up's and down's

Well, here I am.  All settled in to Manning, for the most part.  These last 12 days have been a mixture of awesome, weird, fun, exciting, scary, great, horrible...well you get the point.


When I first got here I easily discovered  how laid back everyone and everything is, which is right up my alley. The first night I went out to the bar with my roomate Jay (who works in the kitchen).  Sat down met a couple cool people, boys and girls.  Then I realized the boy to girl ratio here is about 10:1.  I was the only girl in the bar sitting down with about 10 guys (can you say "welcome to manning"?) haha!  It was good. But of course i met a boy, a boy with a mullet. We got along really well because we are both goofy. It was a good night and good to meet so many people at once.


The next day, I took it easy chilled and watched some DVD's on my computer and who walks in at about 5pm but the boy with a mullet. Yes, he has a name.  His name is Alex and he is from New Zealand.  We headed out to a Beer Pong tournament at site 9, which was 10$ all you can drink because they had gone to U Brew earlier in the week.  Was interesting taste of beer, kind of sweet.  It was a good night, met alot more people and hit the hay early because i had my first shift at 9am.


Work was awesome the first day. It was snowing heaps, and they sent me out to go look at the different cabins and chalets they have. And spent the rest of the day learning, and filling out paperwork. Work has continued to be hella sweet. Get to do alot of data entry since its not busy with guests right now so my manager gives us tasks to do which i  really enjoy.  I have met alot of inetersting people that have walked thru here and stayed here as well.


Social life has been good.  Not partying too much, but enough to socialize.  I didn't get to go ski or snowboard at all, and the mountain is closed as of April 5th.  I had been spending quite a bit of time with Alex, which is nice because most of the people up here are in relationships together so it was nice to have someone to always hang out with.  He worked up at the rental shop so we got off work at the same time, so it was nice to have somone to walk home with as well.  Everyone i have met up here has been more than awesome, so sweet, honest and fun.


 I finally got to meet my roomate Tamara, who was away for the first couple days and we have clicked so well!! Our other roomate Jay, moves back to Kelowna tomorrow, so I am stealing his room and stealing a double bed from another unit so i will have a sweet room.


Speaking of our house, the other day i realized a mouse or rat had eaten my bananas sitting out, so i threw it in the garbage. I come home that night and see the banana that i had thrown away up at the top of the stairs by my room in front of the crawl space. So not only am i thinking wtf we have a rodent im thinking how freaking big is this thing that it can carry a huge banana up the stairs! So the whole night i freaked out and could here it in the attic and scratching at the crawl space (convinced it was at my door and was goign to come eat me) so i moved to the top bunk! Since then i have got maintence to take care of it and they will trap it.


Well on to the not so good stuff of my trip. I have had a really hard last couple of days, just i guess a mix of emotion.  On Sunday night i couldnt get a hold of anyone (even tho we all live within feet of eachother) so i walked over to the pub and had a beer and sat down with a couple of the older people up here and had good conversation.  The a co-workers mom was up and had some really nasty things to say to me.  She came across as a really nice person, but everything I said she downtalked me like saying I dont know anything until i have lived up here, and all this other bullcrap. So i left and was pretty upset. Then I had a bit of a falling out with Alex and ran into him so that threw me over the edge. But I had a really good talk with one of my good girlfriends Savannah and made it better. Then yesterday after not talking to Alex for 3 days, he comes into the lodge at the beginning of my shift to say goodbye to me because he was leaving back to new zealand, which i knew. So that was really hard but I am SO happy I met him, but will miss him.  The last couple of days about 20-25 staff members have left to go home so that has really sucked as well, but i hope i can keep in touch with all of them.


Well, I should probably find some productive work to do. We have one guest and a school staying here, so not much to do.


I miss you all. And hope you can come visit! I get great staff rates!


I will try and update more often.


oxoxoxoxo


p.s big thanks to mommy and daddy for bringing me up turkey dinner and fresh groceries!