Back from the Olympics to lots of homework and and reading break. Great to be back sleeping in my bed! (after sleeping on a blow up mattress and it leaking air and being flat in 5 minutes). Went to Johns house on the main land in White Rock. It was a great time to relax and forget about homework when i probably should have been doing it haha. It was great to hang out with john and have some alone time with him. I really enjoyed getting to know his friends and understanding where he came from! I feel that knowing his area, friends, and just what he grew up in i know him in a much deeper level. We spent a day at his grandparents house right on the beach of White Rock. His grandparents were amazing, John was a little bit nervous that thy would not like me, BUT THEY DID! and we had a lot of fun talking and playing cards. It was great weather so we walked up the beach to the pear having some solid talks. It is crazy to me that things are blooming already. in ontario It would still be another few months to see flowers and buds.

After having a great relaxing time at Johns and coming back to camp, i realized that i should have put a little bit more time into homework so i was a little rushed in doing that, I love late night homework sessions! JOKES!! It was worth it though! had a great time with john and felt like i could take another 2 months of school, which i needed!

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hey every one! i know that this might be a little late but i have been extremely busy with school work and i have found it incredibly hard to keep on top of this blog. so i will give you a run through about what has happened in the past few months.

The olympics were unreal. God was 100% present all the time. he brought us through smiles, laughter, trails and encouragement! It was all to build us up for the better. So we stayed in Squamish at a church called squamish baptist church. some would say that it was rough to sleep on the floor of a church but after being at the olympics and getting to know people that i worked along side with, i realized how fortunate i was to has this building to stay in. Other volunteers at whistler Olympic park stayed at Rainbow village, which was cargo bins stacked on top of each other. It was a very dirty place, some called it district 9 in reference to the movie. district 9 is a camp where aliens are held, must have been a rough 3 weeks for those people. In knowing that i felt very blessed for these accommodations.

My goal going into the olympics was to be like the name (flash) i was given on the mt washington snowboard trip. I wanted to be energetic and filled with the Holy Spirit so that i could encourage and do what i had to. This came true through out the olympics. Many people were blessed from the kaléo group in this way (we all heard endless amounts of stories of this from non christian volunteers, some even told us that there was something different about us, like there was something living inside of us********Holy Spirit****** wow the way God works in people and makes himself known and seen.

I was truly blessed by being at the olympics, it was great to be out in the world serving the community and applying what i had learned so far in this amazing foundational year. I know that i am grounding my feet into the most secure place.

I am sure i will blog much more about this experience as i remember more and more stories!

thanks for reading!