Rain....

Yesterday, I woke up at 7:00 am, to meet up with a my team for the Enivrothon at warden Station. What is this Envirothon? Its a competition between school (damn University of Toronto School) in areas of Wildlife, Aquatics, Soils, Forestry, and the main topic for this year, Preservation of Natural Heritage. It involved an hours prep for a 8 min presentation in front of a panel of judges, and 4 team test in each area of expertise which included a written and practical test for testing and stating various characteristics of the site. So this included taking water samples and testing it and making judgment of the area based on the animals that lived their and the tracks they left behind. For each area, the team had 20 min to complete. Seems pretty easy except for the fact that the task of learning all this is huge (for the other schools there, its part of the school curriculum, for us, its extra-curricular). In the end, my team won in the are of Wildlife (my team is the only new team, the rest have done it before). Another one of the three teams from my school won in Aquatics. In the end, the team that won last year won this year (damn University of Toronto School) and they get to move on to the Provincials in Hamilton.

It was fun, except for the stress and the fact that all the test and written work had to be done outside in the rain. Its not easy writing a test underneath an umbrella and take tests of the area in the pouring rain with the rain affecting the test we did. To top that all off, we had to complete ten pages worth of work in 20 minutes. At least it was multiple choice.

By the time I got home, I was worn down and exhausted. I ended up going over to my grandpa's where I had a long philosophical argument on man with my uncle with a swore throat and clogged sinus. It was a very exhausting day.


That was yesterday, as today was spent at home trying to get back all the programs I had before I reformatted my computer and installed my new large hard drive. I'm now trying to figure out how to fill up 200 GB of space. I've been downloading a lot of OSTs including Vision of Escaflowne, Gundam Seed Destiny, Gundam Wing, and the American Dragon Z. I managed to surpass the amount of data my old hard drive would allow me to have of 20 GB. Its funny since I bought my old hard drive 5 years ago for $150 (the rest of computer is almost two years old) and I bought my new hard drive for $150 again. Its amazing how times have changed. But I still need to build another computer before my sister goes to high school because we're both going be using it a lot.

So that's about how my weekend went, and its now 10:00 with my cleaned but not folded clothes sitting beside me in a basket. I don't know what to do right now, and I hope that tomorrow isn't as bad a day as S.S's just experienced. I wish i had an early dismissal, but i have a late start on wednesday and alot of work ahead of me at the YMCA that i missed with my cold.