'Canada, eh'

Hm, I've recieved some news from home that you're all waiting for a new post. I can surely understand why, it's been I while since I last wrote.

To be honest, it doesn't happen much of interest here in Boundary Creek, New Brunswick, right now. I have my share of happiness and misery, sometimes I really wonder what I'm doing here and I wish I would be back at my dear Stagnelius and in spend the days with my lovely class mates in SP3C. But as it is for now that is not the case, I'm far away, in a different country on a completely different continent.

But I'm not entirely complaining, most of the days are good. Every morning I ride with the traditional yellow school bus and I go to my five classes. It seems like the whole school knows who I am, since they been presenting me at all the assemblies and everything. It's not too bad, I've got people to talk to and usually someone to hang out with at lunch time.

In the afternoons almost everybody goes to work or simply takes the bus home. I've tried to attend some of the school activities, but there aren't that many since the school is so small and most of the kids work after school. I thought about trying out for the basketball team but when I heard there are always some people throwing up in the garbage bin on the try-outs, I gave it all a second thought.

I love the life here on Salisdairy farm (yes, that's the name of it). I almost live for the coffee breaks when the dad comes up from the farm and has his afternoon coffee. It's right when we come home from school so I usually spend half an hour after school drinking coffee and chatting a bit. It's cosy, makes me feel at home. I like the evenings to, when me, my host mom, Wiebe and Baukje all cuttle up in the sofa and watch the OC. It's true, I've become an OC freak, hit me if you must ;)

In the evening and sometimes in the afternoon I say 'hi' to the horses in the barn and do some barn chores. I love it, especially mucking the stalls. You get a chance to work with your body and the brain can go for a break. And you feel useful. And you get to be surrounded by the wonderful smell of horse. I might sound sarchastic, but I'm actually not. Last week I went with Bruno (from Brazil) and Christof (from Austria) to the mall (They are exchange students in Moncton), and god I felt misplaced. There were fancy, fashionable people everywhere and all these expebsive formal clothing. Uah, I just wanted to go back to the farm. Last weekend I went horseback riding two days in a row too. Man, I thought I would day when I got out of bed on the third day, my legs hurt so badly ;P

I don't say 'no' to some traveling sometimes though. Last week we went to Fredericton (the capital of New Brunswick) with the cross-country team to attend the NBIAA Provincial Cross-Country Champs. It was fun, at first I didn't think I wanted to go there but the coach convinced me, and it turned out to be worth it big time. I got to know some people a lot better, I got to see parts of Fredericton which is a beautiful city and I got to wear one of the famous JMA Armstrong High team sweater with the high fashionable colour combination of dark red and light blue (I know, no wonder no country chose those colours for their flag).

Last week their was an assembly in the gym called Pepperoli (I'm not sure that is how it's spelled). The school does it before the last game against Peticodiac, which is their rival school, and people dress up in the school colours (which I've already described) and some people even paint their hair and faces.In the gym the whole high school sits down and watch all the different chool teams being presented (including the cross-country team =D), they showed a movie from the year book staff (which I'm a part of =D) and then it ends with everybody singing or screaming along to the school anthem. It was so much fun, I will honestly bring it to back to Stagg.

Sometimes I get the question if I've noticed anything special with the Canadian English. The most obviuos thing I can think of is the Canadians way of saying 'eh' after almost every sentence. 'I know, eh', 'Nice weather today, eh'. I have to admit that I'm about to start with it myself, I can't help myself, it is such a nice way to end a sentence, don't you think, eh?

I'm adding some pictures from our turkey thanksgiving dinner (and some other random pictures). Turkey is not a part of the family's thanksgiving traditions but I made them buy with the argument that I havn't come the whole way to North America to not it turkey at Thanksgiving. So, we had turkey.

Tomorrow and Friday are 'Parent Teacher days', which fortunatly means that we've got those two days off. Ah, time to sleep in and rest, we definatly deserve it after a hard three day week ;P On Friday I'm going to help Paige baby sit three small kids. Wich me good look, we're gonna carve pumkins. It'll be interesting, bringing pumkins and small children together *gulp*. By the way, thank you dad for the Donald Duck magazines! I am very greatful for those, they are nowhere here to be bought. I find that strange since Donald himself is actually born in Canada's country neighbour the United States.