Rice and Beans... not the sammmme.

Soo last night I ventured deep down into my Caribbean chef expertise (pretty much guessed at it all) and attempted making the fabulous rice and beans.. SOo it turned out alright.. used the wrong rice.. i never got the crunchy burnt parts that are simply best.. Erin.. do I use Basmati Rice? or what.. cause that honestly makes the meal.. and i used mixed beans.. they were alright.. but I know they weren't the special right ones.. But the sauce tasted quite fabulsou.. la madre enjoyed it!

Had a French test yesterday.. that was fine.. even though I am in total spanish mode at the moment.. pfft.. Still on the search for my camera.. AHHHHH PLEASE AIR CANADA.. help me with this!! Listening to Obsecion.. my goodness.. Bachata is the curses of all music.. brings back wayyy to many memories.. Made a new shirt the other night during American Idol Commercials.. acutally quite cute!!

Thats honeslty about it.. it was WARM yesterday AND today!! woot.. nice nice nice.. Oh.. and my gym teachers.. Mr. Tonsaker and Mr. Pendergast.. MY GOODNESS.. they are the worst.. sooooo OLD fashioned.. you should see how he through the shot put.. MY GOSH. Anywho.. I'm goign to skidaddle..

Tonight I made a wicked stirfry.. my goodness mamas it was simply the bomb.. no other words to describe it.. y es i have to pull off the not so gangster side of me to discribe it to you.. just simply divine.. Shann came over.. twas nice.. i showed her all the pictures of ma trip and explained it all in details.. and listening to the Bachata almost put a tear in my eye.. had to stay composed though.. butttttt i was close to cracking. Anyways.. I have vball tonight at UBCO soo i better skidaddle off to that practice.. ciao :)

Major Withdrawl

Waaaaaahhhhh.. Yes.. thats the emotion spilling out from moi. I am going through major withdrawls from the lovely DR. Honeslty.. that place totally tugged and grabbed ahold of my heart and is NOT letting go. But hey.. there could be worst things eh?

Everything about that place was amazing.. wouldn't change a thing.. not even the cold showers, screaming from teh cockroaches, seriously repetitive reggaeton (downloading some as we speak as well as Bachata**tears coming to the eyes.. BAH**.. Rompe, Locura Automatica, Eso no es Amor) Awwwww Carla and Elah singing into their little water bottles for kareoke.. haha muy chula!

Know waht I've figured? It is simply wicked being a girl.. especially a blondeish Canadian girl. Mhmm there are some downsides.. but on vacay? What can I say.. it was wicked.. Erin and I went to Las Terranas, and lets just say we saved mucho dollars on extremely fancy dinners.. haha thats right.. WE WERE treated to this wicked French cuisine restaraunt. Soooo good cost over 5000 pesos.. haha.. and going out for Happy hour! and dancing the night away.. weird thing happend in Cabarete.. Erin and I had din din then hit some drinks.. soo we were slightly tired.. we fell asleep at around 11:30.. then woke up at 2 am.. there were these wacko German guys next to our place who kept tapping on the window, waving and tryign to talk to us while we were sleeping.. like totalllllllly weird.. soo I got up and closed the curtain.. and they were still tryign for a peep show at the bottom of the curtain area.. psycho if you as moi!

Plans on going into nursing school is on their way.. then Doctors without Boarders.. pretty stoked about that. Ohh.. and I'm vegatarian well somewhat.. haha its crazy what happends in around 2 weeks time.. things can change drastically!

Soo now I'm home.. did a heck of a lot of laundry.. my Moto burn has blistered immensly.. wait did I even tell you about that?! Yeah... burned my leg on teh exhaust pipe of a motoconch. haha.. now I have a natural scar/tatoo from the DR. What more can you ask for?! Uhmm did some french homeowrk.. that was actually quite difficult.. considering i'm in total spanish brain mode. Had 3 vball games tonight.. won all of them.. so that was good. Everyone was jelous.. i was the only tanned one on my team in our little black spandex.. was fab.

Anyways.. i'm tired to the max.. well kinda am.. soo i'm goign to skidaddle. Last night I went bowlling.. cause.. a few of us went to the movies.. but the theatre broke down.. Iknow.. broke down yousay?? yes.. the bulb compltely burned out.. apparently its work 10K. theennnn the manager kept updating us.. but said it had a 50 50% chance of blowing up.. soo we decided to take our 2 free movie passes.. and get out alive.. Smart Choice if you ask me. anyways.. i'm off.. Buenos Noches! xoxo

Not sick anymore.. HaLLeLujia!

Heeeeeeeeeeeey guys. OK. soo heres the deal of the pasty few days.. on monday night Erin, Rachel, Hector and I went out to get some Tacos.. really good right? hmm tasted fine and all that jazz.. WRONG. I totally got hit by the foodpoisioning sickness bug.. BAH it was nast. I pretty much barfed my face off on tuesday.. well.. 4 times.. but you get it.. hahah soo you know when you barf then you feel so much bettewr? well a few times.. i;'m like.. yay!! i've bafred it all out.. i must be fine now~! soo then we went out and did our business.. and yeah.. NO not fine. it wasn't very lovely at ALL. I fainted on tuesday.. total black out and what not.. it was really weird.. never've fainted before.. but i guess its good now.. soo now i know what to watch out for when that happends again? i suppose. haha. but now i'm peachy.

Funny thing.. these are what soem people said would cure the illness:
Peppermint Tea
Toasted Salami Sandwich- HONESLTY?! thats what Joe said.. i definetly didn't try it.
Nutmeg seeds in tea-actually is a natural way to make you high. hahaha maybe its just so you forge tabout how you actually feel?
GingerRoot.
And then there were some other crazy things too.. but thats the jist of it. BUT THE ALL END ALL cure was this:
Boiled Apio. Now your thinking to yourself.. what is this mysterious Apio she speaks of and is convinced it should be patented? APIO is spanish for celery! Yes. CELERY.. you boil the whole thing with all the leaves on and what not... this is what we resorted to on Thursday.. waht Bradley, Xiomara and Rachel all said worked.. soo i'm like.. FRICK LET ME HAVE IT.. i had over a litre of celery in me.. gaaaaaaaaaah i thought i was about to turn green and have celery babies .. and remember my stomach shrunk from it too.. GAWSH. then we had a wickeed curry celery soup.. mmm mm good!

So yeah.. enough barfing info.

OK.. So have been told numerous times that men love me. hahah its quite funny. (not quite like my little african friend lauren's who's been proposed too.. but.. your understandign moi eh?)

uhmm we went up the mountain today in a cable car.. it was soo grea tthe view.. and you should have felt the energy up top!! The was a giant statue of Jesus at the top of of it.. its was crazy.. the whole mountain was I think 2635ft? or metres. not quite sure.. the whole thing was in spansih... there was a group of kids there form school.. they were from a deaf school.. it was really funny watchifgn them all in teh waiting area.. cause everythign was super silent.. yet.. there hands were all moving like mad! it was pretty cool. uhmmm lets see what else has been gooing on.. hmm..

Tomoorw we're going back to San Marcos and doign a demo on how to bath a baby properly.. its amazaing.. cause all the women here are too afraid to bath their own children.. they usually get a neighbour to bath their kid for them.. soo we're goign to teach them how to do it properly.. We are goingto Los Sarenas on sunday.. catchign the bus at 5 am and travelling 4 hours accross the country to this really nice beach area and we are going to stay in a nice appartment kind of thing.. more resorty actually! and we are going to go horsebackriding up to a bunch of waterfalls and swim in the fresh water up there! its going to be so much fun.. cause erins never been to the waterfalls before.. soo an experience for both of us! specially sinc ei've only been to the beach 2 times so far.. soo that will be the power tannign time.. lol i can't come home white now can i?!

We went to Sosua when i was sick to vist my aunt Iris and Joe and got a day pass to their resort.. the water was soooo nice and the beach.. it was gorgeousl..l it was a shame though cause with the day pass it was pretty much all you can eat.. except i was sitll sick.. soo i couldn't eat anything!! hhah after a bit of the beach i retired and slept in their room for the nxet 4 hours.. oh well.. gotta get healthy! NOt sure what else to say!! Cause its been pretty chill the past few days just tryign to get better.. we're heading off to Susua again tonight to go out for coffee and dessert.. iris and joe.. they dont want to get sick from the food.. soo they're eating dinner at their resort, then we are meeting up with them after.. Rachel and Melissa are coming too .. soo it should be fun.

OH.. haha theres these two girls who live downstair.s.. Carla and Elah.. i may have already told you about them.. but OH MY GOSH>> you should see them dance... its soo scandalous.. like.. the way they shake there booties.. you would be outraged!! theyre 6 and 7.. its \CRAZY>? like.. dancing from 50 cent videos! ahhah.

Hope your all doing well.. cause i am once again! woot. oxoxo God Bless!

Heey!! I'm HERE AND LOVING IT

HOLA amgos! Como estas? Yo haciendo bien gracias! Ok.. enough of the spanish!! HOly smokes! this is the first time i've been able to get to the internet.. soo my appologies.. but not relaly.. cause I've been having the fricken time of my life! and TOTAL HATS OFF TO MY BBALL TEAM I AM SOO PROUD>> MISS YOU LOADS and cONGRATS! OK.. soo here's everything thats been going on lately:
Finally got to see my cousin Erin.. haven't seen her in 3 years... its wicked.. kinda crazy too cause we almost have ESP with eachother (no dad.. not ESPN.. i've learned)

We are living in this appartment located in the Battey 3... block three.. its got a wicked view.. Right across the street from us is a local outside bball court. Its totally like the "cennter" from honey.. haha theres constantly people playing.. great to watch since its street ball.. soo they do all the wicked moves and tricks and what not/

Erin and I suntanned on the roof of the appartment cause we were too lazy to go to the beach and what not.. just it seemed much more practical cause then we didn't have to worry about washroom visits and what not.. and we had snacks in the fridge... not going to lie.. we both got burnt that day.. :S but we loaded on the aloe *broke off a peice of natural aloe that was growing righ tbeside on the deck.. niceeee picture it baby.. totally tropical!

We've been to the market which was really sweet.. all the fresh fruits and veggies lined up in little tents.. and then went to the Super market.. too.. its was just like any regular one.. but more like when Coopers was getting reno'd.

On the weekend we went to San Marcos.. it's a really poor town, no electricity or running water in any houses.. or paved streets.. thats were we went (erin to teach the breast feeding thing... and me to help out with the kids at school) My gosh.. SOOO cute. we drew and played games talked and yes.. its been amazing.

Sunday they hosted a basketball tourniment in my honor!! I KNOW i felt like.. woaaaaaaaah princess.. haha loads of pictures were taken there! Soo you all have to see them. the played 3 games.. then afterwards.. Zeomate (the lady that runs the school who put on the tourniment) said that it was an honor to have me.. yadda yadda.. and then mentioned i played soo many sports bball.. etc... soo all the kids are like.. Jugas jugas jugas *play play play! So I played one on one with one of the guys (the best one.. man he was good..l but i gave him a run for his money.. hhahah!) I've met soo many people..

We;ve been taking motoconches aroudn the city (like motor bikes.. but you sqiush on like mad.. usually 2-4 people one one.. its nuts.. no helmets.. but its safe.. i know.. stop worrying mom.. everythings alright./

Time is about to run outl.. soo i gotta go xoxoxo love you all.. today we had a totally tropical storm.. Erin and \I were walking about the streets and got soaked! like.. completely drenched, everyone stared as we walked cause no one ever ventures out in the rain.. especially the women. Just like any place in the caribbean.. being white definitely attracts attention.. i dont think we've gone 1 hour without at least 5 people wihistling/smiling/or blowing kisses. hahah kinda gets annoying after a while.. whatever.went to an indoor carnival the other day.. sO unorganized.. but great costumes.. my spanish is getting bettter... but not enoughto be able to survive on my own. Everyone here is soo incredibly kind.. they will give everything they have to you just to make sure you happy.. we need to learn from them.. seriosly.

We FINALLY GOT water again today!! hha we were compeltely dry of it.. it was sick neither of us had showered since friday morning.. and its monday. and here you are soo dirty from being in the barios and what not.. I held a 2 day old baby the other day.. soo cute.. she was 6 lbs. Then later on.. was playing with a 3 wk old kitten... awwwwwwwww! soo cute.

Well thats all thats been happening in brief for the past few days.. i'm h0ping you guys are having a wicked time.. cause i sure am.. learning soo much.. living off of pretty much nothing.. well not nothing.. but bare minimums... we are getting super creative with our meals.. yet they always turn out amazing!! hha (slightly veggie now mum) OH MY GOODNESS.. theres this juice called chinola juice.. its absolutely amazing. all the fresh juices are.

ANY WAYS i actulaly do have to go.. xoxox you guys are awesome.. keep up the comments.. cause its like chrismtams an di love reading them! xoox peace

Less that 2 hours to GO!

My Oh MY. Time goes soooo slow! Everything is packed and ready to go. I am soo incredibly excited at this moment in my LIFE. Haha.. ok so! My cousin just called from the Dominican, it's hot there today with a small breeze coming off the ocean. Man, can't you just picture it now.. well when you do, don't look out the window.. cause it's SNOWING here.. hahahha that just makes it even better to go. OK. I'll stop rubbing it in. Today I fly out @12, then stay over night in Toronto with my aunt, pick up some extra bags and what not.. yadda yadda yadda. So.. as I said, My cousin just called. Apparently there was no water "left" in the supply for the appartments we're staying at, it just comes and goes. Just like the electricity. She says that sometimes the whole town will be down for a couple of hours, so Everyone just hangs out in the streets. She mentioned it was basically like camping, minus the tent. But a few extra luxuries. HAha! I can't waiiiiiiiiit. Perhaps I'll update in Toronto?! Perhaps not. You'll just have to wait and see.. Adios muchachas!

2.5 Days. MY GOODNESS how LONG is this going to take?

So It's true that time slows down considerably when you are waiting for something, or excited. It seems as if it was last week that I was chatting with my cousin about visiting her in the Dominican, time has definetly flown!! But now that we are down to the 63.5 hour mark (I know.. a little overload counting down the hours. but what the HECK its worth it) Yes, ladies and gents Wednesday.. superbly stoked. Its going to be amazing I'll be down there vacationing, visiting my cousn (Erin, 26 Toronto) annnnyways theres the ASL for you. But as I was saying.. vacationing, visiting and volunteering with her non-profit organization called Por Amor- "For Love" I'll be down there helping out with the *at risk youth. Helping them express they're emotions through art, work, anything! Except for anger. its going to be truely amazing, and such an eye-opener. Erin has an appartment down there right in the Barios. So noo all inclusive! We'll be living with the locals, and just chillin in good ol' Puerto Plata! So i'll keep up the updates. Just moi et ma cousine! Negative on the parents. Its going to be rad.

So update on les sports: Vball this weekend.. came 9th.. meh it was alright.. team played crap on saturday but pulled it together on Sunday.
Bball.. junior girls made proviniciasl!! wooot yessssss gooo GIRLSSSSS rock on boucherie.
anyways. I'm out. Peaaaaaaaace! xoxo