First blog ever

So, I guess I've never really written in this blog before, but here goes:

The Sydenham building that I now call my second home was once so strange. The pale walls were unfamiliar and seemed so unwelcoming. After spending two-ish weeks here though, everything seems so familiar, and when I say "I'm going home" after a long day of classes, I can genuinely mean I'm going home.

Today I woke up extra early, 8:30. Calculus class started at 9:30 and I had to book it through breakfast (sausage links and hash browns ($1.45)), shower, and run to class. As soon as I got there, it was like looking at an enormous sea of people. 400+ students were stuffed into a single lecture room, and finding a seat was a mission. After going through an entire lecture with a professor who has an extremely thick asian accent, I went to the WSS to pick up my OSAP. To my surprise, I was granted a total of $11.5-$12k. The wonderful thing about Ontario, which I later realized, was that in a ingle year, I am only accountable to pay $7350 worth of loans. Ergo, I was given $4000-$5000 worth of money for absolutely nothing.

That marked the beginning of good things to come. I then went to psychology class, halfway across campus (good exercise to combat freshman fifteen), where I found that I was accepted to join the VESA program! This program will allow me to volunteer in Africa, Fiji islands, or the Amazon, all for a hefty sum of $2000. If I have the necessary funds, there's no question that I'm going to go.

When psych class finally ended, I ran across campus again to attend a chemistry lab. Whereas chemistry labs in high school, and (ahem Josh) elementary school, were mildly interesting, a University chemistry lab felt like honest-to-goodness science. With beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, solutions that change colours when mixed, it's no wonder I chose science!

I realize I'm pretty much going on a rant now, but this is my first blog, so ... Anyway, after going home, I ate dinner (pulled pork burrito $2.55) and rested for a short while, waiting for my room-mate to come back from class. When he got back, we finally bit the bullet and finally, FINALLY visited the campus rec center. Oh boy, was it ever one of the greatest decisions. The rec center is absolutely beautiful. A $27 million facility, it was equipped with everything I could have needed.

Wow that's long. I'll probably add every week; that way my blogs won't be absolutely congested and as ridiculously lengthy as this one.

Cheers guys~