And any man who knows a thing knows, he knows not a damn, damn thing at all

So I have been trying to get things together. I start my PSW class today and I will be doing that for the next 28 weeks from 6-10pm plus my clinical placement time. So I will be being kept pretty busy I think. The first topic I am learning about is Individuality of the Person. I got my nursing shoes today..they are not great looking but they are New Balance running shoes and well I have a special place in my heart for new Balance running shoes..i have a pair that I have had for years through my time in the Dominican Republic til my time in china :P and they are in amazing condition and I love them ahha :)

I also went to Chapters and got a Mandarin basic course set so I am going to be working on that a little every day. Hopefully I will be able to catch on quick :).

There is a lot I miss about China..well mainly the people and I miss all the memories. I am already feeling the itch to travel again...I wonder if I will ever stop feeling that. I think the thing is that I love meeting new people, pushing myself out of my comfort zone and creating memories. I just have to keep focus for my next 7 months in school which might be kinda tough for me but I am going to have to try to distract myself as much as possible I suppose. Me and school just do not get along..its weird because I love learning new things but doing the same thing everyday really takes a toll on me so hopefully this provides enough variety in routine for me or I might be a total nut case for the next 7 months and no one wants to deal with me when I am like that haha.

I am still on the job search. I hopefully will find something soon..money always helps haha...especially when your as my Grandma Wagar always calls me a "Dreamer" :P hey yeah of course I am a little unrealistic sometimes but I am young dang it! haha plus if your not going to dream big why bother dreaming at all, thats what I think anyways :P

Nursing..who would have thunk it :P

Hey all!

so its really weird being home but I really am adjusting quickly. I had a week of hanging out with the Marchand's and having fun but now its time to get down to work for me. I went to Everest College and I actually got goosebumps while I was looking around the school...It just felt like I was making the right choice and that I was doing the right thing.I will be taking the Personal Support Worker Program. I will be in school for 29 weeks and then I will be done my PSW training and then I have about 3 months to work and save up for university and I will hopefully be going to the University of Toronto for International Development!! On top of all this I am on the job hunt and really need a full time job! so hopefully I will find one soon!

Yeah so thats the watered down version of an update on my life :P I will try to write more soon!

Headed Home! :)

So I am sitting in the Hong Kong Airport and I am going home!!! I am not feeling so great so I am pretty excited to be at home with my family and back on my side of the planet! :P These last few months have been quite the adventure though and I have learned a lot not only about the world but about myself.

This is another video from my stay in Ningbo last weekend

Hey! so I am still alive and I didn't sleep on dirt floors and I don't think i ate dog...but who knows...I never recognize half of the things i eat here hahah :P Its crazy Chinese Business society is just so different..and table manners are very different here. Everything that I was taught not to do at the table as a child by my mom is encouraged here..its really strange for me.

This is a video of the dancers at the Job I had this weekend in Ningbo, China.
It was a pretty crazy weekend, I arrived in Ningbo and we checked into the hotel and then we ate lunch then we got ready for the job getting all dressed up and stuff. We went to this nice place for dinner that was owned by this really eccentric Chinese guy.Then we went to this club and hung out for what felt like forever and then we just had to go out on stage and look pretty and then we went to another club and did the same thing three clubs in 2 nights. so basically i was just paid eye candy for the weekend...fun times..i guess it was an experience though. 

So I have been really lame lately and not updating my blog but this week I went to the Pearl Market with Carrie, Noah and Jack and it was pretty good..better than the silk market but really all these markets sell the same stuff....it seems much calmer at the pearl market though which i liked. I bought my brother some stuff for his birthday there and then i got to see the toy market which was kinda fun :P
So the agency is telling me that I have a job and that I have to get on a plane for a two hour flight and I will be there from sat til monday...I am not sure how i feel about this.....I kind of want to tell them no and just do my own thing this weekend.... I really don't want to end up sleeping in the middle of nowhere with dirt floors, no escape from the heat and only dog or something to eat...I do not have a good feeling about this.....i don't like this...its all about the experience right? eee i really don't want to do this but the problem is the agency is ticked off at me as it is and i dunno...fab said i was staying in a hotel i just don't know how reliable his word is....hopefully its not completely horrible......i am trying to think possitive....

well I will let you all know how it all goes I am debating the pros and cons in my head right now so we will see...

Having Fun with the Hunsaker's!! :)

So today I had church and it was awesome as always!! I am going to miss this ward sooo much when I have to leave they are sooo amazing!! i always look forward to going to church on sunday :). The Hunsaker's drove me to church today which was a really nice change from taking a taxi every sunday! :)

other than that today I wrote some postcards and so hopefully I will be able to send those off real soon..

Oh and I went to dinner at the Hunsaker's today and we had chicken chili and it was amazing!! sooo good :) Oh and Noah is my new best friend :D jack ( i call him jack jack like from the incredibles :P) and Noah are the cutest little kids ever I have soo much fun hanging out at their house they are such an awesome family!!! :D

No idea what I am up to tmmrw but usually I have mondays off so I will probably explore Beijing more and find something really cool to do as always!! :)

Baroque shoot..

So sadly I still am sick..but today I had a photo shoot and it was Baroque themed..it was interesting haha I was so hot in that dress! and the photographer was SO WEIRD! he literally was barking at us like "woof woof!" he was SO weird!!! .....like i was getting soo frustrated because he was such a freak....Luckily i only had to stay there for a few hours i got to leave first :) i was the first girl done!! i was sooo happy hahah :P

I went home in the taxi and the taxi driver was soo funny :) best taxi driver i have had yet :D anyways I hung out with Jennifer and It was really great we went to this amazing restaurant called seafood and dumplings I believe and I had this pork there that was AMAZING! okay and annoying thing about china..they do not have any problem with you burping or horking or what ever but if you hold your chopsticks the wrong was they FLIP lol its sooo weird hahaha :P I asked for a fork and knife at dinner i think chopsticks are kinda really dumb..I mean i will use them if i have to but i prefer a fork..

wow I can't believe it's been a month..only 2 more months in Beijing..

yeah so today it rained..and when it rains here in Beijing it really POURS and i am not kidding you get soaked to the bone wet..its ridic! I had to get my visa renewed today too so that was a bit of a HUGE pain...but awell i don't have to do that again for another 30 days..

Internet is suppose to be back up in my apartment tmmrw at 6pm so that should be nice because i am in some random internet cafe I found..its right across the street from my apartment but i hate having to order things just so i can use the internet its kinda annoying.

Anyways I am still sick and literally can sleep anywhere on demand at any given time..I just crave the comfort of my big blue comforter and my soft pillow constantly..being sick is no fun haha. especially when normal comforts are unattainable for the most part in my current global location haha. I fell asleep in the back of the cab a few times but Mama (my agency owner) kept talking to me and waking me up.

Other than that not much went on today I cooked some muffins and fish (not together..GROSS ahah) in my new toaster oven :) and I was glued to this book that i am reading called the Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Its pretty good :P

I have also officially decided that Chinese tv is ridiculous and the acting is absolutely terrible! but anyways i am running out of chocolate milkshake to slowly drink in order to stay in the cafe and use the internet comfortably hahahha :P hopefully my internet is up by tmmrw ahha :P

Bikes,Bikini's and Bad internet :P

Hey all!

so today I had a shoot all day for a magazine called channel 5 or 5 channel or something I dunno...noone spoke very clear english...so i guess i will find out when it comes out? i don't know haha. But anyways it was in the middle of nowhere and I had to ride a bike wearing: 1st outfit a really weird looking silver dress, a green outfit thingy, a full out professional bikers outfit and a bright orange bikini hahaha...it was an interesting shoot oh and did i mention i was wearing black sneakers with every outfit ahhahah. cause who doesn't go biking with a ridic amount of makeup in the middle of nowhere wearing a dress and a pair of sneakers hahaha?awell as ridic as it was it was pretty fun ahhaha. I am just hoping that i will get at least one photo that i will actually want to use :P

Anyways it was a long day of work. I am just sitting in Starbucks (my apartment internet connection is non-exsistent at the moment..but is suppose to be active again on friday hopefully..) The starbucks in China is different from the starbucks in canada they have all these strange frappuccino's i have never heard of..but if my internet connection stays not functional i get the chance to try each of them out i guess ahhaha :P Not that i don't want to try each of them out but i am hoping that my internet will come back up soon...starbucks is a bit of a walk and i prefer to skype and stuff from the comfort of my own apartment...awell i guess you can't always get what you want..

anyways this starbucks internet also sucks i guess you get what you pay for...yeah anyways the pic is of me and Alex hahah i am being a dork as per usual ahhaha :P we went to Papa John's Pizza after the shoot and she took a really silly video of me which she said she is going to put on fb ahaha so you may all get to see it ahhahah :P

yeah so this is a photo from the last Magazine shoot I did with Lifestyle magazine :P It makes me laugh because in this photo and the one in my previous post the Jewellery is all photoshopped on and it is really obvious haha :P awell haha...

Day of castings

So today I had 4 castings..mostly for show and catalogue..and this one really random casting that I think was for a video game advertisement...i dunno..it was a lot of walking in heals..introducing myself and being stared at haha :P

Anyways tmmrw i have another magazine shoot i have no idea which magazine it is for but i will post pics as soon as i get them.. the shoot starts at 8:30am which i am not too overly pleased about but work is work i guess ahha

Other than that my life is pretty boring haha whenever i am not working i try to get in some sleep, do my grocery shopping (i don't trust the cleanliness of most the restaurants here so i mainly cook my own food) and relax aha :P

Beijing

Hey Everyone

So I have been just sending out emails to everyone about my time so far in Beijing China but I figured it would just be much easier if I just kept a blog. I have never had a blog before so this is a completely new experience for me so we will see how this goes.

I have been in Beijing, China for about a month now. At first I found it to be a HUGE culture shock but now I am really starting to settle into my new surroundings and find myself actually feeling quite at home here. It will probably be very hard for me to leave china after my remaining 5 months are up here...

Okay so for those of you who have no idea what has been going on in my life for the last month I will give you a bit of an update :P

I arrived in china on the 15th of June. The jet leg was a bit rough for the first little while but once I past that things started to get easier. At first I was living in a model apartment which was not so great and then i got my own apartment which I am currently residing in :)

I haven't really been able to see many of the sights up close yet but I have caught a few glimpses of the Great wall, forbidden city and I actually got to visit the Summer palace which was pretty cool.

Life is very different than life in Canada..sometimes its interesting and other times it is frustrating haha but it is all apart of the experience. The heat can be tough to handle at times but i have learned to cope by wearing light clothing and putting my air-conditioning up full blast :P

I am headed off to more castings soon so I will blog more later!