Relatives
So I'm in Toronto this week, and last night my extended family came over for a get together supper. This include my Aunt Cher (over 60), her son(my cousin) Bram (37), his common law Pascaline (over 37), their son Julian (4), and their daughter Niyad (7 months). Plus my aunt Jane and Uncle Mike.
Talked to my aunt Cher last night about universities, and she is now rooting for me to get into Toronto so that I can "stay with her from second year on, and not have to pay any rent." She wouldn't let go of that idea, even tho I was hinting that I might want to move in with some university friends after first year. Not worried as I have to get accepted before I have to deal with any of this family politics.
Niyad is rolling around now, and almost crawling. She's actually smiling now instead of always crying when people are around. Really cute. Julian is a little energizer bunny, never stopping. Even when he was snacking, he would run around in the kitchen/livingroom circle that they create after each piece of broccoli. And he loved the dart game. Apparently he has one with magnets at home, and when he saw the real thing in the basement he was in heaven as he went on the 20 min hunt for the darts and then the hour long game of throwing darts at a game that is twice his height on the wall. He even got half of them to stick.
It was great to see everyone again, and cool to see the next generation grow up, even if it hasn't been a full generation, it feels like the next group of kids in the family.
Went to an open house at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Pretty, and they've now convinced me to go there over Carleton, if nobody else accepts me. The extra push for there is that I'm away from home, and their entire campus is free wireless set up. Everything else seems to be around the same standard as Carleton, maybe better as it's all new. So if nobody else accepts me, I'm going to Oshawa.
P.S. I don't know how to control those blue underlined words that keep popping up. So just ignore them.
Talked to my aunt Cher last night about universities, and she is now rooting for me to get into Toronto so that I can "stay with her from second year on, and not have to pay any rent." She wouldn't let go of that idea, even tho I was hinting that I might want to move in with some university friends after first year. Not worried as I have to get accepted before I have to deal with any of this family politics.
Niyad is rolling around now, and almost crawling. She's actually smiling now instead of always crying when people are around. Really cute. Julian is a little energizer bunny, never stopping. Even when he was snacking, he would run around in the kitchen/livingroom circle that they create after each piece of broccoli. And he loved the dart game. Apparently he has one with magnets at home, and when he saw the real thing in the basement he was in heaven as he went on the 20 min hunt for the darts and then the hour long game of throwing darts at a game that is twice his height on the wall. He even got half of them to stick.
It was great to see everyone again, and cool to see the next generation grow up, even if it hasn't been a full generation, it feels like the next group of kids in the family.
Went to an open house at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Pretty, and they've now convinced me to go there over Carleton, if nobody else accepts me. The extra push for there is that I'm away from home, and their entire campus is free wireless set up. Everything else seems to be around the same standard as Carleton, maybe better as it's all new. So if nobody else accepts me, I'm going to Oshawa.
P.S. I don't know how to control those blue underlined words that keep popping up. So just ignore them.