Well I thought I would just briefly outline the big 2-1 for everyone:
Thursday evening, my friends sierra and erin are coming over to get pretty and watch grey's anatomy before we head out with a big group of my friends for a night at my favourite Irish Pub, Heart and Crown. There, we get to sit back and relax and listen to some fantastic bands, and celebrate my coming of age at midnight. Should be a good time!
As for the day itself, I will be going to class, spending the day with my best buds cameron and danvy, and then heading off to dinner with my mom at Red Lobster, and then going home with her for the weekend to relax before papers and midterms start at the beginning of february...all in all, it should be grand...I hope so!
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
Update
Hello all
Just a quick update from the land of Kelsey. T-minus 6 days till I turn 21. Weird. No plans as of yet, except for dinner out with my mom. It will probably be a pretty low key event.
School is insane, keeping me pretty busy. I've actually managed to make friends in my classes this semester. I'm not one for doing that usually. One actually looked me up on Facebook, this group messaging sight where you can post messages and pictures on each others pages to keep in touch...its the new MSN messenger.
Last night I witnessed my older brother Tim play and sing 3 songs at an open mic night, backed up by russ. I must say, I was extremely blown away by his talent. If I might speak for the other sibling present, Kurt, he was also impressed. We of course, brought everyone we're close friends with to this event, and they cheered obnoxiously, yet were also impressed with Tim's singing. Shocker of the Decade: Tim is GREAT...not just good, we knew that, but he's actually GREAT.
Also, I'm preparing for my trip down to Ohio for Spring Break! And by preparing I mean telling people I'm doing it. I'm sure Ryan will have it all mapped out with the best places for me to stop before I even bother getting around to planning it out.
I am currently reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for my Fantasy and Myth class. I am also reading the mock epic Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, one of my all time favourites.
Whats new in everyone elses world? Let me know whats new with you!
Just a quick update from the land of Kelsey. T-minus 6 days till I turn 21. Weird. No plans as of yet, except for dinner out with my mom. It will probably be a pretty low key event.
School is insane, keeping me pretty busy. I've actually managed to make friends in my classes this semester. I'm not one for doing that usually. One actually looked me up on Facebook, this group messaging sight where you can post messages and pictures on each others pages to keep in touch...its the new MSN messenger.
Last night I witnessed my older brother Tim play and sing 3 songs at an open mic night, backed up by russ. I must say, I was extremely blown away by his talent. If I might speak for the other sibling present, Kurt, he was also impressed. We of course, brought everyone we're close friends with to this event, and they cheered obnoxiously, yet were also impressed with Tim's singing. Shocker of the Decade: Tim is GREAT...not just good, we knew that, but he's actually GREAT.
Also, I'm preparing for my trip down to Ohio for Spring Break! And by preparing I mean telling people I'm doing it. I'm sure Ryan will have it all mapped out with the best places for me to stop before I even bother getting around to planning it out.
I am currently reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for my Fantasy and Myth class. I am also reading the mock epic Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, one of my all time favourites.
Whats new in everyone elses world? Let me know whats new with you!
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Post Christmas/First week of school
Hello all,
It has just come to my attention that it has been over a month since I've had time/bothered to blog anything!!!
So, per Jenny's request, I will begin with Christmas. It was busy, it was loud, and it was crazy, in true Schmitz family fashion. Many movies were watched, dozens of my mom's desserts were consumed, and boardgames and card playing occurred nightly. My mom made these fantastic squares called mars bar squares, derived from a recipe my grandmother was given in a grocery store. My mom added her own little twist to it, melting Cadbury chocolate on top. I ate many.
Micah and Eva were the stars of the Schmitz Show, from their colouring for grandma, to hide and go seek with anyone who would play. We watched Dora; I annoyed Sarah by questioning the accuracy of the content from the show; she shrugged a lot. Eva snotted on anyone she could get her hands on, especially the kitties. Micah amazed Ryan, Sarah and I in Mcdonalds by balancing on a high ledge. Where she got the idea to perform such an act, only Brandon knows. We enjoyed the girls very much! I spent a majority of my time poking Sarah in the belly for the off chance that the baby would decide it should be awake and moving when its auntie was around. No such luck. Tim consumed more turkey this christmas holiday than all of us combined. We just stood back and snickered as mom attempted to fatten he and kurtis up. We even fit in a day for the girls to go to Ottawa for some Dim Sum. All in all, it was a wonderful time, though too short and hectic by far.
As for the new school year: It began a bit rough, as I, for the first time in my academic career, immediately detested two of my five classes. The first was British North America 1763-1867. I was fairly interested in taking this class, but, at the end of the first intro lecture, I was NOT impressed. No, no problem with the subject matter, but with the 25 year old brand new Prof teaching it who was overcompensating for his newness by submerging the class in overwhelming amounts of essays, 200 dollar textbooks, and all round terrible english skills (very very quebecois) I quickly made my way to the faculty to switch out of this course. Instead, I chose History of Western Europe from 5th-15th century. I must say, I love it so far. Its fascinating, the prof is fantastic, and we have an awesome assignment called an immersion experience, where each student is assigned a job and a general profile, and from there, we create the life and experience, based on research, of our character. I was assigned BAKER. I have yet to find out if I'm a guy or a girl, and from there, I will get to choose an appropriate 13th century Belgian name, because we are all based in the medieval city of Burge Belgium. We have the paper to write, as well as an invited life story and profile, and a journal. I'm pretty impressed with the experience he's attempting to give us. Even his lectures are interesting, filled with art and first person journal cases from various areas. This class will be a lot of work, but I am very pumped for it.
The next horror story occurred in my much anticipated Fantasy and Myth class. I, unfortunately, got stuck with a bozo that decided the GENRE Fantasy was silly, and Tolkien and Lewis and Rowling were boring, therefore he wanted to concentrate on Mythical works, and use the title Fantasy to cover humankinds fantasies/desires. First class, we watched a film about Persius, son of Zeus, which was basically a porno about greek mythology.
I made my way to the English department at 8am the next day to insist I be placed in the other section, which, thankfully, had one last opening. I attended the new class today, and thank GOD it was traditional Fantasy and Myth. We study all the good ones, from Alice in wonderland, Harry Potter, and a Wrinkle in Time. I'm so relieved all the stupidity is behind me.
So now I'm looking at the following classes for this semester:
History of Western Europe from 5th to 15th century
History of Great Philosophers
History of the USSR
English Literature from 1700
Fantasy, Myth and Language
Should be a full term, with lots of hard work, sprinkled with fun times with my floor mates (I heart Cam and Danvy!) and more movie watching, of course.
I promise I will also blog more!! Maybe, if anyone finds it interesting, I will keep you updated on my Belgian Baker.
It has just come to my attention that it has been over a month since I've had time/bothered to blog anything!!!
So, per Jenny's request, I will begin with Christmas. It was busy, it was loud, and it was crazy, in true Schmitz family fashion. Many movies were watched, dozens of my mom's desserts were consumed, and boardgames and card playing occurred nightly. My mom made these fantastic squares called mars bar squares, derived from a recipe my grandmother was given in a grocery store. My mom added her own little twist to it, melting Cadbury chocolate on top. I ate many.
Micah and Eva were the stars of the Schmitz Show, from their colouring for grandma, to hide and go seek with anyone who would play. We watched Dora; I annoyed Sarah by questioning the accuracy of the content from the show; she shrugged a lot. Eva snotted on anyone she could get her hands on, especially the kitties. Micah amazed Ryan, Sarah and I in Mcdonalds by balancing on a high ledge. Where she got the idea to perform such an act, only Brandon knows. We enjoyed the girls very much! I spent a majority of my time poking Sarah in the belly for the off chance that the baby would decide it should be awake and moving when its auntie was around. No such luck. Tim consumed more turkey this christmas holiday than all of us combined. We just stood back and snickered as mom attempted to fatten he and kurtis up. We even fit in a day for the girls to go to Ottawa for some Dim Sum. All in all, it was a wonderful time, though too short and hectic by far.
As for the new school year: It began a bit rough, as I, for the first time in my academic career, immediately detested two of my five classes. The first was British North America 1763-1867. I was fairly interested in taking this class, but, at the end of the first intro lecture, I was NOT impressed. No, no problem with the subject matter, but with the 25 year old brand new Prof teaching it who was overcompensating for his newness by submerging the class in overwhelming amounts of essays, 200 dollar textbooks, and all round terrible english skills (very very quebecois) I quickly made my way to the faculty to switch out of this course. Instead, I chose History of Western Europe from 5th-15th century. I must say, I love it so far. Its fascinating, the prof is fantastic, and we have an awesome assignment called an immersion experience, where each student is assigned a job and a general profile, and from there, we create the life and experience, based on research, of our character. I was assigned BAKER. I have yet to find out if I'm a guy or a girl, and from there, I will get to choose an appropriate 13th century Belgian name, because we are all based in the medieval city of Burge Belgium. We have the paper to write, as well as an invited life story and profile, and a journal. I'm pretty impressed with the experience he's attempting to give us. Even his lectures are interesting, filled with art and first person journal cases from various areas. This class will be a lot of work, but I am very pumped for it.
The next horror story occurred in my much anticipated Fantasy and Myth class. I, unfortunately, got stuck with a bozo that decided the GENRE Fantasy was silly, and Tolkien and Lewis and Rowling were boring, therefore he wanted to concentrate on Mythical works, and use the title Fantasy to cover humankinds fantasies/desires. First class, we watched a film about Persius, son of Zeus, which was basically a porno about greek mythology.
I made my way to the English department at 8am the next day to insist I be placed in the other section, which, thankfully, had one last opening. I attended the new class today, and thank GOD it was traditional Fantasy and Myth. We study all the good ones, from Alice in wonderland, Harry Potter, and a Wrinkle in Time. I'm so relieved all the stupidity is behind me.
So now I'm looking at the following classes for this semester:
History of Western Europe from 5th to 15th century
History of Great Philosophers
History of the USSR
English Literature from 1700
Fantasy, Myth and Language
Should be a full term, with lots of hard work, sprinkled with fun times with my floor mates (I heart Cam and Danvy!) and more movie watching, of course.
I promise I will also blog more!! Maybe, if anyone finds it interesting, I will keep you updated on my Belgian Baker.
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