Busy Busy Busy
Compared to the last few weeks this week has been a whole lot busier than I’m used to. I am currently in the middle of three days of exam hell however after tomorrow I will only have one left and I get a few days to chill out and study before I have to sit it. Time to chill out between exams unfortunately hasn’t been a privilege I’ve been afforded this week. I had an exam Tuesday, today and have another tomorrow. So for the past week most of my spare time has been spent cramming for three different subjects and I’m worried that soon my head will explode.
However I haven’t actually had that much spare time because my parents came to visit Canada and spent the weekend in Ottawa. So my spare time for studying was in mornings and evenings as well as of course on busses to and from. We crammed a whole lot into our weekend. We visited the Canadian Museum of Civilisation and watched “Roving Mars” on the huge curved screen of the IMAX cinema. The sun was shining so we spent most our time out in the sunshine exploring the little shops and cafes in the Glebe and walking the entire length of the Rideau Canal all the way from downtown to Carleton University Campus. Apart from a few still snowed over patches and a huge flooded muddy puddle the walk was beautiful and calm and it was almost had to think of it as the same canal I was ice skating on only a month ago. The rest of our time was spent eating at the best restaurants Ottawa has to offer. One of the brilliant benefits of Canada being such a multicultural place is that you get a huge variety of food and this weekend I ate at a local fish place, a Thai restaurant, an Indian buffet and of course a gourmet burger joint. The Works is the best place for a burger in town and they offer over 60 different varieties and will put just about anything in just about any combination from peanut butter to avocado. The burgers themselves are massive and come with huge side servings of chips. We ordered a stack of onion rings to start and left full to bursting with good greasy food. We finished out last night together in Ottawa in a particularly Canadian way and followed our Canadian delicacy of gourmet burgers with watching the hockey game in a bar that brews its own beer. So we watched the Ottawa Senators get smashed by the Pittsburgh Penguins and I caught the bus home to study some more. It has been a pretty eventful weekend with the parents and I can not quite believe how soon I will be seeing them again as I will be flying home in just a little over six weeks. Even more amazingly I can not believe how much I am cramming into the time in between then and now. But before I get into this travelling business I have to get through a few more pesky exams!
