Kapeekapo

Ah my lovely Katimafamjam. How I love them <3...it feels like we have been together can you really believe that tommarrow it will only have been three weeks with these people that I have come to know. I love my group....My group has to be one of the best out there. But anyways I shall now update you on my last three weeks! and of our future plans in kapeekapo village!

Well week one, hectic. I seriously cannot remember any of it. Well we made whole wheat bread, went over some of the rules with the medicine hat group (Did I mention I got to go to medicine hat?!?!)...also the rules are all really obvious (curfew is 12 on weekdays and 2 on weekends:D YAY!) We met our amazing PL Erin...seriously you are lucky if you ever get her she is the most amazing young adult I have ever met. I have no idea of anything time wise so how about just a big blurb until I get back to present time and day? Our basement flooded...and I couldn't use the group computer to update, and I felt bad bumming someone else's computer. We didn't have our basement for a long while, until thursday or friday...but now we have it back. SO WE CAN HANG OUT DOWN THERE AGAIN!?! We went for a hike in the coulees (small hills) and that was fun, got to see the high level bridge from up close. We went to watch a soccer game, Lethbridge university vs. Calgary university (Calgary won). We volunteered at the South Country Fair, pretty much a hippie fest. It was fun though, Jas, Willie, Helena and I danced in this misty thingy, and got drenched. The music was epic, and we got so many compliments from the people who saw us helping. Also we met a lot of past participants there. We also got to start working! I am working at the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale...I get a ride to work everyday in the most epic orange car that blasts tons of 80's and 90's music (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lol) So far I have got to help clean out bird baths, clean bird cages, put up the bird cages and take them down, water tree (apparently that's my main job this summer :( ) oh well... But hey I got an epic STAFF t-shirt the other day:) Great fun that is. Except the centre closes for the season on September 10th and we don't leave Lethbridge until September 28th...so I might have to work in the Mouse House for two weeks...ah la vie! French lessons started...I think they seem like a total joke...seriously the woman is telling us verbs but not how to conjugate them...and then she taught us numbers and the alphabet today like argh! It is so frustrating I wish she would teach us practical application of french...looks like I am f-ed for Quebec City. oh well...I have Helena...aka the best person to know in Quebec! :) Oh...For one of our meals our PL tied all of our hands together...not the best experience in the world, but somehow still fun. Now onwards to more recent times....(aka Cause I don't remember anything else!)

Well Saturday we played a game called "Bigger and Better" where you start off with a paper clip and have to trade up getting bigger and better items. My group (AKA team kickass, Kristen and me) traded our paperclip for a weird/creepy doll -> Squirt gun -> pair of sunglasses (Kristen then found a duck on the side of the road that we added to our pile) -> old atlas, giant candle, bedskirt -> painting, purse, and still the old bedskirt -> trampoline! YES!!! Other groups had great success too, in total we had groups bring home: GROUP Connor, and Cedric, two old tvs, camping stove, and one more thing, GROUP Morgan and Willie a bean bag chair, weird giraffee statue, and a lamp, GROUP Sterling and Helena a lamp, and GROUP Cole and Jazz a weird soccer ceiling fan. Pretty good right, all for a paperclip...yeah!

Sunday we got to volunteer at the Lethbridge International Airshow! It was fun, while we were driving in though Erin our PL hit a gofer. She squealed and me being in the backseat laughed thinking she was squealing about the air show and being super excitied...well no it was because she hit a GOFER! Anyways the airshow was fun, we were on recycling detail. Except Liz (Family Centre lady) was all like "Hey Keagan, wanna hop on my tractor and help me with loading up the recycling" of course I was like "Yes" because I had never been on a tractor before....fun for the first ten minute and then boring as sin...hop of the tractor grab recycling throw it into the back, get back on the tractor. Except I had ripped my pants riding behind Liz on the tractor...lol at least she's an authorized driver:) Except tragedy struck, and my foot got slightly run over by an ATV while putting cardboard in another tractor. It hurts, but it's not swollen or sprained...all I have is weird red indents on my foot. But we also got fed there too! Great fun times.

MONDAY WE GOT OUR LAST GROUP MEMBER! Jillian arrived monday, much to our excitement and now I have a bunk buddy! She is on the top of my bunk, and I am on the bottom.

What else....homesick as crazy but not as much anymore. I feel like my homesickness is a cup filled to the brim. If I don't think about my family, home, my twin, anything to do with B.C. (Shaking the glass) then I'm fine, as soon as I do that I feel sad and homesick. But it is only like four and a half months away from them:) But then that makes me sad to think that I have to leave my katima fam who I have grown to love.

Happier things today:)

PEACE OUT!