Photog Blog again!

MUH BIRTHDAY!!!!! So Anna and Charles cooked an AMAZING Thanksgiving dinner and it happened to be my birthday too and they told us to dress up pretty then they shut us in the basement so that we wouldn't get in their way and we took lots of pictures. Here are SOME of the girls, clockwise from left Monicka, me, Kalleena, Kayla and Marjolaine. AWW so pretty!
Garret, me and Kalleena. The toy gun was my birthday present from Rachelle, it was SO COOL until i broke it like 5 minutes after getting it, but either way it still makes a loud bang when you pull the trigger so I'm happy :)

Monday day, the group went to some beach somewhere outside of town and we had a sand castle competition. This one was Marc, Anna and Stephans...it's a giant turtle destroying LG1 (the HydroQuebec dam) and it's AWESOME
This was Charles, Marjo and Monicka's, sooo pretty. The other two teams sort of got lazy and didn't finish...it was cold!

I just realized I don't have any other pictures..,. ENJOY!

-megan

Bloggy Blogdem

SOOOOORRRRRRY for taking so long I got a little lazy.

Anyhosens it's been a nice likkle while here in Chisasibi. It is freakin' cold here, I have pulled out my winter jacket and it is in daily use. Work is fairly borbor but what can you do? I'm slowly learning some cree words/understanding their conversations.

Last Saturday the group headed over to Fort George, which can also be known as Old Chisasibi. It's about 10km from here on an island. About 30 years ago they picked up most of the town and hauled it over to the mainland because the construction of the HydroQuebec Dam threatened to flood and submerge the island. Alas, it did not flood or submerge so they all go there now to camp and be free because there are no rules over there. We met a family there and they were building something (I forget what it was) and carving up a partridge for dinner. It was gross and intriguing at the same time. We also explored the island by foot/Katimavan and had a sort of campfire with wet wood on a beach and it was cold and Anna claims that she saw a seal but no one else was there.
AH! It's the group on the barge over to Fort George!

A very very old gravestone in the cemetary on the island.

Okay, so Monday was mah birthday!!! It was pretty cool, aside from missing everyone at home :( But everyone here was so nice and got me really funny presents/candy and we had a great day at the beach having a sand castle competition. When I say beach, by the way, forget the swimsuits and sunscreen and add the long johns and sweaters. So the sand castles were SOOOO cool. Rachelle and Kayla burried Karl in the sand as a castle; Charles, Marjo and Monicka made this beautiful garden sanctuary type thing; Marc, Anna and Stephan made a HUGE turtle destroying LG1; and Kalleena, Garret and myself just made a random thing with trees and rocks and a mini michuap. I'd post pictures but it's kind of a pain in the ass so I'll make a picture blog later. Oh and on Monday night we had thanksgiving dinner and we all dressed up really pretty and had a fancy dinner complete with British accents.

The rest of the week was boring aside from an intense game of Shirades last night and a little Welcome party that was long overdue on Wednesday that was pretty cool but hardly anyone showed up because I suppose they have better things to do. I'll do a picture blog later. OH and tomorrow we're building a wintercamp. We were going to make a Michuap (teepee) but I wasn't listening either way it's a wintercamp now and we're going to sleep in it in the middle of winter...HYAY

k peace

PICTURE BLOG!!!!

Our first outing in the Katimavan, we got stuck in sand. We tried with all our might to push it out but we failed. Eventually a nice neighbour came out with his truck and got us out of there. :)
Marc, pretending to be Jesus? Anyways we decided on Monday night last minute to go see the sunset at James Bay so here are some photos.
Sunset at James Bay
A view of James Bay sans sunset.
Sunset

While at the sunset at James Bay we decided to spell out KATIMAVIK with our bodies. So from left to right : Garret, Karl, Stephan, Kayla, Kalleena, Marjo, Monicka, Rachelle, Charles, me and Anna.

On Wednesday night, the group headed to the James Bay Eeyou School for the awards ceremony, and this was a cute little girl sitting in front of us. AWWW
Tuesday night: A few of us decided to play Monopoloy, and used the hotels and houses to create a mini Chisasibi.

Wednesday night again, the little girls older brother playing a slapping game with Monicka

Oh mon Dieu, le gastro!

YAY! This is our house, is very nice and our front lawn is made of sand and rocks :) Its brand new and very nice except theres lots of sand so we have to sweep inside 3 or 4 times a day.
This is a ... forgot the word for it, but they don't call it a teepee... they are everywhere and people are starting to cover them now and roast geese in them. It's interesting.
Some Cree children that were playing outside our house. We decided to join them and then they wouldn't leave us alone and kept ringing our doorbell during dinner. Very cute though, in the end.

Howdy y'all!

So it's been a rather exciting few days here in the KatimaHouse. My french is very much improving because my house manager partner hardly speaks a word of english and in turn I can now understand pretty much everything she says. Most of the time.

On Thursday afternoon Marc told me that because I'm working at the daycare, I had to complete a First Aid training course. I was a little pissed off because I really wanted to cook dinner that night but now I had to go to this course. Anyways it was 3 hours Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday morning. I actually am happy that I went because I must say, I learned quite a bit.

Also, on Thursday night, one of the girls came down with the flu. So she stayed home all day with Monicka and myself while we cleaned. Well of course this is a house of 12 people, so duh its going to get passed around. So Friday night Monicka started feeling a bit queezy and looked a little pale, and I started to have some really painful stomach cramps. Finally Saturday morning Monicka was full out sick with the flu and I was all right so I went along to my First Aid class and got everything I needed. By the time I got home, I ran downstairs and passed out for a couple of hours, only to wake up vomitting and realized that I too, had the flu. Now lets just put the icing on the cake...by Saturday night, Kalya, Monicka, myself and now Kalleena all had the flu. Isn't it great living with 12 people?

I think thats as far as it will spread because it just so happens that all 4 girls who got it share a bedroom so we all quarentined ourselves and that should be the end of it.

Anyways I'm going to post a few more pictures and then go back to sleep. Enjoy!

Des Photos

It is far too early to write another blog and I lack the energy to do so right now, so I'll just post some pictures :)

So this was the Sunday of our "Mass-Orientation" camp. That bucket is full of food scraps and who knows what else. They used it in one of our camp games, we had to find 20 marbles that were at the bottom of the bucket, but that was only on the second night. In this picture, the bucket had been sitting out in the sun for a few days, and Stephan and Alex so kindly volunteered to clean it up.
Tuesday morning, around 9:30, at the Val D'Or airport(one of our two stops on our way up north). It's very very small, about the size of the Swiss Chalet I worked at, and it had ONE taxi spot, which was, of course, vacant. This isn't everyone but clockwise from the left, it's me, Charles, Rachelle (in the rainbow hat), Marc, Anna, Karl, Garret and Stephan. This is also the airport that took our luggage hostage for a day.
First picture of Chisasibi. This is the Administrative Centre, duh, one of the nicer looking buildings. I don't know what they do in there but it's really nice and the receptionist is such a doll, she helped us out a lot during an activity on our frist day.
DOWNTOWN! Not a joke, this is downtown Chisasibi. There's not much to say about it, but on the right is the hockey arena and on the right is the school. Also in downtown : the commercial centre (consists of a post office, cafe thats not really a cafe, a CO-OP, a CIBC bank and the Northern Store), City Hall, the general store, a First Nations Bank and a Youth Centre.
Aw, this is some of the group walking to work on their first day at their jobs. Of course I was in the van getting a ride, so what was I to do aside from snap their picture and mock them :)