I'm always left dumbfounded at how quickly these posts come around.
Officially halfway through my time in Canada! This month I visited the Rockies and Alberta, saw elk and deer, eaten poutine, witnessed a partial solar eclipse, and walked along an abandoned railway trestle!
So I left Part 1 at the end of Clubs Days, having signed up to an assortment of societies. This post will cover the rest of what I got up to in September!
A quick post slap bang in the middle of midterms! I am both thrilled and saddened to be able to use that phrase, as it's had me holed up in my room most days. While I also complete the wholly unfair mountain of assignments I have to do as well, I've found a nice escape in the form of Finnerty Gardens.
So if you're following me on Instagram, or have liked the site on Facebook, you may have noticed I post one photo a day about what I've been up to. Each post is a part of my photo journal for while I'm out here in at UVic and this is the first part of September's installment (as well as the week prior in August)!
It may have taken over 14 hours of travel, but I've made it to British Columbia in one piece! And what an amazing journey it has been to get here!
All of yesterday I was restless. Having had my interview for the study abroad programme last Friday and having been told that I'd be informed of my acceptance or rejection by Wednesday, I was just plain anxious. My futile attempts at concentrating on my Linguistics essay were failing spectacularly and even the internet couldn't distract me from my own fidgeting. 

Then at 16:54 when I'd almost given up hope, I got the email. I'd been accepted. I lay back on my bed out of sheer exhaustion. The waiting wasn't over though, as the email had only said I was on the programme and still I had to pick a letter up from administration informing me where I was headed. Today, I scrambled onto the bus to uni, dashed up the hill to Pathfoot building and received my letter...