Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009

dog sledding

Well I did not write much about the last few weeks as it was just a normal time of getting started in the new term and getting settled after an astonishing holiday in the US.
But now it gets curious!
I am just back from an awesome weekend. I guess it was one of the most enjoyable weekends I had so far. I was dog sledding! With the Brock Outdoors Club we drove up north to Algonquin Park and there we met up with Meg and Toby from Outward Bound.
10 humans and 37 dogs were on their way through a beautiful, snowy national park. Whoever knows me and therefore knows how much I love dogs and all those other funny animals would have loved to see me there. And yet, on this trip it was so nice to play with the dogs and care for them. It was really cool to see the enormous power that five, six or seven dogs develop to pull a sled with equipment and the “riders”, in one case Bekka and myself. Sure, uphill we had to run “behind” the sled, but on the flipside downhill were dedicated to the use of either the pad break or the massive break.
We could have slept in a heated tent. Actually it was a white canvas tent with an oven inside. The bottom was covered with straw (no, not in the oven area) and it was really comfy in there. However, I decided to sleep in the dog sled – which was just amazing!
On Sunday afternoon I had the chance to sled solo but as the dogs were tired it became even a little bit boring. Isn’t it the same with reading so many words at once? So stop reading and enjoy looking at the pictures.

 
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sorry for the amount of different post for the pictures,somehow I couldn't handle picassa.

sleeping in a dog sled

Thank you…

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Ps: coming back to normal, the next post will be about my actual experiences in Canada.

Sonntag, 11. Januar 2009

Umfrage zur Sprachauswahl

Lieber Blog-Leser,
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Danke schön!

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Samstag, 10. Januar 2009

back to school

Long time no hear!
I am back from an amazing holiday in the USA. After seeing a bunch of cities and National Parks we went to Justine and Jacob in Duluth and later to family Hall in Nisswa. We spend a nice, really white, Christmas there.
A week later, I forgot the date -haha, we celebrated New Year's Eve with friends in Duluth.
We took the bus back home and had a short stop in Chicago, unfortunately Bekka was kind of sick and the 20 something hour bus ride wasn't that healthy either.
Anyway, it was a great tour!

And as I said in the beginning, I am back to school! I already spent $460 on books for this term - awesome, or?