Day Fourteen

Aujourd'hui j'ai le "house manager" et je nettoiller et cuisiner tout le jour.

Look! I'm learning (broken) French!
During each week, two people are designated as the House Managers. This happens to be my unlucky week. My house managing partner is a guy from Montreal named Arnaud. We get along quite weel, but the fact of staying home everyday to cook and clean is just aweful! Its clearly a blessing that I was born in this era of working moms and stay at home dads. I could never be satisfied with being a housewife.
Although I am learning some really cool new things. Right now, I have three loaves of cinnamon bread rising on the counter, and the dough for the biscuits ready to bake for the home made soup we will have for dinner.

In Katimavik, we make anything we can, and if we can make it, we do not buy it. We learned to make our own bread and I have to say, it is really hard to do!! So sticky and the dough gets everywhere and there is nothing I can do about it.

These are the things I hope to improve and be able to take away from this experiance. I will be more self sufficient than I ever thought possible. As one of my roommates, Kaley, put it "Katimavik is the half-way house of life" and it is true. It is teaching me to keep my enviroment clean, to communicate with people, to cook, and most importantly, to be completely and totaly responsible for myself.

I miss my family, of course, and I was lucky enough to chat with my mother and sister last night. At the same time, I am enjoying the different type of freedom this is giving me. It is a freedom that comes with responsabilities farther than "clean your room so you can stay out past 10". Its more like "do this now so you can enjoy the down time much easier." (upon hindsight, they are the same thing)

I'm rambling, and my bread is ready to be put in the oven, So i'll leave you with that.

Every day is a new adventure, so no worries.