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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

I Can Dream

     Okay, so it's nothing official yet, seeing as I only found out about it a couple days ago, but I may have found the adventure I've been looking for. My mom is the guidance counsellor at my high school so she gets a lot of brochures and things promoting different schools or activities students can go to. Recently she got one about volunteering internationally during the summer. It's called Projects Abroad and I recommend checking out the site. There are a wide variety of things you could get into such as child care, community building, medical studies, archeology, journalism and my favourite: animal conservation! I looked through all the options and right now I'm deciding between going to Mexico for 2 weeks to help turtles hatch and make it into the sea, all the while getting daily spanish lessons or going for 2 weeks in Thailand to go diving and help with marine conservation. Both seem really really fun and exciting. I told my parents I wanted to go so they're considering it. It is quite a bit of money so I'll definitely have to chip in, but I think it would be worth it. I really want to do this, not just to go see an awesome new country, but to help out the animals as well. If you're interesting in helping out they're always looking for more volunteers and you can go any time you want, you just have to plan the date and location!

Adios amigos!

P.S. I've been having a really awesome day, so I decided to pass it along: DFTBA!!!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Guess Who's Back

     So, haven't been on here in a while.... my apologies. I'd like to say I have some excuse for my disappearance, but other than me being lazy I have nothing. I don't really have all that much to talk about. Exams are coming up and I have 4 fairly difficult classes to study for so that'll keep me busy for most of next week.
     I think I've developed a new addiction to horror/thriller movies because over the past 3 months I've watched.... a lot. I'm not quite sure where this came from, most of the time I hate horror movies because they scare me and gross me out. Maybe I desensitized myself to them... or something.
     On a completely different note the weather here has been pretty freezing cold. Theres at least a couple feet of snow on the ground and temperatures around -30 degrees celcius or colder. I like it mostly because it means my parents can't complain to me about not being outside. And I sounded like such a hermit there didn't I. Well, there really isn't all that much to do where I live anyways so I guess it wasn't extremely bad, from my perspective anyway.
     But anywho I have studying and stuff to do so hopefully I'll be back soon!