Today at school, I passed by a sign that had a countdown until the 31 Hour Famine.
That's the day right after our French exam.
11 days. 1.5 weeks.
FML
Showing posts with label trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trips. Show all posts
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Post-Trip Lethargy
Ahh, the feeling of post-trip lethargy... It's a sort of laziness and melancholy mixed in with each other. Basically, what happens is I come home from a trip and feel kinda sad yet somewhat tired, and although I have stuff to do, I don't feel like doing it. How bad it is depends on how good the trip was. If it was crappy like Idaho, I'll love being home. On the other hand, if it was awesome like Whistler just was or Cuba, then I'll be pretty sad to be home. Home may be where the heart is, but it's also where all my work is.
I guess Whistler was a much better trip this time around, even though the rooming arrangements were kinda... sad. Luckily, since I have my new work-like-a-dork attitude, when they all ignored me in one room, I was able to pull out biology or French and do it. Yes, it does sound sad, but it is true. Once, they had a deep guy conversation in one bed for about 4 hours, and I did a paper 1, an AP French essay, and read some French mags. Because I'm cool like that.
Today at school, I passed by a sign that had a countdown until the 31 Hour Famine.
That's the day right after our French exam.
11 days. 1.5 weeks.
FML
Today at school, I passed by a sign that had a countdown until the 31 Hour Famine.
That's the day right after our French exam.
11 days. 1.5 weeks.
FML
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Hola, Cuba
The picture to the left is where I'm going to be going to in a mere... 30 hours. I can hardly believe it! I swear I've been
waiting to go on an Outreach trip since Grade 7, when I'd get kicked out of class super early every Monday afternoon because of some Outreach meeting. Now, I'm the one kicking the little kids out! I swear I've been so busy and preoccupied with school and IB stuff that I've barely been pumped up about this after the Outreach trip. At the beginning of the year, when I found out that I was going to be going to Cuba, I thought the wait would be forever... I just find it super hard to believe that I'm actually going at 11:59 PM tomorrow! It's such a strange feeling. =S And yet, I've barely packed... HAHA. I'll have to use my major cramming skills; I don't wanna bring a huge suitcase to Cuba (the one I brought to Idaho was the biggest. So sad!).
So, I haven't blogged for a while. What's been happening in my life? Lots of stuff, I suppose. Then again, "lots of stuff" for me isn't much. A couple of weeks ago, I had my IB French oral, and I'm so relieved to be done. I swear I had some kind of word vomit during my oral though; I didn't know if I was conjugating everything correctly, but I just hope that I did well enough as to not drag down my interactive oral mark significantly. =D I think that's one of the things I've been anticipating with nothing less than dread ever since I was kicked out of the grade 9 hallway in grade 9 as a result of those orals. Just watching the IB students at the time staring at these papers and talking to themselves... it's nervewracking, it really is! I'm just glad it's done. =)
Right after that, I left for Idaho. Not much to say about that... was it good? In some respects, yes. In most respects, not really. The worst part was coming home to find that I had tons of mysterious homework that confused my excrutiatingly-tired mind at the time. I'm just glad that time's over; it was pretty hectic. =/
At the moment, I'm just pretty darn excited for Cuba. I think it's amazing how our team was able to bond so well when only a short 2 months ago we were all kind of like "huh" to each other. So we're not total "BFFs" yet, but I'm sure that as we'll connect even more as we work together down there. I think the leader-change thing was pretty crazy too. All in all, everything just seemed to turn out for the better these last 3 weeks, and I must say that I'm finally beginning to feel these traces of excitement from somewhere deep inside of me. =D
Now, I must finish French, practice piano, PACK, and do history. Ugh, when I come back it will be history-biology craziness, to be replaced by French. Ugh. Oh well. I think it's time for a break.. right? My team members have personally told me that if I bring anything IB, I will get beat up. Haha... Back on Saturday,March 28th, with a story to tell.
waiting to go on an Outreach trip since Grade 7, when I'd get kicked out of class super early every Monday afternoon because of some Outreach meeting. Now, I'm the one kicking the little kids out! I swear I've been so busy and preoccupied with school and IB stuff that I've barely been pumped up about this after the Outreach trip. At the beginning of the year, when I found out that I was going to be going to Cuba, I thought the wait would be forever... I just find it super hard to believe that I'm actually going at 11:59 PM tomorrow! It's such a strange feeling. =S And yet, I've barely packed... HAHA. I'll have to use my major cramming skills; I don't wanna bring a huge suitcase to Cuba (the one I brought to Idaho was the biggest. So sad!).So, I haven't blogged for a while. What's been happening in my life? Lots of stuff, I suppose. Then again, "lots of stuff" for me isn't much. A couple of weeks ago, I had my IB French oral, and I'm so relieved to be done. I swear I had some kind of word vomit during my oral though; I didn't know if I was conjugating everything correctly, but I just hope that I did well enough as to not drag down my interactive oral mark significantly. =D I think that's one of the things I've been anticipating with nothing less than dread ever since I was kicked out of the grade 9 hallway in grade 9 as a result of those orals. Just watching the IB students at the time staring at these papers and talking to themselves... it's nervewracking, it really is! I'm just glad it's done. =)
Right after that, I left for Idaho. Not much to say about that... was it good? In some respects, yes. In most respects, not really. The worst part was coming home to find that I had tons of mysterious homework that confused my excrutiatingly-tired mind at the time. I'm just glad that time's over; it was pretty hectic. =/
At the moment, I'm just pretty darn excited for Cuba. I think it's amazing how our team was able to bond so well when only a short 2 months ago we were all kind of like "huh" to each other. So we're not total "BFFs" yet, but I'm sure that as we'll connect even more as we work together down there. I think the leader-change thing was pretty crazy too. All in all, everything just seemed to turn out for the better these last 3 weeks, and I must say that I'm finally beginning to feel these traces of excitement from somewhere deep inside of me. =D
Now, I must finish French, practice piano, PACK, and do history. Ugh, when I come back it will be history-biology craziness, to be replaced by French. Ugh. Oh well. I think it's time for a break.. right? My team members have personally told me that if I bring anything IB, I will get beat up. Haha... Back on Saturday,March 28th, with a story to tell.
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