I mayyy have been a bit stupid on this one...

Mkay, so tomorrow this really sweet but probably slightly crazy Swedish girl who will be in my classical animation class at VFS is arriving and I'm letting her crash on my couch for 2 weeks or so until she can move into the place she organised for september. And I haven't told my mom yet. Reason being I'm kinda shitting my pants that she will go a little bit bananas because, errr... well, I'm letting a complete stranger stay at a very expensive apartment which she happens to be paying. whoops.

But seriously, I just couldn't let the girl arrive in Vancouver after a nearly 24 hour journey (if her's is anything like ours was) without a place to go. That Crazy woman, honestly.

We were introduced via email by my super nice VFS advisor Shannon who send me a little message saying there was this Swedish girl Helén who would like to meet up with some future class mates and if I was interested. I had actually been looking for exactly such people via facebook but had been unlucky in my search so this came as a sweet surprise.

So I shot her a quick mail saying hi and I would love to meet up and when will she arrive etc etc. It became clear pretty quickly that she and I had lots of geekiness in common (yaay) and she sounded super sweet and fun. It also became clear pretty quickly that she was a bit of a nutter (also a similarity we share) because she told me that she'd be arriving this sunday (tomorrow - 19th of August) which is exactly one day before Orientation day and that she didn't actually have anywhere to stay until september - she said she'd see if she could "shere a hotelroom with someone or something". CRAZY PERSON! So out of pure instinctive reaction more than anything else I immediately offered her to stay on my couch as I thought it was seriously unlikely she'd find anyone to share a hotel room with on the very day she'd arrive, so there.

Obvious dilemma in the mom department now, because although I don't have any doubts Helén is super awesome and although she instantly expressed extreme gratitude saying her parents were "doing the happy dance" (sooo cute) I haven't actually brought myself to tell my mom yet - who is currently not in vancouver but will be coming back on the 24th soooh... I can't get away with just not telling her. YIKES. I hope it will be fine. I think it will be fine. I just feel a bit guilty about not consulting her first as she's actually the one who is so super kind to pay my ridiculously expensive rent because she wanted me to have the comfort of living close to school and on my own so I could concentrate on my studies. I love her. She's the best. And then I agree to let a complete stranger into the place for 2 weeks. ARGH! what am I doing.

Spending the next 2 hours composing the perfect "casual and subtle but apologetic; it's fiiiine but I'm aware of the risks and the inconsiderate, rash way I acted; so, are you ok with it? and btw this really awesome thing happened (distraction tactics) ; I love you, you're the best and sorry that you're daughter is stupid" email to my mom. that's what I'll be doing. >.<"
siiiigh~~~~

let's hope things don't end this way:

piece out,
Jill