Young graduate of McGill's International Development Studies leaving for her first job in her chosen profession. Destination Bamako, Mali. Dorval Airport, Montreal, Nov. 22, 2005. Go Anna!
One of the really good things about this four month internship is that all the excitement has given me something other than my job to keep me awake at night.
And yes, Anonymous, I have been slacking, but you try to get through the last half of November in Ottawa sometime. Everything is fine usually until Remembrance Day, and then it hits you - winter is inevitable and if you don't have an escape to the French West Indies planned, you're facing five months of freezing temperatures, blizzards, snowdrifts, slush, freezing rain, dull steel grey skies, salt stains on your pant cuffs, and an extra 20 minutes a day just to put your coat and boots on.
On the other had, there are some really good things about winter, like Christmas, skating on the canal, hot Drambuie toddys, and taking a sauna and finally getting to use the young birch branches I've been keeping in ziplocs in the freezer since last spring.
2 comments:
You are living on the wrong side of Canada. Eventhough it is November, I have actually seen teenagers in shorts and t-shirts in my part of the world just yesterday. So you see we do not need the French West Indies.
Good for Anna! Hope that her experience and adventure will be positive and productive.
Hmmm! Other side of Canada eh? And teenagers! You wouldn't be a schoolteacher in Ponoka by any chance?
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