I guess I needed a vacation. I've been avoiding the internet a bit over the last few months, hence the obvious hiatus. I think I still have one single avid reader that wondered where I'd gone, but otherwise, I don't think many have kept up checking. I'm still alive, more fit than I've ever probably been and more ready for teaching than ever as well. Actually, I'm not exactly ready for it yet, but I'm in the mindset anyways. Job, no. Mindset, yes!
I spent my last days of June madly photocopying as many materials as I could, knowing that the summer and September held a very uncertain future for me. I've planned the whole time to stay put here in K-town, but where I'll get a job (and IF I get a job) beyond subbing is known only unto the gods. I said goodbye to the many friends I made at my sponsor school, and bade farewell to any straggling students writing exams that I may never see again. Sure, it's a small town, but these are the first kids I've ever taught, and I really want to know what's going to happen with all of them. I miss it already.
Since the end of June, K and I were able to escape very briefly for a weekend camping trip at the start of July and an 8-day jaunt to Alberta and down to Montana just recently before getting back to work. I've been painting for my uncle here in town since the 3rd of July, so that's kept me plenty busy 5-6 days per week. Not only that, but Kerrie and I decided to punish our lazy habits and purchase a month of Cardio-Core Bootcamp. Happily, we survived and have been feeling wonderfully healthy, so instead of just abandoning the muscle gain and the better eating habits, we decided to take ANOTHER month of bootcamp just to see if we could go above and beyond in the fitness category. This is code for: not feeling like fat potato-chip eating pylons. Anywho, we're still at it and still enjoying it... it comes with a free tan since it is run outside at a park, and I've managed to get over the sheer embarassment of running around in a line of, now, 100% females with an exercise ball in hand along one of the busiest roads in Kelowna at 7pm, and have embraced the fact that you can almost see some muscles in my scrawny arms. I also have some of the nicest calves around! But alas, no six pack. You have to go on a no-beer diet for that one, and I'm sorry but some things are simply sacred.
So, my summer in a nutshell has been work and exercise. Now that it's winding down, I wonder where it's gone, but we did manage to host a number of visitors, spend copious numbers of hours on the weekends at the beach, and we even made it back to the 403 for a visit, a family reunion, and a brief hello to the locals before heading south and then back west to the the most beatiful province in the country. Sorry, but some things are simply true, no matter how you slice them.
If only I could figure out a way to get back to Victoria for a visit... oh well, one day soon. To my one dedicated reader, thanks for checking in on me... more to come at one point or another. Ciao for now.
T
