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| Peggy's Cove |
For our March break Ender and I decided that instead of going home to Ontario for a week - spending our vacation madly trying see everyone we love and inevitably coming up short - we would go somewhere new and try and visit just one person. So we headed East and spent the week with our friends Sarah and Max who we have not seen since our wedding in August. He have never been to Halifax before and we liked the novelty of visiting both coasts in the same year.
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| Theodore! |
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| Sarah and a scorpion |
Unfortunately Ender and I got pretty sick near the start of the trip and were couch ridden for several days. Our plan was always just to catch up with friends over good food and drinks, but stomach bugs didn't allow for that until the later half of the week. I recovered a bit faster and spent my time exploring the parts of the city within and hours walk of Sarah and Max's house. I got lucky and was able to see NSCAD's "March of Prints" show where I picked up an etching by print student
Hayley O’Byrne. It's really interesting to see another school's atheistic and I'm glad I got a chance to check out the college while I was there.
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| Ian and Ender |
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| Ready for warm food and a change of clothes. |
Our friend Ian also lives in Halifax and he took us to Peggy's Cove for an afternoon. It was a rainy and windy and we had a lot of fun climbing around on rocks, getting soaked with rain water and Atlantic air. Apparently a fair number of people are swept off the rocks each year because they venture too close to the unpredictable surf despite numerous warnings. After exploring, we had some warm apple cider and seafood chowder with great big pieces of lobster.
Now that we are back in GH it's the final stretch till summer. Temperatures are still well below zero and we expect the ice road to Stevenson Island will last for at least another week or two. The days are getting longer though (the sun sets at 8:30pm!) so at least we aren't living in darkness anymore. My attendance has also dropped considerably which is a bit disheartening. I've tried calling parents in the past but that has yet to produce results, and if the parents don't feel they can make their children attend school (they can) then there isn't much I can do other than teaching the ones who do attend.
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| Tortoise! |
