So this week definately takes the cake in terms of Katimavik awesomeness! Seriously, great news all around and its only wednesday! Let me break this down for you...well my week so far.
Monday- Work 9-5, also started feeling better, and then a Project Leader from assinibo, sk (I KNOW I SPELT THAT WRONG...sorry) came to visit us and had dinner with us, VERY NICE (seriously if she is your PL treat her with respect she said nothing but nice things about you guys!) and then we went to go swimming but something got mixed up and it wasn't a "free" swim it was a class, so we took this class instead...FML it was called Deep Water Jog. Pretty much everything it says, but in water. I looked like I was having a seizure under water! And then most of the group hung out in the kitchen, and we had some fun with sparklers! EPICNESS! On the front step all of us with our sparklers, we were such wizards...except Helena killed me (SHE USED AN UNFORGIVABLE CURSE!! NO!!! shes going to azkaban)
Tuesday- Work 9-5 again (EVERYDAY!) felt much better this day still couldn't eat anything. Then we had our french lessons, I feel like we aren't going to learn enough to be sufficent in Quebec City seeing as the next time we see each other is September 13 (Because next tuesday she is gone, and we have our mid rotation reflections, and then for two weeks we billet)
Wednesday- Work 9-5 but something exciting happened today...I LEARNED KNOTS! Aka the knots I need to be able to hold the birds for people! Cheers all around! And then I walked in the door a few minutes ago and heard this EPIC AMAZING AWESOME SEXTACULAR NEWS!!!....
-drumroll please-
We can volunteer at an event where our band (Our theme song is "SAIL" by AWOLNATION) is playing at...
AND!
The local Member of Parliament wants to meet our group! So next Thursday he invited us to a pizza "party" (I don't know what the means exactly, I think pizza party and a seven year olds birthday party) to meet him! Its going to be held at my work too!
Also KYRA! For some reason I keep trying to comment to your comment and it won't let me...so hopefully you read this... I dunno
Kyra, yes my second rotation is Quebec City, like yours was. A few of my group have already creeped out your blog and been so happy to hear that we have two bathrooms in Quebec compared to the one we have here.
I am loving the program! Although it is hard being away from my twin sister... But this opportunity won't come along again :)
Any advice for Quebec City? things to see? jobs that sucked? Which bed to pick?
My response:
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
New News News
A few of my lovely katimavikers were in the news.
http://www.globallethbridge.com/video/scene+and+heard++aug+9/video.html?v=2087420788&p=1&s=dd#scene+and+heard go until 3:20 and thats where the segment starts. Ah look at little morgan and cedric. How I love them:) and our lovely PL:D
Well...it has been a long time since I posted. Two weeks. Ugh, too much free time, then no free time. It's frustrating but I guess thats what Katimavik life is. Ah well, we have done SO much in the past two weeks its crazy!
So the weekend of August 6th and 7th we volunteered at the Canadian Little League Championships. It was fun, we did 50/50 raffle tickets, sold merchandise, and sold door tickets. Best part is they fed us breakfast one day (And they had a TON of pancake mix left over and they gave it to us) and then the next day we got to have lunch. Ah French fries my favourite (this is where I drool, seriously I love french fries) Um Whalley (They represented British Columbia! It's in Surrey, near Vancouver) won and I really liked giving it to the Ontario kids, it was funny because we kept trying to prove which province was better. We got a free t-shirt volunteering there (seriously if I get any more free t-shirts I will never have to buy another one again!)
Then working at birds of prey. two weird stories...funnier one first. This guy came into Birds of Prey Centre with a puppet, and his son. He looked more concerned about his puppet than his son. Anyways he asks us if he has to pay for his puppet to come in. Weird... second story is that I got to ride home in the backseat with a baby short eared owl. He kept trying to jump out of his little box, it was so adorable!
apologize for the bad photo, jumping bird, plus bumpy car ride...bad picture.
This week we also did YOGA! Which I find interesting. I like that it keeps my mind buzy for the hour it takes, also hot showers that I dont have to wait for. Ah, I cannot wait for quebec city and that way our group will have more than one bathroom.
This weekend was interesting to say the least. I am so tired and ready to go back to work tommarrow. So Saturday we went to a Hudderite Farm Tour! Interesting, it was crazy. Okay this is just my opinion so if you want ignore it but like I say its my opinion and I am allowed to have one. I hated it there! I know its their lifestyle and such but ugh. We got to see everything, the capentry shop, the metal shop, the cattle place, the kitchen, the garden, the preschool, and the school house. But most of the guys were VERY sexist! It was so hard to hold my tongue! We were talking with one guy in the capentry shop and he looks at the guys and was like "This is mans work, Women always say they want to be treated equally until it comes to hard work" I was like "Calm down, this is their culture" BUT SERIOUSLY! ARGH! Most of the guys around the farm/colony had that attitude though. Anyways, we went to the area where the cows were and got to see the calves. They kept licking my hand and sucking on it, it was adorable. We also found a kitten that the girls were smitten with, it reminded me of my cat Nardo (My little orange kitten I had, he got killed by a cougar, always tried to attack things bigger than him:( ) We also got to go to their garden which is AMAZING! They kept handing us cucumbers, tomatoes, raspberries, I loved that part. Their rolls were amazing too! Oh those rolls, light and fluffy and homemade...I am drooling just thinking about it:) We also went to their school house. They learn German as children, and then when they get older they learn English, then learn German some more. They go to school Monday thru Friday 7 until 3:30, and then Saturday Sunday 7 until noon. Wow, they also finish school at 15, I don't think I would have ever been ready to finish school at 15! All in all, the women that showed us around were amazing and the sweetest ladies you would ever meet, and the children following us made me giggle, but the guys yeah its their lifestyle whatever. Except the guy that we asked to do the tour with named Jason, he was nice and very polite to the girls.
Then later that afternoon the Medicine Hat Group came! Crazy night proceeded. Although a lot of them went off and did their own things, a few of us helped with murder. We played a game called Werewolf, it was fun. It is so much better with a larger group, it was weird though when I woke up and their was so many more people! Except our one bathroom was definately in need of a clean after 22 people.
Sunday we volunteered at the BMX event in Lethbridge. People there actually knew where Maple Ridge, B.C. was! Apparently there is like a giant track there and thats why they knew it. My job there was helping with food, I got to serve people their burgers and ask if they wanted sauce on it or not. Medicine Hat group helped there too, so there was like no real jobs for them. It was crazy! We keptt having people come up and thank us. We also were asked to sing O' Canada and explain Katimavik to the people in the stands. All in all it was an amazing weekend. Except for the fact that I have been crazy sick and am going to go to the doctor hopefully with Helena tommarrow. i would rather be safe than sorry.
http://www.globallethbridge.com/video/scene+and+heard++aug+9/video.html?v=2087420788&p=1&s=dd#scene+and+heard go until 3:20 and thats where the segment starts. Ah look at little morgan and cedric. How I love them:) and our lovely PL:D
Well...it has been a long time since I posted. Two weeks. Ugh, too much free time, then no free time. It's frustrating but I guess thats what Katimavik life is. Ah well, we have done SO much in the past two weeks its crazy!
So the weekend of August 6th and 7th we volunteered at the Canadian Little League Championships. It was fun, we did 50/50 raffle tickets, sold merchandise, and sold door tickets. Best part is they fed us breakfast one day (And they had a TON of pancake mix left over and they gave it to us) and then the next day we got to have lunch. Ah French fries my favourite (this is where I drool, seriously I love french fries) Um Whalley (They represented British Columbia! It's in Surrey, near Vancouver) won and I really liked giving it to the Ontario kids, it was funny because we kept trying to prove which province was better. We got a free t-shirt volunteering there (seriously if I get any more free t-shirts I will never have to buy another one again!)
Then working at birds of prey. two weird stories...funnier one first. This guy came into Birds of Prey Centre with a puppet, and his son. He looked more concerned about his puppet than his son. Anyways he asks us if he has to pay for his puppet to come in. Weird... second story is that I got to ride home in the backseat with a baby short eared owl. He kept trying to jump out of his little box, it was so adorable!
apologize for the bad photo, jumping bird, plus bumpy car ride...bad picture.
This week we also did YOGA! Which I find interesting. I like that it keeps my mind buzy for the hour it takes, also hot showers that I dont have to wait for. Ah, I cannot wait for quebec city and that way our group will have more than one bathroom.
This weekend was interesting to say the least. I am so tired and ready to go back to work tommarrow. So Saturday we went to a Hudderite Farm Tour! Interesting, it was crazy. Okay this is just my opinion so if you want ignore it but like I say its my opinion and I am allowed to have one. I hated it there! I know its their lifestyle and such but ugh. We got to see everything, the capentry shop, the metal shop, the cattle place, the kitchen, the garden, the preschool, and the school house. But most of the guys were VERY sexist! It was so hard to hold my tongue! We were talking with one guy in the capentry shop and he looks at the guys and was like "This is mans work, Women always say they want to be treated equally until it comes to hard work" I was like "Calm down, this is their culture" BUT SERIOUSLY! ARGH! Most of the guys around the farm/colony had that attitude though. Anyways, we went to the area where the cows were and got to see the calves. They kept licking my hand and sucking on it, it was adorable. We also found a kitten that the girls were smitten with, it reminded me of my cat Nardo (My little orange kitten I had, he got killed by a cougar, always tried to attack things bigger than him:( ) We also got to go to their garden which is AMAZING! They kept handing us cucumbers, tomatoes, raspberries, I loved that part. Their rolls were amazing too! Oh those rolls, light and fluffy and homemade...I am drooling just thinking about it:) We also went to their school house. They learn German as children, and then when they get older they learn English, then learn German some more. They go to school Monday thru Friday 7 until 3:30, and then Saturday Sunday 7 until noon. Wow, they also finish school at 15, I don't think I would have ever been ready to finish school at 15! All in all, the women that showed us around were amazing and the sweetest ladies you would ever meet, and the children following us made me giggle, but the guys yeah its their lifestyle whatever. Except the guy that we asked to do the tour with named Jason, he was nice and very polite to the girls.
Then later that afternoon the Medicine Hat Group came! Crazy night proceeded. Although a lot of them went off and did their own things, a few of us helped with murder. We played a game called Werewolf, it was fun. It is so much better with a larger group, it was weird though when I woke up and their was so many more people! Except our one bathroom was definately in need of a clean after 22 people.
Sunday we volunteered at the BMX event in Lethbridge. People there actually knew where Maple Ridge, B.C. was! Apparently there is like a giant track there and thats why they knew it. My job there was helping with food, I got to serve people their burgers and ask if they wanted sauce on it or not. Medicine Hat group helped there too, so there was like no real jobs for them. It was crazy! We keptt having people come up and thank us. We also were asked to sing O' Canada and explain Katimavik to the people in the stands. All in all it was an amazing weekend. Except for the fact that I have been crazy sick and am going to go to the doctor hopefully with Helena tommarrow. i would rather be safe than sorry.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Long weekend
We have a long weekend here in lovely Alberta so we have been super buzy. (Here they call it heritage day-according to signs, in lovely bc it is bc day) Well I should update you on the week so far
FLASHBACK! To thursday
I get up at 7:45 to get ready for work, and I am ready with my lovely ginger Willie at 8:20 like normal...we wait, 8:30 rolls around and we start getting worried...9 we start wondering where our work partner was...we try calling and cannot get anyone... by 11 our lovely PL (who was away for 48 hours for a meeting and her 24 off) and she told us to stay home and just help clean. I WAS SO BORED!! I didn't want to step on the house managers toes and try to help clean, so I just cleaned the basement and laundry room, put things away in the living room, and then I also did laundry...I WAS BORED!!!
Friday we went to work, sprinkler management...sucks so much. But I love working in the sun, and I love working near the birds. I am also really lucky to work with Willie, he is very nice and is always smiling.
Saturday and Sunday we volunteered at the Heritage Acres Antique Farm Show. It was fun, we played with the kids. I got to run the fish pond (EVERY CHILD GOT A PRIZE!) which was fun because I didn't have anyone getting upset. We also had to stop cars at the gate and ask them questions to help with the fair. I hate talking to people, but I actually talked to people...Katimavik is definately helping with my shyness. We went around to all the booths, and I bought an orange cameo necklace, its super pretty:D Willie got swindled by a lovely old lady, she kept buttering him up, calling him adorable and sweet telling him he needed to gain weight because he was so thin. Then she told him to buy her cookies...and he did. Later Saturday night we went to a barn dance. It was fun, there were mostly elderly people there. We danced like fools, it was fun. I had a lot of dance partners, Helena, Jaz, Erin, and Willie. It was fun, an elderly couple tried to teach us how to dance. Apparently the woman works in Fort Mcleod so she is going to try to help us plan more activities there, volunteering and such. We slept in a barn too! It was two stories, horses were below us and we kept hearing them all night. It was nice...I actually loved it. Sterling in the morning started playing the piano, he is truly amazing. I wish I could play that well...then Willie decided he was going to play...HE PLAYED ZELDA!! Made my weekend. I have no idea what we are doing tommarrow, so this could be interesting. Have a great long weekend:D
FLASHBACK! To thursday
I get up at 7:45 to get ready for work, and I am ready with my lovely ginger Willie at 8:20 like normal...we wait, 8:30 rolls around and we start getting worried...9 we start wondering where our work partner was...we try calling and cannot get anyone... by 11 our lovely PL (who was away for 48 hours for a meeting and her 24 off) and she told us to stay home and just help clean. I WAS SO BORED!! I didn't want to step on the house managers toes and try to help clean, so I just cleaned the basement and laundry room, put things away in the living room, and then I also did laundry...I WAS BORED!!!
Friday we went to work, sprinkler management...sucks so much. But I love working in the sun, and I love working near the birds. I am also really lucky to work with Willie, he is very nice and is always smiling.
Saturday and Sunday we volunteered at the Heritage Acres Antique Farm Show. It was fun, we played with the kids. I got to run the fish pond (EVERY CHILD GOT A PRIZE!) which was fun because I didn't have anyone getting upset. We also had to stop cars at the gate and ask them questions to help with the fair. I hate talking to people, but I actually talked to people...Katimavik is definately helping with my shyness. We went around to all the booths, and I bought an orange cameo necklace, its super pretty:D Willie got swindled by a lovely old lady, she kept buttering him up, calling him adorable and sweet telling him he needed to gain weight because he was so thin. Then she told him to buy her cookies...and he did. Later Saturday night we went to a barn dance. It was fun, there were mostly elderly people there. We danced like fools, it was fun. I had a lot of dance partners, Helena, Jaz, Erin, and Willie. It was fun, an elderly couple tried to teach us how to dance. Apparently the woman works in Fort Mcleod so she is going to try to help us plan more activities there, volunteering and such. We slept in a barn too! It was two stories, horses were below us and we kept hearing them all night. It was nice...I actually loved it. Sterling in the morning started playing the piano, he is truly amazing. I wish I could play that well...then Willie decided he was going to play...HE PLAYED ZELDA!! Made my weekend. I have no idea what we are doing tommarrow, so this could be interesting. Have a great long weekend:D
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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!
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!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
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!
Friday, July 8, 2011
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!
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!
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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!!!
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!!!
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