I read somewhere that power of blessing can do wonders, but never imagine that it could work with me one day and give me the reason to believe in the ‘power of blessing’. Last Friday after attending my college, I was going to Tim Hortens to get some Veggi Sandwich as I did not have my breakfast that morning. Near Saffron restaurant somebody called me, “Son help me, I am not an alcoholic, I am hungry, have no money and fare to get back home. Kindly help me”. I offered him food and gave him some dollars for his taxi fare.

He thanked me for help and asked why I wear turban and about Sikhism. His name was Joseph and he was from Austria. I explained him the significance of turban that it makes us distinct from others. About Sikhs, I told him that Sikhs are a pure force of God and are always ready to help those who are in need and for this very purpose they wear turban that anybody who is in need can recognize a Sikh among hundreds. Then another query came about the right pronunciation of word ‘Sikh’ and our discussion went on about meditation and other things. At last when it was quite a time, he grabbed my hand and put close to his chest and said, “God bless you son”. I thanked him and started my journey back home.

When I reached home, I was in great pain because I was suffering from kidney stones. It started during the weekend and the doctor diagnosed that I have two stones in my left kidney. Due to that severe pain I lied down and took a little nap. In the evening, when I woke up and went to the washroom to relieve myself, to my utter amusement one stone was out through urine without any pain and it was almost a centimeter thick. I was happy as my stone was out; stone pain is just like a bullet pain as some body is plundering bullets in your body. Few days later, I had an appointment with Dr. McLoughlin and when I showed him the stone then he said, “It is a miracle to get rid of such a thick stone without any surgery. How you did it”. That moment I realized the power of blessing and I thanked God and Joseph who blessed me that day.

Thanks

best Regards

Raman Rishi

I went there from Seattle, where I had visited my friend. It was sunny and warm Saturday so we decided that there is the best time to see ocean. Trip to the beach took us about three hours, and I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was more than just surprised. There was no sun in the sky, and on-board thermometer showed 18C, that was much colder than in Seattle. Besides there was so foggy, that I couldn’t see further than stretched hand. Despite cold and fog there were lots of people on the beach. Most of them were either surfer or family with children who stayed in the camping. After parking car we were going to see the water, but one more surprise was waiting for us. When we came to the beach there was no water, because of ebb. So we decided to have our lunch first, and then to go to the shore line. As time was going it became colder, because I had no warm cloth with me. When lunch was over I even thought that I don’t really want to go so far on the wet sand to see water. But had traveled so many kilometers and not even see the ocean didn’t sound as good idea, so we were going to the shore line. When we became closer to the water I started to feel how huge it is, even though I couldn’t see too far, because of fog, I could absolutely clear feel it. Next thought in my head was that I want to swim there. It took me couple of second to make decision and next moment I was in the water. The temperature of water was low but I was so excited that couldn’t feel it. I jumped on the huge waves some time and then returned back. After cold water air seem to be very warm. This experience was amazing, and I wish I could see ocean soon again.

Sofiia Sagir

I would love to be able to enjoy just one or two more weeks of holiday. I would use the time to plan trips and enjoy the tourist attractions and beaches around Vancouver, as well as the islands.

At least, from my window, I can still enjoy wonderfully sunny weather as I study in my room in Burnaby.

It is amazing to experience such warm weather in Vancouver.  Actually, I am very excited because this is the first time that I have experienced summer in Canada.  Previously, I was exposed to cloudy, cool weather with plenty of rain and, sometimes, even snow.  This does not mean that I don’t like snow, because I love winter. It is almost impossible to experience a snowfall in Peru, even at a very high altitude.

I hope Vancouver continues to have this wonderful weather, until I get tired of sweating.

Edwin Levita

Yuna Shin

On Canada day, it was also my husband’s birthday. So, we went out to a park for a
picnic. In West Vancouver, there were a lot of event going on for Canada day. It was a little
bit cloudy but I enjoyed it a lot. We ate lunch that we prepared and took a sea walk. I had a
wonderful time on the Ambleside Park. It took all my stress away.

Shannon

I feel lucky to be with all these teachers in this semester.

Serena

Still remember how easily I could feel fun when I was a kid.

Every time,after we ate lychee,we picked those big pits,cut them into half,kept the lower part,and sticked a tooth pick on,and turned them into peg-tops…It was enough to keep me busy for a whole summer afternoon just to see peg-tops turning around and around.

How happy and careless I was as a kid.

But,I just found that,if I want,I could still indulge myself into that kind of fun after grew up.

I just found myself a big pack of gummy bears from safeway a couple days ago.

Instead of eating gummy bears as gummy bears,I did something else with it.

I poured about 200ml milk into the pot,boiled it,and then,let all the gummy bears jump into the boiling milk.

Oh,poor little gummy bears,about 16 of them,all melted into the milk as the milk continued boiling.

As the gummy bears all melted down,I poured the liquid gummy bears into a bowl and kept it in the fridge.

In the next morning,when I opened the fridge,a bowl of pinky jello is already waiting for me to enjoy.

That was my gummy bear transformation story.

Hmm.Yummy.And for all the gummy bears losing your life into the boiling milk and turned into a bowl of beautiful jello for me to enjoy,I will not forget how you served me,and I will always remember that you were a bunch of cute gummy bears.

That was what I did last week,and I was really happy for making myself jello.

What did you do to make yourself happy?

Serena

Shannon

A couple of days before we went to Korean restaurant to have dinner with my friends and we chose Korean BBQ at there. However, It was too expensive to have enough. Pretty delicious though. So, we just decided to have BBQ by ourselves, because having BBQ outside is low-priced, and last Saturday was exactly perfect day whatever I do outside.

When I and my friends got the beach there were already tons of people. Everyone who was at there just enjoyed sunny day.

We started to have BBQ, and had lots of fun. Food, weather, people. everything was awesome. Also, I could have new friends who was friend’s buddy.

That was what I want to do here in Canada. There are many beaches and mountains near by. When I was younger than now I used to hate doing something in nature such as beach, mountain, park etc. I thought it was boring. However, I don’t know from when, I’m getting love to do something in nature. And my friends said, It means I am getting old. I know it, but whatever. Because everyone is getting old in same times. lol

I got  a new place this week. Since I came back to Vancouver, I always wanted to move out to other place. Because I need kind of my private place and I found very suitable place.

On moving day was so busy. I had a presentation so I had lots of things to do. During the presentation I couldn’t focus on it. It was from exciting to move. After schooling, I came back home right away, and finished packing my bags. And I said good bye to my homestay family. They are so good, and I had pretty good with them. The weather was so great to move out. now I got  new roomies. They are all from Korea. I don’t know exactly about them yet, but till now we have good time. And one more thing that my friend will me from Korea. We are going to hang out and have fun together, here in Canada. everything is going well right now, except of the weather:(

Yuna

Photo 1 - Sofiia (Week 3)

Hi. This time I want to share my experience about recent trip to Whistler. It was my second visit there and I really love that nice small village surrounded by beautiful mountains and lakes, and its houses made from wood in old European style. As spring this time is late, there was still lots of snow in the mountains, and people were still skiing. During that weekend me and my friend visited three lakes, went to the mountains, and rode the gondola to the mountain’s peak.

Riding gondolas was really amazing. Fist we rode from land to the mountain’s peak, and then moved from peak to peak. During that trip unbelievable view was open for us; we may have seen lots of mountains that were impossible to see from the ground, they were covered with the snow on the top, and with the trees on the bottom; among the mountains there were some lakes. I tried to take some pictures of the view, but that was the moment when you need to be there to feel all that beauty.

Photo 2 - Sofiia (Week 3)

The most awesome thing that happened to us during that trip was meeting three small bears while hiking in the Blackcomb Mountain. Even though they were close to us, they seemed to be relaxed, eating grass, and were not paying any attention to us. We spent about ten minutes observing them, but we will never forget that amazing moment.