Well last week and weekend I had the opportunity to go to Toronto for some University stuff. It was scary to think I was planning possibly the next 4 years of my life. Anyway, my Dad and headed out to Toronto Wednesday night, and our flight was late, and delayed so it was super late. Plus, we lost 2 hours getting there, so the sun was coming up when we arrived! So I went to the hotel and had a nice long nap while my Dad went to say hi to some friends and co-workers at his office. I went to Ryerson which is the second most applied for University in Canada...and the programs are all pretty small - or the ones I want anyway. It's RIGHT downtown, as in squish all the buildings from U of C together and drop them in between Kensington and 17th Ave. That's Ryerson. It's handy because all of the buildings are so close together, and they also have an underground fitness center. It's has got to be about 5 or 6 underground floors of gyms, tennis courts, a pool, dance studios, ping pong, squash courts, yoga studios....everything. It was crazy. 

We also had the chance to go to a pretty intense interview at York University. I never knew the caliber at York, but after doing my research I was really impressed. The CEO's from the top banks in Canada are all graduates from York. (Royal Bank, CIBC, BMO, TD and HSBC I think). Also the Director of Photography from There's Something About Mary went there, as well as Rachel McAdams. The head choreographer for all of Cirque du Soleil - Debra Brown also went there. There's tons of Supreme Court judges that went to the prestigous Law School there and lot's more. The film department is crazy, they get about 1 500 applications a year, from which they chop of 500 from marks. Those next 1 000 are asked to submit a Supplementary Application with essays, long questions, resumes, reference letters etc. and all of the Faculty goes through all of them, from which they only keep 250! That's where I am...and from the 250, they interview them and choose 48. Crazy? I think so. But the interview couldn't have gone better, and I am so grateful for that. I didn't treat it like an interview, but rather just a fun chance to show a panel of people what I have done. I played them my reel, and they seemed really impressed. They also had my supplementary application right there, and referred to it, and talked about my dancing and stuff. They were super nice, and I'm just glad it went so well. The students at York seemed GREAT! They all talked about how it was a family, and one girl loves it so much she's coming to do her Master's there because she's not ready to leave yet. Some people were just normal gorgeous girls, handsome fellows, some artsy people - nothing too extreme. No one seemed to judge or care what you look like - aka I can be a bum in my sweats if I go there YAY! But they have this little lounge they call "The Couches" and they all just hang out and visit and talk. So it seemed cool. But it was a HUGE campus, and it was not downtown. So I guess both were just different.

Here are a few pictures of my trip....

Here is a picture of me at the newly renovated National Ballet School where Libby went! Apparantly this logo on the sign and all of the clothing that they just recently changed, they are not happy with so they are releasing a new logo, new sign, new merchandise in April.

This is the Shoe Room where students can be NBS attire, and dancewear. They also have millions of pointe shoes, and even their own handmade brand you can only buy there called Suffolk. I got pointe shoes there last time!

This is some crazy sign on Church Street. For those of you who don't know what Church Street is, it's a gay street. Most of the guys walking down it are gay, and there are little rainbow flags in some of the windows. I guess I shouldn't be too judgmental and make assumptions because I was there with my Dad and neither of us are gay! So lot's of people aren't...but typically there are. Now I'm just rambling. Anyway, I was shocked to see that sign!

A really sad view of the CN tower. It was from the car window at a red light, but I wasn't sure if I was going to see it again!

They have a tram system in Toronto that is still operated electrically - hence all the cables up there. It's weird seeing the trams on little tracks, in fact people have to step onto the road and cross the lane just to get on the tram. Unlike Calgary where the buses pull right to the curb for people to get on! I thought that was weird.

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Walks in the Wilderness

So I have no idea how to use my new camera, but I thought I'd go take some pictures with my sisters on a walk on Saturday. Rachel kindly led us up the most icy, scary hill in Edworthy park i've ever seen. Sadly enough, she was the one wearing flip flops and could walk perfectly fine on the ice, and Libby and I in our runners were sliding on our butts to avoid wipeouts. Needless to say, Rachel wore the camera around her neck because for once I trusted her more than me!

Here are a few of the fun pictures. We went up to this ledge that is usually empty, but this time there were two guys and a girl and the guy was playing guitar. This resulted in two things, 1. It was rather awkard for my sisters to try pose and face these musicians, and 2. However it was really nice music. Luckily they weren't weird, or smoking anything or anything! (Ya never know what you might find in a forest right!)

We had fun to say the least!! But wow I have SO much more respect for Heather and other photographers because I would change settings over and over and the pictures never seemed to turn out how I wanted! But this was probably one of the first times I have ever used my camera, so I hope I will get better with time!

This first picture is of some falls that are frozen. It was really cool because the weather was warm and beautiful, yet these falls were frozen!

This was a cool pond we had to walk over, and all of the trees were sticking out of the ice. This ice was also completely solid, I almost don't think it will be melted by summer!

Alas, the view from Rachel's "Sanctuary" as she calls it. Driving down Shaganappi I love seeing the forest on the hill and river as I approach Memorial, but this time it was different being on the other side and facing the Children's Hospital.

This is a picture of Rachel and Libby on a log over the falls. It was unbelievably slippery standing on the ice. Rachel actually slid from the top all the way down about 100 feet until she stopped herself on a log. (Did I mention she is crazy?)

This picture cracks me up. Now that's a long way down if they fall!

Anyway, there are a few more pictures I wanted to add, but I will do that tonight if I have a chance. I love how no one even knows this blog exists yet, but I'm posting anyway! How funny!! Well I guess it is time for me to bid adieu! Take care everyone!

Bienvenue to Blogging....

Hello Everyone!

Sadly enough, I never used my "Nikkinack" blog and now it has been taken by another user! I like to be able to comment on people's blogs, and now that I don't have facebook I thought I would create a blog.

Someone at work has been calling me Dilly, and I never knew what it was. Then they told me to look it up in the dictionary and I did. As much as it isn't true, I was very excited to have a nickname, that doesn't have anything to do with my name! (Don't get me wrong, I love Nikkinack, Shabada-bada-boom, Shabs, Nikeeshcole etc. but I wanted a non-name one!) ...so unless someone comes up with something else - Dilly is what it will be.

I'm just at work right now, so I don't have much time to post, but hopefully in the midst of busy school portfolios, video editing and trying to balance time for friends, I will be able to post some pictures or something soon!

Heck, if I spend even half the time blogging that I spent on Facebook all y'all bloggers are going to have some serious competition!

Until next time....au revoir!