Jon, Dylan (brother), Becca (sister) and I all slept the whole ride to his cottage. Arrived at his cottage which was beautiful! Right on the lake, beautiful views. We spent some time relaxing. Then Dylan, Jon and I went exploring up the road. We climbed up a ridge and looked out over the cliff and lake. It was nice just to relax up there. Then when we came back, we put the wetsuits on and took his boat out. Dylan, Jon and I all had a turn, but the water was freezing! I only had one run. When I fell in, I got out because the cold was numbing. I have realised I have become a bit fussy with my wakes. Jon’s boat put out an okay wake but now I am used to riding on the big wakes of the nautiques.
That night, after a lovely dinner, we watched Get him to the Greek with the family. I spent a lot of time getting my video working again. It has been the bane of my existence!
Sunday morning held a lengthy sleep-in. Breakfast out on the veranda at 12 noon. In the afternoon, we did some more skiing, behind the tinny. Jon had made his own kicker/jump and we just kept doing that! It was really fun. I even learnt a new trick on it (roll to revert), but couldn’t ride away from it. I also got to try his no foot ski which is basically just a plank of wood. It took me a few tries to get up but eventually I did and had a great ride.
On Sunday night, which was officially thanksgiving, we went to their neighbours cottage where a few family’s would share a big feast. It was fantastic – turkey, veges and best of all - STUFFING! The food was great, and we played some games of darts, foosball, and table tennis down in their basement. The other people were very friendly as well. That night I stayed up till 330 finishing the video….finally!
Slept in again, and then helped the McTavish’s pack up the cottage and yard in preparation for the winter. Something that we don’t have to worry about back home. I did some study on the drive back home.
That night I stayed at Jon’s house in his basement, where I did some skyping, relaxing as well as study for the midterm I had the next day. The next morning, Jon’s dad Robby drove me back to Brock which was very nice. He had a golf game in Niagara which was close by. I did my midterm which turned out to be the easiest test I have done at university. It was ridiculous! And my only class for the whole week. Sweeet.
For the rest of the week the days mesh in together and are hard to distinguish from each other. So I will just give you some of the highlights.
I went swimming twice in the pool to do some laps, plus one night went with people from my floor and we played brandy and volleyball. I went to the gym a couple of times. I had 2 visits to the athletic therapist who worked on both my wrist and shoulder.
I played tennis with a friend named Ella, who used to play nationals in Canada, so she gave me a talking to haha. Also played squash with Sofia, it was more teaching than playing. On Tuesday night we had our Aussie team intermural volleyball games. Our first one we got flogged in, but the second game we came back from about 15 down to win by one point right on the buzzer. It was very exciting.
I went to the bcf bible study on Thursday night which looked at the temptations of Jesus, and then on Friday morning I went to the campus for Christ bible group which looked at Peter’s first miracle.
One day at lunchtime I caught up with a friend Tyler for lunch and then we went to his room in Valley (residence next door) and he had a bongo, guitar and keyboard, so we jammed for a bit.
I had an emotional rollercoaster where my hard drive crashed, which contained all my photos, all my videos and all my music. I was quite upset and angry. But then after some prayer, the next day I figured out how to get it back and running which was such a blessing. I also figured out why my summer camp video wasn’t exporting properly and fixed that up.
On Friday night, I went to merge which was a bcf church type thing. It was pretty cool to hang out with some more Christians. Josh and I had to leave it a little bit early, because he was having people over at his house from muskoka woods. A reunion. It was fantastic! We had burgers, played some table tennis, watched some YouTube and played ‘things in a box’.
Sabbath morning sleep-in (You guys don’t need to worry about me having a lack of sleep here!). I replied to some emails and did some relaxing. I went for a walk along the escarpment with some of the people from my floor which was very pretty seeing all the autumn colours and getting outside in the great outdoors.
I have a new favourite thing to eat in the cafeteria – and that is waffles. You make your own in the press, and they have hot jam, cream and hot chocolate syrup to smother it in. mmmm.
The week involved a few skypes back home which was pleasant despite making me somewhat homesick. Still enjoying it here though. Please do send me emails and/or skype me. I love hearing from and seeing everyone!
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