Everyone had arrived

I moved in to my new place on Colonial street a little over two weeks ago now. Only to find that they were still doing construction work on one of the floors on the third floor. Luckily it wasn't my room. An other plus was that the carpenter helped me move my box spring in to my room by cutting it in half (the box spring is new large to manoeuvre around the tiny staircases). He even found me a junky looking dresser, which turned in to a nice looking piece of furniture after I realised he sanded it and stained it for me.

My room is the on the third floor, facing the front of the street. It's not that bad living down here either. It has it's charm. You do sometimes see the "crazy" lady with the large platform shoes and then leopard print jacket walking down the street with a shopping cart yelling "Does anyone have beer bottles". That was something new and interesting I had never seen before. If you look out my two bedroom windows, you're looking straight in to the windows of the house across a very tiny street, so blinds are a must. Other than looking out the window as I sit at my desk I can see the peak of Signal Hill, which is really cool.

My office/bedroom view of Signal Hill

All of my roommates moved in shortly after I did. The last one to arrive was Shanna, and that was late Sept 1st. The following morning we decided to take the hike up to Signal Hill. Luckily where we are now living the hiking trail started only several minutes down the road and around a few turns.



The entire hike took us approx. 2 hours. An hour and a half to walk up the dirt trail that spiraled around the huge rock formations, and then a half hour to walk down the paved road. The weather was excellent, though we all overdressed assuming that being right next to the water the wind would freeze us, but it wasn't very strong at all.



I need to take some more pictures of the downtown that's around my place. A park at the one end of the street, a pizza place on the corner, convenience stores in every which direction you take, the harbour, and the downtown core streets. As well as my own place inside and out.



Back to the now: School is okay, school is always just okay. I find my two business courses, Accounting and Marketing very interesting, which I think is a good sign. Calculus again is boring and a waste of my time, but I am trying to stay positive and pass it this time. Third times the charm! Spanish is hard. It seems by having two Spanish courses already under our belts that we should now know how to speak fluent Spanish, and for me that's not that case. I have forgotten most things, except for the basic. Hola, como estas? De donde eres? Soy de Nova Scotia. Folklore also seems like it's going to be an interesting course, so 3 out of 5 classes I like, which is pretty good, for now.