Worst Blogger EVER!

Oh my goodness...to say it's been awhile since I posted on here would be a complete understatement. Six whole months have gone by!! I think it is safe to say I am the world's worst blogger! Forgive me? Maybe?

Reading back my last post was very interesting. It was cool to see how I was feeling on my very first day at university. It is also crazy to see how differently things turned out. There are a couple of big things that happened this year that I am going to cover in this post, so here we go!

The first thing, well, person, is Rachael! Rachael is the first person I met here at Algoma. I met her on move in day and we've pretty much been friends since then. It was so nice to make a friend so early on because everything was very unfamiliar and it was great to have someone to figure things out with. It's kind of crazy to think that we've only known each other for six months. It feels like it's been a lot longer!

Me and Rachael at a Soo Greyhouds game!! 

We both found out pretty early on into the school year just how hard it was to be so far away from home. Before Christmas we decided that we would apply to a school that was a little closer to home. I also decided that university is not really for me, at least right now. I am going to school to be a social worker and right now I have one social work class a week. For awhile I was really frustrated and I just kept wondering why I was here and how it was helping me become a social worker when I was only learning about social work for three hours a week.

Long story short, I have decided to go to college. In January I applied to Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. I applied to both the Social Service Worker program as well as the Child and Youth Worker program. I found out in February that I had been accepted for the Child and Youth Worker program. I do plan to go back to university in the future and complete my Social Work degree, but with my college program I will be learning in a much more hands on way and gaining experience in the field as well, which is very valuable to me. I am very excited for September!!

Go Falcons!!

I am also excited for September because I will officially be living in a house (not residence), on my own! Well, with Rachael and her sister. Rachael is from a town close to London and is also going to Fanshawe. I think it will be a lot of fun and I'm really excited for the change!

Right now I am just finishing up my second semester of university. Exams start next week and I am moving home in just under two and a half weeks. There is a lot happening in the second half of my 2014, but I think I will save that for another blog post, hopefully some time in the (near) future!!

Thanks for reading guys, and I do promise I will try and be more on top of things here! I have some exciting things to talk about in the next couple of months so hopefully you'll come back!!

XOXOXOX

Tori