Since I have been home I have been to two bridal showers. One for Mikaela (my sister) and the other for Reilly (my sister). I spent a few days in Calgary before I drove off to Saskatoon to spend time with my sisters and friends before Reilly got married this weekend!
I have been able to spend some well needed time with my family and friends! Though I also had felt like I was constantly busy so a few days before the wedding I had a day where I was a hermit. I stayed in the basement of the place I used to live (where two of my sisters and one of my best friends live). They were all gone to work so I slept in and watch t.v. shows all day! I felt very lazy but it was well needed!
On Thursday I decided to drive out to the farm where Reilly and Phil were getting married. It was really great to be able to drive out a few days early to spend some time with them all. It was wonderful to spend time with Reilly especially. She even took me to the abandoned house where Phil had proposed to her. The Braun farm is just beautiful though!
Here are some pictures of the wedding day!
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| Reilly and Katie's dresses |
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| Nikki and I |
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| Reilly looking just beautiful! |
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| Phil and Reilly's first dance as a couple! |
During my time in Saskatchewan I have realized how much I miss it. Yes I do live in the city but the country side is just so amazingly beautiful and I could stay in the country side for a long time. I also got to visit Bethany, well Tyla and I stopped to take a picture with the sign!
There have been many good moments, but coming home from being in a different culture for a long time has its difficulties! I have had moments where I am frustrated at what people say or what they do. Some moments that come to mind are when I went through a grocery line and the lady who was scanning my items didn't say anything to me other than "Is that debit?" The worst part if it was that I had said hello and have a good day when I left. And still did not get any response. Another moment was when I wanted to share the kind of music that I would normally hear in taxis while in South Africa (its called House Music) and the people I shared it with just laughed and made fun of it. It was not a big deal, and it was definitely not an attack on me but it just felt more personal than it should have. I just took offence that they didn't really want to try and experience some of the things I got to hear.
Not that it is anyones fault and I am sure there are many others who come back from an experience away from their home culture who have felt a lot of the same things I have but it has been frustrating. For example since I have been home I have had more people ask me, "How is it being back in Canada?" No one really asks how my year went, which can seem like an insult, but I know its not intentional at all.
Also I have been home now for just about 3 weeks and I have had 2 people ask to see my pictures from my time. Though I was not actually able to show them right at that moment so it just didn't happen.
I just want to say I really do love being home. And have missed everyone a lot. This is not to anyone specifically, I just wanted to be real and share how things were going.
Until next time here is a few more pictures!
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| Having ice cream with Ty! |
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| Hanging with some of my sisters |
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| Beautiful Sask fields! |
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| Selfie with the Bethany sign! |
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| Sask landscape again (that little house is where Reilly and Phil got engaged!) |
