Festivities!

Honey glazed ham - Chef Julie!

On Sunday, October 12^th, we celebrated Thanksgiving with everyone who stayed in Residence and signed up for the pod luck. On this day you are thankful for the blessing of the harvest, but in general for everything that happened during the preceding year. Everyone had to cook something and bring it to dinner, so we could all enjoy spending some time together while stuffing ourselves with turkey, ham, lasagna, rice, pumpkin pie, ice cream, French toast salad, etc.  Thank God we had the next day off to digest the heaps of food we ate.

Daniela - My Brazilian!

During the same week it was time to celebrate my 25^th birthday, or also called my personal quarter of a century. I spend my morning in class, went to the gym afterwards, went to the liquor store to buy tequila, and then just took it easy. At night, 20 of the best people in the world assembled to have dinner with me at East Side Mario’s. Daniela, my Brazilian roommate, bought me a balloon, a nice birthday card, and some of the nicest gifts ever. Thanks again hun – you really made my day!

I really enjoyed spending some time with everyone, having a lovely dinner… and then it all went wrong when people decided to buy me some random shots. In the end, I drank about 10 tequila shots and ended up being even too drunk to go to the bar. But whatever, you can misbehave yourself on your birthday, right? :-)

Kootenay Ice vs. Regina Pats

The day after I made it to class (although I did had a slight headache) and we even decided to go to the gym. That’s what I like to call dedication! :-) A few hours later, it was time for my first hockey game in Canada ever! The Kootenay Ice were playing against the Regina Pats at the Western Financial Place here in Cranbrook. Daniela and I went on the ice to play a little game between the intermissions and we all enjoyed being far away from school.

Coming back to the residence, it was time to dress up as cowboys and cowgirls for our Wild Wild West night. Everyone enjoyed singing karaoke in the Common Room and just hanging out with each other before we left to town to celebrate Yurie’s last Saturday in Cranbrook. I have to admit that people do stare at you if you’re walking on the street with a cowboy hat on your head, but we decided not to care anyway.

My life over here isn’t all about partying and having fun, but we also had to write some midterms during the past few weeks. A lot of deadlines are coming up, so we’re all back to being good students. This means attending all classes, do your readings in advance, finish your assignments in time, and study. After working for a couple of years, I realize every single day that being a student is the best thing in life! So thanks everyone who made this possible for me!

I love you all! XoXo