Victoria Vacation

Victoria is one of my favorite places. UVic has become my home for 8 months of the year and I love it there. There are so many upbeat, creative and inspiring west coast people that make it what it is. "It has such a sense of community" an old lady once told me while I was chatting with her on the bus- its not the bustling, exciting Vancouver where people drive too fast. In fact I think many people think of Victoria as a retirement haven and I don't always look both ways before crossing the road - yeah Ring Road is a one way street. And its also a beautiful tourist attraction, which adds a nice mixture of interesting, cultured foriegners. I love exchange students so much. I was seeing this beautiful french girl for a while back in first year at the beggining of spring. Anyways I just love nature, learning, yoga, seafood, smoothies, bunnies, and people from Vancouver Island.

My trip there last weekend was to visit some of my friends. It was great seeing Alice and Beth who let me stay with them on their super enjoyable comfy green couch. And we had lots of fun together- because both of them are from Calgary and I had planned to go to the stampede but hurt my foot sooo we had a Coastal Cowboys Party to make up for this homesickness. And we went all out on decorations (but decided in the end that hay bails would be really messy) and dressed up, made pancakes, listend to country all day, made red-neck name tags, played pin the tail on the bucking bronco with much spinning (so much spinning that people fell over) etc. And yes it was epic and yes it was awesome seeing everyone.

The next day I went to see Benny and his Bandies. Who are all super Rad! We went and chilled at Ben's apartment near where Marco used to live (adjacent to Alzu's 24/7 restaurant). We shared crazy stories and played with his two adorable cats - the kitten reminded me so much of when my cats were kittens and the cuteness nearly killed me. Anyways it was great to reunite with a fellow smearcat- and hope to see his band play in the near future.

I saw Lewis, Alex and Steven on my way to UVic on my final day there.  Thats part of what great about University once you've been there a while you become a regular where you can always find good friends. UVic would be listed as my natural habitat should I be found in a science book. That reminds me how much I want to get a long board. I ended up having tea with my friend Jeri who I usually end up seeing at the end of term. She told me about how shes moving to Australia and how I am going into third year. I like how she keeps a fresh perspective on my life- I really want to travel aswell and am planning on going on an exchange in fourth year to Sweden which will be awesome. Anyways it was really nice catching up how things are going.

Cluster is looking great and it looks like Rob and I will be living together No news on who the other two will be. For now I have to get through a real estate exam and get back in shape for the summer.