Countdown to Winter Break

Mount Washington: here we go!

First and foremost, we would like to say: thank you very much, anonymous! Unfortunately we do not know the name of our attentive reader who answered the question that we posted last week about the fights during hockey games. Now we understand more about the rules of the game and we sincerely thank your attention!

This post will be short. Why? We spent the last week and this whole weekend preparing for the final exams, which begin this week. Talking about week of final exams, this is one of the things that we have to adapt here. In Brazil, there is no final exams week. Generally we have a hard end of semester, but professors use to schedule the exams in the last few weeks, not only one. This week we have two tests on Thursday... Six hours taking tests are very exciting, aren't it? But let's stop complaining because after final exams, the well deserved holiday starts.

Three weeks to rest and enjoy the Canadian winter... We are very anxious to experience our first Christmas with cold and snow. In Brazil, people grow up watching movies that always associate Christmas with low temperatures and snowmen and now we will live this reality, impossible to be experienced in our country, since there, temperatures can reach 30 to 40 °C in December. Certainly we will miss our families, but it would be a nice experience.

It will be my first time cooking Christmas dinner. In Brazil we celebrate the Christmas Eve by staying up until midnight. At midnight, gifts and presents are opened and the Christmas dinner is eaten by the whole family. We will keep the tradition, opening our gifts and eating our Christmas turkey at midnight! We have learned that Canadians sleep early. ZZzzzzzzzz So I think that our neighbours will not be awake to smell our Christmas turkey that will be ready at midnight. 

Beyond our first Christmas dinner for two, we are also looking forward to enjoy the winter at Mount Washington, a ski resort just about 100 kilometres of Nanaimo. It will be one of our Christmas gifts!

I already wrote too much. I will stop here because I still have to study a little bit today... See you!