Rubbing shoulders with the (guest) stars

[Anni]

Interesting! My degree was in Social Sciences and Law, but I decided to become a Microsoft Accredited engineer instead when I couldn't get the funding to go to the bar (legal bar, not drinks bar! LOL)

Are you going back to Edinburgh to do your MSc? Graduate Training programmes are excellent start offs and give a sound grounding in companies. The company I am currently contracted to, BAE Systems Ltd, run an excellent Graduate Trainee programme with opportunities for travel and training in the US and no doubt other countries too.

Yes, I looked at the Kits rentals and I couldn't find anything I wanted below CAD2,000 per month, which would have been alright, but to be honest, I am better off right in the centre of Vancouver anyway, even though Kits is not too far away. My work will take me between Vancouver and Surrey, so I guess I'll get to see something of British Columbia!

I certainly wish you well in your career efforts. Hang in there. You'll get the job you want if you do!

 

[Tabitha]

Originally posted by Anni
Interesting! My degree was in Social Sciences and Law, but I decided to become a Microsoft Accredited engineer instead when I couldn't get the funding to go to the bar (legal bar, not drinks bar! LOL)

Are you going back to Edinburgh to do your MSc?
I certainly wish you well in your career efforts. Hang in there. You'll get the job you want if you do!

I start back at Edinburgh (provided they accept me!) in October and my MSc is in "International and European Politics". My undergraduate degree was quite heavily biased (by my own choosing) towards 20th Century American social and political history, so it will be quite interesting to study the broader perspective of International Relations.

I am really looking forward to it, well, apart from the abject poverty part! :dead:

 

[Texane]

:wave: that's me, waving at ya from Dallas, Tabitha! The creepy museum is the Sixth Floor Book Depository where JFK was allegedly shot from (many ideas about that, needless to say). The books where people have signed in as they visited the museum are as fascinating as the museum itself. And you'll get to see the grassy knoll . . . it's much smaller than it appears on television.

Originally posted by Tabitha
I would absolutely loath all those invasions of privacy. I understand that they are just people same as you and me, but allow me my understated excitement once in a while!

I hear ya. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have your entire life subject to scrutiny, and every move you make a possible shot for the paparazzi.

I found Dallas to be friendly on the surface, but there was an 'edge' to the people there which unnerved me.

I think I like that!

 

[Tabitha]

Hey Texane :wave:

I will definitely be putting that spooky museum on my itinerary. Is there anything I should not miss? Apart from experiencing that "edge" of course :eek7:

 

[Texane]

great jazz in Deep Elum, the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, the greatest steak on the planet [the Trail Dust Steakhouse is alot of fun; the Old Warsaw is outstanding, but expensive], The Women's Museum in Dallas, take in a Rangers game at the Ballpark in Arlington (it's a truly great stadium, with the feel of the old ballparks, but the conveniences of a new one), the summer musicals are about to start . . . there's alot more; I'll have to think about it . . .

Have a great time! :rolly2: