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: