A Week Full of Adventure!

Hello everyone! 

We did it! We have made it through our year and are now in our final week! 

While we're hurting a little bit that things are ending soon, we are so excited to see the students head back home and take the changes that we've seen home with them.

We have definitely been savouring our last few days with the students. We've been going on adventure after adventure to enjoy each other's company. I'm excited to get to tell you about three big adventures that we went on this week.

On Tuesday we had the pleasure of heading down to Victoria for a little indoor rock climbing. I know we were expecting to have a good time, but I think we surpassed all of our expectations when we saw how amazing the facilities were. There was a nice bouldering wall, some nice sized rock walls and then we saw their amazing HUGE rock wall room. It had to look like about a 3-4 story building in there and students were able to climb a good chunk of it. My neck almost hurt from looking up so much!

On Wednesday, we were supposed to head up to some outdoor rock climbing, but the weather didn't work out so we moved it to Thursday. I think this was God's little gift to us in that we had perfect weather on Thursday! We headed up to near the Nanaimo River and met our guides there. There was a number of different rock faces we could climb. With the river behind us and the blue sky above we spent nearly the entire day climbing and it was such a great day! Even those of us who weren't overly gifted at climbing still had a good day getting a sun tan! 

Friday met us with a different challenge though! We spent the morning trying to figure out how safe the waters were before we went out on our kayaking adventure! With two foot waves and a good attitude we decided to try kayaking around the ladysmith harbour. When we got out there, we discovered how much fun it was to kayak with a little resistance! We even spent time singing together and had a seal audience pop up to see us! I'm happy to report that no one fell out of their boats (except for myself clumsily trying to exit the kayak about three feet from shore).

With that, our major adventures end for the year. It's a bit bittersweet in that we've made it! We've all done this together! But I know there have already been tears shed thinking about the end and we are all going to miss each one so much.

For those of you coming to grad on Saturday, we are SO excited to have you come! 

We finally get to show you everything we've been writing about this year! 

We are praying for your safe travels and can't wait to meet some of you! 

Thanks for all your support of the students this year!

Derek