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I’ve been here for just over a fortnight. Is that all? It feels like I’ve been here much longer. The first week I was here I had a bad cold and got an infected cut while shaving, so it wasn’t all that fun. Just sitting around doing not much and trying to rest and get better. But now I am better, Naomi is in Calgary, I have my computer set up so I can work during the day and spend evenings with Naomi.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I didn’t work though, I went shopping with Naomi, and got some new trainers and jeans. I still need to get a winter coat though, as it’ll be getting really cold before too long. At the moment the weather isn’t too bad. It has been cold (-2), warm (20ish), dry, rainy, sleety, snowy, frost, windy – I don’t think it’s hailed yet though. And I thought British weather was random. It’s far more random here, and the temperatures are weird – the other day I walked over to Nomi’s in the afternoon and it was really cold, and then when I walked home at midnight it was quite warm. You always need a coat because you never know what the weather will be like in ten minutes time.<\/p>\n
The picture is of the block of apartments I’m living in at the moment, with Naomi’s brother Paul. Her sister and sister’s husband (Colin and Aubrey) live upstairs in another apartment, and she lives in an apartment ten minutes walk down the road.<\/p>\n
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On Sunday we went to church. It was enormous. There must have been about fifteen hundred people there – about ten times more than I like to have at church. The service was ok, but I’d rather go somewhere a little smaller and a little closer to home. Then we went to the Farmers market with nearly all of Naomi’s family – everyone I mentioned above plus her mum who had driven her over from Prince George with all her stuff in a huge pickup. Which is what the picture is of. Naomi didn’t want to be in the picture. I don’t know why. She’s beautiful. And the pickup really is huge – even for Canada.<\/p>\n
Language note: In Canada, you probably don’t live in a house. It’s more likely to be an apartment, condo, duplex, fourplex, townhouse, loft, villa or street (if you’re homeless). Just don’t make the mistake of calling any of them a house.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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