Outdoor School has been SO awesome. I'm currently in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (not even an hour away from the U.S./Canada border). Reason? I'm working with a partnership program with Grasslands National Park and Prairie Learning Center. So I've been working at least 8 hours a day doing fairly weird jobs...I've been doing seed cleaning, Prarie Dog mapping, workshopping (if that's a word, but we're designing our own workshop), and being boreding. The population of Val Marie is about 130 and they watch a movie on Fridays and Saturdays for fun (one movie, two showings.) It's funny cause I don't even watch movies...Oh well. It's busy during the day, but during the evening, Kj (my partner who is here) and I basically listen to music, have baths, play keyboard...and sleep. Cooking too, but it usually doesn't take that long.
It's always windy here...Yesterday, I was in the Grasslands National Park (GNP) and this buck deer started walking towards me from a distance. It came closer and closer and my supervisor radioed me and was like "Jenna..watch that deer.." It was kinda creepy, but not long after she radioed me, it bounced off. Deer a fun to watch, they just kinda bounce a lot...anyway..
Random mental note: You know those old western movies with barren land and nothing but tumble-weed and abandoned buildings? That's what it's like here. Yes, there is tumbleweed (and it gets caught in bike tires, so I hear), many of the buildings here are closed down, the roads aren't even paved, there's almost no one around, it's always windy so things are always creaking or slamming or something, and since it's almost winter, it's been getting dark a lot quicker. On the bright side, there's no snow yet but it still gets pretty chilly. Anyway, life has been very, very interesting here...I hope to hear from whoever reads this.
