Cherry's in Kingston

This last week flew by! We've been keeping busy with SURP events, setting up our place, school, work and other miscellaneous activities! Carl had a meeting with his academic advisor to pick his classes and get more of a handle on what school will look like. In the program, there are three major streams a student can choose to focus on, Land Use and Real Estate, Community and Housing Services and Enviromental Planning. Carl thinks he is going to focus on Enviromental Planning and is looking forward to some of the classes it entails. Although carl might only be in classes 2 or 3 days a week, it sounds like the course load is pretty heavy and he will be spending a lot of time in "his office" at the school and working on group projects!

As for me, I had my first day of work last Friday! I punched the address of the bank into the GPS, found it, but then had to find parking! After frantically driving around to find parking close by, I finally found a parkade, walked out onto the street and had no idea where I was or where the bank was! Thankfully, I left a little bit early and had time to get my bearings and still get to work on time! Even though I had a dream the night before that all the systems in the bank were ancient and different, that didn't end up being the way and the day was a breeze.

During most days and evenings, we've been hanging out with the people in Carl's program at various group events! We've gotten to see more of Kingston and are really liking it! It's no wonder that Don Cherry chose Kingston as one of his favorite places in Canada! Oh and speaking of Don, we just happened to see him!

For one event (the corn maze), we took a small ferry from Kingston to Wolfe Island and Don Cherry just happened to be doing the same thing (although we didn' t see him at the corn maze). When people started yelling "Hey Don!", he nicely waved, nodded and then rolled up his window.

We've become friends with a few people - we went to a pub crawl last night and after the second bar, five of us headed back to a pub where we could actually hear each other talk. Kris and Kelly are the other token couple in the group and they are from Calgary. Kris is in school and Kelly is a nurse. Kelly and I have decided we are gonna hang out when the guys get busy with school! And then there is our friend Carolynne, from Edmonton who we actually went to church with this morning! So far things are falling into place!