well i am on my second part of my exchange now and in a much different location.  I went from puebla, mexico to tofield, alberta.  it’s quite different but i am very much enjoying my time there.  i am with an amazing family that are so full of life and energy and i am having so much fun with them!  paco and i are the only exchange students in tofield, so after being all together for 2.5 months in the same town, now we are all split up through out alberta.  it has been an adjustment but not necessarily a bad one…i’ve been learning to adjust to having my own room and being able to speak english with my family.  unfortunately the spanish in tofield is muchly absent…which is not helping my studies, but hopefully i will be able to figure something out.  

while we are here in tofield we are working with an organization called busy bee which is the ultimate second hand store ever!  they have three locations in tofield and we mostly have been working with number three organizing, cleaning, and turning it from a disaster into ikea, haha!  we will be researching the organization and looking into the community’s economic and social benefit of having busy bee in tofield.  we are quickly becoming involved in community events and have found our own little areas to involve ourselves in more extracurricular activities.  i am helping coach volleyball for gr 4-6ers and also helping with the senior girls in the high school.  i also am playing rec nights with the mormon church and will be a a tourny with them in a few weeks.  it’s been so long since i’ve played volleyball but it should be fun!

two weeks ago i was able to go visit regina for a few days and it was so great…even though we watched the worst football game ever!  it made me really excited to go home for christmas and to do nothing but go out for coffee with friends, visit family, and sleep in amy’s pajama pants!

went to the big city of edmonton lat night with paco, racheal, and justin (host siblings) and went to the cheesecake cafe and the imax of eagle eye.  it was a fun night, but very late so i am feeling the effects of that today.  paco and i came to camrose today and will be spending the night.  we are going to a scott cook concert that danielle organized for the bike co-op tonight and then tomorrow i get to go to resurrection for church!!!  i am enjoying lounging on my oversized sofa while my roommates are gone (sad day) and am thinking how much i am excited to live here again next semester (no more ben in my room, haha)!

well, i’m off and will really try to update more often!

peace and bike grease…