I'll start with apologies. I won't promise that this will never happen again but I will promise to try my very hardest to never allow such a gap in between posts again. There, it's in writing.
Now for some juice.
I'll start with where I left off.
My house manager week finished on Sunday the 3rd. Halfway through the week I made cinnamon buns to celebrate the fact that we were out of our "Probation Period" which means nothing to you and next to nothing to me so don't worry about the details.
On the weekend we caught the tail end of a cultural film festival. One of our planned activities was to watch two of these films so we all sat through the most painful movie of the Finnish peoples most common historical.. thing... It was not a fabulous time, but all the Finnish people in the crowd loved it so.. well whatever. Thunder Bay has the largest population of Finnish people outside of Finland. So the last names here.. whew, fun times trying to pronounce those! The next night however we had free time so Jessie, Eric, Sophie and I all went back and watched a movie on the history of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. It was definitely time well spent; we got to talk with the writer/producer afterwards. I'm not sure who won people's choice award but from the 5 films I saw he definitely deserved it. Wish you could have seen it Cydster.
That same weekend we went to the Food Bank where Jessie works on weekdays and helped out a food drive. While it is nice to think that loving people donate the food from their home they don't want it's actually really nothing like that.
Big corporate companies like Safeway "donate" all their just about to expire food and Walmart donates 8,000 dented cans they can no longer legally sell to the public. There are a lot of other companies that have sponsors who specifically want their dollars to go to charity so we'd get boxes full of peanut butter and pasta. It's an easy way for a lot of companies to write off some taxes while still being able to say they donated.
Nonetheless we filled nearly 350, 24 pack beer boxes full of food. I think it filled like 7 and a bit pallets. Just ridiculous. It was fun times. lunch provided.
Monday was our welcome party where all of our workpartners and neighbours and potential billet families came to see our tiny house and postage stamp sized backyard and oggle over how we work together and size us up by our profiles. It went well considering our advertising sucked.
Tuesday we hopped the fence to a closed catholic school and played soccer and other fun games. There is one school across the street from us that has been closed down and one down the road that has been closed down. Remind anyone of the Kootenays?
The week continued with me and Charlene going to lots of restaurants all over town to deliver caterer's packages for the ladies night I'm working on for February. I've seen more of Tbay from her little CRV than from the Katimavik van.. how sad is that?
STILL HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE TERRY FOX MEMORIAL!!!! SO RIDICULOUS!!!! UGH!!!
On Thursday we went to Lakehead Uni for a presentation from the Stephen Lewis foundation which is funding girls education in Malawi. If it hadn't been a huge sales pitch I'm sure it would have been great. We signed up for it because it was advertised as African women living with AIDS talking about their experiences with a lost generation. It's a great foundation by the sounds of it but I would rather have been sleeping that night.
That's it for this one!
aaaawwwwl my love :)
Petra
I really enjoyed this post. You're quite good at making your words sound interesting. Sounds like you're having a great time! ;)
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