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Category Archives: Personal

Returning to Canada

Big news…
Due to the unbelievable number of power cuts recently, my family has made a quick decision to send me back to Canada to finish up the school year. I’m flying out with Air Portugal early tomorrow morning, so I don’t even have time for proper goodbyes. This really stinks, but some things [...]

A Dog Called Mountie

Since about a week ago, we have a new ball of fur bounding around our yard. His name is Mountie, very fitting, I would say, for a guard dog. A Canadian guard dog at that! He’s about 2 months old, and way too cute to scare anyone off yet! Don’t believe [...]

A Miserable Day

Well, this week did not exactly start off on the right foot. We’ve been having bad powercuts for about a week now…like 6-8 hours a day, pretty consistantly. Well, yesterday beat them all, 15 hours from 6:30 until 21:30. To top it off, our whole family was sick, so that made for [...]

I really am leaving!

Yesterday my dad bought those fateful tickets which will carry me across the across the ocean in a few months. This is making me think more and more about leaving and goodbyes here. That’s definitely the downside of living an MK life. It’s going to be a huge change going back to [...]

The Dancing Mennonite

First off, I’m going to take you guys back a couple years. This was before we went on furlough, so I was about 14. One evening, we were at our mission centre, and there was “English Country Dancing” going on. Now, dancing seemed to me like something only sissies would do. [...]