Merry Christmas Happy New Year

Hey!

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope everyone's was great! We've been very busy at the Katima-house with lots of cleaning and activities and celebrations. The town of Chisasibi has had all these really fun nightly gatherings at the banquet hall and such since the 27th and we've gone to a lot of them. The prizes are really cool but the games are even better, it's so much fun just to play, my face usually hurts from laughing too hard.

So New Years Eve was a very quiet one...for a couple of minutes! The group all decided to go to the Banquet Hall for celebrations, however Kalleena and I were still trying to look pretty so they left without us. We finally left around 11:20 and got to the Hall a bit early, naturally no one was there, mostly at Church or still at home. We ended up not being able to find the rest of our group so our 12:00 consisted of us walking around saying "have you seen our family?" and hugging at 12:00 because we were alone in the middle of the road. So cute!

Well we went to the Hall the group showed up eventually and there was food and coffee and celebrations and games and prizes and dancing and laughing and the fun didn't stop till the morning. Then last night there was a Formal feast that some of us went to and we got all dresssed up with our long johns underneath because it was so cold and the feast was SO GOOD! There was moose and turkey and caribou and ham and beef and a few veggies hehe. Then there were some more games and a couple people even won a 42 inch flat screen t.v., a full stainless steel kitchen set, and a living room set.

Today was mostly spent packing, and finding many things we thought were lost. Ihave managed to pack completely and my suitcase does close. However I still have some stuff out, hopefully it fits in my backpack for camp.

Well that's about it for now. We're going to a Walking Out ceremony tomorrow, which is a traditional ceremony where the kids walk in their snow shoes for the first time and the community invited us to come so we're all excited to go.

Happy New Year!!!

-Megan