Photos from Trois-Rivieres

Where I went to Mass with my friends.







That sign says Turco, like Marty Turco, goalie of the Dallas Stars.






The shower curtain that I installed in our bathroom.

I went to my first CLP today! I like the two songs we sang: "We Will Magnify" and "Hosanna" (which I already knew from CFC-YFC). We had a talk by Cheryl, Kuya Charles' sister, who is one of my role models now. =) I did not like the icebreaker game too much, but hanging out after the nice talk, share, and discussion group was fun. It was cool hanging out with the leaders and feeling like their equals instead of seeing them as part of a "leader-clique." Enrico, Iris, Penny, Cathy and I went to Richmond to eat dessert... We ate at this kind of "hole-in-the-wall" place by Richmond Centre that served leche flan with shaved ice and condensed milk. Yum! I hadn't laughed so much in a long time ("There's a party in my mouth and everybody's throwing up." -Echo). I think I got abs from laughing so much with them. XD I'm really looking forward to next week's CLP. =D

Yours in Christ,
Carmela

The Lake House with Pat

Today I went to a special screening of The Lake House with my father, aunts, and my dear Thai friend Pat. There were some free giveaways from places like Curves and Blenz, since it was a special screening. A girl from Z95 asked us Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock trivia questions before the movie started in order to give away a few prizes. I won a Blenz gift card for knowing how Keanu Reeves got the nickname "The Wall" (Thank you, IMDB!). XD The movie itself was quite odd (Enough reason to not make English versions of perfectly fine Korean movies). O well... It was a cute movie... Meh!  Dad and I waited with her at the skytrain station until her Thai guy friend (turns out his name is Ben) picked her up. I'll miss Pat when she goes back home to Thailand this weekend. Hopefully I'll get to see her again soon. 0 = )

I'm Home!

It is nice to be home, especially now that I can hang out with my brother again. I really missed downtown Vancouver when I was in Quebec too... And Vancouver food! I really missed the good Asian food here. XD

What I Miss about the EIF at Trois-Rivières

What I really miss from Trois-Rivères/the EIF (in no particular order) are speaking French, springtime weather in Quebec (the wind!), the animateurs, our activities at school, the Info-Weekends, my top-floor apartment (especially the shower and my dorm room... the bed and the bedsheets as weird as that sounds ...and having nothing but my bare essentials in my room), my roommates and friends, Sarah's cooking, having no TV and just watching movies on a laptop, having a regular sleeping pattern (I always slept at midnight and woke up at 7, in an effort to have a regular body clock upon my return to Vancouver), having motivation to get up in the morning (not wanting to be late for breakfast at the caf & my 8:30 class), eating balanced meals at the caf (though I must admit, the food was not for gourmet tastebuds, I had a way more balanced diet back at the caf than I do now), the hearty breakfasts at the caf (especially the breakfast specials; I hardly eat anything for breakfast here), the UQTR campus, eating with my friends (especially Phil and Clive - you guys are hilarious!), the city of Trois-Rivières, and not having to worry about course registration or money or anything aside from getting my homework done.