said I enjoyed myself. I felt bad though because at camp we have this thing we do to all the new Beehives and well we made one cry...ooops haha but it's all good she broke into laughter after she got over the shock :P

A Better Day

I realized after working 3 basketball games yesterday that sometimes I get myself to stressed out on what I am doing wrong instead of actually listening to the coaches. They usually are not angry at me but it comes across that way. The other day after having the coach yell specifically at me, I was quite peturbed at him but after the game he came and thanked me and my workers for doing such a great job and apolagized for yelling at us.

That really made me think about how often we get caught up in a certain situation and often act in ways that we later look back on and regret, so even if someone has me angry to the point of madness I will try to not let it bother me as much because really it's not me they are angry at, just the situation.