My Week With Lally! Day 2

On the second day with Lally, Monday, mom let me take her car and we went up to the Village at Blue Mountain. We walked around for a little bit than we went into this folky, gift shop store called The Olde Stanton Store. Lally found some soap in the shape of a Canada Flag so I bought a bar to take with me to Italy. After the Village we went up to the top of the Mountain to the Scenic Caves Look Out, which was great for pictures! We walked along the top, where all the ski lifts where and than me turned around and went home. I made Lally grilled cheese for lunch, she had never had it before and she loved it. I also made her blueberry pancakes for breakfast, which she had also never had before and loved them as well but she did find the Maple Syrup to sweet for her tastes. 
In the afternoon my step-mom picked Lally and I up to go to New Market, where we stayed at my grandparents house until we had to go down to Toronto the next morning. For dinner we ordered take out from the best chines food chain in Ontario. We ordered way to much food and barely ate 1/3 of it!
In the next post you will learn all about my struggles with the Italian Consulate!


Ciao

My Week With Lally! Day 1

On Sunday my friend Susan who is the Youth Chair for the Rotary Club of Collingwood, drove me to the North Bay bus station. We left Collingwood at about 9:15am, and with a gas stop and Timmies break we still made it to North Bay with about an hour to wait. So while we where in North Bay we went to the mall and just walked around for a bit until Lally's bus came in at 1:25, or so we thought. It turns out that she didn't take the bus all the way from Kapuskasing but actually stopped in Cochran, than took the train the rest of the way to North Bay. So she didn't actually arrive until 1:45. After picking up Lally we went to a Mexican restaurant in North Bay where funnily enough the owner recognized Lally's jacket as being a Rotary exchange jacket and asked us where she was from? and where I was going? As it turns out her best friends daughter, Katie went to Denmark on exchange as well, 2 years ago, and Katie was also the girl who talked to us at the parent/student orientation meeting in North Bay back in March! Small world eh?

On our way home to Collingwood we stopped in Washago, at Susan's family cottage, for a break and her mom, dad, and brother were their so we had a chap with them before heading on our way.

Once Susan dropped us off at my mom's house, we ate dinner, tacos to be exact. We talked all through dinner and then Lally found out that I owned the 2.3.4 seasons on Grey's Anatomy which is one of her favourite shows so we ended up watching Grey's Anatomy for 3 hours before going to bed. 

The Trouble of Packing for a Year

Only 25 days to go!! Which means it's time to start packing! Not literally of course since all my clothes would get wrinkled, no today I started packing in my mind. I spent the better half of the day cataloguing my entire wardrobe. Now if you are a boy and have no idea what I'm talking about well than pay attention because this is my OCD talking now. First I made a chart, naming the columns; Dresses/Skirts, Pants/Leggings, Shorts, T-Shirts, Sweater/Wraps/Shrugs/Jackets, Tank Tops, Pj's and Shoes. Than I divided by entire wardrobe in to those 7 categories. Once that is done, and believe me it takes a while, I started to cross items off that I either weren't planning on taking to begin with or just weren't practical under the circumstances (50lbs limit on luggage).
I'm still struggling with the shoes. It brakes my heart to leave them behind :)
I've narrowed it down quite a bit now all I have to do is figure out what luggage I'm taking and hopefully my clothes and all of my belongings I can't live without will all fit into it :)
I also found out that I have to pay a special baggage few for my guitar :(
It is completely worth it though I don't think I would be able to live without my guitar.


So long for now,
Amanda

Dresses/Skirts	Pants/Leggings	Shorts	T-Shirts	Sweaters/Wraps/Shrugs/Jackets	Tank tops	Shoes	PJ's
Black AE	Lulu Lemon	Blue Button Denim	Purple & White SS	Brown Campus Crew	Navy Blue	Black Flips	Tweetie Bird
Blue H&M	Arie	Blue Ripped Denim	Pink w/ Flower	I Heart NY	Plain Black	Purple Flats	Monkey
Pink Minnie	Boot Leg Jeans	Dark 60's Denim	White Campus Crew	Tan Sweater Dress	Green Lace	Br Leather Bts	Pink La Senza
Blue Hurley	Dark Skinny	Yellow Denim	Oatmeal Singer	Purple Hoodie	Plain Purple	Gold Flats	Blue Polk-a-dot
Black Gap	Blue Stretch	Green Cargo	Pink, White & Purple	Black Knitt	Black Strapless	Burgundy boots	Black Padded LS
Black Zellers	White La Senza	Pink & Blue Knee	Lime Green	Red Knitt	Black Polk-a-dot	Running Shoes	Pink LS
White Cover up	Grey La Senza	Blue & Green Knee	White Graphic Tee CC	White Knitt	White	Black Heels	Black Tank
Black High Wasted	Grey Waist Band	Pink	Purple Shirt/Dress	Navy Blue w/ Hoody	Plain Yellow	Skate Shoes	Pink Checkered
White Wave	Black Warm	Dark Blue Denim	Yellow Tee	Grey Shrug	Burgundy	White Pumas	Pink Long sleeved
Brown Sweater Dress	Dark Blue Denim	Black Knee	Green AE	Pink Shrug	Black Razor Back	Black Pumas	Black w/ Cupcake
Brown Maxi	Faded Denim		Black Sleeveless	Grey/Pink Shrug	Coral Razor Back	Blue Flips
	Regular Blue Denim		Tangerine 3/4	Black Shrug	Red Razor Back	Pink Flips
	Fancy Black x2		Grey Lacy	Pinky/Coral Cardi	Brown Razor Back	Silver Heels
	White Cargo Capris		White 3/4	Purple Fleece	Black Empire	Blue Wedges
	Black Leggins x3		Tiger Tee	Vest	Coral Strapless
	Dark Wash Denim Capris		White AE w/ Colours	Grey Sleeveless Shrug	Purple Polk-a-dot
			Black AE	Grey/Blue Shrug	Lite Blue CC
			Salmon H&M	Black Cardi/Shrug	Black Sparkle
			Pink Long Sleeve	Dark Purple Mt Fleece	Black Biker
			White Sleeveless	Grey Campus Crew	Pink w/ Lace
			Purple Long Sleeve	Ivry Suit Jacket	Green Camo
			Black & Purple AE	White Shrug	Red
			Navy Blue Lacy Back	Grey/White Shrug	Blue Spaghetti
			Green & White	White AE Zipper
			White w/ thingies	Black Cardi
			White New York AE
			Yellow Empire Waist
			Blue Sleeveless
			Blue Silk