Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Christmas time is here...
It's been awhile I know. I don't even know where to begin! I should get my journal and look back on this month! haha. In fact I might just do just that...
Ok...went and got my journal, so let me see if I can get this blog all caught up. The following are all excerpts from my daily journal...
Nov. 16---- "Listened to a Piper sermon about youth and not letting people look down on us 'because of (our) youth'. It was more though about how we are all called to do something that no one else can do because God made us all unique with our own unique gifts. It was a really good sermon and was really good for me because it helped me realize more that I do have some sort of special purpose and calling and gifting in life, I just need to ask God to reveal it to me and then off I can go to serve Him. So that was all good. This afternoon I went and saw the new Bond movie..."
Nov. 17---- "This evening at work I told my boss about my plans to leave in December. I assured him that it had nothing to do with my job. He seemed genuinely sad that I was going..."
Nov. 19---- "There was a big Geo Science forum happening this week and this past evening was the gala dinner. Our hotel was actually overbooked and it was absolute craziness trying to figure out where to put people. At one point in the evening we were scrambling to find rooms for everybody who was coming in..."
Nov. 23---- "I literally got up 15 minutes (or maybe 20) before I left for church. I didn't have time for anything. I quickly chowed down on a cinnamon bun and drank some orange juice. No coffee for me this morning. I actually somehow made it to church just as it was starting. I sat with Maureen. After church I ran over to Extra Foods...I then walked over to Maureen's to sit and talk and have coffee with her. It was really nice."
Nov. 27---- "I have met some awesome Japanese people! One lady is staying in the hotel. Her name is Satoe. I also met another girl, Eye (at least that's how you say it), and two other guys who got a job at the hotel where I work. One is Ryo and the other I can't remember. This afternoon I went for coffee with Satoe, Ryo and the other guy, which was a lot of fun! Tonight we, all four of us, went out on the lake to see if we could see the Northern Lights. No such luck tonight, but we will go again tomorrow....I am going to be so sad when Satoe goes back to Japan on Sunday!"
Dec. 1----"I got to work with Nawsheen, which was quite fun. We always have a good time when we work together. Ooooh...it's payday this Friday! Yipee! More Christmas money. I'll actually get to spend some money on my family this Christmas. It'll be fun. Mom is going to take me shopping when I fly into Moncton. That's the plan anyways. Hopefully it will all work out. I can't wait to see my mommy again. I miss her."
Dec. 3----"I talked to mom on the phone this evening, which was really nice...I think that I'm really starting to grow up and learn patience and tolerance. Work is good for that. I talked to mom about work too, and all the awesome people I've been meeting through work. It's great. Before bed, I sat down and wrote notes in a few Christmas cards for my friends. It was fun. I'm going to miss all my friends here..."
Dec. 5---- "Today our dear Canpages friends checked out and headed back to Calgary. I was actually quite sad to see most of them go. They were all just so much fun and so entertaining. One of the guys got us front desk girls a card saying thanks for making their stay more fun and also he got us chocolates! It was really very sweet of him...I'm definitely going to miss them all. Too bad they had to go so soon..."
Dec. 11---- "This evening I did my dinner thing. I made chicken alfredo. After supper we all opened our gifts from each other. It was pretty fun. I got two gift cards from Kelly and Kotah as my gift. A card from Starbucks and a gift Mastercard. Awesome gifts. Coffee and money...haha! It was very thoughtful. After supper and all that I went with Kelly to Saint Patrick's Church. She and I both met friends and came to see Handel's Messiah. Divya payed for me as my Christmas gift. It was marvelous! Three hours of an amazing choir and professional orchestra (mini orchestra of course...) The soloists were exceptional. They and the choir were wonderful to listen to. Handel's Messiah is an amazing way to present Christ's birth, crusifixion, and resurrection and second coming!"
Dec. 13----"So, yesterday was the Christmas party. I was supposed to work from 6pm-10pm, but good old Fil came through for me and instead I only worked from 6pm-8pm. We all ate and drank and then it was presents time. We all had to go up and sit on Santa's lap and get our present when called. I wouldn't sit on Santa's lap. I was like, 'no way!' ... I got a French manicure from Merle Norman from Rick (a cook). What a nice gift. I'll need to grow my nails now! ... Nawsheen got me a Christmas present. It's a really nice makeup case and she filled it up with a bunch of Avon goodies! It's awesome."
So....that all brings us up to today. I didn't do much...I just listened to a sermon and then went and watched Four Christmasses. It was ok. So now you can all be happy...I just completely updated my blog. haha. I need to get to bed now!!!! It's after 1am!
Ok...went and got my journal, so let me see if I can get this blog all caught up. The following are all excerpts from my daily journal...
Nov. 16---- "Listened to a Piper sermon about youth and not letting people look down on us 'because of (our) youth'. It was more though about how we are all called to do something that no one else can do because God made us all unique with our own unique gifts. It was a really good sermon and was really good for me because it helped me realize more that I do have some sort of special purpose and calling and gifting in life, I just need to ask God to reveal it to me and then off I can go to serve Him. So that was all good. This afternoon I went and saw the new Bond movie..."
Nov. 17---- "This evening at work I told my boss about my plans to leave in December. I assured him that it had nothing to do with my job. He seemed genuinely sad that I was going..."
Nov. 19---- "There was a big Geo Science forum happening this week and this past evening was the gala dinner. Our hotel was actually overbooked and it was absolute craziness trying to figure out where to put people. At one point in the evening we were scrambling to find rooms for everybody who was coming in..."
Nov. 23---- "I literally got up 15 minutes (or maybe 20) before I left for church. I didn't have time for anything. I quickly chowed down on a cinnamon bun and drank some orange juice. No coffee for me this morning. I actually somehow made it to church just as it was starting. I sat with Maureen. After church I ran over to Extra Foods...I then walked over to Maureen's to sit and talk and have coffee with her. It was really nice."
Nov. 27---- "I have met some awesome Japanese people! One lady is staying in the hotel. Her name is Satoe. I also met another girl, Eye (at least that's how you say it), and two other guys who got a job at the hotel where I work. One is Ryo and the other I can't remember. This afternoon I went for coffee with Satoe, Ryo and the other guy, which was a lot of fun! Tonight we, all four of us, went out on the lake to see if we could see the Northern Lights. No such luck tonight, but we will go again tomorrow....I am going to be so sad when Satoe goes back to Japan on Sunday!"
Dec. 1----"I got to work with Nawsheen, which was quite fun. We always have a good time when we work together. Ooooh...it's payday this Friday! Yipee! More Christmas money. I'll actually get to spend some money on my family this Christmas. It'll be fun. Mom is going to take me shopping when I fly into Moncton. That's the plan anyways. Hopefully it will all work out. I can't wait to see my mommy again. I miss her."
Dec. 3----"I talked to mom on the phone this evening, which was really nice...I think that I'm really starting to grow up and learn patience and tolerance. Work is good for that. I talked to mom about work too, and all the awesome people I've been meeting through work. It's great. Before bed, I sat down and wrote notes in a few Christmas cards for my friends. It was fun. I'm going to miss all my friends here..."
Dec. 5---- "Today our dear Canpages friends checked out and headed back to Calgary. I was actually quite sad to see most of them go. They were all just so much fun and so entertaining. One of the guys got us front desk girls a card saying thanks for making their stay more fun and also he got us chocolates! It was really very sweet of him...I'm definitely going to miss them all. Too bad they had to go so soon..."
Dec. 11---- "This evening I did my dinner thing. I made chicken alfredo. After supper we all opened our gifts from each other. It was pretty fun. I got two gift cards from Kelly and Kotah as my gift. A card from Starbucks and a gift Mastercard. Awesome gifts. Coffee and money...haha! It was very thoughtful. After supper and all that I went with Kelly to Saint Patrick's Church. She and I both met friends and came to see Handel's Messiah. Divya payed for me as my Christmas gift. It was marvelous! Three hours of an amazing choir and professional orchestra (mini orchestra of course...) The soloists were exceptional. They and the choir were wonderful to listen to. Handel's Messiah is an amazing way to present Christ's birth, crusifixion, and resurrection and second coming!"
Dec. 13----"So, yesterday was the Christmas party. I was supposed to work from 6pm-10pm, but good old Fil came through for me and instead I only worked from 6pm-8pm. We all ate and drank and then it was presents time. We all had to go up and sit on Santa's lap and get our present when called. I wouldn't sit on Santa's lap. I was like, 'no way!' ... I got a French manicure from Merle Norman from Rick (a cook). What a nice gift. I'll need to grow my nails now! ... Nawsheen got me a Christmas present. It's a really nice makeup case and she filled it up with a bunch of Avon goodies! It's awesome."
So....that all brings us up to today. I didn't do much...I just listened to a sermon and then went and watched Four Christmasses. It was ok. So now you can all be happy...I just completely updated my blog. haha. I need to get to bed now!!!! It's after 1am!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Walking to work in the SNOW
Just thought I should add a couple of shots that I took on the way to work a little while ago. Walking to work in the snow has become the norm for me around here...
I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane....
Yes, it's true. I am leaving Yellowknife. I have decided that Yellowknife is not for me and so I have already booked my plane ticket home. I leave on December the 30th, but I don't arrive in New Brunswick until the 31st, which is just crazy, but hey, it was cheaper that way.
So, obviously a lot has gone on since I last posted, because I havn't posted for quite some time now. My mother and my grandmother have been on my case about this so I think it's high time that I posted another little antidote.
I am going to go back to Thanksgiving, because a really neat thing happened and I never got around to writing about it. Ok, a couple of days before Thanksgiving a friend of my uncle Vince and aunty Anne came to my work to welcome me to Yellowknife. She bought me a bouquet of carnations and while we were talking she found out that I had nowhere to go for Thanksgiving and she invited me out to her place! So I arrived at her place Sunday afternoon and I had a really really great time. She had also invited two really nice Jamaican women and another lady from her work I think. We just chatted and ate and ate and ate. When they drove me home I made a comment about how I enjoyed hanging out with a bunch of old people. They all just split a gut laughing. It was really funny. So the next day, or a couple of days later, I was talking to mom about what I had done for Thanksgiving. She asked whose house I had gone to and I said, oh her name was Maureen. Well mom just about went crazy, she was like MAUREEN!? And she asked me if it was Maureen L and I said yes. She was like, "OH my goodness! I went to her church and her daughter was my maid of honour!" I was on Facebook at the time and Maureen happened to be online so I started talking to her and I asked if she really knew who I was. She said that she didn't, all she really knew was that I was Vince and Anne's neice. So I filled her in on whose daughter I was and she was really excited! I got mom to add her and mom got to find out that her maid of honour now lives overseas and has four kids! When mom had known her, they didn't think that she would be able to have kids!!! So it was just really really awesome!
Anyways, this is all I have time to write for now because I have to go and shovel off the steps before Kelly falls and kills herself on them.
TCHAU for now!
So, obviously a lot has gone on since I last posted, because I havn't posted for quite some time now. My mother and my grandmother have been on my case about this so I think it's high time that I posted another little antidote.
I am going to go back to Thanksgiving, because a really neat thing happened and I never got around to writing about it. Ok, a couple of days before Thanksgiving a friend of my uncle Vince and aunty Anne came to my work to welcome me to Yellowknife. She bought me a bouquet of carnations and while we were talking she found out that I had nowhere to go for Thanksgiving and she invited me out to her place! So I arrived at her place Sunday afternoon and I had a really really great time. She had also invited two really nice Jamaican women and another lady from her work I think. We just chatted and ate and ate and ate. When they drove me home I made a comment about how I enjoyed hanging out with a bunch of old people. They all just split a gut laughing. It was really funny. So the next day, or a couple of days later, I was talking to mom about what I had done for Thanksgiving. She asked whose house I had gone to and I said, oh her name was Maureen. Well mom just about went crazy, she was like MAUREEN!? And she asked me if it was Maureen L and I said yes. She was like, "OH my goodness! I went to her church and her daughter was my maid of honour!" I was on Facebook at the time and Maureen happened to be online so I started talking to her and I asked if she really knew who I was. She said that she didn't, all she really knew was that I was Vince and Anne's neice. So I filled her in on whose daughter I was and she was really excited! I got mom to add her and mom got to find out that her maid of honour now lives overseas and has four kids! When mom had known her, they didn't think that she would be able to have kids!!! So it was just really really awesome!
Anyways, this is all I have time to write for now because I have to go and shovel off the steps before Kelly falls and kills herself on them.
TCHAU for now!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Voting for the first time!
So hooray...
Today I voted for the first time ever! It feels so cool knowing that you have a part in who is going to be helping lead our provinces and country. Now I know that if who I voted for wins the election I had a part in that. Also I can now have a right to be disappointed if who I voted for doesn't make it. As someone in one of the offices said to me when I called for directions to the polls, I'm doing my civic duty. Neato eh?
In case anyone was wondering...I voted for the Conservative party.
:-D
Today I voted for the first time ever! It feels so cool knowing that you have a part in who is going to be helping lead our provinces and country. Now I know that if who I voted for wins the election I had a part in that. Also I can now have a right to be disappointed if who I voted for doesn't make it. As someone in one of the offices said to me when I called for directions to the polls, I'm doing my civic duty. Neato eh?
In case anyone was wondering...I voted for the Conservative party.
:-D
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Growth Spurts
Becoming an adult is one of the most difficult challenges that I have had to face in my life so far. It's even harder than the teen years. Right now I'm at the place in one's life where they are stuck somewhere between teenhood and adulthood. I want so badly to be an adult, but yet I still often act like a teenager and even sometimes like a child. Now, becoming an adult is hard, but becoming a woman of God, now that is the ultimate challenge!
Right now I am stuck between being a teen Christian and becoming an adult Christian. Believe you me, this is not an easy journey. Already in my life I have been faced with many difficult questions, challenges, and life choices. And already I've chosen some pretty dumb stuff and some pretty good stuff too. Is it enough though? Not even close.
Today I watched a message by this guy called Paul Washer. I started the video thinking, well, nothing much really. I was mostly thinking I guess that I was glad for YouTube because I unfortunetly slept in this morning and so was feeling pretty guilty that I was missing church. I'm not too sure that I have yet found my Yellowknife church, but I know that I still need the Christian fellowship. So anyways, I watched this message by Paul Washer and it really got to me. He talked a lot about how Christians these days in North America live so much in and of the world and are ignoring the fact that it's not only a narrow gate that we go through, but there's also a narrow path that we should be following. He talked about how we so often "re-commit" our lives but it only lasts for maybe a week, sometimes a month, and sometimes even less. He also talked about how so many of us live our entire lives professing to be Christians because we prayed a prayer and we even live like our fellow "Christians" but often those people in our youth groups and churches aren't even Christians at all and we are living up to such a low low North American "Christian" standards. He talked about what we really should be basing our Christianity on, and it's not a prayer, it's our fruit and our lives and whether or not we really are walking on the narrow path, and yeah we all screw up, but as Christians when we screw up God is always there to chastize us and get us back on the right path.
What I got out of the message was mostly that I have been straying too often from the narrow way and have been basing my standard of living on too low of standards. I know that change will not be huge right away, but I think that if I really stick to it and if God is really in it, then anything can happen. I want to start putting my standards up to the way people like John Piper and Martin Luther and Paul Washer live/lived their lives. It's definitely not going to be easy, but I believe with all my heart that it will be worth it.
I recommend that everyone watches this message because it really is life changing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8
I would really really appreciate it if everyone would pray for me right now, because I don't want my convictions to last one day, one month, or even just one year. I have a real desire right now to be more like Christ and I want it to stay that way.
If anyone has any recommended reading either from the bible, or some good book, please let me know in a comment. One thing to keep in mind that Paul Washer said before his message (and I really like this) "If what I say in this message is not the truth, then I am the one who is going to face judgement, but if what I say is the truth and you don't listen to it the judgement is yours." something like that...
Anyways it's baby steps from here on to Adulthood and t0 becoming a Woman of God...
Right now I am stuck between being a teen Christian and becoming an adult Christian. Believe you me, this is not an easy journey. Already in my life I have been faced with many difficult questions, challenges, and life choices. And already I've chosen some pretty dumb stuff and some pretty good stuff too. Is it enough though? Not even close.
Today I watched a message by this guy called Paul Washer. I started the video thinking, well, nothing much really. I was mostly thinking I guess that I was glad for YouTube because I unfortunetly slept in this morning and so was feeling pretty guilty that I was missing church. I'm not too sure that I have yet found my Yellowknife church, but I know that I still need the Christian fellowship. So anyways, I watched this message by Paul Washer and it really got to me. He talked a lot about how Christians these days in North America live so much in and of the world and are ignoring the fact that it's not only a narrow gate that we go through, but there's also a narrow path that we should be following. He talked about how we so often "re-commit" our lives but it only lasts for maybe a week, sometimes a month, and sometimes even less. He also talked about how so many of us live our entire lives professing to be Christians because we prayed a prayer and we even live like our fellow "Christians" but often those people in our youth groups and churches aren't even Christians at all and we are living up to such a low low North American "Christian" standards. He talked about what we really should be basing our Christianity on, and it's not a prayer, it's our fruit and our lives and whether or not we really are walking on the narrow path, and yeah we all screw up, but as Christians when we screw up God is always there to chastize us and get us back on the right path.
What I got out of the message was mostly that I have been straying too often from the narrow way and have been basing my standard of living on too low of standards. I know that change will not be huge right away, but I think that if I really stick to it and if God is really in it, then anything can happen. I want to start putting my standards up to the way people like John Piper and Martin Luther and Paul Washer live/lived their lives. It's definitely not going to be easy, but I believe with all my heart that it will be worth it.
I recommend that everyone watches this message because it really is life changing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8
I would really really appreciate it if everyone would pray for me right now, because I don't want my convictions to last one day, one month, or even just one year. I have a real desire right now to be more like Christ and I want it to stay that way.
If anyone has any recommended reading either from the bible, or some good book, please let me know in a comment. One thing to keep in mind that Paul Washer said before his message (and I really like this) "If what I say in this message is not the truth, then I am the one who is going to face judgement, but if what I say is the truth and you don't listen to it the judgement is yours." something like that...
Anyways it's baby steps from here on to Adulthood and t0 becoming a Woman of God...
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Weekend out...
Last night I went out to a club called the Prestige to meet some of my cool and classy non-drinking friends. It was really fun. The club has started putting on "Retro Dance" nights where they play music from the 70's 80's and 90's till about 12am. It's going to happen every second Friday. The guy who teaches the salsa dance classes that I plan on taking is the one who started the retro night. He is friends with the owner of the club. So anyways it was a really fun night. It was really classy, nobody was drunk or going around hitting on people. Besides, Raza (the salsa teacher) and his roomy, Josef, were taking good care of me. At 1am we went to a really high class french restaurant called Le Frolic and we just sat and talked and drank tea. After that we took a cab back to Raza and Josef's house where they had a car they could use and then they drove me home straight away. On the ride home we saw NORTHERN LIGHTS!!!!!! It was AWESOME!!! I was soooooo excited! So that was my weekend so far. Really really awesome. Today I am working from 3pm-10pm so I probably won't end up doing anything tonight. It's really boring here on Saturday because no one is checking in or out. So that is life.
PS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAVIS! Hope that you have a good one tomorrow!
PS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAVIS! Hope that you have a good one tomorrow!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Snow days and Paydays
Ok...I just had to come on here really quick to say that I walked to work in the SNOW today!!! So for all of you who are still experiencing +15, +20 and above weather, I HATE YOU! haha just kidding, but still...you guys are BLESSED! I got my very first paycheck with my new job today. Just another one of the coming of age things is the amount of tax they take off your stinkin' paycheck, it's crazy! Hopefully you get most of it back! Pay day is totally awesome. Can't wait for the next one because it will be a full two week paycheck.
Something else cool, or something, I am going to be starting shifts all by myself next week. Should be interesting for sure. We are training a new person tomorrow and on Monday apparently. It's too funny that I'll be "helping" train a NEW person...hahaha ironic.
Ok I really need to get to bed! It's almost midnight!!! I am going to check and see if I can see any northern lights tonight. It's probably too cloudy though because it's been snowing.
Tchau for now...
Something else cool, or something, I am going to be starting shifts all by myself next week. Should be interesting for sure. We are training a new person tomorrow and on Monday apparently. It's too funny that I'll be "helping" train a NEW person...hahaha ironic.
Ok I really need to get to bed! It's almost midnight!!! I am going to check and see if I can see any northern lights tonight. It's probably too cloudy though because it's been snowing.
Tchau for now...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Salsa! Salsa!
I'll just start with saying that things have been working out pretty good at my job. It's been really busy lately, but I've survived. Pretty soon I will be able to handle things at the front desk on my own, by next week at the latest. I will probably get a lot of crappy shifts to begin with, but such is life. I am just going to make sure that they don't put me on the 6am shift because, if you know me well enough, you know that I HATE mornings! I would seriously have to get up at 4am in order to get to work on time, totally not going to happen. One thing I like about my job is that it is in the mall so I get to interact with people all day, and since I like people, that's really cool for me. I've met some pretty cool people, no real friends yet, but that will come later I'm sure.
Ok, so now to my exciting news...
This past Friday night, Kelly and I went to a "Retro 70's, 80's, and 90's night" at a local club in town called the Prestige. It was kind of a fundraiser thing. Anyways I dressed up a little and that was really fun. We stayed there for quite awhile. Kelly heard about it through some co-workers. Anyways, while enjoying ourselves immensely (at least I was :)) Kelly and I met one of the people in charge of putting the whole thing on, Raza. As it turns out, he teaches Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, and Reggaeton dance. I talked to him a bit and both Kelly and I tried a little salsa dance with him. I've decided to take lessons! I am SO excited. I have always loved dance and have always wanted to take lessons. Kelly in fact is already taking his classes (the first "set"). The co-worker who met her at the retro dance is taking them and his partner decided not to so Kelly took her place. It's really exciting. Raza is hopefully going to help me find a partner to dance with. I am also on the hunt for a dance partner. The next set of classes don't begin until the beginning of November so I still have lots of time. I am also thinking about taking private dance lessons as well. They are much more hands on so you learn a lot faster in a shorter period of time. I might see if Raza can find me a level two partner and I can just take a few private lessons to get to the second level. That might work, but it might also be harder to find someone who is level 2 and in need of a partner. I just really want to start lessons now! I am too excited. If you want to see more about the classes check out Raza's blog: http://salsa-arctica.blogspot.com
I'll let you all know how it all works out.
Well I am off for now. It is past my "bedtime" and I have work tomorrow (of course) so I had better be getting out of here.
Tchau for now...
Ok, so now to my exciting news...
This past Friday night, Kelly and I went to a "Retro 70's, 80's, and 90's night" at a local club in town called the Prestige. It was kind of a fundraiser thing. Anyways I dressed up a little and that was really fun. We stayed there for quite awhile. Kelly heard about it through some co-workers. Anyways, while enjoying ourselves immensely (at least I was :)) Kelly and I met one of the people in charge of putting the whole thing on, Raza. As it turns out, he teaches Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, and Reggaeton dance. I talked to him a bit and both Kelly and I tried a little salsa dance with him. I've decided to take lessons! I am SO excited. I have always loved dance and have always wanted to take lessons. Kelly in fact is already taking his classes (the first "set"). The co-worker who met her at the retro dance is taking them and his partner decided not to so Kelly took her place. It's really exciting. Raza is hopefully going to help me find a partner to dance with. I am also on the hunt for a dance partner. The next set of classes don't begin until the beginning of November so I still have lots of time. I am also thinking about taking private dance lessons as well. They are much more hands on so you learn a lot faster in a shorter period of time. I might see if Raza can find me a level two partner and I can just take a few private lessons to get to the second level. That might work, but it might also be harder to find someone who is level 2 and in need of a partner. I just really want to start lessons now! I am too excited. If you want to see more about the classes check out Raza's blog: http://salsa-arctica.blogspot.com
I'll let you all know how it all works out.
Well I am off for now. It is past my "bedtime" and I have work tomorrow (of course) so I had better be getting out of here.
Tchau for now...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Working Adventures...
I know I havn't written on here in awhile. Mom has been bugging me about it, so here you go.
I had a couple of crazy days at work, but besides that it's been awesome! Earlier this week I went in to get my criminal record check done and surprisingly it's already done! I go in to get it tomorrow afternoon. So that's really good because I can finish up my subbing application this weekend. It's almost done, but I have a few pretty important things to fill in.
Now I have to get to what happened today. It was an awesome day! The day was going at just the right speed...not too fast, not too slow. I was really enjoying my job. Anyways, it was almost the end of my shift and two guys come up to the desk to check in. I was just doing my job, checking them in, when I heard them speaking in what I thought must be French, because we get a lot of French people staying in our hotel. So, I was just checking them in when I happened to here one of them say, "quatro." I was thinking, "I thought that four was quatre?" Finally it hit me! Quatro is PORTUGUESE for four! I waited for them to finish talking and then asked them where they were here from. They told me that they were here from Calgary. Next I asked them where they were originally from and they said, BRAZIL! I was like, "Fala Portuguese?!" and they of course said, "SIM!" (which is Portuguese for yes..hehe). We had a short conversation in Portuguese and then we talked about some other stuff.
We got to talking about how I knew Portuguese, so I told them that I had lived in Angola for a year with my family and that's where I learnt "Portuguese de Portugal". Then I told them that my family (minus me) had moved to Namibia. They asked me which organization my family was with and I told them that when my parents were in Namibia they were with Christ's Hope International. Then, to my surprise and delight, one of the men told me that they were both believers as well!
The two of them are with Samaritan's Purse. One of them gave me their card and I gave them my family's and my blog address. It was just SO cool. I told them that they had just totally made my day!
After work I went to the restaurant to have something to eat. When I was done I headed home. I was almost home when who should I run into but the two Brazilian men! I asked them what they were up to and they told me that they had tried to find Great Slave Lake. They had gone the wrong direction and had ended up at a smaller lake. We had a short chat and I'll see them briefly tomorrow morning before they check out. They told me that I should get in touch with some people from their Brazillian church so that I can keep practicing my Portuguese. I just might do that.
Signing off for now. No one has told me what they want me to write about yet, so I'm just winging it. Let me know what you guys all want to hear about!
I had a couple of crazy days at work, but besides that it's been awesome! Earlier this week I went in to get my criminal record check done and surprisingly it's already done! I go in to get it tomorrow afternoon. So that's really good because I can finish up my subbing application this weekend. It's almost done, but I have a few pretty important things to fill in.
Now I have to get to what happened today. It was an awesome day! The day was going at just the right speed...not too fast, not too slow. I was really enjoying my job. Anyways, it was almost the end of my shift and two guys come up to the desk to check in. I was just doing my job, checking them in, when I heard them speaking in what I thought must be French, because we get a lot of French people staying in our hotel. So, I was just checking them in when I happened to here one of them say, "quatro." I was thinking, "I thought that four was quatre?" Finally it hit me! Quatro is PORTUGUESE for four! I waited for them to finish talking and then asked them where they were here from. They told me that they were here from Calgary. Next I asked them where they were originally from and they said, BRAZIL! I was like, "Fala Portuguese?!" and they of course said, "SIM!" (which is Portuguese for yes..hehe). We had a short conversation in Portuguese and then we talked about some other stuff.
We got to talking about how I knew Portuguese, so I told them that I had lived in Angola for a year with my family and that's where I learnt "Portuguese de Portugal". Then I told them that my family (minus me) had moved to Namibia. They asked me which organization my family was with and I told them that when my parents were in Namibia they were with Christ's Hope International. Then, to my surprise and delight, one of the men told me that they were both believers as well!
The two of them are with Samaritan's Purse. One of them gave me their card and I gave them my family's and my blog address. It was just SO cool. I told them that they had just totally made my day!
After work I went to the restaurant to have something to eat. When I was done I headed home. I was almost home when who should I run into but the two Brazilian men! I asked them what they were up to and they told me that they had tried to find Great Slave Lake. They had gone the wrong direction and had ended up at a smaller lake. We had a short chat and I'll see them briefly tomorrow morning before they check out. They told me that I should get in touch with some people from their Brazillian church so that I can keep practicing my Portuguese. I just might do that.
Signing off for now. No one has told me what they want me to write about yet, so I'm just winging it. Let me know what you guys all want to hear about!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Sunday adventure...
Well, we sure had an adventure this Sunday! Last Sunday while we were walking to the Calvary church we watched a well dressed fellow walk out of the apartment building across the street from where we live. I looked at Kelly and Dakotah and said something like, “he sure is dressed spiffy, he must be going to church.” We all joked about following him to whichever church he was going to. When he drove by he waved at us so I said, “Oh crap! He must have heard us talking about him!” It was really funny.
So, this Sunday, Kelly decided that we should actually follow this guy to whichever church he was going to!!! I was like, “oh man, but he’ll think that we are stalking him!” Regardless, we all agreed that we would try to wait for him at about the same time that we had headed to church the previous Sunday. Kelly checked out churches online and we decided that he had gone to either one of two churches, a non-denominational church called The Church of Christ or a Baptist church called Central Arctic Church. Kelly figured that since he was so well dressed he must have been headed to the Baptist church. We all got ready and sat out in the truck waiting to see when the “spiffy guy” left. We waited for awhile and then decided to just go on our own. On our way down the street we spotted what Dakotah and I recognized as being his truck. We waited a little while more, but when he didn’t show up we left again. We decided to head to the Baptist church. Kelly wanted to go there because the “spiffy guy” had been friendly to us.
We got to church in time for Sunday school. I looked around but didn’t spot the “spiffy guy.” I kind of gave up on him showing up. Part way through the beginning of morning service we were asked to stand up and greet each other. Who do you think was sitting right in front of us? The “spiffy guy” of course! I whispered to Kelly, “I’m pretty sure that’s the spiffy guy!” I hadn’t even noticed him when he came in.
After the service there was soup and buns. Dakotah of course went straight over to the “spiffy guy” and started talking to him and a guy she knew from school. Later when she came over to where I was I asked her if she’d asked the guy if he lived on our street. She said that she hadn’t so later on when she was talking with him and the guy from school I decided to ask him. He of course did! Ha-ha! Well, during one of the conversations Dakotah and I had with him, Dakotah decided to tell him all about our stalking him to church! It was really funny and really embarrassing all at the same time. He seemed to think that it was all pretty funny. His name is David and he lives about an hour from High River, Alberta, the place we nearly ran out of gas on our way up here. Yeah, that’s a story for another day…
I guess that alls well that ends well. Despite the embarrassing way we got there, I think that I will end up attending there. I even have a way of getting there. Kelly talked to the pastor’s wife and she said to call her anytime to get a ride to church. I really like the church. It’s mission minded and the preaching is good. The people that go there are also really friendly and it’s a good mix of ages. I don’t think that they have a college and careers group, but they do have a ladies group that meets on Tuesdays, at least they do this Tuesday. It was really cool because I met this girl from Zimbabwe! She has only been going to the church for two weeks now. I hope that she keeps going! Well this is it for now; Kelly wants to take me out driving, scary eh? Ha-ha! I hope that I drive good and follow the rules of the road!!!
So, this Sunday, Kelly decided that we should actually follow this guy to whichever church he was going to!!! I was like, “oh man, but he’ll think that we are stalking him!” Regardless, we all agreed that we would try to wait for him at about the same time that we had headed to church the previous Sunday. Kelly checked out churches online and we decided that he had gone to either one of two churches, a non-denominational church called The Church of Christ or a Baptist church called Central Arctic Church. Kelly figured that since he was so well dressed he must have been headed to the Baptist church. We all got ready and sat out in the truck waiting to see when the “spiffy guy” left. We waited for awhile and then decided to just go on our own. On our way down the street we spotted what Dakotah and I recognized as being his truck. We waited a little while more, but when he didn’t show up we left again. We decided to head to the Baptist church. Kelly wanted to go there because the “spiffy guy” had been friendly to us.
We got to church in time for Sunday school. I looked around but didn’t spot the “spiffy guy.” I kind of gave up on him showing up. Part way through the beginning of morning service we were asked to stand up and greet each other. Who do you think was sitting right in front of us? The “spiffy guy” of course! I whispered to Kelly, “I’m pretty sure that’s the spiffy guy!” I hadn’t even noticed him when he came in.
After the service there was soup and buns. Dakotah of course went straight over to the “spiffy guy” and started talking to him and a guy she knew from school. Later when she came over to where I was I asked her if she’d asked the guy if he lived on our street. She said that she hadn’t so later on when she was talking with him and the guy from school I decided to ask him. He of course did! Ha-ha! Well, during one of the conversations Dakotah and I had with him, Dakotah decided to tell him all about our stalking him to church! It was really funny and really embarrassing all at the same time. He seemed to think that it was all pretty funny. His name is David and he lives about an hour from High River, Alberta, the place we nearly ran out of gas on our way up here. Yeah, that’s a story for another day…
I guess that alls well that ends well. Despite the embarrassing way we got there, I think that I will end up attending there. I even have a way of getting there. Kelly talked to the pastor’s wife and she said to call her anytime to get a ride to church. I really like the church. It’s mission minded and the preaching is good. The people that go there are also really friendly and it’s a good mix of ages. I don’t think that they have a college and careers group, but they do have a ladies group that meets on Tuesdays, at least they do this Tuesday. It was really cool because I met this girl from Zimbabwe! She has only been going to the church for two weeks now. I hope that she keeps going! Well this is it for now; Kelly wants to take me out driving, scary eh? Ha-ha! I hope that I drive good and follow the rules of the road!!!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Adventures and such
I have tried to post something new for a couple of days now, but the blog hasn't been working...
I'll start with saying that work has been going quite well. I am making a good wage and it's not too stressful a job. For once in my life I am actually tired at night! It's pretty weird. I am usually such a night owl. I don't have to work this weekend, so that's kinda nice. Back to work Monday morning from 9am-5pm. I met a girl at work who is from Mauritius. She is a really nice gal and she's just a little younger than me. Her family moved here directly from Mauritius! It was really a shock for her, the winters. Plus the only thing she knew of Canada was Toronto. She thought that Yellowknife and the rest of Canada was like Toronto. Anyways I really like her and I hope that I get more chances to work with her.
So now for some Yellowknife adventure stories. To start with I should definitely talk about the "mall." So for those of you who havn't heard of the famous Yellowknife mall, it's the DUMP! We went out to the mall for a treasure hunt after a couple of days of being in Yellowknife. It was kinda on a whim. Anyways we got there and it was a dump all right, but we found some great treasures! There was everything there from bikes, to books, to nice shoes (in garbage bags, so they were clean!) and nice dishes! I found post-it notes, notebooks and some really great novels. I even found us a really great little mini Christmas tree, already decorated! HA! So that was a good adventure! It was really funny being there, me with my purse and in flip-flops, digging around at the dump, finding all kinds of little treasures amidst the junk and the hundreds of seagulls! Almost forgot! Dakotah and I had our picture taken by some guy who works for the paper! HAHA! We might end up in the paper! I'll letcha all know if that happens.
One of my Yellowknife misadventures was going to the Extra Foods and finding out that they don't have my favortite coffee here!!!! It's redunculous! They have the right brand and they even have the strong roast in DECAF, but...they don't have the REGULAR strong roast!!! It's SO silly!!! They have EVERYTHING but my favorite coffee in that brand!!! It's SO nutso! So I guess I will have to live with PC regular roast for 10 months.
Besides the right coffee, you can get most things here in Yellowknife. A few things you apparently can't find here though are nice dress shoes, more than a couple clothing stores and decent sized stores. For example, the Walmart here, it's like a quarter of the size of Kamloops' Walmart and about half the size of the Sussex Walmart. And gran thought that Sussex's Walmart was small...haha.
A few of the things I want to do or see while here in Yellowknife are:
I'll start with saying that work has been going quite well. I am making a good wage and it's not too stressful a job. For once in my life I am actually tired at night! It's pretty weird. I am usually such a night owl. I don't have to work this weekend, so that's kinda nice. Back to work Monday morning from 9am-5pm. I met a girl at work who is from Mauritius. She is a really nice gal and she's just a little younger than me. Her family moved here directly from Mauritius! It was really a shock for her, the winters. Plus the only thing she knew of Canada was Toronto. She thought that Yellowknife and the rest of Canada was like Toronto. Anyways I really like her and I hope that I get more chances to work with her.
So now for some Yellowknife adventure stories. To start with I should definitely talk about the "mall." So for those of you who havn't heard of the famous Yellowknife mall, it's the DUMP! We went out to the mall for a treasure hunt after a couple of days of being in Yellowknife. It was kinda on a whim. Anyways we got there and it was a dump all right, but we found some great treasures! There was everything there from bikes, to books, to nice shoes (in garbage bags, so they were clean!) and nice dishes! I found post-it notes, notebooks and some really great novels. I even found us a really great little mini Christmas tree, already decorated! HA! So that was a good adventure! It was really funny being there, me with my purse and in flip-flops, digging around at the dump, finding all kinds of little treasures amidst the junk and the hundreds of seagulls! Almost forgot! Dakotah and I had our picture taken by some guy who works for the paper! HAHA! We might end up in the paper! I'll letcha all know if that happens.
One of my Yellowknife misadventures was going to the Extra Foods and finding out that they don't have my favortite coffee here!!!! It's redunculous! They have the right brand and they even have the strong roast in DECAF, but...they don't have the REGULAR strong roast!!! It's SO silly!!! They have EVERYTHING but my favorite coffee in that brand!!! It's SO nutso! So I guess I will have to live with PC regular roast for 10 months.
Besides the right coffee, you can get most things here in Yellowknife. A few things you apparently can't find here though are nice dress shoes, more than a couple clothing stores and decent sized stores. For example, the Walmart here, it's like a quarter of the size of Kamloops' Walmart and about half the size of the Sussex Walmart. And gran thought that Sussex's Walmart was small...haha.
A few of the things I want to do or see while here in Yellowknife are:
- Dogsledding
- Seeing the northern lights
- Getting into a photography club
- Doing ballroom dancing classes
There are not many things to do here in Yellowknife, especially when you don't know anyone. Hopefully I can find some friends here soon so that I have stuff to do after work and on the weekends. I might try to get a few photography jobs on the side once I get my new camera and after I have been here for awhile. Who knows what might happen with that.
Hey if anyone wants to know anything specific about Yellowknife, leave a comment and let me know. That way I can tell whoever even reads this blog what they want to know about me and/or Yellowknife. Well, this is all I can think of right now...Wednesday, September 10, 2008
First day on the job...
I was hired for the waitressing job, when I went to my interview, but when I showed up for work today they asked me if I wanted another job. They asked me to work at the front desk of their hotel! I get payed $3 more than I would have gotten payed doing waitressing. After 3 months I will even get benefits. The day went quite well. Pretty long for me though since I am not used to the long hours. I worked from 9am until 4pm.
Tomorrow I work again from 9am until 4/5pm. It's going to be interesting. I think that I like my new job pretty well. Oh, so more good news. I found out the other day that I do not need a teaching certificate to do substitute teaching, so I am still going to apply for that eventually. I even told my new manager my plans to do that and that I would be working only part time then, and it's ok!
It's suppertime now and I'm starved! I am pretty tired too! I think that I will probably end up going to bed on time tonight. So that's it for now. I guess that I will have to chronicle some of my Yellowknife adventures later.
Tomorrow I work again from 9am until 4/5pm. It's going to be interesting. I think that I like my new job pretty well. Oh, so more good news. I found out the other day that I do not need a teaching certificate to do substitute teaching, so I am still going to apply for that eventually. I even told my new manager my plans to do that and that I would be working only part time then, and it's ok!
It's suppertime now and I'm starved! I am pretty tired too! I think that I will probably end up going to bed on time tonight. So that's it for now. I guess that I will have to chronicle some of my Yellowknife adventures later.
Monday, September 8, 2008
So it begins...
I must be brief tonight as I have a job interview in the morning. This afternoon I applied for two waitressing jobs and about ten minutes after I got home I got a phone call asking me to come in for an interview tomorrow morning. I thought that was pretty cool. I'll let you all know how the interview goes. Maybe I'll get hired on the spot? Who knows! There are apparently quite a lot of jobs here up north. I think that I could get almost any job that I could think of.
I didn't really start with my beginning, which would be, why I am up north. So, the reason I decided to move WAY up north, a lady from BC asked me to. She came up here to fill a temporary job position and needed me to come because she has a daughter who is not yet old enough to stay home alone when her mom goes on overnight business trips. So here I am, way up in northern Canada, for 10 whole months. While here I'll get a job, work, and at the end of 10 months leave. It should be interesting.
I am going to try my best to keep everyone posted on all my northern adventures. I'll hopefully fill you all in on a few of those adventures tomorrow. For now I'm hittin' the hay so that I have a good and awake interview tomorrow!
Tchau for now...
I didn't really start with my beginning, which would be, why I am up north. So, the reason I decided to move WAY up north, a lady from BC asked me to. She came up here to fill a temporary job position and needed me to come because she has a daughter who is not yet old enough to stay home alone when her mom goes on overnight business trips. So here I am, way up in northern Canada, for 10 whole months. While here I'll get a job, work, and at the end of 10 months leave. It should be interesting.
I am going to try my best to keep everyone posted on all my northern adventures. I'll hopefully fill you all in on a few of those adventures tomorrow. For now I'm hittin' the hay so that I have a good and awake interview tomorrow!
Tchau for now...
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