Winter finally decided to hit Three Hills

After months of very mild winter weather, the cold has finally arrived. Can't say that I'm overly thrilled about this fact, considering that you can pretty much get frostbitten walking from dorms to the dining hall. According to the Weather Network, it's currently -30. Oh wait, combine that with the wind chill and we've got -40! Earlier today it was -48. And tomorrow it's supposed to be -40 without wind chill. Brrr!!! Why am I living in Alberta? I should move to California.

So on the note of it being brilliantly cold, I decided that today was going to be the day that I go out for lunch with a friend. A friend that doesn't have a car, much less her license. (Fyi, neither do I). We tried Harvest House, which is only about a 5-10 minute walk from dorms, but found that it was closed for unknown reasons. I didn't want to go to the Mission because it's far too expensive for my taste (and I was paying). The only other respectable place to go to in town was Daniel's, and that's at least a 20 minute walk or so. To top that off my friend has a broken toe (which she eventually couldn't feel because of the cold). We decided to stop in at Mac's to warm up a bit before continuing our trek, and while thawing out we met a friendly old gentleman who offered to give us a ride. Now I realize that in a town any larger than Three Hills it may not have been such a good idea to get into a random persons van, but he was super nice and looked really familiar to me. I found out in the course of our 2 minute drive (that would have taken us around 15 minutes to walk) that he's my boss' neighbour. Sweet eh? We didn't manage to catch a ride BACK to dorms, but it was a blessing that we got a ride there.

And now I'm at work and have a considerable amount of homework that I should be working on. Oh, and maybe doing my job too... Minor detail. ;)

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

We finally have new snow! Our first (and last) snow was sometime in November, which is lame, because it's been awfully brown around here recently. Then it started snowing a couple of days ago and just keeps coming! As one of my friends puts it, it's "cute" snow. =) Or romantic snow, whichever you prefer. The kind where the flakes are huge and fluffy and they float lazily to the ground. It's beautiful. =) I love snow... =D

Struggling

Just a quick note to ask for prayers right now. There have been several issues in dorms in the past week and I'm struggling with the right way to deal with them. Thankfully I don't have to deal with them alone, but they're still tough. Also, school is really getting me down. There's one course that has to be done by mid-February, which means that rather than finishing it in 4 months we have to finish it in a month and a week. It's intense. I'm also not really wanting to be here, and I'm sick of doing homework etc. More big news, I'm graduating this semester, which means that I won't be back at Prairie next year. I have no clue what I'll be doing next... Anyways, I have tons of homework to finish for tomorrow. Prayers are appreciated!!!

Back at school

So Christmas break is over and I've come back to... reality I suppose. I had a wonderful Christmas with Dan and his family. They took me right in and spoiled me ROTTEN! It was great. =D And now I have to start focusing on classes again. I found out today that one of my classes has to be done by Feb. 15, so we're basically doing four months of work in a month and a week. Intense eh? At least after that I'll only have three classes for the rest of the semester. =) I think that if ya'll want more details about break/school/life you should send me an e-mail, cause I miss getting e-mails from people and I still don't have your e-mail addresses back! Hope to hear from you!