Last Saturday afternoon, Mum (Amanda) picked me up and we drove to Guelph which is just over an hour west of St Catharines. Guelph is another small university town. We arrived at Hilary’s house in a beautiful neighborhood. Coombs was there too. It was cool catching up, hanging out. For dinner we met Burgers and Kate at a Sports Bar called Moxies. It was really bizarre! The lights were dimmed, the booths and tables were very fancy, looked exactly like a fancy restaurant. But then they are blasting pop music and have tv’s surrounding the walls showing the football and hockey games. My highlights was the toilets which had televisions above each urinal as well as a fireplace!
After dinner, we went back to Hilary’s, played the game ‘Things in a box’ which is always good for a laugh. After watching Hamish and Andy on youtube, we were inspired and took to the street for some three step knocking. It was late at night so most people were asleep which lowered our sample space. We still managed to do a couple of houses. Very funny. Late night, late morning.
In the morning we went for breakfast/brunch to a really cool old-school diner. Food was great, atmosphere was great! I got to drive back to Brock…woo! (Yeah that’s right im a ‘woo’er) In the afternoon I went for a nature walk at a ravine on the Niagara river with Krystyn, Jess (another camp girl) and Krystyn’s brother and sister. We got very lost on the way there but eventually made it. The walk was down a very steep part of the mountain covered in autumn leaves. At one point I buried myself in leaves and scared Krystyn when she came past, it was hilarious. The river was very pretty when we got down the bottom. Took some photos then started the climb up. We decided to be adventurous and not go up on the path but make our own paths. This was probably a bad decision, as it was very slippery and steep. After about half an hour we made it up the top, very sweaty and dirty.
The rest of the week went by pretty quickly, even though I got up to many things throughout. Some of the adventures included: gym, tennis (for the last time, because they took the nets down), hallway cricket, swimming, hockey on Tuesday night (didn’t play), seminar preparation, midterm exam (pretty easy), doctors visits, and movie nights.
On Bible studies on Thursday we went off campus to Nikki’s house, which was such a beautiful house out in the sticks. She had a music room with lots of instruments which I got excited about but we didn’t get the chance to have a play.
On Monday afternoon I played squash for two hours with a guy from my class and his friends. They were all really good, they even wore goggles which I thought was a bit funny. I got cleaned up by a couple of them. Unfortunately I broke the string on my racket, so not sure what I will do now…it costs about 30 for new strings. I only payed 24 for my racket.
On Friday, Andrew, RMD, Becca and I went on an adventure to Buffalo! We had to wait for about 2 hours at the border to get my temporary pass into the states. We played plenty of games in the waiting room including ichi-ni. Once we had that done, we drove around the city, went into an abandoned lot near the bay and hung out there, playing gladiators for a while before our party was pooped by a black 4WD driving towards us. Then it turned its lights on…it was a cop! Apparantly we were trespassing on industrial land. He wasn’t very happy but let us go because we weren’t doing anything bad and weren’t from USA.
We drove to the big Buffalo mall – galleria. Met up with Faith – a friend from camp who lives in Buffalo. I got my snowboard that I bought online mailed to her. So I picked up my board and bindings from her. We did some shopping. Played secret santa even though it wasn’t Christmas and bought each other 5 dollar gifts. I got a girly lock up diary from Andrew which was pretty funny.
That night, we went to the Cheesecake factory for dinner – it was delicious. Then the waitress said that our meal was all taken care of! Some random stranger, perhaps her, had payed for our meal and we didn’t know who it was. What a random generous guesture of kindness! After that we cruised the streets, visited an op shop, walmart, then the movie theatres. We watched Due Date – very funny!
After the movie and some McDonalds shakes we headed home to Brock. The Canadian guy at the border let me take my board over without paying tax. What a nice man! Canadians are so much cooler than Americans.
All in all a great day a great adventure in the land of Canada/America!
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