How about that apology from Gee Dubba Bush, eh? It made the front page of the Vancouver Sun here--along with an apology from former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for being a jerk. (A guy with the last name Newman wrote a book about Mulroney in which he quoted B.M. saying that B.M. felt he was the best Prime Minister Canada has had since Sir John A. Macdonald and that the people on the west coast are just a bunch of whiners.) Thank you Mulroney for G.S.T. (7% sales tax on top of provincial sales taxes) and free trade, which is not really free for Canada.
Here's the problem with Vancouver and it's related suburbs/municipalities: there are too many rivers. If you want to go to any place that is not in the place you are in (for example, if you want to go to Surrey from Burnaby as I do each morning) you must cross a bridge. This would be okay if every other person who does not believe in carpooling or taking public transit didn't want to cross the same bridge at exactly the same time you do. If there were no rivers, and therefore no bridges, it would be much easier to get around here in Vancouver/Burnaby/Surrey/Langley/Delta/Coquitlam.
Tomorrow I teach for the first time. Twill be fun.
I found S.M. Prins at long last. She came over for supper last night and we went for a nice walk. I think that the Voogds will adopt here when I leave. When she arrived, she looked very weary because she spent 45 minutes in traffic--the same nasty highway I take to school. But, when she went home, it took her only 18 minutes. And the lesson learned from that experience: stay home during rush hour. On Saturday we're going to go to a monastery together. If it goes well, Steph (my supervising teacher) and I might take our writing class there (to the monastery.)
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How did your teaching go, Margaret? I love the idea of taking your students to a monastery. Good luck!
yeah, a monastery would be a good setting to write a sense of place essay, I think. I went there several times with my family when I was younger, and I remember it being a place of quiet and peace--a holy place.
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