Planting, Beach Attempt II and Wii
Kat and I have discovered that by disguising the word ‘beach’ with the word ‘mall’ we often get better weather results. Or at least, we feel like it works, haha.
Yesterday I had my second day off for the week, so I can I decided we’d give the real beach a try! Not that the one before wasn’t real, but it was pretty rocky and not very sandy. We wanted a nice sandy beach where we could actually swim in the water. (Because let’s face it, we went in briefly before but swimming in Lake Ontario is just gross).
However, before we headed out to the beach mall we planted some plants. Which yes, sounds really random because I’m not exactly the gardener type, but Kat’s a volunteer for the Friends of the One Mile Creek and they were planting plants along the creek to help it out. I tagged along and it was a lot of fun, even though some of the poor plants looked like they were on their death bed before they got into the ground. We didn’t stay the whole time, but from when we started to when we left, you could see a difference. The only downside was that I got bitten by a misquito. Not bad, for once, but one must have been stuck inside my shirt and bit me like four times in a row. TOTALLY NOT COOL.
One of the perks to planting is we got to wear super cute rubber boots, haha. I borrowed Kat’s mum’s boots and they were all pink and green and cute. I’m so easily impressed, haha.
Anyways, after planting we went back to Kat’s house and then decided to make our trek to the beach. The one thing that kind of sucks is that the beach isn’t exactly next door and it usually takes 30 ~ 45 minutes to get there. But, we made it just as a lot of people were leaving, so that was awesome. Crowded beaches are not fun.
So while this picture doesn’t show that it was actually sunny, it really was!
We stayed out there for about an hour and a half and then packed up and went. It was about 5:30 when we headed back and both of us were starving. So when we got back to Kat’s, we ate and messaged Melinda to see if she wanted to do anything which lead to us deciding to come back to my house and play Wii.
So we did. Some Rayman’s Raving Rabbids and then we all worked on one fo the CSI cases together. It’s a really cool game (CSI: Hard Evidence) but sometimes it takes forever to actually finish the case. But we prevailed and finished it, haha.
It was a good day off and I was happy I got to hang out with both Kat and Melinda. My next day off is Friday and then next week I start back at the conservatory. I missed my kids, but at the same time I don’t really feel like going back yet, haha.
I’ve also put in an application to get my transcript from my school so that I can send that to the TESOL board and get my certificate to say that I’m actually a certified ESL teacher. It’s really annoying because I majored in linguistics in the TESOL steam (but we do TEFL things too) and I have to go do all this extra crap to actually get the certificate. :/ I mean, I graduated in that so I’m qualified. I wish my school would set it up so they could easily cooperate with the TESOL board in Ontario and we could get the certificates upon completion. Doesn’t that make more sense?
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