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Monday, January 5, 2009

A Not-So-Ordinary First Day of School

YES, it is here - the dreaded first day of classes added with more slushy goodness and icy weather. Ah, winter season. :)

While others find it hard to smile and laugh at this point in time, I, on the other hand, find it really hilarious. And yes I'm laughing at the things that happened to me today. I was smiling when people couldn't find any reason to. Oh that love that brings me to new heights!

My class for today starts at 9 in the morning, so to avoid the morning rush (this is not the perfect time to rush, believe me) my dad had to drop me off the train station earlier. Despite the unmistakeably distasteful road conditions, we managed to actually get there on schedule. But then when I went up the platform, there in front of my eyes were the very crowd that I don't want to see in the morning when I'm on my way to school. People squished on certain spots - spots where the train doors stop, open, and close. Good thing the train that came by was the longer one, although I have never seen that kind of train connected together like that before. Yeah, well that was that. I'm quite thankful that we were not so packed inside the train.

Broadway station, time check: 8:10 or so. AHHHH, line up! Again. :P Still calm. I just thought, if I would be late then I would be late, no use in heating up my brain gears to think about that. Maybe after 10 minutes or so, I finally get to board the bus. I still get to sit on my favorite seat at the rear end of the bus. Traveling, traveling, traveling. It actually took me 2 hours to get from Surrey to UBC. Whew!

Time check: it's definitely past 9 a.m., around 9:10-ish. After skating in the snow (haha, what? It was slippery) and struggling to go up a few steps, I finally reached my destination. Hooray! Expect it was the wrong one. Haha! I was even so happy and confident that finally, I survived UBC's winter... land. So I asked this girl if I could sit beside her and she said yes. But I knew there was just something that didn't feel right. It was a bit awkward. So I thought, was I in the right room? I glanced over one student's outline, and then my hunch was confirmed - I was in BIOL 335 class. I was thinking of the room I was supposed to be in - Room 250. Yeah, it was Room 250. Counting from the first floor, 150, then basement 25... wait a minute!! This is the basement, this is room 150! Hahaha, that what I like to call "first-day-of-school-faux-pas". Embarrassing wasn't it? Actually no, I had my fair share of more embarrassing moments. I just quietly went out of the room, maybe making them think I was bored and I decided to go home.

Time check: 9:20 a.m. I quickly went upstairs and entered the room only to find out that my class was cancelled. Haha, jaw-dropping wasn't it? Hehehe, yeah. But I made a new friend anyway so I know that was meant to happen. Off I went to the SUB to do stuff I needed to do.

Anyway, time passed by; I went to my other class, went to the bookstore, ate, and eventually went home. As I rode my last mode of transportation, I found myself very interested in playing this game on my iPhone called "Shake and Spell". I became so interested that I forgot to take notice of where I was, and so I missed my stop. Hehehe! I was about to miss the other stop too, had I not stopped playing. So there I was traveling down the much longer path home, passing through more icy goodness and slushy surprise with a little dash of dog poop. Ah, joy! I thought my laughing trip was over, but lo and behold, Mr. Puno the tree decided to throw his dishwater on me and thought it would be funny. Haha, what I meant was I got dripped over with icy slush that came from a tree. My jaws dropped as I stand there with slush on my hair and face. But I thought it was funny.

Overall it was a nice day. It couldn't get more interesting than that. I thank God for giving me the smiles and laughter that keep me going through these series of unfortunate events. He really is the reason why I smile. :)

Lovely day. Praise God.

Live. Laugh. Love.