On the road again!

I can't stay in this country for a whole year! I arrived home last year on June 1st. I am leaving on May 31st.... I guess I must have ichy feet or something.

So here we go. I leave for the airport in one hour and twenty minutes. It still hasn't really set in that I'm leaving for three weeks. I will try to post if we get access to internet, but otherwise I'll be radio silent for the duration. I'll have lots of stories and pictures when I get back, so stay tuned!

RWANDA IN FOUR DAYS!!!

... well actually Germay is in four days. We don't actually get to Rwanda until saturday. But it is very exciting! I am mostly sort of packed - all my things are spread out on the bed in the spare room. We have plane tickets and it is all really happening! I am still not compelety at the place where I am ready to be going- my head is in a different place, but I'm sure it will be in the right place by the time I get to the airport on thursday. So, it has been a little while since my past post because my internet has been wonky. Heh, good preperation for Africa! :) Anyway, since my last post I cut my hair. People keep assuring me that it is still long but really, how can it be long after I got 7 inches cut off?! In my head I know that it is still long - just below my shoulders, but it is a big difference to me.
Also, I have applied for a real job. It makes me nervous to talk about but I sent in my application for an internship with World Vision. Keep that in your prayers when you think of it please! There is alot going on around here, so even if I don't get the job I think I will be content, but it would be a great thing to have a job that PAID, that is in my field.

I will try to post more before I leave. Four days! Crazy!!!!

Domestic Goddess Part II

I am so proud of my domestic prowess today. I worked at Zehrs this morning with Steph which was happy because we rarely work together, and we hardly ever see each other which is sad since we live only a few kms apart. Then I came home and put in a load of laundry. I started a batch of bread while the nice new washing machine cleaned my clothes. Then I went out to dig up my garden while the bread was rising and clothes were drying. The place where my new garden is was under patio stones and before that was lawn so the dirt is very packed in. I turned it, added peat moss and turned it all again. Inbetween the turnings I came inside, put in a second load of laundry, punched and divided my bread and did some dishes. I am the queen of multi-tasking! Now the bread is in the oven, the clothes are on the line outside and tomorrow my garden will get covered in top soil and I will find a fence to keep the mutato bunnies out.

Reunions and Rainfall.

Monday was lovely. I walked to work and it was nice and cool and sunny. I finished at 1pm and then walked home. Then I had lunch and got into the car with good happy cds and drove to Toronto. The traffic was great and I got to Mississauga very quickly (doing the speed limit of course....)and then traffic got heavy but not too bad. I parked at Yorkdale, which for you non-ontarians is a huge mall. I took the subway into the city and attacked Diedre on the corner of King and Younge. We met Aaron at Richtree restaurant, a fun market style restaurant, and ate lots of really good food. It was great to see them both and in typical Aaron fasion he patted me on the head before he even said hello. Granted, I did try to go in the revolving doors the wrong way, but Diedre went in before me and it worked for her... So things don't change that much :) We went to see Spiderman 3. It was entertaining but I don't need to see it again. Then we got on the subway and after dropping Diedre and Aaron at their stop I continued to my car. Driving home I remembered how much I hate driving in the dark and how much I hate Transport trucks. The combination is vile. But I got home safe and sound so all is well.

Today was not so lovely. I like thunderstorms but tonight was a little crazy. I took the bus home from work and as I got off at the stop across the street from my house it was cloudy and starting to rain - it had been raining off and on all afternoon. Ten minutes later the sky was green, it was raining horizontally and the wind was blowing at nearly hurricane force. We actually went into the basement it was so crazy outside. It only lasted about five or ten minutes at that intensity and we found out from the weather channel that the storm was moving at more than 65kms an hour. Our neighbour lost some tree limbs and around the city power lines and trees went down. No damage to our yard and the power stayed on so I could watch the series finale of Gilmore Girls.