The trip from Ontario to PEI was out first really long car trip on the road. We drove from Midland, Ontario to Ottawa on Saturday, making it just in time for Mass at Divine Infant Parish. Carissa, Katie and I were lucky to spend the night we were in Ottawa with some of the lovely ladies of Casa Kibeho, the home of some of the women on NET staff. We got to see our darling supervisor, Erica :) We had a grand hilarious time watching 'The Swan Princess." (Erica? Today's the day, Willie...mwhahahaha!)
We drove from Ottawa to Nackawic, New Brunswick on Sunday which took us about twelve hours. Despite being such a long trip, it was a pretty great day, but we were glad to reach Nackawic, which is home of the World's biggest Axe, in case you were wondering.
We left for Prince Edward Island the next morning, and let me tell you, I was so excited to reach there. The Confederation Bridge was soooo huge! Crazy. And they have red dirt. I knew that fact, but it still made me excited to see it. We're all pretty stoked to be here. It's so beautiful! And the ocean? Phenomenal. It is so cool for a girl who is used to mountains to look out my bedroom window in the morning and see the ocean.
We had a little incident at Green Gables on Thursday. It was
our team day so we went to check out Green Gables, which us Anne fans were super starry-eyed to see. But when we went to leave we found that the battery in our white van had died. So we chilled out in the parking lot for over an hour till the tow truck came, as well as a ride to get us to where we needed to be. In the meantime, we found it very funny that we were stuck at Green Gables while it was closed. We entertained ourselves by seeing how many people we could fit into the remaining van.We are missing Mike this week (though he'll probably be back by the time this blog is posted). He went home for a few days for a wedding, so our team has been stepping up to try and fill the shoes of our music leader. Mark does a fantastic job on the guitar and Carissa joins him with her lovely singing voice. Retreats this week have gone really well. The youth are really receptive of what we have to say and we have had some great small groups and awesome prayer times. On Friday we had two retreats, one in the morning to afternoon, and then an evening one. We were a little worried that we would be dead tired by the time the second one was done, but God gave us strength and energy and enthusiam. Both retreats went awesomely. I've really notifced how God provides us with the strength we need over the last couple weeks. I thank God for giving us the renewed zeal each day for our mission and a connection and love for the youth we serve.
Next week we are heading to Nova Scotia and at the end of the week us girls will be staying with Judith's family!
Till next time,
Maria Kalin
Encounter Team One
Maria Kalin
Encounter Team One
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