We had a long weekend the last week because of Labor Day on Monday. Weekend was spent lazing around. We had picnic on Saturday with Prof. Natalie Simpson who treated us to pizza, pretzels and tasty citrus green tea. The pizza slices were huge that I had to stuff the entire slice down my throat. Salute to some of them who could eat 2 slices in the time I took to finish 1! It was Fall fest at night and we went to camp outside the community building to catch the fireworks that they were launching in school. It was rather impressive! They were launching it only a few hundred meters from me so it was really loud! Here's a video of the last few minutes of it. I love the ending.
Had the rest over on Monday and Cassie and I cooked chicken rice for them and Kenneth fried the egg. Reminded us so much of home! I really should have bought more of those mixes here. YUM YUM.
I build a bear in school today! It's still has no name as of now. I really wanted a monkey but they were out of monkey so I got a white bear instead. It is wearing a UB shirt! I stuffed it myself with the stuffings and made it real fat. Hee.
My bear!
Stuffing their animals!Woke up late this morning after snoozing for a grand total of an hour. While I was rushing around trying to get ready in the shortest time possible, I suddenly missed home where my mum will make sure I get up on time for school. Then today when I collected and was packing away my laundry, I saw that there was a hole in my socks. Kinda miss home again where there will be people to mend my clothes for me. Not complaining though. I'm actually rather glad of all the things I have to do on my own because I feel I am learning a lot.
It's amazing the things one can manage to do when one has to. I have, in the 3 weeks I have been here, cooked my own food, do my own laundry, clean the house (vacuum, mop, wash the toilet/bath tub etc), iron my own clothes... Who would have thought. While ironing my clothes this afternoon, I suddenly thought how different life is now for me. No longer pampered at home, I now have to handle and do a lot more things on my own. Just a while ago, all I had to do was focus completely on my studies. Food was always ready when I wanted to eat, the house was always cleaned, bed was always made, my clothes washed, dried, ironed and pack into my cupboard for me. Now, while doing my work, I have to run out to check on the boiling water, take the laundry down then remember to put the laundry into the dryer and finally take it up. While reading my things, I have to then put it aside to cook food if I wanted to eat. After having guests over at my house, I can't just retreat into my room to get back to my work. Instead, I have to wash up and clean the house. It just amazes me how much I have changed. I like it (at least for now) because I know I can finally grow up and learn how to take care of myself. (:
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