Lately

A whole lot of nothing has been going on for me for the past little while. Don't get me wrong, I haven't been sitting around doing nothing, it just feels like I havent accomplished anything.

My summer semester has started now, and my one class for the summer, my one lousy lab is a total flop. I hate it. It doesnt help that the only person I know is in the other section (aka the room next door) and I got stuck with a bunch of people who dont know anything and just look at my paper to answer their questions. I tried explaining it to them, and eventually I just handed mine in and left them to finish on their own.

I've been working as well. It seems I am not always a woman of my word. It's not that I never keep my word or that I cant keep a secret, I just seem to state that I will "never" do something, and then I end up doing it. For example, my job. I used to say I would never work at McDonald's...and here I am...having worked there for about 2 and a half years!! When you measure a job at McDonalds in years instead of months, you know there is something wrong. And now they have offered me a position as a shift manager, another thing I said I would never do, and I am actually considering it! It does after all look good on a resume, but I was going to quit at the end of the summer, and by the time I get the promotion (since I have to be promoted twice to get there, and part of the second promotion is going for a panel interview with a bunch of head honchos...:S) it will be August.We'll see how it all goes. It's a nice pay raise at least. But now I've been thinking about taking the fall off school and working as a manager and making tons of cash and then going back to school. I dont know...so confused.


Thats about all thats been going down lately...not much.

Oh ya, my poor puppy...my 8-year-old lab-x...had to have surgery to scrape some dead tissue off her eye and now her eye has to be stitched closed for 2 weeks so it can heal and she has to wear one of those cones on her head so she wont scratch it. She looks so miserable, but it is also kind of funny because she goes bumping into everything.

And that's the kind of weeks it's been post-Terrace vacation :P

Boersma

Good Ol' Terrace BC

So I just got home from a relaxing week up in Terrace BC. Here's just a brief little run-down...or play-by-play in good old hockey fashion...of my trip

day 1: - took a freakishly early flight to Terrace and was uber tired all day...but so was my sis so we made a good team.
- watched the Canucks tragically lose game 6
- went to their library to take out movies...ya movies!! and not just movies about books. I picked out "cars" it was awesome
- my sis' friend came over after the game and we had some yummy alcohol and tried to play phase 10 (the card game) by my rules which were made up on the spot since i forgot the instructions at home...and I still managed to lose...and then we got sick of it and played some wizard instead

sleep....

day 2: - church...where my sister's old Bible teacher from FVC is now her pastor...weird.
- BP for lunch ....hottest waitor EVER not gonna lie. awesome
- went to the school so my sis could work and I could use internet. watched some lost and gray's anatomy on a tape since my sis has no cable...oh ya and survivor
- had dinner
- went to my sis's friend's house to watch Amazing Race (YAY!!) and the Aprentice...

sleep...

day 3: - decided to stay home and sleep in while my sis went to work...bad idea...so boring
- watched cars and did dishes and pretty much did nothing all day
- watched game 7 vs. Dallas which was spectacular...and very amusing since my sister fell asleep cus she was so tired but i was actually talking to her while she was sleeping and she just seemed out of it. She doesnt remember the game...it was so weird...and funny at the same time

day 4: - went to school with Cath and hung out in her classes all day marking things and creaping out the students

day 5: - pretty much the same as day 4 plus...
- when I booked the ticket to Terrace it was a bit of a "surprise" type thing for my sister, but it turned out she had a teacher's conference in Prince George to go to...but she asked the principle if I could come and he said it was fine...so this day includes a roda trip to Prince George
- we got to Prince George a little late-ish and were very tired so we went to bed right away at Esther's Inn
- the road trip included many deer sightings and even a bear...ooooh

day 6: - teacher's conference - wow they're boring. I thought if I didnt like it I could just take a walk and go check out the sights of Prince George...but the school it was held at is way out in the middle of nowhere...so I got to tag along to seminars
- keynote speaker....something about literacy in lower grades?...primary show and share (aka a bunch of people talking about what they do in the classroom...whaaa?)....lunch YAY...seminar on teaching about sexuality...good times
- went "shopping" at a Prince George "mall"
- ate some Vietnamese food
- Watched survivor in the Esthers Inn pub
- sat in the hot tub ...(avoided young couple who seem to have mistaken the hot tub for a bed in a private room...oops)

day 7: - more conference - went to a seminar for coaching volleyball...even though I know I will never ever coach volleyball since I dont like those sports with the net in the middle..I just thought it would be good to do somthing physical
- so I suck at volleyball and I was playing with all these coaches when I go to mak a hit (which was terrible by the way) and I land from a jump and there goes my left foot...so I sprained my ankle and got to sit out with icce on it for a while.
- it felt ok so I just shot some hoops with a volleyball...but then the 6 hour bus trip back to Terrace did a number on me and I could barely even walk when we got back to Terrace
- rested my foot as much a possible
- watched hockey

day 8: - flew home...worst (or best depending on your stomach) turbulance ever it was incredible...the flight was actually mildly exciting
- landed back in Vancouver 30 minutes early

And that pretty much covers it. Many little details left out but this would be way too long if I had to include everything. So that's it...I'm back home now...nursing my foot.

I decided that if I ever become a teacher I will need to come up with some good excuses to get out of conferences 'cause they are boooorring!

Boersma

GO CANUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- road trip back home