Friday, August 6, 2010

Altona, Manitoba

It's sunny here and very hot. The humidity is KILLER. But it's very beautiful with the numerous fields of wheat, canola and SUNFLOWERS!! I love sunflowers! They are so tall here and HUGE.
Me and Lynn, Norm (one of dad's friends from Ruskin)'s wife, went and took many beautiful pictures of sunflowers and the monarch butterflies around them. They are GORGEOUS! It is so fun. We took so many pictures.
Work was killer the last two days i actually went. The first day I had heat exhaustion so bad I ended up vomiting at Superstore in the parking lot in Winkler and all night in the trailer. It was terrible with a capital T. I didn't want to go work for Ruskin after that but dad gave me the 'Let down Parent' talk, so I agreed to try again. This time I did not get heat stroke instead a lot more happened. First I got Lost and was so frustrated I began to cry, also because I thought I hit a bird (thankfully I did not). Then I called dad and finally got to work, cussing the while way. Then I worked with the group at sight 68 pile counting. I had an allergic reaction to the sun, yes that's right I'm allergic to the sun. Hence my paleness. Then spiders began flying off the crane onto me and while I was attempting to rid of them all got several bites on my neck. That was fun, NOT! and now my neck is swollen and red and I have weird bumps on it where the bites are. Now I really don't want to work. But they won't need me until maybe next week, so at least I get a break.
Today I got to sleep in. It was the first good sleep I've had since I arrived. Lynn and I went to town to pick up groceries and do laundry. I picked up all the groceries except I still must remember dad's french vanilla creamer. We put the laundry in so that we could do everything and it would be ready when we arrived back at the laundromat. Then we came here to use the Internet and we are having a cup of coffee. We had Subway for lunch YUM.
Myles was choked when I told him I was leaving. He was so choked he wouldn't talk to me for a bit. He keeps giving me a hard time about this job, so it makes it even harder. I am going to miss him and I will most likely go with mom when she comes to visit and leaves again. Hopefully he is still home one of those days. I have talked to him on the phone since, which is good. He actually called a 2am (Winnipeg time, 12am BC time) to apologize for being so hard on me about it, which I thought was really sweet and I appreciated it too. He felt so bad for waking me up though I didn't mind because the train that goes past at 2:30 am would have woken me up anyways (the tracks are right behind our trailer). I miss him and I'm glad we are keeping in touch.
We did end up camping. Myles took me to bear lake. BEST CAMPING TRIP EVER! It was only one night but it was amazing! He even made breakfast for me for when I woke up. It was soooooo sweet. I love him.
I'll post those sunflower pictures when I can.

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