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[db le p]

Reading that makes it sound like you've had a great life man, good motivator, good role model. Lets share some couloir time in the future.

(ps - I didn't know that it was you that I shared the room with one night in Niseko. Remember when I slept on the floor and kept asking in the morning if there was a brothel in town?)

[farquah]

Good luck mate, never managed to meet you but always enjoyed the read and the banter. Back home for the "green Ba*tard"!! Enjoy it.

[dizzy]

another good read toque! best of luck to ya
thanks for the BC pointers you've given me

[Toque]

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Originally posted by le spud:
Reading that makes it sound like you've had a great life man, good motivator, good role model. Lets share some couloir time in the future.

(ps - I didn't know that it was you that I shared the room with one night in Niseko. Remember when I slept on the floor and kept asking in the morning if there was a brothel in town?)

We definitly have to hook up for some couloir time. Let me know if you get over to my side of the pond.

You serious?
I knew it was you but in that I'm a dork that you sometimes talk to on the internet thing didn't say anything

[Toque]

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Originally posted by daver:
right on man. good luck with it. i'm thinking about applying to the same programme. just curious, did SFU and UBC take your teaching experience here in japan into consideration? i know that back in ontario it counts for squat. which is sad.

on another note, have you ever been to the selkirks? if you get in are you planning on living in castelgar? or is it feasable for you to live in the much more fun and happy/hippy town of nelson?

I don't have any other teaching experience and they want you to have a tonne if they accept you. So I guess they did take me being an ALT for 3 years as experience. For SFU I was only on the wait list though and just recently got accepted. So maybe they don't rate it as highly

I'll probably be living in Castlegar at first if I go to Selkirk. I know it's kind of a hole but that's where classes are.
I'd really like to live in Rossland. I love that town. Nelsen would be cool as well. I could do the hippy thing.

[Toque]

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Originally posted by farquah:
Good luck mate, never managed to meet you but always enjoyed the read and the banter. Back home for the "green Ba*tard"!! Enjoy it.

I can't wait to be able to watch TPB regularly

[me jane]

Good Luck Toque! Hope you still get the time to post lots on here.

Daver, a friend of mine went back to the UK to get her teaching licence after teaching in Japan and while it didn't count for anything on the course she was able to start her first job a couple of grades higher on the pay scale. Don't know if that would apply to Canada.

[SerreChe]

Yo Toque, was great having you on the forum. Thanks for all the pics, journals, controvertial opinions and humour . Looking forward to hearing about your Canadian adventures back on this very forum next year. Take it easy dude.

[BagOfCrisps]

He's not gone folks, no need for the byebyes! I'm sure he'll be around here even when he's not in Japan as well. Looks like lots of us hope so anyway.

[Davo]

Nice read Toque. Your Dad sounds like a good guy getting you out in the montains early-I have the same secret plan for my girls actually. Cheers for the one and only(sort hike though it was) backcountry trip I did this season. Good luck with the studies and the "real" teaching mate.

[ianbc]

the selkirk silk is as good as pow gets, i'll be loafin about in december.

nice read

[ianbc]

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[Heather Locklear Rocks]

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Interesting, thanks. Enjoyed reading your stuff - hope you stick around here when you go back.

Good luck

[eskimobasecamp]

beanie i'm sad you are going (i know you're not lol) i mean not that i'll ever catch up to you up a mountain, but it was cool to hang out this weekend, bbq up some dry ass chicken, play truth or dare, amongst other shenanigans

[Fattwins]

you just dont eat what you are given.

[Toque]

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Originally posted by eskimobasecamp:
not that i'll ever catch up to you up a mountain

Make it your goal
Thanks for the chicken by the way. I was really able to work my jaw muscles
Good to hang with you all those times
Even if we never got to ski together

[eskimobasecamp]

one day beanie, one day... i'm coming to canada for the season after this one!

[SG]

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Originally posted by Toque:
and hopefully get a teaching job after

You have had a fantastic run since coming to Japan, I have JET friend here in Nara, who put Gifu/Nagano as he choices but got Nara instead.
Getting Gifu must have been the catalyst for your vein of good form (broken foot aside)

Best of luck for the the next leg of your life. I remember your first post as "ILivetoskiyou" now you are "Mr Snow Japan".


One thing though, dont want to rain on your parade but it a really tight market in B.C. for High school teachers, two friends of mine and experienced school teachers ( Canadian with Kiwi husband ) who are complete outdoor freaks desperately tried and failed to secure teaching jobs in B.C and ended up doing crap jobs like snowshoeing tour guiding before moving to the Yukon to take up teaching jobs there.
There are lots of outdoors-ee people wanting to be teachers, they have the same idea as you.

[Toque]

Yah I know
Not so much work
But it's there if you look

I was originally "ILiveToSki"

[SG]

oops sorry typo added a 'you' in there somehow.