Back to School - Falls Coming

September has finally come around and the kids and I are finally back to school, I know I am glad to be getting back into some sort of routine again, the weather was so aweful for a lot of summer that it really wasn't fun being off and my brain seems to have gone to mush.

I know Steph is happy to be back at school she goes into Grade 8 and it does seem strange starting a new school year in September, anyway she is happy with her teacher she is in a Yr7/8 split but she is in there with all her friends so that is good.

James of course can take or leave school he goes into Grade 10 and will need to do some serious work these next 5 months.

My classes are quite nice I have an Anthropology Class, Food and Nutrition and Family studies class, the students are a bit more of a challenge than they were last year (first half of the year), but they are still much easier than my students in Aus. Anyway we have 15 weeks of school and then we go home, its going to be a long stretch with no real breaks.

For September we see many changes in the area again the seasons are changing again, its getting cooler and the leaves are starting to fall and change colour, the season changes here are really very beautiful, I have never seen anything quite like it and sooooo many leaves to clean up, if its not snow its leaves. There are many social gatherings at Wagner Lake for September and October, its almost as if everyone is trying to use the outdoors as much as possible before it turns cold again, so we are invited to 50th birthdays and Corn roasts (we are surrounded by corn farms) and its the best corn we have ever tasted. A corn roast is basically where a huge pot is put over a large fire pit and 50 - 100 corn on the cobs are cooked and then served with butter, of course many beers are also consumed with this corn, but it was quite a novel experience.

We also went to the Toronto zoo and visit Toronto again to see Center island and go to an Ice Hockey game.

The Toronto Leafs are the Canadian team that everyone follows they are huge but amazingly pretty hopeless, anyway we got given these amazing seats so off we went to see the Toronto Leafs play the Pittburgh Penguins (the winners of the Stanley Cup last year). It was quite an experience the best fun, crazy, violent, aggressive game and we laughed heaps because its so out there we had no idea.

Thanksgiving was also in October and Kevin and I cooked a Turkey because thats what everyone does, it was a nice long weekend and good to have a break, we travelled so much in summer that everyone is over travelling, plus the weather is just not that much fun so we are just having a nice time with the people around the Lake.