September... Stuff?

So here I am. Sitting on Oceana's bed, thinking veeeeerrryy hard about doing schoolwork, but deciding that I feel like writing a blog instead. Allow me to list the thoughts on my mind at this moment:

- My nails are lookin' pretty dang nice right about now.
- I need to seriously improve my studying habits.
- I need to seriously improve my dietary habits.
- Oceana's math sounds dreadfully boring.
- I like eating goldfish crackers. They're the snack that smiles back, y'know.
- If my hair were six inches longer right meow, I'd be supah dupah stoked on life.
- I deleted a bunch of people off of facebook and it was SO LIBERATING! Muahahahaaaaa!

Nothing profound rolling around in my spacious cranium, as you can obviously see. So much has happened lately that I feel like... Nothing has. Right?! You know the feeling. But I CAN tell all y'all about my surfing adventure. Let's start from the start though, shall we?

It's a lovely sunshiney Saturday morning, in Nanaimo, BC. Wait, I lied. That was a terrible start to a story. It was actually raining, and dark, and like 6 in the morning. A crew of people from the UCM group (University Christian Ministries) is meeting in a parking lot, preparing to go surfing in Tofino. Soooooo we meet. And divide ourselves amongst the vehicles that are driving to Tofino! I end up in an exciting car with some pretty awesome people, and the three hour drive goes by... In three hours. Nothing new there. I was super stoked on the fact that one of the girls in our car lived in Tofino, and had extra wetsuits at her parents house for me and Rebecca to borrow! SCORE! Plus boogie boards.

Upon arrival at the beach... Rebecca and I went straight into the water with our boogie boards, and tried to 'catch some waves'. Unfortunately, neither of us actually knew how to.. Catch waves. So we just yelled around a bunch and got all wet, and went back to where our group was hanging out. A couple of guys that were with our group also happen to be pretty good surfers and teachers! Sooo they were all, "Wanna learn some stuff and go surfing?!" and I was all, "HECK YES!" and Rebecca was all, "I dunnoooo..." but then she got all, "Okay!" so we went surfing. I've been surfing once before, so I found that helped me a bit with my "Pop-ups" and.. Not falling off the board immediately after catching a wave. And when I say catching a wave, it involved Ian holding the board for me, allowing me to jump on, and pushing me when the wave came so I didn't have to paddle. Chyeah. Awesome right? I'm still sore though, but thaaaat's okaaayyy. Anyways, with Ian's help I caught about as many waves as I ever will, and had tons of fun doing so! Apparently the surf in Tofino was pretty 'messy' that day, it was like.. Relentless waves! Tiring stuff, yo. After surfing and hanging out and sitting around and talking a few of us decided to head back into the water. To frolic. Awwww YEYUH. So we frolicked and floated, and had a great time. Yeahhh lots of hanging out happened that day. After the whole beach thing, we had been invited to someone's home for a campfire and food! Which we appreciated! Basically it was a terrific day. Much fun was had.

I will definitely be taking every opportunity I can to go surfing in the future. Especially when I get back to good ol' Haida Gwaii. Add that to my list of things to get better at.. Dirtbiking is still at the top of that one, with snowboarding coming pretty close after. Mmmmm, dirtbiking. I miss it. Sighh..

I need to study. I'm a student now guys, and that means I'm all BIZNESSSS. As you can tell by the aforementioned surfing story. Hah. Have a gooder, people.

Schooley things and such

Lookeee at meeee!! Big university kiddo now. Well. Been to two classes. English, in which I shall learn quite a lot about.. Writing, I suppose? Whatever. That's gonna be the tough one. "Biology: Anatomy & Physiology for Health Professionals - Part I" was my second class. This was the big one, guys. If I didn't like this then my direction in life would be completely skewed. Needless to say, I was quite nervous about this class. BUT fortunately... I went and the introduction was made and now I'm ridiculously excited for this course, and feeling as though all the others will be dreadfully mundane in the face of all things fascinating and downright COOL that you learn in Biology. Maybe I'm a nerd. Such is life. I have two other courses today, Psychology and Accounting (Yes, random) aaaaaaand hopefully they will also reassure me that school just ain't so bad after all.