Victoria Arrival

After two quick flights yesterday afternoon, I am now in Victoria. I arrived at about 5:30 last night, got picked up by my friend Myana, and then headed to her house in Brentwood Bay. We had a delicious meal at the Prairie inn and today I will head in to town to stay with another friend for the week. I'm so looking forward to visiting all my favourite places, but I might need to buy an umbrella first. It has been raining and slushy snowing since I arrived. Apparently I brought the lovely weather with me.

Where did February go?

So, when did it become March? You really can't tell up here, where it has been snowing steadily and the temperatures continue to be -10 or colder. February wasn't the greatest month, but at least it went by quickly.

I have been loving my new job but I've been really sick since last weekend and missing school as a teacher is a lot more work than missing school as a student. Not only do you have to catch up the students, you have to plan for another teacher to be there instead of you anyways!

I also have been having lots of misfortunate adventures, such as getting a flat tire as I sped to the gas station yesterday afternoon in an attempt to not run out of gas. I was so busy worrying about the gas being way below empty I didn't even notice the "thud, thud, thud" of the deflated tire. I had to beg the Safeway gas attendant to let me use their phone, but Mike was undercover so no one could get a hold of him for me. Luckily one of my friends was on the watch that was working so she came and rescued me in the police cruiser and took me home. I also ran over the cord for the block heater one day so I can't plug it in anymore. I figured it would be okay because you don't usually need to plug in once it's March, but the car barely started the other morning it was so cold.

So, those are my winter adventures. We've also been trying to train our puppy to go outside, which is difficult as she is about half a foot tall and the snow is 4 or 5 feet tall.

In other news, I will be coming to the island in just over a week for spring break. I fly into Victoria on the 14th and then home again on the 28th.

I've also booked the two cottages I will be staying in when we are in Ireland. I am then planning on going to Scotland to visit Amanda, and then possibly to France for a volunteer camp for two weeks where you work in a medieval village. As well, April brings us to the Dominican Republic for a week. I'm so looking forward to lying on the beach and reading books for 7 days. I better start tanning or I'll burn the instant I get off the plane!


That's all so far...just looking forward to the end of winter! I've had enough of the snow already..