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Week Fifteen

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Louise Jayne

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I’m still unemployed at the moment, so this has been a fairly quiet week of job-hunting and running errands rather than anything too touristy. The weather hasn’t helped either, going from bright sunshine to torrential rain from one day to the next. I did however visit the Science Museum on Friday evening. They were having one of their After Dark nights, an adults only affair where we can play with the exhibits ourselves without kids getting in the way! It was quite a bit of fun and there was a bar and some stand-up comedians. All of them did a good job considering they were instructed to make jokes centred around Earth Day (which had been the day before) in their routines, though the worst by far was the sole female comedian, who did not go down too well. I’m sorry, but it isn’t necessary to make crass sexual jokes the minute you step onto the stage – none of the men did.

Next week should be slightly busier with my upcoming move and hopefully other events in the pipeline. Till next week…

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Week Fourteen

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Louise Jayne

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This has been a fairly relaxing week. The sun has been shining almost constantly and as my job finished last week and my temping agency hadn’t got anything for me I decided to take this past week off. I’ve been catching up on my emails (as some of you will be glad to see!) and doing some exploring around Vancouver. I even managed to catch up with some of the other people that flew over on my flight, and it looks like things are all go for me moving to Kitsilano.

There were two major places that I explored this week and where I took the most photos. The first was The Lost Lagoon, a man made area of Stanley Park which hosts a large variety of animals and birds (I had my first raccoon sighting there, as evidenced below) and also Dundarave, a sea-side village in West Vancouver where I explored a little and had lunch on the beach.

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Week Thirteen

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Louise Jayne

The sun has finally made an appearance here in Vancouver, meaning I was able to go out walking and exploring over the weekend, though no pics of any substance. On Saturday I was wandering around the Kitsilano area where, fingers crossed, I may be moving to at the end of the month, depending on whether the apartment I go see on Monday is any good. And on Sunday I was following one of the nature trails in North Vancouver.

I finished my temping job on Friday so now I have to set up something else with my temping agency and see what else is out there. I’m going to treat the time not working as an unexpected holiday though until something comes up.

Till next week…

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Week Twelve

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Louise Jayne

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This week seems to have gone particularly fast, given that there was the build-up to Easter and a three-day weekend (I had to work Monday alas). I spent the week mainly at work and trying in vain to catch up with all my emails – there is seriously not enough time but I will get to everyone eventually, promise!
The bulk of my weekend was spent on Bowen Island with my family again, where I had a great time, despite the brief interruption to the electricity across the island due to a nasty storm and trees falling on power lines. But we were pretty quickly brought back into the 21st century.

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Week Eleven

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Louise Jayne

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So I actually had a productive weekend, in the brief day that it didn’t rain. I knew coming here that it rained a lot, but this is getting ridiculous! Anyway, did some shopping in the mall near my house and then decided that I absolutely needed to go for a walk/take some photos. So I headed downtown and wandered around Canada Place which has now opened up again, after having been largely closed off for the Olympics. But this week’s post will focus on the bald eagle artwork dotted around the city – only a handful, there’s lots more I don’t yet have pics of:

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Week Ten

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Louise Jayne

Another abysmally short post this week I’m afraid. Work is going okay – I’ve been asked to stay on for a few more weeks and the house-hunting is on the backburner for a couple of weeks. Yesterday I managed to head out to do some shopping when it was a little sunny but I had to rethink my plans for a walk today when it started to rain, again. I thoroughly intend to take some photos next week, even if it’s just of downtown Vancouver. I’ll scour my guidebook for things I can do after work one day.

On the plus side though the writing is going well and I have some short stories finished and am well on my way to finishing the novel.

Till next week…

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Week Nine

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Louise Jayne

Another short one again this week. The weather has been fairly dreadful – constant rain with intermittent gloom – so I haven’t wanted to go out and do too much adventuring. Work is still going okay and I’ve been asked to stay on a bit longer which is good. Not so good is that I now have to move out the place I’m staying a lot earlier than I was expecting too – end of April – so the long round of searching for accommodation starts again…

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Week Seven

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Louise Jayne

 

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And so another month draws to a close. Hard to believe that I’m into week seven already; seems like hardly any time at all. This week was, like the last one, spent mostly working but I did venture out on Saturday to take in the last of the Olympics atmosphere (until the Paralympics start at least). It wasn’t actually as crowded as it has been, though that may have more to do with the torrential rain we’ve had the last few days. The weather didn’t dampen anybody’s spirits, however, and you always knew when Canada had won a medal as cheers would go up, no matter where you might be.

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Week Six

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Louise Jayne

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Here we are again, another week over with. Yet again there hasn’t been much going on Chez Louise. I have been watching some of the Olympics (really enjoying the skating and finally Team GB has a gold!) I’ve also been dodging the crowds downtown as I travel to and from work, not always successfully as I have been caught up in various protests, but at least for the most part it has all been good-natured.

I did pop out yesterday to run some errands and since I haven’t really taken photos in the last week (something I plan to rectify in the upcoming days, I thought I would take some photos of Canadian support for the Olympics and a bit of the view around North Vancouver on what was a really sunny day.

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Week Five

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Louise Jayne

 

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Hello again! Not much to report this week. I’ve mainly been working. It’s going okay so far and it’s nice to finally have some money coming in rather than going out! The office is downtown so it’s easy to get to and to still see things during my lunch break if I want to. Of course the big story here is that the Olympics have finally started. And thanks to the good position of the office I managed to see the Olympic torch pass by, pic below. It was very exciting and definitely got me more in the mood for the Olympics – I’ve been watching events off and on over the weekend, though it’s a shame Team GB isn’t doing a bit better.

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