So about that project...

Since I've only received 4 photos, I think I'll have to find Mme Cox's address and deliver it to her in person next week or something because it seems everyone (The other 20-something people who were interested) is too busy right now to email me anything.

Ignore the email I sent out with the deadling being today. I'll shall send out another one tonight.

The thought that High School is done just isn't sinking in. Not at all. I don't have anymore exams and aside from photo printing, and other small things, I've got nothing to do.

Right now, I'm trying printing off photos that I've been being lazy about. I can finish them tonight or tomorrow and give them in on Friday (Branton's Appeal Day) but I would like to try and catch some Jr High students I know and say bye to them or something.

But since it's blistering hot in this house and dad's refusing to buy a fan, I'm tired and out of it.

France-Spain = YAY :D!

Tralalalala~! :D

France is off to the Quarter Finals! *dances about happily* And their matchup with Brazil is like, a rematch of the '98 World Cup finals! (I would like to see Brazil get eliminated for once. It'd be wierd but it'd open the door wide open)

And Zizou, that goal of his was amazing. And Vieira's as well as Ribéry's (his first international goal) were spectacular!

After Zizou scored his goal near the end of the match, he was all stone-faced but then the whistle blew and he was like 'OMD --oh mon dieu ;)--:DDD'. So funny. He and Barthez, both retiring at the end of this tournament, were like *HUGEGRIN* and then Henry like ran up and hugged Zizou and just wouldn't let go. *amused*

Then I think Raùl from Spain was giving out jerseys (he was a sub today it seems) to the French players. Oh and Spain's got a female assisstant-coach I think. She had a glittery blazer on and I was like 'Omg...it's a female asst-coach!'. Females of any position on a men's national team are rare. Everyone employed for the on-the-field stuff are men.

I need to finish a job app for Cheesecake Cafe and then it's Social tomorrow (English diploma was...ish. I could've done really well or really badly). And I need to remind my dad for the hundreth time in the last 4 months to get me an appointment with his tax lady so I can get my 400$ (I still haven't gotten that yet, no) and then look for stamps and my aunt's address so I can send her this paper she wanted.

World Cup Craziness x 1,000,000,000

Portugal v Netherlands

The match was INSAAAAAAAANE. The bad kind of INSAAAANE. 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards.

So, tonight, everyone should watch the rerun of the match. Seriously. This was the craziest, card-fiesta, dirty penaltied, drama-llama'ed match of the tournament so far. That barely grases the surface of how INSANE this match was.

And uh, some members of the Portugese squad have just earned my hate. =X (Scolari wtf. ) I'll be shocked if the FIFA disciplinary commitee doesn't do something about.

Confused why Marco van Basten didn't put in Van Nisterlrooij. Mind, who would want to sub a player into that kind of mess?

There was originally some poem, thoughtful message here but I edited it. Yes, I edited it.

Anyways, me and Vanccie randomly started trading childhood photos of each other and I uncovered this old puri-kura or Sticker Club photo of us. Then I realized that it's almost been 10 whole years since we've been best friends. Then I realized, it's almost like it was during the months leading up to moving day in 1996. (Except instead of not having people's email and tel n°, I do have them) Then I realized, I'm going to miss her and everyone else more than I thought I would. Maybe it's my mentality that's keeping me from sitting down, having a good cry and realizing this but I digress..it's 1am and that's when my thought process is all funny. *sigh*

Anyhoo, I leave you all with a pic from the somewhat better days after we had moved.

:')


Me and Vanccie around 1998

Oh, my stupidity...

I completely forgot that today (or rather tomorrow) was St Jean Baptiste Day. Completely.

Valid Excuse
I was focusing on the World Cup (Yet the man in the stands waving the HUGE Québec flag nor the big Québec banner-flags dotting the stadium in Köln/Cologne just didn't send any hints. Nope.)

HOWEVER,

I didn't forget that my brother's 1-yr wedding anniversary is tomorrow! =D

Soccer + France + WIN = JUBILATION! (+ jobs)

=D

What a way for Patrick Vieira and Zizou (though benched because he got two yellow cards) to celebrate their birthdays. 2-0 victory for France and a spot in the round of 16 for the first time since the last World Cup in 2002. :D

Vieira scored this really awesome goal and Franck Ribéry, although his looks have nothing in comparison to his skill, played incredibly well and finally Domenech decided he had a brain and ought to use it and he changed the format from 4-5-1 to 4-4-2 putting Trézéguet up front with Henry. (Me: Finally!)

I'm a bit surprised and impressed. The French team showed that they could work the pitch in a proper format (4-4-2) without Zidane. Mind, I love Zizou. (PS. Devon, I went to Kicks in Varsity today. They had really neat Adidas wallscrolls from the +10 series and there's a big wallscroll of Ballack. (along with another of Zizou and other soccer stars) Sadly, it was not for sale. =( )

Throughout most of the match I felt sick because I was thinking throughout the first half 'Oh no, it's 2002 all over again,....'. The commentator wasn't at all helping with his omninous 'Oh noes France shall LOOOSE' remarks. So I went upstairs, paced, came back down and minutes later the score was 1-0 France. 'YES!' I thought. Now all Les Bleus needed was one more goal and they were guarenteed a spot regardless of who won the Korea-Switzerland match. So more 'Argh! Stupid asst. ref calling incorrect offsides!' and near goals from the Togolese and the French and I venture back down to discover the score is 2-0. 'WHOOT' I yell---kind of. Dad was asleep so 'SILENT WHOOT!'. And Les Bleus just kept the pressure going till the very end. The Togolese fans did the Conga along the front row with other fans and France won and I was happy :D.

Also, in the Swiss-Korea match, one of the goals scored was off a head that was later all bloody because the Switzerlander (?) who scored whacked heads with a Korean and both were dazed (The Swiss player was like 'WHOOOOO---woah, I'm bleeding. Hm.') and bloody. The Swiss won 2-0.

In other news, I bought the photo-paper so I'll print out the photos people emailed me so I can get this all together and get it sent to her soon. :)

And I handed in a job application to Dalhousie Chapters. And then looked at the spreadsheet of the draw for the Round of 16. I'm going to study for Social and English this weekend I think.

Registration's done. + World Cup

After many near scream-so-loud-that-I-woke-the-neighborhood moments, I've finally registered for everything. I just need to send out the confirmation and I'm set.

As per what I discussed with my aunt, I shall go to the Modern Lang. department in September and hang about until someone or just anyone drops their JPN 1901. From there I will drop ALG 1901 (sorry Devon!) and ALG 1902 and register for JPN 1901 and 1902. Hopefully.

Or EDIT as I found in an email I received earlier today, I can take a proficiency test and skip to 1902 but I don't think my knowledge of the language is that organized to take a proficiency test. *shrugs*

Fall:

ALG 1901 D Elementary German I
FLS 2581 S1 Cours d'immersion: Capacités réceptives
PSY 1101 E Experimental Psychology
SOC 1102 A The Emergence of Sociology
SOC 1501 B Éléments de sociologie

Winter:

ALG 1902 D Elementary German II
ENG 1100 W Workshop in Essay Writing
ENG 1120 J Literature and Composition I
FLS 3581 S3 Cours d'immersion: Capacités productives
SOC 2708 A Sociologie des communautés francophones hors Québec


Also, I have become incredibly curious about Doctor Who and the second season of the new series (The old DW looks neat too. But I never finished last season's Doctor Who with the Ninth Doctor and it seems now in the new season there's a Tenth new doctor). I should find DVDs or something and finish it and hope CBC picks up the new season because that was a fun show.

So the Croatia-Australia match was by far the best match. Plus the ref (I've seen him ref EPL matches. He's never that card-crazy) was card-crazy. Wow. Never seen so many red cards in one match nor 3 yellows (3rd yellow was for a foul and to send off the guy was supposed to have been sent off earlier but had not left). As I quote the announcers "Dear lord...What drama we've seen here today on the pitch folks!". In the last minute, one of the Aussie players hugged the ref after he had a goal dissallowed after the final whistle blew. I found that funny. BTW, to Croatia: pushing refs is probably the best way for a player to get a red.

The music video for Celebrate the Day/Zeit dass sich was dreit (WC's anthem) is intense. The video has clips from I think every world cup and it's so nice. I feel like hunting about for DVDs and watching old matches from like the 70s and so forth. They looked so fantastic. (Random Fact: Goalies in the early days used to wear beret-like hats for the heck of it) Also, there's a random shot of a Saudi fan (in traditional wear) twirling happily. Also, Pierluigi, one of the coolest refs ever, is in it (fellow who's completely bald and looks menacing when angered) and there's a shot of Zizou's fantastic goal in the '98 final and Maradona's 'Hand of God' goal.

In other news, I'm in an odd mood right now and I'm not entirely sure why... Hm

JPN 1901 = no go

Thwarted yet again. Crazy Japanese anime and manga fans stealing all the spots up...Geeeez Not that that was one of the reasons for my wanting to take Japanese in the first place. (It actually isn't. *shock!* I wanted to take it because I know too much Japanese already to just let it stay as is. I don't think it's enough for me to skip 1901 and ask the department to let me take JPN 1902. I could check.) Anyways me = slightly bitter. Pfft.

Anyways, I can't take JPN 1901 until next year. *shrugs* So I'm looking for another language to take in the meantime. Maybe something European like Portugese or Russian. Or I could be extra special and take Chinese or Italian.

My aunt suggested I take SOC 2708 Sociologie des communautés francophones hors Québec which sounds very interesting. Hm. I think I'll tackle more course selections later today.

CALM news. + Registration Navigator and ENG 1100 hate me

So my final mark for CALM is a 71,2%. Not bad. Considering the thing that brought my mark down the most was the difficulty of finding the CALM teacher for the first...3 weeks? or more? (followed by the brouhaha with one of the assist.-principals) Attendance was worth 13.2%. I think the second highest weighted assignment was the Job application package with 6.8%.

Anyway, had my Math diploma today. The written part went by quickly! I was already on the last part of the last question (which was a Probability question inserted into a Cost Analysis question. Argh) by about 9:45. I know I got about 2 questions wrong. There was a 'trick question' inserted in the Applied diploma...kind of. But to solve the question, you needed to know how gas prices are calculated. (So ie. if gas is 54.6 cents/L and your tank is 50L it's highly possible for anyone to go 50L x 54.6 cents. It should be 0.546 $ x 50 L) Then later was multiple choice which I had some problems with due to my getting answers for 2 questions I fully understood that were off by 5-10 of the closest answer. Other than that, it wasn't too hard...except that the first 15 questions were on probability and I'm sure I got some of those wrong.

Finally, I have some time to rest and study a bit as my next exam isn't until next Tuesday

Oh and RN is evil. Or well, the ENG 1100 course is. I cannot no matter which Section I pick register. I either get 'Class full' or 'This course is not availible for your program' (I've gotten that more than the 'Class is full' message which I've gotten once). I think I might end up having to register in one of the 3hr-sections that are mostly at night. Boo.

So....I have the choice, I could finish the two long Career assignments both with a weight of 3.4 and get at least an 83% or stay with all that I've finished and stick with a 79.6%/80%.

For the sake of my staying awake through the Math diploma I barely studied for--or that I did but I don't think I studied for it enough--- (well, everything's fine but Probability and Stats) I think the latter result is good.

Never again in my life am I taking an online course. ever.

'night.

Dear U of Ottawa,

I would like to voice my miscontentment at your server having a stupid misconnection and then somehow closing my Registration Navigator window before I had a chance to click "Register" on all my courses and now I having troubles with your server being all "Internal Error" on me. Boo on you.

Remember, Internal Server Errors (aka Error 500) are no fun.

(And yes, I do in fact realize that miscontentment is not a part of the English language but we'll add it to whatever -isms I may come up with in the near future. )

Haha. That was not fun. I spent about...2-3hrs on the phone with my aunt discussing courses and such and we had it figured out and badabing, I tried to re-logon to Infoweb and then the java window closed and so now I can't access the RN right now. =(

Oh hey, Ghana beat the Czechs! First Upset-Caused-By-Underdog-African-Nation (UCBUAN) in the World Cup so far :D

And I'm slightly confused how the US got down to 9-men. What did the two players do to get red cards and be sent off?

And hey look, Edmonton hasn't decended into violent and angry mobs of lovely anarchy...The city will live to see the day---after Edmonton has descended into happy, joyous happyhappy!anarchy. (4-0 by the Oilers and the series goes to Game 7. Hm.)

Ooh Social!

I don't think that went too well. Hm.

Anyways, after that, went with Caitlin and Graham back to Dalhousie and I doubled back, boarded the train, spotted Steve, got off the train and both of us realize "Hey, we're both heading back south on the train, let's get off the escalator going up and go back down the escalator!". So then I went down to the Stampede and applied for a job. I think I could've been automatically considered for a job as a cashier had I not said 'No' on the 'never done money handling/cashiering'. Ah well. He put down the 1st choice as Cashier and bussing tables and parking lot duties as 2nd and 3rd respectively. *shrugs*

I will apply elsewhere. I think Chapters will be the next stop.

I the meantime, I will finish CALM.

BTW, this rain is giving me an excuse to wear my neon-pink raincoat.

I figured it out!

I'm suffering from the classic case of denial. Wow. You know, I thought I would be more than excited to finish school and finally get out of here, but I'm not. I still can't believe it's over. 10 years being stuck out here and going through so much and it's not at all sinking in that a) I'm moving back out East and b) High School's over. It doesn't feel to me that I will be leaving Calgary this fall either. Mind, I guess this couldn't be a case of denial since psychologically denial is the refusal to believe something bad. *shrugs*

I hate feeling like something terrible going to happen in the lead up to the day when I move. Mind, that's kind've been what usually happens with me---something incredibly happy is going to happen and then something bad happens which I suppose had led me to taking good news or extremely great events with this kind of doubt.

BTW, I think after I edited my English 30 personal response it still sounded bitter.

Also, the project for Mme Cox has alot of people partaking (5 or 6 confirmed emails...ish?) that it's making me extremely happy. I opened up Outlook and found all the new messages were about it. It's made me remember the day I gave mum a bracelet I had made for her and how extremely happy she was when I gave it to her in the hospital.

BTW:
38 Trojan horses and 8 viruses found on my old WinME so far.

It's mind boggling that it hasn't crashed yet.

So tomorrow's Social. Then nothing until Monday and then nothing until the 27th and 28th. Hopefully none of the topics won't make me go "Buh?" and I have an extension for CALM until Monday but I would love to get everything done by Friday.

And I'm also feeling strangely...apathetic is it? No, wierd. I'm going to put money down that it has to do with lack of sleep and having to write two pieces of writing and how annoyed I am with my silly cowardice.

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Hahaha...Trinidad's goalie is now my favorite goalie of the World Cup. One-handed saves from point blank shots drilled at him. I couldn't be able to do that I don't think.

So Trinidad & Tobago held Sweden to a 0-0 draw which is pretty damn impressive. Oh and I'm hunting down the World Cup album because I found an awesome song called "Celebrate the Day" and the background music heard on Sportsnet and TSN during sponsor messages or commercials saying "You are now watching the FIFA World Cup 2006 in GERMANY" apparently titled "Bamboo" which are both the anthems for the World Cup this year and are both amazing. (I still like Anthem by Vangelis from last year's World Cup though)

Alas Adidas has no commercials on the insane crack-level of hilarity as the Footballitis commercials from the last world cup. The newest one is pretty darn awesome. Two latino boys decide to have a soccer game and they flip a coin to see who gets to pick first and then they start calling names like "Zidane" "Beckham" "Cissé" and the players come out onto their teams (Zizou gives the kid a tip on who to pick next in one scene and it turns out to be retired Bixente Lizarazu I think...I thought it was Platini but Platini is the predecessor of the current No 10, Zizou and Platini is old so it was maybe Lizarazu). It's pretty fun. But Footballitis still remains my favorite. What happened was there was a press conference where a doctor-looking figure announced the discovery of this new illness called "Footballitis" and began describing symptoms and the treatments they tried. Change to waiting rooms where a slew of soccer stars and players in the Cup are sitting, or rather dribbling soccer balls that nurses try to take away from them but unsuccessfully, and some are playing mini games in the hospital and such and are toppling chairs and such. Goalies made makeshift goal nets and such, doctors were trying to examine players while they dribbled the ball on the beds or passed it to other players (which is what starts the crazy destruction of the hospital) Tooo funny.

Anyway, going to work on English. Since it seems the deadline for Writer's Workshop submissions was yesterday (I have only 1 conference out of 6. I thought it was 2 but I suppose not), my mark is heavily dented so I'd have to get above 80% (combined on Part A & B) on the Diploma to secure a 65%. Easy to do...that is, if my history with English Reading comp. exams wasn't so dismal. And then I have three days to work on CALM and finish that.

I have decided, that since I found Due South season 2 for 28$ (from the usual 50-60$) I will watch it once I've done English. *nods*

Salut

Reunions :D

Forgot to mention in all my busy-stressyness that I went to a reunion for my grade 6 class yesterday. It was loads of fun. We first watched a video of us where some people back when they were 12 walked by and then it was followed by a taped presentation of us of most of our presentations for a project we had to do called "temple de la renommé" and we did our projects on people we found to be "Hall of famers ". Then there were photos from when we were in Québec City during our Quebec Trip. Such a great trip (Save, we spent a grand total of maybe 3hrs in Montreal and it was on the day we were leaving so everything was rushed).

Then we opened letters we wrote to ourselves 6 years ago. Oh good god I said some the strangest things. Some other people's letters were funny. Some said how much they hated certain individuals and most of us were like "Oh good god! I'm so sorry I wrote that about you!". Some of us predicted who would marry who (lol). Lots and LOTS of laughs.

In my letter I put in something like this line:

"In the future I hope to go to the University of Montreal and be an artist and paint beautiful pictures"

That made me so happy inside. I mean, I may not be headed to Montreal and I don't know if I'll become an artist, that door is still as wide open as it was then, but it's so neat to see what my dreams were when I was 13. :)

And while we were there I decided to stop by my old daycare Kids Come First. I saw one of the old caretakers whom I hadn't seen since I was 13 and our conversation basically went like this:

Robyn: What grade are you in now?
Me: Twelve :)
R: No way!! So you're going to University?
Me: Yup!
R: No way!! What are you studying?
Me: Sociology at the UofO
R: Holy crap....you know I was about like, 15 when I first worked here and now you're 18 and I'm like 23!!
Me: You're 23?!!!
R: Yup :D
Me: NO WAY!!

Hahah...I seriously thought that she was alot older than 15 when she worked at the daycare. Man oh man. *laughs* About 4 people who worked at the daycare while I was there have kids of their own now. So wierd.

BTW, I got a bunch of comments that went like this with regards to my France supporters' jersey:

"You're supporting FRANCE?"

No, me mental? Nah. Just showing my soccer-loving spirit. Besides, I think France could probably make it to the Quarters or Semis and I like most of their players. (Cissé got injured before the WC which sucks. No menacing bleached hair and beard.) Anyways, to show how crazy I am/can be I might wake up at 6:30 am to watch the first match against England and Paraguay.

Or dad might do that...

I want T&T to beat Sweden. That'd make my day. :D

La découverte du millenaire!

I am stupid.

I'm sitting here typing along my responses/critics etc. for my Novel Portfolio for English and I just uncovered the criteria sheet that was given to us in...November sitting my old binder.

Unconscious Civilisation isn't for one a "novel" (it's non-fiction and my definition of 'novel' is it's a story..blah) and so far most of what I have had to say about it is tying it into society today rather than analytical literary jibberjabber. Not only that, but since Mr Harker hasn't read this book, it's --according to this handy sheet I haven't seen since November-- a "C" book. What that means is that my mark for the book I choose goes down to about 50%-60%. I mean, UC is an amazing book (which is what defines an "A" book) but because he's never read it, (yet he's read one of Saul's other books which is...disgustingly thick) it's a "C". And since my responses are far from "Excellent" (80+) I may end up with less than that. Far less.

If this doesn't go well, I need to get at least an 80 on Part A and at least a 70+ on Part B of the diploma to pass English.

And yes, I do in fact realize that I should've located the booklist sooner or picked a book earlier or something and soforth. Etc. etc. *rubs forehead* I think I'll put on some shoes, grab my umbrella and stand outside on the deck for a few minutes in a bit.

English and me just don't seem to have a good history together at all.

Oh Math...

Today was bad!

Or, well, my math test was insanely bad....as it seems was everyone else who had one. So I officially hate Finance. Most of the questions were "Okay, I understand" to which the last sentence made you raise your eyebrow for a moment and wonder "How is this possible?!"

I think I must've failed that unit test. 2 out of the 8% it's worth.

So, after that and a WWE moment in the debate room regarding spelling bees, I got the tripod for tomorrow's debate, helped Mike locate some pencils (golf pencils. 130-something of them) for the judges for tomorrow and went to Branton where we stopped by Meghan's garage sale and to where I had returned after a brief visit to Branton as Mme Ouellet was not there. I seem to have bad luck when it comes to finding her these days. Argh.

And perhaps it's because I'm old, or French, but I still don't get why people enjoy comitting genocide to their brain cells. Okay, so maybe 'genocide' is a bit too strong of a word...but still. It makes no sense why many people's primary goals at parties is to get disgustingly drunk. And I know some people are smart when it comes to drinking but still, it's a rather miniscule amount of people.

Or maybe it's because I've seen how terrible friends' parents treat their kids, or that to get someone I knew to stop drinking I emptied 3 or 4 or 5 whisky/liquor/wine bottles down the sink when I was a kid. But then, I shouldn't let something that long ago affect my choice to drink or go to crazy, parties. Mind, the alcohol I've tried have all tasted the same no matter how "Great", "Fantastic Quality" or "Expensive" or "Aged" or "Fruitiful" they were.

....Nah. I think it's because I'm French-Canadian and I'm wierd. I mean, who wants to hear someone say "Why do you guys want to get disgustingly drunk? That's incredibly stupid" comments from someone such as myself? I'll only get wierd looks anyway. I mean, people with heads these days are usually not in abundunce and not normal. No sir.*shrugs*

End, pointless, but short rant.

BTW, Milou is a much cuter name than Snowy.


I think I will go do that card game project I have yet to start for Social. yup

A night of awards!

So, major props to Oliver for remembering the Banff Trail song. Now I remember all of it, and the crazy duck-billed platypus in neon-ish/TACKY cowboy getup too! (Bingo was his name and according to the song, he's bilingual.) :D

Got a Citizenship Award. Hurrah. *waves medal* Others were seriously bling'ed. Oh and for the Les Pearson award, Oliver sang a few verses from the intro to our old Elementary's song and I immediately remembered the rest. Oh my goodness.

Oh and Mr Beland totally train wrecked my name. Worst pronounciation I've heard but hey, I ran into him twice and he apologized profusely. (considering at Grad he was one of the ones I explained how to pronounce my name. haha) I remember the days where a sub would come in, find some colourful mispronounciation and all my classmates would be like "It's Am-lah-kay!" in chorus.

After slight catastrophe with some of the Gr 10s being a bit dim, ran into Michael and Oliver who were talking to Mr Pope. Then to kind of annoy Caitlin, and partly from nostalgia, all three of us broke into the École Banff Trail song. I've seriously remembered more than half of it after like, the last time I sang it was...6 years ago.

(something something)
École Banff Trail is a caring place to grow!

The students and the teachers, all work hand in hand
To make Banff Trail the BEST school in the land! (And kids always over-emphasised 'best')
And Bingo is our mascot-----okay, I'll stop but like Michael and Oliver were saying, it's one of the best songs ever! :D

And École Banff Trail
École Banff Trail,
École Banff Trail is a caring place to grow~!

:D

And btw, ceiling/roof collapsing in Ms Fernandez's room (Rm 326?)+ Asbestos = Not cool. (And hazardous even)

8mil in needed repairs? Two cases of collapsed ceilings? How can that not warrant urgency from the Principal? Oh and Western's going to get an entire wing stone-balled for a somewhat similar case. (ABE is what....50-something years old? 54? Western's about 103 years old?)

Anyway, Mrs Hirst was giving lifts to everyone and I got a lift from Steve and came home and started this. aka I'm going to try and continue writing out my english responses so I can type them up tomorrow. I might go and visit Vanccie next Thursday during double spare and work on English during double spare and CALM tomorrow.