CONTINUATION

Sorry had to take the available shower because we had to be ready by nine. Anyways, got int the house after midnight ish andpicked our rooms. There is only one boys room and 2 girls rooms but one is downstairs. First the downstairs one was a good idea but I change my mind because the upstairs one is with more people, the bathroom and had hangersss and places to put clothes!  We were so tired from waiting around and travelling that day we didnt unpack. Gabrielle (our PL) gave us a tour of the house and we chatted for  a bit then went to bed. I share a room with Martyna and Danielle and itès prety chill im glad.

The next day we had to be ready and eat breakfast by nine because the two other groups were coming over for orientation. Orientation consisted of slide shows, lots of talking and listening and lots of fun mini games that involved being outside and icebreakers. The things I liked about how they did it is that they tried getting ppeople involved when learning so it isnt so boring. Whenever I say they p.s it is the rest of the PLs (projct leaders) the PC and this other important person :P All girls and all cool, and their first language is french so some have accents. Being with the other groups was good especially seeing people I met and got kinda closer with.

First day we had sandwiches for lunch and shepards pie for dinner along with salad. All groups ate at the same time so it was feeding like 35 people, lots of food! The second day we had wraps for lunch and spaghetti for dinner and coslaw. Same thing happend but we went to the Steinbach house which is brand new and sooooo nice. Kinda jealous!

Orientation is long but mandatory and everyone has to know the rules. Once this is over the real Katimavik program begins! Right now we donèt work or anything like that we basically do workshops and activities. One the first night after everyone lef and we had ffree time our group played French Cranium, soooooo funnnnyy! We divided the bilingual people up so we can actually understand and play. Claudia and Melissa didnt join and just relaxed in their room. The second night we had lots of free time after coming home from Steinbach because we decided to just have free time. We played headbands which is basically you wear a headband and stick a card in it that had a person place or thing and your partner has to decribe it without saying th word. Funny board game!

The past few days have been just crammed with orientation and boardgames and some fun stuff but today was a bit different. We were ready by nine once again, I slept in till 8 by accident then waited for the shower.... hense blog entry before this then we all walked around the town and got toured around by Gabby. Now we basically know where everything is and it only took like half n hour, while walking slowly and stopping lol I love this town because you can walk everywhere in no time! outside of the town is just farm and field so theres kinda a lot of bugs but im used to it. After coming home from that we had lunch which was egg salad sandwiches and salad prettty good I peeled the eggs! lol then wait....some point before that and after walk we went over the house rules which is different than orientation because its about the specific house and we make up the rules for each room. The PL had veto power and the only thing that sucks is the no wifi part :( ohhh weeeeellllll.

After lunch we were surprised with an activity which involved 3 teams. We had to go door-to-door on certain designated streets and play bigger and better. We basically start with a paper clip and introduce ourselves to the new community but then try to trade the paper clip with something bigger and better could be anything! First thing I thought was ohhhhhhh maaan fuck door to dooor but it didnt turn out bad at all! I was in a group with JD and Martyna which was pretty sweet. The good thing about the game and town is that everyone knows what katimavik is, where we live and everything and they are always excited about having new groups in town so  it made it easier but not explaining what katimavik is. The first guy we went to was an elderly man and he gave us an olddddd saliors hat because it was sentimental to him and his 28th wedding anniversary. We felt soooooo bad we couldnt trade it off so we kept it at home and started again lol we basically went from paperclip-can of coke-2 pink lamps to a NEWWW HP printer ! I know right... wtf lol but we went around trying to trade the lamps and one lady was like , how about a printer? im lik sweeeeeeet and we first thought it was super old but it was basically brand new in the box lol we had three hours to do the activity or just go home when we felt was right and we went straiiiiiight home lol We were out for a hour and on team was already back and the heat was just sooooooooooooooo hot by this time we were all sweating! We were so proud of out printer lol, other teams had a blanket and mexican poncho, and an ollllld vaccuum but ALSOOOOO invited our whole group over to swim! Apparently the people were the parents of the guy who lives in the basement of our house!

After we regrouped we all went over to this guys house and just went swimming it was prettttyyy sweet and we played water volleyball which was fun! Gabby was sooooo down to go swimming instead of workshops which was siiiiick! The day isnt done yet , dinner is cooking and we have freetime until then, I think wre having soup, shepards pie and other stuff i dunnnnnno yet. Gabbys been cooking the meals but our real katima life starts on monday with house managrs and all that great stuffff for now im just gonna go join the group and not be isolated.

More to comeeee! Been great so far!

p.s this is a french/english keyboard and some of the keys stick hense why all the spelling mistakes and shit but yeaaah, sorry!