oh, the places you'll go

Our group just moved into our Port Colborne house yesterday, after waiting for a bit outside for our project leader to arrive. It was so hard saying goodbye to people from other groups that we met at orientation camp, but I love my group so much.

Our orientation camp was located at Camp Kintail in Goderich, Ontario. At first, I think we all had a bit of wariness about the whole staying at a camp thing. But that was probably because we were all EXHAUSTED (having arrived at 4am and having to drag our heavy suitcases through dirt to the cabins.) It was such an amazing experience though. I am pretty much friends with all 44 people of our cluster. The beach we were staying on was so gorgeous. We walked on it practically every day, and watched the sun set at night. It was pretty breathtaking to say the least. On our last day we did a bunch of ropes courses, which were really fun and good for team building.

We had a little over at 5 hour bus ride to Port Colborne, because we had to zig zag and drop everyone else off in their own communities. We haven't learned about our placements yet, but I'm sure they'll all be fantastic. Apparently there is a heavy metal concert once every month. Today what we did was have meetings about all the comities we can be in, for organizing group activities and how to learn french/english faster.

People in my group are: Robyn, Rachelle, Aysha, John, Alexandre, Valerie, Dan, Philippe, Jillian, and Mya. Everyone's really interesting. We have a very diverse group, so it makes things very interesting. We've already seen some young people who live in Port Colborne, which is exciting because tonight we're going to a free movie night and we might meet even more people!

Here is the Facebook album I made with all of my Katimavik pictures so far, that I have made public so anyone can look: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14752&id=1650360075&l=a9bb8478c1