Bonjour!!!!!

Today is the beginning of a very adventurous and exciting trip! It started out with me getting up extremely early this morning (4am!) so that I could head to the airport and board the plane by 5:25am. When I got to the airport, I was greeted by some very good friends who I dearly love and will miss while I'm gone. Tara, Kayla, Cory, Lee-Anne, Julian, Amy, my Grandmother, and parents were there to see me off... We said our goodbyes and I left for the scariest/ exciting trip I have been waiting for which feels like a year! I traveled from Saskatoon to Toronto and from Toronto to Montreal. I met up with my team, whom I instantly connected with very well (Thank goodness!) My team is made up on 9 Canadians, and 9 from Mali, Africa. We greeted the teams from Mali with a big Canada World Youth sign and introduced ourselves. Once everyone was ready to leave, we packed our bags into a van and hopped on a bus which drove us to the camp, in which I am currently residing for 5 days. The camp is beautiful, full of lush, green trees and a magnificent view of the St. Laurent river! I have already fallen in love with the culture and am trying to learn how to speak French, but first I have to learn how to understand it! Thank goodness I have so many helpful and wonderful people on my team who are willing to translate it for me. I may add that I am not the only English speaking person on my team, and that I am one of 4, so I am not alone :P I am staying in a room with a girl name Sarah on my team and two girls from Mali. (I am not even going to try and attempt to spell their names as I can barely pronounce them haha). After everyone got settled into their rooms, we went to the mess hall and ate a great supper that was very satisfying! After that, we had a meeting to discuss what we will be doing while at this camp for the nest couple days. We will be doing fun activities tomorrow to help us bond more and get to know each other even better, so that shall be fun! It was very interesting trying to figure out what was going on, but once again I had someone help me out :P I am now just hanging out with my team and getting to know them better. I will blog when I have more exciting news and interesting this to tell you. Thanks for reading,

Shelby