Alot has happened since my last post on November 3rd.
- We have been here four years now (Nov 5th is our Canniversary)
- Julie has completed her first christmas craft fair show
- Gemma is nearly through her first semester at University
- Kathryn has brought furniture, stove (cooker to you Brits) and is neeearrrly moved out
- I have been very, very busy with my new job (and enjoying the challenge)
- We held our first nearly all Canadian Bonfire Night
- Letter back from the immigration / citizenship informing us our application is being processes
Were can I start....
We decided that this year as we have been here for 4 years to try to have a 95% canadian guest list for our annual bonfire party. I think we had about 55 people (slightly smaller than last year). After the party we discussed the differences between British and Canadian's when it comes to Bonfire Parties. Below are a list of differences (not criticisms)
- There was much less alcohol consumed (which is ok because we have a good supply for christmas)
- There was much less food consumed (which is ok because I had my lunches mapped out for the next 3 weeks
 ). People ate before they came?
- People left earlier, we had our discussion at 10pm I think they had all left by 9:30pm. We started at 6:30 with food and drink etc, fireworks 7:30 and bonfire about 8pm. I think the first left around 8:30.
- Much less talking between different groups. People tended to stay with the people they new.
Next year it will be back to 80% Brits
Work is keeping me busy (as usual) and I am really enjoying the challenges of a tight deadline programme (what's new) plus working in a completely different environment. The government work environment does have it's unique challenges and here in New Brunswick we have the added challenge of being the only official bilingual province in Canada. This means that we have to have all external documents available in both English and French. The project's operating language is English. The translation requirements creates a delay that you have to factor into the project. Sometimes it is frustrating, but the best way of facing it is to log it as a requirement and treat it as any normal part of the project workload.
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It seems as if more British families are arriving all the time. I have met at least two more, who arrived in the last couple of months plus they know others who are coming. No comment from me on the situation in the UK  | 