34 days to go...

It's crazy, I am not entirely sure where the month of July went but its gone as its August already and I was just reminded by one of my participants that the count down has begun -there are officially now only 34 days to go till my team of 18 youth arrive here in BC and we begin our 6 month journey on the Canada World Youth soul train! I better enjoy some down time now, as I am expecting one heck of a ride! It's already getting pretty busy with recruiting all my host families, and work placements, preparing the participant orientation camp, communnity orientation week, the team budget, expenses, the educational plan, etc...

Despite the stress and anticipation of the participants' arrival in early September things have been going pretty good here. I have made a few friends and have been out hiking, biking and swimming, enjoying the beautiful mountain environment. I have been trying to bike more as its a pretty small town and really I am doing an "Eco-Leadership" program so I should use my CWY car as little as possible.

I am very excited to announce that Vadim is due to arrive this week, as he finally got his visa last Friday from the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw. So I am getting ready to make another road trip to Calgary to go pick him up! My sister, Ali, is also due to arrive this week, she plans to head out this way mid to late August and find some temporary work out here and save up a little tuition money before she heads back to Germany in October to start university there! That's right- my little sister Ali is doing University in German!