Well, this month has been very interesting… Alice and I have managed to make it through Hurricane Juan! That has been so much fun! There’s nothing like living through 4 days of no power, with nothing but wind and rain for two of ‘em. Ever since the hurricane swept through Halifax, the weather has been really cool. Alice and I went back home (Cape Island) for Thanksgiving holiday, and it was warmer there than it was here! When we went up the week before that because of the hurricane, it was freezing down there and it was hot up here! What’s up with that?
I don’t really feel very well right now… right now we’re in the middle of a high wind warning, up to 80 km/h winds… as well as rain up to 40 millimeters! The winds are on the same route as Hurricane Juan did... so power crews are stressing that the trees are still weak from the hurricane, and that wind speed up to 60 km/h would be enough to make some trees topple over! Just getting back to Halifax to enjoy cold weather and have 40mm of rain, 80km/h winds and having people suggest we stock up on ice cubes and batteries… at least Alice did, ha! Even my instructor was saying that if the power goes off tonight, that they would update the main line to the school to tell students whether or not there would be class.
I really don’t get my school… I don’t think I’m doing very well in it at the moment. I’m supposed to be keeping track of the news reports, but I keep missing the god damn things! I read the newspaper online, so I don’t hafta fuck around with those stupid machines or search around through our laundry change to get a loonie to buy a stupid paper! I miss the news on radio, or at least I don’t hear any good reports… I don’t watch a lot of television, so I don’t see any Live @ 5’s, so basically I’m failing all my stupid current events quizzes… it sucks!
Garry gave us this major, major assignment we had to do in groups of 5, CRTC assignment, which stands for Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission, (it should be CRTTC, but ne way) and gave us three days to work on it, we didn’t even have to attend classes! To start the project, I had to travel 16 minutes over the McKay Bridge to Dartmouth to Justin’s house, where three of us met him… our last partner, Luke didn’t show for anything! Luke is a 40 year old man practically, and he didn’t even show up to help us on our project… but he shows up during the presentation Tuesday. We had from Wednesday morning, to Friday afternoon at 2:00pm sharp to work on CRTC. That’s it! For a major project… it’s stupid! Not only did we have to hand it in by 2pm on Friday, but we had to present them the next Tuesday, 9:00am sharp. Then today we had a fucking exam today worth about 65%, but before that, I had the opportunity to fail, yet another, current events quiz… hurrah for me.