Discomfort is healthy.

Last night, we had our Mid Rotation Reflection with our PLC Adim and we realized that one thing our group needs to work on as a whole is Open-Mindedness.  As a what he called "Teddy Bear type of personality", I don't think this is on the top of my list of things to improve since I usually blame myself for everything, but it was a really good discussion.

I finally expressed something to the group that I think is really important though.

The fact that feeling discomfort is a really healthy thing.

People will sit you down in their home and say "make yourself comfortable."  We always want to feel safe on our nice little comfortable bubble, but if we're so comfortable all the time, we're not going to learn anything new.
Sometimes, putting yourself in uncomfortable situations is the best way to learn something new about yourself.  in fact, when you feel uncomfortable and you make yourself more comfortable in the end, you learn to better adapt to new situations in general.  Sure you'll feel insecure for a little while, but you'll fear less and know more.

That is also being open-minded and opening up to new experiences.  That, my friends, is what Katimavik is all about: discomfort.

It's a beautiful thing.

Oh yes and good news!  I'll be billeting for two weeks at the Northern Sun Coop farm! (I'm living there.  And I'm the only Katimavictim in my group to get that opportunity!)  So I'll be living with Dawn and Mitch, and I might be rooming with someone who's coming to the farm with the WWOOF program!  (Which is the one I might just participate in!)
Oh yeah, and Troy Bridgeman from the Mercury has been trying to contact me for a week now (which is apparently really hard to do since we haven't been home much)  because I was selected as one of the Top 40 Under 40.
I guess I'm just following Hollie's footsteps eh?  (She was recognized for Top 20 Under 20!)

Bussin' it to Montreal!

So, I thought it was more peaceful when everyone was asleep, and I sat, just staring at the drooling faces of all kinds of strangers around me!

Now I sit here, with heavy eyes, typin' away while I switch my eyes from the screen to the keyboard, the the creeper watching my bus partner/ fellow Katimavictim's [SUCH a big fan of this term hahaha] :)  laptop

** wishes I could convieniently put a little emoticon  with the thumbs up here for meeting my first fellow Katima-victim!
But, I'm definitely a fan of the quiet on the bus when all you see around you are the drooling faces of strangers for a moment, until you look back down at the book/laptop/whatever you're entertaining yourself. then, after a while, maybe you can even be one of those drooling faces!  It's actually pretty sweet!  No stress, it's like a moment where you can actually do absoloutely nothing at all, stare into space, and feel okay with it- because you're on a bus! (I feel like maybe I should write a song to the tune of "Im on a boat")

I'm really enjoying the whole blogging thing too.  I think I'll keep with it for a while, it makes me feel interesting.  It'd be nice to know that my posts are being read though!  I can see pageviews at least, whcih are a whopping... 9 since I started. Oh well...

oh and if these blogs are confusing because it is lacking the good ol' period, it's because it doesn't always work on this keyboard. Just warning you that I didn't suddenly lose my ability to use proper grammar on my way to Katima-world.

I have a feeling, for the next 6 months, everything will become prefixed with Katima- :D