Week Two.

Yup, you read right, it's been two weeks. Two whole weeks. I have no bloody idea how or where that time has gone; but somehow, somewhere it has. I can't really say that is last week has been overly exciting or interesting in anyway if I'm honest, but it has allowed me to have that time to settle, to relax and fit in.

I mentioned he fact that I got accepted for a job in my first weekly post but I didn't really explain much about it. So basically it is one of the best steakhouses in town, with an awesome cocktail list and a bunch of seemingly lovely members of staff, half of which are my housemates. So yeh, I'm pretty stoked to start working there, or at least I was until I picked up my training pack this morning. Over 40 dishes, some with more than 14 ingredients, that I need to memorise and be able to describe by this time next week. Christ. As I write this I'm currently taking a break between learning the difference between romaine lettuce and butter leaf lettuce, what the hell pepperoncini is, and how an earth I pronounce the word arugula. It really is a lot to get my head around. 

In an aim to learn more about the town I'm to be spending the next year in, and as my housemates told me 'get loads of free shit', I went along to the Banff Ambassador course last night at the Whyte Museum. The course consists of two parts. 

Part one is a free one hour chat conducted by Banff Life, who are a voluntary group in the town that put on events such as pasta night, and movies under the stars to get people involved within the community. They spoke to us about what is on offer, basic facts about Banff and information on what those new to the town need to do/see when they first arrive. This then leads on to part two which is in partnership with Discover Banff tours, and it is a heavily discounted (by heavy I mean down from $55 to $5) sightseeing tour around Banff and Lake Louise. Once Danny gets here I am going to get straight on is, I've heard pretty good reviews, of course I shall do one of my own on completion. THEN once this is done you get an 'Experience Passport' which provides the aforementioned free shit. Always good!

I feel like I'm rambling a bit in this post, as I said I haven't really done anything overly interesting, but these weekly updates are meant to be for just that. Letting my family and friends back home know what's going on and what I've been up to. Obviously I've been practising my skiing, going up to the hill when I can and taking all the advice I can get. I've signed my lease, got a postal address for all those Christmas presents I expect to be receiving in a few weeks, and signed up for my healthcare so when the time comes and I do have a monumental fall trying to fly down a black run, I'm all covered. It's all riveting stuff I'm sure you'll agree, so I'll leave it there and end with the fail safe picture time. Lots of love ...