Monday, June 26, 2006

Tired Day

Well today I'm feeling quite slow... a little tired and very much ready for my upcoming holiday at home! :-) Work has been a little frustrating, as debugging a program can be (especially ones I thought were working fine). But tomorrow after work I am heading home for almost a week (with the help of the long weekend) as its my sister's grad on the 28th. Over the long weekend, Sydney, Matt and Cathy are coming down to join me, and I am pretty excited, cuz we are going to have a blast!!! Heading to the drive-in to check out The Wild one evening, and down to the river for some swimming and being beach bums, I can't wait! For a quick update on Brazil, still waiting on some documents before I can send my visa application, and the savings fund is growing, slowly, but nonetheless growing, so soon I will be able to purchase my ticket and have a much more definite timeline of when I will be leaving and when I have to decide what I will be doing with all my stuff while I am away. Cathy and I are about to head home for a RELAXING evening, I hope!

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

No More Stats!!

For the first day of Summer 2006, I officially quit my job with Statistics Canada, and I feel relieved! Over the last couple weeks or more of the job I have been going back around and pestering people to return their census forms, then it seemed that I was claiming more in gas and hours than I had gotten forms back, ( is this my fault?! ) so needless to say I have been doing no work for them over the past week or so and therefore making no money, so who needs a job in which you aren't making any money?! I mean there are tons of great things to volunteer for and lots of times that I feel the need to work without being paid in monetary funds, often the success of completion is rewarding enough, but in bugging people to fill out a form for the Government of Canada?! I think not. So welcome to Summer and here's to many rays of sunshine being soaked up, many cool drinks on patios and balconies and tons of amazing BBQ food!! :-D

Monday, June 19, 2006

Deferred to 2007

I love life....wow! So I am the most thankful person in the world this week. On Friday I had a phone meeting with the guy from U of Waterloo and guess what?! They are going to defer my acceptance for one year as well as they are going to save me a scholarship!!!!!!!!! How awesome is that?! I just need to let the world know how thankful I am that everything in my life keeps slowly falling perfectly into place! Now I guess I better get my focus on making sure everything is in order for Brazil and then keep in touch with Waterloo so you can find me there in September 2007 :-P...

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Money, Money, MOOONEEEY!!!

Wow...why do they have to go and make decisions so hard?! After getting accepted into the MBET (Masters of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology) program at University of Waterloo, I made the even then difficult decision to go on my internship through AIESEC before doing my masters. But today I got this wonderful email saying that I had been selected for a $10,000 scholarship!!! TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!!!!!! Like...what the hell?! I am definately going to be doing this masters program at some point in the near future, but right now I have to try and defer my acceptance, and its not like they are going to defer the scholarship for me too! Ahhh! But I suppose, life goes on, this internship is a right now opportunity and it means the world to me, so here's to hoping another scholarship letter appears in my email when I'm ready for it!

Beautiful Home

For all of those who don't know how TRULY flat Saskatchewan is...

photo coutesy of Marialuisa Wittlin (http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Prairies/Saskatchewan/)

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Hmm...

While Western drug companies invest large sums to produce treatments for hair loss and erection pills for consumers in Europe and the US, little by way of essential medicine is given to the people of Africa who face life-threatening diseases such as malaria.
-http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Just another quotation I came across today that makes a eye opening argument.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wonderful quotation for the day! Nothing much exciting happening with me today, just at work, trying to catch up on some hours. Also starting to get my stuff together to apply for my work visa, starting to realize its getting close very fast and I should probably seriously get my shit in order...

Monday, June 12, 2006

Well I've finally entered this realm of blogging....hopefully I can be diligent in keeping this up to date, after reading through some blogs of other aiesecers and their experiences on internships and the likes, I figured I should also share in the knowledge! Let me first introduce myself....Stephanie D. Husby (but Steph is usually sufficient), hailing from the HUGE town of Kyle, Saskatchewan and currently residing in the larger metropolis of Camrose, Alberta! Lol. Right now I'm working as a research assistant at the university I recently graduated from, but soon (first week or so of September) I will be off to Brasilia, Brazil to begin my internship at Politec!!! Wow....life is exciting!!!!!!!!!