Fieldtrip not so extraordinaire

First of all I would like to say that the fieldtrip is by far one of my most liked concepts in the scholarly world. One gets to engage in a learning environment outside the norm usually to fantastic new insightful results. The fieldtrips in my mind, of course, always end up being far more exciting than their based in reality counterparts. For example, I went to bed at 4 in the morning last night, partially due to the excitement of a fieldtrip the next day, partly due to a mistimely drunk(drunken, drank?) energy drink and slightly due to the fact I had to work til midnight and wanted to feel like I didn't waste my entire day. But I digress, the fieldtrip is what matters here. In my mind we were going to travel into this exotic old fashioned world of Edmonton, complete with snacks and happy helpers. What I got was one happy helper (yay
for the jolly bloke whose name escapes me), no snacks (thought I should have expected that), and an old fashioned world without the exotic hint. I do intend on following up on this further, for now I'm just hitting me quota yo.
Cheers!

The Casino!

Hello fellow English 380-ers, considering I recently visited the flashy Edmonton locale known as the Fort Road Casino (actually I don't know is that is its real name... wait nevermind I do know it it's called Century Casino - and by now I don't feel like erasing that part so sorry my bad). Anyways, it reminded me of an earlier occasion of going to this casino with my Aunt Cindy when she was in town who is from Singapore (where I was born) who is opening up their first casino ever in the upcoming year. Now the Singapore government is much like something out of 1984 or V for Vendetta, the all-powerful government makes all the rules. On this note my Aunt was telling me they plan to charge 100 Singapore dollars (aboot 80ish here I think) for Singapore residents just to get into the place, but free if you're a foreigner (Incidently my Aunt got her Alberta Driver's License while she was here in the hopes they'll think she's from Canada and let her in for free). Long story short, if you lose at the casino the next time you go, take heart, someone else could've lost that much too, after paying 100 (or 80-ish) just to try.
Thanks for reading!
-Adam