super tardy

I think it's high time I posted some goodz on here.. it's been a little while.
Thunder Bay is pretty sweet, I won't lie.  I just received a package from the parents and now I have my skates and my climbing shoes so I can do more physical activities while still being ridiculously cheap.  I somehow have managed to live off the $50 my mum gave me right before I left for the last two and a half weeks which has been more than stellar.  We also get $20 every Wednesday (thanks Tories!) which allows me to visit the gym here at least twice a week.  The gym is pretty ridiculously fabulous - there's three pools, a running track, four weight rooms and 3 studios, I like the city.
Anyhoo this week I went to work on Monday and Tuesday only.  I've been putting together catering packages for an event called Sweet Indulgences.  My boss is a serious sweetheart who has rheumatoid arthritis and it's really neat working with her because she is very professional but still has the personal aspect of business which I think comes from having the disease she works with everyday.  She's basically giving me the reins on the whole planning of this event which happens in February so I won't be able to go because by that time I will be in Quebec.  On Friday we are going to restaurants to give out caterers packages because the event is all about which restaurant in Thunder Bay has the best dessert.    It's pretty intimidating when I have to call a sponsor or a donor and say "Hi this is Petra and I'm calling from the Arthritis Society." because instead of me being a little school kid who wants money for new computers or whatever I'm actually representing an organization...an organization I really know nothing about.  So on Tuesday I did some reading.  I'm not going to summarize what I read but arthritis.ca is a superb website!  Arthritis is quite fascinating and though I am not an expert I now at least know what to do when someone says "I think I have Arthritis."
Yesterday and Today I joined the rest of the group (besides the house managers) and volunteered at an event called "Fall Harvest" which was up at Old Fort William, out of town a bit.  It was an First Nations exhibit kind of ordeal - the First Nations elders had their little wigwams and gave presentations to school groups on native living.  Our job was more or less to help the elders.  Yesterday I was at the "Medicinal Tea" station, and in the afternoon at Bannock Making - soooo yummy.. Today I went to Wild Rice Drying where we actually had to do the presentation.  For lunch I had Canadian Goose Soup - not even joking.  I've also had my fair share of moose meat and duck over the last three days.. enough with the wild game already.
We can't have steak at the Katimahouse because unless we budget super strictly we really can't afford it.  Our food allowance per week is just under $600 which we spend on flour.. a lot of flour because we make our own bread.  And we also buy lots of apples and cheese.  Peanut butter has become a staple in my diet which I'm not going to disapprove of because due to allergies in my house it has been a foreign substance for most of my life.
We're doing an activity tonight where we label virtually everything in this house with french.. I'm preparing myself for the kitchen to have multiple pieces of coloured paper all over the place.
This past weekend we split up and went to either the Toys for Tots toy drive at the Salvation Army or a big slow pitch fundraiser put on by Lakehead University.  I was a score keeper at the slow pitch tourny and it was frickin cold the entire day and there was only crappy hot chocolate to warm up my practically board stiff body.  FUN TIMES.
Katimavik is slowing letting go of all these stupid rules because our "probation" time is almost up, thank heavens.  We get to start planning our own days and doing whaaaatever we want :)
And now for some photos

Sketchy

Me and Dalandrea being beautiful

Scary x ray vision

Dalandrea, Antoine, Jessie, Petra, Eric and Sam !

ta ta xox P