Today was wild! Everything seemed to happen at once! First, I had a phone call from a friend this morning. I guess someone tried to drive across the ice bridge this morning, but the ice wasn't strong enough to carry the vehicle. The ice gave way to the car...but get this....the water is so shallow, that the people in the car were able to crawl out of the car windows and walk back to shore...the car hardly sank at all!
Then, this afternoon I went to go for a run, before the hand games tournament. I ran down the road towards Andy's (a candy shop). When I got near there, I saw a wild horse. I knew we had wild horses, but I haven't seen any before. One of the guys working there was trying to calm it. Long story short, I got to ride the horse bareback, sitting behind the guy! It was incredible! He was able to steer this horse without any reigns at all! I got really scared when the horse rose up on his hind legs and made a loud noise, but I held on tight. We rode for about 10 minutes, then I got off, I was too nervous...I can't believe it!
When I was walking home from there, (I didn't finish my run), I slipped in the mud and fell into the ditch! I was just covered in gross mud. Even my face had mud all over it, because when I tried to break my fall, my hands just slid through the mud and I couldn't stop, and almost face planted. When I got up, I realized that I had fallen right next to a half eaten deer! I was so sick to my stomach! I know that the dogs here eat the dead animals, but I hadn't seen it before, and I definitely didn't ever want to see it that close up....It gave me the motivation to run home..to my next surprise
I guess it is really common here for the water to become contaminated. I got home to shower and the water was not working. They have shut off the water for three days. The locals and the teachers who have been here for a while know this and keep bottles of water in their homes, for these cases, but I have never heard of it, so wasn't prepared. covered in mud that was quickly drying to my skin and my clothes, I walked over to my friend's house and begged to use her water to wash up. She laughed and we poured every bit of water she had into the tub and I took a cold and shallow bath, trying to clean up as best I could.
The hand games tournament was awesome...read about it in my next blog! We won the tournament, out of 25 teams, and each player on our team went home with $500, a $25 gift card to the Northern Store, and a gift certificate to get moccasins made by the elder co-op...I am so excited!!!! The beat goes on!
Anyways, after the tournament, we had karaoke at my house. Everything was going good until my neighbor called the RCMP about a noise disturbance. Now, here's where Fox Lake cops differ from Edmonton cops...Max, the RCMP guy, came over and asked us to turn down the volume a bit. Then...he sang a song with my friend Monica and I before he left! Max was the RCMP guy who rescued us that night on the road, and we have been friends ever since then...he was very kind about the situation.
Time for bed, I'll fill you in on the tournament details later!
Today's Blog Has been brought to you by the supporters of April Fool's Day, namely, Angela! Tune in to my next blog for some truely factual blogging!
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2 comments:
Wow, Angela. You can certainly fall in the manure and come out smelling like a rose... or is it, fall in the mud and come out smelling like a fish?... hmmmm..
What? None of this was true?! It was so exciting though!
I'm done work now and we live in our new place in the west end. And I have just over 4 weeks to go. Isn't that crazy?
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