Orientation Day, Temporary Housemates, New Friends and Brave

What a crazy awesome exciting day!

So... Remember how I said a Helén the swedish girl was coming over on Sunday to crash on my couch for 2 weeks and I hadn't told my mom and was super worried she'd be angry? well of course I totally worried for nothing. My mom reacted so cool I felt like a total fool for making such a big deal out of it in my head. Typical.

Helén is here - and she is brilliant, of course. I mean come on, she actually has a Darth Vader pyjama. complete with cape. It's so geeky it blew my mind with its epicness. I still can't quite comprehend how she doesn't strangle herself in her sleep with that thing around her neck but I think it's fucking awesome. As predicted, we have tons of stuff in common and it's so much fun having her around. I'm really looking forward to these 2 weeks with her. :D

We got up at about 7 am, I had a little help from my lovely Josh who woke me up with a skype call and I thought it was really funny because I "took him with me" while I was getting ready - making breakfast, brushing my teeth etc haha. Helén probably thought i was a bit nuts carrying my laptop around the place with me during my morning routine of trying hard not to fall asleep.

We arrived on time (oh wonder) at the Scotiabank Theatre where Orientation was held and by that time we were both pretty excited about pretty much everything.
We got our welcome folder and name tags and then went to get our student visas copied, had a bit of a chat with several of the advisors we had had only email contact with up until now and then managed to round up quite a lot of our future classmates before heading in to the theatre at 9. It was all pretty great.
The "show" was so amazing, I can't even describe what it is like to actually, finally, feel like you're exactly where you're supposed to be, surrounded by people who are just as excited and passionate as you are and to get a first glimpse of this marvellous adventure ride we are all embarking on these coming 12 months. The whole theatre had such an amazing energy, people were clapping and whistling and laughing and shouting excitedly and it was just SO FUCKING BRILLIANT how happy and motivated everyone seemed to be. I cannot wait to get started.
After the presentation (that almost made me cry it was so epic) we all got our mug shots done and I tried to collect everyones email address but it was such a chaos I think I missed a few people :(
We got to meet lots of students from across all courses and it was just so much fun. Vendor fair was ok too, most of the things were a bit useless but at least Helén and I got an appointment at a bank the same day to set up a bank account.
We then went to grab some food with a pretty big group actually - including someone from Writing and from Digital Design which was super nice. After that some people had to split because of several different things but some of us went down towards stanley park to chill a little and we even did a little "Hi, my name is" round which was kind of hilarious because we got distracted after each one and were geeking out about random stuff in between but we did manage to make a full round in the end.
Helén and I had to leave at that point because our bank appointment was drawing near, but everyone left with us in the same direction.
On the way back we actually completely spontaneously decided to go to the movies tonight and watch Brave. We managed to organise it just barely but we managed.
Helén and I went back to the apartment and changed because it suddenly got really hot, went for some food and then chilled a bit at home while I was setting up everything for our Facebook group and sent everyone all the emails I managed to get - not without complications due to various handwriting disasters. lol
We met up at the movies at 7:30 pm (seriously the day passed soooo quickly) and it was my second time watching Brave actually haha but it was epic nontheless. I particularly enjoyed how we all stayed in our seats for the entire credits as if it was the most natural thing in the world. Just goes to show we are all of a similar mind haha

Just got back and I apologise for this fairly lame account of this amazing day but it's like midnight and I am so ridiculously tired from all the excitement I can barely keep my eyes open.

And it was just the beginning... the promise of a year I shall never forget. <3 <3 <3

piece out,

Jill