In a Nutshell

Well folks, things have been looking up since my last blog.
- I finished my paper for biological oceanography that was worth 30% and it ended up being 20 pages long! Crazy!
-I have finished all the rest of my homework for this semester so all I have to do is study for my finals.
-I also only have 1 lab left, on Wendesday, and I am done my labs for the year. It will be the last semester that I take 5 classes and 4 labs EVER so I am glad to be done that. I will have 5 classes in the fall but I won't need 4 labs. Thank goodness.
-I received an email from Bamfield giving me more information about the course and what to bring for the summer. It has gotten me really excited.
- Today I took a pleasure craft boating test to get my operator's lisence for Bamfield and passed. It's one of those tests like for first aid and H2S where they pretty much lay the answers out for you so it's pretty hard to fail it.
- I went to physio on Wednesday. She tested my strength and my bad knee is almost the same strength as my good knee. It's so awesome! That's what all my weightlifting has been doing. She did some tests and found that my IT band on my good knee was way tighter than my bad one. Apparently all of the limping and compensating I have been doing on my good knee has caused some protonation of my femur, tightened my IT band and caused pain in some tendons. It's nothing major. The bottom line is that I need to keep icing and STRETCH. I normally don't stretch a lot but already I have noticed a difference. I also started wearing a different pair of shoes for everyday wear and have felt a lot better too.

So those are just some highlights of the last week! This weekend has been awesome too. -Yesterday I watched NCAA basketball all day.
-Today I did a bit of homework and then at 3 went and watched Team Canada Women's Team play a team from up north here in Victoria. It was awesome. It's been awhile since I was at a live hockey game. It was awesome to see Team Canada too. I haven't ever watched women's hockey before so it was cool. I remember in middle school when Hayley Wickenheiser came to our school and talked to us because she was a friend of Miss Foster. LOL. That was a long time ago.

Anyhow then I watched more bball this afternoon. Tomorrow at 1 I am going to get a deep muscle massage! I am so pumped. The last time that I had one done I could barely move after because I was so relaxed. I am hoping that it might loosen up some of my muscles and help my knee a bit.

My exams are fairly spread out again this semester. I write on the 8th, 12, 15, 21, and 23. Then it's home for May!! It seems like it has been forever since I was at home. Well I don't know who knows this and who doesn't or if I have written about it on here before, but Brianne is coming to Victoria to live with me in the fall semester. I cannot even begin to explain how excited I am for that. There are so many things that we can do and it will be so much better cooking for 2 people than for 1. I always have a ton of leftovers. I can't wait and I know that Brianne is equally excited!

Next weekend I am heading to the mainland to see Leia and catch up with my CBC friends. I haven't been there since January so it's high time I went. It will be good to get off this island for a bit and take it easy. I have been really relaxed this weekend, but I can't wait to see some friends and hang out.

There you have it. A sort of brief update on my life. I always have so much to say but tonight I'm making it snappy. Later days!!