Life is great!

I have been back in Vancouver for 3 weeks now after my little road trip to Naramata-Calgary-Edmonton for Christmas and the time is flying by.

My job is going well and I am being kept busy organizing board events, dinners and travel arrangements, but we do get time to go for lunches and relax a bit! I am still enjoying life at the Samesun Hostel, it is very busy at the moment, lots of people coming through on their way to the various ski hills around BC and Alberta.

I have started a Photography course with Vancouver Photo Workshops, it is a 10 week course on every Wednesday for 3 hours, We are on our second week now and already we have been out on a field trip, we went to Granville Island to do some night photography, which was great fun, but very cold.

I went up Grouse Mountain with a group of friends from the hostel, I think there was about 15 of us in all! We were very luck with the weather (it rains a lot in Vancouver… ) it was a gorgeous sunny winter’s day with completely blue skies, I skied along with a couple of others, but most of the group boarded, we were up there from 11 am till about 7 pm, they have night skiing with flood lit runs so you can ski till 10 pm if you want! It was an amazing day and I plan to go up a lot more over the next couple of months, I am going to take boarding lessons, which means I will spend a lot of time on my butt.

I went to a Vancouver Canucks hockey game, they were playing the LA Kings and unfortunately lost…for the third time that week…! I also went to another Vancouver Giants game, they were playing the Seattle Thunderbirds and they won, again! The Vancouver Canucks play in the NHL (National Hockey League), which is the top league, and the Vancouver Giants play in the WHL (Western Hockey League) the lower league. I found the Giants game to be more entertaining than the Canucks, way more fights and it is in a smaller stadium so you are way closer to the action, everyone was so intense and serious at the Canucks game.