A Brief Tour of the Long Road to SLAIS

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A Brief Tour of the Long Road to SLAIS

• Caroline Watt
• LIBR 500-Introduction to Information Technology
• watt.caroline_at_gmail.com

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The Set Up

• I was born in North Vancouver, BC
• I am a fraternal twin
• I grew up in the beautiful Village of Lions Bay
• These were the days of
• bowl cuts
• violin lessons
• an 8 year competitive
• swimming career

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Travel Time
Spain

• Feeling restless after high-school and wanting a
  change, I decided the best thing would be to take
  off for 5 months
• I visited a few countries

The Netherlands
Britain
Czech Republic
France
Ireland
Hungary
Italy
Germany
Belgium
Switzerland
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We slept in conditions only acceptable to 19 year
old backpackers. We marveled at fabulous ruins
We cycled the windy west coast of Ireland We
spelunked in Hungary
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...and with my head still firmly in the clouds
after travelling,
I decided to go off and...
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do some climbing

• We climbed granite
• We climbed glaciers

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and finally, back to school I went

• I completed my BA in Geography at UBC in 2004
• Shortly after graduation, I began work in the
  Geography Department as a Library Assistant in
  the Geographic Information Center
• Click to visit the GIC
• Geographic Information Center

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....and at some point, a dog appeared

• Benjamin Mylo
• commonly known as Ben
• also answers to Monkey

3 years old
7 weeks old
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Growing Pains

• Back in the day, the normal routine
• consisted of
• Chewing sticks
• Playing ball
• Eating
• And when that was all said and done,
• sleeping.

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Adulthood

• Presently, a typical day
• consists of
• chewing sticks
• playing ball
• eating
• and when that is all
• said and done, sleeping

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And that is a random selection of events that
have occurred on the long road to SLAIS
Credits Map and Photo of Lions Bay used with
permission from http//www.lionsbay.citymax.com/p
age/page/479914.htm
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