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About Me

Facebook me! What do you want to know? I'm not English... I'm Canadian - born and raised. Moved to London in September 2005 to teach primary school and travel. I have a love/hate relationship with London. I hate the coffee here. I hate that there's no decent sushi restaurants. I don't know why Londoners seem to love to queue for everything. I hate that I miss my bus every morning, and that I spent just about as much on public transport as I did on gas when I had a car. I also hate that I had to sell off every asset that I had to survive here. But I love the people I have met. I love the accessibility to the rest of Europe. I love making pounds. I'm not sure that I love British school children, but I like my job alright. I love clubbing all night and carrying on into the next day. I love the shopping (although wish it were sized the same as Canada!). I also love the fact that my friends back at home think that I have picked up an accent - when I haven't!!! I suppose if you want to know anything else about me you have to ask!

My Interests

I love concerts, snowboarding, shopping, reading, sleeping, spending time with friends, and Starbucks coffee. I love the colors black and green, candles, the beach, procrastinating, deadlines, cars, hiking, warm weather, picture books, vodka, campfires and camping, road trips, spontaneity, laughter, randomness, talking, sushi, chocolate, sunsets, summertime, buying jeans, handbags, originality, ambition, intelligence, loud music, dancing, clubbing, traveling, sleeping, markets, and that sort of thing.

I'd like to meet:

Any other fellow travellers to share some stories with... or who just wants to listen to mine (hahah I'm serious). Anyone who's laid back with a good sense of humour and shares common interests.

Music:

In alphabetical order: AFI, Anberlin, Aqualung, Arcade Fire, Athlete, Augustana, Bloc Party, Brand New, Counting Crows, Dashboard Confessional, David Gray, Deathcab for Cutie, Doubting Paris, Fallout Boy, Foo Fighters, The Fray, Frou Frou, Funeral for a Friend, Goldfrapp, Groove Aramada, Howie Day, Imogen Heap, Jack Johnson, Keane, The Killers, Metric, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, Mute Math, My Chemical Romance, Our Lady Peace, The Postal Service, Razorlight, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Remy Zero, Ryan Adams, Sigur Ros, Silverchair, Silverstein, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Stabilo, Story of the Year, Straylight Run, Sublime, Taking Back Sunday, Third Eye Blind, Thom Yorke, underOATH, The Used, and any others that I've missed or recently discovered.

Movies:

Anchorman, Life Aquatic, Crash, The Butterfly Effect, Blow, About a Boy, Love Actually, Italian Job and basically anything with lots of shooting and blowing things up.

Television:

I don't really watch much TV, but when I do, I usually end up watching CSI, The O.C., One Tree Hill, E.R., or MTV.

Books:

The Time Traveller's Wife, The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Life of Pi

My Blog

Easter Backpacking

Just back from the best trip ever! For Easter break myself and some friends backpacked through Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia for 13 days. I think my favourite place was Riga - we had an ab...
Posted by Jen on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:10:00 PST

Residential Trip

Finally it's over... the long-awaited, somewhat anticipated, someone dreaded residential trip. Hahah. Two year 5 classes, 4 staff memebers, one parent. And I have to say, that despit...
Posted by Jen on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:29:00 PST

What's different....

Kids are so weird. This morning walking into class I got: "Did you not get a lot of sleep on the weekend because you look really tired?" "Did you get botox over the weekend because your skin looks dif...
Posted by Jen on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:22:00 PST

Sunday adventures.

Today's adventures started with being sold the wrong travelcard. We had gone out last night and all stayed over at my riend Carmen's. All I wanted was a zone 1-6 travelcard. Easy.&nb...
Posted by Jen on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:26:00 PST

Easter plans!!

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! We booked our trip for Easter time... me and Casey are going to fly into Krakow on 1 April and somehow make our way through Poland (hopefully via Wroclaw and/or Warsaw) to Lit...
Posted by Jen on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:04:00 PST

Snow Day!!

So today is one of those days when the weather forecaster was actually correct in forecasting the weather... rare, I know!! We were predicted to get 4-6cm of snow for this morning. Last ni...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:37:00 PST

Its been aaaaages....

It has been ages since I have written a blog... and so much has happened that now it almost seems like too much to write about!! So abbreviated version. No internet at home still, which i...
Posted by Jen on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:32:00 PST

To everyone at my Canadian home....

Well, this is it.... back in London. After a delayed flight (thank goodness not more than about half an hour - but what is it with the cleaning crews never being ready anyways?!), an hour and a bit lo...
Posted by Jen on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:04:00 PST

Home thus far...

Well, I can't believe that I have been home for 10 days now.... time has absolutely flown by, and in a lot of ways I feel like I have never left. I think that's one of the great parts about home...
Posted by Jen on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:23:00 PST

Langley and London

Things I'm looking forward to in Canada (in no particular order but the order that they come into my head) - The fact that the pound is worth double the dollar so my money will go twice as far (with t...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:39:00 PST