31st January - 3rd February 1998

Saturday 31st January
Another day at work after little sleep.  I was on the till again and managed it on my own mostly.  No-one came and visited so it was pretty boring.  Had jacket potato and beans for dinner and did my washing.  Went to bed extremely early but still couldn't sleep until about 11:30pm what with 14 other people in the house and James partying with his friend Nigel.

Sunday 1st February
Worked again, but not until 11:30am.  Had breakfast with everyone which was nice and then caught the bus to work.  I was on cleaning duty.  Emptying garbage, cleaning the staff room and toilets and cleaning windows.  Then I had my list to do which I did too quickly and then was milling around looking busy.  Managed to find some change and had $1.42 for the bus - only 8 cents short - but the drive didn't notice.  Had toast for dinner and called Aaron.  It was a bit of a weird conversation.  He still doesn't know whether he's going to Winnipeg in May.  He said he'd visit but in May - when I'm probably going to be in Tofino.  I said I could come to Nanaimo but he didn't sound enthusiastic.  It didn't upset me that much but made me feel strange.

Monday 2nd February
My first day off! Claire and I had our 2nd interviews with the Mountain with Bernie at Dusty's.  Claire's was at 9am and mine was at 10.  By the time I got there Claire was chatting with a New Zealand couple who also had interviews.  My chat went well although with hindsight I don't think I was outgoing enough.  We asked him to come to a quick decision so we sat around with Kate and Craig for a while having free cups of coffee.  We went back to the mad house and spent ages calling Bernie at 2 o'clock.  Claire had got one of the jobs at Dusty's/Raven's Nest and Bernie's given my CV to Kelly Smith who owns 2 huts on Blackcomb.  He said I've definitely got a job on the Mountain and I should call EE to follow it up.  The rest of Monday was spend getting ready for Chris's last night.  We played a drinking game - 3 man - and we all got quite pissed then we went to Tommy's.

Tuesday 3rd February
Spent the day hung over.  Said goodbye to Chris - very emotional - hung mourned in my pjs for most of the day. Claire went into work and got her ski-pass.  I helped Babe clean up a bit and took the rubbish out.  We went to Dusty's to meet everyone after skiing and Claire was there too.  The Kiwis that were involved in the fight the other night were there too.  One was extremely pissed and thought he was incredibly attractive.  Luckily (!) Matt and James came and saved us (!).  Then we went home.

<these are extracts from my diaries written whilst travelling and working in Canada and the US in '97-'98>