My New Job

I found out about my new job...are you ready?

Oak Hammock Marsh! (Check it out online, it's pretty sweet)

I'm going to be helping with the interpretive center and the cafe. I'm going to be helping with the animals they have, putting displays together, doing presentations, giving tours, introducing films, conserving the wetlands and cooking and serving in the cafe.

That's pretty much it. Oh! And Nicole went home. Her friends came and picked her up this morning. But it's cool. I'll see her in Alberta. :D

I'll tell you all about my first day of work on Monday. Until then!

P&LF

Stonewall MB

Greetings from Stonewall! Named after the famous Stonewall Jackson, and sits at a higher elevation than the Golden Boy on the parliament buildings with limestone quarries by the mile. I've checked out possible volunteer opportunities here and I've narrowed it down to Rosewood, a home for senior citizens, Stonewall Collegiate Institute or the Marsh. And if not those, the rest are pretty sweet. I'll let you know which one I get.

The house is freaking amazing. It's pink stucco and blue siding on the outside. And we have a fish! But it died....so we bought a new one! :D Hooray for the circle of life!

And the flights weren't that bad. We flew from Charlottetown to Ottawa, then to Winnipeg. We started our day at 7:30 am PEI time, and ended at 11 pm Manitoba time (1 am PEI time) Long day. Woot! I'm still so tired...I was so wired yesterday too...to the point of breaking out in random dance and Sesame Street tunes about bananas. Then I had an Ice Capp.... oh boy. I was very obnoxious to say the least. It was great. Now I am off to do some other stuff.

As Floridans say...
LoveyouBah! All smooshed together like that too. It's kinda cute.

The Last Post...From PEI

Sup.

This is going to be my last post from the island. This wonderful island of doom. It's currently snowing here. One last storm for one last night in the house.

I feel so sad leaving here. I really want to come back. The weird thing as that is hits me a random moments during the day. I'll just suddenly realize that this is it. We're done. It's over here. I'm slowly moving on. But don't get me wrong I can't wait for Manitoba. The other group on our cluster was the same one from Montreal so we know each other from before. It'll be great to see them again. See what they've been up to.

But this will be the last post until we make it to our house in Stonewall Manitoba. I love you all! Miss you lots!

Peace and Love Forever.

Supski

I don't have much time to type...I'm going to the Dunk to listen to a local band play. Should be cool.

Just wanted to let everyone know that there will be limited posting for a week because of rotation camp and the flying to Manitoba.

The goodbyes I had to say were so hard. I cried today after. I said goodbye to Ken and Brenda...twice. Marj cried when we hugged. I gave Booby and Brenda a hug, and even George, who is the least likely to give out hugs. I cried on the way out, all the way home, in my room... I managed to get it under control for the Y. But still...I feel like crying some more. And it's sad that I'm going, but I'm so glad to have been here.

Do you know how close I was to waiting a year and doing this next year? Weird how life works out, ain't it?

I have to go, but I'll try and post before I leave the island.

PLF

Good News for a Sad Week

I have one thing to say...


I GOT THE JOB IN ALBERTA!!! :D

The First of the Last

Today is my first day in the last week of good byes. Already today I said goodbye to Mary, Delores, Don, and Diane. I almost cried when Mary came in. It wasn't her day to volunteer (she and Don alternate Mondays) but she came in with a present for me...I haven't brought myself to open it yet. Nicole and I have been going to the Summerside Presbyterian Church every Sunday that we could. Mary also goes there so we bonded a lot. I have her phone number and will have to give her a call when I get to Stonewall. I have a whole week of goodbyes ahead. :'( Friday will be the hardest, saying goodbye to my boss, the Brenda's (there's 3) and Bobby, Darren and George. I'm not looking forward to it. I hope Friday never comes.

Still no news from Alberta...getting a little impatient. But I don't want to get too frantic. I have options. Traveling is among them. I just had the idea today that if I don't get the Alberta job I'll work somewheres in Ontario, maybe a day camp, then take a couple weeks off in August and volunteer with the Canada Summer Games. They're in PEI this year so I can visit all my friends here. It would be so much fun. And I could use my french. That is a plus.

I fly off the Stonewall Manitoba next Wednesday... *sigh* I haven't had enough time here. I don't want to go yet. The only upside is that we get to chillax with the other two groups from PEI tomorrow at our 6 month party (oh my goodness, 6 months already) and also at rotation camp.*

*Rotation Camp: A Katimavik tern meaning a 2 day get together with your cluster group, usually made up of 3 different groups, where the Project Cordinator does some activities relating to the past trimester, but mostly its a giant party at a camp. Simply put 28 teenagers, 1 supervisor, a whole camp to ourselves. Booya.

And my wisdom teeth are bothering me, in more ways than one.

That's my life as I know it. Peace and Love Forever.

Is no news good news??

Still haven't heard back from the Alberta camp yet. Geez...He said a week or two! Two weeks is monday and I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I hope it's a good thing...

Fingers crossed!

Going on the LAST WEEK!!!

I only have one week left.

:O

And I forgot to put Marj's egg beaters in her car... I hope she doesn't want to bake this weekend...oops. Oh well. I'm her favourite. I'm sure she won't mind. ;)

Other than that, the island is still afloat. I still have all of my limbs.

And I am so coming back to the island. Can you say road trip?? Who's in?

The Weekend of Perpetual Disaster

Halifax weekend in 200 words or less. This is my mission.

We started out on Thursday, not knowing where we were going to stay for the weekend. I eventually found a place at the Boys and Girls club. Sweet deal. Off to Halifax.

Friday we left at like 6:30, made it to the bridge at 7 ish (I wasn't looking at the time) and then in the time it took us to get some gas, it snowed, rained and hailed. We decided it would be best to turn around. One problem: We had to pick up the key to the B and G club at 10:00...we weren't there and had no way to get in touch with our contact. Oh dear.

Saturday, we headed off at 6:00 so as not to mess up our schedule. We went to the Halifax Farmer's Market. It's so awesome! If you get a chance it's worth checking out. Then on to Pier 21. We got a tour from an immigrant from the Netherlands. George was so cool. Then, we had an industrial picnic in the parking lot. Wraps with industrial dirt. Delicious. Next, it was off to the Science Centre. I have 2 words that will explain everything. BUBBLE ROOM. That's right. They had a freaking bubble room. Oh my. I was all for the bubble room first. I begged Nicole and Courtney to go there first. They caved and off to the bubble room. On our way back, there were these kids on the stairs and one was screaming "I want to go the bubble room!" I was thinking ot myself... "Tee hee hee. That was me like 20 minutes ago. Nice. " Then it was free time. Nicole and I wandered downtown Halifax and went into every store including Venus Envy which is a health and sex store. We jsut saw books inthe window. Boy were we a little shocked. And there was a visit to a really cool bookstore with books piled from floor to ceiling. It was cool. And then a small visit to a christian book store. And of course random clothing stores and a small cafe. Good times. But the best is yet to come.

We went to Grafton Street Diner Theatre to watch their original play Rock the Boat. I had steak and it was beautiful. But get this. Right before going in we realised that we still hadn't reached the B and G club and so called around and found a hostel. We could rent a room for like 50 bucks, which we had, so it was cool. Then during the show they called back saying "Uhh, ya. There's a slight problem. Having everyone in the same room is a fire hasard. You have to rent 2 rooms and it will be more than 100." Great. It's 10:30 and we don't have 100 for the hostel. We frantacly called everywhere we could think of. I even called Clemence to ask some of her friends in Halifax. Hostels, youth places, hotels even were called and come 11:30 we had nowhere. Sigh. At least the owner of the diner theatre was nice. She said that she would have cracked open beers if weren't under age. She gave us water and juice and sat with us trying to figure out what to do. She even offered to spot us the difference for the hostels. The whole cast was so nice. They all mentioned places, called in connections and what not. But still no place to stay. So finally Josie said she knew a co-op hippie house that might take us in. So at about midnight we drive up to a co-op house and ask ever so nicely to sleep on their living room floor. They said yes. Thank god.

Sunday, 9:00 in the morning, minus the daylight freaking savings time. Stupid thing. I lost sleep and was cranky. So we went to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. It was pretty sweet but so as not to kill everyone, I was alone the whole time. Still cranky, but alone so no one to take it out on. Then we waited together and I got one of my "you haven't been drinking enough water, you bumface," headaches and my blood sugar went crazy low on top of cranky. I was a beautiful sight that morning. So snappy and angry and irritable. Then I got some food and water in my system, but it still took a while to get to my system. I was still very irritable at the Maritime Museum so I stayed and talked with Merlin, the parrot, while everyone enjoyed the museum. And my mom. I had my Sunday convo with her and Terri. It was great. And then, I think we started off for home. On the way home we stopped at fort Beausejour and played shtugh and walked around. It's in New Brunswick. It was cool. That's pretty much it.

It was crazy. But I would love to go back. I enjoyed the GHA...Greater Halifax Area. Yup, it's a mini GTA. It's so cute. It has the same number of people as London. :) It's so cute in the Maritimes.

Work is good. I cook on my own everyonce in a while and I adore the volunteers that come in. I hate being housemanager. I miss work so much. I'm going to miss it here. I leave in 14 days. :'(
And my work at the Y is so much fun! I love the kids.

Peace love forever. xxx ooo

Hey Yo Hoes (the garden tool that is...)

Everytime I go to say that I feel like I might offend someone. So I always stop at Hey Yo...(Insert awkward pause here) It's great.

So I'm between breaks right now. We ended up going to Halifax and that in itself will take up a whole post. It was....interesting. Yes. Interesting. That's what it was.

But I'm still alive and well and that's what counts. There's also a fashion show tonight that I'll be in for the Salvation Army. Gosh I love the SA...and the friendly Presbyterians...they're cool too. I'll be in touch.

Peace and Love.

So Far So Good...

As of now we are going to Halifax, even though Head Office hasn't sent the protocol back saying that we can go. We're stressing anyways...Eek! I have so much food to make! :O

Later Gators

Explursion day!

Tpday is the day we're supposed to leave for Halifax. We're going to try and beat the storm, make it across the Confederation Bridge and through the Pass before it gets to bad. Not only that, we don't even know if we're allowed to go or not. We haven't heard anything from Regional Office or our Project Coordinator. All of this is going on and our PL is on her 24 and won't be back until later. Stress level is at about a 6 out of 10 and rising. I've already been to Halifax, with Clemence, but I didn't do the whole museum scene and I would really like to. So I REALLY want to go to Halifax again.

And the knitted hat that I lost...Sean found it! And since I don't know for sure if I'm going to be able to pick it up, one of Clemence's coworkers, Craig is going to pick it up for me. :D Hooray! I'll have my hat again!

And I finished a book that Clemence lent me. It's "Le Voyage d'hector ou la recherche de bonheur" Which means, "Hector's voyage or the search for happiness". It's written by Francois Lelord and I would recommend it to everyone. And if you can't read French...I think now is the time to learn because this book is so good.

Anyways, I'm hungry. See yas!

Ice Storms and Snow Storms

Pretty much every week there's a snow storm. But last week, we got the pleasure of an intense Ice Storm...I'm talking like freezing rain all day! We had 2 inches of ice on everything. It's so pretty. And so dangerous. And at the moment we are trying to go to Halifax using Government money...there are so many hoops and so little time to jump. So far, I found our accommodations today at lunch and we sent off the final draft just now (12:27 am) and we're leaving tomorrow, at 5 to try and beat another snow storm. Yup. Such is life in the maritimes.

And my interview with Parry Sound was crappy. We got through the whole interview and I was doing great. I think she was really going to hire me. And then I had to ask about the requirements that I read on the internet. One of which is that I have to be 19. And she said I had to be 19 before the summer. Great. I' ll get right on that. Hop in my time machine and tell my parents to have me a year earlier. It'll work perfectly. Except I don't have a time machine... and the biology won't work either. Oh well. I tried. But what really upset me was that I applied to be a counsellor in their residential camp, and she came to me offering the Wilderness Canoe Trip Leader business. Ugh! It's no fair.

The Alberta camp also called for an interview and that went over well too. I really hope I get that job! Phone interviews are hard. And I had some really weird questions like "What do physically look like when you get stressed?" Uhh...hmmm...Let me think. I've never had to look in a mirror when I was stressed so...not sure. Maybe like this? It was so hard to answer. But then they knew that even with seat-of-the-pants questions like that, I answer well enough. I made a list of questions prior to the interview and they definitly asked all of them. Hooray for preparedness!!! :D They should be getting back to me sometime next week... fingers crossed!

And, I'm housemanagers with Jeansol. We did some cooking, and cleaning, and recruiting in High Schools. No big deal, really. But I miss work. I miss it a lot. I went back today to visit and it made me all happy inside. :) I really like the soup kitchen. Maybe there's one in London, for when I get back...

Anyways...it's like 12:40 here and as much as I love typing you... I like sleep more. Let's face it. I'm still a teenager. Night y'all.