Hello everybody!

This weekend was, as I told you before, NSSSA, which is short for Nova Scotia Secondary School Students' Association. The conference was called CADABRA, which is short for Caring Adolescents Discovering Abilities By Realizing their Attributes. It was such a fun weekend!

It started with a motivational speech by Scott Hammell. He is a magician and he is a great guy and speaker! Here's a video of one of the things he did at the conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXfmi0RdMU8

After that we were divided into skill building groups, each group had about 5-10 people and two skill builders. In this group we had five sessions and we played games and thought about communication, leadership skills, working under pressure etc. It was really fun and through those games you learned something without really studying it.

We had a couple of Wendy sessions too, where we did cheering and stuff like that. They were really fun and we were so loud! 

Another thing we did was called EPIC and we had to do little games in our skill building groups to collect things to win the rally. It's hard to explain, but it was fun!

At night we had a talent show, and there were a lot of talented people there!

We went to sleep late at night or early in the morning, how ever you wanna call it and got woken up at 7:30 with switching the lights on in the gym and playing the bagpipes. It was a short and uncomfortable night, but really fun! 

We were all really sad when we had to leave and to all the exchange students that are coming to Nova Scotia: Go to NSSSA! 

I'm so glad that we have a snow day today, because now I got all the sleep I missed at the conference. 

We got our report cards on Friday and my final marks in my first semester courses were:

English 10: 90%

Science 10: 96%

Core French 10: 98%

Tourism 11: 97%

I think that's everything I have to say right now, but go to NSSSA and watch videos of Scott Hammell! He's a great speaker and magician and I'm glad that I met him at the conference! :D

Hugs to everybody,

Julia 

Hello,

just a quick update, because I feel like I have to write something although I don't really know what. So I'm here for more than 5 months now and it feels weird. Time's flying too fast, as I said in the other blogs too! 

Saturday and Sunday we had the big snow storm named Nemo, maybe you heard about it on the news and it brought us about 51 cm of snow. I haven't seen that much snow before and it was just amazing, pretty and a lot! It was storming quite hard and it will probably take a while until everything's melted.

Thursday we had a school dance and it was a lot of fun again. I dressed up with my two best friends and we had a blast! The only bad thing was that I had to leave early, because I had the flu. Yes that meant spending the whole weekend on the couch with my whole family, cause we were all sick. Watching movies, drinking tea and not speaking much. Awesome weekend, eh?! 

This week is Valentine's Day and I'm really excited for what they're gonna do here, because it seems to be quite a big thing here! 

This weekend is NSSSA, which is a Leadership thing where a lot of teens from the south west of Nova Scotia come to our school and we do fun activities and sleep in the gym. I'm really excited for that! :)

Also I changed my second semester gym course into an English 11 one, and now all my courses are fun! I can't wait for this semester, because I really like the courses I have and the people in it! :D

That's all I have to say for now, I guess, so talk to you soon! <3

Julia