wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before;

Wow okay, so I have been pretty terrible at updating this place since school started in the fall. I'm sure many of you readers have pretty much given up dropping in here. Sorry bout that. For those of you still wasting that millisecond to click in I shall provide you an update nonetheless.

So school is over. Like over. Like I am entirely finished with first year. Like two months till I get home. Like a week till I start work. Like summer! Yay?

Lets just say exams were okay. It's weird, due to the overlapping of exams and people moving out, it didn't have the whole exam feel to it. Of course my crazy exam weekend marathon felt like an exam, with serious aftermath. But other than that, it's all good. I officially moved out of Vanier. Boo that. And into the apartment, which is great! :) Mom has done a wonderful job at making it feel very homey. I like, it's nice. :) I love the fact that I'm only one streetcar ride away from downtown Toronto, thats pretty sickk.

Oh! Okay, so last Tuesday I was out with my mom and her friends when I get many many missed calls from Claudine and Portia, I didn't really know what they wanted and didn't wanna be rude by picking my phone up at the table so I waited till the meal was over. When I finally called them back, Claud was like "We lost the house." WTFFF. Our (idiot)landlord had sold our freaking house that we were supposed to rent next year! After months of searching high and low, and signing leases and paying deposits and shit, he basically threw our cheques back at us and was like byebye and good luck finding another place. Effing insane.

Anyways, long story short, Claud and Portia ran all over the village, called over 50 numbers, set up 3 appointments and finally found us all another place. We went in the very next day and signed the lease. It should be nice. :) It's still under construction but I'm looking forward to seeing the final product come June.

Other than that, all the internationals are leaving/have left this week. It's going to be so weird, definitely making me miss home alot more but having my mom here has definitely helped! It still hasn't really processed that we're all moved out of residence. We all won't be merely a couple steps away from each others doors. We aren't all just going to randomly end up in Emma's room or 1309 just chilling doing nothing in particular. Especially that half are moving back into res and we're scattered in different houses. But yeah, I'm just really going to miss the whole residence experience. It was definitely amazing.

Funny to think how I begun the year, the loner, eating alone in my room. And how I've ended it off. A total 180 degree turn. But a turn that I am thankful for nonetheless! It's been a while since I've posted pictures here. :)

L'Ewell 09/10

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Jolene Plant

Jessica MacKenzie

Keith and Jon

Haha!

Adeel & Mahyar

Julia, Claudine, Vyvy

Ross, Claud, James, DK

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Summer you say?

First Year ♥

mcworld;

"Who made your t-shirt? Was it a child in Vietnam? Or a young girl from India earning 18 cents per hour? Did you know that she lives 12 to a room? That she is forced to work 90 hours each week, without overtime pay? That she lives not only in poverty, but also in filth and sickness, all in the name of Nike's profits?"

"To the student activist demonstrating against free trade so concerned about the evils of the race to the bottom, so concerned about where and how her t-shirt was produced, I would tell her to appreciate what markets and trade had accomplished for all of the sisters in time who have been liberated by life in a sweatshop, and that she should be careful about dooming anyone to life on the farm. I would tell her that the poor suffer more from exclusion from politics than from the perils of the market, and that if she had activist energy left over it should be focused on including people in politics rather than shielding them from markets."

-Pietra Rivoli "The Travels of a T-shirt in a Global Economy"