A Day of Random Adventures

So today held a few random adventures. Adventure number one was History this morning. Well ok, not really an adventure there but nonetheless. We had been discussing the Reformation and the aftermath (really interesting actually, too bad we're only given what I think is a brief overview, and yes I do know there's another class for that that the school offers...) so it led right into the Witch Hunts and coincidentally right into the first set of presentations. The one group failed to show up to class at all...not sure what all happened there...the next group had put a video on youtube except that while the video could be found and loaded, it didn't have sound...and there was no time to fix it as we were at the end of the class period. Yup.

Adventure number 2 today was trying to find people to go and rent skis to go cross country skiing this weekend. A friend and I wandered around the school for about half an hour trying to text or find people we knew who needed to go and rent skis. We ended up not finding either friends who we knew still needed to go somewhere. And so determined we weren't gonna go at all since we both needed to be back in time for a class. After said class I ended up going downtown with 2 other people who needed to rent skis. (This is getting a little confusing) And so we attempted to find MEC and were successful. However, upon arriving we learned that there was a possibility that the one guy would probably be the only one who could rent the full package of skis, poles, and boots. So me and my other friend (who still don't have gear) had to find another way to get equipment. We knew another girl was going out to U of C to rent her equipment and so we arranged that I could go with her after I ran another errand. So ya that was a good time. So we made it to U of C after taking what seemed to me to be a bit of a round about way of going there...though I loved the look of the houses in the neighborhood; they seemed to have more character than the ones by our school...anywho. So we finally got our skis and then I had to make it home somehow so I got to take the C train back into down town. Since I hadn't actually been that far out via C train so I was a little confused as to the different stops even though I was pretty sure I was headed back downtown. I like to be able to see where I'm going so I know when and where to get off. Ya fail there. With the chinook that's happening it melts the snow and makes things really dirty and so you can't really see out of the windows of bus or C train. I finally made it back into downtown and then got my bearings again to find the bus which I found ok. So I got on the bus and it starts heading out of downtown. Except traffic was moving sooooo slowly. I had to keep double checking where the heck we were since it moved at a snail's pace and couldn't really tell where we were since the bus windows were pretty much completely covered in dirt. It was a good time...It only took about an hour and a half to get across the city. Ugh. I am glad I don't have to do that everyday. And now I am home. There's something nice about saying that...

And yes in the end everybody got skis that needed them.

(And no this is not quite the full story but I thought I would spare the details of conversations with various people about information needed...)

alissa