For most of my friends their last day for high school was back on June 13, 2017.
For me it was the last Friday of July this year. I just had a bit of upgrading to do before I started university. This last month was truly enjoyable for me, it wasn’t just about getting good grades and stressing all of the time. It was about me and my friends having healthy competition and just having a good time whenever we could because other wise we would juts be roasting each other on our group chat while our amazing teacher taught us the fundamental counting principal. I feel like this was my proper goodbye to the last 16 years of my life. A healthy, stress free and fun way to end such a big chapter in my life. And yes, 16 years, I forced my parents to put me into preschool when I was a year and a half. My friends and I, called ourselves the memeteam, but in the end it became the dream team. With our daily visits to CPU by Centennial, and Mirza’s crazy manual driving, Alex’s dark depressing humor, Richard’s instagram page dedicated to his booty gains, and Aden’s multitude of faces, and Leili’s obsession with her puppy, Tess’ genius, and Brooklyn with her country music, we were a family. Five hours a day every day we spent together and just made the most of it to make it still feel like we weren’t missing out on summer.
As soon as I turned the other way from my new friends I had made that summer, as soon as I pushed out the first door I could feel weight being lifted off my chest. And as soon as I walked through the second set of doors, it was like this huge weight was taken off my chest. I was relieved. And as a friend said to me that day “For them they still have some way to go. For us, it’s the beginning of the rest of the rest of our our lives.” We’re out for good. Finally. And as cliché I might sound, it does feel like the beginning of the rest of my life. This big chapter is officially over. Over for good. I’ve been looking forward to this since, well since the beginning of high school, and I guess since I was 7 years old. I couldn’t wait for it to be over and now it is. I just have three exam hours left. And thats it.
My last month, my last day was everything I ever wanted it to be, and I don’t think it could have ended any better.
The show is called X Company and was aired from 2015-2017 on CBC. The plot of the show is focused on a group of five allied (Canadian, American, and British) spies during World War II. It’s based on a real-life Canadian “spy camp” named Camp X that was active during the second world war. The show is made up of the different missions the allied agents were sent on while they are behind enemy lines in Europe. It’s so interesting to watch shows like this, especially because it’s Canadian, it gives us a look into how Canada contributed in WW2. I feel like Canada is quite forgotten in the majority of Hollywood war movies where the main centre were the British, the Americans and the actual fighting in the war. That’s why I love X Company because provides a different perspective with the Canadian background and, not only the battle but the planning and intelligence associated with the war. You get to see them deceive German soldiers, crack codes, figure out confidential enemy plans, etc., it’s really quite a “keeps-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat” type of show. Filled with action, drama, suspense and a bit of romance, X company has very quickly become one of my favourite shows. (Plus the guys are super attractive, trust me, so there’s another reason to watch.) 
Band of Brothers re-tell the story of Easy Company, who were a company of paratroopers in the 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne Division. The miniseries takes you on a journey of everything Easy Company has ever been through, from their training in boot camp all the way to the end of the war in 1945. It’s quite detailed and every character portrays a real paratrooper who was in Easy Company. All their information was collected through memoirs, biographies and interviews with (some of) the real men of Easy Company. I love this miniseries because it gives you such an authentic experience of what it was like to be a paratrooper in WW2. It makes you feel the brotherly bond that forms between all the soldiers after each battle and therefore giving you a sense of the tragedy of causalities in the war. Band of Brothers is so real, it doesn’t just show you, like most war movies, the bloody fights and physical aspects of it all, but it brings mentality into the situation as well. Through every episode you can see it in the eyes of every soldier the pain and emptiness of the things they saw, the things they can’t explain, the things people at home wouldn’t understand. It really gives you a feel of what it’s like to be sitting there, in the cold snow, in enemy territory, having seen too much and never knowing what was going to happen. You’re definitely given a sense of what kind of sacrifices it took for you to be resting safe in your country. (Even though it’s based on an American company, you could imagine that’s how all soldiers felt.) 
Here’s the deal folks, because it’s a “lotion sunscreen,” I find it applies itself much easier than other sunscreens and plus, this one doesn’t just protect you from the sun, it hydrates your skin as well! (There’s also a version of that sunscreen adapted for people with sensitive skin!) I also find that it smells much better than the regular sunscreens and is far less greasy. Like the product name indicates, it feels more or less like lotion and doesn’t give you that stickiness after you’ve smeared it on your skin. I have had this sunscreen since June but I’ve actually started using it more consistently this month because I have to go sailing under the summer sun for seven hours a day for two weeks! What joy! But Aveeno lotion sunscreen has kept me from burning. Compared to the spray on sunscreen and the ordinary sunscreen, this one beats them all. 
I’ve put in To-Do Lists, for summers and school. Some items on my list are legit (such as “participate more in class”) but some are simply weird, just to keep things interesting (like “cry so you remember that you have feelings”). With that, I also have lists of movies/shows to watch and books to read. And of course, a bucket list. Something about making lists is so satisfying, I love it. Next thing I have in my bullet journal 2.0 is a variety of little doodles. For example, if there’s a certain show or book I’m obsessed with, I’d dedicate a whole page to that and doodle the characters’ names along with mini drawings here and there. Sometimes, I’ll rewrite quotes as well but with fancy fonts so it looks professional and cute even though the actual quote is “I love tacos” or something like that. But every doodle page is organised so the drawings would be of the same category. All doodles under “Plants” would be of plants and all doodles under “Stranger Things” would be Stranger Things related. This journal also consists of journal entries and planning pages. Playlists, schedules, room plans, they’re all in there. Opinions, secrets, facts, they’re in there too. It’s like a burn book, but nice. This tiny bullet journal is all me. My thoughts, experiences, memories, my entire brain is on every page. It’s kind of an “All About Me” book in bullet journaling format. It’s a scrapbook, a diary, a (not mean) burn book, a sketchbook, a travel book and a bullet journal, all in one. You can get all that in a blank paged, $5 journal.
