My last day at the farm and my first Hockey game

After my 4.25 hour shift at the gift store this morning, I quickly walked to the Bay Centre in order to find something to eat for lunch There were several fast food stores and in the end, I decided on a greek pita with lamb. It was actually quite good but as I wasn't really feeling full afterwards, so I still had a chocolate chip cookie. Next, I walked to the bakery to buy my usual bread. This time, the salesperson reconized me and asked me directly if I wanted the 'rye with wheat', which I did.

My last shift at the Beacon Hill Children's Farm was supposed to start today at 2:45 PM. However, it was raining a little bit on my way to the farm. Consequently, I wasn't really looking forward to working outside with the animals. Once again I got lucky and the rain stopped just before I arrived at the farm.
My first task today was to clean the water bowls of the ducks and the chickens and to bring them their food. After I was done with that, I could spend the rest of my shift with the goats. As a volunteer, I was supposed to clean up the goat poop while being in the petting area. Since there were also two other people, another volunteer and a staff member, working in the petting area, I mostly just enjoyed my last time with the goats by petting them, letting them climb all over me and letting them try to pretty much eat all of my clothes. There was a little goat which actually managed to jump on the fence and then out of the petting area a few times. This really surprised me as it was my first time seeing a goat 'escape' and I hadn't expected the goats to be able to jump that high. Like so many times before, my last shift ended with the goat stampede. After that I quickly went home.

Katrina had managed to get two cheap tickets for tonights hockey game, the 'Victoria Royals' vs 'Kamloops Blazers'. Going to a hockey game had been a must do on my list of things I wanted to do in Canada, so I was really looking forward to going to this game. After taking a quick shower and eating some dinner at home, we went to the 'Save on Foods Memorial Centre', which the game would take place. There was some kind of beginning ceremony, where the players were introduced. Furthermore, the whole stadium was singing the national anthem 'Oh Canada' again. I felt like I really should try and learn the lyrics to that song as it seemed to be sung around here quite often.
Then the game started and it was really exciting. It was a really fast and violent game, which actually made it very fun to watch. After only about 5 minutes, one of the players of the Royals got hurt by another player, which tempted a few players to fight each other. Katrina told me that this was what usually happened in those situations.
There were two intermissions and we used the first one to get some popcorn. Even though I (like pretty much everyone in the stadium) was rooting for our local team, the Royals, they lost with 2 : 5. Just 3 seconds before the game ended, the players started fighting each other and it seemed to turn into a big brawl. It didn't change anything about the final result, though.