A month later...

What to do when you are an exchange student in Canada...

Canoe trip (camping in the rain for 8 days and canoeing for 3)

Acampamos na chuva durante 8 dias e aprendemos a "andar de canoa" (é assim que fala?) durante 3 dias

Walk around a park with friends than go to the grocery store and buy junk food

Passear num parque com as amigas depois de ir no mercado comprar porcaria

Grad prank (block the school's parking lot and make a little party there)

Pegadinha de formatura (bloqueamos o estacionamento da escola e fizemos uma festinha por lá)

Visit the Columbia ice field with the counselor and her daughter

Visitar o campo de gelo Columbia com a conselheira e a filha dela

Go out with the girls

Sair com as meninas

Exchange banners with your host club

Trocar banners com seu host club

Go out with friends

Sair com as amigas

Feed the horses

Alimentar os cavalos

Go to a fire

Ir em uma festa no parque e fazer uma fogueira com amigos (coisa de canadense)

Have a camp fire / farewell party with the host families

Ter uma fogueira / festa junina / festa de despedida com as host families

And go out with the girls a little more

E sair com as meninas mais uma vez

Hey everyone, sorry I've been away for such a long time, I mean it's been a MONTH since I posted for the last time here :o I know it's bad but I just haven't had any time, I leave Canada pretty soon so I've been trying to enjoy it here as much as I can and that meant no time for making good posts. My opinion is if I'm not gonna do something right it's better not to do it so that's why didn't post anything at all.

This post is to show you guys what I've been doing lately and maybe you can have an idea of things to do in Canada, I mean this blog is about traveling too right?

Hope you enjoy!

Oi gente, quanto tempo né! Faz um mês que eu não posto nada aqui! :o Eu sei que é mancada mas eu não tive tempo de fazer um post decente, eu to indo pra casa logo então eu tenho aproveitado o Canadá ao máximo e isso consumiu meu tempo completamente. Na minha opinião se eu não puder fazer algo direito é melhor não fazer nada sabe

Esse post é pra mostrar pra vocês o que eu tenho feito de interessante ultimamente e talvez dê algumas ideias pra vocês do que fazer no Canadá, já que o blog é sobre viagem também né

Espereo que vocês gostem!

Where do I belong?

(This image does not belong to me)

This week two of my best friend's had their birthdays, one of them back in Brazil and the other here in Canada. I was able to celebrate with my Canadian friend but not with the Brazilian... next year it will be the opposite, I'll be close to my Brazilian friends but far from the Canadian ones.

Being an exchange student divides us in between two worlds, all of the sudden we have two homes, two of our own countries, two parallel universes which are only connected by ourselves. We will always be missing someone, somewhere, something that in our minds was supposed to be different. That is the beauty and the challenge of being an exchange student, being only one person and belonging to two different places.

That moment when...

Time is going by way too fast!

♥

Hanna

Packing round 2

In the life of an exchange students, packing is something that we do constantly.

It is not fun, it takes hours and we have to pack EVERYTHING WE OWN at least twice during our exchange... by the time we are half way through our exchanges we have so much useless stuff that we don't even know what to do.

It feels like if we leave something behind, we'll be leaving a part of us behind and we will never see it again because after this year we are going back home and the life we live now will be gone forever.

Packing is not only hard physically but also emotionally, because it means you are leaving that wonderful or awful family you are living with currently.

Wish me luck because I'm moving today!

♥

Hanna

International Dinner for ShelterBox

 Shelter box and everything that come in it 

(since the super resistant tent to all the utensils that people need to survive)

 Exchange students singing together

 Decorating the venue

This saturday the dinner that me and the other exchange students have been organizing for months finally happened and it was a success!!

The goal of the dinner was to raise  money to help something called ShelterBox which is a disaster relief kit, created and sponsored by Rotary. We did everything for the dinner, since cleaning, decorating, helping to cook (we had one volunteer chef), we made the dessert ourselves (they were typical from our countries) and then we took everything down and cleaned up. It was the most tiring weekend of my life but it was worth it because we raised enough money to buy 12 shelter boxes (after paying for all of our expenses), considering each kit costs one thousand dollars I think we did amazing. 

A big thank you for all the Rotarians that helped us organizing and making this happen and to all of the people that went to the dinner or made donations!

♥

Hanna

A flower in my hair

I am so excited that I am going to see my exchange friends this weekend, last time we had so much fun!

Well we always have lots of fun together.... This is my favorite picture from our last dinner :)

♥

Hanna

Waterton

Bear!!

This past weekend I went to Waterton to meet with the other exchange students, and it was so much fun!! I even saw three bears on my way there! 

I just love all the other exchange students! It`s awesome to have them to support me during this year. I think that Rotary Youth Exchange is an awesome program and everyone should try it! I`m in love with this thing.

♥

Hanna