Everyday Adventuring
Isn't it funny how in every season of life, no matter what we have going on, we feel so busy? Even if life is relatively quiet and things are plodding along, we still struggle to catch a minute to do the things we've been meaning to do and often leave them half done... For me,… Continue reading Half Done?
Right now, I am sitting in our Poang by an ajar balcony door with my feet stewing in green tea, so I figured it's as good a time as any to write a long over due post! No, it's not a new health fad (I've not become one of those Vancouverites). I have a blister… Continue reading Spring has Sprung!
Christmas 2018 has been and gone, and we're into a new year! Before Christmas, at a young adults lunch at church we were chatting about what we were all doing over the holiday - lots of people are not from the city so visit family back home, some are more local so spend time with… Continue reading Christmas; Past, Present & Future
It’s the Christmas season which I’m sure is meant to be the time of year when things are slowing down, but it never seems to go that way for anyone I know! In terms of work - my colleague who I job share with is from the Dominican Republic and is going back to visit… Continue reading Busily Having a Vancouver Christmastime!
It was this day last year that we found out we got our visas to come and live in Canada! We’d just arrived in Vancouver for a holiday three days earlier, and we were on our way to pick up a car so we could go drive to Whistler. We stopped at Grounds For Coffee… Continue reading One Year Later
I've shared on this blog so far about packing, moving, the process of getting our visas, and finding somewhere to live. Obviously one of the other big sides to life is... work! So it's about time I share where we're up to with that. Tom was looking for jobs a few months before we left.… Continue reading Work
We have a home! Mostly anyway... We moved in on Monday 23rd. On the Friday and Saturday before that we hired a car so that we could drive around collecting furniture that we found on Craiglist. Craiglist is pretty legit here with loads of people selling their old (but decent) stuff, or sometimes even just… Continue reading Home
On Thursday morning we embarked on our apartment hunting journey. Sidenote - we've had conversations since we've been here about phrases in English vs Canadian and agreed that if English words or phrases make it hard to be understood we will need to adopt the Canadian version. Relevant to this story, we've learned to say… Continue reading Apartment Hunting
When we applied for visas to get into Canada and work for the year there was annoyingly little information about the process or even the visa itself online. We knew that we needed to be aged between 18-30 at time of application, be for a commonwealth country and that you needed to have the funds… Continue reading Mission: Acquire Work Permits
With the whole idea of going to Canada for a year it’s always on your radar that you’ll be leaving people behind and have to say goodbye. We had a leaving do a few weeks before we left. We wanted to do it before everything got crazy hectic and also before my best friend’s wedding… Continue reading Forget “Sorry”, Goodbye Seems To Be The Hardest Word.
Ellen Wiggins 