Katima Family

In Order of appearance: Yaritza (Jaz), Cedric (With an accent over the e), Cole, Morgan, Kristen, Willie, Connor, Me in all my awkwardness, Helena, and of course Sterling

Ah My lovely family:) Aren't we adorable. Blog post tommarrow!

I've landed

My first plane ride was fun, it felt like a roller coaster taking off though, seriously I don't like watching a plane turn, it makes my stomach drop. This is only the second day! Yay...seriously it has been so buzy! We got in on Thursday morning at four am. Very tired participants. But then once we got up that morning we talked, had breakfast, and then went to the SAAG (South Alberta Art Gallery) where we then got to learn all about our work partners. Then today we went to the rest of the workpartners. Birds of Prey (Get to work cleaning cages, doing stuff with mice...won't even mention the mouse house) Family Center (Get to work with Kids) St Teresa, and St. Michael (Get to help with the elderly) Safety City (get to teach kids safety) Fifth on fifth (get to help people get jobs) ummm I have a horrible memory so I apologize to anyone I didn't mention

Seriously though, I am homesick...I miss my twin. I feel like the awkward one trying and failing to make conversation...any ideas on how to make the shy awkward kid, less of that?

I should go hang out with my group, see ya!

Down the Rabbit Hole

I leave for Katimavik today! It seems weird saying that, the months of hype and now its finally here. Weird... Anyways my room is looking bare, I had to clean it and strip my bed and now it just looks sterile. The sun is shining (not into my window still a little early for that) casting everything into light, that must be a good sign. We haven't had sun, mostly rain this year, so this must be great. I am nervous and scared yet extremely excitied! I have never seen any other province (other than B.C.) I have never been in a plane (that is where all of my nerves are coming from) Katimavik is going to give me a lot of firsts!

Well...I leave at around 12ish probably. My dad took my bags with him this morning to work. I am going to take the bus, and then the skytrain and hang around metrotown (a mall) with my mother and twin sister until my father finishes work. Then we will meet up with him and my bags. He will then proceed to take us to the airport (like a chauffeur) and then I will meet Cole (a groupmate who lives in Vancouver) and hopefully a girl named Erin (I believe she is in the medicine hat group, but she is going to travel with me and Cole) We get on a flight to calgary that takes off at 615, then we get to go to our katimavik group sitting in the airport. Then we all get into a bus, drop other groups off in our cluster and go to lethbridge (at 4 a.m.!!!)

CRAZY EXCITIED!!!

Work Placements for Lethbridge

If you are a volunteer about to leave the website has the information...don't know if these will still be there, but come on how could they not?!

So naturally I had to look at which ones I would be interested in...needless to say practically all of them!
Here they all are in no particular order:
Galt Museum & Archives (http://www.galtmuseum.com/)
Covenant Health - St. Micheal's Health Centre (http://www.stmartha.ca/)
Safety City Society of Lethbridge and Area(http://www.safetycitylethbridge.ca/)
St. Therese Villa (No website=no info:( )
Lethbridge Youth Foundation / 5th on 5th Youth Services (http://www.youth.ab.ca/)
Southern Alberta Art Gallery (http://www.saag.ca/)
Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation (http://www.burrowingowl.com/)
Yeah, your all jealous of these amazing sounding places to work.

Personally my favourites are the Galt Museum, Lethbridge Youth Foundation, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and I kinda like the Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation. Hmmm they all sound right up my alley. Lets just see what exactly I get to do, and if I like the person who runs it. That will be the deciding factor because don't all of these sound amazing! What a life changing experience:)

LOCATIONS?!

WHAT?! Really, your not just fooling me?

Yeah, all day today I was looking up my email and hoping to find out my locations, every single minute (just a slight exaggeration) I would run to the library computer lab at my school and look it up, at around 12:15 (my time) I went to my sisters classroom which is the graphic room and I got the email:D I was curious whether or not I should open it, because I was nervous lol and I didn't want BC(because I had never been out of BC)

My First Location: Lethbridge, Alberta (July 6th-Sept. 28th)
Awesome, I actually have some family members living there. Although I never talk to them, my great grandmother used to live there (She died last year) so I don't know how weird it will be. I hope I will get to see Calgary and Edmonton too!
SOME PICTURES:) (Credit to whomever took them)




Second Location: Quebec City, Quebec (Sept. 28th-Dec. 16)
Yeah, the one I wanted FOR SURE! I seriously wanted to jump around screaming and dancing, it will be amazing. The experience of a lifetime, Í get to go halfway around the country! YAY




Yeah, I am so excitied! How can Grad live up to this?