katie

Internship available at one of Canada’s leading advertising agencies. Learn the ropes by working with our creative, account service and administrative teams.

This is where I work.

If you’re interested in learning a little more about the agency model, we’re doing some cool stuff around here. You can come and spend time here as an intern for four (4) months. Eight hours a day, just like a grown up. You’d float around and experience the account side, the creative side, the operations side - the whole thing.

Email me if you live in Halifax and are interested! (tower.katie @ gmail)

Update: at this time we are done taking applications. Thanks for the interest!

[photos by James Ingram]

Today I read that good blogs tell stories. This blog doesn’t even tell the story of my boring day-to-day life, but my friend Spencer is travelling from Vancouver to Halifax by Hand (hitching) and is keeping a blog about it (a real story!). He’s a great writer and I suggest you give it a gander if you’re canadian/like to travel/are bored/are nice. He’s a cool dude. Also if you know of places he can stay or rides he can catch, that’d be cool too, I’m sure - although he didn’t ask me to write any of this. (He probably doesn’t even know that I read it!) For the record, he’s not “fairly average” he’s a pretty extraordinary, adventurous person. He’s just being humble.

hiking X hand by Spencer Creelman

My name is Spencer Creelman. I’m fairly average. I’m sitting in a warm, comfortable kitchen in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada.

I don’t have many things planned for today:

1. Sew up a hole in one of my two pairs of pants
2. Set up a blog
3. Buy a map of Canada
4. Fly to the far side of the country

Tonight I’m going home. Tonight I’m flying to the farthest large city in Canada from my home I can. Tonight I’m taking a habit I’ve made in the past 13 months to an all new level. Tonight is the beginning of a journey across Canada supported by the generosity of my fellow countrymen.

I’m going to hitchhike from Vancouver, British Columbia to Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s not the first time anyone’s done it – I’ve certainly had friends that have already at least once, but it’s going to be fun.

There are going to be a ton of new experiences on this trip. The last time I saw the rockies I wasn’t even five years old and I still have never seen the other side. The longest I’ve ever hitched was from Lyon, France to Huémoz, Switzerland – a grand total of 270km, less than a fifth the distance between Vancouver and Halifax. The driving distance between Vancouver and Halifax is only marginally smaller than the distance between Halifax and Lyon!

I have great friends all across this beautiful country that have already offered to help me with places to lay my head and I’m looking forward to meeting tons more. 5,085 driving kilometers in one month, starting tonight.

Wish me luck.