Another week has passed by in September and the last one has mimicked the previous two (at least during the day) hence the lack of daily blog posts. Lou has been on training for work all week whilst I've spent the most of it searching for jobs again. After a weekend of good weather we had rain again during the first part of the week and it's been coming and going ever since then. On Tuesday evening we went for a walk up to Burnaby Central Park to get some fresh air as we'd both been indoors all day. We decided to cash in some of our recycling on the way thinking that we'd probably have enough to maybe at least grab a coffee at Starbucks or something afterwards. Bottles and cans have been building up and progressively taking up more and more space under the sink so it was time to get rid of them all. As it turns out we only got $1.60 back, it was so not worth the effort of carrying them all up there so we'll probably just stick them in the apartment block recycling bins now! We are getting used to recycling a lot more now and in the short time since we've been here we've been converted to that way of thinking (my Mum will be proud!). I'd feel guilty about putting everything in one bin and forgetting about it now but there is the odd occasion when I do genuinely forget and then Lou usually picks up on it and reminds me.
As usual on Wednesday evening I played soccer at Collingwood neighbourhood house which was good but I am really missing playing "proper football" still. It's better than nothing at all but I'm hoping I might be able to find an outdoor 11-a-side team in the near future. Instead of playing twice a week I've knocked it down to once for the time being as I'm not seeing Lou too much if I play both nights. On Thursday evening we headed into downtown Vancouver and had a walk next to the sea alongside
Canada Place and the
Vancouver Convention Centre. It's a really nice area to walk around whilst having a chat, especially in the evenings when it is fairly quiet. There was an outdoor concert going on in Stanley Park across the water so we sat down and listened to it for a while on the other side, the sound bouncing of the water and the tall buildings made it very atmospheric and chilled out.
Just I was starting to get further disappointed by the lack of replies to my applications I got a call Thursday afternoon regarding one of the better jobs I'd applied for. An interview was set up for the following day and I was excited and relieved that at least one of my applications had been acknowledged. Friday came around and I went to the interview feeling confident, and when I got there (great location in the heart of the city) I noticed the place was really nice and all the staff were very friendly. The interview started off really well but then I was hit with a bunch of technical questions, some of which I didn't have the answers too which made me feel a bit stupid. Some questions were based on things I've never touched upon in my career so I was clueless to answer them and opted to honestly say I didn't know rather than randomly guess as I thought that would make me look worse. They are making a decision on Monday but I'm not feeling too positive about it now because of that, but at least it was another interview and some more experience even if nothing further comes of it. The company made a good impression one me and it seems like a really cool working environment, so if I'm not lucky this time I think I will keep my eye on them for future opportunities as it seems like a good place to work at.
Today we both had a lazy Saturday morning lye-in, it was well deserved after a week of early starts. We're going to take it easy during the day before meeting up with some people later and going to watch our first live Ice Hockey game in Canada, it should be fun.
Posted from
Vancouver, Canada
BC, Canada
