21st of August to the 2nd of September
This week was the moment of truth. The moment when we finally meet the god in the machine, the man behind the mask, the guy running the show!... Well, fine, it wasn't actually that dramatic. How the Katimavik system works is that every group has their Project Leader (PL), but then several groups in a region have a Project Coordinator (PC). Mid-rotation, the PC takes a tour and visits every group under their jurisdiction. They stay with each group for two nights and perform an evaluation of both how the group is doing and what the group thinks of their PL. Amy Reid, our PC, arrived on Tuesday, so we had our language lessons on Monday instead.
Tuesday was fun. Most of the day was spend trying to sort old Arts Centre posters for archiving, but in the afternoon Emely and I were unleashed upon downtown Whitehorse to hand out posters and brochures of the upcoming Arts Centre theatre season. At the beginning of the hike Emely stated that she would find it funny if she were to meet someone she knew from Quebec while walking around Whitehorse. It therefore came as no surprise when we encountered someone she knew from the Boys and Girls Club (one of our volunteer locations), and then, much later on, we met a busker from northern Quebec. He told us that he'd been busking for twenty years, and that if you want to do something: do it! He'd continued busking, even when his girlfriend left him. Cool guy.
In the evening Amy arrived, and we all went to the Art Centre's theatre to have a movie night. Originally we were going to watch Amélie (Le fableux destin d'Amélie Poulin) and The Pursuit of Happyness, but since Jason was unable to find Amélie we instead watched Ce Qu'il Faut Pour Vivre, a Canadian film which, though slow, is extremely evocative, and, while I could go into depth about the difference between physical and spiritual health, I will just say that this is a very good movie. In the end, due to a debate of blu-ray vs standard definition, instead of The Pursuit of Happyness we watched The King's Speech as our English movie. Also a very good movie, heartwarming, funny, excellent acting. I'll let the Oscars speak for themselves.
On Wednesday Amy got us all to congregate downstairs, and then it was two hours of us talking about all of our group's highs and lows and Jason's aptitudes and ineptitudes and all sorts of stuff really. I won't go into details, but I think there were quite a few things that we really needed to get off our chests, and this gave us an excellent opportunity.
Not much more happened that week, except for the fact that that weekend was our 72 HOURS OFF! Yeah!
