The great adventures of a zip sweater....

So here I am in rainy haney wondering where oh where could my zip sweater be... all the other girls appear to have recieved their articles of clothing weeks ago. I decided to phone the UNBC bookstore and see what they had to say: After tracking my package (good ol canada post) they informed me that my package was recieved and delivered on the 19th of January and that it was also signed for. Now forgive me, maybe I had too much to drink on that thursday ; ) but I never signed for anything. So I decide to call my landlord incase they signed for something over two weeks ago and just forgot to tell me. Nope, nobody recieved a thing. (who i wonder is so proudly wearing an Alpha Pi Beta Zip Sweater in my neighbourhood?) So I again call UNBC and ask what shall I do, they suggest I phone Canada Post because when they track it, it is in Maple Ridge. So I call Canada Post. Well Canada Post cant help me because I dont have a tracking number... I call UNBC, get the tracking number. I call Canada Post, ah yes its at the Maple Ridge Distribution center. Oh so I'll just go and pick it up. Nope. Cant do that because it is a HUGE wharehouse and there are thousands of packages. I cannot expect them to be able to find my lonely little package that has been sitting in the distribution center for two weeks, because of all the thousands of packages also residing there. The lady at Canada Post tells me I will need to phone UNBC and get them to call Canada Post and ask for an enquiry into why my package has been sitting in the distribution center in Maple Ridge for two weeks. WOW! Then I ask how come my package was not delivered, or if it was and was unsuccessful, why did they not leave me a little door tag telling me to pick up my package from the post office. Well she says there was no little door tag because delivery was never attempted! They recieved it and shelved it? Still not understanding why it was never attempted to be delivered and why I cannot now just go and get my package I again phone UNBC. What great and understanding people at the bookstore! So on my 5th or maybe its 6th call to UNBC (Cant wait for my phone bill!) they tell me that they will call Canada Post ASAP to find out how come it was never delivered but their tracking says it was and signed for... So the great lady at UNBC bookstore calls me back and tells me that they called Canada Post and put in an enquiry, it will take three to four days for Canada Post to figure out why my package is just sitting at the distribution center and was never delivered.... 20 minutes later my landlord calls to tell me my package has arrived!

Oh the joys of Canda Post!

My Update =)

Hello There Everyone!
Well, here is my update. I finally graduated from UNBC, with a joint major in International Studies and Political Science. (It was about time, I have taken four and a half years off of school here and there....so long overdue...looking forward to convocation!) I am very happy for that, I managed to grad despite being the politician that I was, working full time, and commuting back and forth to Anahim Lake every week!
Now, I am working for the Ministry of Forests and Range in Alexis Creek working in the mapping and tenures departments. It is good, learning curve, taking some gis training, and having fun. I work for my very good friend Jasmine, which helps. I do miss my forestry work outside so much though. I am living with Barry as well, so it definately is good to have him around every day and night.
Things are good, it is weird not seeing UNBC, and I miss everyone in PG already. I spent the last year living with Cheryl Wilson, and I got to know the new girls really well, and I miss all of them.
I will keep you all posted on how I am doing.
My job is an auxillory position, so if it does not extend after the March madness, I may go back to Anahim Lake. I will keep all of you posted.
Miss you all, love you all.
Cheryl

More updates

Hey all, so glad to hear everyone is doing well. What's new with me? Well early last year my Dad bought me an acoustic guitar and I spent the rest of the year trying to teach myself how to play it! So for my Birthday in November my Dad bought me lessons! I have learnt much in the three weeks I have been taking the lessons and am well on my way to learning a song! What it is I have no idea but it repeats the A and E cords for the whole song... not hard to learn you think... trying to get the chord changes and strumming done at the same time... difficult! I also decided that I no longer would just talk about and dream about trying new things and have started taking Latin Dance class, apparently I have natural hip rythm... hehehehe. Our first dance is the merengue, then we will do the cha cha and lastly the salsa. Should be interesting! I am still looking for new and better employment (the pay sucks where I am and I'm sooo tired of just getting by!), I guess one day something will come up that is totally perfect for me! Until then I will push on and on... My cat and I are doing well in our thumbnail sized home, waiting for that prince to show up and sweep me off my feet (hope he likes cats!). Well thats about all, cant wait to see everyone at the retreat. Miss you lots
mellie

Alumni Clothing

Hey girls.. has anyone else gotten their Alumni clothing yet? I already emailed Jamie about this but i thought i'm mention it to you guys. I'm very disapointed with the UNBC bookstore and i think next time we should use someone else with our clothing. First of all i recieved my hoodie yesterday. that's just over a month it took them to embroider 3 letters and mail it to me. Second is instead of Alpha Pi Beta, my hoodie proudly displays the Greek letters for Alpha Delta Pi. now, screwing up the order of our letters i could almost forgive.. but where did they get the Delta from??
I'm just wondering if anyone else has recieved their clothing and if there are any other mistakes.. or am i the only one? I'll be phoning the bookstore on monday to see what they can do to fix my hoodie.

A Teacher Again!

Good news everyone,

I just got offered a full time position at Duchess Park Secondary for next semester. It's an intense semester & I'm totally freaked out about taking it on so I'm just hoping I survive. I will be teaching 4 courses (Science 9, Science & Tech 11, Math 8 & Essentials of Math 11) meaning no prep block so it's going to be tonnes of work... so if you don't hear from me until June don't be suprised!

Updates continued

News from Smithers...

It's snowing here finally, before Christmas it was pretty green around here, like much of the province. Clint and I spent the holidays in Ontario with his family, which was nice but it was my first time away from my mom and dad for Christmas. We did get to Vernon to see them for New Years and they'll be coming up to Smithers for a vist when the baby arrives this Spring.

I'm in my 7th month of pregnancy now and no complaints! I'm lucky to be having an easy time, because I hear that some women are quite sick and uncomfortable. We have just set up the baby's room and now it seems I'm ready to have a little one under my care. I'll be sure to let you all know who arrives in March, we don't know if it's boy or girl, surprises are fun!

Can't wait to hear more news from you all,

Lisa

Life Right Now

Me...
Still working as a substitute teacher but next semester looks promising. There are at least 2 science teacher positions opening up, one of which is at College Heights (where I taught last year) with at least one course that I have experience teaching. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed because while the no marking or planning aspect of subbing is nice, it would be much better to have a steady income! Wedding plans are coming along as well... everything important is booked & we now need to attend to the "smaller" things. My dress should arrive in February so I'm very excited... especially to be able to wear one that fits me!

Nathan...
Is in his last semester of this B.A. degree & will convocate in May. He's currently volunteering in a Grade 5 classroom & will be starting his volunteering at the Art Gallery (student programs) later this month to get some knowledge of fine arts at that level. He hopes to enter the education program at UNBC in the fall & finish as an elementary teacher in a couple years.

Cyrus...
Is growing like a weed... I can't believe he's 8 months old already & that we've had him for half a year! He's still a hyper crazy little monster sometimes but I can't imagine life without him anymore. We begin puppy obedience level 2 with him next week. We taught him how to skateboard for this end of training trick for level 1 so we're trying to think of something cool to get him to do this time.

We're heading out to the cabin at Summit Lake this weekend & I want you to know that I'll be thinking of all of you that came out there that reading week so long ago! I should bring "Clue" back so we can play it at my place in May for old times sake :)

Amanda :)

Update!

well it's been a little while so i'm curious to see how everyone's doing. I'm doing great! I was offered a full time position with the calgary health region last thursday, which i accepted of course!! we just switched over to 10 hour shifts for a 3 month trial so it's a bit tiring.. but i really enjoy my job. I've applied to Red Deer College for their pharmacy tech program. unfortunately my pharmacy tech diploma from Sprott Shaw in BC isn't recognized :( ah well.. hopefully i can get into the fast track distance course through RDC and be properly certified in a year. Other news is i've decided to get more active this year so i joined a floor hockey league with the calgary sport and social club. our first game is this sunday and i'm very excited to be playing. so that runs for 9 weeks.. should be fun. my holiday to England and Scotland in May is still a go! i should be buying the plane tickets in a couple weeks or so. I'm very very excited for that!
Other than that not much happening. i'm moving at the end of the month.. with working 10 hr shifts my current place is way too noisey! so i'm moving to a friend's basement suite.. which actually is closer to work so it works out better for me anyway.
So what's new with you guys?

New Years Eve morning Breakfast

Amanda was in town in Vancouver over the holidays, so some of us decided to go for breakfast on New Years Eve day. Gotta have full bellies before a good night of drinking. And where else would we go, but to De Dutch! Or "super DeDutch" as Susan likes to call it ;)

Good seeing you again Amanda!