Watching the Clock Tick.........
It’s weird how drastically somebody’s life can change with a difference in location. When I lived in Kamloops, I was going to school and worked two jobs. Between my work, school and leisure activities, I hardly spent anytime at home. Of course, I didn’t have the luxury of such things as cable Internet, cable TV, free food and rent either.
Now I’m living back up in BC’s Northern Capital and still not working. Now I don’t feel guilty for not working, I haven’t gotten to that point yet. I mean, I worked right until the end of April so it really has only been just over two weeks. And so many other students don’t work during school while I was balancing studies with two jobs. I was so busy down in Kamloops, I’m enjoying this spare time in my life. It’s given me the opportunity to do things I hardly did in Kamloops, like play video games, lots of tennis, and watch more TV. I’ve also been able to focus more attention on my family, sports, this summer and my future.
Of course, not working is more tolerable while living under the luxury of free rent and food. But I still have no choice but to spend money because I’ve got monthly car insurance and cell phone bills.
Last Friday I was in Vancouver, which was nice because for a little while I could forget about my current financial struggles. The trip was a real quick one – from PG to Vancouver and back in just over 30 hours! It works out to a seven-hour stop overnight in Cache Creek on the way down, a five-hour stay in Vancouver and roughly 18 hours on the road. My sister’s fiancé Jaret, whom I went down with, warned me it wouldn’t be that fun a trip. Actually it was nice.
I enjoy being on the road, I’ve always enjoyed traveling whether it’s by myself of with somebody else. Since Jaret ended up purchasing the 2002 VW Passat from Carter Honda in Vancouver (which took about 4 ½ hours of test driving, navigating, negotiating, waiting, paperwork and transactions to complete) and the dealership would only offer $2000 as a trade in for my sister’s ’95 VW Golf, I was on my own for the trip back, driving the Golf and meeting Jaret for breaks at exciting destinations such as Boston Bar (where the price of gas was like 89 cents!), 100 Mile House (Tim Hortons coffee break) and Quesnel (second Tim Hortons coffee break). We left Langley at about 6 p.m. and arrived back in PG at roughly 2 a.m.
Driving in the dark was made tolerable by some solid CD’s I recently purchased (including music by Motley Crue, Led Zeppelin, The Killers and Velvet Revolver), playing the music loud with the windows slightly rolled down, and caffeine. I entertained the thought of spending a night in Kamloops, but figured, what is another five hours?
On a side note, I hope I quit getting this junk mail in my business e-mail account soon because it is taking forever just to check my e-mail lately. This sudden influx of spam into the Thompson Rivers University journalism students account is frustrating me.
It’s weird how drastically somebody’s life can change with a difference in location. When I lived in Kamloops, I was going to school and worked two jobs. Between my work, school and leisure activities, I hardly spent anytime at home. Of course, I didn’t have the luxury of such things as cable Internet, cable TV, free food and rent either.
Now I’m living back up in BC’s Northern Capital and still not working. Now I don’t feel guilty for not working, I haven’t gotten to that point yet. I mean, I worked right until the end of April so it really has only been just over two weeks. And so many other students don’t work during school while I was balancing studies with two jobs. I was so busy down in Kamloops, I’m enjoying this spare time in my life. It’s given me the opportunity to do things I hardly did in Kamloops, like play video games, lots of tennis, and watch more TV. I’ve also been able to focus more attention on my family, sports, this summer and my future.
Of course, not working is more tolerable while living under the luxury of free rent and food. But I still have no choice but to spend money because I’ve got monthly car insurance and cell phone bills.
Last Friday I was in Vancouver, which was nice because for a little while I could forget about my current financial struggles. The trip was a real quick one – from PG to Vancouver and back in just over 30 hours! It works out to a seven-hour stop overnight in Cache Creek on the way down, a five-hour stay in Vancouver and roughly 18 hours on the road. My sister’s fiancé Jaret, whom I went down with, warned me it wouldn’t be that fun a trip. Actually it was nice.
I enjoy being on the road, I’ve always enjoyed traveling whether it’s by myself of with somebody else. Since Jaret ended up purchasing the 2002 VW Passat from Carter Honda in Vancouver (which took about 4 ½ hours of test driving, navigating, negotiating, waiting, paperwork and transactions to complete) and the dealership would only offer $2000 as a trade in for my sister’s ’95 VW Golf, I was on my own for the trip back, driving the Golf and meeting Jaret for breaks at exciting destinations such as Boston Bar (where the price of gas was like 89 cents!), 100 Mile House (Tim Hortons coffee break) and Quesnel (second Tim Hortons coffee break). We left Langley at about 6 p.m. and arrived back in PG at roughly 2 a.m.
Driving in the dark was made tolerable by some solid CD’s I recently purchased (including music by Motley Crue, Led Zeppelin, The Killers and Velvet Revolver), playing the music loud with the windows slightly rolled down, and caffeine. I entertained the thought of spending a night in Kamloops, but figured, what is another five hours?
On a side note, I hope I quit getting this junk mail in my business e-mail account soon because it is taking forever just to check my e-mail lately. This sudden influx of spam into the Thompson Rivers University journalism students account is frustrating me.
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