Time

Vancouver is really expensive, but to find a job won’t be of any help to you. To the contrary, it will make the things even worse.

In fact I found out this city is expensive not only in terms of money, but also in terms of time.

Lately I am really running out of this precious resource, and my lifestyle is getting harder and harder.

I get up at 6:45 to start working in my part-time position in Richmond. Taking things sometimes too easy when at home, that just means running down the streets to take the Skytrain.

I finish at 12:30 just to run again: Skytrain to downtown and walk to go to my internship (unpaid of course!).

When I get back home I just have some spare time for my dinner and then again I do some research on the net for my internship. It’s been going on like that for less than a month and I already feel exhausted and craving for a holiday,

Week-ends are not so much better: clean my room, wash my stuff, go for cheap shopping alternatives (that is to say T&T in Chinatown, that is also to say at least 1 hour and half to go and come back).

The Old Dirty Dublin, when to go for shopping it was a 5-minute walk matter is just a pale memory now.

I now understand why everybody in Vancouver seems to be always busy.

I don’t even know how I will find some time to dedicate to my blog.

I reckon I won’t be so sad to enjoy a long week-end next week, as probably it will be one of the last sunny period. The time has been busy too passing by, and if you don’t believe the calendar you gotta believe the cool air in the morning, the roasted chestnuts sellers (they are so autumnal in Italy!) and the rows of pumpkins in the supermarkets (already??? Is not Halloween in a month time???).