2018: From then to now

  After the zen week that is the post-exam Carbonear trip, it was back to class. In order to graduate in time, I took a few classes in the summer. They're all intersession classes, which means that these classes are only 6 weeks long rather than the normal 12 weeks long, which means that a week is super tight! I'm just going to bullet point it out what happened this whole time.

• Intersession starts, which means I'm in university most of my day time. I have classes from 10am to 5pm with only an hour break in between. Sometimes, we don't even get the break in order to prepare for our term exams. There was also only 5 people in my class, so it's pretty chill in terms of socially, but the course material was a lot to digest in a week.
• For the rest of my free time (in the day), I took up a part time job, which means the only time I am free is literally in the night. But since it's intersession, I only have to endure this for 6 weeks! No problem!
• I'm trying to get back into sports, so not only that I have my routine Aikido and Dungeons & Dragons thing, I started going for me weekly football games!
• When all this is happening, I guess my relationship was strained. I had no time for her and the only time I do is when she's asleep already (because time zones). We rarely had long talks anymore and stuff. 
• It's also interesting to note that everybody in my house basically broke up with their partners one week of May. It was huge mess. There were parties constantly trying split the group of friends and there was this whole drama and stuff. The worst part is that one of them basically cheated on with the neighbours downstairs, so we basically still have to see both of them all the time.
• Queue the worst week of my life. In 48 hours, I had sprained my ankle during football, to which I am still trying to rehabilitate it. I will be taking my intersession final exams, which means mentally, I got to study and prepare for it. Lastly, she broke up with me, I must admit the relationship wasn't going well, but I'm not going to lie that I was super excited to finally give her more attention after my exams are done, since it was just right around the corner, that day never came.
• The problem with getting your hopes up is that right after the exams, I have lots and LOTS of free time. I was really hoping to spend time now but it never happened. So Jerry, why don't you go out and do the things you love? Isn't that routine post breakup thing to do? Oh yeah, I know. There's just thing huge problem that is my left leg, so I guess I'm stuck in my own home, trapped in my own depressed mind for the next few weeks.
• Obviously broken, I couldn't study that weekend, or even just staying in my room. I called a cab and went to my weekly Dungeons & Dragons (I was preparing not to go that day, because I have my finals the next day). Lots of worried looks and stuff around, but whatever, the mood wasn't there anyway for anything, I just want to get out of the house.
• The next week I am constantly asking for rides. It feels absolutely horrid. The good news is that I get to hide my sadness behind the pain. I told myself I wouldn't cry until after my exams are done, and I didn't! Funny thing is, right after my exam I have work to attend to, so I went to the office. Sat there for like 15 minutes and I could feel my tears welling up. So I told my boss :"Hey, I think I need some time for my leg, mind if I go home early?" Yeah they let me out early, I left home and cried.
• The next few week was just me sitting down in my room, constantly asking my housemate for assistance to do things such as my laundry. I believe going down the stairs took me a whole 5 minutes.
• After that, a more interesting thing happened I guess. For the first time ever, I hosted my first ever couchsurfer. She's a lady from France backpacking across Canada. She came to Canada two months ago @ Vancouver, and she slowly worked her way to the East. She came just in time to celebrate Canada Day with us. She barely stayed on our couch the first few days because she's always out drinking and then falling asleep somewhere else. The last few days, she settled down and stayed home. We didn't do much together, but we did went to Canada Day together, and I brought her to Jack Axes to throw axes (she isn't good at all). What she is good at is Mario Kart. She's a sneaky one. She feigned ignorance at first, VIDEO GAMES? HUUHHH OK I'LL TRY IT OUT. I think she got first place for the first round of the Grand Prix, then she revealed that she played it all the time in her office back in France (what a cool office!). 
• Beyond that, nothing really interesting happened. I tried to get back to Aikido, but I couldn't do all the moves yet. My left leg might be "repaired" but not to it's original glory. It's mobility reeks due to the lack of use, which means I have to do some physio exercise everyday to get back it's mobility and sense of balance, or else I'll just injure myself again. I never did got back to my weekly football games though. Football is still too rough for my ankle. The worst part is the weather suddenly got super nice and sunny, so I'm constantly walking by some football fields, jealously watching people play. Not only that, my football WhatsApp group was just constantly buzzing, there's constantly games to play because the weather is so nice but I could not go.
• As this is my last year as a student in Canada (hopefully), I'm also having lots of stress in terms of my legality as a student here. My permit and visa is expiring and there's lots of steps and process and some bureaucratic red tape and stuff to do. It cost a lot of money and effort, and I absolutely hate the waiting game. Right after I submitted all the documents and stuff, all I could do is sit here and wait.
• My housemate got a Nintendo Switch, so I've been playing games with him to fill in the time. Lately, we're playing a lot of "Enter the Gungeon". The mechanics are very similiar to a game I played lots of (Binding of Isaac), so I got in way quicker that he did, but I'm still in no way good because it's a different game after all.

  There are some ups and downs (albeit way more downs) from then to now. I want to get better, I want to feel better, but right now I can do nothing but wait. Wait for the next semester to start, wait for my ankle to recover, wait for me to think nicer thoughts perhaps, wait for me to feel better, and wait for the immigration agency to finally approve my application. I hate waiting, but all I could do is wait. So right now, I am here, just typing out stuff. I guess I'm going to write up the Neutrals next as promised, and maybe that's the last time I'll do some introspection. Until then, to whoever that is reading, have a nice day, take care of your ankles, and don't forget to floss.

Figure 25.1: Sending my couchsurfer off

Figure 25.2: A pair of snails