Oh Canada!

Before I get anywhere on this, I must point something out. If anyone reads the comments that are sometimes left on my blogs, I apologize for my sister's spelling. Erin, please. The word is "gently"... not what you put... look it up. Ok, now stop laughing! I'm sorry if I embarrassed you, dear sister, but let this be a lesson to you all. Use a dictionary. You never know where your words might take you otherwise!

Carrying on...

Well as the Olympics wrapped up with an amazing OT goal I couldn't be more proud to be Canadian! In a sea of people who must clarify "oh, ICE hockey, you mean" I can say I was in the presence of several proud to be Canadians to enjoy the final game. The fact that our country took the most gold medals ever in an Olympic winter games was icing on the cake, especially compared to my British counterparts who seem to be getting weaker and more obsolete with each passing of the winter games. One measly meager medal. Ok, fine, it was a gold, but still. Come on, Britain! Placing just ahead of only Estonia and Kazakhstan among the entirety of the medal winners... I suppose the coping skills, or lack of, that I witnessed earlier this year when a little bit of snow fell was foreshadowing of how this country would do when competing amongst it!

Anyway, rant over. In other news, my mom and Aunt Eunice are going to be here in 9 days! I can't believe it! I'm so excited to see them both and get some proper peanut butter! You might be laughing, but when you are stuck with what they consider to be PB here, you would understand where I'm coming from! (I made sure to say that I was excited to them first, if you noticed, however). My Aunt used to live in London for a while, so they wont be getting too lost when I'm working, thankfully! I'm really looking forward to it and I know they are too.

Volleyball is really a lot of fun! I'm going again tonight and am happy to have found a really interesting and nice group of people. It's just a social group that likes to get together and play amongst themselves and occasionally do other matches and tournaments. They also do beach and summer matches as well, so pending on what happens this summer, I'll likely be involved in that.

I've also found a really fun and crazy church! Crazy in the best way possible. It's called Hillsong and it's in the heart of central London in the theatre that houses the We Will Rock You show, so just by the venue you can imagine the sort of church it is. It's very much like a concert! Some people don't see the appeal and are in fact turned away from it completely because of it, but I think it's a really interesting approach to spreading the word. It's full of young, happy, smiling people who are on their feet dancing and praising - albeit no one can hear themselves or the person next to them sing, but, all the reason to sing louder!

Off to get some things done before volleyball tonight... I always hope the best for everyone back home, chins up - It's March now and soon the winter blues will be over and the crocuses poking out of the melting snow!!

Loads of love,

amy