A double bed, my own bathroom and learning to crochet.. You only get that at billeting!

Hello!
so I know I haven't written in like 12 days and I feel terrible because I wanted to write like every other day but I don't have a laptop with me here and I felt bad using Sheila 
(my billet mom's) computer to write my blog. I just used it for checking my emails.

k so let me start with Sunday October 24th 2010. When Sheila picked me up. I was very nervous that she wasn't going to like me for some reason I don't know but you're going to live in someones house you have never met before for 12 days, it's a bit awkward don't tell me it's not :).. So she picks me up and she was this cute little old lady and we go to her car and go to her house and her house was TRES (very) cute! I loved it. I took pictures on my phone but I can't put them on the computer yet because I don't have a piece for my memory card.. anyways I had my own room and my own bathroom YES FOLKS MY OWN BATHROOM, a luxury you do not get in Katimavik. People are waiting outside the door in the morning for you to get out so they can get ready LOL. and lets not talk about my bed, it was a double bed I think, whatever it was, it was heaven! So comfy and spacious and great! Nothing like the army mattress bunk bed I sleep on in the Katmiahouse. I do love my army mattress bunk bed don't get me wrong but it was a WONDERFUL change :). I had a great time at Sheila's. She was SO nice. I learned how to crochet. OMG I'm so excited. I made 3 granny squares so far, I am planning on making a blanket! 
Sheila is retired and her husband passed away a few years ago so she is lonely and we had a great time. She has a sewing room and on Friday before I was leaving I gave her a Thank you card for letting me stay with her and I told her in the card I said I would love to keep in touch and after she read it she said "You're the first person that has wanted to stay in touch." HOLY MOLY I just about cried and I said,"Of course I want to stay in touch, I have had such a great time. She said that I can go over whenever I want. Before I left she started me on another little project. It's a secret though because they are going to be Christmas gifts. She has a sewing room with so much stuff to make things. She has a cupboard with ALL kinds of yarn for knitting and crocheting and she gave me so much to take with me. I love her. I am going to be sad when I leave Vanderhoof. I LOVE it here. 
So billeting was great, I wanted to stay but everyone else was pretty happy to get back. Except for Sarah, she loved her family as well. 


Work
I LOVE MY JOBS! You don't even know. I can't even explain how much. but I will try :)
StrongStart is great! I love the kids and I have so much fun when I'm there. I make crafts its so fun ha ha. And Pat my boss lady at the school where I am on Mondays is so funny. Sandy who is the other lady I work with at StrongStart on Fridays. We go to Fort Fraser to a school there. 
But Stuart Nechako Manor :( I love it there. I love the residents. I love the people that work there. When I think about leaving I get so sad. I love them and I know when I leave Vander, I'm never going to see them again :( the residents I mean. Another one passed away this week :( She was 90 years old and one of the nurses was trying to call her daughter to tell her and to tell her to come in but she didn't answer and after lunch her daughter came in expecting to visit her mom and when she got there the nurse had to stop her in the hallway and tell her that her mom died :( the lady started crying hysterically in the middle of the hallway and I was in the little kitchen beside the hallway icing the cake I made in the morning with Ruth and I was hearing her cry so I started to cry and I had to go to the staff lounge and not hear it because it was SO sad. She didn't know her mom died until she got there :( poor lady. 
Even though almost all of the residents don't remember who you are after 30 seconds of you saying Hi to them, you know who they are and you begin to have a special place in your heart for all of them and I am going to miss them ALL so much when I leave. I know I'm going to cry so much.I could cry right now thinking about it. I heard its 23 more days until we leave. I asked if I could stay here. I don't want to go to Quebec, I'm sure it will be fun but the thought of leaving isn't very appealing right now :'(. And Melissa isn't even going! We get a new Project Leader :( UGH I don't like change..


so yesterday we got back from billeting AND i got a package in the mail!
Daniel, one of my best friends from when I was like 5 when I lived in Alliston sent me a gift. Now I told him not to buy it but he did anyways! It is the new iPod nano. Its pink and so cute and engraved and I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! thank you!  :)
Today Kyra, Brandon, Zoe, Ryan and MOI went to the Neighbourhood Space to finish the mural that we are painting while the rest of the group went to help move and cut wood for an elderly lady. 

Brandon, Ryan, and ME painting!

our mural that Zoe drew! It's almost done :)

Kyra and I came back to the house at 2pm and started baking bread and making cookies and started dinner. Well Kyra blogged while I made bread and was on the computer while I made cookies Ha Ha! but she was good moral support and we had a dandy time laughing and dancing in the kitchen :) it was such a great day! 

the bread rising before it went into the oven!

my gorge bread after the baking process!

my cookies I made. (before)

after

after again :)

 Tomorrow we are going for a hike and then at 4pm we are going skating! Then at 9pm we are going skating again because Isaac got us ice time at the arena, he works there. I'm so excited :) I love skating! When I go home I think I'm going to sign up for lessons LOL I can't wait. I'm not to bad I'm getting better the more I go but I want to learn to stop. When I try and stop I just turn in a circle or I go to the side of the ice where the board things are and stop myself :)


well I think I have written enough and updated you on what is going on. I should go socialize with my katimafamily, and knit! I'm going to knit a little holder for my ipod HA HA guess what colour?!
yep, PINK!

have a wonderful rest of your weekend and a great week!
Thank you for reading as well.

Xoxo Sara!