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Kia ora folks,
It's been a while...My time in Vancouver is coming to an end; on Tuesday I fly to Calgary and from there I shuttle to Invermere.
My accommodation in Ivermere is not on the hill as I had originally hoped. It is in the town, one block from downtown amenitie. Panorama HR say there are advantages to town living and they are probably right. At least I get my own room and twin bed.
There will be four of us living in the house. Two of us are guys and the other two girls. Two of us are Kiwis and the other two are Aussies. My roomies will be arriving in Vancouver over next couple of days. I look forward to meeting them!
During the past couple of weeks I have picked up four days of work (general grunt stuff) and I've been developing muscles in places I didn't know I had places! On the days I worked I had to get up at 4.45am and make my way down to the offices of 'Labour Unlimited'. There I would wait for about 3-4 hours before finding out whether I had work. I've been pretty fortunate as there has been a job for me every time.
My first job was a killer eight hours of shovelling, raking cutting and duct taping. I was so spent and blistered, had stabbed myself multiple times with a craft knife, and felt as if I had been riding a long horse trek. Then I got two 4 hour swamping shifts. Swamping involves unloading trucks and, depending on the load, this job can be a breeze or a hard slog. It's fairly tedious either way. My last job, on Tuesday, was pulling up tiles from a large pet store in Richmond. I was wielding a mechanised shovel/cutter for about 7 hours getting even more blisters, and arms buzzing from the vibrations. I've called working quits for now as I don't want to be completely spent before heading to Panorama.
One of the highlights of the past week has been attending the 'Eastside Culture Crawl' with Robin. The Crawl is a 3 day fine arts event held in Strathcona. It features 300 local artists, and during the 3 days many of the artists open their home studios to the hoardes of Vancouverites doing the Crawl. There's some amazing art out there. My favourite studio was one where the sculptor made furniture out of helicopter and areoplane parts. So cool. And having a friend like Robin, who's so well connected with the arts community, means I get an insider's scoop on the Vancouver art scene. Not only that, Robin is a great friend who shows wonderful hospitality. I'm thankful for the turn of events that brought us together the last time I was here.
Anyhow, gotta run. More in the not too distant future.
Sam.
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