Creer

Creer is to believe in Spanish.

My final in Communications during my first semester in first year business school was to give a five minute persuasive speech about something I was passionate about. While I found myself listening to my peers explain to the class why they shouldn't smoke, or why they should workout, I was intimated to present my topic... "Follow yours dreams". 

In short, I gave my speech and was shocked by the result of the class... they actually liked it. What a relief! (I actually thoroughly enjoyed all of the other speeches and, even though it was the most stressful final, it was the most rewarding.)

I have come to the conclusion that, although business school is the smart choice for an education it isn't the right choice for me. Funny, after my speech, one boy in the class asked if I was following my dreams. I replied "yes" without a doubt in my mind. I explained my ambitions to get my diploma and maybe even my degree, followed by work and a South American language school, however, things have changed. I have decided to finish my first year and be done with business school! Who knows, maybe I might go back to it and get a diploma, but as for right now, I want to study languages.

I had originally enrolled into Arts for linguistics, however, my mom and I talked about it and decided that business school would be a smart choice. Once again smart, but not right for me. I am happy with what I have accomplished so far with business and I am proud to say I worked hard. Not to mention, relevant courses for future jobs will be handy! I am ready to take a step into the unknown though!

As for right now, I am concentrating on getting through this semester, and working lots for my trip to Europe this summer. I will cross whatever bridges that come next when the time is right, but as for right now, I am following my dreams.. it is crazy how they can change so drastically in such a short period of time. I wonder how many times they will change in the years to come...

For your listening enjoyment, check out this awesome song... all thanks to my darling cousin Sarah!

Also, ever heard of One Direction (What makes you beautiful is their most famous song)? Want more awesome foregin boy bands? Check out this soon-to-be-famous group called "The United". I have been following one of these members for two years on youtube and I am so happy to say they will be famous soon! I love boy bands, just like when we were eight!



Sun(I wish)day

For the past sixteen days I have gone without doing a blog. I have had coutless inspired moments to pull out one of my electronic devices and start writing! However, with three midterms, and oral presentation and still manage to work between school and the normal business of life, I had no choice but to put my blog on hold. It is rather odd really, I get inspried at the most interesting moments to go ahead and start writing. Particularly while I am in school. One side of me likes to think that it is because my mind is pumping through all the creative juices that college it suppose to create, however, I think it is the fact my imagination tunes out the studies I should be focused on and lets my mind wonder to where it wants to have focus. On a brighter note, I am here typing for my pure pleasure, meaning that my blog is a success so far, as far as my commitment is concerned.

Now most recently, as a reward to myself for surviving midterm week, I watched two movies in one night. This is a big deal for me because over the past two years, I have slowly taken television and movies out of my life. So I wanted to watch something inspiring! I searched Netflix and found ```Life in a Day``.  The trailer is below and the movie was amazing to watch. Definitely worth my time. Check it out:

I forgot to mention: I was able to watch the two movies in one night thanks to a very helpful uncle of mine who helped me getting access to Netflix. Thank-you again!

Okay, for the second movie I watched (by myself since my mom headed to bed) it took me about twenty minutes to find one that I felt like watching. However, it was more like the movie picked me. It was called "I am david" and it seemed to come up in every category. Just a FYI, I finally clicked play for the movie when I was in the kids section. I firuged if it was in the kids section along with what seemed like every other one, it must be good! Check out the trailer below. I feel it doesn't do the movie justice in the least but to give you an idea...

(The author of the book is Anne Holm incase you missed it and are interested)

We have all heard this many times before, but this movie selection is an example of how great things come when you are not looking. Okay a bit of an over statement for the movies that kept me occupied on a Friday night, but you get the idea! Also, below are some photos that made me smile amidst the time I should have spent studying. The first one is usually my life when it comes to homework.

Please excuse if some of these are repeats for your eyes, I tend to gather stuff from Facebook.

On another note.. in October 2010, which was my graduating year from high school, I applied for a rotary youth exchange to go aborad for a year in another country. To make a long story short, after I royaly screwed up my panal interview, I didn't even get short listed. That meant no international endeavours for me and put quite a big dent in my dreams for after highschool (incase you haven't gathered so far, I seriously want to travel and go abroad to learn another language). This resulted in me going to my local college for tourism and hospitality along with some spanish courses after grad.

I recently applied for yet another rotary exchange however this one would only be ten days to australia as apposed to the year long one. I was determined to make this a succesful interview. The fact I got an interview was special because that meant I had gotten short listed from the fifty avaliable applicants.. five got interviewed. I went into the interview and left the interview feeling confident. I got called the next day and once again, I didn't make the cut. However, my feelings about this attempt were dramatically different then my previous, somewhat depressed feelings. I took this(harsh but lack of a better word) rejection as an oppurtunity to make and earn something that would be so much more fulfilling for me. I mean, wouldn`t you say a hard days work makes the outcome that much better? I think so... I mean, remember my movies!? And college... I wouldn`t have even gotten the Australia oppurtunity if it wasn`t for my fifty hour work weeks during summer 2011 to pay for college to get me into classes that offer such oppurtunites.

And to wrap things up: today, even though the sun wasn`t shining, I still went for a drive to my favorite parts of Kelowna and was amazed by my hometowns beauty. After, I went to the gym... and once I finally reached home, I was proud of the fact my legs aches as I went up the stairs. Even though I am tired from working until 10:45 last night, and the thought of waking up at 4am in the morning to head back to work makes my eyes want to close, I am excited for the direction I am going on. Basically want I am trying to say is I hope simple pleasures, and hard work gets you where you want to go. Until next time, listen to this song (I have never seen the video, but I love the audio), I hope it puts at least one busy mind at ease:

Oh also.. I LOVE THIS SONG,

along with many other versions of it, but I am sure most will recognize this version:

  

I have decided not to have so much typing and more, I guess you could say, "action" today.

I put my iTunes on shuffle and decided to post the first song that I felt like listening to right now; I had one requirement though: I had to sing along to it. The first first song is one that I would (listen to now) and I do regularly listen to from start to end. However, it isn't a song I would belt to. The next song that was on shuffle is the second video. An absolulte yes for being able to sing along with every word!

Random fact: This song was apparently written for her dog.

This photo was something I stumbled upon on facebook today.

The first four words I got were:

1) Charming...       I wish

2) Dependent...     (in)dependent

3) Happy...           Absolutely

4) Caring...            I Concur

After further looking though, these were the ones I would have chosen

1) Happy...          "Absolutely"

2)Genuine...         I am not full of shit

3)Restless...         Oh so true, physically and emotionally

4)Eccentric...        I searched for this one, but I love it

What about you?

Can I just take two seconds and say that it is rather annoying when I try to use my question mark and every so often it appears as an ``É`` instead! ... not to mention my quotation marks around that annoying É are not actually quotations mark. It just doesn`t make sense to me.

On a final note, I felt compelled to share these photos. I am one who thinks about ``What will I be doing at this time tomorrow?`` or ``In 12 hours time I will be at work``. I even dream of what I will be doing in 5 years at this exact time on this exact date, or the same question of what was I doing last year at this time. (I never noticed I did this until my cousin Sarah pointed it out a week or so ago. I now notice the frequency of statements like that almost daily.)

Last year around this time, I took those photos above. I am not a photographer by any means, in fact, I have hardly touched my camera since this time last year (aside from friend get togethers) , however, I did  take these photos for someone else, and, although there is no relationship between us anymore, I am still oddly attached. I think the way a relationship ends, regardless of the type of relationship (friends, family, actual relationships), is what allows our thoughts to linger back to ``what was`` more willingly then consciously intended.  

Maybe titles will get more interesting as time passes

My first attempt.

I have a feeling that no one will read this. In fact, no one significant in my life knows about this little blog I have created, however, after reading blogs in the past, and post poning the homework I need to do, I have resorted to typing a little something for myself.

Today, waking up to the shower being used in the bathroom attached to my room wasn't ideal, but I was delighted with the thought I got 11 hours of sleep. This is big, considering my sleeps that have been 6 hours have been considered a miracle lately. I reach for my phone and go onto facebook (which is an addiction I need to get under control) and was informed by a status that today was ground hog day. Segway: When I was younger ground hog day use to be huge for me, but today, I totally forgot it happened.

For what seems to happen all the time now, I grabbed my iPad and starting researching Europe. Now this is big news in my life: I have bought myself a ticket into Frankfurt from June27th- July 30th. I am, along with facebook, addicted to looking at photos, maps and cities in places all over Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the list goes on. As if Europe isn't enough, I am flying by myself to meet up with a beloved friend of mine, Nora! She lives in Frankfurt and we met during my graduation year of highschool while she was an exchange student. She has a car and the thought of not taking trains was surprisingly, an awesome alternative to what I thought we didn't have an alternative for. We will also be traveling with our friend Lioba (also an exchange student in my high school) for about two weeks. We will see other friends from school, but getting off topic (as I tend to do all the time now).

Nora and I

Lioba and I

After marvelling over the computer for an hour, I set out on my first run of 2012. It was the first time it was warm enough and no ice on the streets. Okay, the sun lied because, although it was shining, my hands were frozen and I couldn't feel my cheeks. Arriving back home I ate, showered and changed just to head back out the door for the walk to school. Walking into my first class (which by the way is at 1pm) I found myself sitting with students who I normally don't sit with in class. Nothing significant, but just something that made today different. Did I mention they were simply splendid? (I like my use of words that don't usually occur during my everyday vocab.)

I am going to skip past the details in my classes and jump ahead to my walk home. I was a little ticked off that my mom said that she was at my aunts house but I found out she had actually left without me. I figured the walk home would be nice anyways so I plugged in my music and off I went. Just for some visuals, it was 6pm and it was dark out. The high school parking lot I cut through from my college was packed tonight due to a basketball tournement. As I was walking by the main entrance I saw 2 boys who I had graded with entering the school. It was a pleasant surprise that they noticed me smiling and a bonus when they asked how my schooling was. The pleasant surprise is not a result of flattery or flirtatiousness, but instead that they had a genuine conversation with me. I find that a lot of people I see are still caught up in high school in the sense that they look the other way, like the way most people did in the hall ways of high school.

I think I took an extra liking to this interaction due to an experience I had at a party this past weekend: basically high school all over again. The same people were talking with the same people. The same group would point and laugh at others while another group was gathered around the speakers. I am a hypocrite, given that I was with my group, however, compared to the get togethers I have gotten use to during my first semester in college, I was guess I was just shocked to see how relevant it still was in this particular setting.

Now, there is this singer, Keane. I love him. He has a couple duets with K'nann and during one of the songs I was listening to K'nann sings "Life makes sense backwards but you have to live it forward". I think I found this so astonishing for a couple of reasons
1) I know this song backwards and forwards but for some reason I had never heard this line before.
2) To make myself feel better, it was in the backgroud of the main... chorus I guess you could say.
3) Holy, you always hear "if only I knew that when I was younger", but man, in that context, I couldn't help but smile.

My walk after that had a little bigger hop with each step.

A welcome from my mom as I walk into the house followed by an amazing dinner and no homework (even though I really should have) has lead me to this... my first blog. Who knows if I will ever have a blog again, but you never know.

I will not edit this for a couple of reasons: I really need to do homework and I simply don't have time.
Here is the amazing song though... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9C9j0QgU4