my son is studying to be a house painter along with his singing career studies. He’ll always have the painting to fall back on if the singing career doesn’t take off – or while it is taking off!
Choose between education and girlfriend, well education should come first. I don’t know of course how it would work in Canada but here the girlfriend would see whether she could just come along and find education in the same place (or the other way round, if the girl had a promising uni program). But never just give up on your education.
Christmas cards sort of dried up here during Covid.