alrighty! so we're back at Sylvan Lake for Girl's Week with Site 2. The Site 2 guys met up with our guys at Evergreen in Sundre for this week too. It's been fun... the girls are super nice. there's about 40 females in one place, which would be insane if a spat were to break out, but things have been extremely sane. so that rocks :)

I went snowboarding on the weekend! it was awesome. except my board's bindings are bologna! sooooo crappy. BUT Xena says that she has bindings that i can HAVE! she never ever uses them and so she's giving them to me, which is doubly awesome because she used to have the exact same board boots as i do and they were specially fitted for them. hurrah! her bindings are in Saskatoon though, so i won't get them until after Christmas. unless... hm... maybe i could pay her to have them shipped. we'll see, we'll see :)

So tomorrow is the official "we only have 2 weeks left together" point and it's sad. I don't really feel like i've learned THAT much since i've been here. I mean, it's be awesome and i've made tons of friends and had some amazing fun times and God times. but at the same time (wow, i've overused that word! let's see how many more times I can use the word time in this blog) i don't feel like there was one speaker that really impacted me exponentially, or changed my life, like lots of the people here have said is so in their time here. But maybe i have learned lots, but just haven't had the time or motivation to sit down and process it. that's probably the case. I was talking to kristine (one of my leaders) today about it during our PMG and she was just saying that for most of the students, the huge growth happens in Guatemala because we're FORCED to grow up and be independent from the time we get there pretty much. so i'm nervous and excited at the same time.

during quiet time today i did this thing that Danica and Kjer told me about that the people at H2O (or whatever it's called now) have been doing: taking a 20 minute time block and sitting and just listening to the Lord. it was cool. nothing revolutionary, but it was cool to see the thoughts that i think about most often and what naturally comes to mind when i spend time alone and such. and God had some really great things to say also, so it was time well spent. i think i'll try to do that every day from now on too. But maybe not during quiet time because it's one of the times during the day where people really aren't as quiet as you'd expect them to be! haha!

The speaker this week, Susanna Muntz, is doing an extra, optional session tonight in an hour's time regarding some misunderstood passages in the Bible regarding the women of the Bible times. I am not sure if i am gonna go. a bunch of people are watching "Romeo and Juliet" but i honestly HATE Leo DiCaprio and i don't want to spend tons of time in front of the TV. oooh, side note: Alias is done. it ended HORRIBLY! i guess they make season finales completely whacked out so that we can't WAIT and by the time the next season starts, we're pretty much pulling down the wall paper to see it. but yes, so uncertain if i'll go to class tonight or not.

we have to present the city of Antigua, Guatemala in a week's time ("we" being Katie, Pan and I) in Spanish class and we can't find anything on the internet! which is what i'm supposed to be doing right now. it's technically not even my internet time, but the girl who's signed up isn't even here. but i should go anyway and pretend to be studious. until next time!
Janelle
Good music: Jack Johnson (On and On), anything Christmasey! wohoo!
Number of times I used the word "time" (including this time!) in this blog: 24