Grenfell Campus

So here are the pictures that I've been taking on campus starting with my room and orientation and ending with hiking around campus. We have the largest telescope in Atlantic Canada and so that's the dome you see in many of the pictures.

My favorite building is the Forestry Centre where they have full blown trees and everything indoors. Many of the pictures I'm taking are from the third floor with the plants on the second floor. And if you go up the glass elevator from first, you can see the roots as you ascend.

There are skywalks and/or tunnels that connect every building to the others and to the residences.

In the middle of Corner Brook is an ocean inlet. The rest of the city rises up from there in surrounding hills, so if you are on a hill, you can see just about everything (if there weren't tall trees in your way).

Cross-cultured Friends ;)

I've been feeling really blessed this past week. I've gotten to know a lot of people, and I even get along with most of them (as far as I can tell), but more amazing than that is the fact that I'm starting to gain good friends. It feels strange to say that in only a week, really. But time doesn't define a friendship only changes the level of it. We're all international students at Grenfell. Wendy is from Taiwan, Chloe is from Belize, Megan is from Barbados, and I'm from Montana.

Tonight we had dinner, drank tea, played Phase 10 with much teasing and laughter involved, and did each others hair. All the while singing bits of the music and asking questions about home life for the others. (Megan and Chloe live around monkeys!!! I think that's so exotic!)

It was a wonderful time and I'm very glad to have them all around me at this time away from home. It's so wonderful to love and be loved in return!

Foliage Photography Fun

Well, many of my pictures here have simply been me marveling at how beautiful the plant life around here is. (And playing with macro settings on the camera.)

I didn't feel like spending time sorting too much since there's so much to do, but still the pictures are good enough.