Day 1 – MacDonald-Cartier International Airport, Ottawa, Canada

3:55pm

Halloooooo~~
I am currently at Ottawa Airport waiting for my flight to New York which has been delayed by an hour and a half. T_T I don’t know what to do!!! Although I’m awfully excited to be traveling by myself (I was fangirling for no reason while waiting in the baggage check line XDDDD) and then I had to get my documents checked by the customs official and I was so scared because I didn’t know the address OR the name of the person with whom I was staying XDDDDD. The lady questioning me was seriously KOWAI! T____T But I managed to get through it by saying that we were staying at an apartment owned by my aunt’s friend. It sounds sketchy but it’s true :p. But seriously, I’ve been so excited for this trip that I didn’t know what to do with myself XDDDDD Last night I was checking my packed bags and re-checking them and checking my documents and the weather where I was going to and then checking it all over again that I ended up sleeping at 2am even though I was ready for bed at 9. XDDDD Then my brother came home from a party at around 3am and that woke me up. Then my dad came home at around 4am from a different party and that also woke me up. And then after that I couldn’t get back to sleep and ended up falling asleep at 7am. XDDDDD Can you tell I was excited???? XDDDDDDDDD So then we went to a 12pm mass and then we got to the airport at around 2pm and ate lunch together and then I checked in and everything and here I am. It is 4:04 pm and it says that my flight to Newark has been delayed to 7pm. T_T Nandeeeeeeee~
So since I’m not doing anything I might as well start ranting about what has happened since my last blog post (which was ages ago).
My exams started on December 9, I had one exam that day and it went so much better than I had originally expected. The next day though was HORRIBLE.
I had TWO of the hardest exams and on that day it just so happened that all the buses went on strike (!!!) and a snowstorm arrived at the same time!!! So besides being buried under several feet of snow, my only mode of transportation was not available. Our car was at the mechanics getting fixed and wouldn’t be available for another couple of days. So I tried calling several taxi companies but to no avail: some of the companies had busy lines while the two that picked up didn’t have taxis available until 12:30pm. Take note! I was calling at SEVEN IN THE MORNING. ARGH. And my first exam was at 9:30!!! Thankfully, I managed to find a friend with a car who could drive me. He was supposed to be at my house by 8:30 but he arrived at 9:30 because apparently even the highways had not yet been ploughed and it was tough getting through all the snow. So I eventually managed to get to my exam an hour late and my professor took pity on me and still let me take it. My second exam that day was horribly hard and I’m pretty sure I failed it. I got home later in the evening feeling exhausted and horrible. Blargh.

I stayed home the next few days because the only way I could get around was by taxi and I didn’t want to waste money on that. Needless to say, my two other exams went by in a stellar fashion. My last exam was in Japanese and it was held in the evening. I hitched a ride with my mom on her way to work so I arrived at around 9am so I spent the whole day studying for Jap which was at 7pm. Luckily since I had my laptop with me, the school internet was super fast and I managed to download TWELVE arashi vids. XDDDDD I got like five subbed eps of AnS, three subbed eps of HnA and other miscellaneous clips and shows. I watched some of them just for listening practice XP (lies!).

After my Jap exam on the 19th I was officially done for this semester!!! I was relieved but also kind of apprehensive at the same time because I wasn’t sure about my grades. At this moment I’m still not sure but at the same time I’m not that nervous anymore.
Christmas came and went, it was a lot of fun. I won’t elaborate on it because it basically went by in a lovely whirl of merry noise, turkey, ham, ribbons and gift-wrapping, eggnog, hugs and Filipino carols. Needless to say, I haven’t been getting much sleep lately and I don’t expect to get a good nights sleep until January 7 when everything’s settled down.
That was a basic summary of the happenings since my last post. The time is now 4:34pm and I still have around two hours to go before we start boarding. I think I will stop for now and return later if I get bored again.
And don’t worry. Don’t think that I’ve totally forgotten about the fact that I did nothing for Aiba’s birthday!!! That will soon be rectified.

Ja ne!

6:53pm.

So at 6:10 it was announced that we would start boarding passengers for the flight. Happily I lined up and was like the third person on the plane and now we are parked in the middle of the runway waiting for someone in Newark to give us the all-clear. Dear god am I bored. T____T