Our Adventures

Well hello! Chris here. You all have seen the amazing exciting things me and Vicks do on the weekends, and you've seen Vicks vacuuming during the week. Now you get to see where I live during the week and get a glimpse at what I've been doing.
So for the last three months I have been doing my internship for teaching in a tiny, but lovely, little town called Plenty. It has definitly been one of the most awesome things I've done and I'm coming out of it glad I chose to be a teacher. I guess thats pretty good eh? Anyways I guess what I"ll do is show you some pictures and give you some explainations as they go along. So buckle up. Here we go!!!



So here is the school I work at. I teach from grades 9 to 12. The 9's and 10's are my homeroom. It is so fun. This school is just so friendly and easy to work in.








So these are some of my kids when we were doing an experiment in a lab. I love these guys.









These four pics give you an amazing 360 degree view of main street Plenty!





Here are the town office and the church.



and here is my house! So yeah that is my little tour of plenty. Your really did see 90 percent of the town just from those pictures. It has been an amazing time here. The only crappy part is being away from Vicks all week. But hey! Only three weeks to go! So yeah I hope you enjoyed your tour. Talk to you all soon.
Chris

Well, not much new has happened this week. I had to shovel snow again but not as much as the week before so that was a little easier. This week was filled with essays and I still have one due on tuesday, it's not over yet. Only two more weeks of real school and then time to study it up for exams. This weekend was a very relaxing one. I didn't do too much homework and we got some good errands done such as a car wash, groceries, and christmas ornaments for our very first christmas tree which we will hopefully get as soon as they're available somewhere. Don't know exactly where we'll be putting it but we'll find a spot. Yesterday we did all these errands after Chris' dad who was in town for the day, took us out for lunch at fuddruckers for some good burgers. Today we went for a nice long walk across to school where I took some shots of the brick work around campus. Chris wanted to see the football field that is getting all ready for the big national championship next weekend which the Huskies made it to! We unfortunately didn't get any tickets so I guess we won't be freezing our butts off as we watch it. Here's a little sneak peak of our adventure...

Well, I figured it was about time I updated this thing. Although, there's really not much to talk about because all that's been happening lately is writing essays and that can't be too much fun to talk about. This week we got a whack load of snow, over a foot probably. I spent a good two hours shoveling so my car wouldn't be stuck in a frozen pile of snow and shoveled all our walk ways and such, I had a good nap after that. Jo, the lady that lives upstairs gave us a fresh baked loaf of bread the next day for me doing that so that was nice. This is the finished product of my shoveling, well it looked better right after I did it but you get the point. The stuff in the back is our car, the alley and jo's garage, so there you have it.



This weekend we headed out to Lucky Lake for Chris' volleyball team's regional tournament. The top 3 teams of that get to go to provincials. Chris' parents came out and Herbert's volleyball team was there too so at least this time I had people to watch with. Chris' team didn't win any of their games but they came close a few times. It could've been a long day if they made it to the finals so it was sort of nice to be able to leave in daylight. I went on a baking spree today, figured I would stock up on some goods. I made bran muffins and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I also made this really easy jello mousse thing and that is pretty tasty I must say. Yup, I just a little housewife aren't I. Not quite.



We bought a christmas tree stand today because we're hoping to get a little charlie brown tree this year. It'll be nice having a tree to keep my company during the weeks and it'll make me feel like it's Christmas already, can't get much better than that. Tomorrow our big plans are to get the oil changed on our car and to see if we can get a block heater cause I guess cars in BC don't have those and they're quite essential out here if you keep your car outside and need it to start. We'll see, they might be a little too much moolah. Yup and then we're going to watch the big semi-final game, BC versus Saskatchewan. Two years ago we went to that exact match up for the semi-final and of course BC won so we'll see if it happens again. Not much else is going on these days. We'll be able to have longer weekends now with Chris' volleyball being over. I have 4 big essays to write in the next 2 weeks. Christmas break is in 6 weeks but really in 4 weeks because when you don't have classes then it's pretty much Christmas break. We're looking forward to going out to BC and cramming in some good quality time with all our peeps out there. It'll feel like going to Hawaii after being here in the dead of winter. Alright, well I guess that's all I have to say for now. Until next time...

Okay so about two months ago or more I ordered this vacuum from Sears online. We did this because it wasn't in the store and it was back ordered so we thought that by ordering it online it would get here faster. Little did we know that that was far from true...The delivery date was supposed to be October 19th but it was going to be dropped off anywhere between 1-9pm so I had no idea if I would be home in that huge period of time seeing as how I only finished school at 1pm. Anyways, so I called the ordering place and asked if I could just pick it up somewhere instead and she said that she could get it sent to a sears store and that I could get it a couple days later. Okay so that sounded good. I waited 3-4 days like she said and no one had called me so I called her back and the people at the place where I was supposed to pick it up had no idea what I was talking about and had no idea where my vacuum was. To make a long story short it was only today (two weeks after the delivery date) that I finally got this long awaited vacuum after talking to many people who had no idea where it could be or what was happening. I didn't know it was so difficult to deliver a vacuum. I've learned my lesson, I don't think I'll order something like a vacuum online ever again or at least I'll make sure that I'm waiting at home for 8 hours for it to arrive. I'm pleaseed to say that it came in once piece and worked wonderfully to get rid of all the dust and dirt that has been building on our floors for the past two months.