Countries meme and updates
Jan. 27th, 2011 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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visited 16 countries (7.11%)
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visited 7 provinces (53.8%)
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visited 5 states (10%)
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Once I get into the travel industry... I hope to increase this a great deal. I want to visit South America, for starters, and do an active adventure tour (ie Gap Adventures) once I get into better shape (HAH). And I'd love to go to New Zealand. And Greece. And there's a lot of the USA I haven't seen... not to mention most of my travels in Canada were fairly brief or when I was young (I went to Alberta when I was... 8. Or maybe 7. I can't recall). I'd like to do more travelling in my own country; maybe do some hiking in the Rockies or in the Yukon... I want to see the Northern Lights. :) Damned Due South, it's given me a yen to see the north. Though admittedly, by 'north' I mean 'Whitehorse', so... not exactly the arctic circle. But yeah, gotta get into shape so I can do more active/adventure travel. I really enjoyed our brief hiking trips in Australia and would like to do more, and I was also getting into hiking a bit last summer (well okay, 2 hikes) before I injured myself. Sadly, my foot still starts to ache when I walk long distances, esp if I'm walking (or worse, running) downhill. Which I do semi-frequently when I'm rushing to catch the bus...
Anyway... in other news:
a. I appear to have a cold. It's really not that bad, just sniffles and generally feeling tired, but I am a pathetic wimp and thus spent most of yesterday and today so far doing absolutely nothing. I'm still wearing pyjamas... gotta get my ass up in a bit because if I feel up to it I promised Dad I'd help him move paintings (and really, getting out would do me good - the one time I got out yesterday, for an interview (more about that in a sec), I felt better), plus I'm heading over to
flamebyrd's later to watch Slings & Arrows. :)
b. Never heard back from the company that I interviewed with last week. They said early this week, so... yeah, aside from being disappointed I'm rather peeved. Because really, it's just not professional to make someone jump through 3 separate hoops (after the initial cover letter/resume submsission), including a LONG questionnaire and two interviews, and then not give them the courtesy of calling to say "sorry, we've gone with someone else". Sigh. Will prob call them tomorrow to follow up, and also to ask for any feedback (I've read that it's good to do that - sometimes people even get another job with the company! But at least some feedback on what I could have done better)
c. I met with a 'placement specialist' for the tourism industry yesterday, and had a really good conversation. He was a nice guy and seemed confident that I'd eventually get something. He knows of a few companies that are hiring/may be hiring soon that he thinks would be a good fit for me. He's going to contact them then get back to me; hopefully this week because unfortunately he's going on a 3-week vacation starting Sunday... damn. Anyway, I wish I'd known about this guy's company earlier! Would have been nice if, say, my teacher at the college had mentioned his existence... I'm sure she must know of him.
d. And on a completely separate and shallow note, I am currently drawing a really quite filthy Fraser/RayK drawing. My inability to draw desks and correct perspective is thwarting me a bit, but it's getting there... it really is very dirty and will be hot as hell if I can get it right. ;)
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visited 16 countries (7.11%)
Create your own visited map of The World
visited 7 provinces (53.8%)
Create your own visited map of Canada
visited 5 states (10%)
Create your own visited map of The United States
Once I get into the travel industry... I hope to increase this a great deal. I want to visit South America, for starters, and do an active adventure tour (ie Gap Adventures) once I get into better shape (HAH). And I'd love to go to New Zealand. And Greece. And there's a lot of the USA I haven't seen... not to mention most of my travels in Canada were fairly brief or when I was young (I went to Alberta when I was... 8. Or maybe 7. I can't recall). I'd like to do more travelling in my own country; maybe do some hiking in the Rockies or in the Yukon... I want to see the Northern Lights. :) Damned Due South, it's given me a yen to see the north. Though admittedly, by 'north' I mean 'Whitehorse', so... not exactly the arctic circle. But yeah, gotta get into shape so I can do more active/adventure travel. I really enjoyed our brief hiking trips in Australia and would like to do more, and I was also getting into hiking a bit last summer (well okay, 2 hikes) before I injured myself. Sadly, my foot still starts to ache when I walk long distances, esp if I'm walking (or worse, running) downhill. Which I do semi-frequently when I'm rushing to catch the bus...
Anyway... in other news:
a. I appear to have a cold. It's really not that bad, just sniffles and generally feeling tired, but I am a pathetic wimp and thus spent most of yesterday and today so far doing absolutely nothing. I'm still wearing pyjamas... gotta get my ass up in a bit because if I feel up to it I promised Dad I'd help him move paintings (and really, getting out would do me good - the one time I got out yesterday, for an interview (more about that in a sec), I felt better), plus I'm heading over to
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b. Never heard back from the company that I interviewed with last week. They said early this week, so... yeah, aside from being disappointed I'm rather peeved. Because really, it's just not professional to make someone jump through 3 separate hoops (after the initial cover letter/resume submsission), including a LONG questionnaire and two interviews, and then not give them the courtesy of calling to say "sorry, we've gone with someone else". Sigh. Will prob call them tomorrow to follow up, and also to ask for any feedback (I've read that it's good to do that - sometimes people even get another job with the company! But at least some feedback on what I could have done better)
c. I met with a 'placement specialist' for the tourism industry yesterday, and had a really good conversation. He was a nice guy and seemed confident that I'd eventually get something. He knows of a few companies that are hiring/may be hiring soon that he thinks would be a good fit for me. He's going to contact them then get back to me; hopefully this week because unfortunately he's going on a 3-week vacation starting Sunday... damn. Anyway, I wish I'd known about this guy's company earlier! Would have been nice if, say, my teacher at the college had mentioned his existence... I'm sure she must know of him.
d. And on a completely separate and shallow note, I am currently drawing a really quite filthy Fraser/RayK drawing. My inability to draw desks and correct perspective is thwarting me a bit, but it's getting there... it really is very dirty and will be hot as hell if I can get it right. ;)