helloooo hamilton~
OKAY, I'm here LJ friends! I can tell you that I didn't feel a THING when I was boarding the plane, even when I landed, but when I got here and found something Chelsea gave me, it just hit me how much I would miss home X__X. The drive from the airport to the apartment was SO freaking PRETTY because it was all trees and fields and flowers and stuff, not like the drive to the Winnipeg airport XD One of my friends Josellee and her dad dropped my famjam at the airport and she gave me this heartfelt letter there that kind of cleared up some things that were between us, which I'm super thankful for xD Ever find that you lose faith in people sometimes, but then all of a sudden, something happens that makes you regain faith in them? Yeah, I find it hard to categorize people these days because they just keep changing and I don't have a specific niche for them like I used to :p
I don't think this post will be that detailed, but long story short, our apartment building is like 12 floors high, looks horribly old from the outside, though the balconies look like cookie sheets, BUT inside, it looks quite nice, though we're still missing curtains and fans and stuff. We already have things like desks (mine has the world map embossed on it! hehe)m a dining table, three coffee tables, a shelf for the router and stuff, lamps, beds and shelves, but the living room is still pretty empty. The apartment itself is bigger, but the bedrooms and the bathroom are smaller than our old one, if that makes sense. We don't have a carpet, but we do have a hardwood floor, and the windows slide open, instead of having someone sort of roll them open like my old apartment. Last night, i didn't even get to take the plastic off my mattress, and I didn't have a pillow yet, so I just kind of slept on it with my blanket, which was a little uncomfortable, because the mattress itself was harder than my old one xD I miss my bunk bed dearly already, I did enjoy sleeping on the top bunk a lot {C}{C}
We were supposed to go meet more people today at church, but we overslept and woke up and hour early, and for the 4 of us, that really isn't enough, so we ended up staying while my dad went ahead and went to church. We still need to go shopping for basics like shampoo, though we did bring toothpaste, toothbrushes, and my dear beloved hair straightener and heat protectant :p
I still don't know WHAT to think of this place, because for anyone who's been, it's a lot like downtown Winnipeg, but less...dirty and hobofilled :p The houses are really old, some with runners and weeds growing up the sides, I even saw a fire hydrant with flowers growing out of the top part, though I don't know if someone intentionally did that :p The stores and such are very old and very quaint, which is kind of strange, and I'm getting a little bored because there really aren't a lot of people nearby. My dad said that when the university students come to McMaster University, the place will be more buzzing, but that's not until 2 full months!! Ugh, I'd much rather meet silly asian people than no people at all XD
Tooodles everyone!~~
~A