New Year Summary

February 26, 2012

Busy first term, busy second term. What else is new. Hello! I’m back. Sorry for the absence.

Forgive me if I don’t know what to talk about as I had been gone from blogging for the past how many months, let alone years when I started to stop.

2012 is here, and I am still struggling here.

For those of you who do not know, I arrived in Vancouver, Canada last September 2011 for studies. It had always been my dream to go abroad and experience a different culture and lead a different life. Different from what I have back home in the Philippines.

Everything has definitely been new to me. The weather, the people, the transit system, even the way people drive and the fact that they rarely use their horns.

Term 1 had ended last January, just the week before my birthday and so far, all I can say is I am still good and standing strong. I miss my family and friends of course, but what is a new place and a new life without new friends right? I consider my relatives and my parent’s friends here as family (direct) as they are the ones who help me through my struggles and support me if I have any questions or if I need anything. I am very thankful for that.

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Excited and Scared

August 9, 2011

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I paid a visit to the Canadian Embassy here in Manila last August 1. I took a leave from work for one whole day just to get things over and done with.

My visa was not arriving, and I did not receive any email of any sort from the embassy when I sent them a follow-up message a month prior to my visit.

Arriving there at 8AM, I found myself cold, not only from the air condition, but also of nervousness.

They called my name thrice before they gave me a coupon and told me to come back that same afternoon for the results.

I came back that afternoon at the time that they instructed me to (a little early though), and I couldn’t stop smiling until I slept that night.

My visa was accepted and I am Canada bound this September.

The featured image of this post will be the image I will be using for the time being as I haven’t arrived there. It is a shirt that I bought in ZARA a couple of weeks before I went to the embassy. My sister forced me to buy it. LAW OF ATTRACTION, as “The Secret” said. It works. It definitely works. You just have to do something about what you want to attract to yourself, of course. You can’t just stand there and wait for it.

I got the shirt without knowing if I would be accepted or not. I told them I will only start wearing the shirt the moment I get my visa. The time arrived, the shirt was not with me. I left it at home. I wore it 6 days later when I got home. My mom was smiling when she saw me wearing it. It only means one thing for us, I am leaving soon.

Excited for the fact that I am going to a new country and staying there for 1 year, ALONE. Scared, well, the word “ALONE” scared the hell out of me.

Animo La Salle!

June 17, 2011

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Today (June 16, 2011) we celebrated the 100th year of the La Sallian presence here in the Philippines, from 1911 – 2011. The statue of St. John Baptist de la Salle was brought here from somewhere – probably from France where he came from?

My boyfriend, my sister, and my friend and I went to De La Salle University where the celebration is being held after work hours (for me and my friend at least, after class for my sister and before work for my boyfriend). We got there and the university was jam packed. Full of students wearing centennial shirts or jackets, green and white. Everyone seems to be hugging people. It was a place where people re-united after a long time.

I myself saw a couple of people from my college days. Although most of them are not the ones I worked closely with, or been closely with, it was still fun to see them again.

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