And We're Back

Howdy Folks,

Classes started last Wednesday and I have one doozy of a semester ahead of me. I was right to think that physiology would be one of my tougher courses. The first thing the prof says to us is how important it is that we have the prerequisite course because of all the references to that material that we will be making. Thankfully I have taken it... two years ago. To put it mildly, I am rusty. Some reviewing will definitely be required.

My semester will basically boil down to the balancing act of labs, classes, studying, and reading. I am fortunate in that only 3 of my classes have required textbooks and I was able to acquire them extremely cheaply compared to other years. My roommate was not so fortunate. She ended up paying over $800 for hers. Yikes.

So speaking of roommates - I really like the place I'm living in. That townhouse is really nice, really well taken care of, modern, and a great deal. Only down side is that it is slightly farther from campus than I would like. Thank heaven for bicycles. I may be singing a different tune in December when it is 4 feet of snow but we will get there when we get there.

View from my room: picture of the sunrise taken by my (very poor quality) camera phone

My roommates seem like a pretty level bunch. Both girls are serious students and fairly clean. We're still in the stage of learning one another so I don't want to form too strong of an impression one way or the other but I think I will only go minorly crazy in comparison to other years.

So far I've managed to get involved in a bunch of little things. For example, I helped tour the new international exchange students around the campus, volunteered (for class credit -woo!) at a Parkinson's disease fundraiser, rebooted my healthy eating/working out lifestyle (down 2 lbs already!) and have been catching up with my Lethbridge peers. Tomorrow evening I'm doing dinner with a bunch of friends celebrating a Baha'i festival. It's all been nice and I know this doesn't really make sense but honestly something feels like it is missing and a little piece of my happiness is missing with it.

Wish I knew what it was.

Jacqueline