a happy york dork am i :o)

appropriately enough, the song currently playing on my itunes is "see you in september" by fabares shelly.

church family camp is done.
God's girls night is done.
one year working at oxford is done.
festival of praise is done.

and in less than 2 hours (thanks, b! lol) days it's gonna be "bye-bye, august!" and "hello, september!"

surprisingly, i'm not phased by it one bit - probably because i'm already 3 (soon to go on 4) days into my first year at teacher's college at york university.

it's somewhat surreal to be back in school. york is certainly a far cry from the sort of quaint simplicity of waterloo. and this time around, the crowd i'm surrounded by definitely has a different feel to it; what with the more mature vibe from everyone and the accompanying comfortable weirdness of almost everyone actually knowing what they're going to do after graduation. but so far, so good - my fellow "wannabe teachers" have expressed themselves to be quite the genuine and lively bunch and seem to all have personalities that will make this year fun-filled and far from boring in all the right places.

we even made our own site cheer to which we'll be presenting at the faculty of education bbq tomorrow with nothing but full-on enthusiasm and panache :o)

a lot of you have asked me whether or not i'm excited for the upcoming year, and for a while i've stuck to replying with "it hasn't really sunken in yet"; afterall, i only finished working at oxford last thursday (quite the sad day, really) which didn't really give me much time to reflect and analyze this past year off of school... but though this year appears to be one of the most challenging and overwhelming years i will come to face in my entire academic career (post-critical theory with mcarthur, of course ;oP), i'm actually getting pretty excited to see what lies ahead.

...especially since i've decided to return to my pre-driver's-licence roots and once again become acquainted with the mississauga transit and go bus lines. :oP this alone should give way for some interesting times, indeed :oP