New Year !!!
2006 is already there and I came back to my room in Ottawa. I spent only 2 weeks at home where I work 6 days, held a dinner party at home, went out too much and didn't see my friends as much as I would like. Sometimes, I wish I was studying in Montreal, so I could just call one of them for a coffee in 40 minutes. Now, it's planning at least 2 weeks in advance and missing stuff because I can't come back for an evening. OK, I do it sometimes, but it start to get expensive to take the train that often. My friend's boyfriend plays the sax in a band and has a show on the 8th which I'll miss... We wanted to do another dinner party, but I can't go... Ottawa is only 90 minutes away from Montreal, but sometimes I feel like I am in another country altogether. At least, I broke up with Stéphane just before coming to live in Ottawa, having a long distance relationship would have been quite disastrous... The worst is that I'm thinking of doing my masters somewhere far away like Oxford... They have a great MPhil in International Relations, so that'd be great especially if my friend is doing hers there too in Mathematics. She was accepted as an undergraduate but opted for the MIT instead, but she could do her masters in Oxford and we would be together.Anyway, I better start worrying about 2006 instead of 2009, right ? I have not made real resolutions, but I have some goals for this year. I decided to have this blog like I used to have in highschool because I have some time on my hands and writing or in that case typing allows me to reflect on my life. Also, I want to get more in shape. Since May, I've lost some weight and have been in a better form, but I want to do real activities like aerobics, Pilates and more yoga. Of course, I want to work on my German, so I can go in Germany and Austria in Summer 2007 and speak it fluently. Plus, I want to write like I used to do in high school. I stopped because I didn't have time which is not the case anymore. I want to write short stories, work on the novel I started and write new songs.
As for books, I'm doing a challenge on BookCrossing.com to read twice 26 new authors both in English and in French in the ABC Challenge 2006. This challenge was done last year by BreakEveryRule and Mostly-Harmless took the idea and proposed it to the French forum. I'm planning to read most of my classics in French and some books in my TBR. I have already read two. I read letter B (Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451) and letter D (Diane Mott Davidson - Dying for Chocolate)
Otherwise, I am reading Excuse while I wag by Scott Adams, a great Dilbert and I'm enjoying it. I read 2 great books during the holidays, both left something in me. It was Balzac and the little chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The former is during the cultural revolution in China and talks about reeducation and the love the books while the latter is set in Irak and starts just before the soviet invasion of 1979 and finishes around 9-11.
I'm off to bed to enjoy the Dilbert, so Bonne nuit !
posted by KarinAlyssa @ 21:55
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