I want to thank my wonderful host families so far. Again I had the most wonderful time in Regina with Phyllis and Don and their family. I got to spend a whole day at Univeristy of Regina with Dr Cooper which was nice and I felt at home in an ESL classroom with students from overseas . In Regina, I also enjoyed the flexibility and the many nice meals and exercising with my hosts. Thank you again!
Yesterday we went to the Sound Studio and Royal Canadian Mounted Police and we saw a parade with the cadets. We have lots of nice pictures from there and from the interesting heritage museum. (Pictures will be published later). We also had our Regina presentation yesterday and the evening was really nice and a former Idols finalist sang Oh Canada which was cool.
Today we moved over from Regina to Melfort up north. While driving the 2,5 hours you could notice how the trees got less and less green. We do hope for some warm weather here before we leave Canada.
In Melfort we had lunch at the Salvation Army and had a tour there of their recycling and second hand shop and then we visited Plus Industries Ltd. where mentally challenged people produce different products and do different tasks for their activation and social life. The place and our hosts were wonderful. We visited their shop downtown and cunldn't resist buying a few things for ourselves (although our suitcases are already much too heavy to survive weighing at the airport).
This evening we went to Melfort's Rotary Club meeting and gave our presentation. It was nice to meet all the Melfortians (?) and they seem really nice and genuinely interested (as all Canadians), so our expectations for our next couple of days are high. Tomorrow we will fly again, this time in small aircrafts and I so look forward to that!
We all send our regards to all dear ones at home that we are still alive :) although our mobile phones don't seem to work up here for some reason or another... not because of Nokia, but becasue of our Finnish operators' Canadian partners. A Finn without his mobile is like a Canadian without his big truck.
Yesterday we went to the Sound Studio and Royal Canadian Mounted Police and we saw a parade with the cadets. We have lots of nice pictures from there and from the interesting heritage museum. (Pictures will be published later). We also had our Regina presentation yesterday and the evening was really nice and a former Idols finalist sang Oh Canada which was cool.
Today we moved over from Regina to Melfort up north. While driving the 2,5 hours you could notice how the trees got less and less green. We do hope for some warm weather here before we leave Canada.
In Melfort we had lunch at the Salvation Army and had a tour there of their recycling and second hand shop and then we visited Plus Industries Ltd. where mentally challenged people produce different products and do different tasks for their activation and social life. The place and our hosts were wonderful. We visited their shop downtown and cunldn't resist buying a few things for ourselves (although our suitcases are already much too heavy to survive weighing at the airport).
This evening we went to Melfort's Rotary Club meeting and gave our presentation. It was nice to meet all the Melfortians (?) and they seem really nice and genuinely interested (as all Canadians), so our expectations for our next couple of days are high. Tomorrow we will fly again, this time in small aircrafts and I so look forward to that!
We all send our regards to all dear ones at home that we are still alive :) although our mobile phones don't seem to work up here for some reason or another... not because of Nokia, but becasue of our Finnish operators' Canadian partners. A Finn without his mobile is like a Canadian without his big truck.
Låter härigt! mamma
ReplyDeleteGreat to see everyone having a great time. Sorry about the weather - I asked the weatherman to give sunshine and warm weather I guess he did not respond. There are many places mobile cell phones will not work in Canada. Too many rocks in the way and too few towers. We run into this problem at certain spots in the mountains. Have a continued great time. Love to you all - Cam & Myrna King
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