Ukrainians, black fly's & the giant swing
The past few weeks have been pretty busy and I have worked way too much, what with taking extra shifts at the weekends and helping to train staff. I was starting to feel burnt out as I had not had a weekend, or day off in about a month and a half! All my own fault!We are well into the Spring season here and it has been bedlam at times! Last week had 12 schools staying 6 at a time. Wednesday was mental trying to welcome and send off busses at the same time! Stressful but good fun. One of the schools last week was Ukrainian so I broke out my mad Ukrainian language skills and dazzled a few teachers! They had a campfire one night with Ukrainian dramas etc it brought back some memories! Spring is pretty sweet here, shorts and t-shirt weather its great! It is a long weekend here called May Two Four, and today is Victoria day. All the staff are off. On Saturday we took a trip down to Toronto which was good craic, yesterday on the way back u
p the road we stopped off at Matt’s grandparents house for lunch they are from Macedonia and made us some traditional food some very like what I’ve had in Ukraine and Moldova so more good memories there. I’ve set myself a few challenges before the summer some physical and some are more over coming my fears. We have so many great facilities here namely the climbing wall. Before the past week or 2 I’d only managed to get up one wall. Now I have completed 6 out of 10 walls with my goal being 8 of 10. Some of the walls have ledges, some climb up at angle etc so I’m pretty pleased with myself thus far! Also on the list was to do the giant swing. The Giant swing is a 70 foot pole that you are pulled up and once you release a leaver you swing down after a drop for 3-5 seconds!Last night we all were bored and someone suggested doing the Giant swing, so at midnight we decided to go for it!! I did it twice was pretty swee
t being pulled up into the night towards the stars… then pretty terrifying plummeting into the darkness. Doing it in the middle of the night made it all the more exciting!! Did a spot of cycling this morning into Rosseau for lunch at Cross Roads [for all those who have been here!] only to find it was closed so we threw my bike in the back of the van and off to Jimmy Hats [Once again if you’ve been here you’ll know!] I left early and started to cycle back was so nice the sun was beaming, cycling past lakes, rivers, cliffs, beaver dams not to mention chased by a few dogs!! This afternoon we played about the vertical play ground behind the zip line which was cool we belay ourselves and climb about 60 feet in the air- pretty mad.
Here’s to going to the gym at 6am everyday, getting stung by a Hornet twice withi
n a few seconds!, “Tough break”, the gate barrier dropping on my arm, great friends, “Gong show” Playing tag rugby every week, sneaking into the hot tub, Matt riding on the back of the van, Introducing Empire to Muskoka Woods and it being played all the time, going for swimming adventures in the lake, being Tom's conscience, going to see Lindsay for my birthday and missing the busiest weekend of the Spring, Amanda hug and kiss, hard core golf cart driving, a kid thinking that Ireland was the capitol of Scotland, djing some dances, playing capture the flag, scoring the winning goal in football, “Aaawwkard!”, buying a nalgene [I feel very Canadian now!], “Rachel you should go back to Auckland”, Teach jew 101 and to the many man black fly’s!
A wee joke...
There was a Russian, and American and an Irishman in a pub. The Russian said, "My nation is the best on earth because we were the first into space!" The American said, "Oh, that's nothing, my country was the first to the moon!" The Irishman said, "That's nothing compared to what my country will do. We'll be the first to land on the sun! The other two said, "Don't be silly, you'll burn up before you even get there!" "No," the Irishman said. "We'll go at night!"
Pictures: Top right is Lauren and I on the way to Toronto squeezed into the back of Stephens car, left is the 2 Matts by the lake, bottom right is us playing on the vertical climbing tower and bottom left is us out for a nice Sunday afternoon stroll.
I have tried to make my bebo page accessable for the public. So if you would like to see more pictures of my time Canada. Check it out. Scroll down and they are on the right hand side- Enjoy. One will keep you updated of new pictures on bebo. There is about 4 albums so far of Canada to keep you all busy and distracted from work!!
t being pulled up into the night towards the stars… then pretty terrifying plummeting into the darkness. Doing it in the middle of the night made it all the more exciting!! Did a spot of cycling this morning into Rosseau for lunch at Cross Roads [for all those who have been here!] only to find it was closed so we threw my bike in the back of the van and off to Jimmy Hats [Once again if you’ve been here you’ll know!] I left early and started to cycle back was so nice the sun was beaming, cycling past lakes, rivers, cliffs, beaver dams not to mention chased by a few dogs!! This afternoon we played about the vertical play ground behind the zip line which was cool we belay ourselves and climb about 60 feet in the air- pretty mad.Here’s to going to the gym at 6am everyday, getting stung by a Hornet twice withi
n a few seconds!, “Tough break”, the gate barrier dropping on my arm, great friends, “Gong show” Playing tag rugby every week, sneaking into the hot tub, Matt riding on the back of the van, Introducing Empire to Muskoka Woods and it being played all the time, going for swimming adventures in the lake, being Tom's conscience, going to see Lindsay for my birthday and missing the busiest weekend of the Spring, Amanda hug and kiss, hard core golf cart driving, a kid thinking that Ireland was the capitol of Scotland, djing some dances, playing capture the flag, scoring the winning goal in football, “Aaawwkard!”, buying a nalgene [I feel very Canadian now!], “Rachel you should go back to Auckland”, Teach jew 101 and to the many man black fly’s!A wee joke...
There was a Russian, and American and an Irishman in a pub. The Russian said, "My nation is the best on earth because we were the first into space!" The American said, "Oh, that's nothing, my country was the first to the moon!" The Irishman said, "That's nothing compared to what my country will do. We'll be the first to land on the sun! The other two said, "Don't be silly, you'll burn up before you even get there!" "No," the Irishman said. "We'll go at night!"
Pictures: Top right is Lauren and I on the way to Toronto squeezed into the back of Stephens car, left is the 2 Matts by the lake, bottom right is us playing on the vertical climbing tower and bottom left is us out for a nice Sunday afternoon stroll.
I have tried to make my bebo page accessable for the public. So if you would like to see more pictures of my time Canada. Check it out. Scroll down and they are on the right hand side- Enjoy. One will keep you updated of new pictures on bebo. There is about 4 albums so far of Canada to keep you all busy and distracted from work!!
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