day 2 in the springs

i went to this huge church with like 14000 members it was incredible and the teaching was so what i needed to hear. it was about family and God being generational and how the choices made by one generation affect the future very thought porvoking.
then this church did my favorite thing in the world...free food..they have it for new people every first sunday of the month and they had chinese food...beef and brocolli and bahn...that chinese bun with meat...love it!

i had a nice long chat with my hispanic canadian firend and we shared all the highs and lows of being a hispanic canadian girl in the 2007. ti was sucha great bonding time that at the end i just jumped up and hugged her and was like i'm so glad i met you. i love poeple that make you feel like you are just supposed to be friends with them.

i finally unpaked me and my roomate are both ladi back so we just kept postponing it and i think we were th only ones inthe whole res who hadn't settled in. so we decided to buckle down and do that.

we had a orientation session at 6 so we went and heard our residence advisors story about her life and her experiences here and just her spiritual jounrey to where she is now. it was amazing because she is orginally from mexico and i am so excited to talk more with her and just pick her brain. and her nusaband is that funniest guy int he world.

i had this total God moment because she had astory book in her hadn and i was thinking like wow waht a cool way to tell a group of people about you life by using a story book and i decided that if i ever had to do that i would use the velveteen rabbit and then lo and behold doesn't she read from the velveteen rabbit .i almost had a stroke but got over it and just really was mamazed at how God orchestrates people into my life when i need them.

after that we went grocery shopping at walmart...gross i know but its the american way. and then we came back to tapratment and just snacked and had some roomate bodning time. the grils i live with are so hilarious and ask the funnest questions about canada and they already think i am the biggest nerd because i use big words. i love it.

day 2 = thumbs up!

adventures in america

hi friends,
i'm in the springs now and i bet no one reads this blog anymore but i don't care because i'm too lazy to write stuff down so this is gonna be my point form( and some times long form) journal so i can remember what i did while i was here.

my flight and stuff was ok..pretty boring but travelling with a laptop is great because i got to organize and update some of my files and get some work done too.
when i landed in denver i forgot that i was supposed to ask to fly on standby on a earlier flight to colorado springs. probably because i was starving from not eating all day so instead of apporaching the counter i apporached the person with a mcdonalds cup and asked them to point me to mcd's. i made a beeline for those fries. in all honesty i was craving mcd's since toronto but couldn't get it. i was dissappointed that they don't have double cheeeseburgers in teh states but i had myself some big mac and that was nice.

my flight to the springs was literally like 15 minutes...like up and down...i felt the mcd's coming back up a coupl eof times...but landed with great success....at keeping it intact.

my housemates were there to pick me up and they had a sign for me and everything so it was nice. but i found that one of my suticases lost its wheel in the process of getting here...sucks.

they were so nice to me and asked me all sorts of things abotu cnanda and were just really helpful and welcoming. the southern states are very friendly i must say.

well just some random things i wnwat to note about my first day:

talking with my roomate about the temp. in toronto in jan...i told her its minus 10 and she almost had a stroke...because she thought celsius...and knows that life can't exist at those temperatures...

there is carpet in my washroom

everytime i say washroom i get laughs...because they say bathroom....

my housemate was so glad that i was short cuz she loves short people.

when i saw the other canadian girls we jumped up and down and screamed and hugged eachother that was my most canandian moment ever.

i went to this cool ice cream pace called cold stone where they literaly make the ice cream on a cold stone. u pick a favlour (sweet cream...like vanilla but more southern) and then a topping (brownie) the girl literally took the ice cream and put it on a frozen slab of rock plopped the brownie on top and then took 2 round paddles and kneaded it togeter to make a delicious combination.

learning that on monday for orientation we have to wear panty hose and realizing that every girl born in the 80's hates panty hose.


all in all its been a great itme so far. i'm close to the mountains and thats beautiful u just forget they're there and literally gasp everytime you see them.
we did a ton of outdoor ed games and get ot know you kinda things. the group i was with did the best at the intellectual pursuits but always ended making the physical ones more challengeing. its really great livign witha lot of like minded people and just meeting new poeple from all over the place. my goal is to be able to use y'all naturally in a sentence wehn i get home cuz they're all so good at it here...lol

if u read this you're awesome.

love
d