One of the things that has been really great about my time so far in Canada has been the people who I've been sharing the experience with. My main group of friends is comprised mainly of exchange students with the odd Canadian thrown in. Living in residence means you all get really close really quickly because you're eating, sleeping (in the same building) and studying together pretty much constantly. Thus, at some point in the semester, we all stopped seeing ourselves as just friends and started viewing ourselves as more of a family, a dysfunctional messed up family but a family nonetheless. This meant that with Christmas fast approaching, and my fellow exchange students time in Canada coming to an end (they are all semester students) we wanted to get something to remember our little family by and at the same time celebrate Christmas. Thus the idea to have the family Christmas photo was born. We planned ahead to make sure we were all free, and then found a mall close to us that was doing Christmas Santa Photos at that time. On the day we spent the afternoon getting ready, putting our Sunday best on so to speak and then headed to Yorkdale on mass. We queued up behind the young children 'patiently' (some more than others) waiting our turn. Then it was our turn and the elves organised us around Santa and then we had our photos taken, we got several done as we were just sharing the cost of one CD that we could pass around and download the pictures from. Here are a couple:
From the back left to right: Andrew, Andrew, Jessie,
Me, Monique,
Melinda, Lauren, Santa, Tanya
Me, Monique,
Melinda, Lauren, Santa, Tanya
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