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Well, I wasn’t stunned and amazed.  The portion of Surrey I’ve seen looks pretty much how I imagined.  A little bit more upscale I imagine from the Surrey of old.  With a ton of condos and new looking malls.  I was stunned and amazed however at yesterday mornings announcement that the city of Surrey was (okay, I’m going to mash this up a little, I’m not quite sure of the phrasing, ) voted the arts capital of Canada (or something like that, I wish I’d been paying more attention)  What I do remember was the person saying that Surrey was awarded $2,000,000 dollars!  That is sort of a hard figure to forget.  So looks can be deceiving!  And when you think about it.  The Surrey International Writers Conference, with over 800 attendees, was started 15 years ago by one person (name and gender is not coming up) in one room and now it’s this huge thing with over 70 workshops and blue pencil cafes (I’m doing that.  Sort of odd holding people’s precious scrap of writing in my hand and I’m supposed to tell them how to fix it.  Humbling actually.  And I sit there praying that I don’t steer them wrong.  Tell them to take everything I say with a fistful of salt as I am no expert) 
Anyway, it’s crazy busy, I’ve got up at 3am to try to get some pages in.  Made myself a makeshift desk in the bathroom with the ironing board as my desk and the loo as my chair.  Felt pretty resourceful coming up with that, finding it all in the dark, my husband sleeping peacefully in bed.

Yikes!  They stop serving breakfast in 10 minutes.  Have to get dressed and skaddooodle.  Bye.