Wow, over a month since I last updated. I'm so terrible. I keep MEANING to but thinking that I should have something worthwhile to post first. I don't know. I don't even know how many other people READ this thing, but that's not important anyway. This is my record of my year abroad, so therefore I should keep it up-to-date to jog my memory in ( Read more... )

So, I have a job!! Just answering phones and taking messages for a furniture store, pretty basic, but it has a lot of downtime and the pay's not bad for essentially doing Sweet Fanny Adams. The guy I answer too directly is pretty chill, so that's good too, though the boss is apparently a bit ADD and...yeah, I'll deal. I'm pretty good with ( Read more... )

Just got back from spending the day in Mission (about an hour's drive) with Janna's family for Father's Day here, which was nice. They have a super huge house, it's really nice! They were super nice too. Went to see The Proposal - definitely very chick-flick but still pretty funny, I enjoyed it.

So we now have four people living in this two- ( Read more... )

My sleeping patterns are reverting to normal, ie chronic unpredictable insomnia. I literally didn't sleep at ALL last night, but I'm not too wiped today. Tomorrow I probably will be. Oh well, I'll be in the perfect mood for tightening up my resume and doing mundane stuff like that. Maybe clean the floor, I've been cooking and there are bits of ( Read more... )

Sooo Main Street was blocked off for Car Free Day, and we've been wandering around looking at the stalls and stuff. It's been really fun! Heaps of awesome local bands playing. Tonight at 6:45 this super groovy band called Hey Ocean! is playing and it's FREE. Pretty stoked about that. We just got back from watching this blues-rockabilly duo who ( Read more... )

So, been in Vancouver for half a week or whatever now. Still trying to wrap my head around the fact that I'm here for a whole year and not just on holiday. The weather's been lovely, though it's overcast today, and thus far I'm having a great time. We've been to see a plethora of local bands play - there's a music festival called Music Waste on ( Read more... )