Live from Calgary….
Well, just last week I handed in my final assignment for my undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba. Granted that I don’t fail my classes, I will be walking the podium on May 26th. It hasn’t quite hit me yet that I will be done with this B.A. because I immediately start my MA this fall. We have been to Saskatoon looking for places to live and checking out the University there. Its a nice place and I think it will be a fun two years there.
I’m not sure what people mean when they say Saskatoon is flat, though, because it isn’t! It is in fact quite hilly.
After Saskatoon we headed to Calgary and we are here now; came back from Banff today. I hadn’t been there since my final year of highschool in 2003, but I remembered the town pretty much like the back of my hand. This trip ends on Friday.
Then, in the first week of May I am hoping to head to Kalamazoo, MA for a medieval conference. To do this I am relying on student grants from the UM, although I’ve only received $100 so far. UMSU (Student Union) emailed me on Wednesday saying my application was incomplete and needed to be completed by Thursday! Quite the annoyance to be given less than a days notice. Plus, I am quite sure that I handed in a full application, and that it may have been misplaced.
I may realize that my time at the UM has come to and end when I head to Saskatoon. I’m working at UM full time over the summer, so it won’t feel like I’ve left. Every stage completed is really just the beginning of a harder portion of the adventure, so vorwärts, avanti, aller - let’s go!
– JGM





