A Packed Few Days!

Today is day 3 in Montreal!! There is soooooo much to catch up on since I've been here. So far it's been 3 pretty good days. When I landed and was going to get a taxi it was about -3 degrees outside and I could see my breath but I couldn't even tell how could it was thanks to my North Face jacket :) The drive to Nick's apartment was about half an hour long in some traffic with a driver that spoke NO ENGLISH! That night all I did was unpack a little ( I mean I just looked for my pajamas) and went to sleep. After those 2 flight (Barbados to Miami, Miami to Montreal) I was rather tired. What was sooo strange was that on the flight to Montreal I actually got tired of sleeping. I woke up on the flight thinking we were almost landing only to find out it was only an hour into the flight!! With my kindle not working :( and nothing else to do I figured I could as well study. I surprised even myself there. Who would of thought I would choose studying over more sleep? Even though there is only an hour in the time difference, I ended up going to sleep before 9 which made me wake up by 5 the next morning but I went back to sleep around 7. All in all my sleeping habits were/are pretty messed up.

Day 1 in Montreal consisted of studying in the morning and then off to Eaton Centre for lunch :). As would any other girl, I spent like 2o minutes simply deciding what to wear. Having to dress in the winter takes so much longer simply because I have more layers to think about! Eventually we left and met up with Nick's friends in his office. I met Andrew who is in the Navy (AWESOME!!) and Janet. They are really nice and easy to talk to. The funniest thing about lunch was watching Nick and Andrew talk. They kind of have a bromance going on which is cool to see. Anyways I had Shawarma!! I kind of wanted to try it because Iron Man/Tony Stark talked about it in the Avengers movie.

All in all it was just ok to me. After eating food at home which is cooked with hardly any salt, the shawarma seemed really salty to me. The humus was good as well the potato and the rice. The annoying part was that I couldn't finish eating all my food :(. After lunch I went back home while Nick went to TA. Once he got home it was time to buy some food! The supermarket and the pharmacy were about a 20 minute walk away. Once again I wasn't cold thanks to my sweaters and my windbreaker (I switched out the Land's End coat for the windbreaker in case it rained). At the pharmacy I picked up a couple girl stuff that Nick didn't have like body wash that I could use!

Yes that means that for the first day I smelled like a guy. At the supermarket I also got some essentials.

There were other snacks that didn't make it to today but they served me well :) Of course I had to get goldfish. I would have gotten Froot Loops but Nick wanted Frosted Flakes.

Day 2 of Montreal consisted of doing a practice test. This would have been the first test I did straight through in a while. For the test before I had to pause it to run errands but this  time I had no distractions. I got a 560!! :D. My verbal improved a bit which is good as well as my math by like 1 though. With this there is still hope of getting into the 600's by the time my test comes around. As it stands now, I've done all of my study sessions so all I have left to do is a review of everything and practice tests. I sort of can't believe I finished all the sessions in time but thankfully I did. Hopefully the Kaplan study guide gives better results than the Manhattan prep did. Last night we also went to watch Gravity.

I didn't really know what to expect since the trailers didn't give away anything. It was actually a really good movie and was the furthest thing from predictable. It had in its humor and seriousness and was overall a pretty well rounded movie. The funny thing is that we only saw about 3 characters in the entire movie. After the movie we went to get poutine. How could I say no to food even if its something I've never really heard of. 

Today we went back to Eaton Centre to look at some snow boots. We found some good ones for both of us in a store called Globo and pretty good prices. 

I still haven't decided if I actually need them since it hasn't started snowing yet but I at least know what I want. For lunch we had food from Thai Express.

The pad thai was edible but it wasn't as good as the one from Lemongrass. It didn't have any vegetables but it was fast food so it was kind of expected. The cool part is that they cook the food right in front of you with the open flame and everything. Somehow my after lunch nap turned into an after lunch sleep. It was probably the best sleep I've gotten since being here but it took up like 2 hours of my study time. Studying my last session was the hardest thing to do. It didn't really help either that it was my least favorite topic integrated reasoning. Of course once Nick hid my phone I finished the session so now tomorrow I get to do some revision and then a practice test. 

Right now all I want I want is to sleep. My brain is incredibly tired and sleeping is so comfortable. Anyways, Nick is cooking some bacon wrapped chicken which is making the apartment smell incredibly good. Tomorrow also seems like a supermarket day as I'm eating everything in sight. It's off to bed for me after this incredibly long post. My three month deadline is starting to come closer and I'm really anxious to see how this is all going to turn out. 

Its off to bed for me now,

Carla....zzzzzzz