I seriously cannot believe that only one week has passed since classes started. ONE. It feels like it's been MONTHS! Holy moly. Well, I guess going into your fifth year of university does that to you. I mean, you'd think 19 years of being in school would be enough, eh?
Nineteen years. That's counting from junior kindergarten 'til now. By the end of this year, 86% of my life will have been spent in school. Wow.
My classes all seem really, really great. I think my favourite class at the moment (even though it is pretty soon to tell) is Classical Mythology. Ever since I was in grade 3, when my mom bought us an encyclopedia which happened to have an index of Greek/Roman gods, I've been absolutely interested in mythology. Enchanted by it even; like how little girls are into fairy tale stories about princesses and princes. I read the tiny "biographies" of every single god and titan or nymph; and in my spare time, I did my own research and looked up some of their back-stories. Now, I get to learn about them all, and you do not understand how excited I am for the rest of this course (despite the truck-load of readings I have to do each week...)!
My least favourite - or at least the class that I least look forward to next week, is the English course I'm taking. It's called "Reading Pop Culture" and it was recommended to me by my friend as a course she took to fulfill the English course prerequisite for medical school. The first lecture wasn't too bad, but generally, English has never been an enjoyable class for me, nor have I ever done well it in; so I am a bit nervous for it. Despite this, we get to watch a lot of video clips from TV shows, so I guess that is an upside to the course!
I am a bit nervous for this semester because I am overloading - i.e. I have six courses this semester as opposed to the usual five, and it has to do with my physiology lab course counting as a half-course, despite running the full year. Part of me is begging me to drop the lab course, but the main reason for taking this course is so that I have a chance at getting to interact with some professors, and hopefully get some references from them when it comes time to apply to other schools.
Moving onto something not quite school-related... we saw some craaaaaaaazy weather on Wednesday evening! Actually, the weather for this entire week has been quite bizarre (welcome to Canada!). Summer reasserted her presence on Monday and Tuesday - it was HOT. My sweat glands were more active in those two days alone than during the summer break. We're talking 30's feeling like 40's. It was brutal!
Then, Wednesday rolled around... and it was warm and sunny during the day too, but by approximately 4:30 (I know that was the time, because that's when we were dismissed from class), the sky was dark and we could already hear thunder. Rain started coming down lightly while I waited from the bus, but held off until I got home (thankfully). At some time after, our school's tornado alarm apparently went off - I didn't hear it, but the weather network website and our school's Twitter account told us we were on tornado watch! Students were told to stay indoors, and in some buildings where there were basements, students were moved down there. At the same time, rain had already started coming down hard, and there was more thunder, preceded by the brightest lightning I have ever seen.
If you didn't know, I love thunderstorms. I love listening to the thunder. I love watching lightning. I generally like when it's rainy. (all this is true when I'm indoors). The lightning show that mother nature put on that day was spectacular. Ten out of 10.
Anyhow, the tornado warning was off a few hours later, but the thunder and lightning continued until around 11 p.m. Luckily, throughout the storm, our neighbourhood didn't experience any blackouts, though I know other areas in the city did. I overheard one guy in my histology class telling his friend that he and his friend's laptops and a few other appliances had short-circuited during the storm and how he had to get an entirely new laptop now. I am so thankful that didn't happen to us!
It cooled down on Thursday, and even more so today (I mean Friday, so I should say yesterday). It wasn't cold enough to see our breath in the air or anything, but it was still quite a contrast from Monday's weather!
I've got a boat-load of readings to do now...
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