Valentine's Day/Last Day at Work

Hey kids

As per usual, I am at work right now. I have some stuff I want to do at work (yes actual work) before moving on to my personal things (such as this blog). But I want to quickly talk about the dinner last night before I move on to work:

St. Valentine's Day Dinner/Speed-dating: That actually got canceled. Well not the dinner because everyone had to eat (by the way it's parmesan chicken and creamy rice and veggies on the side...Charles and I were drooling at the chicken) but the speed-dating itself. I wasn't disappointed but I did want to see how it would be done. Cheryl and Charles (the two people who organized it) were just pooped and didn't want to do it anymore. Actually I thought everyone that night were pretty inactive...the house just didn't have to same energy that it usually has (although I talked about this with Zach and he disagrees). So instead of a "romantic" night of "dating", the Frenchies (minus Stephanie) went out to the bar/Tim Hortons while the English kids stayed home and did a French activity (Zach and Stephanie were in charge of that) where we learnt body parts...god I need to improve my pronounciation. So it was a rather quiet and "loveless" evening. Lucky Emilie, she left at 9:00 pm for her 72 hours...she is going to Ottawa :P

A couple of news from last night:
- Our Katima-van/coquette-mobile is broken in Sault Ste. Marie. According to Emilie (who on Tuesday went to Sault Ste. Marie for her PL meeting) the transmission is broken...it happened when she was driving towards the Sault and apparently she can't do reverse backup...eek dangerous. Now the van is in a Ford dealership in the Sault and the guy who can fix it is sick...so no one knows when we can get our van back. Poor Emilie, she had to take the greyhound to get back to Blind River.
- Because the van is broken, we can't do our planned weekend activities, which sucks quite a bit. On Saturday we wanted to go to Elliot Lake and go bowling/swimming/hiking with the Elliot Lake kids and have dinner at their place, but that's canceled (well it doesn't help that the Elliot kids have head lice, so we can't go see them anyway...apparently there's a outbreak of that in Ontario and a couple of them got head lice from work...that really sucks for them). Then on Sunday we were going to go to Paul and Baryl's for another scavenger hunt with the Elliot group, and have dinner at their place. Now none of those activities are happening, so pretty much the weekend is free, and Emilie is not back until Saturday night.
- According to Emilie, Cara McQueen (our project coordinator) is quitting. So for you Castlegar kids, that means there will be another PC coming in for you. Man you guys don't ever seem to have a steady PC...I heard your PC in Castlegar quit in the middle too.

Well as you guys can tell by the title, today is my last day at work. Betty Ann is going to Los Cabos (Mexico) tomorrow morning for a week, while Stephanie and I will be house-managers for the next week. I have decided to clean up the office (it's quite messy) as a final note to my job here. So I shall put on my special MP3 mix - Jack Johnson/John Mayer/Norah Jones/The Corrs/Christina Aguilera/Hey Ocean! and work away...

Be back later

PS. Kind of funny...Cheryl modeled a swimming cap (Maxime's) for the group yesterday, and we had a laugh over it. Maxime said that she bought it to protect herself from the Elliot kids' head lice during our rotation camp, and Rebecca made a joke and said we should all wear one plus googles and show up in camp...we all laughed except for Maxime, who said "No I am not kidding...let me know if you guys want a swimming cap so I can buy more"...is it such a big deal? Or am I just too relaxed?