Travel Tales

So I have little to blog about therefore you get to hear my tres exciting travel experience. Fun fun!
Soo here goes:
My travel plans were as such: fly out of le aiport at 10:20, get to TO at 11:50, fly out of there at 1:00, get home by 3:30. Simple no?
So me gets to airport at about 9:15, less than the suggested 2 hours for international flights but this airport is so dinky that is a complete waste of time. However I quickly learn that there is some new rule that makes you need to be checked in an hour before your flight so I had something like 3 minutes to get checked in before I would technically miss my flight. Anyways, got checked in, all was fine. Get through security no problem and go to gate to wait. Note that there is only one other person waiting, think that is kind of strange but people often meander around so I don't worry about it too much.
10:15 comes around and we have yet to board, in fact nobody is even at the counter, but no big deal, small plane takes about 3 seconds to board. 10:20 and people come off the plane so I figure we are about to board when lady comes over to tell us that yes, there is only two of us on the flight and it will be a smidge because there is some issue with the tires. No problem, we both have connections but there is time. Wait around for quite a while more, nothing, finally at about 11 they make an announcement for all Air Canada people to come down and get a rebooking. Off we go, apparently the tire was seemingly unsafe to land on and so we are being rebooked to the next flight to TO, at 5:30pm. They gives us meal vouchers for lunch and dinner and let us alone to spend fifty bazillion years in the airport.
At about 4:30 or so I notice that the departure time is now 6:30 which cuts my time to catch my connection rather short but no matter I can hustle it. When I get up to go procure some dinner it seems that the departure time has changed again, to one that completely prevents me from making my connection. Talk to people at desk, they have me scheduled for new flight etc etc. so off to go get foods. End up purchasing the most disgusting sandwhich I have ever eaten in my life and I am pretty sure shortened my life span by a good 5 years. (was basically a stale hamburger bun doused in some kind of grease with greasy mushrooms and bell peppers on it sitting in a pool of grease-delicious!) Meander back to gate, see if they have new boarding pass for me and sit around for some more. After several more reincarnations, it is determined our flight will not be leaving until about 9:20, making it impossible to leave TO that night. Grand, way to waste a day. Luckily, since they cancelled our first flight, me and this fellow are entitled to accomodation and mealness from A.C. until they get us to our destinations. So we gets hotel vouchers and breakfast voucher for next morning and leave the airport around 9:30 -12 hours apres I arrived.
Get to TO, follow fellow around as he has hotelness and all already planned out (well actually his dad, apparently he does a bunch of travelling). Get to hotel, have four hours to sleep before needing to get up to go back to airport. Hotel has biggest bed I have ever seen, I swear it could fit four people easy (thinking now that if we ever go on some trip, we must stay at a hotel with beds like this, would be a cinch to smush lots of us in) and tres comfortable.
Little do I know, but back at home parents are in panic-mode. I didn't call them like I was supposed to once I got to TO because me cellphone didn't have service and it was tres late for them so I figured they would be in bed. Notsomuch, they waited up until 4am for me to call, website never updated to say that my flight had landed so they were all wired up ready to call RCMP to have me tracked down etc. See, this is where I get my paranoid tendancies from!
Get up in the morning, waay too early! Head back to airport where I must now source me some foods. Locate reasonable looking foods and go to use me voucher (yay free food!!) but lady gives me ridiculously hard time about it. Also, I am above voucher limit by 20cents so must pay her (how a $4 and an apple comes above $6 is beyond me, oh the magic that is airport food...) then she refuses to take my voucher. Have to go to customer service desk to get a new one, apparently the one I got was the old version that they haven't used in a few years. Go back, by this time my flight is about to board and I have yet to call parents to let them know what flight I am on, procure food (I got a raise! Somehow the limit for breakfast here is $8, of course, the lady doesn't give me my money back, but ah well, 20cents won't kill me, even though I am a complete stinge!!) book it to the gate where they are boarding. Get up to gate, get boarding pass and ask lady if I can make a quick call, 5 minutes! Call parents topspeed, shoof back, get on plane.
Plane ride uneventful, I watched some fairly new movie (can't recall name) about these kids at some Boston university who learn how to count cards to win mucho moneys at gambling. And I find out that I gets free food on the plane aussi!! I am assuming this is courtesy of the tres nice lady back in original airport. Yay nice people, poo to A.C. for not having the vegetarian sandwhich though.
And I am now home, hoorah! And that was insanely long and drawn out, sorry! I actually thought about changing it to point-form but I had already spent such a ridiculous amount of time writing, I ditched that idea so yourwelcome and brownie points for you if you actually read it all!
Hermit

Surveyness!

Salutations my non-blogging friends! Hermit is here with a survery type thing she stole from another website. Rules being you have to answer all the questions with one word:
1. Where is your cell phone? Laptopbag (yes that is one word)
2. Your significant other? nonexistant
3. Your hair? fuzzball
4. Your mother? home
5. Your father? home
6. Your favorite thing? ballet
7. Your dream last night? nonexistant
8 Your favorite drink? Applejuice (haha, I fail at this but some things are not one word so pah)
9. Your dream/goal? Ballet?
10. The room you’re in? earth (outside)
11. Your hobby? Knitting/cooking
12. Your fear? Failure?
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Dunno, someplace I am happy with
14. What you’re not? male
15. Muffins? yum
16. One of your wish list items? Errr? Enough money so I don’t die next year howbout?
17. Where you grew up? cowtown
18. The last thing you did? internets
19. What are you wearing? clothes
20. Favorite gadget? Computer?
21. Your pets? abandoned
22. Your computer? Wet (must explain, I was outside on le machine and it started thundering so I went under the overhang of this building, then it started POURING, twas great, and some of it blew under the overhang)
23. Your mood? bored
24. Missing someone? Lots
25. Your car? Legs?
26. Something you’re not wearing? socks
27. Favorite store? dunno
28. Like someone? Maaaybe
29. Your favorite color? Teal, right now anyhow
30. When is the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? Sunday (last week, boy I really fail at this one word business)

P.S. I just learned that Harper is a butthead, siding with Bush on not talking about climate change at the G8 summit. Why can't the people in power just be reasonable instead of money-monger fools. Okay done now.
Hopefully you are all having good sumer/are stil alive (I dont know, since I NEVER hear from any of you!!! *hinthint)
Hermy

Update!!

It's been a while! I keep meaning to blog but evidently it doesn't happen. Anyhow, I am now! After I am going to check everyone else's and I am hoping you have blogged, I want to hear what you are up to!
So, I made it to the states, hooray! I was afraid it wouldn't happen, they gave me a hard time but the finally did end up letting me through. Classes and whatnot have been good. I am in the same level as I was last year but they had a whole bunch of alumni come back this year so they told the year round kids they would probably get moved down or stay in the same level so I am happy that I got to stay in the same level (and I am with most of the year-rounders I was with last year, so I am assuming that means I didn't get too crappy while I was gone)
The place I am staying in is good, except there is actually no cooking stuff (haha, I don't understand how these american children survive on all this premade food) one very small frying pan, one very small pot, and one very small casserole dish. It's a bit frustrating trying to make stuff (I made stirfry the first week and it took me two evenings to do it because I had to stirfry each vegetable individually) but its not for too long.
Anyways, other than danceness not much is new. Found some people to stay with in Victoria for August. Oh, I was reading 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' on my breaks and finished it this week. Very good, about this family who moves to a farm and basically lives off the land (and purchases some stuff, but all locally grown etc.) for a year. It seems like that would be so swell but Calgary is crud climate-wise for that. Victoria on the other hand... (hehe, I have these plots, shall see how it works out)
Anyways, I should end this here rambling post now but hopefully we shall be in touch because I miss you guys!
Hermit
P.S. I was watching this thing on tv that is just all commercials and there was the best one ever from volkswagon. Must peer! http://veryfunnyads.com/ads/25502.html
I want to learn how to make those hand shadows!!