Stephenville, Newfoundland

Sorry I haven't posted in so long. Hopefully I'll get back to updating more regularily now that we're at our final placement.

So I'm in Stephenville now and I love it. The scenery is beautiful and the people are so nice. My work placement is at the Stephenville Theatre Festival and sounds like it'll be a lot of fun. Me, Melissa and Tamara all work there together. We spent the last two days organizing videos, books and scripts in their archive room. Today we're off to a bunker where they store sets to look through what's there and see what's junk. It got broken into a little while back so they don't know what's left in there.

We've been on a few hikes in the area. Last Saturday we went for a hike to the Gravels which is out on the Port au Port peninsula. We planned to hike the whole trail which I heard is 4.5km but about an hour or so in it started raining. We tried to go a little further to see if the rain would stop, but it definitely did not so we hiked back through the rain and went home. Let me tell you it is not warm here.

Then on Monday, because it was a holiday, all three groups got together in Corner Brook and hiked on what I believe is cross-country skiing trails (when there's snow obviously). It was super muddy so we got quite wet on our feet, and rather muddy, but it was a good time.

The house here in Stephenville is huge. One of the nicest places that Katimavik uses. We have 3 living rooms full of couches each. Our basement is huge, and very dark at night making it great for playing Sardine's in the dark. We've started playing a new game Camaflage too where someone yells "Camaflage" and we all have to hide. The person who hides the closest without being seen wins and has 24 hours in which they can call their own Camaflage. It's a lot of fun, especially in random places, like in the middle of a muddy forest.

Well that's what we've been doing so far here.