When I
first applied for this job many months ago it was during a time where I was
still actively going to school and was working in the field I had studied
for. After not getting the job at first
I moved to another job up north in Kitimat. Now working in Kitimat is a much different
animal than working in the environmental field, but even more different is
teaching students. Just the other day I had my first lab tutorial where I was
the instructor. Being an instructor isn’t something that is entirely foreign to
me I had as a teen been a taekwondo student instructor but where my students
then were just tiny little people I know have full grown adults and young
adults that are paying money for me to properly instruct them on how to use lab
equipment and preform proper experiments. So from all this I can hope you get
just a little bit of how nervous I was, even if my class is only ten students.
I don’t think in my life I have ever came in to a job feeling so underqualified;
the whole beginning of the class all that was going through my head was, “Why
in the world is an institution that is rooted entirely in educated thought
paying me some kid from Canada to teach their future generation.” After knocking
ten years of my life with all my nervous stress it dawned on me how many times
I had done what I needed to teach and I may worrying for nothing. So I
introduced myself as Mr. Aronson said a little about myself and asked the
students to introduce themselves and bang just like that I had become an
instructor at a well-respected university. Crazier things have happened
right???
Besides
my slow transformation into Indiana Jones I have finally gotten around to
visiting some of Sydney’s beautiful beaches. On Saturday Brian and I decided it
was beautiful outside and that we should grab a ferry and sail on over to Manly
beach. Not expecting much from the ferry ride I was in for a real surprise both
in beauty and also in sheer magnitude of how big Sydney and the harbour
actually was. Manly is a stunning beautiful place with a really cool little
surfer town attached to it and beautiful people walking all around. I think I
found the true motivation for me to get back into the gym, everyone here is
good looking and my wonderful charm is only going to get me so far, I know my
ego has grown a little. After a search worthy of a stoner comedy Brian finally
found the one and only Pho restaurant in manly we decided that we should
actually spend some time the beach so
applied the lotion and took a little tanning time on one of the most beautiful
beaches in the world, as a bonus I think I only blinded s a few of the locals
with my pasty whiteness. Yesterday I got to visit another beach, Bondi, with my
hostel as part of free tour thingy to meet people and such. Too much
displeasure Sydney had been acting awfully Vancouverish lately so we were
greeted to some overcast skies and gentle ocean breeze that was not so gentle.
The tour was to take on this ocean side walk so that we could really get our tourist
on and see all that Bondi had to offer. Luckily even though the skies were still
reluctant to open themselves up the scenery was still beautiful and our party
coordinators were making excellent tour guides and keeping the group moral on
high by giving away hats and free drinks at the hostel bar for showing enthusiasm
and general interest in the walk. By the time we finally made it the actual Bondi
beach the sun had decided to grace us with its shine so a few people I had met
in my room and I hit the bar and enjoyed what was meant to bit a few gin tonics
but turned out to gin and soda water due to some poor bartending and stocking options
on the bars behalf. Nevertheless when the sun is shining and you are another of
the world’s lovely beaches it is hard to complain about the little things like
a mixed up drink. I feel like that’s one of the lessons that this trip has
taught me so far in its short duration, no matter what happens things could be
worse and things will get better, the little things like losing your phone and ten
dollar drinks getting screwed up are so insignificant there is no point letting
them get at you. For now I am going to head down and pick up so fresh veggies
from the market down the street and cook up a little meal maybe meet some
people and enjoy everything this city has to offer.
