Updates from Creekers part 2 and more..

Hi !

I'm really glad you posted again, I thought once you werent interested anymore. Good to hear that things are kinda sorted out for you, and even if it wasn't like you planned, it seems that it will be great for you to take a year to prepare that big trip you always wanted to do :). Anyways, I hope you're having a good time back in your hometown, even tho you find it cliche ^^. I don't think it is, moslty because after all what you did, it's more like normal to be back for a short amount of time to ressource yourself in a way and be ready for new adventures ;). Anyways, I'll always think you're interesting and fun, no matter what you think about yourself !

About those updates, well Victoria and Katie wrote after I posted that last one, so I thought it'll be good for you to read them :

Hey guys!! This was a great idea Marianne! So after the Creek Jaimie and I came back home, graduated and I started first year at the University of Victoria doing sciences. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do but I thought I'd start there. I've figured out now that I want to do a program to be an Ultrasound Technician so I'm taking this year off to work and save money and I'll be applying to a program in Vancouver for next year! I'm serving at a restaurant right now and starting another job soon at brand new restaurant that should be really sweet when it opens. I'm solo boyfriend-wise too which is actually kind of a nice change haha! Sooo yeah, life is good!! A good summer of friends, working, beaching and turning 19 in 2 weeks (which was last week ^^)! Ahhhh! Have a great rest of your summers! Victoria :)

Hello hello! This was a very good idea Marianne!! After I left Baker Creek I came back home and started babysitting..did that for just over a year..I took a 3 week vacation down to Belize last October and did alot of fun things (snorkeling, ziplining, swam w/sharks! etc)..I am currently working at a convenient store and a lottery booth..also training to be a lifeguard! I'm a busy little bee these days lol umm I'm planning to backpack around Europe next year! And who knows what'll be next after that! I am also boyfriendless..just enjoying life (when I'm not working..) Anywhos...Hope everyone's summer is super fantabulous! Miss you! xoxo

About myself, well the updates are that I quit my job last week, I was really relieved because kinda sick of it, the work itself was getting in my nerve, so were the customers :P. But it was hard also because all my coworkers told me they would miss me and all, like enough to make me feel almost guilty, but I was really touched by their sayings, I found I was lucky to work with them, they were all truly fun and nice people :). I even organize a night out at a restaurant to see them all together for a last time, and we were 20 of us there, which was for me a total success and made me feel so happy. For now, like I text you, I'm in Jonquière, a city 5h away from Montreal, living in my friend's appartment and meeting new people everyday. It's funny how people live here, its kinda like at Kings, but everyone lives in different houses and rooms and they all visit eachother often and text people to see what they're up to and all. It kinda makes me think of a camping site, but in a whole neighborhood ! I came here actually to do something different than staying at home and do nothing really exciting, and because I have to go to Quebec city for the 26-27-28th of August for a short training for my future job. I'm excited about this, because I'll get to know other French language assistants just like me, and maybe we'll stay in touch and write eachother about our own experience or something, which could be great to know. Then I'll have 9 days to prepare my bags and see every people for a real last time, like close friends and relatives. But I'm eager to go, I can't wait to be somewhere else, to find a new home. Its been so long since I left my house for more than few days, beside when I switch between my dad and my mother, its about time that I go on my own again :P. Tho I will be missing them, of course, but its probably better that I leave again, maybe just to then appreciate more the fact that I need them still ^^.

Oh, I have to tell you how I find my roommates, its almost incredible how it happenned. I knew only since mid-July that I was the one who had to find a place to stay, because before that, I thought for some reasons that they would find for me. So I was a little bit nervous about the fact that I had less than 2 months to find myself an appartment in a town of 22 000 people by internet! I started then to post so ad saying that I was looking for a room to rent and all, that I was only staying there for a year so it'll be better if it was furnished and cheap, and close to the place I'll be working at, since I wont have any ways of transportation. So after couple of days waiting, I got a response from a certain Megan Carter who is studying in College in Corner Brook and also looking for a roommate. I was really glad she emailed me, so we started chatting together online and looking together for a place to stay. I got really lucky, because she found a place the day after we talked, and it was perfect! Everything we needed, furnished, big enough, close to her school and my work, really close to a grocery. And since it has 3 bedrooms, we needed to find a third roommate, which she found couple of days later. I can hardly believe how fast it was, luckily she was already in town to look for everything :). So now I don't have to worry anymore about this and I'm ready to move in for September 8th, because I wanted to spend the long week-end with my family and it,s my sisters birthday, I couldn't miss it ^^.

I can't wait to write about my first week there ! Until then, take care, dear Edna :)
-Robi XxxxxX

Omg that was like the best thing I have ever read! :P

That was such an awesome idea, to message everyone and finding out what they are up to. Thank you for posting it! That's awesome, to hear what they are all doing and it sounds like we're all living adventurous lives, which is good to know. It's a real shame so many of them are dating gingers though :P
It makes me miss all those hilarious people! I wonder if we will ever have that reunion?
Also, I can't believe you are moving to Corner Brook! I have a friend in Halifax who is from there, and he LOVES IT!!! Like, absolutely loves it and I'm so happy you are going there...what are the chances?! I wish I could visit you though! Maybe somehow I still can. You must be moving soon...that's so exciting! I wonder what teaching will be like.
Well, I moved back to Courtenay. Basically, I am doing all the things I never thought I would do. I found a place to live in town, but it was pretty weird and I was like, well I don't really want to live here, and there is room for me at my dad's house, so maybe I'll just move in with him, not pay rent, and be one of those lame people who lives with their parents :P
Maybe this is my payback for judging people who stay in Courtenay, live with their parents, and go to community college...because guess what, that is excactly what I am doing. To top off the utter cliche, I'm even working at the grocery store!
Ugh.
But actually, I'm not even upset about it. I'm like, whatever, I can go for this year of college, and in 8 months, I will have an associates degree in arts, which isn't spectacular, but it is something, and I can transfer to university with it and get a bachelors degree in 2 years (petentially a little longer, but not by a lot). It sounds a lot better than just one year towards a 4 year degree, and since I am now living with my dad (altho I just decided to tonight so he doesn't even know yet! Lol!), I can save up and go travelling next summer! Horray!!!
That is all I really want to do anyways, and this way I can do that, and also be a bit responsible and get at least a halfway decent education. I'm mostly taking philosophy and English, which I enjoy. Actually, they have a very limited selection so I am taking philosophy of love and sex, and narratives of love and sex, which actually I am looking forward to. I'm also taking creative writing and solar science and astrolomy (one of two sciences I was eligible for, seeing as I only took sciene until grade 11). So there is the odd class that sounds kinda boring, but overall I think it should be pretty interesting, and I can work along the way and then in May, or June, whenever I have saved up $10 000, which is how much I think I can travel for a year on, I will get myself a ticket outta this town and hopefully become a travel writer in the process!
I have a friend who is going to Sri Lanka in 6 months, it would be kinda cool to go chill with him there in a while. Or I could travel down through the states and into south america, and then go work in Australia once I run out of money...there are SO many options!!!
I intend to be totally broke and totally exhilerated when I get back, and then maybe then I will go back to school or something.
Or maybe I will be like this forever! Who knows. All I know is, I am glad to be doing what I am doing, but I want to travel, and that's what I'm going to be doing again soon.
Anyways, that's an update from this neck of the woods, the god forsaken rock as I so fondly call it :P
Hope all is well with you, can't wait to hear about your move!
Love Edna