These last two weeks
So these last two weeks have been... interesting... I forgot all about the blog so it is thanks to the many people (mostly my parents) who asked about it that I'm here, writing another blog again.
I have moved families now. It didn't work out with the first one so for a weekend I was homeless (but I stayed at my YEC's house). On the Sunday I moved into my friend Hayley's house! I will most likely stay with the Laur's until January 3rd, when I'm moving in with the Marriott's.
Today, November 11th was Remembrance day here in Canada. It's like the US's Memorial day, but Canadian. During Remembrance day we honour people who have fought in past wars. In Port Elgin a lot of people gathered to watch a parade and to watch old veterans walk up to a statue. My host siblings Hayley and Falon are both in the Air Cadettes so they participated in the event.
A picture of my hostsiblings; Falon, Coval and Hayley + me :) Most people were wearing the red poppy pin for Remembrance day.
The Grease show is getting serious now. Not only do we have musical theatre every school day, but we also have to attend the Wednesday practises from 3:30-6 and on Sundays at 12-5. So I basically have no life outside of musical theatre. And as if that wasn't bad enough! I'm not even in the show! I'm in the production team and we do close to nothing important! All because we had to miss like 3 Wednesdays because of basketball games... It's going to get better though. Soon we'll be working full time backstage.
We seem to be in the newspaper and on the radio all the time!
So Halloween happened. A lot of people dressed up for school on the Friday. I was Alex Vause from Orange is the new Black and a lot of people kind of recognised me, which was nice. On the evening I went trick or canning with the youth group. We asked for canned food which we would later give to the food bank. The food bank provides poor families in Canada with food. When we explained that we were there for cans and not for candy people would be like "Sure! But would you like some candy aswell?" and of course we never say no to candy!
I went with a rotarians wife and their three small sons to a skiswap. We went to Beaver Valley which is a mountain about 1 hour from Port and she bough me a pair of skis, skiboots and goggles!!! It was so nice of her! I didn't understand why she did it, until she explained that she can go back to the same skiswap next year and sell them back.
There's been a few days with snow here. But it melts pretty quickly. This picture is taken close to the mountains, so there was a lot more snow there compared to home.
Beaver Valley!!!
This is a picture of a part of the musical theatre kids. I didn't take it and I wasn't in it, but still hahahah :)
This is the bridge I built in physics and yeah.... We had to put our bridges in this thing called the "Dreamcrusher" to see how much it would hold... It crushed my dreams.
This weekend we met with all the exchange students again! This time only for one day and we spent it drinking coffee and presenting/watching presentations on different countries. I of course had to make a presentation on Sweden that could be a maximum of 5 minutes long. It was a really great day and it's sad that we won't be meeting again until next year :(
The start of my presentation.
2nd page where I talked about Sweden's facts.
Page 3 with all the cool and fun stuff!
I met a guy during one of the cross country races who really wanted to go to Sweden and he was there this weekend! All the kids who want to go on exchange next year (From London, Ontario not England, stoopid) had to go to this meet to for interviews.
And the last page with pictures of the landscape.
More Grease stuff around in town.
ANyone concerned about my knee can be happy to hear that it's getting better. I've been upgraded from 4 to 6 needles!! :D
