20 More to go.

I arrived at camp, with Ron Feilding, two days ago, after a long 9 hour drive to Prince George, a night at the PG days inn, and another 2 hour drive to Fraser lake, where the camp is located. It's like a compound, all fenced in, and built of portables, but like 100's of portables. I'm in D pod, room 6. It's about the size of a college dorm room, single bed, 20" TV, desk, and a closet. (w/ no hangers) The internet is really slow, even loading pages takes forever, especially in the evening, when everyone is on it.

The food is amazing. The first night there was BBQ chicken and salmon fillets, last night was ribs and chicken stir fry, I had a cherry cheesecake for dessert. there is always potatoes cooked in some way, rice, mixed veggys, pasta, a full salad bar with like 4 different salads... just unreal food. Every morning I have 3 eggs, toast, a bowl of fruit salad, orange juice, and like half  pound of bacon :) I'm seriously going to be so fat. Luckily they have a gym and I've been using it, but I can't imagine ow i'll ever be able to burn as many calories as I'm takng in here :)

There are lots of old guys here, like i'll bet the mean age for the whole camp is like 50. Makes me think that in 10 years there is going to be a rediculous amount of work. :) There are maybe 6 girls i've seen in camp, most of them are native.

I had my first day yesterday. (i'm writing this in the morning because the net is a bit better this time of day) It was a full 10 hour day of orientation. This stuff is boring when you only have to do like 2 hours of it (on most commercial sites) Everyone was falling asleep in their chairs after about 5 hours of it. :) They gave us a bunch of cool schwag though. I got a new hardhat, a cartrage resporator, tool leash, 4 pairs of sweet safety glasses, (they're like oakleys, but safety glasses) a new high vis vest. Today, we're supposed to have another half day of orientation, (yippy!) but we were told to bring our tools, so we might get to do something today.