One Way Ticket to Canada = Booked

It’s actually happening… we’ve booked our one way flight to Vancouver!!!!

28th October and we will be out of here! That’s just 65 days and 45 working days. And only 99 days until the opening day at Whistler, hope I’m not working that day…

We got a pretty cheap flight, £289 Gatwick to Vancouver with Air Transit. Pretty budget airline but who cares for that price?! Can get a snowboard or GoPro with the money I’ll save with not going with BA.

Job – check! Thanks to Andy and the Working Holiday Club.
Flights – check!
Transfers from Vancouver to Whistler – check!
Insurance – Meh, will sort soon…
Vancouver accommodation – Need to book
Staff accommodation – Will be sorted soon!
Work notice handed in – Check!
GoPro Camera – Buying today, thanks to a Wowcher offer!

Cannot contain my excitement right now!

5 Months to Go

I probably shouldn’t be starting a countdown til we go to Canada already, but now we’re in June it means it’s now just less than 5 months! It’s not actually that far away and it’s literally all I’m thinking about. As I said in my last post, we’ve signed up The Working Holiday Club to sort our jobs before we go, and I had my pre-screen interview by them last week. Basically, they just needed to check that I meet the criteria and find out what job I wanted to go for and they have to agree too before we go for an interview with Whistler Blackcomb in London in July.

I’d decided I didn’t want to do bar or retail work as I’m leaving a job I love in Marketing to do this, so I don’t want to completely lose 6-ish months of experience in the industry. A job as a Ski & Snowboard Sales Host seemed to fit the bill and The Working Holiday Club thought I’d be good for that job (he described it as one of the only ‘grown up’ jobs you can do on the mountain) so that’s the job I’m going to be going for. The job sounds pretty good, though I’m not actually too sure what it entails but it’s an office job on the mountain where I’ll be working 4 10 hour shifts a week, so have 3 days off a week – perfect!