Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Candace's Update







Hello everyone!






It has been a while since I added something to Shawn and my blog. I am having a great time in Victoria (This picture was taken in Winnipeg over the hoildays.) I still can't believe I can ride my bike to work in February without having to worry about snow and ice! It is quite bizarre!



While in Victoira, I am staying with my cousin Carolyn, her husband Kevin, and their two cute kids, Jeffrey (4) and Claire (8). I sure hope that I am not driving them up the wall while I am staying in their house.



I am really enjoying my job here in Victoria. I am currently helping the Ministry of the Environment's Water Stewardship Division design (and hopefully implement) a water-related outreach strategy. What is outreach you say? Outreach can be a variety of activities such as answering questions over the phone from the general public, making presentations to a certain group, creating a web page listing easy things the general public can do to protect their water, etc. The goal is to promote voluntary compliance and to increase awareness of water-related issues around the province. So far I have also had the opportunity to travel to Nanaimo, Prince George and Surrey to meet with folks from the different provincial regions to discus outreach. Pretty cool.



On a totally unrealated note, I have been in this province for just over a month and a half, I have STILL not seen a cute and cuddly killer whale!!!!! Ah nuts! Here killer, killer, killer...whale!

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