First days at the office

Well, it's Tuesday and I've officially started work. For the first week or two I'll be working in the office in Burnaby doing things like safety courses, software training, and all those sorts of things they can train me on while I'm here.  After a week or two, they'll be shipping me off to Fort Mac!

So far, the first two days have been good.  Everyone is super nice to me.  I've even made a friend (at least over email) with someone who is also new to the company and is in Fort Mac right now!  On my first day, I got my picture taken and wrote a little blurb about myself that was sent out around the office so everyone would know I was new and would know who I was.  I suppose it got sent to some people I'll be seeing on the work site as well.  I got an email from a lovely fellow named Tom who warmly welcomed me, and will be giving me some insight into the lifestyle in "camp".  So far, he says it's clean (which leads me to believe that "camp" doesn't mean tents??) and the food is good.  Either way, it's nice to know someone - at least by email - before going there.

Tomorrow I'll finish off my 7-hour safety training course, and start on something new.  Let's hope it gets more exciting!  By the way, everyone in the office is looking at me with great pity since they've all been through the training and feel the need to remind me how unbelievably boring it is.  They're correct.