Sunday afternoon Walk

This past Sunday I went for a beautiful afternoon walk and took some pictures along the way.

Judging from the picture below, guess what my final destination was!

I usually don't know much what to write about, but I go places and do things, and I like to use this website to finally have an exellent place to post picture.  Yahhoo I didn't really like, nor facebook, nor the space I had on porchlight. here I finally have my own website even without having to pay for it to have it to post pictures.

New Additions to my Appartment

Since I got back from mom & Dad's from my Christmas break there I got a few more additions to put in my apartment, most thanks to Bruce, my across the hall neighbour and friend.

I came back from Mom and Dad's on Jan. 3/11.  The adjustment was tough, but Bruce was right there with a nice clock to cheer me up half an hour later that he found in the garbage behind the Apartment.  You can actually turn the underwater sea on and the picture and fish and turtle keep turning around and around eluminated by a light.  It looks really neet.

A week later Bruce came with the following shelf that he had for a while, I don't know how long, and gave it to me for free to put DVD's and VHS's into.  I also invested into buying two movies and some TV shows on DVD to fill the shelf with.

And than obviously from New Years, here is where I put my Gingerbread House.

That inflatable wine bottle in the picture is about 25 years old I bought it for 15 Franks in Switzerland as a Kid.

Days at the Liebenzell Mission Centre

One thing I've done a lot of was take picture the day a week (Wednesday's) that I'm at the Liebenzell Mission Centre visiting Ursi, Jeff, Katie and Maya.  It became useful to have my camera with me while working with Jeff and the 2 volunteers Marcel and Andy.

One thing we've worked a lot on the last two weeks was clearing their skating pond of snow and reflooding the ice with hot water with a machine that Jeff built.  Here's the process:

Each week I also get to develope in my role as Uncle Marc (the only one in the area) and hang out with Ursi, Katie and Maya.

I'm sure I'll have many more wonderful moments out there at the Mission!

I'm finally on High Speed

Hi All

As you, probablly noticed with the YouTube on my bog I finally got high-speed internet installed today and can finally do so much more than I ever could.  It's what happens when you stop smoking, you suddenly reallize you have money for better things, healthier things.  I still haven't figured out though where on the Bell website you check your down and upload usage.  I can finally blog with more pictures too where I don't have to wait 10 minutes per pictures to load.  That's one of the reasons why I blogged so little.

Yodeling Emmentaler

Christmas time at Mom & Dad's

From December 23rd to January 3rd I was (still am right now at mom and dad's for Christmas.
We spent a lot of time with watching movies, sleeping, drinking coffee, and playing games, and of course packing and then unwrapping again gifts.

Our Christmas Tree:

Most of the action started here at home on December 31st when Ursi, Jeff, Maya and Katie arrived.
The following are pictures of some more Christmas gifts unwrapping.  It was fun to watch the girls getting at it eagerly.  Maya had lots of fun sitting in the drawer too.

Here are some Christmas unwrapping pictues.

Dad and I had fun with filling the chocolate Christmas tree ornaments from Switzerland with whipping cream.  Thanks Sarah and Rudy.

The biggest attraction for me was building a ginger bread house from scratch with Muettie (mom) and Jeff.  The idea that I wanted a Gingerbread House came from the Gift exchange we where part of at a Christmas Dinner om December at the Brussels Menonite Fellowship (not the church mom and dad attend). First it looked more like a caving in barn and caving in roof.  We had lots of fun!!!  Enjoy the pictures!

One thing mom and dad also did for me is put 2 gigabites (GB) of RAM into my computer so it runs faster now.  Before I only had half of a GB in there.  I'm also still on dial up, but maybe get high-speed now that I have some extra money from still not smoking anymore.  I have to admit.  I still struggle with a lot of anxiety, fear, and especially fear of having hurt family members by what I said or didn't say or how I said it or what I thought or didn't think of.  To me that's real torture amd not being able to smoke in these situations with this amount of anxiety and panic is real hard.  So your prayer is really appreciated.  I also struggle with fear of not knowing what's appropriate to say or not to say or think or not to think, linked with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  That's one reason I smoked.

Anyways,  Tomorrow (Jan. 3rd) I'm going back to Kitchener  and than the day after right to Ursi and Jeff's.
I'm glad when I can fully settle and adjust to being in Kitchener on my own again, but the transition time is never easy for me.

I hope you all had a great Christmas.  Mine had it's ups and downs.