So the reason I'm creating a blog is to try and document as much as I can in regards to my new trip. So I decided I needed a change at work, don't get me wrong I enjoyed working for Interior Health, but couldn't handle the repetition. I can only help so many nurses set up their Outlook Calendars before it becomes mundane. I still enjoyed working with great people and love providing customer service but decided I needed a change. Hence now.
So I quit my job from Interior Health after unsuccessfully trying to get an LOA, I would have had to work there 3 years full time before I could even request an LOA and even then there are restrictions. Ironic I think, they are looking for great staff but HR doesn't leave a huge incentive for someone to come back to work after an absence. Oh well, nonetheless my boss said she would re-hire me if/when I come back. So that was re-assuring, I am re-hireable after all.
Ok where am I headed with this? Hopefully I haven't bored you too much yet. After much consideration and humming and hawing, I decided to book a flight overseas. I had been to Bangkok/Singapore in March of 2006 with Andrew and Josh and loved it so I decided I was going to start with what I knew and go from there. So I booked another flight to Bangkok on Singapore Air (the best airline!) even though it was a bit more expensive than Air Canada (I refuse to fly with them...No offence to anyone that works for them!). As I'm writing this, I'm actually in the Singapore airport, I'll get more to that in a bit.
So I think I'll skip ahead a bit to the part where I am about to start my journeys. So I talk to my parents and go over all the stuff I would need to to travel and they're surprisingly calm about it... But as we get closer to the day my mom was getting visibly more worried, heh love you mom :).
I'm listening to Brian Eno "An Ending (Ascent)" right now, it's so peaceful and great to reflect to. I highly suggest downloading it!
Ok continuing on... So I decide to give a months notice at work, my last day was November 22, 2006. So Dave sent a calendar invitation at work for "drinks at Joey's" for Nov. 22 with the reason being because it's "belinni Wednesday"...hmm coincidence it was on my last day? Probably. Haha no actually a bunch of work people went to Joey's that night, it was so cool. I honestly didn't think anyone really liked me and maybe they don't haha but they still showed up and we drank to my leaving IHA. It was really quite a bit of fun. I bought one drink and then Morgan and Kristine bought me a flaming Lamborghini (In case you don't know what this is, OMG it's a quick way to get drunk). You start off with a martini glass with some type of alcohol in it and the server lights it on fire and then you put a straw in the glass and she pours 5 other shots in it and you drink this back in about 6.2 seconds. So needless to say after that I was happy and people were buying me drinks all night. There was a hair in my food and so I casually pointed that out to the server fully understanding that this stuff happens (I've worked in the restaurant industry before) and just asked for a burger. Next thing I know the manager comes up to me apologizing profusely and telling me I won't pay for it. She was really nice and I must say adorable! So it was all good, we ate and had fun. My work colleagues bought me some cool Roots gear with Canadian emblems on them and a "stop global warming bracelet" which is perfect haha.
After that I went to Breakers with Dave, John, Matt and I. We play some pool, it was fun. I then had to get my mom to pick me up heh cause I had had a bit too much to drink. OK stop laughing, yes, my mom picked me up. Haha
Ok so that was Wednesday night. Thursday was my first day of being unemployed. I went out with Kristine, Karla and Karla's sister Leanne. I got to see Savannah again, she's so cute, I'll miss her growing up. (I took this picture of Savannah when I was "babysitting" her for a couple hours. This was taken in late November 2006)!
That's all, I'll post another entry for the next few days.
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