Another amazing day!

I got my canvas today! I memorized the whole thing already! At least....all the stuff that's required to be memorized by Thursday. I was practicing on everybody, their responses were hilarious. Laura screamed that she wasn't interested. Sam, asked me if I was trying to sell something and if so get out, Eddy, Sam and Amaris pretended to be a family where Amaris was the dog....who bit me... Then later Amaris gave me "100 dollars" just for being "so darn cute" as she put it. Yeah...it was interesting. Oo! and I did PE with the seniors today, it was a blast! Oh and Fraser Valley is coming today! They'll be here by supper Randy said, their going to sing with us in the concerts this weekend. So their here to practice with us. It should be pretty cool!

I had a really good witnessing opportunity today! A girl me and Eddy have been praying for came and asked me advice, I talked to her at different times all day! It was great! And last week she even let me pray with her!

Well I should go study for my chemistry test, see ya!

White Christmas!

Spent all morning sledding down whistling winds trail with garbage bags, and ice skating on the pond! It was SOOOOOO much fun!

We just got back from tour last night at 11 PM, the last concert we did was the best! It was at a Pentecostal church, it was so much fun! There was a couple elderly ladies in the front who really got into the music. Hee hee. Afterward they came up and hugged and kissed us all. :D

Saraiah forgot her violin at school, so we shared mine. It must have looked odd....we switched at every rest in the music. :P Oh and we got an encore at the last concert. Well.....all of the concerts but a really enthusiastic one a the last concert!

The bus ride was a lot of fun too! I sat in the quad with Heather, Sam, and Kara. We had a crazy time! We made videos of each other doing guppy faces...and...yeah...hee hee. It was fun. 1 week till California tour!

God is so AMAZING!

Happy Thanksgiving! :)

I'm thankful for SO many things! But today I have something I'm REALLY thankful for! I'm thankful I dont have appendicitis Or however you spell that. After our first concert yesterday I started having pain in my stomach, I ignored it at first because it wasn't that bad, but as the day went on it got worse until it was so bad I couldn't really even walk, on a scale from 1-10 it was a 10. So Rosa took me and Melissa to the hospital but before she did that she put her hand on my stomach and prayed for me. By the time we got to the hospital the pain was only about a 2. The doctor asked a bunch of questions and examined me and he said it wasn't appendicitis, we went sure what it was. But it went away after about an hour after Rosa prayed for me. And I mean, this wasn't just a little tummy ache, I was literally laying on the floor sobbing. It's amazing how fast God can work. He is so AMAZING!

Lalala! We're doing 2 concerts in Lillooet today! WHich means only one hour of work!!!!!!!!!! WHOOooOOT! Uh oh...I'm late for class... Well bye!

Wood chopping!

Had an awesome day working campus! Although somewhat unproductive... We were splitting wood, I'll admit I aint that great at splitting wood. In fact Mr Luchak took my axe away and told me to stack the wood because he didnt want me to have to go to the hospital. Hee hee!

It's getting REALLY cold! It was minus 15 C today! Which isnt good for my poor mistreated violin. It WILL NOT stay in tune! EVery time I take it out it's horribly out of tune. Speaking of which I should go practice before I get busted for being on the computer during practice time! *grins*

SNOW!!!!

It snowed last night! First snow of the year is so exciting! I woke up at 3 to find snow, why did I wake up at 3? Well because I left my window open....Heehee!

Anyway, so it's been pretty freezing, literally the ground is rock solid, all the puddles are frozen too! Everybody is dressing like marshmallows and overall it's awesome!

Christmas

Christmas at home is always my favorite time of year, it's the time to bake cookies with you sister, and play Christmas music as loud as it goes. AT our house I always loved traditions. Every year me and my little brothers would put on Santa hats and go Christmas shopping for hours everyday, of course we spent all our money on advent calendars and twinkly lights. But we just enjoyed the Christmas feeling of it all. Then at night we would sneak up after mom and dad were asleep and decorate the whole house. I remember last Christmas when we tried that...the dog ended up knocking a ball off the tree and woke my parents up. So we hid behind the wood stove until all was clear. Then when it was, we finished decorating. It was SO much fun! Every year daddy brought home advent calendars for us kids, and every year we would get impatient and eat the next days candy. Last year the kids put on a little Christmas show, puppets and all.

Now that Christmas is coming and the orchestra is playing Christmas songs everyday I've started to miss home more. All the traditions that wont be kept, I wish last Christmas I would have known it was my last one at home.

But I guess this year I'll make new traditions to be kept for the next 3 years. It'll be fun, Johnny's cutting down Christmas trees for the dorms. And some of us girls are making decorations. I just wish I could think of something to make this Christmas season special for everyone. I have a few ideas...but I'm open to any ideas ya'll might have!

Merry Christmas!

YAY! My burn healed enough so that I can play! And Tom Blaylock is here to train us so I've been singing and playing for 4 hours last night 8 hours today, and 4 more hours this afternoon. Then 4 more hours tomorrow! So I'm getting a lot of practicing in! Now I truly know the meaning of living and breathing music!

Burn....

Well this morning I found out that my burn wont heal for several weeks so I cant play violin until like the first Christmas concert or something like that. So....Yeah I'm gonna completely sound terrible in the first 20 concerts. Oh well, God has a plan!

International Supper

International supper was amazing! We had So much fun! Heather and Justin made a huge AMAZING Albanian flag! We made SO many cookies! We had 3 huge boxes filled with them! We're gonna be eating leftovers in the cafe for quite a while...

All the booths were awesome! Nathan wore a fake mustache and dressed as an Italian chef. Mr lemon gre a beard and dressed as Shackleton for the Antarctica booth. And Joel and Zack dressed as lumber jacks. It was pretty awesome.

We cooked for SO long for it! And me being the only one who knew what it was supposed to taste like everybody was asking me questions. It was rather stressful but still a lot of fun. Then I burnt myself pretty badly while cooking, So now my whole wrist is covered in a huge blister. But praise God it doesn't hurt so bad today as it did yesterday!

The mini concert went really well too! The quartet sang an Icelandic song and then shalom. And Brian told a Chinese story. Then Joel, Jo, and Jessica sand the Canadian national anthem. Then Randy sand the American one. And then us Albanians sang....Oh that was scary! I was shaking in the beginning but as we got to the middle of the song I was praying for strength and suddenly I wasn't scared, I even started being able to look at peoples faces instead of just staring at Rachel. :P

And now it's November 1st. Only a month until open house and then Christmas tour and then break!!!!!! Praise the Lord this school year is going by fast!