Highlights of my 2012
1. My bus trip to Northern Ontario with two of my closest friends:
We packed snacks to eat on the road instead of wasting money on fast food. We were excited to start our trip so we took an early bus that left around 5 or 6pm but took the long route to Toronto making all sorts of stops along the way. We still got there very early so we hung out at one of the girls' best friend's fiancé's house. Her best friend was there too, as well as her fiancé's roommate. They had a turtle that they let crawl around the apartment and the living room was so small that they had no furniture, just couch pillows. We went for dinner at The Korean Grill where we got to cook our food ourselves right at our table. I felt like I was a fictional book character who had been stranded on a desert island. It was very poetic. The one guy I didn't even know randomly paid for our dinner. Then we got on a 1 am bus and slept/ talked/ snacked all the way to WaWa where our bus broke down. We got out a couple times along the way to run and wander. We got coffee at The Steamy Bean in Sault Ste Marie. That was poetic. Then in WaWa the bus broke down. We got so bored we planked on the bus seats, played cards, and even made snow angels in the snow. We had no way to contact our friend who was waiting for us in White River because none of us could get cell phone reception. Finally a school bus came and drove us to White River where our friend met us and drove us to her home in another farther away town. It was probably like 10pm or something by the time we got there so it took us more than 24 hours in total since we had so many delays. It was a marvelous adventure.

2. Snowshoeing for my first time: this happened while visiting our friend up North.

3. Skiing for my second time: this was much more fun than the first time because that first time I went with someone I wasn't very comfortable with. I fall more than I glide so whoever goes with me needs to be comfortable digging me out of the snow. It was fun but the old fashioned T-Bar lift was a bit of a scary adventure.

5. Being homeless for my first time ever: It was only for a night or two and I had a friend's couch to sleep on. I ate dinner in a park though, so that was memorable.

4. Moving to a really poetic stone house.

3. My first time working at an overnight summer camp.

4. Getting a volunteer position reading picture books to adorable little children.

5. Finding out that I'm going to be an aunt.

Other than that it wasn't a very interesting year. School, friend, church, visits home to hang out with family, etc. It was a fairly good year though.