Sydney to Hobart

Merry Christmas, I hope everyone had an excellent christmas :) I did, had a blast and went skating!! Now I've been keeping up to date with the Sydney to Hobart yacht race and cheering for Another Challenge!! So I'm enjoying my time off to relax, eating truffles and going to long walks with my puppy! Okay...well maybe they aren't that long because his legs are so short... haha. I hope everyone is relaxing and enjoying their gifts and feeling the Christmas spirit! I hope Santa has treated everyone well! Enjoy the rest of your holiday!

Christmas is almost here!

Yay! I hit a new record of having 2 people look at my blog on the same day!! whoopee! haha, Christmas is coming soon and I literally just opened another door on my advent calender! Pretty pictures! Tonight, I am practicing my vocabulaire de noel with my student, man it's quite something! Also I am hoping to find some Korean vocabulary to practice too and maybe some Japanese? hehe, but I suppose homework should always be number 1 priority...wow, I am such a nerd! haha, oh yes. I did promise you a picture of Sunny,

he's very cute huh? He is an Australian shepherd cross labradoodle. I can't remember if I've told you already or not.
Merry Christmas and eat lots of cookies and drink lots of eggnog!
Love, Me :D

Skiing and a Puppy!

Just a quick note before going off to sleep :) Yesterday, we adopted a puppy! A labradoodle cross Australian Shepherd, we've decided to call him Sunny because of his sunny personality! I'll post a picture when he moves in with us :) Today I also went skiing which was a blast! First time of the season for me, I was a bit woobly at first but after my ski legs came back, t'was all good :) I even did 4 black diamonds on my first day!! WOOT! And I got put through the pain of moguls, which I really, really, really don't like doing, but it was okay and I didn't fall over so it's all good :) To top it off, it was snowing and was absolutely gorgeous in the Rocky Mountains! Gorgeous, lovely and fun!

Baking and Movies

Good morning everyone! Yesterday was one great day! I met up with a friend and we made some delicious paella and we made a honey coconut cake which was really yummy! While eating, we watched BBC's Emma <3 <3 soo good :) I think it's placed first, next to Pride and Prejudice now. :) Jane Austen is good :D Which is a good solid few hours of Saturday. Next I went to pick up my little brother from home and we went to my aunt's farm for dinner and more movies :) We ate pizza and we watched The Forbidden Kingdom and A Knight's Tale. A Knight's Tale I have to admit was pretty funny ^^ So today I woke up, (surprise, surprise!)  and I baked a chocolate peppermint cake which I couldn't resist and is now in the fridge setting. By it had set in that I still had some homework to finish...and eekkk went my vocal chords... So so far my weekend has been pretty fantastic!!
At the moment it is November 27 and I am very surprised that we have only had 2 small sprinklings of snow, like icing on a cake so far! It's almost December and I am wanting some snow now!! It's about time, I do want a white Christmas, not a brown one! I hope you all had a good weekend too :)

Eclairs and some snow :)

These are some photos from Iqaluit!!

So it looks like I may be traveling a bit before my Japan trip!! Super excited, but it'll still be after this year is finished. I may be visiting relatives in New Zealand and Australia and England... :D Only 23 more days until Christmas break! A little stressful but mostly exciting..! I've been craving some eclairs, but because it's been so cold (-18 today...brrr..) I haven't been able to go. Dad right now is in Iqaluit, and it's warmer there than here!! (Calgary) how unfair is that!! I wanted to go, but he was gone for an entire week and I couldn't miss that much school. I want to go and see the Northern Lights and go do some dog sledding and tourism stuff up there...oh well maybe next time! He sent some photos to me and it's soo pretttyy!! He stayed in Cape Dorset and Halls beach...very pretty! Although, I am also very excited that ski season is almost here! Time to go to the mountain and shed some powder!! :D We've gotten a little ground covering here at the moment, and it's really cold, the roads aren't too icy though so that's good :) However I do think a little more snow would be nice to make up for how cold it is, there is no point in having cold weather without the snow. I'll try to update again soon :)

Oh yess, here's a picture of just a few cranes :)
Heidi

209 Cranes plus a cool quote!

I saw this really cool quote the other day, "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm Possible." Audrey Hepburn I think it was said by. I thought it was pretty cool :)
I am now at 209 cranes!! And can now fold them with my eyes closed!! (...just kidding!) I wish I could though..hha
My Korean friend is indeed introducing me to more Korean food, and I am practicing my pronunciation which she says is quite alright! (Yay!) However, I am recognizing a couple words when she speaks with the cousin in Korean, like 'and', 'but', and 'then'. and the connecting phrases! That's all for now :)

54 Paper Cranes

Bad news....my aunt got diagnosed with a pancreatic cancer and only has about 4 months to live...Have any of you read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes? If you haven't, I recommend it, it's a very sweet book. It's about Sadako who gets leukemia from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, and she attempts to fold 1000 paper cranes before her death. So my family and I are going to fold 1000 paper cranes and send them to her. So far, we've folded 54 paper cranes. In a way I'm not doing this just for her, I'm doing it for my Uncle who died 3 years ago from cancer as well. He was an amazing guy and he taught me so many things, he was like my second father. I regret not being able to do anything for him, regretful that the year before I shaved my head for cancer, but I didn't do it again for him. He was not living a comfortable life, and he suffered alot. I am regretful that I didn't talk to him as much as I used too because he seemed to fragile. I remember as he was getting worse and worse, how I didn't want to see him anymore because he was suffering so much, but I did go and see him as often as I could. I regret that I didn't say what I wanted to say to him before he died. So now I'm folding paper cranes for him as well as my aunt. I hope they will bring luck to her, since this is really all I can do, I'm going to do it whole-heartedly. I'm not going to stop folding until I reach 1000 cranes.