Yip thats right. The Canadian Embassy has issued me with a "letter of introduction'" which is basically what they call their entrance visa. Woohoo! They're gonna let me in - obviously not many of my stories have gotten around ha ha. So I'm planning to leave in about early Sept prob around the 10th. Then going to LA. From there, its one of two options. #1 Meet up with my boyfriend Brendon [who just left the other day so I'm feeling all sorry for myself right now! :( ] and then we spend a couple of weeks travelling around the states before heading up to work in Canada now that we both have working visas for there. Then after about 9 months there we would head to the UK to do the 2 yr working thing before turning 31. Option #2 is to go to LA. Maybe or maybe not spend time in USA travelling around and then later in the month heading to France for the Rugby World Cup. You see, my darling Brendon managed to weedle his way into getting media accreditation for the World Cup as a "freelance photographer". So I've also now applied for that and if we both think we've got enought money we'll do that before flying back to Vancouver and working there. So I'm not really sure what I'm doing and when exactly I'll be in canada but you can guarantee that I will be there! And if anyone has any ideas about travelling cheaply in France I'd love to hear them - or if you've been and you know how much it cost ya to travel around a bit. So thats about all from me. Nothing that exciting here. There is snow on the mountains for the first time this year - for you north americans its pretty late considering a few of the ski fields were hoping to open this weekend. K. Take it easy Jen x