Oook.. I have been gone a while. Due to a long string of complications I haven’t been able to use my laptop since I returned, which meant no pictures.. and I also had no internet, which together meant no posts.

I’m in a Jasper hostel right now, equipped with wireless, so I’m taking advantage of the situation.

Not much has been going on since I got back.. life as usual. Which, honestly, is going pretty badly right now -for myself, as a part of the group, and in my own personal life. I don’t really feel like going into it all on a public blog.. but I’m hanging in there.

So instead, I’ll put up pictures from Carnaval de St-Isidore – a french winter festival that a few people from our group, myself included, volunteered at. This is me as Hibou, the carnaval’s mascot:

Since that was most of our job, it’s also most of my pictures. It primarily involved group hugs and high fives…

It also occasionally involved understanding what the kids were saying to me excitedly in french, which I was not so good at. (I can typically catch on when it’s not spoken fast, or from all directions at once, but that was not the case here. Quebec is going to be interesting…)

That is Josh .. er, Hibou.. going down the hill on a saucer. The objective was to gain speed and knock down as many of these cardboard tubes at the bottom as possible, like a human bowling ball..

Hibou fell off before that point, however.

Horses pulling a sleigh:

Maple taffy in the snow. I am a sucker for this.

Mostly just walked around and entertained the school kids that were there, alongside Hibou. It was a decent time.