Sin Duda Nada: DJ Tiesto

YSP- Week 4 :’(

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.

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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.

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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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YSP- Week 3

Monday, July 27, 2009 Posted In Canada , crush , CSI , DJ Tiesto , friends , Medicine , music , sandals , shopping , TV , UofT , violin Edit This

Lundi, Monday, was a tiring day. I woke up quite tired, and did not make it in time for breakfast. Bought choco milk from Timmy Ho (hahaa local slangg), which was somehow more expensive than capppucinos. We met counselor S's lil bro, P. They look almost identical. Also something that amuses me is that their names are those of a father and son in sleeping beauty. Anyways he sat with me and C and L at lunch as well. He already has a mass of groupies. This week is CSI week. (Molecular Biology etc.) So we had a reasonably interesting lecture from an originally Desi woman about molecular biology. This covered the basics that I'd never learned and helped ,me understand some of the other experiments.

After lunch we examined a staged crime scene (the blood smelled of chili sauce) collecting evidence and bagging it and what not, just like CSI. Then we had a lecture from a man who spoke in a voice that made everyone quite sleepy. In fact a vast number of people put their heads on their arms on the table and napped. I was scared to do such a thing as S was sitting next to me and had previously mocked me because of my drowsiness in a lecture. However funnily enough, HE WAS DROPPING OFF. I could see him struggling to stay awake and his head bobbing up and down so I gave him a look. The only point at which I felt extremely drowsy was when we went to the UV lab, here the lights were switched off, and we looked at a variety of substances using a blacklight. My hair dye is supposed to flouresce in UV light and Blacklight, so I wanted to see, however, sadly I could not find the pink strand. After this was dinner, when I really could not resist and ate Chili Fries with un-Halal beef. Meh. The evening activity was in 2 parts. Part one was that we had to build an aircraft that would carry an egg to the ground safely. If the egg survived the fall, we were allowed to crack it over one of the counselors heads. Ours survived very well, however when cracking it over the counselors head it splattered all over my clothing. Eww.

The other thing was to buld a boat which could carry as many Pop cans as possible. Ours took 48, however some had the capacity to take more, so one of the lighter councelors was made to sit on these boats. Amidst all this I became extremely dirty. So I decided to do my washing today. I'm currently waiting to move my clothes from the washer to the dryer so I can collect dry ones in the morning. It was all very tiring, and I had to ask poor sweet V for her key and favours several times to accomplish this task. I have also broken my flipflops, which I require for walking place, and had to borrow tape from V as a temporary solution. We ended up talking (I felt it was rude to leave and that I was taking advantage of her), however this delayed my timing. -sigh-. I shall be exhausted tomorrow. We're playing a game throughout the entire group called Assasin. Basically each person has a hit list, they must kill these poeople before they themselves are killed. Killing may only be done in complete privacy.

Tuesday. Hmm. Let's see, day begin rather boringly.We had a lecture in the morning. I bought Starbucks before it, but as I was running late, did not add sugar and vanilla giving a rather bitter taste. Ick. The lecture was interesting and seemed to explain some of what had been spoken about but what I had not understood last week. :) In the Lab we tested inks, DNA and samples from the crime scene, FUN. There were a number of incubation periods during which I drew Mehndi/Henna patterns on the gloves of New Yorker M. Teaching Assistant, A explained to us a number of things we hadn't fully understood, and she told us not to worry if some of the information we were receiving was well over our heads as she learnt much of it in her second year. Lunch was really good but dinner sucked. Meh. Sports was cancelled on account of rain and mudding, so me, M, S, V, L & C hung out in the common rooming talking, eating cherries and learning Chinese etc. Afterwards, V and I went to the convenience store I bought Soda Tonic and Club Soda, Canada Dry, as I felt if their ginger ale was good this would be too. On the ways their and back V tagh me to say "Where are the bathrooms" in Chinese. Now I can say it in several languages. 1) Where are the toilets? 2) Ou sont les toilettes? 3) Ghussalkhana kahan peh heh? 4) Fein al hammam? 5) Donde esta el bano? 6) Woe sind die toiletten? 7) Tse Sho Tien Zai Na Li ?. When we got back I called C to say this to him.V gave me the extensions 3210 for him, so I called and straight out said this. The voice on the other end responded in Chinese, and I said "what's does that mean?". The voice then said "it mean's where are the toilets?. It struck me all of a sudden that this was not at all the voice of C so I hung up, shocked. Then I went to V's, she said it had been a mistake and C's extension was in face 3201. -_-. So we then called him, and I asked for the toilets. He was amused. I told him what had happened. He asked if the voice had been soft. I said I supposed. He said it could have been that of P, brother of S. This worried me. Then V called 3210 and asked for C. When the voice responded that this was not C's room, v asked who it was. As it turned out it was R in our class who is extremely quiet. When I got home I tasted the 2 drinks I'd purchased. The Soda Tonic was positively disgusting, and the Club Soda tated like perrier which I dont really like. Then M and I added orange juice to a glass of both to see if the taste improved. Soda Tonic was still AWFUL.

We then added lens solution, perfume, lotion, and Pink hair dye to it. We then put mousse on top making foam, and I sprinkled some of the dots from my irons pills over it. It was beautifully pink and appetizing.

Also we made a second drink using toothpaste, shampoo, body cream and hair mousse. It was very multicoloured. We crushed a yellow strepsil in tonic and added it. We then placed the 2 cups by a bathtub in hopes no one would see. PRETTY :)

Wednesdayy... we solved the crime. It was really quite straightforward and we pieced together the crime scene. The guy who lectured us was over enthusiastic and sweated profusely. Ew. Umm, on the way back to the residence from the Med.Building T and I had an argument about Chromosomes. It wasn't really an argument, in the sense that I only wanted him to explain, but he felt I was contesting him and decided to prove it to me using iPhone internet which cost a fair bit. Hmm that evening the activity was Eaton Center again. I did not feel a need to go, however M would not pass up the opportunity and went dragging S along with her. Me, L, V and J hung out in my room. We sang Mulan song "I'll make a man out of you" especially, and discussed good-looking guys. It was really fun. I think tensions had been mounting between M and I, and even when the both of us were in the room, we would often not speak at all or acknowledge each other's presence. I guess that happens when you see too much of someone. Ah well. Anyways much later on that night, she told me that T, who had been dragged along to Eaton Center by the Spanish Girls, had complained about me. Or not complained exactly but mentioned our earlier tiff. He had then picked a flower and asked S to deliver it to me. Idk exactly what followed.

Thursday we played around with some bacteria and their genes, and in the evening there was a dance party. As I did not think this would be like a home one I did not go. Instead I worked on our interesting Karytoyping Presentation with S. M was in T's group (apparantly he hand picked the smartest kids. I found her group in our room working. My underwear drawer must have been opened as T asked if it was comfortable to wear a bra. -_-. I'm writing this some days later and don't really remember more of that day.

Friday... there were presentations. Haha. We did not win in our team, F and the Spanish guys won with their House presentation. It was well deserved. T's team won over all. For dinner we made Japanese Chicken curry, this time a spicier version. There were more of us as well, counsellor S ate, and we sent some food to co-ordinator T. It was good :D After that, we were all forced to go to Eaton Center. Me, L and V looked around, had Starbucks, went into shoe-shops etc. On the way back home I was walking with T for a bit. He asked "do you like anyone here". I said "like... um like in what way?". He said "I think you know...". Then I said "there's no one I have a crush on... ". Then he said "not even me?" So I said "Oh of course, I LOVE you". After we got back, J slept over and we watched Harper's Island.

Saturday. I woke up early to say bye to J and L. It was quite saddening as I had grown rather attached to them. The option was to go to Nascar or Vaughan Mills Shopping Center. I chose Nascar, as the majority of my friends had done so. V who has narcolepsy was falling asleep and her head was lolling rather a lot. I ended up sat next to T, who informed me that oe of the Spanish girls had very hairy arms. He then asked if I liked Muse, and said I looked like a Muse person. How he knew this i don't know but it was strange. We got there and discovered it was a kids arcade. -scowl-. So me and EM wandered around the shops and I bought a pair of gladiator sandals which I find very sexy :)

Hmm, on the way back I nodded off for a bit. One of the Spanish girls asked T if she could have a drink from his water bottle. He replied flat out no, and I think she was quite shocked. He then went on to explain he did not wish to share bacteria, proceeded to chug down some more water and gave her the remainder, telling her not to return the bottle. Someone asked him what he would to when he had to kiss a girl. He said he would use cellophane or in vent a tongue condom. Idiot. After we got back we hung about for a bit, and then I went to the music room with T and F. They discussed girls and T commented on the arm and upper lip hair of a few. F somehow managed to make comments that meant nothing. They discussed the difference between physical attraction and emotional attachment. T said there was this one girl. I quote. He asked about my crushes again but I said I'd only been here for 3 weeks. I asked F how vibrato was done, and he told me it was like masturbation. Then both T and he gave me very vivid descriptions which I do not care to think of ever again. C and V joined us later, they play piano fantastically. I wish I had focus or determination to excel in any field. Ah well.

Sunday we were supposed to go to the zoo. This was an epic fail due to downpours of smelly rain. Yuck. They then proposed mini-glow-in-the-dark-golf, which I passed on. We spent most of the day in the 3rd for boys common room watching TV etc. T managed to cathc glimpse of my yellow bra through my black top (aah mistakeee) and commented on it. We had instant noodles for lunch. Met some new kids. T has already started working on his next week's presentation. G A Y . I think the entire purple team should collaborate for a win :) Um went to the convenience store... M got back and went out for Sushi with S. Counselor W gave us cake. She is very sweet, and is more friendly once she gets to know you :). Nothing much else this week.

YSP- Week 2

Sunday, July 19, 2009 Posted In Canada , DJ Tiesto , food , Harry Potter , Medicine , pharmacology , piano , Sevenoaks , shopping , summer , Truth or Dare , UofT , violin Edit This

Same table, as I can’t be bothered to make a new one, and haven’t felt THAT musical as of late.

Soo, the start of Week 2. This is Pharmacology week so we get to do drugs! :D . Not in the exciting way though :/ Monday was pretty cool. First of all there were some new people, one of whom was a Saudi girl living in Vancouver. Her brother is also part of the program, however he goes to JP at home. It was nice meeting some other Muslim kids :) and it was cool that they were Arab as well. Unfortunately we lost D, as she was only around for a week. Aww. We did gain L who is in Med rather than Law this week :) We also gained an annoying Cow. She's Canadian and a haughty know it all. She asked a bazillion questions in the lecture, causing instant dislike. She was then on the purple team with me. Our team is lively, some at times it takes the instructors time to settle us down. She told us all to shut up. She's a racist to some extent, since as we went around the team saying our names and where we came from, 2 girls (of oriental and desi decent) said they were Canadian. When we got to her turn she stated she was the only Canadian. She is rather UGH. Nobody liked her immediately. She asked me how we heard about the program all the way in Saudi, when she hadn't heard about it right here in Canada. She said it in a stuck up way. Then she asked me what my parents did for a living. AJEEEB (odd). L thinks she has the mannerisms of a brutal reporter, and I can see why she would say so. She looks like someone mother as well as she's constantly frowning. Boy does she have a cork up her ass. Anyway we had an ongoing experiment throughout the day. A bunch (a rather large one) of kids were given 2 caffiene pills. Causing a select few to behave rather strangely, this included T (American guy nerd, who LOVES asking me questions related to religion as "he's never had a muslim friend before". M teases me incessently about him, however there is no substance behind her accusations. I have had enough of games. He's just a nice guy.) who began playing Indian music at lunch o_O. Later on each of the drugged up people was made to pee, and their pee samples were tested, to determine whether they had fast or slow metabolisms. It was rather ridiculous. I worked with A (a Colombian). She was rather bossy but extremely efficient, so I let her do the work her way as I am more laid back. The Spanish boys had their pee in cups and it looked rather like beer as it was foamy, probably since they peed from farther away. They then attempted to clank pee cups and say "cheers" but it got them told off. hahaha. The experiment was really rather interesting. After dinner the evening activity was called the Amazing Race, like the TV show. We had to find clues to go places. We were having fun, and I had a lot of nice people in my group, including L, K, V, the 2 Spanish E's with the same name and a NICE new girl. We had originally had the mean one but we held a mutiny.JK, she got PMS :) i shouldn't smile :P. Unfortunately when we got to the 3rd clue the envelope for that one was empty, someone had scattered about the clues in foulplay, so we gave up and retreated. :( SHAME. One of the counsellors performed a dance to Like A Virgin -Madona, as desired by last week's Scavenger Hunt's winning group.M went to the convenience store and bought credit and cleaning supplies. We also stayed up very late doing laundry for the first time in our lives. You'd think the machines would feel sympathy, but NO one of them ate my dollar. -__-

Tuesday, we had lectures ALL morning until LUNCH. I was becoming intensely sleepy. The topics of the lectures were rather complex, and though I took notes, I'm not sure I fully understood. We had a lecture about Stem Cells which was interesting though. We then did a practical to do with Nat2 enzymes using material from a mouse's liver. I put ice on S's head :P. This week our presentation is about the drug Ketamine. That evening at dinner there was nice food. They made a nice seafood fajita with a fair bit of spice. um a nice change from pizza and oher strange tasting meals. The desert chocolate cake was delicious too :). Leter on me, T, C, M and some others were messing around. We went into a classroom and T pretended to be a teacher. He got chalk all over his back side and made handprint on his chest. He then told everyone it had been me who had been grabbing him. Haha. The evening activity was a choice of either capture the flag or watching a talent show or working. Since I was wearing an awesome outfit including fabulous purple tights, and a top R gave me on my birthday I didn't want to change into something more suited for capture the flag. The rest of my presentation group did not want to work so I went to the talent show. There was an Indian dance by V and another girl. There was also a Jazz dance by J. Some of the other performances mostly by English Program kids were interesting, ranging in fact from horrific to HILARIOUS. There were some people who did some odd thing where the used the same toothpaste and drank eachothers toothpaste water (ajeeb) as well as a group of counsellors who set up a table so one of them was hidden with a box over his head. They set up other boxes along the table. They picked volunteers to lift each box and name the item in English as fast as they could. When each volunteer reached the box with the head under it, they had a terrible fright. It was very entertaining.

On Wednesday we had a lecture about Top selling drugs, it was not extremely fun and then there was a lecture on addiction, which was more nice i suppose, and then after lunch, we had a practical in which we continued working with Nat2, however we were genotyping SNP's. We prepared with mine, however sadly I won't get to see those results and only next years kids will know if i'm wild type or mutant. This is rather upsetting. After this came dinner, in which some of the kids who I suppose would be conisdered more popular if we were in school showed up the mean New Girl D. Apparantly she was removed from our group as she insulted one of the supervisers of the purple team.She's now in M & T's group. Apparantly they were talking about marks and T stated his was a 97% average in a modern manner but she was rather demeening, called him names and said her's was 99%. This upset him. We then went shopping as an evening activity. We went to Urban Planet. There was a Sale, and there were some hoodies that were on a "if you but 2 or more you get them for $10" offer. (In actuality the sign said $10 on them, and in smaller print "if you but 2 or more" and in even smaller print "on select items". So me L and V bought onee each together for the discount. I really like mine.We were discussing chinese names all the walk there and C, V & L all told me theres (with some reluctance) but I can't really say them. We then tried to pry counsellor S's name out of him, but failed :( A guy from Kuwait, S was with all of us (the ones mentioned before and T and Saudi guy S) and accidentally broke the hand off the manikin accidentally. He was pretty much thrown out of Urban Planet.

Thursay... L gave me money, she gave me $10, as opposed to whatever $11+ she owed, but i'm not kanjoous so whatever. Lets see, this morning, NO CAFFEINE. :O We were partaking in an experiment and weren't allowed to have any. I also missed breakfast as I was late. The first lecture was by an Egyptian guy and it was INTERESTING, it was about Genetic Variation and response to Caffeine. It was SO hard to concentrate though and I was tired and grouchy and I don't think I benefitted from it fully unfortunately. I did take notes, but I'm now having a hard time remembering all that occured, (other than he had an image of an energy drink called "cocaine- the legal kind" which was a caffeine containing energy drink.)Anyway, this upsets me as I feel like I haven't made the most of my time here. For 2 main reasons. Firstly I'm extremely sleepy in the mornings and don't always manage to focus, this is a shame since it's not like in school where you can learn all you need before the text from a textbook. Also some of the stuff we're learning is WAY over my head. I can't fully understand some of the concepts behind the practicals. It's a lot more complex than IGCSE stuff, and possibly even IB stuff. It's a huge jump. When I get home I shall recap all my info.The second lecture was Dr.Grant AGAIN. And it was as usual extremely complex and I just couldn't help myself I fell asleep. :( Councellor S saw me, and had Mehvie poke me to wake me up. I then took some of her strong breath mints to make me even more alert. It didn't work very well. In the first part of the Lab, we all took alertness pills. Then we'd take a placebo pill or a cafeine pill, however we did not know which. Then we'd take the alertness test again. I got the caffeine, however it didn't kick in until much later, and class was almost done. It was so upsetting as well since my score decreased rather than increased even with the caffeine! :( We then loitered around and tried to get S to tell us his Chinese name again, just before lunch. HE WOULDN'T. T.A. A knew it but had forgotten :( After Lunch there was another practical. It was quite complex, and I wasn't very focused on it as I worked on our presentation (Ketamine this week) instead. Later I went for dinner and councellor S was there, and he starts off "so i looked up and saw you" (and then was interrupted). I got all freaked out cause earlier I'd been shouting people's names from my high up window so they'd turn around look blindly for the person calling them. Then he continued and said "and saw you sleeping... I was so dissapointed". He was just kidding around, but he said it infront of the co-ordinator T, so I said it was a 1-time thing, and I did try really hard to focus and take notes etc. :) It was all amusing. Later I saw one of the girls trying to tickle and squish S's cheeks. Poor fellow. She was larger than him. I sat with the Spanish boys at dinner. It was fun. I like them. After dinner, me L, M and S hung around. We went to our room. I bought chips from the vending machine! Then we found counselor W, and began talking. She is very very reserved and speaks really softly and is rather nerdy. After this we found F. He is uber cool. He is cuban living in Canada who lived in South Africa and has Chinese Ancestry. He's rather good looking, but that's not why he is cool. He speaks four or five languages and really loves playing piano and violin. -sigh-
Me, F, L and W went to a music room and played on the piano. They're so awesome. It made me think of the many many things to do in life, and made me want to be Chinese :P or to be F. After this I hung out with Saudi girl J, and we had a really deep conversationn.It was a nice day.

Friday, presentation day as usual. The teams in the finals were one with a really cool "who wants to be a millionaire" presentation, a couple more skits, and V & C's presentation which included a video of one of their group members acting as if he had ADHD. It was all amusing. The millionaire one won. I was also taken aside for an interview about the program. I think it might go on the internet. That evening we went to a baseball game. It was Blue Jays against Red Socks.

I was originally very unenthusiastic about this prospect, but it was mandatory, and when we went I thought it was fun in the end. L sat next to me and explained the game. I really enjoyed the cheering and the atmosphere. M missed this as she had left for her aunt's before.

Next day, Saturday, we went to Square One. We watched Harry Potter 6 (which I didn't find so horrible, but T was adament it was awful. I couldn't remember the book at all and didn't read the seventh book either, so I guess I'm not the best critic.) It was really fun, I was with J, L, V and S. Funfun. S made lots of perverse jokes. When we got back there was a barbeque. S and I didn't think we'd be able to eat, but in the end we found Veggie burgers. While waiting in line (as they take awfully long to cook) we met S(she). As it turned out she was jewish. This lead to a discussion about Halal and Koshur and the difference. Apparantly they can't eat Halal but we can eat Koshur. She was very nice. It then started to rain and we all went inside. So we went to S(He)'s room and hung around, and played Truth or Dare. I was dared to tie a carpet round my neck and pretend to be superman. V vidoed it. It was all rather fun. Later on C was online and introduced me to he and V's friend at 7oaks. It was a nice day indeed.

Sunday was a nicer day still. In the morning, we hung around, while everyone else was at the beach. One of yesterday's dares had been to make V wear a dress (she is a total and complete tomboy and this was apalling to her, she kept banging her head on the walls :P) Anyway she wore this dress (for about 5 minutes). She looked cute. Then C and her left with her parents for lunch in Chinatown. J and I went for a walk around and then Mamu & Y came and picked me up. We drove to Missisagua and ate lunch at a Lebanese restaurant.

It was nice food, except I got shat on by a bird. -SIGH- We then drove around downtown. When I was dropped back, C, V & L had been to the supermarket and bought supplies to make Curry. We then did this. It was Japanese curry. We then cooked it, unfortunately the meat was not Halal. It was DELICIOUS though. I cut my finger peeling a potato. No severe damage done.

I felt quite hostile to T because he really reminded me of N and I was feeling quite URGH. We played Truth or Dare again, and L was dared to kiss a guy. She went towards S (who had in fact been the darer) but he freaked out because of M. I feel he shouldn't have dared such a thing in the first place. In the end she kissed C (with tissue paper between them) Then a bunch of us started watching a movie. It was fun, but we had to leave half way through for attendance. It was a shame. We went back after, however everyone was gathered around councellor S, talking.It was fun, and there were lots of perverse jokes made :P. Apparantly he has a brother who looks just like him. Everytime I asked his name S would say Ping Pong. I hope to see him soon. Also one of the other councellors turned out to be councellor W's brother. This was quite shocking. I am now back in my room after all this, M is back. This weekend was fun however and I would have to say I liked being alone :P Ah well.

YSP- Week 1

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 Posted In Canada , Desi , DJ Tiesto , food , friends , hair , hair dye , Medicine , parents , physiology , shopping , sisters , summer , travelling , UofT Edit This

Let me back up for a bit, and describe the past week or so. Soo, last Saturday I got to Toronto. The entire journey was RIDICULOUSLY long. I had to hold pee sooo many times for fear of using the public toilets. First we went to Riyadh on a BMI flight, it was slightly delayed. And we started off at 1am. Following this we waited in Riyadh about an hour or so. Then we flew to London, which took 6 hours +. There was a 4 hour transit at Heathrow, where I watched the French film, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain ("The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain"). It was a nice movie, although there were several explicit scenes. In the entiiiire journey, I watched He’s Not That Into You, Dog Hotel and some 30 Rock episodes. Nothing fantastic.

Then there was an 8 hour + journey to Toronto. So by the time me and Bob reached the hotel 24hours had passed. We walked around a fair bit the first day, we went to this festival at the harbour, which we looked around for a very short while. There was some picturesque scenery, and basically we just walked and walked. Which resulted in my baby toenail jamming itself in to the toe next to it and causing it to bleed. Yay >_< . Since I didn’t make a great deal of fuss, Bob didn’t really pay attention and I was in immense pain by the time we returned. The reason Bob came with me to Toronto was to make sure I got there in one piece. I feel this is an illegitimate reason. Firstly because he indirectly caused my toes to be injured, and secondly because Bob likes to walk fast. I do not. This means I tend to get left behind. Bob walks at a brisk pace and generally has a hurried air and therefore does not look back to see if I am still there and have not been abducted by some serial killer driving an ice-cream van. Also, it’s not like I’m physically or mentally handicapped, I can read the signs in an airport perfectly well. That night Bob took my to the CN tower, we had a look through the glass floor and ate dinner at the CN 360, which was incredibly posh and expensive (i felt guilty after). I was nowhere near suitably dressed. I’d fallen asleep when we came back from our walk, and woke up right before we were supposed to leave. I hadn’t had a shower, and didn’t want to waste clean clothes on my dirty aeroplane self so I simply wore black really baggy trousers, a t-shirt and hoodie. It looked like pyjamas. As it was a Saturday night most of the people there were couples all very formally dressed. It was cold and I stole Bob’s blazer from him. I was pleased as this kept me warm and was fashionable-ish and made my outfit more formal. However I was horrified when the waiter referred to me as “young man”. I’m hoping he meant to say “young ma’am” or suffered severely from dementia. Anyways it was nice and there were fireworks. Second day there with bob we had the morning together, during which we went and had a look at Eaton Centre. I bought Manic Panic Hot Hot Pink UV radiant hair dye. I probably never got a chance to mention but before I left I had bleached coontails into my hair. I didn’t use hair beach so they only went to an orangey-brown even after several hours. They looked like tiger stripes. Anyways I messily died these pink in the hotel bathroom. They don’t look pink, they look more purpley-red

but they were meant to be pink and it doesn’t show so well in pictures. Then I had to go to the residence and get checked in. As it turned out I was indeed sharing with M :) . So, on that first Sunday basically we just wandered around the place meeting people an what not. As we wandered around I noticed S so I said to M, “how long do you think it will be until he comes after us?” and literally as SOON as I said this he popped up behind us. This caused me to laugh excessively. So then this stupid chick who was standing with us asked me “do you like your friend? because you keep laughing at his jokes.” 1) WHAT JOKE? 2)what a stupid conclusion to jump to. >_< . At lunch I made 2 friends, D and A. (An American Mexican and a Chinese-Canadian). They were nice, and we explored the basement together. We got really rather lost, and scared the life out of ourselves because we decided to turn around and leave the way we came when we realised we had no clue where we were going, so we tried this pink door we THOUGHT we had entered from. It was LOCKED. We had a little panic. :P But managed to get out of there alive. Later they split us into groups with counsellors. My counsellor was very amusing, and told us he had once tried to escape from the YSP to Chinatown :P I made another friend, V (Canadian Indian). Some other girls from her school had come as well. S is extremely popular here, even on the first day. It makes no sense to me. It’s very unlike school. When I said I was from Saudi, they were all like “OMG do you know S?!”. I found this so strange. He wasn’t even in the group and everyone was talking about him. Haha. M and I were a little weepy at night, missing home and it’s cleanliness and what not.

The next day was Monday, we were forced to awaken early at like 7am. Ew. We didn’t really eat breakfast and we ran to the meeting spot. From there they walked us to the university where we had a lecture at 9am. I can’t really recall what it was about I was too sleepy, but something to do with Physiology (it’s Physiology week) and more specifically lab safety and homeostasis.We were then split into teams, I got Purple with S (One of the team leaders reminds me of Drew Barrymore). Then we had a practical in which we took blood pressure in different situations. Several times, me and S found that we had no pulse and were dead. –sigh-. After this we had another lecture. The speaker was a German professor, who spoke about the circulatory system and other transport systems. He was interesting. I liked his speaking style. Unfortunately I was too tired to fully appreciate the lecture. He spoke of the Oktoberfest which I found amusing, and his presentation was nice. After this we had a practical where we did blood-typing. This was immense fun, even though it involved pricking oneself and I’m a wimp. I’m an O+ which is the Universal Donor :) unfortunately I’m not a Universal Receptor :( . We also looked at the circulation in a anaesthetised frog. I was quite scared it would wake up and jump at me, but it was cool as you could clearly see it’s blood flowing. That evening we went into our counsellor groups and there was a scavenger hunt. It was fun. I made a few more friends K, L and a couple more. It was rather fun. We had to take pictures of us jumping in front of a coffee stand, playing leapfrog across a street and I climbed into a fountain. It was rather fun, even though my feet killed after. (Loads of walking. We had to follow a man with a dog and take a picture of it. Ew.) Our group did not win unfortunately :( . Me and L walked to the nearby convenience store that evening. (Taiwanese Canadian doing Law). We were so exhausted when returned to our room that M and I did not feel like getting up to brush our teeth, so we formulated our plan. We used my mouthwash to clean our mouths and spat the remainders in her empty milk bottle. We then STRONGLY considered disposing of it via the window, however M felt this would be illegal. I got up again later and peed and brushed my teeth though.

Tuesday we discovered coffee. More specifically Tim Horton’s. (a Canadian brand I’ve never heard of who sell a good French Vanilla for a cheaper price than Starbucks and have a stall in the Medicine building :) .) We had a lecture in the morning by a professor who really reminded me of good old Mr.Burnley of Conti, speaking in the same monotone voice with a similar British accent. His lecture was on blue babies. It was reasonably interesting. Then our practical was to do with Ventilation rates and Lung volumes. It was alright. After Lunch our lecture was on a more boring topic, however I was far more alert and took notes. It was about diabetes. We then did a practical about Weight, by filling in information about our daily eating habits and energy using activities as well as our age and sex etc. A computer program factored this in and told us how much we ought to consume to maintain our wait. It told me to eat more, so I’m sure it’s inaccurate. If I was a guy, I would be less fat. –scowl- . After class the evening activity was the CN tower (which I’d been to with Bobbo) but we took more pictures and had a better look around. I even ventured onto the glass floor, refusing to look down however.

On Wednesday our first lecture was AWESOME. It was about the Brain and memory, by an Oriental doctor who had graduated from U of T himself. His presentation was really amusing, (it showed his experiments with mice, and him playing confusing tricks on them – no worries animal activists, no harm done). His speaking style was very nice as well, and his jokes were actually funny. Three things that help with learning and memory- 1) Actually learning, 2) Running and 3) an enriched environment. There are no drugs yet :( . The practicals after this were not so interesting. One was cool, because electricity was applied to a volunteer’s funnybone causing their hand to shake ridiculously hahaha. Another was amusing as it was to do with the balance, and it was done by this cute old guy, who told us some stories. I feel he should make friends with Nanaboo. He spun volunteers round in a chair,

and we watched their eyes flicker. There was a vision lab after this but there was not enough time to go through it all so I didn’t get to give myself an eye test. What a shame. There was also a lecture from an Asian guy who was hard to understand and frankly boring. I benefitted nothing from him. I’m not sure what he talked about, it was something like nerves and muscles and stimulation. There was then a lecture about Sports Medicine. I found this had a lot to do with physics and was sort of lame. I was bored with it, but took some notes :) . The evening activity was to go to Queen’s Street and Eaton Center (on their underground – or SUBWAY as they insist you say, the have the stations Kings, Queens and Dundas. Bob found this funny and thought it should be King Queen & Dumbass when he was here). Did a little shopping. I didn’t want to do too much as I have no need for summer clothes and stuff is expensive and can be found at home. However a bought my self a pair of green aviators and some black ones for Serene and some funky nailpolish for Aliya. I spent some time in the Center with L, I looked for a pair of gladiators. On the way back, I was a bit late to return, and these Asian girls discovered a lost me and we ran the whole way back. It gave me a stitch. M and I had discovered that since breakfast is 8ish, Lunch 12ish and Dinner 5ish we were hungry at our normal dinner time, around 10 and went to the convenience store to buy snack food. (e.g. POP TARTS which I've never had before though I have heard the name a lot).

This brings us to Thursday. We had a REALLY INTERESTING lecture from an Asian Emergency Doctor. It was fun! I was as if he was doctor House. He kept giving us case examples and we had to guess the problem. I loved it. He said he doesn’t have a very hectic shift and can pick and choose working only certain hours a week so he has time for his family. He said Doctors are not rich, and if we want loads of money and a extra lavish lifestyle, Medicine is probably not the right way to go. After this we had a practical on Physical fitness. My BMI shows I am one point overweight :( I’m quite strong and can jump an average amount. By this point I have made several more friends including S (a Taiwanese Canadian) and M (an American who I feel is dirty, although nice) in my team. Then we did some work on Presentations which we had to make for a competition on Friday, my group included S, S, M, this annoying girl S, who we’ve dubbed Jigglypuff and reminds me awfully of this annoying chick who used to be a good friend of mine, N, at home. Yeauch. Our topic is haemophilia (my idea). Then we had a brief lecture about Lie detecting, which was rather fun, and we did a practical on it. We were split into small groups and asked to chose a card from a bunch. We were then asked by other group members what our card was, and we were supposed to repeatedly deny the card they said was ours. My group did not manage to guess my card :) ! I’m a good liar! The evening activity was bowling which I skipped to do other stuff, like connect to the internet. This task was a pain in the ass. I paid $5 for an ethernet cable ( I MISS WIRELESS) and had to deactivate Bob’s Virus scans and install U of T’s choice, and run some scans on my laptop. This took far too long. I also took a niice LONG shower washing my hair (pink came out!) and everything in peace. I made our presentation pretty as well.

Friday we went in the morning. They had a totally worthless lecture about university in Canada. These people do not have a schooling system which makes sense. :( It was entirely useless. Then we had guest speakers of a Grad Student, a nurse and a paramedic, to show us what we might become if we flunked medicine, each of whom tried to persuade us their career choice was amazing. The nurse was an annoying Pilipino chick.The only speaker I enjoyed was the Grad student, since her researching sounded interesting. I like research. After Lunch (there was no Halal meat that meal :( and we ate Pizza, I’m so sick of it. I think I may have accidentally eaten a non-Halal beef burger one day. Bleh. The food is ALRIGHT though. But it’s the sammmmmeee always.) We presented presentations in front of our team and voted for the best one. By some fluke we WON. (this is odd since we made deals with people to not vote for us). We presented in front of the whole Med. Group after, and as the other groups had funny skits we improvised, and made one which involved me hitting S and him dying. It was ridiculous. Needless to say we didn’t win again. There was interesting presentation on for Porphyria, the Vampire disease :). They served refreshments after and some people’s parents came. After this, me, M, S, S and J went on an adventure, which should have resulted in us shopping, however it was a failure, and our escape failed and we returned home in time for dinner. We ate, and the evening activity was to go to a Harbourfront festival which I’d been to with Bob. We didn’t buy anything as we found it was largely Desi merchandise being sold at ridiculous prices to poor unsuspecting white people. I sat next to group member K in the bus rides. She sang, it was good singing, but rather annoying.

Let’s see… Saturday! Saturday was awesome. We went to Niagara City. I LOVED my outfit. :P It was rather green :) The bus journey was rather long, but when we got there OMG THE FALLS WERE COOL :) and I’m not the nature-appreciating sort. We took a boat ride known as Maid of the Mist, and got wet despite the blue bin bags we wore.

For lunch we went to HARD ROCK CAFE (me, M, S, V –who knows a guy at 7oaks. V & J-who may go to 7oaks or Eton like my cousin). It was really nice, however unfortunately the meat there was not Halal :/. The music and decor was awesome as per usual. After this we went souvenir shopping. I bought a crapping hippo key chain, one of those mini slideshowish camera’s (idk what they are actually called) a fridge magnet, a snow globe for Ser, a Canadian flag kite for Ali (as she keeps “flying” pieces of paper) and Maple Fudge for Bob :) . After this we took touristy pikturs and went to Hershey's for free samples as desert! IT WAS SO YUMMY. Very rich, but we sampled the mint chocolate chip fudge and the cookies and cream fudge, and it was MOUTHWATERING. YUM. V and I played with my iPod the way home. When we got back to our room M and I were extremely upset to find the floor had not been cleaned and the sheets had not been changed as had been promised. So we decided to take matters into our own hands, as we shed a lot, and our hair was on the ground, as well as a sticky mess I’d made with lens’s solution and hair mousse. I brought water in a cup from the bathroom and splashed it over the floor (causing me to slip and fall on my ass). As we had no tissues, we used a duvet that had fallen on the floor to sweep up the now gooey mess. It was EW. We then decided to shake the mess of the duvet in front of the door of our hated neighbours room. (she’s very haughty). Sadly the mess on the duvet would not remove itself from it. So we put it down. We then removed the mess from it using a spare pillowcase. The mess was stuck to this as well. So we hung it out the window in hope that the hairball we’d created would blow away. It did indeed. And every time M tells this story she claims the bald guy in the house next door was no longer bald the next morning :P

Sunday was also utterly fantabulous. We went to Canada’s Wonderland, a theme park. The entire time, me, M S and V stuck together. We rode NINE roller coasters in total, more than everyone else, although we missed some of the scariest rides, i.e. the bungee jumping and a ride called Behemoth which is the longest roller coaster in Canada if not the world. It doesn’t have any bars across one’s chest, merely one across one’s lower half, perhaps we were safer :P. We also didn’t go to the water park (OMG the number of times I was asked if I had brought my bikini… ) . We did however go on a roller coaster where you lie down, one with loops where your legs are hanging, several with sheer drops, one where you got soaking wet (it was very icky and i was forced to remove my shoes and walk barefoot for a bit. Ew) and one which swings back and forth and then turns the whole way round.

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I SCREAMED my lungs out. I’m surprised neither me or V lost our voices as she was screaming wildly in Cantonese hahaa. These were some of the wildest roller coasters I’ve ever been on and I closed my eyes and clung on for dear life for quite a few. It was IMMENSE fun though, and waiting in line was made easy by keeping nice company. We met a really good looking guy from the UofT English Program who was Ukrainian-Syrian and spoke Arabic in one of the lines. Very cool. It was an AMAZINGG day! Anyways, that was the end of week ONE :)