Sunday, 23 December 2012

White lead up to Christmas

Right, so it has been a while since I've written anything on here but very little has happened. Pam and her family have been fantastic to me and I don't know what I would have done without them. I have been staying here for about 4 weeks now or something!

Its a really nice spot out in the countryside so I have been doing a bit of running. I found a track that runs along beside a river that goes on forever and is part of a Trans-Canada trail or something. Could take a while to get to the other end. Pam has also been very generous and let me drive her truck around which has been great. I really miss driving and can't wait to get a car. I have successfully opened a bank account and obtained a social insurance number.

I have also secured a job with Klohn Crippen Berger which I start on the 3rd. I sent a bunch of emails to a bunch of places and heard back from KCB the next day. I went in for an interview and spent quite a while with them and at the end of the interview I basically got offered a job on the spot. I move into an apartment in Vancouver on the 28th of December. It is a furnished 1 bedroom place for 6 months at $1100 a month (including expenses) to start with so that I can save some money for furniture, car ect.

As much as I prefer real people over children they seem to attract a lot of Christmas spirit which is cool. It has been years since I have seen so many presents under a Christmas tree! Last night we had a pre-Christmas dinner with Pams niece, her partner and her two kids last night and there was a sneaky pre-Christmas present opening.

Other assorted information: I have been introduced to a drink called "a ceasar" which is basically a bloody mary but has some crazy clam juice stuff in it as well as tabasco, wircestershire sauce, pickled asparagus, pickled beans, olives etc. Pretty yum. It has been snowing a bit here which is cool. In between the snow days it mostly melts though so I don't know if we will get a white Christmas.

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