I just finished up the week working at Lake Louise yesterday and now am heading back to Vancouver today. Since I worked this week right up until the Sunday and have to get back to Vancouver for my best friends wedding, I don’t have a job lined up for the week. It will [...]

I had a great day up at Lake Louise Resort today. I was working as a ticket scanner; the person who greets you and scans your lift ticket when getting onto a chair lift. Amazing the amount of satisfication that comes with hearing that little beep, reassuring you every few seconds that you [...]

I set my alarm for 8:45am this morning figuring that would give me plenty of time to write an entry about my first day on the job before I had to be at work by 10:45am. As I was about to leave to go to use the internet at 9:20am, I suddenly realized that [...]

I arrived safe and sound in Lake Louise this afternoon after hitch hiking from Calgary. I got a tour of the resort today and was introduced to I don’t know how many people. Poor Rebeckah, the resorts Event Coordinator, who had to explain One Week Job to each person she introduced me to. (I [...]

This week I will be working at Lake Louise Resort, one of the most spectacular mountain resorts in Canada located in the beautiful setting of Banff National Park. They have 4200 skiable acres and are one of the largest ski areas in North America.
I will be starting on Tuesday working through until Sunday doing [...]

After getting a sun burn from being outside all day on Tuesday, it has now been snowing yesterday and today! Crazy, but it did give us a chance to stay in doors yesterday morning and play some scrabble.

Anyways, just finishing up a video of what I have been up to on the farm [...]

After trying to avoid it for the first 15 minutes, I realized quite quickly that there is just really no way around it; having cow manure all over your hands and occasionally splat on you is just part of the job. I call it “surrendering to the pooh.” It is kind of like [...]

This week I will be working with the Slomp family on their 300 acre organic dairy farm in Rimbey, Alberta. Today I am heading to an organic milk convention where I will be meeting George, the head farmer, and afterwards will be heading back to the farm with him. Apparently his girlfriend is [...]

Shortly after graduating from college, I made a promise to myself:
I will not settle for a career that I am not truly passionate about, I will not allow yearning for weekends and the illustrious two week vacation a year to define my life, I will be in a positive work place situation and I [...]

I can’t say enough positive things about my time this week at Lotus Soul Gym. Coming into the week I had no real previous knowledge of the practice of yoga, not to say that I am a guru now after only one week, but I guess I absorbed enough to appear as if I [...]

I feel as if I have been studying for a big exam this week and the day has finally arrived.
It is interesting because I am little nervous about teaching the class, yet very excited to be presented with the challenge. I told the kids in the facilitation on Wednesday that this project [...]

Yesterday I accompanied Robert Manolson, a career development professional, to help facilitate a Communication/Leadership session for about 16 youth, aged 12-15 years. I spoke to them about my project, various things that I have learned throughout the experience, defining success with terms such as meaningful contribution, passion, courage, and how each new challenge we [...]

I think I mentioned yesterday that by Friday I was probably going to be pretty sore. Well, it is now Wednesday morning and guess what? I am sore. Justifiably so though as I participated in four different sessions yesterday, five and a half hours of yoga in total!
I am sitting in on as [...]

The first day of my crash course to becoming a Yoga Instructor went very well. I haven’t done much yoga practice in my time and was quickly reminded that it is quite challenging and that I am definitely going to be sore by the time Friday comes around.
I wonder how many people [...]