I've been back in British Columbia for a week now, and I'm living in a no-man's-land of suitcases and boxes, in my room at my parents' house, waiting to move to Vancouver on the 1st of August. It's strange to feel settled and not-settled at the same time.
I arrived home last Sunday and we were on the first ferry to Vancouver on the Monday to find me an apartment; the housing market is pretty grim mid-month on the Lower Mainland, but I managed to snag an apartment that feels like me, in the West End, near English Bay. I had an agonizing wait for a week to see if I would get the suite, but all's well that ends well, it's mine, and my brother and I will take a truck of my stuff over next weekend.
So for the meantime I am working on my dissertation, trying to get used to sleeping when it's so darn quiet (where is the traffic?!), and enjoying the Canadian dollar and all it has to offer. Below are some photos of my first week back; I am going to try to continue to post as much as I can...it might not be as exciting as reading about London and Rome, etc, but I'm doing it mostly to make a statement to myself (and to whoever still bothers to read) that life in B.C. can offer as much, if vastly different, blog-worthy material as London. Because for what it's worth, I'm a Left Coast girl, and it's good to be home.
I arrived home last Sunday and we were on the first ferry to Vancouver on the Monday to find me an apartment; the housing market is pretty grim mid-month on the Lower Mainland, but I managed to snag an apartment that feels like me, in the West End, near English Bay. I had an agonizing wait for a week to see if I would get the suite, but all's well that ends well, it's mine, and my brother and I will take a truck of my stuff over next weekend.
So for the meantime I am working on my dissertation, trying to get used to sleeping when it's so darn quiet (where is the traffic?!), and enjoying the Canadian dollar and all it has to offer. Below are some photos of my first week back; I am going to try to continue to post as much as I can...it might not be as exciting as reading about London and Rome, etc, but I'm doing it mostly to make a statement to myself (and to whoever still bothers to read) that life in B.C. can offer as much, if vastly different, blog-worthy material as London. Because for what it's worth, I'm a Left Coast girl, and it's good to be home.