Franzi's Canada Blog: Week 25: Valentine's day and the Sugar bush ♥♥♥

Week 25:

On Friday was Valentine's day and not like in Austria, Valentine's day is a big day in Canada. I have never celebrated Valentine's day before, this was so new for me! At A.N. Myer (Highschool) we had red/white day, so everyone was dressed in red and white. Me too! My hostfamily was soooo nice and gave all their kids and me chocolate, a bracelet and candy for Valentine's day. I love them so much!
At school, students could buy candybags for other students and they were handed out anonymously. I got one too!

I got this from 2 friends haha

For Valentine's day we got half a day off, so we could spend some time with friends and family.
At night I went out for dinner with my family and after that we went to the movies. It was a perfect day!

On Monday was family day so we planned on doing something together, as a family. We went to the sugarbush. It is a maple syrup farm! First we went inside to eat a real Canadian breakfast: scrambled eggs, frenchtoast and pancakes with their homemade maple syrup. It tasted amazing!

After the breakfast we went outside in the forest to a trail were there was explained how maple syrup is made and how the canadians did it hundreds of years ago. We made some maple syrup suckers in the snow and cut wood pieces and burned 2014 in. I also saw all the maple trees and the pipelines connected from tree to tree to get the maple syrup through the whole forest, passing every suitable tree back to the farm.