Hello all!
Having yesterday off to get oriented and organized for the week's presentations ahead, we are now full-steam back into visiting high schools!
After suggesting the Spruceland Motel, I have now banned myself from choosing our sleeping locations for the rest of the trip! With mysterious stains on walls and ceilings, ancient mattresses, and too many surfaces that haven't been dusted in centuries, we stayed one night in our sleeping bags here before requesting to be relocated! We are now happily situated in an updated, comfortable hotel with plenty of room, which is nice as we'll be here for a few more nights.
My brother works in Prince George every summer for the Forestry Fire Crew (Go Firehawks!!), and on Sunday night, before he got shipped up north to the Dease Lake fire, showed Jeremy and I around PG to get ourselves accustomed to the area. We visited Fort George Park, which is gorgeous, clean, and enormous, and found grocery stores and the best restaurants in town. We also went up to UNBC and toured around the fabulous new campus and cruised through their amazing fitness centre. Winter's in PG are long and filled with snow, so having a facility like this (with indoor soccer fields and an elevated running track) are essential to staying sane!
Zach has now joined us, having come directly from Sointula's Living Oceans Day on Malcolm Island, and we have already done our first presentation as a group this morning at a high school out of town. We have one more today, so there's some time to get our car organized (it's much like a mighty game of tetrus getting 3 people and all our gear in there) have some lunch and prepare for a Science 10 Honors class this afternoon. It'll be the last low-key day of the trip, as we're now fully booked through PG, Quesnel and Kamloops!
Spirits are high with our group as we soaked up the sun in the park yesterday and got some exercise; the weather's promised nice until the end of our trip, and now we're on the home stretch!
Check out facebook for links to our photo albums, but we'll have some more pictures later on today!
Thanks to all our fantastic ACER volunteers who invested their time travelling up and around the island (Sointula, Ucluelet, etc) presenting and partaking in adventures of their own! I don't know about you, but after the fatigue of travelling and presenting wears off, it's inspiring to think that we've been given the chance to spread the word with ACER beyond our usual Nanaimo area and Lower Mainland. Go team!! :D
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