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Happy Easter!

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Hello all,

I am a bit late but I got to wish everyone a Happy Easter! I hope you all were able to spend it with loved ones! My Easter was great. I was able to spend it with my family. I am currently back in Toronto for roughly a month.  I could have probably spent Easter in London and celebrated it with my friends and family there but I decided to come back home.  Not a lot of people make the trip back home in April because there is only a month remaining before school ends in June but I am so grateful I was able to be back home even if it is just for a few weeks. I still got 2 weeks left before I fly back to London to take my exams.

Speaking about exams, there are six exams to do in May. These are all final exams and each one is worth at least 40% or more of the final course mark. I think one of my exams is worth 55% of the course mark; which is a lot. All six exams are stretched within the month of May. The first 2 weeks of May contain 4 exams in total (2 exams per week). Then the final 2 weeks of May contain 1 exam per week. This unique exam schedule can be beneficial as I can focus on the exams I have at the beginning of the month and focus my time here in Canada revising for these exams and then focusing on the last 2 exams when I am back in London as I will have an entire week just to revise my notes and prepare for those exams. Sometimes I feel you have to be strategic about how you organize your revision and study time and align it with the exam schedule you are given. I have begun my revision for these final exams and I am starting to get into exam mode soon.

While being back in Canada, I applied for a few jobs to keep me busy in the summer and help me make some money, as I will be in Canada for summer. I managed to get an interview with Lenscrafters last week and I hope I will get the job. I feel like working in the optics field I’ll be able to use the knowledge I’ve gained from my first year in the Optometry program and also learn new things in the real world that I can take with me into second year.

Also being in Canada, I managed to follow the Raptors playoff run as well as the Leafs playoff run. Actually I think this is the first time all four major sports teams are all playing at the same time. It is very electric in the City. You see people walking around wearing their jerseys and sports apparel and everyone is just pumped and enjoying the playoff vibes. I will try to enjoy my next two weeks here in Canada before I fly back to UK while I study for exams.

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