Another
summer has come and gone yet it seems like it never existed at all. This summer
was a busy one, it was one of the 1st summers that I was in Calgary during
the beginning (May and June) as well as traveling to Asia and other places in
the end of summer. I spent the first half of my summer taking spring classes at
the University of Calgary. While doing that I was trying to train as much as I
could for the US Open GPG and Canadian Open GP both in July one week after each
other.
The
tournaments came and went, they were tough and made me realize how unprepared I
really am to compete at the international level. I felt that I performed better
earlier in the year (April) in the two tournaments I played in Asia (Vietnam
International and Osaka International). After both of those tournaments I didn’t
have anything else to do for summer except travel to China to train (there is a
complete blog post all about that). So summer came, summer went I got to experience
a lot of things and see a lot of places.
2012 US Open Grand Prix Gold @ OCBC
2012 Canadian Open Grand Prix @ Richmond Olympic Oval
2012 Canadian Open Grand Prix @ Richmond Olympic Oval
Vancouver, Canada
Made new
friends, saw old friends and had some days when I just enjoyed life and lived
it to the fullest. This summer passed by so quickly that I am not sure where 4
months went, even though 2 of those months were spent in school it was still “relaxed”
in a sense as compared to my normal schedule. So now its the 1st day
back to school tomorrow (Monday September 10, 2012) and that will see me doing
3 courses. I will be coming so close to finishing off my degree of a double
major in communications and culture and my other major in Geography. After April
2013 all I will have left is option courses to finish in order to graduate.
Those will be a pain in the ass to finish since they will all have to be at the
400 level or higher.
New friends
Skating in Shenzhen, China
Beach in Shenzhen, China
All in all I
really don’t have much to say about this summer, my life will be back to its
normal schedule within a few weeks now. School, training, work, training, sleep
and then repeat Monday to Friday. The weekends are slightly different. Workouts
are going great and I am feeling stronger as well as looking a little bigger
which is nice even despite not doing any weights the month that I was in China.
Hoping to make some more progress by the end of the year that’s another 4
months so will be able to see some more results. As well with badminton and going
to make sure to work at things properly and see some progress with regards to
the mental strength.
Other than
that this is sort of a bittersweet post, goodbye summer and hello normal
routine. I know it’s not super in-depth or anything terribly interesting but in
all honesty and reality not that much happened this summer. Let’s see where the
rest of 2012 will take me, there’s lots of stuff that could potentially happen
and places to go. I’m excited to spend Halloween with friends and then
potentially go back down to Trinidad and Tobago during Christmas to see my
friends and family down there.
Goodbye Summer 2012
