I'm behind!

Just so you know... I haven't forgotten about the Vancouver videos! They will be updated as soon as I have the time to go through and figure out how to change them and then edit them and make them into something viewable :)

LOLs!!!

video footage

I have a TON of video footage that I took on my trip .... but when I transfered it to my computer it is in some weird file that I have to convert and THEN figure out which program to use to make it into something viewable.
I have a feeling this is going to be more like a summer job... because I do not have time right now with school and such. But I WILL have a video of some sort made at some time lol, I promise!!
It would be a waste if I didn't do something with it all.

In the meantime.... I have made a book of a bunch of my pictures with i-photo and I am going to order that soon. So if I see you in person then I will have something to show.


Until next time,

Keep dreaming! :)

The Shangri-La

As I told you before in a previous post, my friend Julia is friends with a girl named Karen whose parents (and her) live on the top floor of the Shangri-La. I got to go up there on two different occasions, and got a tour of the place... it is SPECTACULAR in every sense of the word!
I got some of it on video and I took some pictures of Vancouver while I was up there, but it was night time so I didn't get any good pictures of the actual apartment.
This link talks about the Shangri-La and has some pics also!

Check it out!

CLICK here!

Wow... what a celebration

I KNOW you all watched the hockey game this afternoon and I sure hope you all watched the closing ceremonies.

I was at the campus pub for the closing ceremonies and boy was it packed! It was like I was back in Vancouver with people all dressed up in red and white... flags everywhere.. beers in hand just so excited for the game. And what a game it was! Just when we thought we had it all wrapped up... and everyone in the pub started singing and cheering and getting all excited - except for me, who has learned that in sports it isn't over until that timer says 0:00!! The shock that went through the room as everyone realized what had just happened... the U.S had tied the game!

I think that was the first time that people seemed a little bit worried that Canada might not actually win the game. Everyone got a little quieter; conversations became oh no, what if we don't win! It will be so heartbreaking!

As the period started though, everyone got excited.. chanting "Go Canada Go!" and cheering every time we got the puck out of our end. "Luuuuuuuuuu!!!" was a common chant of the evening - you could tell who weren't followers of hockey when they would look around and wonder why we were booing our own goalie!

And then, almost out of no where, the winning goal! Scored by no one more fitting than Sid the Kid assisted by the captain. Just perfect! Everyone was yelling, clapping, cheering, singing Oh Canada, the black eyed peas! Everything! I felt like I was back in Vancouver for a minute!

I was at home to watch the closing ceremonies and although I have to criticize the French of the one speaker... yikes! The rest was AMAZING! (and funny!) - starting with the raising of the fourth pillar of the torch that didn't raise during the opening ceremonies and the lighting of the torch by Katrina Lemay Doan who didn't get to light it due to the malfunction! Gotta love Canadians when we can poke fun at ourselves! These jokes continued all night with the parading of maple leafs, lumber jacks and beavers, mounties and hockey players, and Michael Buble singing first in a mounty outfit and then on top of a mounty hat. Just hilarious!

The speeches that were done by William Shatner, Catherine O'Hara, and Michael J. Fox were quite hilarious - again poking fun at Canadians

Although the concerts started out alright with Neil Young and Nickleback (I know some of you won't agree)... it continued on a lesser note with some not-so-popular-anymore singers like Avril Lavigne and Hedley. But I must admit - it seemed the Japanese were LOVING it! And everyone knew the words so I guess that made it all fun right?

Of course CTV presented a montage of Olympic moments at the end, just to make me cry - and yes I did cry, I'm a sap!

It's hard though... in a way I fulfilled my dream but in another way it never came true! I wanted to be at the Olympics in Vancouver, and I was! But I wanted to be competing and now that chance is gone :(

It did make me want to just start skating again though!

Sochi 2014? lol

Thank you to everyone who helped me get to Vancouver and supporting me in my skating, in my schooling and in my dreams! It meant a lot to me! :) <3

What a day for Canada!

Wow!

Canada wins a bronze and silver in speed skating.... gold and silver in women's bobsleigh ...and our hockey team beat Russia!!! WOOOO!!!

What a great day! So excited for the rest of the Olympics! I don't see how I am going to get any work done with the Olympics on!

The weather... Onterrible

As the people in Vancouver call it, I am back in Onterrible.

I got off the plane and it was snowing/raining and below zero degrees. The weather in Vancouver was amazing... sunny and warm - somewhere between 9 and 15 degrees every day! I don't know how I am going to make it through the rest of the Winter here! I might just have to stay inside as much as possible and pretend it's nice out! :(

Enjoy the pics! I will add more!!