its a bird, its a plane, its the greenpeace airship!

This is a bit of a hurried catch-up of the highlights of my last three days. Sorry for the delay.

Monday:

It was my manager, David's, birthday and I was supposed to organize an Activist Network Happy Hour. But instead I decided to make it a birthday thing for him and secretly invited the rest of the office behind his back. So a few of us Activist Network-ees were sitting in the back of Thee Parkside, our go to venue, and Jarrod (who is not a part of the Activist Network) sits down. David says, "Oh, I guess this isn't going to be just an Activist Network thing anymore". Then more people start showing up, and David is completely surprised. Everyone in the office had signed a card for him that I made, and I brought cake - which we all devoured. It was really nice.

Tuesday:

I talked to the coolest person ever on the phone. She is now a part of our Student Network but has just graduated high school and has already done loads of work with PETA working on different campaigns, organizing protests and running events. She has been vegan for six years, and is probably my new best friend. But every day I find someone on the phone that I talk to who I pretty much think is my new best friend.

Amy had a crazy story of something that happened to her on the bus today. Some guy got on the bus, and totally passed out. Then he woke up, threw up in his hand a bit, then ate it, and passed out again. Hahaha. Gross.

Also we launched our Costco campaign - check out oh-no-costco.com. And we launched the airship. I definitely sewed on the "C" in "destruction" and the colon!

I came home and Aaron, Mandi, Jason, Noah (Aaron's 12 year old brother) and I all hung out for a while. Noah and I spent about an hour relearning the cup trick and then doing it over and over and over again. We are so cool.

Wednesday:

Today I had to call in and talk to my co-op coordinator back at UVic about how my work term is going. Apparently David said some really nice things about me, which is nice, and she was super stoked. No one from UVic has worked for Greenpeace before as a co-op term as far as she knew! Very exciting. :) Haha.

After work today we headed over to the Temple Night Club for a Green Corps fundraiser that we were volunteering at. It was cool, we were just greeters at the door and what not. Green Corps seems like a totally awesome thing to do (check out the Job description in the Green Corps link) and I might apply for it after I graduate university. I was going to stay longer and network a bit once we were done volunteering but it turns out the Night Club wasn't in the greatest area of town so I ended up heading home earlier so I could get on a bus before dark. Ended up waiting for almost an hour for a bus on Market St., but luckily there weren't too many crazy people. I seriously just feel so comfortable in this city, it's ridiculous, considering that I'm not at all a city person. But it makes me happy. I really love it here. I think I might just not come home.