| It's about friggin time! |
So I obviously have trouble maintaining a blog let alone the journal I started the program with. I actually moved onto the "blog scene" because I never wrote anything in my journal but here we are with a new blog post after a few months and after a lot of pretty neat stuff.
In the last few weeks of Newmarket, my group went camping on Georgina Island, visited Niagara Falls, played pedophile in the Newmarket suburbs, attended a sweat lodge and... ya I think that's everything. Nonetheless, it was a pretty awesome end of the trimester! I won't bother going into details about everything simply because I don't have time nor the motivation to do so. I still have a few other things to talk about, or type, rather.
In Newmarket I was working on getting my schooling straightened out for when I return home in July and I got accepted into college! ...again. I had applied for the same set of programs last year but declined when I got accepted into Katimavik and so I had to apply again. But now my acceptance letter is in, my spot is reserved and the first fees are paid for. I'm gonna go into character creation for video games which is going to include conceptualizing, modeling, skinning, texturing, rigging and animating. I'm looking forward to it but I'm going to be taking a year of introductory art before specializing. I figure the practice will be good for me.
So one of our last activities with our PL, Nicole was a nice game of pedophile. :D
The way it works is you get a group of people to go hide in the opposite corner of a community from the "home base" and one person drives a van. The people hiding have to get back to home base without being seen by the driver. If the driver finds you, they honk the horn and you get into the van. Simple. If the people hiding manage to get a picture of the driver without the driver seeing them, the hider gets extra points.
For our game we were all tied together at the wrists, wearing foam animal hats that we used as part of one of our debriefing activities. So we were a group of 8 teens (2 20 yr.-olds) tied together, screaming bloody murder and hiding against fences in northern Toronto suburbia. We made it home with one good scare and a super blurry picture of the Katima-van and it only took us about an hour and a half. It was pretty sweet despite the fact that someone yanked the rope super tight around my wrist and cut off the circulation to one of my hands. But don't fret, I can still wiggle my fingers.
 So being the end of the trimester, we moved on with the program. We made it to Alma no problem, with no delays. In the Quebec airport, a few people who are underage in every other province took advantage of the lower drinking age and had a few beers in the airport bar.
Our new cluster is made up of 2 groups from my group's original (us and another group we were with in 1st trimester) and 2 groups from the cluster we just left. My group is pretty lucky in that we already know everyone in the cluster.
The new PL here is pretty awesome and I'm sure we're not going to have any trouble with her. :P We've already done a few activities here in 3rd trimester like visiting an old pulp factory turned museum, visited an old cheese museum, went to a zoo (I saw some monkeys, it was pretty ridiculously cool), volunteered at the farm I work at and a few other things I can't remember right now.
Like last trimester, I'm working at two places. I work Mon, Tues and Wed at La Petite Ferme du Coteau which is a tiny farm that is starting up a zootherapy program. And I work the other 2 days at Parenfant which is essentially a toy library. My main tasks at the farm is general groundskeeping and feeding the rabbits and the turtle. At Parenfant I'm in charge of planning and building a float for a parade that'll be in the summer and decorating the walls with paintings. I have one painting in the works and the float is all planned out.
We lucked out again with the house. For all 3 trimesters, my group has managed to get a big house. The one we have now still doesn't beat Vanderhoof's but I don't know of too many Katimavik houses that could outdo it. The house we have now is 2 stories tall and used to be a duplex. There's 2 kitchens, 2.5 bathrooms and 6 rooms apart from living areas, kitchen space, bathrooms, etc.
Because of the way the house is situated, my room is in the center of the maze. I share a bedroom with Jordan, right off of the second kitchen and we have our own full bathroom. The downside is that because our bathroom is so out of the way and because the only 2 people who use it are guys, none of the house managers agree to clean it. Oh well.
And now I don't have much more to report right now. I've pretty much expended my will to type so I'll end it here. All I can say is that I think this will be a pretty good trimester. |
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