I will be catching the 3pm ferry to Vancouver today, where I will have Christmas dinner with my family Saturday night. Then Sunday morning Andrea and I will be flying out to Halifax, Nova Scotia to spend Christmas with her family and fly back January 1st.
This should be interesting, excited and nervous at the same time. She's got a pretty big family - 2 sisters and 3 brothers - and they will be joining us from Victoria (the one I live with), Phoenix and Richmond, Virginia. One of Andrea's brother-in-law is also an ex-US Special Forces and served with the Rangers... he has made ominous statements by saying he will give me a "hard time". What else do you expect from Americans? (Just kidding! He's half Canadian & half American.)
Anyways, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will try to post some pictures while in Halifax.
I been really bad about updating so I will try to post a bit more...
As usual, this past weekend I made my way back to Vancouver to visit Andrea and the family. Spent most of Saturday shopping with my mom and also took her out to a dim sum restaurant for lunch. That night Andrea and I met up with our friend, Dawn, in downtown for coffee and to discuss Ottawa since that is where she is from and was trained as a teacher there. So far I think teaching opportunities for Andrea won't be as bad as we thought... we will probably also rely on another contact who is a teacher there.
The other thing I did in Vancouver was to pick out a writing sample to send to SFU and Carleton... I will be mailing them out on Monday.
Not much else happened... we also bought a homeless girl in downtown a sandwhich as we were waiting for Dawn. Never really done that before. Then Sunday morning as we were walking around the neighbourhood a 80yr old grandma came out to ask us for help because her basement was flooded... tis the season to be giving and helping.