Well I would like to say that there has been so many new and interesting things that have happened in my life since my last post, but if i did that would be a lie! LOL well not that life has not been interesting at all i am happy and thats all that matters.

As i posted last my work is going good, i love the children i work with they got their report cards awhile ago and are doing good, their english is getting better everytime i go. When i get alfredo to read he can do it almost perfectly, its amazing almost no hint of an accent either, my nect challenge is to get him to understand what he is reading. As for my summer employment i have a job as a councilor at camp trillium, which i am supper psyhed about and it is also where the majority of my friends are working so that is great too. I am going to work for the weekend camp this comming friday. Which means i will have to miss school again, seems like i have been doing a lot of that lately but my marks are good and i have an awesome semester which i am loving. Dont get me wrong i am so anxious to leave but i think this semester is at least going to make me sad about it. Speaking of leaving i still dont know where i am going. York and Mcmast have been nagging me about responding to them, while McGill wont even look at my record untill the 14-21!!! then there is Carelton is apperently has a reputation for accepting people on the last day before the deadline which i find hard to believe because i know several people who have recieved early acceptance from there.

hmm what else is new...? not a whole lot i guess school activities  and essays keep me busy and distracted from applying to scholarships, prom is coming up, stilll havent made plans except luce is coming and we are going  with Holly and Owen. I have no suit or any more details.

the house is full again! adam is back from school, Laura and Ty have moved into the basement to save on rent for the summer.Its nice to have everyone back for once but i was just starting to get used to having the house to myself!

I tried to give blood the otherday before the dance , that didnt work, oh well i will try again later.

anyways i think that is it, so i am going to leave and go outside because it its finally beautiful!!

Holy shit!

i know i am usualy bad for up dating but its been a year almost! and this one wont be long i am just writing to say i am still alive to all of yous who believed otherwise!

well i can excatly sum up everything that has happened since my last blog but i can say all is well. i cam home God help me. i finished my second last semester in high school with little struggle. i am now supper excited to get on to the next a whole lot easier one. i will also be volunteering with the special needs class in order to get a reference letter for my university application, i feel horrible about that its a good thing for the wrong reasons. i also got a job tutoring on wed nights a mexican family, i thought it would be fun and easy the kid are in gr7,4,3 i can handle that stuff, oh but wait a tick they dont speek english!!!! and i dont speak spanish!!!oh shit this is going to be fun. well i will worry about all that when i get back home. I am in montreal now having fun

byes

4 days!!!!!!!!! thats all. you have now idea how short of time 4 days sounds its under a week!!In comparison to 9 months its a insanely low number. every one here is going crazy. the weight of exhustion is starting to seem less and less as the excitment to go home is getting greater and greater as the days fall off the grotesquely over sized and colourful calender that hangs on the wall of our salon. yesterday was my last day of work and i think it still hasnt hit me that i will never g o back to the house again. never will i have to sand another railing or paint another fence, my days of comming home and smelling like varosol grass and sweat are over. i am a bit sad i will miss everyone there and despite how much i complain i did like working there. i will see all the people from work and all the other work placements tonight at our good bye party for the last time. i am half packed already, the rest is things i will still need for the next few days. i cant believe its over, i am so tired its beyond anything physical i just want to stop. stop moving stop eating and breathing i no longer have the energy to live, the only thing that is keeping me going is the small light at the end of this tunnel. although i wonder how long it will be till i can stop. the program ends the 15th 4 days then i go to montréal with luce, i am so looking forward to that too but i know i wont be able to rest there either, then i come home the 23rd there is a week of making my rounds seeing people catching up enjoying the rest of summer and saying good bye to all those going off to school away from home. then school starts it will take me a least a little while to get used to the whole school thing again... so we are looking at least till the 2nd week of sept. before i am back into the rutine, and by then i will be missing everyone here at the katimaison so huge depression i think. after that is school and figuring what i want to do with my life. sometimes i wonder if i will ever be settled, get the chance to rest or be satisified.

ahh take me away i am ready to go.<

Matty  

wow! what a day! it was great. since me and dan have now started to work at 7h30 in the morning to 17h20 we now get fridays off because of our extra hours worked.  so today was our first day off. it was great last night we went out to the bar with a katimavictim who just finished like a month ago, we got o stay out later then normal (12pm curfew on weekdays) but we sleep in late today we went to the radio station here and had a short interview about katimavik and the`ville-marie en fete¨  that's this weekend. then we went cd shopping bought a movie instead, came home for lunch, the shopping agian bought 2 other movies -so stupid of me i need money like hell and i am spending on stupid things-then we went out for an ice cream!!!i worked on some paper work i had to do, had a bbq at sylvies. came home made a shit load of limonade to sell tomorrow, now later tonight we are going to the concerts down by the lake maybe swimming later too the moon is bright enough to see. the only bad thing all day is the heat its stiffling, no ac with 10 people in a tiny house is smelly!!life is peachy! lol. maybe i wil write some of you i miss you all so much and i just happen to have a new packet of stamps!arn't you lucky!(** ps you may have noticed i have found the ' key in the keyboard, iam getting better at this**) know what else i found i tent for me and lucec to use for our 48hrs off. we are still going camping, there was a time when we were thinking of going to montreal, just cause marc our AP has to go there and since katimavik is paying the gas he can take a few of us. it would be a cool road trip with those who are going the only thing is its close to 7hr drive there and when we do arrive it would be a mad rush to see all her friends who she misses showing me this place and that, only in 48hrs minus the 14 drive. and the whole camping plan was just find a tent and a place to put it and just do nothing together all weekend not even get out of the tent type thing. and i am going to montreal for a week at the end of the program anyways. so yeah i am really looking forward to camping!!yeah! the week after that my parents are comming for the day they are spending the week in englhart at the cottage and thats only an hour from here so they are visiting friday(since i have it off) i plan to send a shit load of stuff home with them my goal is one suit case full. i can live out of one suit case for the 3 weeks i have left plus the week in montreal, its one less thing i have to lug around and worry about going over the weight limite which i was on the way here. well anyways i know i have been jumping all over in this entry but the heat makes me do things i dont agree with, but now its tiome for me to go.

``so until next time stay fit, and have fun``

Matty

well i am here. still a live and kicking, much to the disapointment of many i am sure. anyways i have been carring on like normal, then my parents visited in sudbury awhile ago, yadda yadda yadda you all know that it was all fine then something that they mentioned hit me. i will be going home to an empty house, all my sibblings have moved away. my first thought was wow that is going to be weired, going from livingon my own, with 10 people(that acctually makes sence to me) to just my rents, but i was comforted by the nieve thought that oh well i will just spend that much more time with all my old friends i am sure after nine months we have some catching up to do. but then a letter came the other day from one of my dear old friends that really made me think, well not think about after all i always already knew it but i think it is just sinking in, a lot of the people i am friends with are moving on going away to school other provinces etc. and as i try to think about going back to school i just cant imagine highschool, let alone life with out these people, they have just always been there i think i sorta took that forgranted. and on top of that-as selfcentred as it sounds-these people have had a life of their own with out me there is so many things events that i missed big events in life like prom, grad,school applications, i always imagined going through all that with my friends . i will never regret coming here and doing all the things i ve done its just a bit sad thats all.

see you all in Aug

Matty

XXX

Hehehe

well its fee time and everyone is just lounging around the house some made a trip to the chocolatier down town which spoiled their supper of course. i might go to the beach later tonight but right now i just feel like chilling. we spent the whole weekend at the pool. we volunteered at the Jeux de Québec swiming compitition it was great and all but it was long days with with lots of screaming people in a room with a bad echo. but the people here are great and super nicec like most places we volunteer at the feed us and let us us the pool so it was nice. Mark left today until friday he went to head office in Québec so were all like wohoo party in the katima-maison with no Agent de projet but now i am not so sure we are all blah cozzy sleepy but nice. like the cozy feeling you get when you wake up on a sunday morning when youve slept till noon and have no plans on getting out of bed for another 2 hours.

nothing else is really new, Luce finally convinced me to go to the hospital the other day, cuz i have had a bad cough ever since last sunday when i was really sick,  i have been feeling better since but the cough remains, i have a puffer for my "viral broncitis" but i should live. the bad news is now luce is starting to show the same symptums.

this weekend we are going to Val D 'Or to volunteer at a large abused animal shelter for animals like bears and other huge things like that so were are all supper excited but we are going to stay with the Val D'Or group who we are not so crazy about but meh. they are alright.

the weekend aftrer that we have either our 48hrs off, in which case some of us plan on renting kayaks and taking them down the lake, and camping where ever we land. or we might have an excursion there to Amos and the"forum Jeunesse 06" its a concert with a bunch of lectures for youth it sounds really cool so if we can go there then we will move our 48 else where. that is also the week that the Domaine Breen ( where i work) opens for the public. we have so much to do there before that it is not even funny but i love my work there, the other day i finished making adn planting a veggie garden as well as planting bushes and grass and making a side walk. the people i work with are awesome they are old and funny!LOL oh and a side note i have started to have to introducec myself as Matieu, because no one understands Matt i even have a tshirt with "MATT" written across it in big letters and they still dont understand, so everyone here calls me matieu now, trish had to do the same thing now she goes as patricia, its just more easier.

OHH ohhh i almost forgot we have found a place downtown with the best Tart au sucre it is to die for littally our gold for the end of the trimester to gett eh reipie 

well i think thats it for now i should go i dont want to waste the night on here. so i miss you all!!

bisou bisou

Matty

Well hello to all of you`s who i haven`t talked to in awhile!! i am now in Ville-Marie Québec!! finally so this means to all of you still back in southern ontario that its only another 3 months till i come home!!!! i dont recall my last posting and am too lazy to check it out so oh well.

well last week was our last week in Blind River On. We finished our work placements on a tuesday!! thank God i couldnt wait to get out of the chamber of Commerce it was so boring!! we had a few days were we worked at the FONOM conference which was great lots of free stuff, it was fun always busy, always new, lots of people i got to know the wife of south river-where we used to have our cabin- really good. then we were Done! no more work! the only last thing that happened in Blind River was that one of our roommates, Jared, got dismissed for excessive drinking, it was our last friday in Blind River so a few people decided to go out to the bar and there was this big ordeal with the police and everything i dont really want to write about it right now but it wasnt good, so anwyas we left for rotation camp on monday, at echo bay it was really great, the lake was pretty the lodge was perfect, but the black flies were horrible. we said good bye to april and the other project leaders. then we just sorta hung out the whole time with the other katim-groups from sault st marie and thessalon. we had a campfire drums, some of us snuk out and went skinny dipping, it was grreat. it really felt like summer. we got on a bus at 3 am on wed. adn went all the way to sudbury took a flight to TO, we waited there for an hour, i met another katima-group, in  the airport and A girl who lives 2 streets down from where i live back home. then we got on a plane to montreal where i met luce`s parents(i had already met her dad over easter) and some of her friends it was great we just ahd coffee and then cought a plane to Rouynd-Nouranda. then a 2 hour bus ride to Ville-marie. Its a great little town, it is smaller then blind river with like half the popluation but it seems bigger, it has a whole bunch of stores and such its way better. its beautiful here, the whole town smells of lilacs they are everywhere. the house is nicee too, compared to what we are used to there is a pool table. the only down side is the shower in the basement is creepy but we will survive. i dont start work until friday and dont have our interviews until wed so i dont know where i will be. me adn lucee are house managers for the next week too. marc is great he has this hilarious laugh!! he speaks really slowly so we can all understand, also we went to a Cowboy Fringants show last night!! it was amazing. It smelt like beer, sweat and vomit!-vraiment Quebecois-ps i have no problem geting served in QC no questions just like in AB. i loved it!! 

well i have to go, other people need the cp too so i miss you all and will update soon!

Matty

for those who didnt get the memo

Hey all!!

well today is my last official day of work here in Blind River, well here at the Chamber of Commerce at least. I am so excited. The job here was....o.kay, it wasn't what i would call challenging, and it's not like there is a lot of work to be done here, for instance my last 3 work days i haven't done anything work related and this isn't a rare occurrence. But if you look on the positive side of things, which i always try to do, i have been a lot less stressed compared to most of my roommates when the time gets busy, also i had a lot of personal time here at work to get working on katimavik projects that i would normal have to do in my free time, and in top of it all i've had more time to keep in touch with you people back home or where ever you may be, through e-mails!  Tomorrow we start work at the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities conference, i thought that we would just be doing little jobs like serving coffee tea etc. after all that's what we normally do at things like this, besides at the time since i didn't know what would be happening at the conference i didn't think there was anything else we could do. but apparently we will be doing quite a bit, we will be the servers, the chefs, the pagers, help the vendors set up their booths, also the job i want is to be the important political people-whether it be mayor or minister or who ever's -"companion" basically what it entails is i would follow a assigned person and who will be going on a tour of different places in the area like Cameco some deer trails, or eliot lake, and just give them whatever they want, the reason i want this job is not only do i get to go on tours, but also what could the ministers want they are on a tour, the ministers back at the conference area need photocopies, coffee and stuff, not if your on tour you just look take notes, easy! anyways none of the jobs sound bad, i will be happy to run around and be busy again.

well since i maybe haven't talk to some of you in a little while i guess i could let you know what all i've been up to since i've been here in Blind River, Ontario. i went to sudbury over easter for my 72 hrs off this trimester with some of my roommates, we toured the town, saw science north, the big nickel went shopping, i meet up with my parents and all of that. the next weekend we celebrated Global Youth Service Days by organizing a mass clean up and restoration of downtown Blind River a way to get the local youth involved here. it went okay besides the weather was cold and dreary so we didn't get as many people as we would have liked, but we did get everything done that we wanted to do. the week after that was our excursion, we all went camping in Kilarney Provincial park. it was beautiful! amazing, we were right on a cliff over looking george lake, we went swimming! it was cold, none of us brought a swim suit or towel but that didn't stop us, we improvised, it was more or less just jumping off the rocks and climbing back out rather then actual swimming but meh. we also went hiking cooked over the fire and roasted marshmallows like normal, the nights we cold- i slept with a scarf mitts and toque and we way over crowed in the tents, the guys some how got the crappy small tent. anyways we also did some touring around sudbury on that excursion we went to an art gallery, more shopping, and the mine tours at dynamic earth. just this past week i was house manager with kelly, which wasn't bad we keep the meals simple and got to sleep in a lot. lol then this past week we helped out at a play here, called "A tribute to Blind river" it was a play commemorating Blind Rivers centennial so they had funny skits interviews and song and dancing all about blind rivers foundation right up until present. the theatre was packed it was only showing 2 days and they over sold both nights, not just sold out but there were people standing in the aisles and sitting in the lighting booth, and it was a 4 hr show, i myself had to sit in the wings just because by the time i was done helping out at the door there was no place to sit. on top of the play we also did a clean up of a park here, it was organized by one of my roommates who works in the ministry of natural resources here, so we planted trees, put up bird houses, cleaned up littler along the beach adn the hiking paths, it was fun and since we were the only people to show up ( strange the community says they appreciate everything we are doing here, they tell us everytime we see someone, but at the same time they never come out to any events we organize:GYSD, Boom camp clean up etc. but the 4 hr play sold out twice! i dont get it.) but whatever we got all the free subway for they day ( one last meal me and kelly have to cook). the only other thing that has happened with in the past 2 months( iam not going to worry about telling you about feb. and march for they are to far back for me to remember and most of you have most likely heard about whatever we did then anyways) was last night we had our final presentation, we got all the people in the community who we knewn like our billet families, work place supervisors, the mayor and counselors etc. we put together a slide show of our time in blind river, we made up sone songs about blind river that we preformed, we got thanked for all the things we've done here, hand shakes all around and free teeshirts as well as cake snacks and drinks. It was all nice everything went well.

well well i think that brings us up to date i have mentioned all the major points with in the last little while there has been more events, good times, dramas, and stresses in between all of this in the house or in the community but i think i have dragged on long enough. i would like to tell you about Ville-Marie Qc, where i am going next but i don't know much, i don't know my flight schedule until rotation camp monday and tuesday, i don't know my work placement, i still have to go through an interview when i get there, yes its all in french, i will be getting french lessons through out my time there, i am not worried i have conversational french and the work placements know there will be some of us who can't speak french, some of my roommates are worse off then me, never having took a french lesson in their life! well i might not be able to write in  awhile seeing as most of my computer time has been here at work in the "slow time" so i will most likely write agian from QC

i love and miss you all

Love

Matty

i was just roaming around on here and i found this at dirtysonicup.mindsay.com and thought it was mildly amusing. enjoys

just a few things i have learned on this beaten little path called life...

to highschool boys:

get a job, buy a car, now.

dont lie

do your homework.

find a hobby they are easier to deal with than girls

condoms, read the instructions, follow them to the letter.

dont spend more than $15 on a date... ever.

if your parents buy your grocerys, learn how to cook. its cheaper than taking her out. cooking also impresses way more girls.

dont expect her to clean up after you. she wont

dont expect her to cook for you, this isnt the 50's she doesnt know how.

be nice to the parents... if the parents like you, they will not believe that you are sleeping with their daughter...

dont make up shit... its not cool...

you are not cool... get over it.

dont be a dick, its not cool.

dont set shit on fire on the bus

condoms.

dont piss off the busdriver

dont light fireworks at school

make friends with people who are bigger than you. (ie those shitkicker cowboy types...) you dont have to hang with them... but they will make sure you dont get your ass kicked

driving like a moron isnt cool

stuff you own doesnt make you cool

be nice about the whole period thing... you dont have to bleed for a week every month, so just be grateful and understanding... she will reward you later...

drugs are not cool

dont be a creep

if her vaginal orifice smells bad... like BAD... not just wierd like they all smell like nothing else i can describe... but if she is STANK-AY run... just run...

keep yourself clean

NEVER EVER EVER tell her you love her... you dont... im serious. as much as you think you love her you really dont... that feeling you get when she is rubbin up against you? thats called lust dude... if you tell her you love her you will fuck her up for life and she wont trust anyone else after you leave her for the next hot thing to shake her ass at you... and you just ruined her for the rest of us... good job...

dont have a "serious" relationship with anyone... ever... dont be tied down to one girl ever... date anyone and everyone.

condoms. condoms. condoms.

eat lots of pizza.

never neglect the foreplay... get really good at foreplay and you will never lose...

for the highschool girls:

get a job

dont lie

do your homework.

find a hobby... girls without a life are boring

condoms...

dont spend a dollar on a date... always offer to pay... and if he MAKES you pay for anything past the first date dump him

learn how to cook...

if he expects you to clean up after him... dump him

be nice to the parents... if his parents like you they wont call you a slut.

dont make up shit... its not cool...

you are not cool... get over it.

stop dressing so slutty... (ie no cleavage... no short shorts...) and you will stop being treated like a slut

quit being such a bitch

condoms.

dont be so obsessive its boring

dont be a rumor mill

dont get in fights... its not attractive

driving like a moron is scary cut it out

stuff you own doesnt make you better than anyone else

drugs are not cool

dont be a creep

he doesnt love you... get over it

dont have a "serious" relationship with anyone... ever... dont be tied down to one person ever... date anyone and everyone.

condoms. condoms. condoms.

you must smell good... always.

"cooter funk" smell is the biggest relationship killer... keep that shit clean at all times... if you dont know how, ask someone.

if you are raggin out, tell him... he will be a lot more nice to you about it... and dont use it as an excuse to be a fucking bitch... thats not cool...