Yes time to update. Well let's see, I probably won't cover everything since a lot has happened. Well work has been going well, but I decided to not renew my contract since I want to go back home and don't want to live so far from family and friends. Not that I didn't make new friends, I will miss them. One thing I've noticed is that white people like swiss chalet, and they like white meat. I gone to swiss chalet more times this past year than throughout my entire life previous to this year.
Our church had pumpkin carving fund raiser for the 2 Saturdays before Halloween, it was a drop in thing since our church is in the community centre, so basically we tried to catch people finishing swimming lessons with their kids or basketball or whatever they were at the community centre for. And it was a donate as much as you want kind of thing with a recommended donation of 10$ I think, and we raised 300$ or so, I'm not entirely sure. The proceeds went to help people in New Orleans who are still recovering from hurricane Katrina in 2004 (I think, maybe it was 2005) because our church sent a missions team down there to help rebuild roofs. Anyways it was lots of fun scraping pumpkin guts out and helping kids carve them. I don't really remember any other big events, mostly just week to week things. I guess we also had a banquet/annual meeting where I went to help setup and stuff. It was kind of potluck-ish but not everyone had to bring things just the pastor's families I think, and it was a soup and stew sort of theme with buns and sandwich things. So there were lots of yummy stews and chili's and soups. And most of the evening was sharing stories from all the different sites our church has, because it's one legal entity or something but there are actually multiple sites in different suburbs and multiple pastors.
Also around that time there was a work Christmas luncheon, nothing spectacular, just a fancy buffet lunch thing where they give out yearly awards.
I guess that's about it up to Christmas, I'm sure I have more smaller silly stories and things from daily life since I lived with a young family with 2 kids and another one on the way. Kids say the funniest things sometimes. Like I stopped wearing socks in the house since during the first week I got orange juice and BBQ sauce on my socks. And the little one calls piggy back rides just piggy rides, and when playing an unfamiliar board game the older one will say "We should check the construction booklet, it has the rules". And doing crafts and playing play-doh and colouring pictures and playing hide and seek. Oh and I found my ring in one of the kids rooms, it must have fallen off when we were playing.
So now I'm visiting
canspell and we've been doing lots of things together. Like making truffles of various flavours and watching movies and TV and getting ready for my vacation to Vietnam and playing games and having dinner with people, things like that. We broke out the old Atari 800XL and played frogger with only the up button since we don't know where the joysticks are so we used a wire to connect to the up pin to jump up. We made a recording too since she likes the music and can remember it after 20 years.
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