So, the Christmas c0untdown begins. Eight days! The weather here has been pretty decent so far, although it's snowing right now and there is supposedly a storm coming in.
Last week, (I forget which day...) we had a workshop on "Interpersonal Relationships". It was actually really, really interesting. I don't really feel like going into details about it...but it was fun. For the most part. Apparently I'm a power-hungry control freak, more or less. Fabulous.
Tomorrow, we have our Farewell lunch party thing with all of our work supervisors and billet families. It's going to be at the school here, for a few hours in the afternoon. I think only my billet-dad can come, but it's better than nothing. After school, the four of us that work here will stay to do a staff gift exchange/ Pce-Out Katimavik get-together for a bit. And that evening is the Winter Solstice that Krista has organized at the Clubhouse, for the members. On Friday, we're going to Charlottetown at about 4 to go out for dinner then go volunteer at a concert fundraiser. In each rotation, we have a "Food for Learning" budget, which we can use to go out for lunch or dinner as a group to experience the local cuisine. We're going to an organic café in CHarlottetown. Afterwards, we'll go to help out at a place called the Guild which is holding a "Food and Warmth" concert, as a fundraiser for a local food bank. It's a show featuring a bunch of local East Coast musicians.
On Saturday, we've organized a "Santa's Workshop" fundraiser for the community. We're having a bake sale and raffle to raise money for Oxfam, as well as taking donations of non-perishable food items for the Caring Cuboard, a local food bank, as well as Gingerbread Men decorating and other crafts for kids. It should be a gong show. I've tried to get the baking underway, but not much else has gotten done. I think the crafts that are happening are organized...i hope. It's all really last minute and I'm scared to hell that a huge amount of people are going to show up, we'll run out of baking and craft supplies and it'll be a giant disaster. I sure am optimistic sometimes.
Funny baking story... So far I've made banana-chocolate chip muffins, brownies (which I'll ice on Saturday morning), oatmeal-peanut butter-raisin cookies, almond bark and my Mom's shortbread cookies. Shortbread cookies might just be the easiest recipe ever. Butter. Icing sugar. Salt. Flour. Corn meal.
Wait, wait, wait. Corn MEAL? No...corn STARCH. Oops. I guess I copied the recipe down wrong last year from Mom's recipe cards...
The cookies are a little grainy, which is why I realized the possiblity of a mix-up. They taste fine otherwise...so I need to decide whether or not they're good enough to sell at the bake sale.
Our freezer isn't big enough to hold all this stuff...so I'm going to be up late Friday night and early Saturday morning making more.
Yesterday, I pretty much had the worst day ever. Well, maybe not ever, but it was pretty damn shitty. First of all, the principal wasn't at the school, and he's the one that teaches 2 of the 3 classes that I help out in. Most of the students weren't there either so nothing much happened all day. I hate days like that. Whenever I feel like I don't do anything in this program, I always have work to fall back on. I can justify being here because of the working aspect...so when I have a completely useless day, it makes it a lot harder to be optimistic about staying. A reporter for a local newspaper was supposed to come at 4:30 yesterday afternoon to take our picture and talk to us about the Workshop for an article tro advertise it. So, I rushed to the gym after school and left early to make it back in time for this guy. I was at the house at 4:30, only to find out he wouldn't actually be there till 5:15. Frustrated, I went to take a shower. I was shaving my legs and cut my knee quite badly. It wouldn't stop bleeding and the blood was soaking through like 4 layers of band-aids. It took me a good twenty minutes to get it taken care o.
The reporter guy finally came, took a few pictures and talked to us about the Santa's Workshop that we have planned. I was already totally wound up, and then this man starts asking about how we feel about missing Christmas at home and everything. How do you THINK we feel about it? Eff. When he was asking about that, i got a little teary. Talking about not being home for Christmas was something that I just didn't need at that particular moment. I ended up leaving the living room discussion and hiding out in the bathroom for a while, and then went and cried in my room. Yeah, that's right...I'm on top of things.
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