this easter was going to be awesome. we were supposed to go canoeing up the indian arm with jesse, camp in the forest and bake marshmallows over the campfire like in winnie the pooh. unfortunately, everything went wrong. the weather in vancouver was so terribly windy, rainy and stormy that canoeing didn't work out. jesse went backcountry skiing, isabell and henrieke made a trip to chilliwack, talia returned home to montreal, and hanne-sophie.. i have no idea where did she go, but i think she wasn't around for easter either. so pretty much it started off pretty lonely. i hanged out with adam in waves cafe on friday and saturday, but also spent some serious time on my own, confronting some assignments, readings and my deepest thoughts. these couple of days were a good refugee from the speedy pace i am rushing through this semester.
also my easter holiday was saved by marcin and kasia, polish friends of mine i have already mentioned at some point while writing this blog. i bumped into marcin, literally couple of days before the easter break and on easter sunday i was cordially invited for a proper polish easter brunch! nothing makes one as nostalgic about their countries like the scents of the foods they used to eat as a kid (the reason why memories are activated by smell so easily is because olfactory bulb is located in the brain extremely close to hippocampus, but let's not get into details :-P). and there was food! what a feast kasia prepared! we started off with sharing an egg (a polish tradition which starts the easter meal), and then the white borsch soup with eggs and sausage came on the table. by the time i finished i was already full, but i knew we wouldn't stop eating just yet. there was an entire plater full of finest hams, beets, stuffed eggs, polish mayonnaise, easter salad, horseradish spread and meat and veggie in jelly (polish speciality, but i am not particularly fond of it). we ate, and we talked and we ate more. the whole feast lasted like 3 or 4 hours, but it felt so good to speak polish both in a linguistic and culinary sense. ;-) then we ate four kinds of cakes and i couldn't move anymore. :-D
today we had another easter celebration, this time with my roommates, cos everyone returned today. yes, we went for sushi.. :-)
so at the very end it was quite a good easter, i must say...
