it's part two! or week 2
Monday (16th)
Went to SWAP office, still waiting for my Serving it right certificate/card to arrive so I can prove that I am responsible to serve alcohol! On the verge of my perfect resume! (The weekend before I applied for some jobs online anyway, but not with a perfected resume, or covering letter in the form of an email.)
Met up with some friends I made before from uk! Ben and Helen.
yea. We had a slice or 2 of pizza (trust me, that is enough here), and then decided to go to north vancouver, by the 'seabus'. Yes I know, what an adventurous name. So in other words, after a morning of sorting out covering letter, I decided no more job/laptop/house hunting! Lets have some fun.
Here we discovered The Lonsdale Quay market.
Monday (16th)
Went to SWAP office, still waiting for my Serving it right certificate/card to arrive so I can prove that I am responsible to serve alcohol! On the verge of my perfect resume! (The weekend before I applied for some jobs online anyway, but not with a perfected resume, or covering letter in the form of an email.)
Met up with some friends I made before from uk! Ben and Helen.
yea. We had a slice or 2 of pizza (trust me, that is enough here), and then decided to go to north vancouver, by the 'seabus'. Yes I know, what an adventurous name. So in other words, after a morning of sorting out covering letter, I decided no more job/laptop/house hunting! Lets have some fun.
Here we discovered The Lonsdale Quay market.
Here's the outside sign at an odd angle, just because.What was discovered was much glorious food, and a shop selling lots of english foods; including mushy peas, gravy, irn bru, Cornish pasties, but which they spelt as pastries, fools! Oh, but they had REAL cheese (I will get to this 'cheese' point later), not some lame canadian cheese. That and lots of cider. We do not know what cider is out there. They have some weird and wonderful flavours. Every fruit has a flavour. I will have to buy some, maybe bring some back.
Ben & Helen, both wishing I wasn't taking a picture... probably.
Downtown from north Vancouver. Another stapled image.More pictures on flickr soon, including: a large seagull we called Hank, and Ben with a headache, but looks cool while doing so.
Oh yea, this is the day I tell the house with fun roommate, I want to live there! The girls living there seem very happy about this, but have another viewing, so say they are happy but will let me know tomorrow.
I can't remember how I spent this night, possibly I spent it playing cards with some austrailians? maybe. Oh, by the way, there is a difference between the aussies and the new zealanders (NZ). The austrailians can speak better! well, ok, maybe not, but here is an example.
the word 'text', now a NZ person says 'tixt'. So you end up looking at them thinking, 'I'm sorry what are you saying?'. Better yet is 'Beard', they say 'Bear', but in their fast way. its odd, shaving your bear... but yes, there is a difference! And now you know. Kind of.
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Tuesday ... and the rest of this week, to be honest it's a bit of a blur now (writing this tuesday 24th-sunday-29th).
This is the day I discover that the house with fun roommate is not available! nooooooooo.... and what not. But I gained a friend from it! Yay. What I did do however was sort out my resume, and made a few copies of it, along with a 'generic covering letter'. Why? As it was time for Dyl to go into random bars/restaurants and other places asking for the manager and any jobs! I didn't go looking on this day, as I wasn't really dressed I decided. Especially for some of the upper market (fancy) places, like Cactus club. So instead, I looked around seeing where I could go. Then after lunch, being a cheese and ham sandwich I made, the library was called for.
Oh yea, cheese! Canadians can't make it. It is rubbish! That's all there is to it! They plain suck. Oh and the shop I went to buy the ham from (this was before I discovered safeway) was out of date! I should have listened to the friendly old man at the youth hostel. He said, there are two places you can go. The first one is closer and cheaper, but they will often change the price at the last minute, and generally be underhanded. The second place is safeway, and will involve taking a bus, but they will not be deceitful. Out of date ham! Grr, no wonder it didn't taste so good! Now, ok, maybe I should have looked at the date when I bought it, but I was TIRED! OK! plus, I was thinking that, you know, they wouldn't sell me OUT OF DATE HAM without telling me! never going there again. Grr. What's worse is that I only discovered this on the monday... 23rd!, I had the ham for a week! I ate it at least 4 times!
hmm... the rest of this week was pretty much spent like this:
Wake up, go to library, check for jobs/houses/laptop. Get back to hostel have fun (while thinking, ahh not having job sucks!).
I can't remember how I spent this night, possibly I spent it playing cards with some austrailians? maybe. Oh, by the way, there is a difference between the aussies and the new zealanders (NZ). The austrailians can speak better! well, ok, maybe not, but here is an example.
the word 'text', now a NZ person says 'tixt'. So you end up looking at them thinking, 'I'm sorry what are you saying?'. Better yet is 'Beard', they say 'Bear', but in their fast way. its odd, shaving your bear... but yes, there is a difference! And now you know. Kind of.
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Tuesday ... and the rest of this week, to be honest it's a bit of a blur now (writing this tuesday 24th-sunday-29th).
This is the day I discover that the house with fun roommate is not available! nooooooooo.... and what not. But I gained a friend from it! Yay. What I did do however was sort out my resume, and made a few copies of it, along with a 'generic covering letter'. Why? As it was time for Dyl to go into random bars/restaurants and other places asking for the manager and any jobs! I didn't go looking on this day, as I wasn't really dressed I decided. Especially for some of the upper market (fancy) places, like Cactus club. So instead, I looked around seeing where I could go. Then after lunch, being a cheese and ham sandwich I made, the library was called for.
Oh yea, cheese! Canadians can't make it. It is rubbish! That's all there is to it! They plain suck. Oh and the shop I went to buy the ham from (this was before I discovered safeway) was out of date! I should have listened to the friendly old man at the youth hostel. He said, there are two places you can go. The first one is closer and cheaper, but they will often change the price at the last minute, and generally be underhanded. The second place is safeway, and will involve taking a bus, but they will not be deceitful. Out of date ham! Grr, no wonder it didn't taste so good! Now, ok, maybe I should have looked at the date when I bought it, but I was TIRED! OK! plus, I was thinking that, you know, they wouldn't sell me OUT OF DATE HAM without telling me! never going there again. Grr. What's worse is that I only discovered this on the monday... 23rd!, I had the ham for a week! I ate it at least 4 times!
hmm... the rest of this week was pretty much spent like this:
Wake up, go to library, check for jobs/houses/laptop. Get back to hostel have fun (while thinking, ahh not having job sucks!).
The Vancouver public library. Apparently libraries are cool.
Even the inside tooOn the friday (was it friday? hmm.) I decided to look around downtown for nice restaurants. So for this I decided to wear a nice suit type thing. Basically black trousers, black blazer, but instead of a shirt, my polo neck (turtle neck here) top. I look smart, but can get away with wearing my skate shoes (which are all black anyway). The only problem was that I had a crappy blue bag. This was not going to work. So I bought me a postman bag thing, from the gap. I've always wanted one of these and will use it all the time, and I liked it. So I was willing to pay... $68 for it. Yes, OK, I used girl logic! Shutup! however, I do look awesome, and when I am walking I keep thinking: 'I am Legend'. Oh yes. I will get ben to take an arrogant photo of me... he likes arrogant photo's
(check his blog, or flickr account... how's that for plugging a friend! No photo of arrogant dyl-'suit style' yet)
umm.. anyway, enough about the bag. The reason for it. Job searching! Yep, I was thankful, I went into the cactus club place. It is next to a load of banks, and so the businessmen go there... i.e. big tips! However it was starting to get busy, so they got me to come back the next day. The thing is though that there was some sort of mexican man next to me wearing some scraggly clothes, looking rubbish next to me. I felt good! So yes, dress smart!.. for interviews, and if you want people to think he earns some money, even though you are running of a dwindling supply of money!
Okay, so the next day, I went back, had the interview, she seemed nice, like me, but was honest and said that as they were a new place, they were already pretty well staffed and so having me only for the summer means that it wouldn't be so likely that they would need me. fair enough. I decided to go and ask about another cactus club nearby, and she said that it was an old one, and so may have different needs. It was good, this guy also seemed to take a liking to me, and complained that his english mate was taking the mic out of him as vancouver had recently been horrid weather (that day was lovely though). He said what normally happens is that they look at resumes on a Wednesday, and call back on a friday. So I had till next week to wait.
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the weekend!
ben has moved from UBC to here. He now wishes he was never at UBC, as it was more expensive, and met no-one! Here everyone is friendly, and cool... ok, not everyone. there is this one ginger haired guy that is really weird, all he does is play half life on his laptop. I mean seriously!? Why come to this part of the world, stay at a youth hostel and on the suuny sunny days, play computer games. What a weirdo.
ok, his not the only one, there are a few odd balls, but he is the worst. I think he keeps staring at me too.
Anyway, this is when we met loads of people.
there was Chris, and Rob (the flying dutchman!) first. We played football, and I discovered that my shoes had NO GRIP! Sliding everywhere is such an annoyance.
Us guys wanted to play hide and seek (well, it was robs idea), tried to gather people for it, but it never happened.
=(
Instead we played risk. Rob killed us all. At the same time met an english girl called Rosa. She was amused at the conversation of our table,
"..but what if I take over africa?", "we will all attack europe if you take it.", and so forth.
hmm. I can't remember much else! I'm sure stuff will come to me.
hopefully the next week is better for jobs/housing/laptop/hide&seek!
rah.
update! We also played a massive game of "soccer" with the local canadian students from UBC campus. Here are pics of Ben and rob in action (rob is in orange for his country, ben is on the other team.)
(check his blog, or flickr account... how's that for plugging a friend! No photo of arrogant dyl-'suit style' yet)
umm.. anyway, enough about the bag. The reason for it. Job searching! Yep, I was thankful, I went into the cactus club place. It is next to a load of banks, and so the businessmen go there... i.e. big tips! However it was starting to get busy, so they got me to come back the next day. The thing is though that there was some sort of mexican man next to me wearing some scraggly clothes, looking rubbish next to me. I felt good! So yes, dress smart!.. for interviews, and if you want people to think he earns some money, even though you are running of a dwindling supply of money!
Okay, so the next day, I went back, had the interview, she seemed nice, like me, but was honest and said that as they were a new place, they were already pretty well staffed and so having me only for the summer means that it wouldn't be so likely that they would need me. fair enough. I decided to go and ask about another cactus club nearby, and she said that it was an old one, and so may have different needs. It was good, this guy also seemed to take a liking to me, and complained that his english mate was taking the mic out of him as vancouver had recently been horrid weather (that day was lovely though). He said what normally happens is that they look at resumes on a Wednesday, and call back on a friday. So I had till next week to wait.
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the weekend!
ben has moved from UBC to here. He now wishes he was never at UBC, as it was more expensive, and met no-one! Here everyone is friendly, and cool... ok, not everyone. there is this one ginger haired guy that is really weird, all he does is play half life on his laptop. I mean seriously!? Why come to this part of the world, stay at a youth hostel and on the suuny sunny days, play computer games. What a weirdo.
ok, his not the only one, there are a few odd balls, but he is the worst. I think he keeps staring at me too.
Anyway, this is when we met loads of people.
there was Chris, and Rob (the flying dutchman!) first. We played football, and I discovered that my shoes had NO GRIP! Sliding everywhere is such an annoyance.
Us guys wanted to play hide and seek (well, it was robs idea), tried to gather people for it, but it never happened.
=(
Instead we played risk. Rob killed us all. At the same time met an english girl called Rosa. She was amused at the conversation of our table,
"..but what if I take over africa?", "we will all attack europe if you take it.", and so forth.
hmm. I can't remember much else! I'm sure stuff will come to me.
hopefully the next week is better for jobs/housing/laptop/hide&seek!
rah.
update! We also played a massive game of "soccer" with the local canadian students from UBC campus. Here are pics of Ben and rob in action (rob is in orange for his country, ben is on the other team.)
They are both ready for action.
Ben Is ready to take the ball wherever it lands
Rob at the end of a spectacular run, and about to score!I also took some video footage. I will put them up on the internet somewhere at some point (I know, aren't I useful)
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