Week 2

Shall resort to weeks, saturday night is a relatively slow time so I shall shove blogging into this timeslot.

Sunday is the best day of the week. Two simple reasons, sleeping in and a sunday(sundae) bar at dinner! On nom nom. Only, but hugeee, drawback is deliverable for House Project. It's an absolute killer e_e

This week was the first week where we selected our afternoon, 3 hour long, seminars. I got bridge building (best design yuhh!), financial modelling (accounting), and math games (sooo fun. Remind me to teach you guys Nim).

Also had Project Pitches due, which is like a friendly rehearsal for our final presentation. Thought it would turn out disastrous, especially since our group members had a pretty big fight hours before it (which out a bit out of hand and the Program Assistants had to intervene). Turned out decently though :]

Weekend was a one night camping trip to Prince Edwards Island. Was reeeeally fun, and equally tiring. Falling asleep as I type as it's almost one e_e Photos are again on Facebook.

First day we took a Ferry to PEI and were let loose in downtown Charlottetown, in which the boundaries you can see standing in the middle of it @_@" Lunch was nice, but took up most of the time. A tour of the Province House followed.

Afterwards we headed to our camping ground. Few hours were dedicated to ShadCity, which is like building with minecraft sandblocks with SimCity level urban planning. Was so freakin cold e_e Dinner and tents soon followed. My tent mates said how we were <_<"

Second day we visited the home of Anne of Green Gables. Would've enjoyed that more if I actually read the book XD The site's beautiful though, so many pretty flowers. Then headed to a nearby beach for some relaxation and a kite flying challenge. Thankfully the weather was a lot better so I was able to step into the Atlantic ocean~

Lastly, and the highlight of this camping trip, is the LOBSTER DINNER!
Deliciouuus.

It was all-you-can-eat appetizers and desserts too, so I filled up perhaps a bit more than I should have. It's okay, sleeping past breakfast anyways tomorrow.

And speaking of sleep, that is what I shall do now.

Day 6 & 7

photos on fb

Day 6
Highlight was going to DOWNTOWN Halifax ;D There's a lot of artsy boutiques and pubs haha. Got almost all of my souvenir shopping done, with the exception of the most important one <_<" Shall devote some of my supposed shad creativity to this problem.

In the evening, we saw the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Festival, advertisements for that were all over the city! It was quite a spectacle, though you'd have to do with blurry photos xD

Day 7
HIKED FOR SIXTEEN KILOMETERS. STILL ALIVEEEE.
Rained.
Jeans soaked, white shoes brown. Cold as hell again e_e
But wasn't as tiring as I thought. If I can hike 16km, I can do other regularly timed exercises *u*

Day 5

Today's my blog day for the official shad valley blog, here's to a complete entry ;D

After a third change in lecture halls due to on-going construction, we buckled down for some early morning learning. The topics of the day were Engineering and Medical Device Development. Both were extremely interesting and helpful as this year's project theme is designing for disabled Canadian children. The involvement of the amazing Spiderman in demonstrating the concepts of engineering was, well, amazing.

Rec time consisted of an intense game of ultimate frisbee. All the Shads got deeply involved in the game instantly, bringing out their competitive spirits.

In afternoon seminar, we were introduced to the principles of project management. A challenge of planning and building a tower from various office supplies was assigned. After much confusion and frustration, my group finally triumphed(ish). Although I'm not sure how much of the principles I will remember, the activity definitely foreshadowed the challenges to come in our House projects.

Speaking of which, today I was particularly surprised at how productive House time was. My group had our fair share of frustrations during brainstorming sessions, but we managed to come up with several ideas to conduct further research on. It is going to be a tough month ahead, but I'm sure that it will be an experience that we will all remember.

Day 4 (and bits of 3)

Yeah...daily blogging isn't gonna work out. Spare time is gonna be either spent napping for working on House/Committee projects.

Back to hiatus~
(and yet again, I'll try to keep fb album up to date with a short description)

Day 2

Was gonna stuff a week worth of stuff into one post, but that gets a wee bit hard to organize and navigate. Plus I get to up post count XD

Second day was very eventful. Started the day off with a photo scavenger hunt, similar to the one in Pisa/Lucca during gritaly. Ran all around campus looking and posing around random stuff. It was really fun going into buildings, they're like a maaaaze.

Had the first seminar, pretty interesting. Got to take my new stationary out for a spin xD I felt so bad yawning because the material we covered, creativity, is interesting. Just that I did NOT get enough sleep, even with a 30min nap beforehand.

Not gonna get enough today either, gots to make a last minute powerpoint for my shadspeak, which will be about gritaly. I have no talent to showcase LOL.

Laaaast rant before I get started on that, communal bathrooms are annoying haha. There's only 4 showers, so first thing when the clock strikes 10 is to run. Also not use to not having all my stuff already in there, today alone took me 3 trips to grab all my stuff. Funny that out of all things, I forget my towel @_@"

K OFF TO WORK.
(again photos are up over at facebook)

Dal 2011

Off to shad I go.
An adventure this will be :]

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first day oveeer! Damn it was tiring XD

Met up with Jen at the airport and flew a blissful 2 hours to Halifax. The flight made blissful by sleeping of course, getting up at 6 is a pain. Met my roommate at the airport, didn't know she was on the same flight xD

Spent some time exploring a small section of the campus while trying to find the rest of the shads. It has nice scenery~ My room is nice as well, got one of the rare higher beds with drawers underneath ;D Also played some intense rounds of pig with punishment. It ranged from singing embarassing songs to saying cheesy pickup lines to a random shad of the group's choosing. Luckily I never lost.

Way too sleepy to add photos to here, so I shall link to facebook album. Nighty nighhht~

canada day fireworks!

Cummer style of planning events: only hours of notice beforehand, this time in the form of fb thread. Pretty impressive as almost everyone showed up. Ended up standing around and teasing Billy about how drunk he was the day before.









Not too impressive but still pretty fun watching it with everyone :]

On the note of impressive, I think this is pretty close: