No Rain, No Flowers

I have been hearing a lot about minimalism lately and even if it is probably just a coincidence, it still really calls me. The only problem I really have with this lifestyle is that since I still live with my parents I don't really control the amount of things we bring and keep into our home. One of the only ways that could help me be more of a minimalist was project 333. I heard about it on The minimalists' podcast although Courtney Carver from Be more with less is the one who started it. Project 333 is a challenge where you have to dress with 33 items of clothing or less for a period of 3 months. The 33 items include clothing, shoes, accessories, bags and outerwear but it doesn't include your, athletic clothes, swimwear, pyjamas and lounge clothes unless you also wear them out of your house. On the 12th of October, I started doing project 333: I put all my clothes on the floor and started decluttering. I separated my stuff into three piles: Hate, like and love.

1-Plan, Spain  Two years ago I had the chance to go to Spain as an exchange student for 5 months and during my stay there I went to the town of Plan twice. My host family had relatives there and we went to visit them. The thing I loved the most about Plan is that it still felt and looked like what I thought of mountain villages: It had really small and rustic houses with tons of flowers outside. There was also a shepherd with his dog and his flock of sheep grazing in the mountains. 2- Crater lake, USA           Less than 8 thousand years ago, in the south of Oregon, Mount Mazama erupted, leaving behind a gigantic crater. Over the years, this crater has filled up with rain and snow and it is now the deepest lake in the united states and one of the clearest and bluest lakes in the world. I visited the lake during the California forest fires so there was an awful lot of smoke which made it harder for us to see how impressive the crater was: we could barely

I currently work at Camp Papillon in St-Alphonse-Rodriguez. Camp Papillon is a summer camp for children and adults who live with different disabilities, it is one of the most inclusive camps in the province of Québec. This camp has a very special place in my heart since my paternal grandfather used to be a camper, my parents got married there. My brother and I have also been campers. When people ask me why I work in a place that is an hour and a half away from my house I try to explain how fulfilling it is: when you see a camper having the time of his/her life it makes it all worth it. I remember the time campers got to go water skiing. A nonprofit organization came to the camp with some adapted "chairs" so that all the campers (even the ones who are in a wheelchair) could try it. Just seeing the smile on the campers face when they came back from the activity was worth a million bucks. It is pretty hard sometimes; we start working at 7 in the morning and we often don'