Valentines Day is great!

So I'm really awake right now and feeling the itch to blog again. Tonight I had two girls from the Annex (drop-in) over for a little Valentine celebration. I picked up the first girl and we talked a little bit about what was 'new' with me, I told her about how I had applied to Covenant House in Toronto to be an outreach worker. She got this worried look on her face and said 'you can't leave', and I mumbled something about how I needed to find work so that I could make a living. She then told me "I was the reason she came to the Annex. If I wasn't their she didn't even stay". Wow! Who knew!?! Oh man that makes me feel good! Sometimes I don't understand why people love me?
At the end of the night I dropped her off at her house and her mother invited me in. It was late but I knew that her mother wanted to meet me. I have spoken to her mother on the phone before and she is great to talk to! Her and her mother come from Croatia, so her mom has this thick accent. I love it! I know she must find it lonely living in Sarnia with no connections, except for the people she goes to college with and any contact she keeps with those from her native country. I could kind of tell also by the fact that she talked my ear off on the phone the one time I talked to her. She is such a sweet women, very witty and well informed about what goes on in the world. As I sat and talked with her she began talking about different countries she had been to and what her homeland is like. I got all these pictures in my head of what things must look like, the rolling hills, the Adriatic sea and I began to get the itch to travel again! I so want to just find someone to back pack with and go traveling (ahhh I'm listening to some techno off of msn radio and it reminds me of my trip to England). Anyway just before I left their house the girl's mother sent me out with a loaf of fresh baked bread as a thank you for taking care of her little girl. Such a sweet gesture! They don't have much but she gave me what they could. I love fresh baked bread!
I know that some day I will travel, I don't know when or how but it will happen. God has confirmed it with me and something happened at Christmas that was a confirmation. Every year my mom's side of the family draws names fora gift exchange, this year my uncle Carsten and I had each others name. The following was the accompanying card to my gift from him:

A Joyous Christmas Adrienne,
From Germany, a designer gift that is all the rage with the 20's something's in Winnipeg! [my uncle lives in Manitoba]
But that's not why or how it came to be that I am sending this gift to you. I have your name and so I prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to take what I know about you and lead me because I don't know everything about you. I was hoping to find a gift you could enjoy for a life time. In one of those spur of the moment type curiosity decisions, I believe the HS led me into a store I had never been into before and within a few minutes I had this gift in my hand talking to an attractive 21 year old blond female clerk ( I thought she could help since my niece is a similiar type - and she did indeed!). What I was holding in my hand was arty, beautiful, practicul, smooth, clever, unique (because it is under patent and copyrighted a highly protected limited quantity production); pretty to display, fun, can be an heirloom; and has the added benefit of being a healthy travel item (when used you can avoid diseases by contamination).
Your gift is a set of personal ice cubes. Put them in the freezer and voila[he spelt this wrong 'viola']!
All the best : Uncle Carsten

Well because my uncle lives in Manitoba he wasn't at the family get together to see me open it. As I was opening the gift I was kind of cringeing at the prospect of opening a set of 'ice cubes'! How was I going to give the proper reaction to the rest of the family without looking ungrateful? Mom has plastic liquid filled ice-cubes that I could easily take with me when I travel and I find them rather ugly. So I unwrapped the sharply wrapped rectangle. As I peeled the paper back I was confronted by six brightly coloured glass cubes suspended in a piece of gray foam. These cubes are gorgeous, they are transparent glass with brightly coloured liquid inside! Very classy, arty and schiek! I let out a sigh of relief of not recieving a crappy gift. I then stated the worries I had to my relatives and they confirmed with me that they had the same worries as well. Although I stated that I didn't know when I would ever be able to travel. My younger cousin Brittany then piped up that as soon as she is done university her and I could travel together. This is something I am going to hold her to, I think that she would be a great traveling partner! Oooh I love her so dearly! As jelous as i can be of her sometimes because of her beauty and school smarts, she is the closests thing I have to a sister. She is my mom's twin's daughter. Anyway enough for now.