if i only knew...

Working woman

I was last employed by a company in January 2001. I was last working in a full time job in 1999. No wonder it's so strange to be back in the full time workforce!

The first week was great, work is interesting and challenging, the atmosphere is nice, and my boss is great to work with. Seeing a North American company from inside is fascinating, so much is done differently than at home.

The cafeteria is amazing, and very damaging to my weight loss plans.
Working full time also means that i am dead tired when i get home and the last i want to see is a computer screen ... and so my blog suffers.

Still no access to the scanner, so still no lomos. Tomorrow is illuminares, the Vancouver lampion festival, which should be really exciting lomowise.

Culture shock

I am not kidding when i say culture shock. Everything is so strange here - even the toilets are foreign. I visited here twice before, but it's still a huge culture shock!

What's the most striking difference between here and Europe are the sizes: everything, EVERYTHING is bigger here. The trees, the mountains, the milk bottles, the roads, everything. The funniest are the food item sizes, like the 4 litre milk bottle, and the 5 kg rice box. They're so strange.

The scenery is beautiful, i can't stop admiring the mountains, the green everywhere and the clouds (lots of lomo material).

Update

I arrived in my new temporary (till November) home in Vancouver, BC, Canada on Thrusday. I am beginning to overcome my jet lag, which is good considering i am starting work tomorrow.

Before i left i had my last 2 rolls of Lomos developed and the results are nothing short of extraordinary. I am totally excited and can't wait to share them, but the scanner here is not working currently, so it may be a week or so from now that i will be able to post them. I want to decorate this blog with my new sky shots, they are sooooooo beautiful. I love my Lomo. Oh, and the sticky shutter-like problem was solved by the new batteries, so no more worrying whether the pics would come out OK!

Updates might still be sporadic until i truly get into the rythm here, tomorrow if my first day at work - which is exciting!

Vacation

I have been and still am on vacation, unplugged, hanging out at the lakeside, this is the reason for the lack of updates on the blog for the last two weeks. I am moving to Canada next Thursday, so the remaining days after the vacation will be busy packing, saying goodbye, and stressing out, which again means i probably won't be spending time on the blog. I will be back when i am in Canada, the latest.