And so it begins.

As of late, I've been undergoing quite a few changes.
For one, I left my home of nearly 8 years to move back to my City of Origins. Or something.

Anyways, I'm not going to delve very deeply into my past, as I don't like encouraging stalkers (you know who you are). But, I'd like to start out with a few of the Top 10 Most Amazing Things I Did While Living in Mexico:

10) Well, I think I'd have to start out with the 10 day road trip that my family took in the summer of 2010. It was one of the most spectacular (and aggravating and invigorating and sometimes even a little bit scary) things I have ever had the honour of doing with my family.

9) Working at Casa Hogar, the children's shelter in the town that I lived in. Those kids taught me SO many things, but among them were humility and the ability to love unconditionally, no matter where you're from or what's happened in your past. There's always room for Hope.

8) 12 hour explore day around Puerto Vallarta. It was done just a couple of weeks before I left, and it was a great way to say goodbye to the city that I fell in love with.

7) Horseback riding on the beach. My sister and I used to ride for hours and hours on the beach, which is now illegal, and has been for a while in other places.

6) Going on crazy awesome missions trips with my Church. I went up into the high-up regions of Mexico, and in some places my brother and I were the first white people they'd ever seen before. As a result, we were then "honoured" by being force fed some of the most disgusting things I'd ever heard of (fermented sheep intestines bathed in coagulated blood, anyone?)

5) Dolphin training. My sister, a couple friends and I had the IMMENSE privilege of being able to get to know some of the coolest animals on Earth. We got to learn how to feed them, clean their tanks, train them, and in my case, be head-butted by them.

4) Working in the legendary Roger Corman's awesome movies. I have appeared in 2 of his movies (which I will decline to name) and they were so much fun.

3) Playing with baby Bengal tigers and black panthers in the Puerto Vallarta Zoo.
Whatever happens in Mexico stays in Mexico, right? Good. Because I'm pretty sure that it's illegal.

2) Learning how to spay and neuter dogs and cats in PEACE's free animal clinics (you know what? You should actually go check them out right now here.) The vets there are so compassionate towards the animals, and it really helped me to see how just a small surgery can save an animal's life.
(On another, very similar note, my family has fostered over 50 dogs in the 5 years that I have been working with PEACE. And man, what an amazing feeling it is to see the dogs get cleaned up, fixed, and send to great and loving homes.)

And last but not least, the #1 thing I did in Mexico was to Grow Up.
I mean, come on. I had the opportunity to grow up in a foreign land! With another culture, another language, and the warm sun almost all year round.
Yes, there were some cloudy days (literally and metaphorically) but when all is said and done, I can not imagine the person that I would be today had it not been for the decision that my parents made to move us all down to Mexico.

Just recently I was reminiscing with my grandparents about that kind of stuff.
All of the things that I've done (you don't even know the half of it) and all of the advantages I have had with the upbringing that my parents gave me.
I mean, I have a lot to thank them for: they never beat us; they never failed to provide for us; they have ALWAYS been behind us 100%; they have been our biggest fans since day one... the list literally goes on and on.
But if I had to thank them for ONE THING, and one thing only, I would thank them for taking us on such an amazing adventure.
And on said adventure, not ONCE did they ever let us down or put us in harm's way.
Not many people nowadays are able to say that.

But I have digressed. I know I said that I wasn't going to get into my past, but here we are. Right down Memory Lane.
Moving on.

On February 3, 2011, I, Kenzie F., finished packing up all of my belongings and moved back to Canada. Technically though, I didn't actually arrive into Edmonton until Friday, February 4th, 2011.
Yesterday marked my Official One Week Anniversary, and in this week I have gotten a TON accomplished.
As an adult living on my own for the first time, there was a lot I needed to do.
I needed my social insurance number, my health care number, BOOTS (because it's SO freaking cold here right now) and a whole bunch of other winter items (because, let's be honest here, Mexico really doesn't have a "winter").
And in this week, not only have I gotten ALL of those thing (guess what I bought first), I have gone to Info Week at my college, gotten a job, visited my great grandfather FOUR times (SO awesome, btw), met a whole bunch of awesome people, gone to a movie with some cool family members, and babysat my 2 baby cousins for the past 3 days.
It's been a pretty jam-packed week.

And this coming week looks to be just about as busy as the last.
But man, am I looking forward to this.

I plan on doing a weekly post here, if not more often.
I had wanted to do a weekly vlog instead (beeeeecause I'm lazy) but I brought the wrong cord for my camera.
I'm working on it, ok?!

Don't Panic.