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  • Oct 19 Mon 2015 12:12
  • 十年

看到上ㄧ篇文章發表的日期,才發現這個部落格被我冷落了整整兩年。今天突然想到要上來更新一下搬來加拿大的日子,才發現從冰島玩回來的那天,剛好是10月12日,也是搬來加拿大滿十年的日子。其實還是很想寫寫文章,但是真的心有餘而力不足。回想這十年,我們從沒工作到有穩定的工作,從租公寓到買房子,從兩個人變成三個人。這十年一路過來大致上都很平順,有悲傷,有歡樂,有獲得,有失去,有死,也有生。家裡多了個孩子,讓我們的生活變得更加多采多姿,我們的生活型態並沒有因為孩子而改變,我們一樣愛玩、愛亂跑,只是多帶了一個寶貝跟我們到處去。從冰島回來之後的一周,其實都還在休假,原本想要把遊記整理上來,但是休假的日子都在生病,所以最後還是什麼也沒寫。或許聖誕節假期,可以用來分享冰島的行程。而今天,就在簡短的更新後停筆。

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2015年10月10日在冰島首都Reykjavik的市政府前。

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2013年艾德蒙頓的同志遊行是在6月8日進行,不過前一的天氣預報讓我一直很擔心下雨。一早醒來看到藍色的天空,感到特別開心。

 

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The frist time I heard about Tres Carnales Mexican restaurnt was from my colleague Lisa. We talked about restaurants from the TV show "You Gotta Eat Here!" on Food Network while we ate at Fatburgers after the Pride Parade. We tried to make our way there but it was closed.

 

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My third course of the Management Studies Certificate program is about to finish. Although there are seven more courses to go, I need to skip the Spring term due to my parents' visit in May; I'm not in a rush to get the certificate, but I also prefer to get it over with as soon as possible. I'm thinking of taking one course during the Summer term, but I really don't want to spend my wonderful Summer evenings on studying, I guess I'll see how I feel when the time comes.

Surprisingly I didn't go back to H&R Block this year, I contacted Violet prior to the tax season, she told me that because of the new district manager decided to cut down manpower in her office, she would not returned to H&R Block. Violet was the only reason I went back to H&R Block the last time, so we both took this time out from going back. Next year though, we'll see then.

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I have canceled several blog accounts recently, even the personal website I had for years; Most of those blogs were lacking in content, once in a while I would logged on but did nothing with them; and I hadn't written and posted articles on my website neither, which was my original purpose of building a website for, so I decided to let go of them, and saved myself some trouble too.

I keep my yahoo blog, pixnet blog, facebook account and MSN Spaces, I still have a lot to maintain, but it is better than looking after 10 blogs at the same time, and MSN Spaces is now a major blog of mine for sharing my life with my friends and family.

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August 28th 2009, Tim, his younger sister Lindsey and I went to Dartmouth in Nova Scotia to visit some family he has there. We arrived at the Halifax airport late in the afternoon and stayed at Mom and Robert's place for the next few days.

August 29th. The weahter was bad because of the tropical storm Danny, but we couldn't wait to visit downtown Halifax. We spent sometime walked around the downtown area and waterfront, and then visited the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

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History of St. Joachime Cemetery:
Established in 1888 on land donated by the Groat family, this cemetery initially served the downtown community of St. Joachim Parish, the Catholic parish originally centered in the old Fort Edmonton. The cemetery contains a variety of historic monuments; walking through its many rows of memorials, one can begin to appreciate the history of the Catholic presence in central Alberta.

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February 27th, the last working day for two of my colleagues at the College; Christina is taking one year maternity leave, she is expecting her baby in few weeks, we're all so excited as she is.

Michelle was also a Administrative Assistant at the department, she got a great job offer from her part time job; Michelle has been a great help to me, we were also very close, I'm happy for her new opportunity, but also feel kind of sad over her leaving. Michelle is a very nice girl with good sense of humor, our birthdays are only few days away, we are very similar in some way, I guess that why we became friends easily.

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It has been two weeks since we came back from Taiwan, I don’t know why I still feel sad over leaving home.

 

Maybe it is because I didn’t have enough time to be with my family and friends.

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Tim & I went to an area around Chinatown at 96th street and 108th avenue on June 1st, we've driven through this area few times before, I noticed there were quite a lot of churchs gathered within 3 blocks, although I'm not a Christian or Catholic, some churchs in town are very gorgeous, they've been waving at me, wanted me to visit them.


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It seems funny to have a part-time job for me now, but for our trip to Greece in the summer, I don't mind working a bit more, some extra bucks help anyway, and I'm gonna be very busy for few months.

Violet called me at work this afternoon, there is possibility she is backing H&R Block at Sears Kingsway for tax season this year, then so do I; I had a great time working with the colleagues there last year, I'm looking forward to seeing them again, hopefully won't need to face too many weird people, I think I'll enjoy it. Also, the staff can have their taxes done for free, why not!

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I couldn’t have this job without so many people’s help.
 
I had the interview with Cindy and Karen who was the HR Assistant on December 18th; I don’t have much working experience in Canada, the only reference I have is Violet form H&R Block, and Karen asked me if I could offer any internal references since I’ve been working for few months; I was grateful when I asked the supervisors and managers to be my references without any rejections, and I was able to offer 4 internal references to Karen.

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About Life
 
I’ve been very busy lately, with Christmas shopping, with gift wrapping, and we’re still far away from finish, it’s even busier then working I feel.

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It was an exciting morning yesterday, I love walking in the snow, after almost two months of waiting, we finally got some snow coming down. I walked to the bus stop to catch the No. 3 bus to work. I waited in the shelter as usual, I was even happier waiting for the bus in the snow, although it was very cool.
 
I saw a girl in her early 20’s slowly walked by, she stood on the corner of the block for a while, walked into the alley and showed up again few more times, I assumed that she was waiting for someone.

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