I wrote this post a fews day after school started and just didnt have any internet access! Sorry for keeing you guys waiting!
So I guess this is happening, well its happened. Saturday(Sept 11) started the first day of my new chapter. At 8 o clock, I boarded my very small plane to Vancouver, which was full of turbulence and I was a wee bit scared. I then arrived in Vancouver, where I found out my flight was half an hour delayed. Joy! Flying over the prairies was very different from anything I have ever seen! Everything was flat, and my mountains were gone!! Once I got to Winnipeg I was greeted by someone from CMU and was driven back to the University. I got to know a bunch of people from different sites, and it was all very intimidating since I knew no one. As the night progressed more people arrived and I started making some friends. There were 50 of us staying the night before school started the next day out of the 106 of us. Sunday started the first day of the program, we had registration and just got all our fun paper work done. Then we broke into our sites( the people we would be with for the next 8 months) and drove to a camp about an hour away called camp Arnes. Monday we went over rules and had team building exercises where I almost broke my arm..Well I think I did. Today was our first day of our Theology class with a professor named Gavin Hill, its going pretty good so far.
Anyways things are going good, our camp is on Lake Winnipeg which is so big it looks exactly like the ocean does in bc.. Except for the fact that this “ocean” goes on forever because it has no mountains. And this “ocean” is not blue, its poo brown. So theres a wee bit of a difference.
This is all such an adventure for me, and I don’t know what to expect next. I love all these people already. Yesterday at the lunch table one of the guys asked me to put my hand out and I replied by telling him no because I didn’t trust him. He responded by telling me that we are a family now and that I should trust him. And that’s what is forming right now, a family. A dysfunctional, crazy, all over the place, family. But we are learning to love each other, and it’s the best feeling ever.
These people are stealing my heart.
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So good to hear that things are going well Leala. The prairies are oh SO unique. Glad you are getting to experience it. Flying over them is beauTIFUL!! Ive been in BC for a few days now.. and I actually miss the praries. Ive fallen in love with a whole different part of Gods creation. Enjoy every moment, just spend time looking out into the distance remembering that God created IT ALL.. and the uniquness of it.. is oh so wonderful. He is ever so creative, it amazes me daily. miss ya.
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