Blogs from North America - page 8183

Made it through my first week at Laerdal!! I started my assignment by reading through the 2007 marketing plans for each of the product lines. Across the plans, there are some inconsistencies and gaps in the demographics information, so I'm doing research to fill in those gaps and create current, accurate demographic profiles of each of the target market segments. For example, I'm trying to find the number of hospitals (and the number of specific hospitals, i.e. acute care or pediatric), hospital ERs, EMS/Fire agencies, military bases and hospitals, American Heart Association and American Red Cross chapters, nursing homes, registered nurses, pediatricians, etc. It's not going too badly - I've been able to use a couple of databases of hospital and EMS demographics that Laerdal has purchased, and I found some figures online (but the online ... read more

Last you all heard was that I was homeless in Vancouver. Well I would like to inform you all that i'm off the streets and into an apartment pretty much right downtown Vancouver. I'm here with 4 other people I worked with in Lake Louise and so far we absolutely love it. It's a two bedroom apartment on the ground level so we have a nice patio. Our landlord also left us his big screen tv and we have internet and phone which is nice after 6 months of not having any of that. I have been job hunting with no luck yet but with all the job postings around i'm sure it won't be long. I have been getting to know the city lately (trying to feel like a local). It feels like we've ... read more

So its not been such a busy day today but an enjoyable one nevertheless. We have most of our travel details sorted now so we are off to Vegas Next week ans San Francisco at the end of the month. As for the rest of the day, I was hoping to use the pool again but no such luck. As iI was outside, you could see large grey clouds on the horizon and by the time I reache the roof terrace here I could hear the thunder in the distance. After the initial dissappointment of bad weather I decided it would be quite cool to watch a storm here because they're meant to be amazing. So we settled down outside but under shelter (Vicky, Mark, Aunty Linda and me) to watch the storm. It did actually ... read more

It´s been far too long since my last blog entry. But for once we´ve been quite busy... Our first stop in the USA was L.A. We spent a couple of nights in a hostel in Venice. Venice Beach is a fun place with crazy people everywhere. Moreover it isn´t as posh and superficial as many other places in L.A. After the long flight from Sydney to L.A. we suffered from Jetlag. It was quite a funny experience. We woke up in the middle of the night, couldn´t fall asleep and were hungry at weird times. Due to our jetlag and Philipp´s cold we didn´t do much the first couple of days. Once we felt better, we rented bikes and rode them along the Pacific Coast. We saw some dolphins while chilling on Santa Monica Pier ... read more

Morning light lit up half the rock opposite. Up at 5.30am. Eggy bread for breakfast. Stopped at mile 20.5 to walk up North Canyon, a narrow water-worn hole. Walked through a pool at the top to get a bit higher. Georgie Rapid was a major play spot for some - a bit too much for me at this stage in the trip. Only created by rocks in the last 10 years. Camp no 2 at 31.5 miles. No swimmers yet. After off loading and changing, went for a walk up to see some remnants of an Indain settlement, seeing some art on rocks, and a grain store up above. Saw our first "century plant" flower - the plant grows for 20 to 40 years, and then flowers with a very tall flower just once and ... read more