Oh, Hello Hal!
First impressions;
- I love all the little old buildings, they're so cute!
- Halifax smells like pizza. Or so I thought. After I realized/was told that it's because we were out late, and all the pizza joints are open late (there are like, 50 different little ones, I swear!), and so the streets just end up smelling like tasty dough and tomato sauce.
- The people are good! When Brennen's neighbour came knocking on the door at 12pm yesterday afternoon to use his printer (he was out), her first concern was "Did I wake you up!?" and not "Who the eff are you?"
- The kids sure know how to party!
Uuuugh, so okay, it's 8.01am here now, I've been awake since around 6.30, just couldnt get back to sleep, even though I think we went to bed arouuunnnddd... uhmm... 2am? I think? I'm really not sure. Anyway, I'm still feeling a bit dizzy! Haha, and I'd reeeally like some water, but I don't want to have to open the fridge and wake Bren up. Because he only got, like, 4 hours of sleep last night, and I got around 12.
So Thursday I got up around 4.30am to leave the house and drive to Victoria at 5, to get to the airport at 7.30, to catch my plane at 9. Flew from Victoria to Calgary (the flight was delayed a bit and we got it pretty late, with MINUTES to spare before my connecting flight was supposed to leave), Calgary to Toronto (thank goodness this flight was delayed as well, or I would've had to skip a bathroom break and a chance to get food!) and Toronto to Halifax (again, delayed a little bit, but then got in early??? I dont know how that works). And I've truly decided that babies have no place on a plane. Terrible. This one screamed for 20 minutes during takeoff, and then for about an hour before we started to land and OH MY GOD you'd think it'd tire itself out but nooo ways. This one was in it for the long haul.
Anyway, that night I got in around 11.15pm, Bren came and met me when I got off the shuttle at about 11.45 and we walked back to his building. LOTS of people out, I was surprised. We just hung out in his room, caught up a bit, I met one of his friends, Connor, then he stayed up until about 4am finishing homework. Friday Bren got up eeearly to go to his classes and I slept. He came back at 11.30 so we could go for lunch, but I was still asleep by that point, so he didnt bother me. But I did get up for a bit, when his neighbour stopped by. THEN I WENT BACK TO SLEEP! How lovely that was. Sort of ridiculous that I have to come all the way to Halifax just to get a proper rest, I don't think that I've been able to have a good, guilt free sleep in for the last couple of months! So that was wonderful. Got up finally around 3.30 when Brennen was back from his classes, then bumbled about until we went for dinner in the cafeteria at 4.30 and met up with some of his friends, Justin and Dana, who are quite neat.
Then off to Walmart! Because I forgot a towel and hadn't showered yet and felt super grubby! Hahah, we took the bus and drove past Ho Ho's, some awesome looking Chinese food place, and I remembered that there was a place I wanted to go find that I saw on my drive in; Pete's Frootique. Zomg. So we defs stocked up on vitamins, water, vitamin water, hearbal teas, cough drops and cold medicine and I am sooo glad because I am actually starting to feel a tad sniffly, which sucks to the max. As soon as Bren is awake I'm making tea. Hmmm, starting to feel a bit sleepy now!
Soooo, AFTER Walmart I finally got my shower (oh my goodness! hahahahah, when we got back, we heard this extremelly loud, awesome techno music coming from somewhere, so we wandered around trying to find it, and it happened to be coming from Brennen's floor. So we turn the corner, and there's this girl totally grooving down the hall with a boombox and just a towel on, then she saw us and freaked out and shut off the music and we all burst out laughing, hahaha, and so her friends come out of their room and they're all in towels too, they were going to have a shower party, hahaha) then we went to Dana's room to get the partying started! And I will say now, that Dana is a terrrible influence! Hahaha *uuugh, I really need to stop moving around. I just got up to get some kleenex and am not feeling so hot right now, haha.*
*Ugh uugh uuuuugh! I just spent the last 15 minutes forcing down a peanut butter and honey sangwich in the hopes that it would make me feel better. This is crap. Hahaha, I was lying in bed earlier thinking of Pete's Frootique but now that's the last thing I want. I want a big greasy McDonalds breakfast or something. Uuuuurrrrghhhh...*
But yeah! So glad that I was with people that know their way around this place because I would've gotten sooo lost within the first five minutes even. Hah, met some cools people: Gladys, George and James, Graham, Banks and Alex. Everyone was so shocked that I came all the way here to visit, and some people started calling me 'West Coast', haha. And I think it was Graham who was surprised that I hadn't been to the ocean yet. I THINK. Otherwise it was something obscure like "Let's go ice skating!", but I'm pretty sure he said we should all go down to the ocean before I left. And Gladys wants to make jell-o shots. And I want to go to at LEAST two of the gajillion pizza places. One was called Kit Kat Pizza. Zawesome.
So yes! Today, the plan is to wander! Possibly get some pizza, go to the huge candy store, and I think the kids want to party again tonight but I'm not so sure I'll be down with that, haha.
Okees, I think I'm going to try and get back to sleep and hopefully I'll wake up feeling a tad better!
Music; None because of sleeping Brennens, but I will go ahead and saaayyy... Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Books; I've actually started reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut for English. :)
