Miscellaneous February-April

Julia's third host family took me to Invermere from February 19-21 and we played hockey on the lake and went skiing. It was really great and sunny and I thought it's incredible that big lakes freeze completely! That is so awesome and they even make a lane for iceskaters around the lake. And guess what - even cars are driving on the lake :D The skiing was awesome as well and I did my first successful black run.
One of Marco's Rotarians took him and me out to a Brazilian restaurant - that was a great experience for me! Not only you learn about Canadian culture, I also learn a lot about other cultures from all over the world. Another traditional day in Canada is St. Patricks Day on March 17th. It is an Irish cultural event and everyone dresses in green and so on. The same day, Natalie hurt her knee and we went to Alberta Children's hospital and another xray clinic. That was a very long day. I can't compare this to Germany because I've never been in a hospital myself.
I once went to the YMCA with Marco and his host mum and with my host mum I did two bikerides along the Bow river. I'm a little out of shape but it is really great! Just 2 days before the start of the holidays, I went dogsledding in Canmore with Augusta (Norway). I was excused for school and we left in the morning. A bus took us up the mountain to the lake where the trip took place. We put the harnests on the dogs and put them in front of the sled and it is unbelievable how noisy it was! I sat and stood on the back as well. Half way, we made a break and had some little snacks and then we returned to the starting point. And yes, it is true that sleddogs poop while running, they even ate the snow.
Spring Break was from March 27 to April 6 and I hung out with Julia quite a bit. Once, we went to Fish Creek Park and walked her dogs, we also took Mojo for a walk a few days later and watched all the movies I talked about earlier. She invited me for a Flames game vs. Phoenix Coyotes and it was really amazing! They won 2:1 in a very exciting game! Unfortunately, the rest of the season didn't work out for them and so they didn't even make it to the play-offs. At her house, we played lots of Wii Fit with her whole family. I went riding a lot with my host family as well and on April 2nd, I went out for dinner with them at Earls. They went directly from the barn and I wanted to take the train from our house, but the station was closed and so I took the taxi. My gosh, that is expensive!
On the next morning, I went to the Calgary Farmer's Market where we bougth our Easter Dinner and had Belgium Waffles for breakfast. We had a dinner with Eva's boyfriend Stan and his family. Our dinner was seabass and chicken, but the traditional meal is ham. In the evening, we played a round of pictionary all together and had a lot of fun! The easteregghunt was postponed to the next morning and we had nice weather do do that! I gave Lindt Easterbunnies to my family! Afterwards, I went to Olympic Plaza to see all the Olympic Athletes from Alberta and we walked a little bit around Chinatown.
One Rotarian invited me and my friends for curling and I took Julia and Yin-Yin. We had a lesson on delievering the rock and a lot of fun!! I also started playing basketball again. I already had 4 practices and one game that we lost really high. We are 11 girls all about the same age and have a lot of fun together. It is on community level and our team practises more for fun than for competition. .
The most surprising thing lately was the weather! ^^ April 8th was a great morning, and in the evening we had a big snowstorm and loss of power in lots of Calgarian houses. Four days later, we had snow again and just 4 days ago there was a big snowstorm in Southern Alberta, that missed Calgary by about 20km. And today, we almost had +20 degrees and I didn't miss the oppertunity to put on shorts and a tshirt. :)
This was my last entry for now, I said everything I had to say :D :D Take care until the next time we see each other :)