The Wheels On The Bus.

Oh city buses, you make me mad sometimes.

I honestly don't know what is wrong with some bus drivers, but some of their chosen actions are completely rude and can piss a person off! But it's not just the drivers that can piss you off. Some situations on the bus can make you quite irritated as well.

Today for example I was waiting for the bus after school like always. As minutes passed more and more students showed up waiting to get on the bus to go home as well. I actually really hate catching the first bus home. It is usually completely packed and uncomfortable. I'd rather wait for a second or third bus so there is a greater chance of actually getting a seat. Today the bus was super packed. They couldn't even fit everyone on. Standing behind a guy and in front of a girl, I was sandwiched in. The annoying part of this was that the girl standing behind me, her bag kept pushing against my bag forcing me into the guy in front of me. Then once the bus started to move, her and her friend stepped on my feet. It was not pleasant. Stop after stop, people left their seats to leave the bus. Luckily I was able to snag a seat. The rest of the ride was good. Then we caught a train. Sitting on a packed still bus with the sun beaming in your face, is not a good time. I was relieved when I got off the bus.

However that is not the only time I ran into irritation while on the bus. There had been a couple times when I was on the bus when I would pull the "dinger" to get off at the next stop having to push my way through crowds of people to get to the door. A couple times I could reach the door just on time, or so I would think. Having my hand on the door, it would not open. The light was green and the bus was still. Technically I was still able to leave the bus. However the bus driver would not let me out and I would have to wait until the next stop. So inconvenient.

There have also been times on the bus where I would think to myself, "Wow, did that just happen?" For example I was on the bus downtown and we sat at a stop for about ten minutes. A little old lady was making her way to the bus on a walker when the bus began to pull away. The lady waved her hand in the air, but the bus did not stop. I felt so bad for this little old lady, I could not believe the bus driver would just ignore her when they clearly saw her. Sadly that is not the first time I've seen that happen. It happens a lot actually.

Also not to be rude or anything, but there are people out there, that just don't take care of themselves. By this I mean they have a distinct oder that just carries. I have sat near people who smell like urine. I have sat near people that smell like complete garbage. And just the other day I sat by a guy who smelt like fish. It was the most terrible thing I ever had to endure. Sitting there I could not be rude and just remove myself from my seat to sit somewhere else, I'm not that type of person. But the smell was just horrid. I stuck my face in my scarf to get some fresh air because the actual air around me was not fresh at all! I had to look away to catch some real air and it was just not good. Thankfully he did not sit there my whole bus ride. But even after he left the bus, I could still smell it. Terrible.

I can unfortunately say I have been one of the few people I know who has gotten into an accident while on the bus! My boyfriend and I were late for school one morning so we caught a later bus. We usually listen to music while on our way so we don't really pay attention to what is going on. Sitting there calmly, the bus jerked and swerved to the right and then back to the left. I had no idea what was going on. My heart was racing and I had hit my knee off of the seat in front of me. Apparently some body ran a red light and if the bus had not swerved, we would have actually hit the person. There were two baby buggies on the bus when this happened. One of them tipped and the other one tipped as the mother of the child fell toward the front of the bus. It was quite the scene and I did not think I would ever witness some body falling on the bus.

I highly doubt any of these problems will be resolved. The only thing I want, is to arrive from point A to point B safely. :)

London City Transit.

Will You Be My Valentine?

La la la la laaa, Happy Valentines Day!


I realize Valentines Day was yesterday, but I did not have the time to blog! So here is my Valentines Day blog the day after Valentines Day! I'm going to start off my blog by going back one year ago...


February 14th 2010,
This was the very first date my current boyfriend and I went on. We were not dating at the time, just seeing each other and getting to know each other. I remember being at work on the Sunday Valentines Day morning when my co-workers were asking what everyone was doing for the day. I remember being so excited yet so nervous for my first date!


Our plans for the night were to go our for dinner at Swiss Chalet and to go to the movies to see Valentines Day. I can remember when he met me at my house. We sat in my room while we waited for my mom to get ready to drive us to the restaurant. I was so shy and had no idea what to say, so it was somewhat awkward. However as soon as we got to the restaurant it was smooth sailing from there.


I can remember barely even eating my food because I was just so caught up in the moment, I wasn't even hungry! He made me laugh and kept me smiling the whole way through. I'm pretty sure I went home with a sore face that night from smiling so much! I thought he was such a great guy. The movie we went to see was packed. It was no doubt though seeing as it was Valentines Day and the movie was called Valentines Day. We ended up sitting on the floor at the back of the theater which I think was more than perfect. The whole date was perfect and I had an amazing time.


February 14th 2011,
For this Valentines Day, my boyfriend and I went out for dinner as we did last year. However this year we decided to go to East Side Marios! I'm glad we went at the time we did because soon after we were seated more people started to enter and they were running out of tables! Every single table around us was already taken, it was bizarre!


The problem I find with East Side Marios, is that seeing as they give you unlimited garlic bread and salad, you're obviously going to eat before your dinner arrives. Ever single time this happens, I end up eating too much because I'm so hungry and then by the time my dinner comes, I am not hungry to eat it. I seriously don't even think I nearly ate half of my pasta. But it was still delicious nonetheless.


Seeing as Valentines Day landed on a Monday this year, it was Bachelor night! On this episode of The Bachelor, Brad was down to six girls. He had to send two home and the remaining four would go on home town dates so Brad could meet their families. One girl he sent home while he was on a date with her. There was just no romantic connection, more or less a friendship. The other girl he sent home, I was jumping for joy! This girl would be Michelle. Ever since the very first episode I hated her and wanted her to go home badly. In her mind, she was the ONLY girl for Brad and she wanted every other girl to go home so she could start her life with him. Excuse my language, but she is a proper B*TCH! So happy she went home.


That was the end of my Valentines Day. :)

Also on Valentines Day, my school had a bake sale!

I made goody bags and sold them all! :)

Brick By Boring Brick

I am officially finished my first week of semester two!

All of my classes are off to a good start and i'm all caught up! Not that it would have been hard to get caught up because we have barely done anything!

First period: Art. For the first two days of art class we worked on review. Seeing as I had not taken an art class at my school since grade nine, I barely knew anything on the review sheet! However most of it was common sense. We had just begun to work on one of our major assignments this week. Cubism Art. We basically have to draw a picture only using straight lines and then split the drawing up into pieces and use different utensils for each section. Of course I would draw cameras! So on my sheet of paper I have two cameras on angles, one is larger than the other, and then the back of a camera in the background behind the first two. For my drawing I am using pencil crayons, black sharpie, pencil, black pen and pastels. So far, it is coming along nicely. Also this past Thursday our first sketchbook was due! Every Thursday we have a drawing assignment that is due to be critiqued. This week was a teacup and saucer. I had done what I did not want to do which was leave it till the last minute and basically rushed my drawing. I spent about an hour on it and was content with it. I knew it was not perfect and I knew my ovals were not even. But I did not want to fix it at that moment. It was late and I was tired and figured I would just fix it the next day. With a bit of shading here and a bit of erasing there, I got 10/10.

Second period: Yearbook and Journalism. I have this class with my International Business teacher from last semester. She is super nice and very down to earth. Basically what we're producing and publishing in this class is our school yearbook. We take photos, interview people and teachers, attend events and pretty much assemble the yearbook. Today was the last day for homeroom students to purchase their yearbooks. I however did not purchase mine. Today was pay day and I went to the bank this morning to check my balance and pull out some money. I don't like bringing my wallet to school and today I needed to buy a drink for my lunch. So not thinking I brought $20 to school for my drink. The yearbook costs $20. So I could not purchase it because I did not have enough money on me. However! Being in the yearbook class, I don't think it is too late! This week we've been getting to know our classmates. We played mini activities and get to know you games and are currently working on presentations with information about us and what we can do to contribute to the yearbook. Simple stuff. Also this week we are putting together a Valentines Day bake sale! We need to raise money to print our yearbooks out in full colour, (yeah, it sucks) so we have been trying our very best to make this a well known event! We have posted flyers all around the school, (which I made!) and have made a couple announcements. Hopefully the word will be out and we can raise enough money to get us started! With the goody bags I am making, how could people say no?

Fourth period: Entrepreneurial Studies. Oh so many quizzes! So far in this class we have done multiple online quizzes to see where we sit as future entrepreneurs. The first two were okay, then we got into the third quiz and the fourth quiz, it got so tiring and was a chore to complete these quizzes! However once again, simple stuff. This week consisted of self assessments letting others know about ourselves and finding where we sit as individuals as entrepreneurs. Today we did our first assignment as a class. We watched an episode of Dragons Den, a show about entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. This was the first time I have ever watched the show or even heard of it. It was really quite interesting and humorous to watch! Some of the business pitches included a women trying to sell a kit for protection against germs and diseases, three business men trying to sell a mineral type product, a man trying to sell a Fenis (basically a way for women to stand while urinating) and a woman trying to sell Saskatoon Berries to get well known. All of the ideas failed, other than the woman trying to sell the Saskatoon Berries. It's crazy how hard it could be to get a business started and the steps you have to take in order to make it work!

Fifth period: English.  I usually don't mind English. I'm usually decently good at it. However the topic for English for this year is Human Rights. In my opinion, I think this is a topic that should be discussed in a law or history class. I have no interest in it, nor do I know anything about it and want to know anything about it. However having the teacher I have and my friends around me, I think it will go over a lot more smoother. So far the first week we have been introduced to the Human Rights and what they mean. It's been a slack week seeing as we've only done a couple work sheets and had a presentation today by the creators of the comic book series Kill Shakespeare. It was an interesting presentation that kept me interested from the presenters humor. If it weren't for that I honestly think I would have been bored out of my mind. However I did have back-up! Before I attended the presentation I bought a package of skittles from the school vending machine. It helped a lot!

So that was my first week of semester two! On to the next week!

Here is an example of Cubism. :)

Accepted.

Tonight was the night.


The night of the Beal Art interview! I could not even tell you how nervous I was pulling up to the school. Butterflies in my stomach and everything!


As I got out of the car, I noticed other people entering the school as well. Apparently there was an orientation going on at the same time as the interview was, so not everyone was going to the school for the same reason. When I entered the school and walked down to the basement, there was nobody there. It was so quiet, actually kind of freaky! But then another girl had followed me down the stairs for the same reason. We were just early! Soon after, one of the teachers showed up.


As we waited for more people to arrive, only a couple others did. It being so quiet, they took the girl who came in after me for an interview first while another teacher took us on a tour of the art studios. He took us through all of the rooms. The textile room, photography room as well as the dark room, ceramics room etc etc. Each room we entered there was something different going on. It made me excited yet nervous. Excited at the fact that I could possibly be creating that sort of art, but nervous at the fact that I would have no idea what i'm doing! However the teachers would teach me everything I would need to know.


When we were finished our little tour it was then my time to get interviewed. As I sat down in the chair with one of the art teachers I pulled out my portfolio, drawing book and painting and he started to take a look. At first I was a bit nervous because he seemed to look through my photo's very quickly. I thought to myself, "is he actually seeing them the way I see them?" , " does he not like them?" I began to get nervous.


However as the interview continued I got more comfortable. He asked me how long I have been doing art for and if I had taken any previous art courses at school. I told him that I had been doing art since grade five and had learned everything I know from my grandpa who taught me how to paint and draw. I then went on to tell him that I had taken a grade nine art course and am currently in a grade eleven art course. The gap between as to why I took art in grade nine and stopped until grade twelve made him questionable. He then asked me why I had done that. I then went on to explain how grade nine art seemed a bit slow for me. I felt as if everything I was learning in grade nine art I already knew. Trying to explain this to him made me feel a bit cocky, and I did not want to give off that impression. 


After all the questions and browsing he then began to give me sheets of paper regarding information on the Art Program and registration sheets. I was very confused by this. I thought to myself, "Why is he giving me these sheets now? Am I in? He never told me I was accepted?" But I thought I would keep my thoughts to myself until the end of my interview. Sure enough at the end of his explanations, he finished it with, " You're accepted. "


Hearing those two words, ended my worries. They ended my stress. They ended my concerns, and made me feel so relieved. I was almost shocked at the fact that I had gotten accepted right there on the spot! So I filled out my registration form, gathered my work, and was leaving the school accepted!


I can now not wait to start my year in Beal Art. :)

Beal Art 2012. ♥