YSP- Week 4 :’(
Monday, August 03, 2009 Posted In Canada , crush , DJ Tiesto , food , friends , Medicine , Microbiology , parents , religion , summer , travelling , Truth or Dare , UofT Edit This |
I am writing this a considerable time after the end of YSP and have probably forgotten a great deal of the things which took place.
Monday was okay. The first lecture was from the head of department who was a rather scary woman, and who I've heard being called a bitch. Um then there was an old English fellow who gave us a history lesson as opposed to a microbiology lesson. He went about a half hour overtime. Even counsellor S was becoming quite antsy. He was prepared to jump out of his seat. Hahaa. The old guy kept pushing up his projection board, but then he'd turn the lights off again as soon as we thought we were freed. Councelor S was reading Manga and Facebooking and I wrote out the arabic alphabet and me and V and M used it as a code. S was very ill due to a stomach virus and skipped a lot. We did a whole lot of rushed practicals but they were fun. Bacteria are smelly. We went to the bookstore.
 On the way back we bought Pakistani food. YAY. I bought Daahl. We ate this in the boys common room. T and some others joined us. He kepts stealing food off me. The cow. And he complains of bacteria. D also tried some. It was really good and a nice change. :) As I was sill eating in the background M & S were talking to T. He sai to them "I guess my summer fling idea didn't work out" and then they asked who he would have had a summer fling with. He said ye to quite a few, the Spanish girls especially and myself included. M told me this in front of him in Urdu, but I think he didn't know I knew as later on he called S to ask if he had told me the Summe Fling thing, as he felt I had behaved oddly towards him. I hadn't... paranoia. -_- The evening activity was capture the flag, and me M and S sat on the base most of the time. We discussed religion.I think that all though S as a Jew and I would have differing opinions about political situations, I think our religions are not that different and that the rules are quite similar, and we have similar liberalish interpretations of them. In the evening V came to ours and we hung around. We then we realised we could see into T's room from a window in the corridor, so we began calling him our subject and we watched him walk out his room and reappear downstairs and walk to our building. We then heard him enter and pretended to be spies hiding behind corners and etc. Unfortunately it was a fail as he found us and I giggled incessantly. Once he left we called him a bunch of times and the first time he though it was smelly S pranking him and refused to answer after. Hahaa. Then we went to bed quite late, V gave us a lesson on tampons ahahaha. It's allll goooood.
Tuesday :) This was rather fun. We did some more labs in the day time which I enjoyed, pippetting bacteria plates etc. In the evening we skipped the evening activity and hung about in the common room. We saw that YSP was on a chinese news channel called Global, and some of our friends had been interviewed. (I think this was different the interview I had had before). I played solitaire on Saad’s computer. I’ve forgotten largely what happened after this, but I think we did some further packing at night and that was basically it.
WEDNESDAYYY was S's Birthday!. Did some more bacteria games in the day. We also had a tour and looked at an electron microscope. The guy showing us was very physicsy. All he knew was that we were looking at diplococcal gonorrhoea cells. I answered and asked some physicsy questions showing off my physics skills and he let me sit in the chair and play with the microscope. and then right before lunch our T.A.s were really cute and they made cupcakes for the entire class on account of S’s birthday . That evening I ran to the bookstore and bought myself a giant (men's) orange hoodie as well as credit for my Canadian phone. and a Sperm stuffed toy hahaa for my mom ;) Then we cooked pasta for dinner and cut a chocolate cake for S. It was uber yummy.
 The people there were M, S, J, S, D, L, T ,A V,V,C and I. Funfun. We discovered J & S also do MUN. D hung around with me a lot. S (kuwait living Hindu guy) appeared. Him and T fought with waterguns. Very immature. This resulted in T breaking S’s watergun and S asking for money to be reimbursed. He claimed the price was $3 however in actuality it was 50c. Hahahaa. Idk. Then T decided to play Truth or Dare. AGHSHIT. Lets see, D was forced to make hisorgasm sounds. This was exceedingly awkward as for some reason his arm was around me. (I think he did that yawn and stretch thing). Erm, then T was made to go downstairs and do something strange in front of (slightly uptight stuck up French girl ) C. He kissed her on the cheek. Um, then I went to the bathroom. When I came back S tried to tell me something in Arabic I couldn’t understand. T then proceeded to ask me who I liked at YSP for the bazillionth time. –sigh- I responded nonchalantely with F (of the English Program). M then asked if what T wanted me to say was that I liked him. He said well that wouldn't be that awful, I'd be pleased. Or something. Um then D and a bunch of others left the room to go see just how stinky Hindu S’s room was. At this point S amd M informed me that while I’d been gone D had been asked who he’d like to fuck from the YSP girls. He said me and (every guy’s dream girl) P. Bleh. This awkwarded me out a lot. After this I left and did not return. The awkwardness made me want to cry. Bleh. M & S were then in our room. Their touchy feeliness makes me a little odded out. S is a sweet guy and tried to cheer me up. The pair of them are nice apart, but together idk they are odd. They rely entirely on one another it’s strange. They don’t seem to value anyone friendship.
Thursday, we had a lecture in the morning and looked at our results in the afternoon. My team, the Purple team then began to prepare for our presentation which we had secretly decided to do as a group :) It was on the black death. Funfun. For Dinner V and I went out. I bought Pak food and she bought Burger King. I had a Chicken Tandoori Wrap and Samosas :) That evening they bought us tickets to Harry Potter. Which we saw 2 weeks ago or something. Sooo… we did something ILLEGAL :D . We snuck into “The Ugly Truth”. It was really funny and I thoroughly enjoyed it. We finished watching before the Harry Potter kids were done so we went to Chapters and I bought the 3rd book in the Mortal Instruments Trilogy :). Umm me and C walked together on the way back singing songs and etc. When we reached the residence everyone dispersed and me V and D were left. D asked V to leave for a private moment with me. He said something like “I do0n’t know if you heard, but yesterday in truth r Dare they asked me who I liked here and I said you. And I just want you to know that you are very special and very important to me. And I like you, and I hope that you are not mad at me and that we can stay friends.” I said I was not mad and that we should indeed stay friends. Although inwardly I did not in the least appreciate being ambushed. However he then decided to give me a hug. I like hugs. But not full frontal hugs with people I don’t know well. –sigh-. I returned to the room rather upset again. M and I began to pack a bit.
Oh yes, A and S decided we should get gifts for our lab instructors. They collected sums of money for this during the day, and they spent most of their time following this Buying little Starbucks vouchers, a cake and making cards with pictures of the team. They then called me late at night and I went to A’s room, signed the card and talked with them a bit. S is a huge gossip and can be obnoxious, but I like her and A is very sweet. M and I took showers late at night. She went to the bathroom before me, and when she heard the door open and me come in she started talking to me about periods. I pretended to be one of the counsellors and asked why on earth she was still awake. She fell silent and got freaked out. I then started laughing, it was really funny.
Friday the final dayy :( We had stayed up exceeding late the night before so not only did we skip the university counsellor woman’s lecture as we were allowed to do, we also skipped the other lecture after this waking up at lunch time hahaa. We later discovered a lot of people had done this and the lecture room had been half empty. After lunch was presentations. I took in my Abaya for E, the Dark Lord to wear. Hahahaa. I personally think we pulled of our little play really well, but we were well aware that many of the other presentations were far better. Soo, when they announced the winners we were SHOCKED THAT WE WON!! HAhahhaa. We were all really pleased as well, and I think our team is probably one of the closest knit teams and so as a group we just eminated happiness. Our prizes were lame but we were so pleased. We went back to the labs after and L and A the T.As had made us all cards and they were so cute. We gave them their gifts and then A started to cry. It was so cute an sad. :( I was tearing too. Lets see, then at lunch M & S ditched me to sort out what of her stuff she was giving him to bring back home. I hung out with cutie A. We ate lunch and talked and she left behind her Spanish friends to hang around with me. Then T appeared. He began quoting Dr.Clark, who had lectured with a Tampon at the beginning of the week. He then asked me who I liked AGAIN. He then told me "I don't like you". I think A was quite horrified and I myself was confused. He then elaborated saying that I may have heard that he was asked who he would like to have a Summer Fling with and he had said me, but this was merely because I was nice, not because he liked me. He then said something like "I heard D likes you". To which I didn't respond but bit my lip. He knew this from before anyways, as it was he who had asked D in the first place, why was he harassing me. So I said nothing. Then C appeared and they egan discussing bacteria. A and I left, and found S so we hung out in my room gossiping and etc. And I told them about T, at which point M returned and the three of them agreed that T liked me. I found this prepostorous. I'm not nearly as leggy and attractive as P is. Then we went to A's room. We saw from the window a group of Sikh men dancing and I shouted Maaderchod at them :P Haha childish I know. We talked some more and discussed what to wear to the dance that evening. I ended up not changing. I was wearing a short black dress and purple tights with my new gladiators. A lent S something to wear. After some scurrying around we ended up at the dance. At first there were very few people there and the music was lame, however I for some reason enjoy the party/club atmosphere. I was having fun dancing however the rest of my friends M & S especially were not. S(the girl) is a real party animal hahahaa. She was quite fun, but even she left after a while as she felt the party was lame. So then we went to the lobby of the other building. I wanted to go back but noone wanted to go with me. At this point I really missed A and R and N a lot. I then asked M how stupid I looked dancing. She said only as stupid as me. The only thing is... I don't really like how she dances, so this was rather dissatisfying. I ended up not going back to the party. M & S went off walking on their own and me V, V, C, and S(the jewish one... there are far too many Ss) bumped into T. He told us that A (not the cutie) had tried to make out with him. He said they had been dancing and she leaned in, and he said "what are you doing?" and she said "what I've been wanting to do since the first week." and he said "are you trying to make out with me :O". and she said "what's the matter". And he blocked her with his arm and told her, "I'm just a little boy inside." Now this, we thought was a very unlikely story. 1) T is not exactly a catch. 2) She's a very independantish girl. 3) what 15 year old boy turns down a make out session? 4) sounds like a soap opera. So then S and I went to see if we could find out anymore. I ran into party animal S who pulled me aside. She said "was that S you were talking to? Is she okay? Does she know? J and N have been talking alnight and apparantly J liked N in the first week. (J and S were dating). I then went up to S and asked quite subtly if all was ok. She said J had told her he wanted to spend the last night all with her, but he had been talking to N and they didn't seem to want company. So S and I went for a walk and she seemed somewhat upset, but mostly because people were talking about her. Then when we got back, A(independant one) was sitting with some people, so C said something like "we don't believe T" to her. She responded with "oh I had a few schnops with so and so earlier". In other words she was claiming to have been drunk. She admitted it and looked perfectly sober to me. I was quite astounded. We were then forced to return to our own floors for attendance, and on the we met Counsellor S who was on the prowl for guys in the girls building, as one guy had done 3 girls in the past without getting caught. He even gave us his number in case we heard anything. Hahaa eww. We then wanted to go back to see the guys and tried to determine how to get back accross. V found a way but in the end we were too lazy to take it. So sat in Mand I's room. V brought us a tampon to disect hahaha.
 I put it in my nose (She's the man). Anyways, M called S and he was with T and they were pranking Hindu S. They apparantly put toothpaste on his door and Ironing boards in front of it. And I don't know what. They were all hanging around eating hotdogs and actually putting them in their pants. Oh dear. Um, after this I called T because I had really wanted to for some reason to see if I could get anymore out of him about him and A. I also apologised for not believing him. Then V,V,M and I played cards and relayed all the drama to M. Who then said to me, you know T would have been perfect for you, you don't like the idea of kissing at this age and neither does he. He would have mad a good summer fling and he liked you. She remained convinced. -sigh-. We stayed up very late, doing not really anything, however V and some other kids stayed up all night and watched the sunrise in front of the Med Building. AWW. I was somewhat upset to have missed that.
Saturday morning there was a frenzy to get packed and checked out from the room. I met A in the bathroom and asked if she was alright. She brushed it off, telling me something about getting her mother a present. M lectured T about having been so mean to Hindu S and pranking him, so T went up to the guy and asked if they were still friends. S looked puzzled and said of course dude. Guys are really odd. Then a tonne of people left and some had left before I'd even woken up. it was really sad. Me , M, S, C and V hung about taking pictures. M's cousin came for her and we both broke down in tears. -sigh-. Then the rest of us bought noodles from the convenience store and snuck into a common room to make them. We ate them and then V and C had to leave. Me and S went downstairs there were only a couple of people there waiting with us to go to the airport. It was dismal. I talked with this girl until it was time to leave. The spanish people who were staying an extra day had gone to Eaton Center, however cutie A returned and said by to me with some tears. It was really sad. On the way to the airport I talked to counsellor L and she said how she had moved around a lot, and was sort of unsure of her origin when people ask "where are you from?". I empathised with this and we discussed some countries etc. When we got to the airport there was a problem with the other girl with us's ticket. So another counsellor came and took over. When it was my turn to check in and we got to the counter they told me I was on Standby and I started to cry slightly. L argued with them and called up the coordinator. I also discovered my baggage was overweight due to the tonne of books M had given me to take for her, so I was forced to move these. L gave me some numbers and sent me to the gate, where I was to wait until they called my name telling me if I was on the flight or not. They said there was a very good chance I would be. However when L left me I burst into tears crying for ages. I tried to call my parents however I found that both my Saudi chip and my Canadian one were out of money. This increased the crying. I couldn't even text. I then tried to use the pay phone but they needed $11 in change and I did not have this. I tried to get it changed but it still did not work. I called co-ordinator T and asked him to email my parents. He said not to worry and I should make it. My crying died down and they called my name and I was indeed on the flight :) I boarded the plain, and there were 2 women sitting next to me. One of them wore hijab, and I could here her on her mobile speaing in Bangla. So when sh was done on the phone I asked her if it was possible for me to text from her phone and she was 7amdillah really sweet and she let me :) I then asked her if she was Bangladeshi. She was surprised and pleased I knew and we began talking, she as very nice and as it turned out was also going on to Jeddah and then on to Tabuk. We talked for the fliht, but I also watched 17again and I think most of another movie, I've now forgotten what. When we got off the plane in London, she hung around with me and was very kind. I went to get my other boarding pass, and they asked me if I would switch to a later flight through Amman with some vouchers as ompensation. I declined. R, the woman had gone to the bathroom. Meanwhile there was very little time for me to look around the shops and try on perfume as I had desired. We boarded the next flight home and she let me text my mom again. There was a cute guy who must have been younger than me and his family with 2 really adorable babies on the flight. As it turned out the sat beside me. R was seated in the back as well, however I was sitting by a man and couldn't see her from there. The fellow next to me slept most of the flight and got off in Riyadh, at which point I was alone. I slept a fair bit too and listened to my ipod. It had been 8 hours from Toronto to London, a 2 hour stop in Heathrow, another 7 hours to Riyadh, a 1 hour stop there and a 1.5 hour flight to Jeddah. I was pooped. I got off the plane, and when I got to the immigration I saw my dad from across the glass. i started to tear. He saw me and started waving ballistically and mouthing BANANA at me. As it turned out he was telling me to turn around because my Mama was there. When I saw her she started crying and I teared too, but I was too exhausted to let out the full waterworks I had expected to. She cut the line in an uncharacteristically Arab manner, and got us out. I saw R from a distance. I texted her to thank and ask her if she needed somewhere to stay. I also texted counsellor L to say I was alive and okay. It was all good in the end. When I reached home, Ser, Ali and Mamujaan were there. We had dinner and I gave them their presents. I was quite ill though with fever and sore throat, but in the end all was good :D.
Wo00t our team’s presentation ^^
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