Yukon Jay - 小祥

Networking

I'm 2 months away from graduating, and so stepping up my networking to secure a job for late August the earliest. Yesterday I met with a stockbroker in mining through a friend... he said I should use my strengths and pursue Vancouver based mining companies in China. He also reassured me there is a niche for me in mining despite the fact I'm not geologist.

Yeah... getting sick of hearing that but also reassuring. It's been frustrating because all mining jobs advertised are for geologists, engineers and some sort of technical based skills. Today another contact gave me a name for a company looking for someone with my background...

This is turning into a fulltime job... too much researching, emailing and talking, and no time for homework and research job. This sucks...

China Beach on Vancouver Island

Finally, the pictures from Victoria trip. Andrea and I went to visit her sister, who happened to be sick. She felt better on the second day, and took us to China Beach in Sooke.

So Vancouver and Victoria were hit with about 10 storms this past winter, knocking over several trees on the Island as well as Stanley Park... devastating. Here's just a sample of the destruction those storms left behind.

Collette, Andrea and I making our way to the beach... climbing over and under the trees along the path.

Getting closer and closer to the beach...

So here's China Beach on a beautiful mild cloudy day. If you're wondering why no pictures of me.... Andrea has them and it is posted on Facebook.

New Semester, New Job and stuff

It's been a month, I should probably update. Been really busy, here's what's been happening:

Got my grades for the spring... did really well. 3 A's and a B. Now is week 2 into the summer semester and already did my presentation... only 4 exams, 4 papers and other crap from graduating in August.

I got a new job doing research for the Public Policy Program at SFU. This is part of the Work-Study program available at school. Since Public Policy is one of schools I'm applying for Masters, might as well work with them

Also helped Andrea move this month into a brand new house. Because it is new, had a lot of quirks that needed to be fixed and addressed with the landlord. Fun stuff.

My mom has also been away for 3 weeks, returning today. So doing lots of stuff around the house. My dog Nikki was sick with puking and diarehha... try cleaning that up around the house.

With my mom back, I'm hoping things will settle down and I can focus on school.

Oh and I have pictures from last month's trip to Victoria... will post when I have time.