Snow in Sherbrooke

A few days ago we had our first snow fall... Tues. October 25th, our 4 month anniversary! And a few days before that Oct. 23rd, our 1 year anniversary of when we met at Charlotte's Wedding. (Happy Anniversary Charlotte! ;))
Wow snowing already and it's October... boy I miss the warm Florida weather! All the changing leaves were nice though and seeing a new blanket of white and having a few snowball fights as we dressed up like the Pillsbury dough boy was fun. We even threw some snowballs at Mozart who loved to dodge them and was soon running in the snow and surprisingly seemed to like it ok.
I've been suffering from homesickness here... I miss all my family and friends back home! :( They say that depression and winter is normally combined and I've never had a real winter before so I'm getting it all at once. I have a few new acquaintances but no friends here. I'm starting to speak a bit more french so can actually say some sentences and comprehend what people say a bit. It's slow going so I went to another school where I can take between 9-30 hours a week! So I'll probably bump it up from 5 class hours to 15 by changing schools. Hopefully that will help a bit and not overwhelm me!
I wish I could keep in better touch with everyone... soon I'll get a new vonage phone that is basically unlimited calling through the Cable line. Hopefully then I can hear some familiar voices again. :)
Tue. was a busy day, I have been needing a new haircut and color and decided to do my own... so I got a darker color than normal and put my hair in a pony-tale and got Jeffrey to cut it off for me... it actually turned out pretty nice, I cut off about 6-7 inches and now have layers... it's cute! I'll take a picture today to show.
Then I went to the Doctor and had my first 'real' doctors visit and examination. the other couple times I've been to the Doctors walk in clinic for a note for work and more recently for a urinary infection that started to infect my kidneys and turn into a kidney infection. UGH! The pain was mostly in the middle and lower back and felt like a had a horrible flu with chills, fever and sore muscles galore! :( The doctor recommended antibiotics but I don't like to take drugs unless I have to and I didn't feel it was at that point yet so decided to give my natural therapies a few more days to see an improvement and we bought the antibiotics in-case I started to get worse. Thankfully I took mega-doses of Glyconutrients (4 tbls a day), acidolpholis, ate a lot of raw garlic 4-8 cloves crushed (Jeffrey would cringe when I sat near him. ;)) and cranberry capsules (which I learned the major ingredient of why it helps Urinary Infections is mannose = a glyconutrient) and after 4 days the pain was gone but in all I wasn't feeling well for almost 2 weeks from start to finish! :( Wow how the time dragged while I was sick and seemed like it had passed in a few days when I was better! Sigh I wish I had caught it sooner and went to the doctor faster so I would have know what I was battling, at least I'll know what to look for next time!
So time marches on and soon I'll have to take pictures of mountains of snow here! I had fun going shopping for some more winter wear at the small salvation army here... I was there for a few hours, mostly trying on all the shoes to find better snow gear! I thought I was my Mom when I left with a big bag of stuff for $25. ;)
Well that about sums up the last few weeks... hope you're not asleep if you actually reach this far of the update. :)