I'm still alive!

First of all: I am so sorry, I haven't been blogging for ages. Life is just so busy here at the moment and as soon as you look at the calender, another week has passed.
We didn't do any other excursions on the last weekends because we were pretty busy with other stuff. I had two midterms last week and another one tomorrow, besides there are assignments to be done and then there's the normal everyday-life to live.
I've been telling you mostly about our excursions in this blog, which is why this post is dedicated to the "normal" stuff. I've been doing a lot of activities here, which is why my schedule is pretty packed.
In the last weeks, Mariona and me attended a knitting course. She wanted to learn how to knit and I wanted to start knitting again so we went to a tiny shop downtown that is full of yarn and had two nice knitting lessons. We first knit a hat and as I finished already, I started some mittens in the second lesson.

Mariona and me at the knitting shop

Winter has come to Kamloops last weekend so I will need some warm stuff. On saturday morning, it snowed the first time, causing excitement with all the exchange students. This morning when I woke up, everything was covered in snow again. By now, it is already gone. However, temperature dropped to 1°C and the my winter jacket is officially in use. The change of the seasons was pretty fast. Last week we still had 20 degrees during the day and now it's pretty cold. 

I have also been attending a rock climbing course for 4 weeks. It was organised by the gym in our university and we went to a small climbing hall near the university. It was really funny and a good balance to all the studying. Especially last week, where I had an exam on wednesday and one on thursday, some climbing between the studying helped a lot.

 While not studying, I've been spending most of the time with my friends. I can't say often enough how lucky I was to meet such great people here. I've known those guys only for two months and still I feel so close to them. It is a unique experience to go abroad, to a new country and meet new people there. We all make this experience, which unites us but still I think it's not usual to get connected to well and so fast. I am forever thankful to have met my friends here and I already know that these friendships will last, even though we all live hundreds of kilometers apart from each other.

Mikaela, Me, Phil, Ester, Mariona

I am trying not to think about the fact that half of my time here is over. The countdown on the right side of my blog is counting way too fast and it only shows 60 days my now. 60 days is by far not enough. The time is flying so fast that as soon as I don't pay attention for a second, it will be december. I am trying to use my time as wise as possible and do as much as I can possibly do with the time I have (I quit sleeping, by the way). And I am thankful for every day I have here.