LTMU #14 - Parting Ways

I would say the past three years have really been a whirlwind of change and a lot to take in so suddenly. School was definitely not how I envisioned it to be, at least in the Dental Hygiene Program. It is really demanding and I felt like I never got to hang out with anyone or have any time for myself so, there was a definite struggle in sacrificing the things I liked doing such as having time for my avid reading and photography concepts. I wouldn't say I miss school, more so that I really miss my hygiene girls. There were only 44/45 of us in the class and because the course was so challenging, we were really all we had. We were with each other twelve hours of the day and in clinic. It's definitely going to be hard not seeing them all. Apart from my general classmates, not seeing my closer group of friends is also going to hurt. I feel like a loner, there's nothing here in Brampton for me. If I could describe Brampton, it is in a way a lot similar to Oshawa when it comes to subdivisions and placement of commercial structures. It's just lots of (beautiful) greenery, homes, and plazas with few malls far between. But nothing that really makes you feel like you yearn to go to a specific place to spend your time at. 

I know that we will all be in touch, we can thank facebook for that but I am definitely planning on making a trip to see them since they live further north from where I'm at. 

As I mentioned before, for the past three days I had been cleaning out my room and organizing it and such so let me just give a peak at what I was working with. This is when I was halfway done the process...

Beautiful. This actually doesn't look bad, you can see the floor! I had moved a whole dresser out of my room and into the guest room across from my room so that I could have more space behind my desk area. I replaced the dresser with those damask print bins and the collapsible black shelving by the window on the left. 

Oh the agony, my lower back started hurting after a while and within these few days, I really felt like I had lost sense of time; starting at 10am then glancing at the clock to see that time had jumped 5hours ahead. To say I am in a current struggle with myself, is an understatement. I wake up in a daze and shake my head thinking that everything I have gone through these past two years had been a dream. It's really all quite sad but I think what really sucks about me is that I always have a very delayed reaction to these sorts of things. I'm in a numbing aware/unaware state of shock. My mind keeps telling me everything will be okay, as if I am moving back in to only move back out for school again in September, just like I did last year. I cannot get my mind wrapped around this idea that I am 19 and graduated. It feels very strange indeed, since school is the only thing I've ever known. Lol like let's be honest here, I haven't really 'lived' the living part of my life besides fulfilling my basic human needs to get through school. Well, here's to the real world. *cheers* 

On a lighter note, Kris and I went to go see The Cabin In The Woods on Sunday and we loved it! The ending half is my favourite, I could not stop laughing at the madness. If you've seen this movie already then you know what I am talking about. I ended up making dinner for the family today. My mom bought some rice paper a while ago and didn't know what to do with it. After seeing Lia (now-old roommate) prepare her favourite Chinese dishes I knew exactly what to do. 

Mmm they look so yummy. Renee (my little sister) was in a rush to hit the gym so that was her mess over there with the soy sauce. She didn't really like the texture. I don't blame her, it is a little 'wiggily' but the rice paper itself has no flavour. We ended up mixing up a cheese sauce to dip the rolls in which tasted UHMAZZING! I was laughing to myself thinking how I've managed to defile a Chinese dish by adding my  European taste to the rolls themselves and dipping them in something you would put in a plate of pasta rather than a traditional Chinese roll. The rolls on the left were filled with cheese, boiled egg, and cheese and broccoli flavoured rice. The rolls on the right were filled with cheese, boiled egg, steam noodles, and tofu that was dipped in soy sauce.

OMG I forgot I have a funny story behind this. So, I texted Lia asking if you could fry the rolls and maybe that would give me a spring rolls texture to the rice paper instead. I have never worked with rice paper before and she has not tried frying them before so I did and I am WARNING  you. DO NOT fry rolls wrapped with rice paper hahaha. It's obvious the rice paper is too thin to withstand the heat from the oil but there was this little ounce of hope in me, that convinced myself to still try it..

It was honestly so funny, I couldn't control myself. The ones I attempted to fry actually didn't taste bad, it just made a huge mess.

FINITO!

I have a few other exciting things to chat about but I think I'll just save it for tomorrow :)