J’avance un Peu
à tous les jours, un peu moins jeune
Woah, September. Get back here.
This month has been largely and wonderfully spent drinking coffee with Katie (and putting together our ballerina Halloween costumes, and trying to learn how to play instruments), and traveling.
First was the youth camping trip and that was great because I made it my mission to not be cold at night. And I wasn’t, because I bought a real winter sleeping bag and wore obscenely huge slippers to bed. Take that, Alberta climate. Anyways, I sure do love my youth group people and watching Madagascar 2 clips before bed, and henceforth adding “freaks!” to the end of every sentence. I’m psyched for this year! Since Shailyn & Banu are now in high school, I have moved up to be a high school leader. This means I get to co-lead with Jen and that makes me happy because I sure do love Jen.
Then was my long-awaited Quebec trip which was fantastic! Strange as it sounds (considering I have only been there five times in my life), although I grew up here, I feel like my heart is very much in Quebec. I would just flat-out love to live there for a year with Katie and Christine. They could bring their Nicolases.
It was a great holiday though. Such a completely different week now that Sarah-Maude can speak English. In a way it feels like I’ve gained a new cousin, for that essentially is what’s happened. After all, what relationship can exist between people who can’t communicate? I can’t expect all my family to learn English as thoroughly as she did, though, and that’s why I need to learn French. I regret having family that I see from time to time but don’t know. It seems wrong that I should habitually have deeper conversations with my dentist than I do my own grandmother. So, it’s past time this became a priority.
Next in my travels will be the youth leader retreat and that’s exciting to me. Despite being an introvert, I like the idea of being together with a whole bunch of other youth leaders. It gives me a relatively safe venue for my goal of the last ten or so years: to give “being shy” a giant middle finger and be brave when meeting new people.
In closing, buying a car in September will likely not happen, (mostly because I was away for so much of it) but, October, lookin’ good, October.
