Life lesson | Lessons from my daughter

Today, I am hosting my first meet and greet! Lea stopped by and introduced her blog.
I find it fitting to share her post below on our Canadian Thanksgiving as I am thankful for the freedom I enjoy and thankful for the opportunity to learn about other cultures.
I hope you will enjoy it!

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Today is the International Day of the Girl, hence I would like to tell about my visit to a Masai tribelast Saturday, October 3rd. Since we are a part of the program Communication for Change, our task in the Masai was to discuss one or more of the following subjects; Economic Justice, Climate Change or Gender. We figured it would be interesting to discuss gender roles with some of the Masai girls, because of our major cultural differences. The conversation we had with the Masai girls revealed thingsthat were quite shocking toI believe both the Norwegians and Tanzanians on our team. Following the pictures below, are some of the questions and answers from our conversation.

(Rebekka 13).

“When girls come home from school they have to help out at home, the boys can do what they want”.
Do you think this is fair?
“No” .
Does this make it…

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A couple of weeks ago, I sat down and wrote my first ever bucket list.

You can find my post here: Autumn Bucket list

The last 2 items on my list are:

39. Document my bucket list with pictures

40. Blog about my progress weekly

This is my second update… what could we have possibly done over the last week?

#1 – Get Emily ready for Halloween.

I am not showing you yet 🙂 but it involves a wig, bow and arrows and an awesome dress!

#4 – Go apple picking.

Around here, it looks like everybody go apple picking at the same place which makes for a very busy outing with too many people… So, we went the other way and found a nice quiet orchard…

La Fleur du pommier

What’s with the hat you ask? Emily wanted to wear it last week when we went pumpkin picking and we convinced her not to. This week, we just couldn’t convince her not to so she wore it…

We picked and bought many apples. Once home, I made a nice apple and blueberry crumble.

#15 – Catch a Wildcats game

Now that Jonathan works during the day (Yeah for no more overnight shifts), we will probably do this more often. We used to be season tickets owners… I suspect we might be again in the future.

#18 – Make puzzles with Jon and Emily.

We started a 1,000 pieces puzzle… not done yet but I suspect that Emily will come and save the day towards the end of it!

#20 – Help with the United Way campaign at work.

I work with amazing colleagues and every chance we have, we help with fundraisers. We can bake as a group to bring goodies to a bake sale or put a “gift basket” into our United Way silent auction. For the 3rd year, we’ve also issued a challenge to other teams at work increasing the amount of gift baskets or items entered in the auction and increasing the money that is raised.

We haven’t revealed our “contribution” to the auction yet… Once we do, I will show you!

We attempted #17 – Go on a fall foliage drive… The colors were not there yet so we will give it another try tomorrow!