Flights are booked!!! We leave Darwin November 17th and fly to Sydney, then straight to Vancouver for a one hour stop over then off to Calgary! And we arrive on the morning of the 17th! So weird going back in time..
We received our contracts from Panorama Mountain and they changed Aaron's start date to November 9th! DILEMMA! Aaron sent an email advising them we didnt fly in until a week later and they were happy to change his start date to November 22nd thank goodness! So we wont get to travel around for two weeks as planned... well Aaron wont but I will =)
The exchange program includes one nights accomodation in Calgary so we will spend our first night there and then make our way to Panorama on the 18th. I think it takes around 4 hours? There are bus shuttles that run to Banff and then to Invermere so see how we go.
As soon as we arrive we need to set up bank accounts to be paid into so we will be doing that in Calgary. We've been told to apply for a Social Insurance Number as well but I think we need to wait until we arrive so we can apply.. so many things to do! Might ask IEP about that one..
I need to buy some snow boots when we get there as well because I am going to freeze! I checked out the weather and in November they have maximum temperatures of -3C!!!!!
Oh and my leave without pay wasn't approved at work so I will be taking all of my rec leave (unfortunately my 9wks sick leave goes down the gurgler) and then resigning. I am taking my leave at half pay so I will get about 3months paid leave so at least we will have some money as back up as we arent getting paid much ($8.73 per hr for me and Aaron is on like $10 or something) CANT WAIT!
