Vancouver

What a whirlwind of a month!

I am still living in the Samesun Hostel on Granville Street and haven’t made any move to get a place of my own, I am enjoying staying in there, meeting loads of new people from all over the world, (well mainly Australia).

Vancouver got it’s first big snowfall on December 1st and I went up Grouse Mountain for the day with one of the guy’s from the hostel, it was so much fun, it snowed all day, we ice skated on the frozen pond (I dint know it, but I can ice skate)! Santa and Mrs. Claws were there in Santa’s Workshop (no, I didn’t go and visit them, I just took their photo)! There were also two very cute reindeer! We saw carol singers in the lodge and there was an open wood fire beside the ice skating rink! All very Christmassy.

After a couple of short term temporary jobs, one was in a construction firm and one in a layers office, I’ve now got a full-time job till the end of March! I’m working at the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV), the office is on West Broadway and looks over False Creek to Downtown Vancouver, and the view is amazing.

I have been in the job for almost two weeks now and I’m getting to know all the people, this was helped on Friday night by the Office Christmas Party! It was a fun night, with music bingo, party games and dancing, and I won a huge canister of Starbucks coffee in the raffle! I joined a few of the staff who went downtown after the party to pubs and clubs and had a great time.

Vancouver is the only place in Canada that they have Ceroc classes (the dancing I do in Inverness) so I went to a class at the Billy Bishop Hall in Kitsilano, it was great to get back into dancing, but it just wasn’t the same as in Inverness.

My Aunt came into town for a couple of days, we had a great time catching up! We viewed the condos she bought, they are gorgeous! She hopefully takes possession of them early next year, maybe just in time for me to stay in one till I have to go home! We went to a party thrown by her realtor Jacky, at The Sandbar on Granville Island, it’s a seafood restaurant, which was great fun and interesting, as I don’t normally like seafood, but I tried a lot (still avoided the raw fish..) We were supposed to go and see “Moving Out” a show with music by Billy Joel, but the cast trucks got snowed into Edmonton so it was cancelled…

I went to a Vancouver Giants v. Kamloops Blazers hockey game, with a girl from the hostel, it was a great night, and we had beer, hotdogs and bought a Giants foam finder! The Giants won 7-1, it was such a wild game, players being slammed into the side of the skate rink and fights breaking out all the time.

That’s all for now, will keep you posted!