48 hours is the only weekend I get off in the WHOLE trimester. Ya, it kinda sucks. But, that's what they give us and we gladly take it. So this 48, I'm sitting at my PEI home and I'm doing nothing. Yup, big, fat nothing on my only free weekend of the trimester. I am so cool. So far I've gotten an actual haircut, not me cutting my own hair in Montreal, vented with Nicole, gone shopping at Bluenotes, Payless Shoes, Eclipse and Ardenes. I bought some pretty shirts and some nice black flats. It was amazing. I feel amazing. Tonight Nicole and I are going to a movie and tomorrow perhaps out for suppers. It will be so much fun. Oh, and get this...I showered!!! It was a beautiful shower and it didn't feel rushed like usual. It was spectacular. I think I am now going to clean my ever so messy room and listen to some much needed Bublé.
Ta ta my friends and fam!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The death of me!
My wisdom teeth are starting to come through. And they they have these episodes where they are all like "Let's have a fiesta!!" except theres no room to fiesta, so now they're in the midst of rerranging my mouth to better suit their dancing needs. It's terrible. They're giving me headaches. If I talk sternly to them will it help?? I don't know. I'll try. I'll let you kow how it goes. That's it.
I talked with Boots today. He's a nice man.
No other news to report. Miss you all!!! Love you.
I talked with Boots today. He's a nice man.
No other news to report. Miss you all!!! Love you.
Snow day!
So the maritimes got a wicked storm last night, and its still going strong. So today, I have a partial snow day from work. They're not opening until 11 (it's usually 8:30) and then I leave around 2:30...hardly work at all. The only thing I odn't understand is that we serve lunch at 11:30. How do they expect us to make food for 60 in 30 minutes??? I have no idea what we're going to do and me being me, I am worrying like no tomorrow...I really want to get started but it's locked!!! Argh! So instad I'm sitting at home rambling on about it on my blog.
I'm so cool.
I'm so cool.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Whatever happened to houses keeping the cold out???
Our house is so cold.
The windows are so drafty. I am a relatively warm person, more so then others, but htis is ridiculous!!! Even the boys', whose body temperatures for some reason are realtively higher than the girls', are cold. We have already plastified the windows with none other than plastic and tape, but htere is a wicked draft. Or is it spelled draught? Either way...it's FREEZING!!! And our neighbours are messed up. Here's how it goes.
We heard loud country music coming from around our house. Thats cool whatevs. Then it went silent. Even better! But then came the yelling. I was sleeping, my bed is upstairs on their side of the house, and all I hear is this man shouting "Do you want me to kill myself?? Is that what you want?!" We'll call him Evan. Then you hear the shushing from wha sounded like a female. Then eerie silence. Phew its over, right? Wrong! The you hear a woman in hysterics screaming "Let go of me!" over and over again. We'll call her Sandra. Then other voices shushing her, and trying to calm her and her capturer down. The eerie silence. But wait, Evan comes back and yells "Donna (this might be the woman I named Sandra, I don't know.) Donna, if you love me you'll come back. Donna!" Then a car door slammed and Evan grunted indisgust and stormed off. Presumedly down some stairs. I think he might have been the one holding onto Sandra. Oh the life in quiet little Summerside.
At work today, we served 68 people. I guess the masses of S'side enjoy pancakes,bacona nd sausage (hooray! 6 packs less of bacon!) Stanley and I had good conversations over tea and coffee. I met a man nicknamed Boots. He'ss very nice, comes in everyday. And Earl was recounting his life story, again. He just wants people to listen. That's all. And then Edith commented on my homemafe charm bracelet. The people that come in are so nice. I had a couple come in for the first time. The highlight at work. He's how it goes.
They came in and in my best waitress voice I asked if they would like naything to drink. They said juice and I proceeded to order them 2 meals. When they got them they thanked me and went to eat. But before going, the wife said something to this effect.
"This place is so nice. It's not demeningly in the least. Thank you." Bam. Those few words meant the day to me. I hope they come back tomorrow.
I'm about to sign off, this whole cold house makes it inpossible to type for extended periods of time. But before I do, I have spectavular news. Ready?? Cause'I'm about to drag it out. Make you wait. Cause I'm mean. Okay here it is for real............I have an interview with the Tim Hortons Camp in Tatamagouche Nova Scotia. I ended sending in my application. They were first ones to respond. I have a phone interview sometime this week or the beginning of the next. I'll tell you all about it.
The windows are so drafty. I am a relatively warm person, more so then others, but htis is ridiculous!!! Even the boys', whose body temperatures for some reason are realtively higher than the girls', are cold. We have already plastified the windows with none other than plastic and tape, but htere is a wicked draft. Or is it spelled draught? Either way...it's FREEZING!!! And our neighbours are messed up. Here's how it goes.
We heard loud country music coming from around our house. Thats cool whatevs. Then it went silent. Even better! But then came the yelling. I was sleeping, my bed is upstairs on their side of the house, and all I hear is this man shouting "Do you want me to kill myself?? Is that what you want?!" We'll call him Evan. Then you hear the shushing from wha sounded like a female. Then eerie silence. Phew its over, right? Wrong! The you hear a woman in hysterics screaming "Let go of me!" over and over again. We'll call her Sandra. Then other voices shushing her, and trying to calm her and her capturer down. The eerie silence. But wait, Evan comes back and yells "Donna (this might be the woman I named Sandra, I don't know.) Donna, if you love me you'll come back. Donna!" Then a car door slammed and Evan grunted indisgust and stormed off. Presumedly down some stairs. I think he might have been the one holding onto Sandra. Oh the life in quiet little Summerside.
At work today, we served 68 people. I guess the masses of S'side enjoy pancakes,bacona nd sausage (hooray! 6 packs less of bacon!) Stanley and I had good conversations over tea and coffee. I met a man nicknamed Boots. He'ss very nice, comes in everyday. And Earl was recounting his life story, again. He just wants people to listen. That's all. And then Edith commented on my homemafe charm bracelet. The people that come in are so nice. I had a couple come in for the first time. The highlight at work. He's how it goes.
They came in and in my best waitress voice I asked if they would like naything to drink. They said juice and I proceeded to order them 2 meals. When they got them they thanked me and went to eat. But before going, the wife said something to this effect.
"This place is so nice. It's not demeningly in the least. Thank you." Bam. Those few words meant the day to me. I hope they come back tomorrow.
I'm about to sign off, this whole cold house makes it inpossible to type for extended periods of time. But before I do, I have spectavular news. Ready?? Cause'I'm about to drag it out. Make you wait. Cause I'm mean. Okay here it is for real............I have an interview with the Tim Hortons Camp in Tatamagouche Nova Scotia. I ended sending in my application. They were first ones to respond. I have a phone interview sometime this week or the beginning of the next. I'll tell you all about it.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Nothing new to report.
So far this week I've made:
- Bagels
- Pita Bread
- Lemon Miringue Pie
- Perogies
- Lemon Custard
And I'm not done yet. Soon to be seen on the table in the Summerside Katimahouse are:
- Beef and Barley Soup
- Chili (vegetarian and regular)
- Cinnamon Buns
- And many more
And the injuries I've gained so far include:
- 3 cuts on my pointer finger (left hand)
- 1 cut on my pinky (left hand)
- Burn, just below pinky (also...surprisingly...left hand)
Other than that, the house is the same. Drama and all, unfortunately. It disturbs me to no end some people in this house. One person in particular is bothering me more than most. She is immature, leaves her crap lying around all over, she is a hypocryte, and in general doesn't use her brain. I have to put up with her and everytime I try to point out things, or try to find a solution she either looks at me like she doesn't understand or she just doesn't listen. For some reason I don't see her lasting the program. Oh well. Too bad.
And JeanSol is back! He was sick at the end of the last trimester and didn't travel with us, but he arrived today and he's back! Hooray! My French buddy is back!
But...one of my best friends in the program is planning on leaving this weekend. The program isn't for her. I'm going to miss her so much. My trio is down to two. Oh how this reminds me of the Lion King. Except I'm not loosing my friend to love, at least not love of a lion.
So it's 9:40 and I'm tired. I'm planning on showing JeanSol how to get to work tomorrow morning which means I get to rise and shine at 8:30 instead of my normal 10:00. Oh well. I have things to do. Like make chili...oh dear. I forgot to soak beans!!!! I'll be back tomorrow...I have to go!!! Miss you all.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Weekend stuff
I went ot the farmers market, boiught some meat and fair trade coffee and eggs as well as oraganic couscous and Speerville cereal. Good stuff that is. Then we went to north cape, the windiest place on the island. I found some shells and it was pretty awesome. The ocean is beautiful!! I've never been to the ocean, and now to have it right down the street is so unreal! You should all come to PEI and visit me. It's a must. Any ways, next we went bowling with the groups staying in Alberton and Wellington. Cool kids they are. I suck royaly at bowling, even worse when they turn the lights off and the majority of the balls don't glow. Tricky. Very tricky. Then I had a nap, because I had a headache and took up an entire couch. (Alberton and Wellington, if you're reading this I'm sorry. You can nap on my couch anytime. I won't mind, I owe you one.) Then I had some delicious soup and some noodles. The sauce for the noodles was spicy so I didn't even bother. I hate spice, but I'm learning to deal with it. Then we came home and I went to bed. This morning I got up and like ten-ish and ate pancakes (Thanks Jamie!! They were amazing!!!) Went to the Eptck centre (It's the Summerside cultural centre...not sure about the random assortment of letters. Perhaps the bitter wind finally messed with their brains.) and saw an ehibit on the realities of women around the world through pictures. It was sweet. Then we came home, ate lunch I think...I can't remember. I'm really tired. And then we did some plannign amazingness for excursions and coffee houses and such. Then it was comittee time. I still haven't met up with my comittee person. I was doing housemanager stuff. Planning the meals and stuff, nothing to big. *sigh* Then it was supper of sweet temptation. Jamie made a yummy soup courtesy of Martha Stewart and then Stephen made a cheese sauce. I mixed them and it was beautiful. So tasty. Then the most boring housemeeting ever. I almost fell asleep. But I didn't. Speaking of sleep, I should be doing that. So here's me, signing off. Good night!
Friday, January 16, 2009
A day in the Soup Kitchen.
7:45- Alarm goes off. I moan, stretch and fall back asleep.
8 ish- I finally roll out of bed, clothe myself (I have to sleep in barely anything because it's so flipping hot onthe top bunk upstairs. Stupid house heating.
8:18- I leave the house slowly and walk briskly...it's cold outside. And windy.
8:25- Arrive at the Salvation Army (Did you know they are affiliated with the church??? Foud that out today. If you go to their church you are a Salvationist.)
8:40- Await instructions from the All-Knowing Marj.
8:45- Start the meal. Somedays its soup and sandwichs. Somedays its a full out porkchops-potato-vegetable meal.
9:00- Start cleaning walls. Had the pleasure of finding buns behind the freezer. The must have been from September. They were a beautiful shade of yellow-green, forest green and white and mushy and hard. I threw them out. Good riddence.
9:30- Stanley visits and takes some coffee and tea for the ladies in the second-hand store. We chat.
10:00- Tea break. Bob arrives with the buns, and things from Tim's, Sobeys and Farmers Market.**
11:00-The volunteers arrive and I introduce the meal and the appointed jobs.
11:30- Doors open. Time to serve.
12:00- I start to worry if there will be enough food. Start planning plan B.
12:30- I realise there is enough food. I scrap plan B.
1:00- We turn off the food. I eat. So good.
1:30- The volunteers leave. *tear* I have to start cleaning.
1:35- I start with the dishes. The nice volunteers do all of the dishes and I get to take another 15 minutes.
2:00- I wash the blasted walls.
2:45- I get a headache and have to start sweeping and moping and clean the bathrooms.
3:00- I run over to the second hand store, get scolded for not wearing a coat for the 5 second walk over, and I get the vacuum and head back.
3:03- Move chairs and vacuum.
3:20- Start shutting everything off, the coffee maker, the dishwasher, recheck the stoves.
3:25- Put away cleaning supplies. Take out compost and leave the waste for Bob. Get coat and purse. Set alarm and take vacuum back.
3:35- Wait for All-Knowing Marj to tell me to go home.
** Salvation Army has a deal with Sobey and the Farmers market. The food that is a day before the "best before date" is donated and given out at the food bank and in the ktichen as desserts. And whatever Tim's makes the night before and doesn't seel gets wrapped up and picked up the next day by Bob. I then make nice little packages and set them out for the poeple to take. It's pretty sweet.
So far I've served:
73 people on Monday (Ham, scalloped potatos, and mixed vegetables)
61 on Tuesday (Pork chops, mashed potatos, turnips)
56 on Wednesday (Tomato soup with rice and tuna sandwichs)
50 on Thursday (Beef and barley soup and leftover tuna sandwichs)
49 on Friday ( Leftover beef soup and buns)
Its pretty sweet. And if you have an idea that involves a lot of bacon in a meal, please let me know. There is a mountain of bacon in their freezer and I was told to use it. I have no freaking idea how. I need help.
8 ish- I finally roll out of bed, clothe myself (I have to sleep in barely anything because it's so flipping hot onthe top bunk upstairs. Stupid house heating.
8:18- I leave the house slowly and walk briskly...it's cold outside. And windy.
8:25- Arrive at the Salvation Army (Did you know they are affiliated with the church??? Foud that out today. If you go to their church you are a Salvationist.)
8:40- Await instructions from the All-Knowing Marj.
8:45- Start the meal. Somedays its soup and sandwichs. Somedays its a full out porkchops-potato-vegetable meal.
9:00- Start cleaning walls. Had the pleasure of finding buns behind the freezer. The must have been from September. They were a beautiful shade of yellow-green, forest green and white and mushy and hard. I threw them out. Good riddence.
9:30- Stanley visits and takes some coffee and tea for the ladies in the second-hand store. We chat.
10:00- Tea break. Bob arrives with the buns, and things from Tim's, Sobeys and Farmers Market.**
11:00-The volunteers arrive and I introduce the meal and the appointed jobs.
11:30- Doors open. Time to serve.
12:00- I start to worry if there will be enough food. Start planning plan B.
12:30- I realise there is enough food. I scrap plan B.
1:00- We turn off the food. I eat. So good.
1:30- The volunteers leave. *tear* I have to start cleaning.
1:35- I start with the dishes. The nice volunteers do all of the dishes and I get to take another 15 minutes.
2:00- I wash the blasted walls.
2:45- I get a headache and have to start sweeping and moping and clean the bathrooms.
3:00- I run over to the second hand store, get scolded for not wearing a coat for the 5 second walk over, and I get the vacuum and head back.
3:03- Move chairs and vacuum.
3:20- Start shutting everything off, the coffee maker, the dishwasher, recheck the stoves.
3:25- Put away cleaning supplies. Take out compost and leave the waste for Bob. Get coat and purse. Set alarm and take vacuum back.
3:35- Wait for All-Knowing Marj to tell me to go home.
** Salvation Army has a deal with Sobey and the Farmers market. The food that is a day before the "best before date" is donated and given out at the food bank and in the ktichen as desserts. And whatever Tim's makes the night before and doesn't seel gets wrapped up and picked up the next day by Bob. I then make nice little packages and set them out for the poeple to take. It's pretty sweet.
So far I've served:
73 people on Monday (Ham, scalloped potatos, and mixed vegetables)
61 on Tuesday (Pork chops, mashed potatos, turnips)
56 on Wednesday (Tomato soup with rice and tuna sandwichs)
50 on Thursday (Beef and barley soup and leftover tuna sandwichs)
49 on Friday ( Leftover beef soup and buns)
Its pretty sweet. And if you have an idea that involves a lot of bacon in a meal, please let me know. There is a mountain of bacon in their freezer and I was told to use it. I have no freaking idea how. I need help.
TGIF...or is it???
Today I spent my day warming up soup, washing walls, warming up soup, washing walls, serving soup, washing walls, making coffee and washing walls. Did I mention that I washed walls?? Oh my stars. I've made it a personal job to clean the Salvation Army kitchen because, honestly, I thought it was pretty gross. It may just be my high clean standards, but I think not. So now my mornings are littered with wall washing, freezer organising and vacuuming (vacuum is sucha weird word...2 u's...how silly. I thought one would do the trick. I guess not.) So now I have headaches from the heat and the cleaning products. Opening the window helps a little, but not much. And I usually forget to close the windows anyways. But I'll tell you what. The walls are white. They used to be a yellowish with red spots but now, now my friends they are white.
Next week I'm housemanagers with Alex. So far I've been housemanagers with Stephen, Nicole and Courtney. I'm running out on people to be housemanagers with! Oh dear, we'll have to start recruiting, or I'll just have to put up with some of them again. I like the recruiting idea.
Kiding!!! I still get along with my group mates. There are times when I can't stand them, but I've found ways to deal. Usually they involve me finding fault with my behaviour (like my new fickleness for being orderly...I swear I'm borderline OCD) or I tell them what I'm having a problem with using the "I" statements...remember those? From conflict resolution workshops. Apparently when you say "I am bothered by this because..." then they recieve it better. I guess it works. It sounds silly out loud though. I've tried it. Very awkward.
Guess what? 3rd day in a row!!! And I'm going to post right after this...freaky.
Next week I'm housemanagers with Alex. So far I've been housemanagers with Stephen, Nicole and Courtney. I'm running out on people to be housemanagers with! Oh dear, we'll have to start recruiting, or I'll just have to put up with some of them again. I like the recruiting idea.
Kiding!!! I still get along with my group mates. There are times when I can't stand them, but I've found ways to deal. Usually they involve me finding fault with my behaviour (like my new fickleness for being orderly...I swear I'm borderline OCD) or I tell them what I'm having a problem with using the "I" statements...remember those? From conflict resolution workshops. Apparently when you say "I am bothered by this because..." then they recieve it better. I guess it works. It sounds silly out loud though. I've tried it. Very awkward.
Guess what? 3rd day in a row!!! And I'm going to post right after this...freaky.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
And so the planning begins...
Summer planning is fast approaching and I have decided to broaden my camp experiance. Instead of going back to my beloved Lambton Centre, I am applying to 3 Tim Hortons Camps, and perhaps Pearce Williams and Bimini as well. The Tim Hortons camps are as follows.
Onongada Farms. Located in the beautiful area of St-George Ontario. Looking for bilingual staff (great to keep up my french...) and theres lots of animals because its an actual farm. Crazy I know. Onondaga Farms being a farm and all. Ridiculous.
Camp des Voyageurs (Rough translation, Explorers Camp) situated in blossoming Quyon Quebec, just east of the Ontario border. Since its in Quebec, it would be mostly French (I'm starting to see a trend...) and it just sounds awesome.
Memorial Camp in the hamlet of Parry Sound Ontario. They camp out in Treehouses...enough said.
And (I just thought of this) perhaps I would be adventurou enough to go to the one in Halifax Nova Scotia. That would be cool. I'll sleep on it.
The other two are cool, but a Tims Camp would be so much more exhilerating and a good way to practice french. I need to keep up my bilingualism. Oh, ya. I'm bilingual now. Forgot to mention that. I'm looking forward to life. Summer should be amazing. Miss you!
PS- I jsut posted yeasterday...this is crazy! Two days in a row!
Onongada Farms. Located in the beautiful area of St-George Ontario. Looking for bilingual staff (great to keep up my french...) and theres lots of animals because its an actual farm. Crazy I know. Onondaga Farms being a farm and all. Ridiculous.
Camp des Voyageurs (Rough translation, Explorers Camp) situated in blossoming Quyon Quebec, just east of the Ontario border. Since its in Quebec, it would be mostly French (I'm starting to see a trend...) and it just sounds awesome.
Memorial Camp in the hamlet of Parry Sound Ontario. They camp out in Treehouses...enough said.
And (I just thought of this) perhaps I would be adventurou enough to go to the one in Halifax Nova Scotia. That would be cool. I'll sleep on it.
The other two are cool, but a Tims Camp would be so much more exhilerating and a good way to practice french. I need to keep up my bilingualism. Oh, ya. I'm bilingual now. Forgot to mention that. I'm looking forward to life. Summer should be amazing. Miss you!
PS- I jsut posted yeasterday...this is crazy! Two days in a row!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
I hate Christmas.
Christmas in Montreal. Should be pretty cool. Except that this was the year I found out that I do not like christmas. In fact I hate it. Here are my reasons.
Reason 1: I greatly dislike surprises. Plain and simple.
Reason 2: I haven't had a christmas with my whole family since I can't even remember. This year especially.
Reason 3: It's a silly materialistic holiday. If I have to spend money to tell you how much I care about you, then our relashionship isn't true.
We sat around before midnight of the 24th and opened presents. I said I didn't want one, but Lyly bought one anyways. I'm not a stupid girl who says things with double meanings. If I say i don't want something, then I don't want it. But I had things forced on me and I had to fake enthusiasm. My fake enthusiasm was about as good as my skills in Korean. Not very good at all. Almost non-existant. The next day, we had to find our presents that our secret Santa bought us. I couldn't find my first clue and sat around for and hour and a half waititng for my person to get up. But I did like my present. (Thank you Courtney) The rest of the day we prepared supper and then got accused of not being welcoming because one of our group members decided to stay in her room. Not a happy time, for anyone.
In other news, Brigitte quit so we're down to 9 people now. Our new project leader is so amazing. So much nicer than my last one. And PEI is beautiful and has really strong wind. I don't mind though, it's only like a 5 minute walk from the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen. I'm going to be the head chef, cooking meals everyday for between 50-70 people. It's so cool. Anyway, I'm really tired. Off to bed with me. Messages WILL follow. I'll force myself.
Reason 1: I greatly dislike surprises. Plain and simple.
Reason 2: I haven't had a christmas with my whole family since I can't even remember. This year especially.
Reason 3: It's a silly materialistic holiday. If I have to spend money to tell you how much I care about you, then our relashionship isn't true.
We sat around before midnight of the 24th and opened presents. I said I didn't want one, but Lyly bought one anyways. I'm not a stupid girl who says things with double meanings. If I say i don't want something, then I don't want it. But I had things forced on me and I had to fake enthusiasm. My fake enthusiasm was about as good as my skills in Korean. Not very good at all. Almost non-existant. The next day, we had to find our presents that our secret Santa bought us. I couldn't find my first clue and sat around for and hour and a half waititng for my person to get up. But I did like my present. (Thank you Courtney) The rest of the day we prepared supper and then got accused of not being welcoming because one of our group members decided to stay in her room. Not a happy time, for anyone.
In other news, Brigitte quit so we're down to 9 people now. Our new project leader is so amazing. So much nicer than my last one. And PEI is beautiful and has really strong wind. I don't mind though, it's only like a 5 minute walk from the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen. I'm going to be the head chef, cooking meals everyday for between 50-70 people. It's so cool. Anyway, I'm really tired. Off to bed with me. Messages WILL follow. I'll force myself.
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