Hello,

It is today the 23 of May. The 13th and 14th of May I went to a leadership conference in Antigonish. This leadership conference is learning about the universities in Nova Scotia. And learn about, how it is to be an international student at the university. We stayed at the university from St. Francis Xavier University. Recognized as one of the finest schools in Canada.
The X-Ring is something special at that school.
They get this ring after they graduating. The X-Ring is said to be, after Super Bowl and Papal rings, the third most recognized ring in the world. It's a permanent reminder of the StFX experience and its lasting solidarity. That's a little bit information about the university.
At the leadership conference, we were with 52 international students. We listened to presentations, played games, meeting new people,....
We slept at the residence from the school. You live like a student at the university for two days.
It was an other great experience.

The 18th of May I watched with Blandine, Stella, Giulia, Eleanor, Jenna and Olivia Eurovision. We connected the laptop into the TV and watched it on the big screen. It was nice to watch with it people from different countries.

Today at 7pm there was a coffee house at the school. Students from the school are performing and presenting things. Like songs, poetry,...
If you wish to participate, you can sign up. My friend Blandine from France performed. She sang the song "Little Talks" from Monsters and Men. We filmed it, it probably will come on Facebook. She did a great job!

Now I will show you some pictures that I took.

Greetings Zoë

On the bus to Antigonish

In the evening we did karaoke

When we watched Eurovision

At the lake by our house

Here is the recipe to make chocolate chip cookies. Enjoy!

Chocolate cookies
With the quantities in this recipe you make four cookies per person.

Ingredients
- 250 g flower
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 120 g sugar
- 60 g oat-flakes
- 200 g soft butter
- 1 egg
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 1 vanilla stick

preparation
Make sure you take the butter out of the fridge in time. The butter need to be on room temperature.
Put the flower, the baking powder, the sugar and the oat-flakes in the mixing cup of the kitchen robot.
Make sure you have the right weight of all the ingredients for the dough.

Mix all ingredients on low speed. Cut the soft butter in pieces and add them one by one in the dry ingredients. Also put the egg in. Cutting a vanilla stick open, and remove the seeds and add to the dough. Let the machine run at higher speed. Break the chocolate into pieces but not to small and add to the dough. And mix.

Let dough rest in plastic wrap and put in the fridge. Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Take the baking plate and place on baking paper. Role of the dough balls with a diameter of 3 to 4 cm. And flatten them.
bake the cookies for 20 min in the oven at 175 ° C.

bonne appétit!

Greetings Zoë

Hello,

It's today the 11th of May, and tomorrow is it mother's day. That's a special day! I wish my mom a happy mother's day! Today I went to eleanor her house, Blandine and Stella came too. In the morning we went canoeing on the lake. But the weather wasn't that great, there was a lot of fog. It looked like on a film set. In the afternoon Blandine and me did something crazy. Tomorrow I will let you know what we did, and will show you the pictures.
We had a great time!
Not in this blog message but in the next one. You find the recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

Greetings Zoë

That was when we went fishing

Me and Eleanor her host dad

Our canoe

Me and my friend Eleanor from Australië

The group of my acting class at Drama Festival

The students from Halifax West High school that went to Drama Festival

Hello,

It's today the 9th of May! Last blog message I said I was going to post a recipe and more photos.
Sometimes I have no sense of time, can not believe it's been ten days later.
May 2, 3 and 4 I went to drama festival. It was an amazing experience, three full days of drama.
We were with 13 students of Halifax West High School. And 22 other schools were involved too.
Around 200 people were involved. In the morning we had a master class, that was with everybody together. Except the third day, then we watched a show "Title of Show".
The first master class was improv. There was an improv team (Canadian Improv Games) that taught us the skills about improve.
The second master class was comedy. A famous comedian, forgot his name. And he taught us the skills of comedy.
In the afternoon, we had the course that we chose. I was in three day acting, my group was about 18 people. The other courses were stage combat, play writing, musical, stage lightening,......
Each class was teached by profesional people. Our teacher was Martha Irving. If you search on the internet you will find a lot of stuff about her. Acting is her job, she is doing this 36 years.
It was great to work with her, and made it clear again, that I enjoy acting. That was an other great experience!

The week before drama festival, suddenly had a lot of pain in my mouth. My tonsil on the right side was swollen. but the pain got worse, and realized that it was my wisdom tooth. We decided to go to the dentist. They took a picture, and they saw that my wisdom teeth is against my jawbone. Between my wisdom teeth and jawbone is an infection. They prescribed the medication, and the medication will take the pain away. It feels much better now.
In connection with this something funny happened today. I went down town to my Circus School. Before that I went in a shop, saw a basket of buttons with nice pictures and text. One had the text wisdom teeth on it, so I bought it. This button will always make me think back to my wisdom tooth. I will show you a picture of this button.

Tomorrow I will post the recipe!
Under this blog message you will find some pictures.
Greetings Zoë

In the first semester I took art. My art teacher was putting up some drawings in the public library in Bayers Lake. The one that you see below is mine.

for the first time my name is spelled correctly in Canada.

This hangs in the circus school.