Blame Canada

I know I said I'd only be doing a weekly blog from now on, but life in Canada has really started to look up in the last 24 hours so I thought I'd give you a quick update.

Last night we set off for our Bible study group (our church has one weekly, basically a bunch of friends get together and discuss something in the Bible - in our case, friends we hadn't met yet) in the middle of a snowstorm. We arrived to find it was cancelled because the weather was so bad. But the nice woman whose house it was invited us in any way, so we got to know her and her husband and watched a movie on their widescreen TV with vats of popcorn. So we've made our first friends in Hamilton!!!! Losers no longer! Yessss!

I've also found work experience with a local paper! It's called Niagara This Week, and I'll be doing freelance stuff for them. Their paper is twice-weekly and absolutely massive (140 pages total per week), so ‘word count’ doesn't really come into their vocabulary. My idea of heaven. They also get to do cool stuff like tune into ambulance and fire radio frequencies and find out what accidents have happened (which I think is actually illegal in Britain).

Not only this, but it also has a great name - people have actually heard of Niagara because of the Falls. The other newspapers have hilarious names like the Milton Canadian Champion (don't worry about those dastardly Americans, kids! The Canadian Champion is here! Dadadaaa!) and the Oakville Beaver. Must be pretty hard to get taken seriously: “Excuse me sir, would you object to a quick interview? I'm with the Beaver.”

Better than being with the Daily Mail I suppose…