Halloween in a Couple of Days

As I sit in the McLaughlin Library located in the University of Guelph Campus with a reserved laptop at hand and Cell Biology information scattered every where in my cubicle. I take a moment and think about Halloween. About how nice it will be to have a fun day of relaxation and no stress (except for the stress of what type of candy I want). Monday night is looking great. The girls in the upstairs apartment of my house have invited Bryan, Mike, and I for a party that they are having. Planning on going and having fun getting to know the 3 girls upstairs because ever since we've moved in, we haven't really talked to them. After that party, a whole bunch of people I predict are going to Trappers for Dollar Beers, which if it is going to be like last monday... should be and take it in both terms of the word a "sick" night. As Halloween is approaching very quickly and I'm getting ready for it. I am stopped by the puzzling fact that I have no clue what I'm going to be. Mike is gonna be Chef Boyardee, don't know about bryan, and me... still figuring out! Maybe after my Cell Biology Midterm tomorrow I'll be able to figure things out...

Future in DVM... really???

About a week and a half ago I went to a club meeting. I am part of a club and it's odd hear myself say that because I never thought that I would be one of those. It's called the Future Vets Club or FVC and they have weekly meetings with discussions/trips for students who want to get into Vet College. One of the topics brought up almost immediately was the questions that you are asked for your application. The main one that stuck out for me was 'Why do you want become a veterinarian?'... "Huh, I don't know," I thought. I know I've told some people jokingly that I'm being a vet to please my parents. They wanted me to become a doctor, but to be slightly rebellious I decided to become a vet. But I know that wouldn't go over so well if that's what I was gonna say in my application. And that wasn't even true... although saying it over and over again makes it seem true. If I didn't really want to become a vet, why did I decide to start the rest of my life down this path?

Since then all I've been doing is thinking about it. You see I've spend my whole life planning on doing so many other things with my life, from being worldly famous to helping out the homeless. I've probably had more opportunities do some of these things if I tried, but now it seems almost pointless to attempt anything unrelated to animals because I have no experience in this field. As I have been sitting in my Agriculture class this whole semester, the profs that we've had taught us about different animal industries (poultry, aquaculture, dairy and now beef). I've gone to class but never thought I'd actually understand it all, as well I never thought that it could ever be related to the life I was living right now. It's funny though, how God just changes things around.

Last weekend my parents came to Guelph and took me to IKEA Burlington with my sister. On the way back, my parents and I actually had a real discussion, not like the ones we've had before where it always ends up getting into arguments. We were talking about the outbreaks of Avian Influenza in Asia and Europe. Our prof never discussed about these outbreaks during class, but from what he taught us, I was actually able to explain to my parents why and how it would have occured. As I'm sitting here right now, I'm quite shocked at myself that I could ever relate something like that from class to the real world. I'm finally seeing the picture. "One more puzzle piece has been place into my life and I've been waiting 2 years for it" I say to myself.

Animals! Why would I ever decide this type of future? It all starts off with man's best friend. I've loved dogs and their different behaviours and reactions to humans since I can remember. As a child, I wanted to live my life in a Dr. Dolittle movie, where I was Dolittle and could just vocally communicate with any animal I came in contact with. Years past though and those childlike dreams went right out the window. But, like that dry skin commercial where the woman throws the cream out the window and it comes circling back into her house and into her life, so did the dreams I once had. Now as an "adult," planning my future with knowledge now that I can really only communicate non-verbally with these creatures. I'm slowly understanding that it's something I've always wanted, but never actually thought I could get.

With all of this aside... let's see how long this one will last ;)

~Coconut~

First Actual Blog In A Long While!!!

So it's been about one and a half months into school and I've been very busy. The original plans I had for school and extra-curricular activities have found a way to be put at the back of the shelf for now. I started off the year just right... it's called doing homework the very first day and haven't stopped since. So let me explain why school hasn't been going as planned, which in turn explains why what my original thoughts about this year's extra-curriculars were going to be.

Last year, I very rarely studied and when I did it was too late to get all the information jammed into my brain to stay in it for longer than 2 seconds after I finished writing my exams. This year, however, as been very different. I haven't stopped the learning process. I've gone to school everyday, which means I go to class and the library. I've been studying, reading, making notes, making, study material, and anything else I can possibly think of to get the information in my head for good. It's been so much work to stay on top of things, that I haven't had much free time at all to do anything. It has become so bad that I'm at the point where I still have tons of homework and afraid to take a real break (i.e. like this right now). Work and readings keep piling up and they never end.
- I've got my redo of Physics... aaahhh no wonder I failed. I never took this much trouble to learn anything in my life, but I guess it's only the beginning
- I'm taking calculus and this is probably one of the few easy science-related courses I've ever had
- Now, statistics... this is another joke course, I put in a lot of time into this course because we have assignments every other week and labs on the weeks in between, but it'll be a pay-off in the end (I hope!)
- OH Agriculture, how I love it!!! It's a class dedicated to teaching students about the poultry, beef, dairy, and aqualculture industries. I get to go on trips and have different profs give a lot of really interesting points on how each industries has changed over the past years.
- The dreaded of this year is Cell Biology. It puts the ick into sick. I wish this course was a little interesting. I mean the prof has an awesome south african accent, he cracks jokes all the time in class, and he knows enough about the subject... BUT something just makes me despise this course so much... I don't want to learn anything from it at all.

Then here come the extra-curriculars... I wanted to start off the year doing stuff I really felt like I should do, stuff I really wanted to do and stuff I really enjoyed: so I said I"m actually going to make an effort to go to church this year, that lasted for one week and every other sunday I've been sleeping in, or it's a holiday. The second was taking part in the Guelph community and help out in a homeless shelter and help them in anyway possible. This hasn't happened yet, been planning on it, but as soon as I'm ready to start... I realize that there is another school assignment/quiz/test/lab that needs to get done. The third is join worship team for Campus Crusade for Christ. I've started going on a regular basis, but I feel as if I don't have the time or the strength for it right now. Funny huh? I don't have the strength to worship God one other day of the week. It just seems so sad. So yeh... we'll see how this extra-curricular tied in school work thing goes... I just could stop sleeping... and still be energetic. Oh life would be great, wouldn't it?

So now at 2:00 am, when I told myself I'd be in bed at the latest an hour ago... I'm finishing this sentence and this blog for now... and I"ll be on shortly to explain about my future as a vet.... eek!!!