The beginning of February

The past week i have been very homesick, its been hard with a lot of tears. i think the birth of my beautiful nephew really made me think of home. but i skyped with all the family and face booked them a fair bit, and i think hearing from my brothers that everything will still be there when i get back, and that im not missing out on anything really made me realise, this is a once a life time opportunity and im going to live it the best i can. i have become more myself with this in mind the last few days and it has really made a difference. i went tobogganing with Geordon an outbound and Goktug and Kana other inbounds, we only went to a small snow hill near by as it was the first time, it was alot of fun and theres is a really big hill called Finn hill and my host family is going to take me to toboggan down that so thats exciting. the next day i went to a restaurant called wacky wings with Geordon and Goktug and some friends of Geordons from school, so i was able to meet some new people that night i also went to one of Geordons friends houses with everyone as they were celebrating the end of semester, we had a bomb fire and it was still so freezing, by the end of the night i had someone else's jacket, mittens and sleeping bag on, then we went inside so i could defrost. February 3rd i went to the Bon Soo opening night with my host mum and her friend, as her daughter was dancing in the concert, Bon Soo is the largest winter carnival in  Northern Ontario, it goes for about 10 days with heaps of different activities and things to do. ive been to the mall and down some more shopping, i went to a popular Canadian store called roots and brought some more clothing. Feb 5th i walked down to the Bon Soo carnival to take some photos and see what was happening, theres snow bum slides, snow sculptures, snow shoeing and heaps more, it looks like a lot of fun. when i got home i heard this big bang, as i was the only one home i wasn't sure what to do, i thought someone could have been breaking in so i slowly came out of my room peaked around the corner and looked out the window i could see and one or anything, so i came back to my room. a few minutes later Tracey came home and she asked me if i heard a big bang, i said yes, i thought someone was breaking in, she laughed and said we probably should have told you thats what it sounds like when the snow falls off the roof. Feb 6th i started school, school is really different but i like it alot, i have the same teacher for foods and parenting she is so nice and really welcomed me, my gym class is alot of fun, im glad i choose it the people are really nice and so is the teacher. my cosmetology class, the course its self sounds so cool and i really want to do it but the teacher is really rude and i am shocked with some of the things she says. on the second day of this class she kept saying how selfish teens are if they work more then once a week and how teenagers don't no anything, i stood up for myself today and told the class my story, how i worked plus went to school, graduated and am funding my whole exchange myself, i think she was really shocked and after i had told her she became less once sided about everything, so hopefully things get better. on wednesday my host sister and i got up early as Sara is in the school Badminton team and they practise before school starts, so i went with her to watch and her coach asked me if i was interested in playing, so i think im going to give that a go for  something different. ive been to another Rotary meeting, and they really want me to do the polar bear swim which is when you run and jump into a whole in the ice into the freezing cold water, its part of the Bon Soo carnival, at first i really didn't want to do it but i have thought about it, and watched some youtube videos so we will see.