Christmas Holidays :D

I am done with my exams and am on holiday. I think that apart from that stats one they all went reasonably well but i should forget about that now, I'm on holiday and will be snowboarding for my first time tomorrow. Spending a week in a chalet with 20 or so other internationals near Mont Tremblant, an hour north of Montreal, which itself is about 7 hours or something away from here, and then a couple of days in Quebec city and back to Montreal for Hogmanay.
Got to get all my stuff packed and ready to go.

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So Unbelievably Cold

I had an exam today and to get to it, I had to walk in minus 28.7 degrees. I dont know what it was with the windchill but I think someone said minus 40. I was sat in the exam hall and I could barely write for the first 10 minutes or so, my hands were so cold. It felt even worse on the way home. Still I hope this means we're going to get a lot of snow for the snowboarding which I'm leaving for tomorrow and will hopefully be doing on Wednesday! :D

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More Group Photos From Unit 50

This time without Barry.We waited for him for ages but the last couple of days he's gone out for "lunch" and not come back till I was in bed so we gave up waiting. We had plenty of opportunity but it got left till the day Joey leaves, if he comes back to see us some time i suppose we could get some then. To make the background less plain, I hung my flag up.


Joey has gone now.

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-17.7 in shorts

It's really cold outside so I decided I'd brave it in shorts and tshirt and ok I have long socks on but they're not very thick so dont do much to keep the legs warm. Zubair was too chicken to come out so he took a picture from the door. I was only out for about a minute.


Only 2 more days! Joey has already finished and he's going home today.

Congratulations John & Mala! I wish I could have been there for your wedding. I hope it went well and you both had a fantastic time. I look forward to seeing the pictures from it and also I'll see you when I get back.

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Exams

I have never come out of an exam as unsure of whether or not I passed it as with Stats 333 - Applied Probability. The one on Friday Stats 330 - Mathematical Statistics - was fine and since I had covered all the material at Heriot Watt, I will be quite annoyed if I haven't done very well. This other one though, the questions are asked in such a way that you don't know what they're asking so I have no clue whether what I put down was what she wanted or not, I really hope it was. Nothing I can do about it now though, there had better be a different lecturer if I do resit it; this one was absolutely terrible.
2 more to go and then I'm off to Tremblant :D They are relatively straight forward but I messed up a midterm for one of them so that's going to drag me down a bit.

ActSc 363 - Introduction to Casualty Insurance - on Monday
ActSc 331 - Life Contingencies 1 - on Tuesday

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Kris' Ringette

Ringette is a game like hockey in so much as it's played on ice and you score into a goal. Obvious differences lie in the fact that it's not a puck being passed around but some sort of a ring and instead of sticks with some sort of a head, its just a stick as if the head had been sawn off which is put within the ring. There are other differences, some more subtle than others, in the rules.
I went with Maggie and her ex who is in Canada for a hockey tournament so he was able to compare it (I don't think he was impressed but didn't want to offend Kris) to see Kris, a girl from our class, play.


Classes are finally over but now I suppose I'm going to have to start revising. Just over 2 weeks and I'll be off to Mont Tremblant

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