The Workplace

I love my work.

I really do.

My coworkers are all really awesome. My "boss", Melinda is wonderfully nice. There's the hilarious IT guy, Scott, who's always walking around fixing things, he's great to talk to.

There's the Texan, Sean, who likes a huge variety of tea and who needs assistance with learning about World of Warcraft, of which Scott and I have plenty to talk about.

There's Andrea, the Mail Services Coordinator, who has a double-major in Sociology and used to be the Marketing Director for McDonald's for Western Canada. She has a lot of things to talk about!

I get a lot of free time. Okay, I guess I'm lazy. I spend a lot of time at work surfing the internet, or BLOGGING, like I am right now.

I'm also lazy at home. I have a lot of really cool pictures on my camera that would go well here on this blog, but I've just been too lazy to upload them and transfer them on here... I will though! There's a lot of neat stuff to see in Vancouver.

I will update more often, I've been slacking this week especially because it's really busy!

One night, we went to the Greenpeace office for a presentation on how our oceans are going to die because of overfishing.

The next, we had a meeting at a local coffee shop with Katimavik alumni, about our Community Involvement Project, which is going to be an "enviro-concert" centered on Sustainability.

The next night, it was a lecture at UBC about the "missing conversation" between Aboriginals and the rest of Canada. Very informative!

Tonight, we have a "semi-formal" potluck dinner with the two other katimagroups in our cluster, New Westminster and Burnaby. 

Saturday we're doing an all-day volunteer blitz for an artshow of sorts, on Kingsway.

So you see, plenty of things to keep me busy.

That is all.

Oh, and I didn't get accepted to UofT... :( 2024 edit: Ah, if only I had known what was to come... Switching to Innis might have been a mistake.

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Haircut.

So I have a lot of things to blog about, really, a lot of things, but I think what most people have been demanding are a before and after picture of the haircut...

I guess it is a pretty major thing, as I haven't cut my hair in a really, really, really long time.

Here goes:

The before...

And the after.

Oh, and the blue suit was on sale for ONE DOLLAR AT LIQUIDATION WORLD. :D

Real blogging to come very soon (with pictures! my new camera rules),

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How could this happen to me?

I've made my mistakesssss, got nowhere to run, the night goes on as I'm fading away, I'm sick of this life, I just want to screaaaaam, how could this happen to meeeeeeee.

So that was fun, cruising down Vancouver blasting this song through the windows to passersby while ridin' the Katimavan..

Today was an alright Katimaday.

Went to go see a movie on homelessness in BC.

I love my job! I'm in the process of building their facebook page, I'll be doing some web design soon, and the blogging on their website continues! www.tbvets.org/blog wooohoo!

So I finally ordered a new camera, it'll be coming in soon so that I can take sweet pictures of the best and worst that Vancouver has to offer - and who knows, maybe videoblogs (or a return of my not-so-infamous audiologs).

We'll see!

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Vancouver, Junos, and my travel hat

So here I am.

IN VANCOUVER.

I actually have a pretty sweet city view from behind this computer screen, all the lights and the police sirens and the lack of stars and condensed houses make me feel at home again! The most I've felt at home since I've left for Katimavik.

I live in a West Indian neighbourhood, there's a Sikh temple just around the corner that offers free suppers every day for anyone!

The entire neighbourhood smells like CURRY sometimes, SWEET!

My work placement?
My 1st choice this time, TB Vets!
http://www.tbvets.org/

I'm hoping to be doing some of their blogging work, video camera, computer, website design etc. there among all the other jobs that are there!

To get to work, I have to take a bus and take the SKYTRAIN, yay! I love public transit! Plus they give me a free pass, and it's unlimited, so I can use it out of work hours to go anywhere I want!

Tomorrow, I'll be with my Katimavik cluster attending the Junos! We're seat fillers, so we might sit next to famous people or something! Not allowed to ask for autographs though.

But it's gonna be a blast!

You might see me on TV.

Hi mom!

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Goodbye to Ste-Marie

So this will be the final blog I will ever write while in Ste-Marie.

I`ve finished packing everything, as we leave tomorrow for l'île d'Orléans, an island close to Québec City, for rotation camp, which means that I will be with two other groups (the ones who form our cluster of Ste-Marie, Québec, Lévis).

We shall do debriefing activities and mentally prepare ourselves for our last rotation.

In retrospect, I don`t think that my rotation in Ste-Marie was nearly as cool as the one in Strathroy.

Billeting sucked here.
My work placements were pretty horrible here.
I actually miss working at Search in Strathroy, the people were great, and I learned a lot more than I did here.

I`m pretty sure I`ll have a better time in Vancouver.

You know what tastes good, Kraft Dinner with the cheese and everything, WITH pesto sauce WITH hot sauce. Delicious!

Bars of Quebec

So lately I`ve been into going to bars (well, the one good one in Ste-Marie, Freddy`s) all alone, without friends, without Katimavik buddies.

When people find out (especially my Katimafriends), they think it is somewhat loser-ish behaviour.

Truth it, that`s one thing I really don`t care what they think about!

I go to the bar to escape from them, not to go hang out with them!

So yeah, they go to bars when it`s really really noisy and you can`t talk to anyone, just dance and stuff.

I like going to bars to relax and just have a nice drink, not necessarily get drunk, but that`s definitely a possibility now.

So last Wednesday I went to Freddy`s, and I met the nicest bartender I`ve ever met!

Her name is Sonya, and we talked for hours and hours about anything and everything!
She told me about her trips to Vancouver, Ireland and Egypt.
I told her alllll about the Katimalife and why I was there that night.

So I practically didn`t have to pay for anything, she paid for most of my drinks (cool bartenders are cool like that).

And then a guy, who was probably just done his shift joined in on the long conversation, and we all got along really well. And he bought me a beer (yes, I know it sounds weird, maybe, but it was all in friendship), and we all continued talking about life.

Where else would you meet such cool people?

I`m really really sad that I`ll never get to see them again, especially Sonya.

I`m gone for Vancouver this Wednesday.

I bought a camera, then returned it for a refund.

So a new camera is in order.

That is all.

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