Monday, November 28, 2005

My friend just left for South Korea to teach English for a year. She'll be missed. :( But I wish her all the luck in the world (not that she'll need it.)

Hey, I just realized I have a whole month to kill before my internship starts in January. I'm not going to bother looking for jobs as I doubt anyone would want to hire me for just a month; and I really can't go anywhere since I'm low on cash...But that's OK because now I have time to chill and relax, you might say I have time to chillax! Man, I really can't recall the last time I had an entire month to waste. I'm looking forward to it =)

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

....I'm just one lucky biatch when it comes to certain things!!

First of all, apologies for not updating sooner..I haven't really been feeling too well. No it wasn't an illness, it's just that the trip to somalia changed me a lot and I really couldn't come to grips with a lot of things for a while. After being there, I started to question a lot of things - mainly I had to revaluate what I thought was important. Plus, it was a really difficult thing to readjust to living in canada after being back home and seeing the situation of the people back there.

But I'm OK now, I swear :) I feel much better. back to my old little self :) And I still need to get them pictures scanned. Next week I promise..

And now, on to the purpose of this post!

A handfull of my friends have always pegged me as 'lucky' when it comes to finding jobs and whatnot. And I've always dismissed that... I'd always rave about hard work, determination and persistance and insist that luck had nothing to do with anything!!

But methinks I need to take that back

Through a very interesting turn of events, I'm going to south africa to intern for a human rights organization in Johannesburg. From Jan to April I believe. It's all so surreal at this point but it's starting to sink in. Actually I can go as soon as my visa comes through, but they told me since they won't be working from dec 10 to Jan 9 (summer festive) it's better to come then. InshAllah I'll be heading off early Jan and won't be back until late April... I still can't believe it!

That's all for now =)

p.s. I graduated Nov 15, so I'm oficially free from the instituationalized slavery otherwise known as "university"

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

hey! long time no update! I would've put something in here sooner but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Not that much has happened since I came back anyway. Actually it took a while to feel like I was really 'back'. I don't know, it was an odd feeling. Oh and I haven't forgotten about the pictures - they'll be up just as soon as I can get them scanned.

Moving on...something cool just happened: details are sketchy at this point but it seems like a human rights organization in south africa might take me on as an intern! This would be perfect! beyond perfect. Crossing my fingers that it comes through.