up with kady

ok so this weekend i'm going to catch up on this week. so they'll all be written on the same date. oh well. next week i'll try harder to be consistent.

tuesday.

we were split into red and green for the whole day after the opening announcements. us greens listen to talks in the morning about the rules and such (don't break the 12am cerfew, don't drink unless you're of age in the country you're in, don't drive your host familys car blah blah blah). kinda boring. but whatev (miss you sarah!)

then we ate lunch. i think that was the breakfast borrito day. weird eh? haha eh? man you really don't realize how much you say it till every single time you do people laugh at you. and i've offically aquired a nickname here. when you stand up to speak you have to say your name and country. therefore i quickly say "kady canada". and this is what people no call me. i'm not even the only canadian, there's four of us. but its kinda cute.

in the afternoon green group had a huge three hour talk on stereotypes. it was su[er long but one of the exercises we did was awesome. they wrote down every country represented by the cast (there's 18 i think) on a sheet of big easel paper. and we had to go around the room and write on the sheet the first thing we thought of when we saw the countries name. so for example on japan's sheet i wrote ninja. and on austria's i wrote the sound of music (which has a funny story cause there was like 5 of us who wrote that, but apparently austrians don't even know what the movie is cause its banned in the country because of the hitler stuff. marie was laughing cause she was like "you use that to describe our country and we don't even know what the movie is. " just kind of a fun fact).

anyways so after that you get the sheet from the country you're from and pick three things that you want to discuss, whether they are right or wrong. i bet you can all imagine what was on the canadian one - cold, hockey, eh, maple syrup, diversity, maple leaf, friendly, free health care, the usual. someone wrote penguins thought which was funny. but i talked about cold, how this was wrong. i made the point that i live basically right above maine and ontairo is right above michigan, and neither of those two states are cold year round. we get four seasons and in the summer its pretty warm. like in the 70's F? right?! anyways yeah then i talked about diveristy, how we accept a lot of immigrants therefore we have a lot of cultures within our country, and also how our land is diverse in the atlantic provinces, central, prairies, rockies, and the north. then i told them that we actually do say eh. but not aboot.

then we had a short voice lesson where we learned aikio. aiekio? something like that. it was awesome!!!! split the room into the guys, the altos, and the sopranos. then he'd teach each group their part and then we'd sing it. and it sounded awesome!!! hahaha it was unreal. like he'd go over your part like 2-3 times MAYBE, and then you'd just sing it with the group and remember it and sound awesome. i loved it.

so then we closed up for the day. but erica, raine, and i (three of the canadians) decided that we wanted to do something for the upcoming culture jam (where you perform something from your country). so we went over to ericas house cause she lives in a town close to mine and has a car. and she's just living at home while here. anyways so we decided on "canada's really big" by the arrogent worms. funny song. i have our performance of it on my facebook. so we kinda just hung out, attemped to teach raine the guitar. he mastered the Em.

so at about (not aboot) 8:30 i said i should probably get back to my host family cause i wanted to be back not too late. so we all hopped in the car, and headed out. we stopped at dairy queen along the way. but when we got to lousiville, where i'm living, i realized that i left my binder at ericas (1/2 hour away) and it had my familys address and phone number. so i was basically lost in a foreign country with people i had known for a day. ummm ok . . . kinda of panicing. and to top it all off it started to pour like you wouldn't believe. we had to pull over and put the four ways on cause we couldn't see. and then it started hailing. and the lightening was right above our heads. it was ridiculous. anyways to make a long story more short, i rememebered passing a police station when we went to pick up cyanne the day before, so we found that, and then i directed us back to the house where i had only lived for about 48 hours. not bad eh?! haha i was soo pumped. so i went in the house and all was good. alright!

OH WAIT! that's not all!!! i got home at like 9:30ish cause of the culture jam. anyways i get home and my host dad is like 'guess what?' so i reply with 'what?' and he says 'we got tickets to the midnight showing of harry potter five tonight - and we got one for you!'. hahaha its was awesome - but i was kinda worried cause i had my voice/dance auditions the next day and i didn't get home till 3 and i had to wake up at 6:15. and then as you'll learn wednesday was a really long day - awesome but long. but anyways HP5 was unreal, best one yet. go see it.