Life on higher terrain

We have snow! Not a lot, mind you...but enough to turn Vancouver drivers into idiots and to slow everyone down to 10 km/hr. And there isn't snow everywhere either which is odd. As the temperature is still hovering near the freezing point, altitude starts making a difference in whether the snow will stick or not. Apparently I live on "high terrain" as the snow in our front yard has been there for about a week now. It was especially funny to read on the Environment Canada website: Heavy snowfall warning of 4-8 cm expected. Wusses...Anyway, today is already around 5-6 degrees and the snow seems to be slowly disappearing. Looking forward to going home where we define "cold" more appropriately. You have to laugh when people are complaining about how "cold" it is, when the temperature is 5 degrees and I'm still wearing my fleece jacket.

Okay, so last week was our last week of classes, which last year didn't mean a whole lot in terms of workload reduction. But, this year (thankfully) it does. I finished off my last Business Ethics paper on Monday and handed in a big Ergonomics paper on Wednesday. Not much left to do between now and Christmas. Just working with my group on our hazard assessment at Canfor and studying for my Business Ethics exam.

This week my friend Jenny from Winnipeg is in Vancouver. She has stopped here for a week for her training before she heads off to Kobe, Japan to teach English. Unlike Amy and Randy who went with JET, Jenny has signed up with Geos. Essentially they are the same, but I think Geos has more flexible contracts and you have the opportunity to become a travelling substitute after 6 months. A very attactive (see everything) option. I hope Jenny has as much fun as Amy and Randy did. While she is here, I'm sure there will be lots of fun evenings. Especially as she avoids her comic book-reading fellow Geos-ers...not that there is anything wrong with that...

Nothing else to say really. Dad and Kevin are swishing down the slopes with Uncle Wayne in California. As I sit at my computer staring at my Excel spreadsheets and surrounded by gloomy Vancouver weather, I'm trying not to be jealous.

A shout out to Leah! As she heads back to the East coast to spend Christmas with her family and friends, I wish her a safe flight. And she knows, that if she gets lonely when she gets back...she can always come over. (I like her cuffs.)