Coming Soon...

So I am relocating from Calgary to Toronto on August 25, at which point I am planning on continuing (more regularly) my Ontario Adventures blog.  I have found a place in Bloordale Village, which I will share with 4 other vegetarians.  I am very excited to move into this new house, and explore Toronto. 

This is the end...

So I really didn't blog as much as I would have liked to this year, but I guess you could say that I tried to spend more time living in the present, then reflecting in the past. People are starting to leave, Wednesday night will be my last day in res, and then Saturday I'm heading back out West. It finally feels like summer here, and I'm sad at heading home to the prospects of snow (-11 in Calgary vs. 20+ in Ottawa). There is still the odd pile of snow, but it's gorgeous outside, and there are even a few people outside tanning in bikinis. I'm looking forward to going home, but sad to be leaving here at the same time... This post is starting to get a little sappy, which I will save until my last day here.

These last few weeks have been fun, I did the pictures on Parliament, went to the IMAX, studied until I could no longer speak in complete sentences (not fun but necessary) been to a few bars and such. Last weekend was spent soberly keeping an eye on the roommate at Pub 101, and Thursday was my Stampede training @ The Great Canadian Cabin for country night. It was fun to spend a last night with people on my floor on Thursday, as well as catch up with some other people I've met in Ottawa. I still have a lot of studying to do for my exam on Wednesday, but then my mom comes out, so I get to do some fun stuff, hang out with people for the last time and then head back home, where I will hopefully have a summer job (cross your fingers).

What is wrong with the world?

Four school shootings in the United States in one week. What is going on in our world? It scares me, because the one in Chicago today happened in a lecture hall, and if you think about it, how on earth can a university prevent it? I mean, I was sitting in Political Science today and if someone came in with a gun I would have no where to hide, no where to go. I really hope that nothing like that would ever happen at Carleton, and the fact that I live in Canada makes me feel safer, but still. It scares me, because there is no way to prevent these things from happening, guns are not the most difficult things to conceal, and even if you didn't want to you could walk right in with a gun. Campus security has been an issue at Carleton, but a sexual assault, while horrible, is minor in comparison to someone opening fire in a lecture hall. Four shootings, four parts of the United States, is anyone really safe? My heart goes out to all those that have become victim, all those that knew someone, and everyone's families. My belief in the good of humanity is further diminished, and I hope that maybe the next President of the United States will finally do something about gun control, in hopes that in the future these events will not occur.