Sunday morning I went with Josh to central church. It was a Christmas theme which was really cool. Then I hung out at Josh’ for the day, did some reading, guitaring and indoor golfing. Josh, I found out ran the Vancouver 2010 Olympic torch through Thorold, a local area, which is so cool. So I put on his tracksuit and ran the torch around the neighbourhood. That evening, we went to a Christmas concert downtown put on by central church. It was fantastic! The Christmas songs were great, and then the main act was New World Son, which is a reggae gospel type band. Great music! Every guy in the band was a phenomenal musician. Was there with Josh, Emily, Carly, Lisa, Lyndall and Sophia. We also met a couple of the power view boys there too.
After the concert everyone peaced so we hung around and wanted to get a photo with the band. It wasn’t very hard at all. We ended up chatting to the band for about half an hour. They were really nice and friendly. I even exchanged emails with the guitarist as he is coming to Gold Coast and wanted a connection. After the concert, Josh Emily and Shannon came back to Josh’ house and we hung out, played guitar etc.
So this week it snowed! I think it was Tuesday. I spent the whole day outside in the snow having snowball fights on three separate occasions. Hung out at Lisa and Jess’ apartment playing cards. I even got to have a go down a small hill on a skateboard/snowboard.
On Tuesday night, our MW group had snacks at Vanessa’s house and then went bowling. I played terribly – only got a 64. It was great seeing them all. Some of them for the last time unfortunately. I had to say goodbyes to a few people this week which was sad. Amanda came and hung out for a while and we said goodbye, same with Shauna.
Our floor had their secret santa on Tuesday – I had Kaitlyn and Akhash had me. I got some Canadian mittens. Our floor also booked the swimming pool on Wednesday night so that was fun jumping off the boards and mucking around. I also went swimming on a couple of occasions this week.
I got back into my gym routine, watched a season of the Office. Everyone was studying so most of the week was spent by myself. Because of this I got homesick and it sucked a bit. Got to skype them a couple of times though.
Thursday I hung out for a while at Emily’s house, she was writing a song and so I went along and ‘helped’ with some of it. Not really. We spent a lot of the time just talking but had a good time on the piano and guitar as well. That night I went out for the final social of our C4C group. We had dinner at the London Arms pub – great food – especially garlic bread! Then we went glow in the dark mini putting. That was fun.
On Friday night, I went to the movies to watch the new Narnia with Sophia, Aarne, Clare, Holly, Ethan and Jason. It was a fantastic film. After that I hung out with Aarne, Sophia and Emily. We had a snowball fight, hung out in the café (Grace gave us a free waffle!) and then made an epic snowman.
On Saturday I spent the morning reading and in meditation. Then I met up with Nikki and some of the girls who took us to Nikki’s house for a Christmas day. It was definitely the highlight of my week! We did a huge amount of Christmas cooking – Chocolate pretzels, Christmas bark, shortbread, made a gingerbread house. Candy cane chocolate. So good! We decorated their Christmas (real) tree. Their family (the bakkers) is so wonderful, accommodating and just make you feel at home there. Lovely lovely people.
Played Settler of Catan finally! Oh how I have missed that game! Hadn’t lost my touch – ended up winning haha. We had a wonderful dinner, played a sweet game of Pictionary telephone which was ridiculously hilarious! That night we spent a few hours in the piano room with 8 guitars, a piano, mandolin, tamborines, bass guitar, rattlers and shakers and had an awesome sing along music time. Amazing.
After that I went back to Josh’ house for the night. We chatted until 3am before going to sleep. Woke up at 12. Had Anne, Kristen, Kristyn, Brendon, Josh and I over for a ‘goodbye’ lunch for me at Josh’. We had burgers and played the water game. Shared some good stories and good laughs to finish off the weekend before getting into some solid study for exams this upcoming week.
Nearly finished my degree!
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