It was such a shock and took me a while to actually believe it and know it wasn't just a hoax as I was hoping. It's so sad that he had so much more planned for himself and for his charity work.
Before all of that happened, I finally went to watch Catching Fire last Thursday!
Finally there is a movie that simply follows everything that was in the book. FINALLY!!!! I think all other book-to-movie attempts should do this. It proves that when a film follows the book it can and will be a GREAT movie because DUH the book was great already. Even though I loved the movie I sort of have a love/hate relationship with this series. I love how it was written and the story line it took on but then I hate how it ended. I'm only sort of looking forward to watching Mocking Jay. I have the same relationship with Divergent right now as well.
Over the weekend we went to a Christmas choral concert for McGill University.
The singing was really good and the church was gorgeous. A couple people Nick knew were singing so we went down to see them during intermission. On the long walk home it started snowing which was really pretty. It was still pretty damn cold but I don't think its possible for anyone to hate snow when it's falling.
On Wednesday (my last full day in Montreal) we went to a restaurant called Reuben's on St. Catherine for what was supposed to be breakfast which turned into lunch. After the initial disappointment of not getting the yummy eggs and toast everything else we ordered lunch. Of course i got pasta.
The food was good but I think the service was better. The people were friendly and very quick with delivering the food and drinks. The three cheese bread was especially tasty, maybe even more than the chicken, I can't decide.
Packing to leave took all of 20 minutes. It's amazing how long it takes to initially pack for a trip but then to pack to come back doesn't take long at all. Since we missed breakfast in the morning, we made breakfast for dinner which made the entire apartment smell like bacon.
I had one last Tim Hortons before heading off to the airport and then it was bye bye to Montreal :(. Once in Miami it took be like 20 minutes to find the hotel to wait out my 8 hours until my next flight. Those hours were smartly spent eating my favorite meal while travelling, Sbarro and watching The Bling Ring. Right when I thought I'd do some walking around to find something else to eat, I got an email from my contact at Pace University.
I GOT IN!! I GOT INTO PACE UNIVERSITY!!!
Yes the excitement was unreal and I could barely form words for a while. Once I told my family and Nick, I read and re-read the email just to make sure it was real. I'm so unbelievably happy and relieved that finally I got in. Now all I have to do is get all my documents together and hopefully I'll get housing. I also want to get started on some reading so that I'm not completely lost when classes start. Then right after I found out the great news, I found out about Nelson Mandela.
It was still such a shock even though I knew he was really sick. He was such an important person to the world and it's still hard to believe he's actually gone. So there were two shocking pieces of news that day.
I think flying home was the longest day ever. Going through security I got the "you should model" talk from all of the TSA workers. Then there were 2 gate changes for my flight which meant even more walking. Finally at the right gate, there weren't any nice places to buy food so I bought a croissant from Dunkin Donuts which tasted sooooo bad. Finally on the plane it seemed to take forever to takeoff and I fell asleep and missed it. I never miss take off :(.
Since being home all I've done is NOTHING AT ALL and it feels soooooo good. My really back to normal life starts on Monday which includes pilates, reading, and tons and tons of halo.
Now I'm off to unpack and clean up everything I left behind when I left for Montreal. What a busy day ahead of me.........
Carla (future student of Pace University)
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