Happy Saturday

This Saturday post does not come from it's usual morning setting. However, it does come from its usual spot on the couch in my living room, with the peace and quiet that a Saturday at home, alone brings along. Instead of coffee I'm eating M&Ms, leftovers from the free tuck I got for volunteering at Eagle Lake Bible Camp. Don't tell anyone, but though I knew I would not eat two chocolate bars a day, I took my daily allowance of two so as to save (hoard) them for another time. Woops - there goes the last one: a sad, blue M&M. Thanks, camp!

I've been home from White Dog for a week and three hours. I've been engaged for about a week and maybe one hour. I don't remember the exact time, but Jesse proposed after picking me up from the airport, after preparing me a nice meal, after eating it and fudge crackle ice cream. Yum, yum, yum.

I miss White Dog.

I had some culture shock after I left that quiet, remote, northwestern Ontario community. A friend drove me to Winnipeg so I could catch my flight, but first, we stopped to have dinner with my friend, Laura. We met her and five men at an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant. It was a very flamboyant, intensely chatty, loud and animated dinner, if you catch my drift. From four weeks in an Ojibway reserve in the wilderness to a mostly gay in company Japanese meal in the city: I most certainly experienced the shock of cultural differences!

White Dog is on my mind daily. Jesse and I talk about it sometimes. I am sure we'll be back at some point, we just don't know when.

The city is great and I'm most certainly enjoying being back home with city conveniences all around. It's really, really nice to have a few weeks of down time before the school year starts up again. I'm not yet sure what this year will hold, but I've been checking teaching job postings and will apply for suitable jobs as they come up. I'm looking forward to these last few months as an unmarried woman. I've only got four months left -- that feels both too long and quite short.

Enough rambling. I've got half a Saturday left to enjoy. In the mean time, check this out. It's our wedding blog.