so close!

i am so incredibly close to being home! 9 days until my arrival back into the wonderful Canada. I am especially excited because it is 22 degrees out right now.. definitely not Christmas weather. I got into the holiday spirit when i was home for thanksgiving and now it has slowly faded away. i'm quite looking forward to some cold and rain and snow!!

i have now finished a 15 page paper, a 10 page and i am almost done an 8 page, all in my hardest subjects. so after this just a couple easier papers, then finals, then freedom!!!

1. friday night was pillow/paddle exchange, where i made my little a pillow with our names and letters on it, and she made me a paddle. it is SOO beautiful. it has a whale on it!!!! BRILLIANT. i obviously freaked out. now my roomies and i have hung our paddles proudly on the wall of our family room so it's the first thing people see when they walk in to our house :)

2. Saturday morning was initiation for all the gamma phi newbies, so my little got initiated and i got to give her her first sweatshirt with letters. i was so nervous that our sweatshirts weren't going to turn out well, but i'm super happy with them and she loved them so it was quite great. after initiation we had all the gamma phis over to narnia, our home, for breakfast in our backyard. the yard was FULL of girls, it was insane. afterwards we took narnia family photos next to our famous lamp post :) i love my roommates so much!

3. my stunning date and i at semi-formal on saturday night! we had a fabulous night, it was so much fun. we basically just danced like idiots all night which was obviously a ball.

4. max and i have started to figure out our christmas plans and i am so so stoked. ahh.

5. my mama arrives on sunday!! yaaay :) :)

love,

halee

hell week(s)

my mother has warned me if i don't start posting to my blog, no one will ever read it. first of all, i think she is the only person who actually reads it. and second of all, i only ever started it to help remind myself what i'm thankful for. but in honour of my wonderful mother, i am going to try and post more regularly!! school is absolutely destroying me right now, never have i had so much work due. i could dieeeee. luckily only one more week, and then finals and then home!!

1. tonight is pillow/paddle exchange! i made my little a pillow with our letters and names on it, and she's giving me a paddle :) and then tomorrow morning is initiation! and i get to give her her first sweatshirt with letters on it tomorrow. so exciting.

2. in just over a week my mother will be here!! we're driving up together and i am SO stoked.

3. tomorrow night is semi-formal and i am taking lauren as my hot date. we are also going with taylor my roomie as our last hoorah because she is going on semester at sea in january and i am going to miss her SO much.

let us hope i make it through the next week and a half!
love,

halee