Long time no see!

Hey guys!

Okay it's offical I'm bad at the blogging consistsancy, but in my defence I was out of the country without internet access for the past week. It was reading week! So I was off to Cuba for drunken debauchery and lots and lots of sun. 

I mean look at this!! It's literally picture perfect and I wished I could've stared at it forever. So yes yes it was great I love Cuba I want to go back over and over again. 

What can I say about Cuba? Free alcohol, crappy food, great beaches, sub par rooms in the hotel, beautifully friendly people. 

It was so great to get away for reading week after my incredibly stressful week of midterms and essays but once it was all said and done my only concern was my plane being on time and what drink I was going to have first. 

So out of my exhaustion where I was awake for 36 hours after flight delays and just travel craziness my brain has yet to recover. Didn't stop me from writing a brutal midterm this morning and doing an interesting presentation on William Blake. Thank god for late class tomorrow and a much needed gym session.

So I've also decided to go vegetarian for the foreseeable future in my healthy life styler changes. 

Well I'm headed for a nap! Have a great day lovely people, talk to you soon! 

Love, Kate    

Almost midterms!

Hello all!

How are all you lovely people this fine Sunday afternoon? Personally I'm procrastinating on writing an essay, but what would college be without staying up until nearly 3 am writing a sub par essay because you've just given up on caring? My favourite is the digression of a college essay, beginning is strong and completely awesome, and as the redbull kicks in it slowly gets worse and worse until you type your closing sentence, read it over and go "well it's done..". Something I've learned to do well since the beginning of university. I haven't really helped myself either. Going out twice this weekend when I should be studying and writing my two essays all due Wednesday. 

My weekend started Friday night by going to the second last night of igloo fest! Man gonna miss this event until next year. It's a pretty cheap night if you take the STM and drink at home. And I'm all about cheap!

And I must say I felt hella cute when I went out. Even though igloofest requires ample layers of clothing, I still felt cute until the sweaters and coats! 

So here's my "I feel cute as shit" selfie. I know how badly you all wanted to see it. But last night! 

Last night, was the celebration of my favourite twins birthday! Maria and Dimitri have been great since I moved here. I got my much needed girlfriend as well as a good guy bud. One thing I miss about home is my boys, I've always had a lot of guys friends and that's something i don't have here so when we all go out it's always fun! In true Greek style we drank ouzo and went to a Greek bar.

Never thought alcohol and some Greek dancing could be so fun. Even though the dancing looks way easier than it is! I ended up taking a very expensive cab home instead of waiting for Dimitri to 

drive us, but hey now I know how much it costs to go from Avenue Du Parc back home, so life lessons, right? Still constantly impressed that two weekends in a row I've been able to get myself home strictly speakig french. It must be the alcohol. 

So! I'm quickly approaching midterms, the next 3 days are crazy busy. 2 test and 2 essays all before Wednesday. Heading to yoga tonight to relax myself before I get down to my stress. Then Friday I'm off to Cuba!! Let the count down commence! 

 

Song of the week: We Are Tonight - Billy Currington 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJIB_s_7dcw

Have a lovely week! Good night good morning good afternoon but talk to you soon! 

Super Bowl weekend 2014

Hey guys!

I'm horrible I know I'm sorry. I've been so busy. I leave for Cuba in just under a week, I have an essay due tomorrow that I haven't even started. I'm so busy, and I swear I was hungover for days and days. But here I am.

Friday night I went to a 1920s party! There was swing dancing and lots of alcohol. Everyone was dressed up and it was great. I hung out with a bunch of polish people, and when they found out that yes I am polish too, they realized I could keep up with thgere drinks. I didn't have an empty hand after that. Man drunkenness to a holy different level let me tell you. 

Friday night was the second time I've ever gotten emotional because I was drunk, but thank god I didn't do that in front of anyone. My worst offence of the night was calling my best friend that lives 9 hours away at 330 am. Just to say I miss him. I could've been worse so hey, points for not being "that girl"!! 

Nothing like sitting in bed at 330 am eating McDonalds, getting mad at a boy for reasons I can't remember, crying because I was so so mad, and then calling my bestfriend "cause I miss you and just really need you right now". Man we all have a night like that right?? 

It was my friends birthday weekend, so I'll blame it on that. The weekend came to a close with a handful of friends and watching the superbowl. I met a new really funny guy and I hope we can be friends. That's one thing about Monteal is that I don't have a lot of male friends and that's something I miss.

Song of the post Bruno Mars - Treasure

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPvuNsRccVw

Can we comment about how disappointing that game was?? I watched the entire game, and Bruno Mars was fabulous, but that was the highlight of the very boring game. What did you think of the Super Bowl? Comment below.

Oh well it's been fun guys, until next time. Good night good morning good afternoon but talk to you soon.

A little party never killed nobody

Hey guys!

So this week has been a tad on the boring side, just doing the school thing. I think I've pulled a muscle in my stomach because I've been so ridiculously sore from my ribs to my belly button that it keeps me awake at night. I can't even call it sore it feels like I'm being stabbed in gut repeatedly. So I'm going to try to head back to the gym today after taking two days off, because I seriously need to go for a run. But hey I said I was starting at 153.7 (I think?) I'm now solidly at 149.3 so I'm happy with that, gotta keep those results coming!

Tuesday night I went to see the Canadiens play with my favourite twins. They're turning 19 on Monday so this was like my birthday gift to them, a winning game against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Perks of living in Montreal pretty much everyone loves the Habs, especially the guys. See male on left, my new love hate hockey buddy. Love because we love the same team, hate because he is constantly making fun of my favourite player. I mean come on Brier isn't that bad!! He even scored last night against the Bruins, and yes I took every opportunity to text said hater, and have a "ha ha!" Moment.

Hopefully I can carry the tradition of taking them to hockey every year for their birthday cause it was fun! 

Tonigh I'm headed out to a 1920s party. It's called the "Fuck Prohabition party". I have everything I need but shoes and a head band. Biggest struggle of all: my shoes are all black and my dress is light pink. I'll go on my search later today hopefully I'll find something cheap and pretty. There's a pair of shoes at forever 21 that could work but paying 40 dollars for cheap shoes doesn't sound too great.  Pictures to come!! Here's to bringing out my inner Gatsby.

In true Gatsby style, and because the soundtrack to the Great Gatsby is my favourite album. 

Song of the Post: 100 dollar bill - Jay Z 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAESe4Dc0HY

Good night, good morning, good afternoon but talk to you soon. 

Igloofest 2014!

Hey guys!!

Ah I love Montreal in the winter! I mean when it's warmer than -40 it's a pretty good time. Well Montreal is always a good time I've found, but I had one hell of a time last night! Me and two of my friends ventured down to Vieux Port (old port), and went to Igloofest! Nothing like a nice outdoor rave to heighten your sprits right? http://www.igloofest.ca/

Igloofest is this massive rave that happens 4 weekends in a row here in good old mtl, from Thrusday-Saturday it is a huge party! It's also nice that it's a 18+ event, so you never have to guess if that guys is just an older looking 15 year old (very common problem here). 

Aside from the piles and piles of people, being outside at night and dancing while sipping back your alcoholic beverage of choice is really really fun! 

So after some great #mtlmoments I will defiantly be going back, hopefully before this years event is over. And I'm now also a proud owner of the offical Igloofest Beanie, the hats I've been seeing all over town and wishing I had one. I gotta say there's nothing like being a student in Montreal, so many amazing things! All the time!! 

Song of the post : Alive- Krewella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-gYJBsln-w
Nothing like a good part song!

 So after my crazy night, that included meeting the cutest boy ! More on that at a later date if anything happens that is. Sunday is just going to be catching up on school reading for the week, and going to my yoga class later tonight! Gotta get that fitness on! 

Have a wonderful couple of days my loves. Good night, good morning, good after noon, but talk to you soon!

Love, Kate 

The F word!

Hey guys! 

So it's Wednesday, and Wednesdays are usually boring posts so I have three things in mind for this post. Healthy lifestyle, philosophy, and the f word(not the one you might think). I read some where that in order to make your blog compelling you need pictures, links, and not to be neutral. So I'm no longer Switzerland, I think. 

So first health. It's such a bullshit saying "new year, new me" but guys I'm sorry I'm kind of starting to feel that. With the shit I was dealing with at the beginning of the month, I was a lot harder on my appearance than I normally am. So for the past week and a half I've been making changes. eating clean; check! Working out: check! I'm actually using my gym membership this semester, and I love it! I also have a yoga class on Sunday evenings so it's great!! My goal is 15 pounds in 12 weeks. 12 weeks from now will be bringing me into the first weeks of May. It's not so much the number for me as it is how I feel, and how I think I look. So here is the big ugly number. I'm starting at 153.5 (cringe! Cringe!!) wish me luck. My poor butt is sore from the start up of working out again, but it'll be worth it.

Second, I want to touch on two things from school today. My professor is pretty cool, and famous apparently you can google him: Andrea Falcon. The first being just simply a quote from my philosophy class. We've been studying Bertrand Russell, and through reading his novel, The Problems of Philosophy I've stumbled upon some great quotes. Now my first week I thought it all sounded completely crazy. We were studying Decartes and I was ready to give up. But this makes sense to me. Give it some thought.

 

"Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life." 

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 

  

Ok! So lastly I want to address the dreaded F word. Not that one, the other one, Feminism. (Ew, run! Run as fast as you can!) But really it Femism was brought up today in one of my literature classes. Now in school I'm pretty quiet, I keep to myself, something about being one of 30,000 under grads is just completely great with me. I never raise my hand, not because I don't have anything to say, mostly because I'm just shy in front of 80-200 of my classmates I have never met before. 

But I want to explain my view of Femism. But before I can do that I have to note the fact that most people don't actually know what the word means. As defined by Oxford Dictonary, Femism: the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. Ok now that were clear, if not here's the link to the oxford site ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/feminism?q=feminism ).

Okay so I'm not about to go all "fema-nazi" on you. (My favourite internet coined term). But I struggle to actually call myself a feminist because of the stigma attached to the word. Forgetting the feminist extremists, I would like to say that yes I am a feminist. I believe in the equality for all sexes. I believe that the mold of what a "woman should be" and what a "man should be" are bullshit. I think that gender roles are disgusting and that it's disgusting how much it stil exists. For crying out loud, it's 2014 and people are still freaked out about male nurses, and female CEOs. That is my biggest problem with society is the gender roles. I also hate that women aren't allowed to get mad with out a man saying "it's her time of the month" please for the love of god, shut up. My view on Femism isn't all that shocking or different, I would love to see in my life time for women and men to be on an equal playing field, not just in the work place but in every day life. I feel like it's coming. Let's hope people. The next links are some of my favourite recent feminism posts. The second is on a topic I will get to at a later date, but still a good one anyway. 

http://www.upworthy.com/oh-snap-cate-blanchett-asks-e-why-they-filmed-her-like-that-but-not-the-men-9?c=ufb1

http://www.upworthy.com/dont-ask-hillary-clinton-about-abortion-if-you-cant-handle-her-answer?c=ufb4

http://www.upworthy.com/the-struggles-of-being-a-woman-in-a-male-dominated-field-summed-up-in-a-short-comic-re2-3b?c=ufb1

http://www.upworthy.com/sexual-objectification-what-it-is-why-its-damaging-and-how-we-change-it-11111111112222222228?c=ufb1

If you couldn't tell, upworthy is one of my favourite sites. 

Good night, good morning, good afternoon, but talk to you soon.

Love, Kate

Live music! Oh yes!

Hey guys!

So through my sickness I have come out alive! Thank god, I was getting really sick or being sick. What would life be like if I didn't get sick at the beginning of every semester? It would be wrong, of course. 

Last night I showed my embarrassing side and went to the Cody Simpson concert here in MTL. Being one of the oldest ones there aside from the moms, I got my drunk on and had a great time. Yes I actually had fun at Cody Simpson, maybe it's the blonde hair or the Aussie accent but man I love me some Cody Simpson. Or if I had twitter #noshame ok maybe a little shame. He was ridiculously good! I haven't been to a concert in a really really long time, since August actually (seriously I hate this broke student thing). But one thing about me is that I live for live music. 

And the opening act!! Plugin Stereo, super super great he wrote my favorite song Truly Madly Deeply, not the 90s one the newer song performed by One Direction. Super nice and really cute I got to talk to him in between sets and it was pretty great. 

So that was my exciting night. And now my first yoga class is upon me later tonight. Not going to lie I'm very nervous! I haven't done yoga in nearly a year it's probably going to be hard but I guess the best way to get back in is head first. I've been trying my hardest to take care of myself, eating clean and working out daily. I'm really sick of feeling disgusted when I look in the mirror so it's time to make a change. 

Song of the post 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwD4eJGxPc4

Oh Darling- Plugin Stereo (the lovely man I met last night) 

Good night, good morning, good afternoon, but talk to you soon!

Love, Kate