Pembroke/Petawawa

So as Robbie mentioned earlier I am now temporarily living in Pembroke Ontario and working for three months at Petawawa Animal Hospital. My good friend and AVC classmate Katie and her boyfriend are letting me stay in the spare bedroom of their 3 bedroom house in Pembroke. It's a nice little community just slightly larger then Oromocto, about 15000 people, and is only 15 minutes away from work in Petawawa. Most would be familiar with Petawawa for its military base, also similar to Oromocto, but nicer.

Small animal is taking some getting used to after having spent an entire year working exclusively on horses but so far they have been nice to me and I am mainly doing vaccine appointments and health checks. They are slowly throwing in medicine type cases plus the odd surgery which have not been too complicated. It is somewhat frustrating knowing that at one point in time I knew a lot more than I can remember now, but some of this info that has been locked away in my head is slowly returning.

Katie left last Saturday for her vacation in Holland leaving me to take care of her dog Finnigin and the house so it has been a little lonely here for the past few days but I've been keeping busy with work, reading, and walking the dog. Finnigin is a very friendly, attention seeking lab that is much too needy for my liking but he is a good dog. It makes me realize that I am quite happy not having my own and that Cooper is very independent in comparison. Katie will be back in 2 weeks.

Becky has planned a trip to Ontario to visit with Robbie and I on the 25th of Sept. so I am excited to drive back to Kitchener for the visit. I will also be driving to Kitchener the following weekend for a working interview at a small animal clinic that is looking to hire as well as to celebrate my birthday! They will both have to be jammed packed weekends as it takes almost 7 hours to drive there and back.

I'll keep you posted on the goings on in Pembroke/Petawawa and post some pictures as soon as I get my camera cord!!

A couple bachelors

Well Jenn is in Pettawawa working at a small animal clinic and Cooper and I are on our own for the next three months. So far she seems to be enjoying the new job but I'll let her tell you more about that.

As for me, my trip to Bar Harbour Maine was fabulous. We had rain on the way in and on the way out but it was otherwise a beautiful week. I managed to fit lots of tourist activities into my time there. I climbed Mount Cadillac, went swimming at Sand Cove, hiked the Ocean Trail and around Jacob's Pond and enjoyed a couple fabulous lobster dinners. I did manage to fit a little work into my time there, however. We (hopefully) have managed to initiate several cod and Atlantic salmon fish cell lines that I will be nursing over the year. Here is a video of an elasmobranch tank (sharks, skates and rays) I took at the marine station:

Other than that it is life as usual. Now that I live closer campus I take the bus and have been able to join a few extracurricular activities such as tae-kwon-doe. While I liked our last apartment I won't miss having to plow through massive snow drifts to reach Waterloo.