One of the biggest changes is my new job. I got a job as a Legal Assistant at North and Company LLP in Lethbridge, AB. Its a pretty good size firm with branches in lots of surrounding communities. It includes, Taber, Milk River, Claresholme, Warner, Picture Butte, Vulcan, Crowsnest Pass, Pincher Creek and possibly a few others. (I can't recall at the moment.) It's so much fun to be learning so many new things. I haven't had to apply my brain for so long now its a tad out of shape. So its nice to be using it again. On the down side, the learning curve is HUGE! I'm not sure I'll ever remember all the legal terms and documents that I use almost everyday. There's just so much. I have to constantly remind myself that I've only been working there for a few weeks and I'm not expected to instantly know it all. But its still tough. I can see the advantage of going to school for anything legal. At the very least it would've helped with the vocabulary. That's right. You try figuring out what they want when they say: "Use the precedent for the Unanimous Shareholders' Agreement found in the Corporate Matter #####.###, copy it into the submatter you've just opened, then form a resolution to update the Corporate Minute Book." HAH! It might as well be in a foreign language. BUT I am slowly learning, and I love the challenge I get everyday. :)
So because I've stumbled into this awesome job opportunity, we're staying in Lethbridge for at least a year or two, so that I can build up some experience. If at that point we have to move for Jordy's work, then I'll be able to get a job at another law firm.
Jordy is ALMOST done his degree. He has one course in July/August and he graduates in October. We are super excited for him to be finished. He's still searching for a job opportunity in Lethbridge, which has turned out to be a lot more difficult than we thought. It turns out that accounting firms aren't hiring as many people this year as they have the past few years, and most jobs are in the larger city centers. Ie: Calgary and Edmonton. But in the meantime, he'll find a job at a bank or something similar until we can move, or he finds an accounting job.
We went on our camping trip this summer the 5 days before I started at North and Co. It was lots of fun. We headed out to Salmon Arm, BC. On the way there and back we stayed with some of Jordy's family in Golden and I love their house! Its a beautiful log house that is nestled away in the woods outside of Golden, BC. It was like walking into a story book. Very charming. They make lots of their furniture themselves out of wood from the forest around them. It was just so amazing. It rained almost the whole time we were camping, but even that didn't ruin it for us. We found that we LOVE Salmon Arm. Yes there was rain, but since there was not a hint of wind, it actually fell down-wards, not sideways at you. We had a beach umbrella just stuck into the dirt at the campsite and in Alberta it would have been miles away in about 2 seconds. But we left it there like that the whole time we were camping and it didn't even fall over. It was amazing. The area is so beautiful too. The lake, and all the trees, and the mountains. Its like the Crowsnest Pass but no wind, and a warmer lake. Like I said, we loved it.
I can't think of anything else that you may have missed out on since February (yikes I'm a bad blogger) so I'm just gonna post a few pictures from our trip in the next few days and say talk to you next time.
