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So, to prevent myself from spending money that I do not have, I have condemned myself to the Katima-house tonight, instead of taking a trip to the customary hang-out called the mall. In celebration of this historic event, I am spending the night "being a nerd," and reading odd gamer-nerd comics and playing on the computer. So far, it is going quite well, and I am enjoying myself. Ha ha.

Last night, Anny, Natasha, Joelle and I went to the National Arts Centre, to see this dance performance called bODY_rEMIX. It was a really great modern show, two Acts, with loads of naked people using crutches to... erm- dance. It was FREAKIN SWEET, but difficult to explain. Joelle and I sat together in the orchestra, and Anny and Natasha were on the balcony.

Today we volunteered at the Home Support Cafe thing. It was pretty much fun, but overall uneventful.

Tomorrow we'll be at the National Art Gallery. I suppose you'll see the pictures... if I post them that is... you know how I am. I'm unreliable. I suck.

I'm sorry.


I feel badly.


I'm going to go cry now.

Gahhhhhhhhh, why am I such a failureeeeeeeee ?

Ha ha, dorky enough for you?

I'm outie.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISSY LISSY!!!

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I am the proud owner of a CTI.

Yes, I am that badass.

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Ahhhh the full-length HP trailer is out!!!! It looks SO AWESOME!!!! Too bad I'll have to see it in French first... not that I have anything against the French, but it won't be the same... I'm praying for an English copy in La Pocatiere as well! Anyway, here's the link if you haven't seen it yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLud6yM47u8

While I'm here, I may as well write something! Umm... today we went downtown to learn about Tulip Festival and volunteering at it. I was deemed "bilingual" in my interview! Yayyyy. So, I'm working at either information or the boutique. Then we spent a nicee afternoon at Byward Market and along Rideau and stuff, which was great. And of course, we checked out a Earth Day thing at Parliament. And the Eternal Flame is back up, so we saw that too!

I can't be pasty this summer. Usually that is my goal, but yesterday was Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) and we spent the whole day picking up garbage along Des Epinettes and a bit of Jeanne d'Arc, as well as in the ravines near our house. One is Yves Richer Park, but I don't know the other one. And anyway, even though I applied SPF 30 twice during the day, I still tanned a bit, so I gave up. I don't know if I tanned today, but I probably did since it was 22 degrees and I was outside until 3.30pm.

Oh yeah, and then Rob's billet, Phil, came over for dinner and to talk to us since he was a Katimavik part and just came back from Canada World Youth. He only had a month break between the 2 programs!!! That's crazy!! Anyway, it was cool to hear more about CWY.

Oh, and we had our house meeting tonight, which went well. I love it when meetings go well since everyone is so happy! Ha ha.

I read 2 French novels this week. Granted, they were for young teenagers, and one was The Babysitter's Club, but it was good times!!! :P

We finally finished our excursion protocol for Toronto. The trip would be from the night of the 11th until the night of the 13th of May. I hope it gets approved!!!! Please please please katima-gods, approve our protocol!!! I didn't do as much work on it as I did for the Vancouver for obvious lack-of-knowledge-about-Toronto reasons. But I did do the SMART objectives, which are my specialty! If there's anything I can so, it's take information and make it sound educational! That's how I passed the written protion of my biology diploma! Ha ha.

Anyway... no pictures from Easter have been uploaded yet, but I'll try to get them uploaded this week!!! I'm sorry, I know you guys have been waiting on the edge of your seats, I'm sure!

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Okay, yeah, I haven't got around to le uber long post, because nobody has uploaded the pics yet! Also, it is SOOOOOO SUNNY and NICE here (22 degrees) so we're all kind of distracted from anything other than BEING OUTSIDE!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow is GYSD and we're picking up garbage, so yeah.... I'm busy. Ha ha.

BUT I'M STILL ALIVE, and hopefully a lengthy blog will happen soon!

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Hey guys! I just wanted to mention that I'm back from my lovely Easter trip to Quebec!! I went to Magog, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Lennoxville, Trois-Rivieres, Montreal and loads of little towns in between! It was awesome.

We took LOADS of pictures, and did lots too, but I'm not going to get into anything since the photos aren't on the computer yet (since we just got home 2 hours ago). In any case, I'm house manager this week, so I'll get working on a super loooooooong post!

Quahhhhhhhh, it was so much fun!!!

I <3333 Joelle, Anny and Nick, they are awesome travel mates!!!

And Joelle's family is AWESOME.

CABANE AU SUCRE!!!

Ahhh, I'm giving it away! Later!!!

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Okay, I said I wouldn't be back, and this is going to be short, because I should be spending time with my billets, but stuff happened, and therefore, I BLOG.

Last night we had a blackout. Ha ha. Around 8.30pm all of the power went out. So, Alana found a flashlight and candles and stuff, but the kids were still freaked out, especially since I kept on making references to scary movies and aliens. Mainly War of the Worlds. They insisted there was no big black hole outside, and I was like "How do you know?" Then John got home, and when he did, Joelle ran across the street, because they had one flashlight, and lots of candles, but no matches! So, she got some matches from us. Then I used the flashlight to go down to my room to get my mp3 player, because it has a radio. That wasn't too helpful though, because all they said was that Hydro Ontario said they knew the power was out, but the didn't know why, or how long it would last. Thanks, guys. Ha ha. So, then we all decided to go to bed, so I had to take a candle with me and make my way downstairs. So, yeah, the whole night was odd, but the shadows and stuff were SO COOL. Ha ha. I turned on my lamp before I went to bed as well, so I knew that the power came back on just before midnight.

Today was our class sugar bush trip, which was pretty fun. I mean, what could be more fun than 5 hours of supervising kids in the cold?!? Ha ha. But actually, I had a good time. Some good memories with the kids, I'm sure. Oh, and with Nick. Ha ha. He has such a little entourage of grade 4/5 girls. It's fantastic. But seriously, how do these kids have so much energy??? They played on haystacks and slides and in mazes ALL DAY. For the whole trip. And in PUDDLES and MUD. And yet, Aaron, who I am billeting with, played from when we got home at 3 until now. So, 2 hours. That's like 7 hours non-stop!!!! It's crazy!!!

I am soooo exhausted.

Anyway, the plan for tonight is that I'm eating dinner here. Then I'm watching Full House, for the last time! Ha ha. But I have to because it's the one where Becky has the twins! Then I'm heading back to the katima-house. So....yeah. That's all!

Thanks for the birthday wishes Lissa and Orry, my loves!!!

And I'm glad you had a nice grad trip Lissy!!!

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Yup, so last night Joelle and I went to Quebec to see "A vos marques...PARTY!" It was a good chick flick-type film. And Alexandre Despatie was in it, which was nice because he is gorgey and also because he spent most of the film half-naked.

Tonight is my last night billeting, so I'm going to do some laundry. Then tomorrow, after dinner, I'm going back to the house, and another group is coming to use our house for the weekend. So, that will be interesting...

On Friday we're debriefing, and then we're FREEEEE. Off to Joelle's! The first night we're going to a party, but I won't say where on account of it's location keeps changing, so I actually don't know. And I don't know what we're doing on Saturday. On Sunday we're doing the whole maple sugar thing near Trois-Rivieres.

Oh yeah, and tomorrow is my class trip to a sugar bush, so that will be fun, except it is RAINING. A LOT. Ugh. And it's on a muddy farm. Lol. I'm doooooooomed.

Yay, my birthday money is being put in my account tomorrow!!!! I am major stoked, because of course I love money.

And, of course, it is my birthday on Sunday...

It just occured to me that I probably won't be on here before next week, when I am house manager (gaggggggg), so....yeah! I hope you all have fun without me! Ha ha.

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