Hey There Stranger!

Wow its been a while. For the past week I've been so busy with studying of course but getting ready to travel next week. I've been watching the weather in Montreal like a hawk checking to see what to carry and what I could leave behind. I wasn't studying as quickly or as much as I wanted so I took a break from everything to focus on that. I even kind of stopped watching tv shows! With that I FINALLY finished my quantitative lessons on Kaplan so I'm moving onto verbal strategy and critical thinking today :). I still want to continuously review my math stuff so that I don't forget all the stuff I learned. I have exactly 2 weeks before my test so I've gone into exam mode. 

Back to my packing and stuff. :) I'm a person who loves packing but takes forever because if I could I would carry everything I own everywhere I go. So choosing what to carry and what I would have to do without is kind of difficult so in a way i dislike packing.....but only a little. Right now I'm set on 3 turtleneck sweaters and 2 coats, 1 North Face coat for the snow and another for when its just cold. 

With that decided I feel a bit more comfortable that I won't freeze since I've spent the last year making my wardrobe Caribbean and island friendly. I'm probably gonna have to buy myself a pair of snow boots because right now the only ones I have that won't give me blisters is a pair of men's North Face.....I don't even know why we have them but they'll work until I get my own. 

Yesterday I got the new album from The Wanted! :) I was really excited about hearing their new songs since I absolutely LOVED their last album. I really like it when all the songs on the album are great and not just 2 or 3 that I like. It makes listening to it so much easier since I don't have to continuously skip songs to get to the ones I like. 

Of course I like We Own the Night and Walks Like Rihanna but Love Sewn is nice (listening to it right now) and so is Heartbreak Story. 

I also got the new song by Ed Sheeran for the next Hobbit movie, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. I love the song and the video is nice. The video is basically just the behind the scenes of recording the song and shows Ed playing the guitar and surprisingly the violin as well which I just found out he learned to play in A DAY! That is really talent right there. I've had my guitar for like 2 years now and still haven't learned to play more that the chords which I forget every time I put it down. 

Last week Thursday I went to watch the NIFCA finals and support LWDA (Louise Woodvine Dance Academy). 

Just being at Frank Collymore Hall made me miss dancing so much. It felt weird to be at a dance event and not going backstage or not having to be there 2 hours early for warmup. When I found a seat, I did the usual check my phone and wait for the show to start. A little while after sitting down the 2 screens they had up started to show performances from the past performances since this is the 40th year for NIFCA and all of a sudden I see myself on the screen. I was so shocked I scared the woman next to me who couldn't figure out why I just jumped in my seat.

It's not my best leap but it'll do since its on my bad side. Anyway, the show was really good. The level of dance and the quality was really high which gave for a better show. The music for the first couple dances was a bit low so I felt a bit disjointed from the dances but by the middle of the first half it was a lot better. In total LWDA had 3 pieces in the finals which is a lot since it was practically the same dancers in all of them and some of them were dancing in other pieces in the finals. The dancers really gave their all that night. What topped the cake was the review in the newspaper the next day raving about the LWDA troupe who "set the bar high". 

There was no picture of the 3rd piece :( which was a real crowd favorite. 

That has been my week, pretty boring but still full. I started reading the Hush Hush series which is going well so far. I'm on book 2, Crescendo, right now and its interesting enough. I finally realized what I didn't really like about this series and The Archers of Avalon. The climax and conflict of the series is spread across all of the books whereas in the other books that I've ABSOLUTELY loved had a conflict in each of them that built up to an even BIGGER conflict at the end of the series. Harry Potter did it, The Hunger Games had it in spades, Divergent had it, and so did Lux. Sometimes when a book series doesn't do that I'm halfway inclined not to finish reading the series because they're taking forever to get to the point. It's not that bad in Hush Hush though. The protagonist is older which is more relatable for me. She's still in high school but she's not 14 like in Wings. 

Anyways, studying is calling me to get in a couple more hours today before I go play Halo for the rest of the night :)

Carla :)