My friends are in jail

Canadians caught in drug crackdown, not job scam

Hey, I leave Korea for a minute and my friends are in jail!

CANADA

Hey, I've been in Canada since Friday and it's going great. Except for one small thing... It's snowing like crazy here and it's -6 degrees! Way to reinforce those Canadian stereotypes to my Korean students.

Bro

My brother has a blog now. As Monty would say, check it out.

Stu hart

Canadian wrestling patriarch Stu Hart dies in Calgary at age 88

I just read this online. What a tragic loss. I guess you shouldn't call it a loss - he lead a full life and was 88. But what a great Canadian and Calgarian. We can only hope to have more people like Stu in the world.

There's an air-raid siren going off now. Apparently no one can drive their cars through the intersections. Weird.

We just got out of a foreign teacher's meeting. It was the usual combination of uselessness: old people prattling, Barb talking about every topic, the Korean liaisons giving us useless nonadvice, and me waiting it out. Man, I hate meetings. Stupid SU ruined me for life.

Moving

So we found out today that we have to move apartments. We've known since we started the job that we would have to move, but now we have the details. We were luckily given more than the usual Korean notice about everything (1-2 days). They did tell us, however that we have to move on October 24th! Yes, that's right, the same day we are leaving for Canada. How we are going to pull that off I'm not sure. I think it's the stupidest thing they could have done, but Barb doesn't seem to think there's a problem. Let's hope she's right.

I hate moving so much. In university I had to move to and from rez every year. I can't wait to own my own house and be able to go more than a year without moving.

So I leave the apartment today, and the building next to mine is gone. Completely smashed to bits. An entire apartment building! I mean, I heard some noise this morning but I didn't think an entire apartment building would be demolished. It was there yesterday, I swear.

Hey, it's like Where's Waldo? Can you find Toby on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's website? Click here to try!

Mama I'm comin' home...

Sorry for not blogging in so long, really I am. But I bear good news. On Friday, October 24 at 4:20pm I will arrive in Calgary. That's right, I'm coming home! Not permanently of course, but for a week-long vacation. The original plan was to come back for Christmas. We arrived in Korea on December 10, however, and our return tickets cannot be extended past one year. And since Christmas break doesn't happen until December 24th at our school, that's a bit of a problem. We do have a term break from October 28 to November 3 however. And the last day of the term is a Monday (Oct 27). We begged and pleaded and after one rejection we were given the Monday off to lengthen our vacation. I can't wait to come home even if it's only for a week. Woo hoo!