Happy Birthday Mar :)

March 10 was finally here. The countdown on my phone said 0 days left. I can't believe I'm finally 17 years old and that I'm so far away home. 

My day started at 6am, as every other day, but we had cupcakes for breakfast where I blew all my candles. Once at school all my friends didn't allow me to go to my locker and they told me to have a walk by myself, they were decorating my locker!! It was awesome!! They used a Happy Birthday sign, streamers, balloons and a lot of pictures!! I loved it!! Thanks to Legs (whos coming to Spain this summer lol), Roser, Avery, Pitt, Brianna and Sai.

Then at lunch, Roser and I went to Tims to have Timbits, why not? It is my birthday!!

Roser came to my house after school cause she was going to stay over that night. My host mum drove us to Orillia where we had dinner with Natalia too. We went to Brewery Bay and we had a free huge cookie cause they said it was my birthday haha.

It was a really special day with family and friends, when a lot of of people from Spain found a minute to talk to me. It was really different to what I'm supposed to do in my birthday, but it was awesome, I had so much fun with all the people I love. Thanks :)

Un día muy especial en el año que me toca, como otros muchos, pasarlo fuera de casa, a 6000km de distancia, en Canada. Sinceramente, creía que iba a ser un día de mierda y que iba a estar super homesick, pero no, gracias a mi familia y amigos canadienses me lo pasé genial. Tuve un cupcake brakfast de sorpresa, mis amigas me decoraron la taquilla (como en las pelis americanas) y luego fuimos a cenar fuera con amigas. 

Sinceramente, no me puedo creer que tenga 17 años, no me creo que haya sobrevivido a uno de los días más especiales del año fuera de casa, pero gracias tanto a la gente canadiense como a la española pasé un día inolvidable. En días como estos es donde te das cuenta quién está presente pase lo que pase. 

Gracias a mi madre por hacerme aparecer en la portada de Vogue jajaja.

0 days left, sweet 17.

Like American movies, isn't it?

Llegar a casa y encontrarte con un ramo de flores y un peluche de parte de tu familia en España, gracias mamá, papá y Javier.

Huge cookie for free, all because we said it was my birthday haha :P

Cross country skiing

Last weekend while my host family was in a hockey tournament and my host dad was studying, I stayed at my friends house. Natalia, from Vigo, Heather and Earl. Being there is like being at your grandmas, I love going there and I have a great time with them!!

I arrived on Friday and left on Sunday. On Saturday we had a typical Canadian breakfast with bacon, scrambled eggs, peanut butter toast… sounds dangerous and amazing at the same time (suelen decir que lo que no mata, engorda, no?). 

After that, Heather, Natalia and I went to Arrowhead Provincial Park, in Huntsville, about one and a half hours up north. It was an awesome place where we cross country skied. 

At 6pm we left and arrived home just in time for supper. We had pizza and chicken wings, but after that we were supposed to have ice cream when they suddenly came with a birthday cake that said “Happy Birthday Mar”. I couldn't believe they actually knew my birthday, but that was not all; they gave me a birthday card with a gorgeous necklace!! I'm so thankful!! A family that is not your own thought of you and got you something to remember them in such an important date as my birthday.

"Admirar con los ojos lo que la cámara no puede". Cross country skiing fue una experiencia inolvidable, es ski de fondo y, por así decirlo, como patinar con skis puesto, o como skiar en llano, deslizándote. No hacía nada de frío (llevamos varios días por encima de los 0°C, y creedme que eso no es frío) e hicimos como unos 7km skiando, por un sitio precioso. Natalia y yo nos dimos cuenta que era muy parecido al paisaje de la saga Crepúsculo, sobretodo en la película de Eclipse con el bosque lleno de árboles nevados, la niebla tapando parte del paisaje y  con muchas montañas; creíamos que saldría en cualquier momento Edward Cullen saltando de árbol en árbol. 

Cross country skiing into the woods, gorgeous views, great experience, amazing people (snow flaked gently posing on my red cheeks haha). Couldn't ask for a better Saturday, surrounded by peace, nature and beauty of this awesome country.

Getting ready to leave

The trail was around 7km long

Me hizo mucha gracia esta foto, porque desde hace mucho tiempo no había visto agua fluyendo, llevo varios meses solo viendo agua helada jajaja. 

Me costó un poco ponerme los skis jaja y mientras me peleaba con un cártel para conseguirlo, la host mum de Natalia capturó ese momento. 

Fall and winter in the same picture. Love this country!!

Thanks to Natalia, Heather & Earl. 

Barrie Colts night

Last Saturday night was a really good night. My family and i went to the Barrie Colts game, the hockey team from Barrie, the previous step to the NHL.

We were having tacos and burritos for dinner at 7:15pm when Emma said about this game. We didn't think much about it and bought five tickets for the game that started in 15 min. We finished dinner and we arrived at Barrie Molson Centre at 8 ish, just before the second period. The game was too long, we were done around 10pm. They played against Mississauga, and we won 5 - 2 !!

It was awesome, I really liked it!! I am used to see my host sisters playing hockey, but that was completely different. I just couldn't stop wondering how much time the players have been playing hockey in their lives. They skated like if they were running, that is for me the most difficult part in hockey. The used the stick as a third arm, and the goalies were amazing. 

Los Barrie Colts es el equipo local de Barrie, el paso previo a la NHL, la liga nacional de hockey. Por así decirlo, los Colts es como un equipo de segunda división, intentando llegar a primera. Los jugadores no son gente famosa, pero muchos de ellos llegan a las ligas profesionales. Tanto el partido como el ambiente fue una pasada, gritos, ánimos, la mascota, todos con el jersey del equipo... una pasada.

Norika & Iyo

Norika & Iyo, two Japanese students I'm so glad to have met.

They came at the end of January and they left last Friday so they only stayed here for one month. They came with their Japanese school, Kasukabe, and they always come in couples, that's why two of them stayed in the same house.

Iyo was 14 years old when she came but we celebrated her birthday here, while Norika is 14 too. They came to my school so we had to take the school bus together. Once there, they went with their Japanese friends and they used to do some English activities, games or sports. They also had the chance to visit Niagara Falls, Toronto or to go snow tubing, which is really fun!

Unfortunately it was the worst month of the year when the coldest week was around -40 °C so we couldn't do as much things as we wanted.

The worst part was that they were always speaking Japanese, and that was reaaallly annoying!! They knew no English, believe me, so it was really difficult and funny at the same time when we were talking to them. They were always together so they worked as one, Iyo was the one who talked to us in English while Norika was used to speak in Japanese while Iyo tried to translate her.

Japan is such an awesome country but so different at the same time. When we first showed them the kitchen they didn't even know what a toaster is!! What was really annoying is that THEY USED TO WAKE UP AT 5AM!! I have no idea what they were doing but I guess it was because of their culture, cause Norika once told us that her grandma wakes up at 1am (yes, just after midnight) and she goes for a walk for 3 hours, so she has breakfast at 5 am ish. Crazy, isn't it?

Whatever, I hope they had a great time in Canada and I really liked this experience, to host international students from a different country than mine.

Watching the Super Bowl

On the way back home, one of the coldest days of the year

Two days before they left, in a goodbye party with all the 120 Japanese students that came to Barrie for a month. They showed us some pictures of their Canadian adventure and some Japanese typical dance and song.