Orientation

YAY SHAW!!! Very excited! Telus wouldn't set up my internet because the land line here is a business line through Syncrude so they would have to set up the internet account for a business at $59.95/mo.!! That's just nutty. Anyway, I got frustrated and called up Shaw who happily set me up with their current promotion of first month free and $29.95 for the first 6 months and I don't even have to sign up for a full year or anything! Woopee! This makes me happy. On top of that they will be able to use the telus modem Dan and I purchased last Friday which saves me money! Take that Telus!! Hehehehe!

Anywho, my roommate got here last night. She's really nice and has a lot of the same interests as I do. She's a civvy from Edmonton and also an only child. That could be good or bad!! We were up late last night chatting away which meant I should get an early night tonight (hopefully).

Orientation today was sooo dull! There was a lot of repetition about things like safety (which is fair seeing as how there's a lot of dangerous equipment both in heavy vehicles and chemicals.) We also got to hear all about the EFAP and it gave us a bit of a chance to meet some of the other people (particularly students) working terms as short as 4 months and as long as 16 from what I gathered. It's kinda neat. Lots of engineers though, holy freak!! Not that I'm not used to being around them... At least there was someone there that I recognized from U of S commerce. (Or at the very least he recognized me and came over to chat... that was nice!)

Get a tour of the Mildred Lake mine tomorrow, that should be fun! Have to get up at some ungodly hour though... Guess that's what I get for taking sort of public transit to get there. Time to go have supper I guess.

Signing out!