A small update about my life here in Canada, I guess the pictures say it all!
We did 2 more hikes, the first upto the hidden Temple Lake. It's a climb up, not even on a real trail, but you end up at a small lake surrounded by high peaks.
The next day we walked up to Mirror Lake and a teehouse above Lake Louise, where we had a nice lunch. It's a small hut, where they serve fresch baked bread and teebiscuits. The people who work and live there are even more cut off of the world then we are, no running water, no electricity and no phones or internet, crazy, but the other side of the story is that they earn a lot more money then we do. After that break we walked further up to a lookout called the big beehive (because the rock looks like a beehive), where we had a surreal view over Lake Louise, which has a milky blue colour and the smaller mirror lake which is totally different. The walk ended with a refreshing swim in Lake Louise, just jumped in with my clothes on.
It were another 2 satisfying days off and now we're back to work. Talking of which, we got some good news as well: we got a pay raise of 1 dollar, jiepi!! I guess they really like team housekeeping :-)
It's been very busy last week, which is good for my pay, because it allows me to do some extra hours. I got my first pay check as well from the first 2 weeks, it's not to bad, but a lot less then what I'm used to in Belgium. Off course I'm in the rockies and my accommodation isn't expensive at all, so can't really complain.
The weather is also very good, even a bit to warm for me, today we had 30 degrees which makes the work even harder. The rooms are so hot and no airconditioning, well it's a good work out. Luckely we got a new member on team housekeeping, a Japanese guy joined us yesterday, something unexpected. To cool down after work I sometimes go for a swim in the pool, but that causes some whinging from the guests who catch me swimming and they're not allowed:-) although I don't think they would like the pool if they would know what I found in the water, a death mouse, very hygenic hey but to late for me.
The evenings go by playing pool, jenga or twister :-), playing softball, volleyball or badminton or just end up in the bar.
We did 2 more hikes, the first upto the hidden Temple Lake. It's a climb up, not even on a real trail, but you end up at a small lake surrounded by high peaks.
The next day we walked up to Mirror Lake and a teehouse above Lake Louise, where we had a nice lunch. It's a small hut, where they serve fresch baked bread and teebiscuits. The people who work and live there are even more cut off of the world then we are, no running water, no electricity and no phones or internet, crazy, but the other side of the story is that they earn a lot more money then we do. After that break we walked further up to a lookout called the big beehive (because the rock looks like a beehive), where we had a surreal view over Lake Louise, which has a milky blue colour and the smaller mirror lake which is totally different. The walk ended with a refreshing swim in Lake Louise, just jumped in with my clothes on.
It were another 2 satisfying days off and now we're back to work. Talking of which, we got some good news as well: we got a pay raise of 1 dollar, jiepi!! I guess they really like team housekeeping :-)
It's been very busy last week, which is good for my pay, because it allows me to do some extra hours. I got my first pay check as well from the first 2 weeks, it's not to bad, but a lot less then what I'm used to in Belgium. Off course I'm in the rockies and my accommodation isn't expensive at all, so can't really complain.
The weather is also very good, even a bit to warm for me, today we had 30 degrees which makes the work even harder. The rooms are so hot and no airconditioning, well it's a good work out. Luckely we got a new member on team housekeeping, a Japanese guy joined us yesterday, something unexpected. To cool down after work I sometimes go for a swim in the pool, but that causes some whinging from the guests who catch me swimming and they're not allowed:-) although I don't think they would like the pool if they would know what I found in the water, a death mouse, very hygenic hey but to late for me.
The evenings go by playing pool, jenga or twister :-), playing softball, volleyball or badminton or just end up in the bar.
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