today was day 2 of lectures and i thought i'd say hello to everyone. HELLO.
i wanted to write a blog with a bunch of random things that i've learnt since coming out here, like cultural differences....but i can only remember a couple. so i'm going to try to remember them. hopefully they'll come back to me as i write:

• nobody here knows what the word "mennonite" means. it's not the easiest thing to explain, if you've ever tried.....and believe me i have tried!
• it snowed on the mountain that is right in front of me. yep, lots of it. they tell me though that it'll probably melt again before the real winter begins.
• i've realized a couple of jokes that only canadians would understand...(ex. man wearing a purse=murse. like the mts commercials?anyone?)
• we are losing 5 minutes of daylight every morning and evening! soon it will be black all of them time!
• there are only 4 of us whose first language is english. for everyone else it's their 2 or 3, so sometimes we joke about them not understanding us & speak very bad english...i think that by the time i get home, i will not be speaking normal at all.
• i now think with a new zealand/norwegian/something-not-canadian accent
• lenneke is listening to superchick in the other room :) BIG BIG STAR MACHINE
  

i think that's it for tonight folks! i'm off to be creative and make meself a journal. any questions?