nine days is too short.

Billeting might just be the best thing that has ever happened to me.
The family that I've been staying with since Friday is amazing. The parents, Michele and Glenn, are both teachers at local public schools. They have a ten year old daughter and a 9 week old puppy. PUPPY! Man, I'm seriously in love with the dog. Her name is Chloe and she is the cutest thing that I've seen in a long time.

They have a really nice house a few minutes outside of Alberton. I get to sleep in a double bed! The first few nights I didnt even go near the other side of it... I guess Ì'm too used to my little Katima-bed. I love staying at their house! I get my own, big room and I get to cook a ton (which Michele and Glenn love too!), and I've met a lot of their neighbors and some of their family which is really nice as well. Cynthia's billet family is actually right next door, so we can hang out if we want to. On saturday, Michele took the two of us, along with her daughter and her daughter's friend, to Summerside. The two girls saw a movie, while Michele, Cynthia and I went shopping for a bit. This coming friday, Michele is taking Cynthia and I, and hopefully Frede as well, to Charlottetown! If there are any good movies playing, we might go see something. Otherwise, we'll just shop a bit, and stay the night at Glenn's sister's B&B. I'm so excited!

On Sunday, everyone will go back to the Katima-house. Although I wish billeting would be for a longer period of time, I'm really glad that I got to be with the family I'm with, because I know I'll keep in touch with them afterwards and hopefully see them again at some point.

Oh! Funny story. It's a small world. Glenn used to live in Calgary between semesters at St. Francis Xavier University, working construction and stuff. So, he was asking me what high school I went to. I told him St. Francis and he asked who the principal was. Guess who he went to university with!? Danny McFarland....brother of John. AKA my high school's principal. WIERD.

Speaking of it being a small world...have you ever heard of the theory of Six Degrees of Separation? The idea is that everyone on Earth is connected to everyone else by 6 links. Example: Michele knows a lady who's friend had the opportunity to golf with Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Kevin Costner. I met that lady, so I'm connected to Costner by three links.
Kevin Costner -> Lady's friend -> Lady -> Me.

So lets say that Kevin Costner sat next to someone on an airplane, say yesterday, who has a cousin living in Australia. That cousin buys their produce from a local farmer in Australia who lives literally in the middle of nowhere.
Farmer -> Aussie Cousin -> Random on plane -> Kevin Costner -> Lady's friend -> Lady -> Me

Voila. We're all connected.

Well class is over. Home time! (The chem class I help out in was writing a quiz...I'm not just a giant slacker, I swear...)