Happy Thanksgiving!!!! I’m sitting here eating a sandwich on my lunch break just waiting to go back for 5 more hours of rehearsal because Thanksgiving doesn’t exist in Canada! Our cast is having a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday though, so I won’t be missing out on any good food! This is the first time I haven’t been home for a holiday and it feels a little weird...but I don’t feel homesick! We’ve been here for 3 weeks now and it truly feels like home.
I’m very excited for Christmastime here in Toronto! It’s supposed to snow soon and I can’t wait! Last weekend a group of my cast and I went to watch The Santa Claus Parade which is supposedly a big deal here in Toronto. Honestly, the parade was pretty awful and the fact that it was freezing out made it even less fun, but I still had a good time with my cast of hilarious commentators. Also, Canada has some weird obsession with clowns that none of us understood...
The Santa Claus Parade
They were handing out clown noses. We thought they were Rudolph noses...but we were so wrong.
I also took a trip to Niagara Falls over the weekend!!! About 15 of us booked a bus tour that took us to an adorable town called Niagara by the Lake, then took us to a beautiful vineyard, and finally dropped us off at the breathtaking falls!!! The view was incredible and the weather was perfect! It was such a fun trip and I’m so glad I had the opportunity to see this famous landmark!
Reif Winery
Niagara Falls
Cute Ponchos
Beautiful.
Rehearsals are becoming very tedious. I am so happy to have been cast in almost all of the shows so far, but there are a lot of rehearsals and it’s starting to take its toll on my body. I have to attend mandatory strength training for Spanish web and my muscles are constantly sore because of it. It is such a blessing to have two days off each week! I don’t know what I would do without that break. But the pain is definitely worth it, because each and every number I get to be in is so much fun. I get to be a pirate in two of the deck parties!!! I even get to sword fight! We finished one of our shows today and did a run through! We still have so much to learn, but things are starting to come together!
We had our second bible study last night. God gave me a really good word to share about living as a light and setting an example along with some other passages about not judging others or allowing others to fall into sin because of your actions. This last weekend I experienced a small taste of the pain God feels when people live in the darkness of their sin. I felt that it was really important to let the people in my bible study know that if we are going to share our faith with others in our cast, we need to set an example and live differently so that we are seen as unique and different in a positive way. A couple of the girls shared how they have felt God change their heart about certain things but also how they know they have to avoid putting themselves in situations that could encourage them to sin. I have definitely felt God change my heart and I am so thankful for these changes. God is preparing this group and changing our hearts so that we can bring truth and hope to the broken souls in this cast.
A quote to ponder:
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
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