So classes are done for the winter... it's wierd. Our speaker this week, Hugo Reimer (yep, another Menno! lol!), was really good. he didn't say anything revolutionary, but he just reiterated old truths, and i think i super needed to hear them. It was really challenging and encouraging!

ok, so guess what? it started snowing in the middle of the night last night (yes, i know this because i packed up my sleeping bag for Canmore and was sleeping between 2 super thin sheet-blankets, like the ones they give you in travel trailers and on airplanes and i woke up FREEZING because our window was opened. and so i found more blankets and went to bed. :)) and the snow hasn't stopped falling since! it's GORGEOUS! just sorta flurries and stuff, but we've got a good 2-3 inches. and we went on a hay wagon ride today, pulled by 2 black Percherons, Dan and Doyle. It was awesome... we through each other off the wagons and dragged the camp cats along with us. super fun!

they have this video projector that we've been using for the past couple nights and the screen is HUGE! like, the wall is, i mean. we project the video up onto the wall and it's (no joke) the same size as a theatre screen! so we prop ourselves against these slanted upside-down pews in our sleeping bags and watch. tonight they are watching Return of the King, but i opted out cuz it won't be done until 2:30 am and we have to be up by 7:30 and i've been tired in the past couple days. but just the whole concept is awesome!

the staff here at Camp Evergreen through us a HUGE Christmas banquet for tonight! it was a delicious three-course meal with candles and decorations and amazingness. we were all dressed up too, so that was cool.

tomorrow morn we're leaving for Canmore, snowboarding on Monday, and hanging out in Banff and/or Canmore tomorrow and Tuesday. Then i fly home! ican't wait to see all you. It's sad to leave these guys though, for sure.

I know I never write about what i've been learning and that i make Outtatown out to be this slacker vacation, but really i HAVE learned tons and the school is worth its weight in gold, i swear. I was looking back through my journal and assignment book tonight and was like, "whoa... i should blog some of this stuff!" cuz it's totally where i'm at. but i'm not gonna do that now... talk to me about it when i get home :) love to you all! pray for snow in the lower mainland!

Hey! Wow, this week has been so super long so far! There's just been tons of stuff that we've tried to cram into each day that we don't feel like we've actually left class! BUT today was a bit different... i started knitting! wohoo! it's long and tedious, but fun. and class was super good... Hugo talked about worrying and about what the Lord's been revealing to us recently. so cool. :)

Geoff has fimo and so he and me and Dee (woo, it all rhymes!) made earrings and rings for ourselves and then for others as they came by to make orders. I made some pretty funky ones.. and candy cane earrings! i'm deciding to not stretch my ears any bigger.

and then after dinner we went into Sundre and went carolling! it was awesome! we went to an old folk's home and the IGA and a sports bar and a coffee shop and a "Granny's Kitchen"... and to some people's homes. I loved it :) we were supposed to have worship tonight also, but people are getting SO tired and probably woulda lasted a couple hours, and i think we just all needed a night to chill. so we'll do worship (our last one this semester! *sniff!*) tomorrow after class. I think we're watching a dvd on the projector in the Activity Center now, so i'm gonna go. XO XO
see you next week!
Janal