Our local beach
I popped into Staples yesterday for some paper and noticed the Back to School signs were up. They had all the local elementary school stationery lists there too, so that you can buy everything that your child needs.
It was a not very welcome, and rather premature, reminder that summer is going [...]
Skiing on Cypress Mountain
Relocating often seems to be more about waiting than moving doesn’t it? For us that was true. We waited for visas. We waited to sell our house. We waited for the removal men. We waited at the airport. We waited at immigration and we waited at customs.
It can be pretty frustrating [...]
You have probably not heard of the freshman 15. It is the name given to the way first year students away at college gain 15 pounds in their first semester. So what has that got to do with you as a new arrival in Canada?
It may have a lot, depending on how you adjust your [...]