Saturday, July 30, 2011

Goodbye Emma and Suli

Tears and Beers 30/7/11 17:32

So the time came for Emma and Suli to leave Dare. Suli managed to coordinate her leaving to match the same day as Emma.

It was hard emotionally. The usual solution and form at these thing is to find beer. We pretty much wrote the whole afternoon off. From 3PF at lunchtime we didn't really get back to the office afterwards.
We did a bit of a pub crawl from the Lukin, via Jetlag (and lots of B52s) to the Ship.

Their leaving meant lots to me because for a long long time we were sitting next to each other in the old office with me in the middle and knowing that they aren't going to be around as much is really odd.

In the ship we carried on drinking and people came and when thru the afternoon. Bui brought some pink champagne at one point and there were shots. It was in the Ship were I sprung a little surprise I had planned. I gave each of them a stained glass star that I had made in evening class which they both loved (and managed to remember to take home with them).

We managed to get them back into the office for their leaving speeches. Which weren't as painful as they thought they were going to be (they had planned on not returning at all). After which the whole company went to the Yorkshire Grey to drink the night away.

It ended after a McChicken sandwich with the remainder of us going our separate teary ways at Warren Street tube.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Whistler On

28/07/2011 17:31

Well I made the commitment after alot of research and thinking. I decided pretty much from the start that it has to be Whistler, as it's meant to have great conditions and socially is meant to be quite lively!

In the end I've decide to go with basecamp and a slightly different sort of a course.
It's 11 weeks but rather than doing just ski instructing the whole time, this is course is first half ski instructor level 1 and the second half is an all terrain skills course. This should allow me a bit of fun and not be too hard code that the wear and tear get too much for me.

The next question is how to tell work....