5/13/2008
For those who havn’t heard yet I already have a job. On thursday I went and dropped an application in at the cinema up the road, friday they gave me a call to come in for an interview and on saturday I got the job. It’s by far the quickest I ever got a job. The pay isn’t that great but every 14 hours or so I get 2 free movie tickets, I also get commission on food combos that I sell (if I’m at the food bar that night, last week the highest selling person got $192 from that alone) I also get an extra dollar an hour for the whole shift whenever I hang round the extra hour until closing time. Couple that with the fact everything here seems to be a lot cheaper, video games are half the price than Australia. I am a happy camper.
It will certainly be a nice change from selling computers.
5/6/2008
The last couple of days we have been searching for lamb. I like lamb chops a lot and it seems in Canada very few people eat lamb. None of the supermarkets have fresh lamb and only a couple of them have tiny loin chops frozen and imported from the UK.
Yesterday we finally found fresh lamb shoulder chops at a tiny little indian butcher shop. They were good. But at $21 for 3 chops, I don’t see me getting them very often.
5/3/2008
Girls are strange beings. On my flight to Canada I was sitting next to a lady called Fiona. Short, really skinny (a little disturbingly so) and 33 (I guessed 32 before she told me… so close!) She seemed quiet and a little bit scared. I asked if she was ok and she said that she was scared of flights ever since she went sky diving. She talked a lot, but I guess it made her feel better to talk because she looked a lot less freaked out as time went by. She ordered a beer and offered me one, I politley declined because I don’t often drink. She didn’t like that response and said she would feel bad and offended if I didn’t let her buy me a drink for making her feel better. I said fine, it was her money anyway. A drink wouldn’t hurt.
She kept talking, I kept responding like I was interested “oh really?” “and then what?” “what did they say” It made the time go faster than complete silence and the battery in my laptop had run out hours before so I had nothing better to do anyway.
Not sure how it ended up at it, but by the end of the flight she had given me her phone number in Canada and offered to take me with a few of her friends camping in a few weeks time if I was still in the neighborhood. Noone ever gives me their number so I was a little surprised. I took it but had no intention of calling.
I walked off the plane, got my luggage and my Visa. Went home with Florence and gave her the piece of paper with the girls number on it to dispose of. She ripped it up and threw it out.
The end.
And then I found 20 dollars!
I miss my stuff. Especially my computer. A geek without a computer is like a soccer player without a soccerball. A cricket fan in the football season. A leg without a foot. A bed without a mattress. A face without eyes. A host without a client. A knight without a weapon. A keyboard without keys. A car without an engine. A camera in the dark. A disabled person without a disability.
I’m not complete! At least there is a Wii here that I can play. And my eeepc has been doing its job to tide me over but I really can’t wait to get back to a real machine.
5/2/2008
I got a Visa for Canada for 2 years. It was surprisingly easy to get, must be because we’re both part of the commonwealth and they’re dieing for workers. Spose I need to write a resume and all that fun stuff… blegh I also need to sort out my house and utilities and banks and address’ and blah and blah and blah etc and so forth.
Holidays are holidays and mine just ended so it looks like I’ll be getting right back into work. YAY!
Or I might leave it until monday… yeah that sounds like a plan.
Here is the news that some of you already know, and some don’t. I quit my job the other day because I am not coming back to Australia. I am staying in Canada for now, with Florence. She is old enough to be my mum (17 years my senior) and fat (300+ pounds, though we can work on that) and yet, she makes me happy in ways that I have never been before. It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make, and yet also one of the easiest. On one hand, I have a job in Australia, my friends are there (will be weird when they don’t drop in randomly over the weekends, I might even miss them!), my family is there and all my stuff is there. On the other hand, I think I have found love. Don’t all the movies say how love is the best thing ever and you should do anything you can to get it? Well I did, and now I have it. It is worth it.
I will continue this blog so if you’re interested in what’s going down in the life of Tim all you have to do is read it here. My holiday may be over but my journey has only begun.
Liz we will have to catch that movie later. I wont forget!
Met another Tibian yesterday named Subtlechaos and we all went to Six Flags. Quite unlucky for him he crashed his car on the way to pick us up, it still drove ok, so it didn’t stop us! Six Flags is basically a big rollercoaster park so if you like rollercoasters then it’s for you. Some of them were insane, some hurt and some were really fun but by the end some of the magic seemed lost. They started to feel the same. The parks is great but what it gains in rides, it lacks in personality. Somewhere like Disneyland had things going on everywhere you looked but here, while the gardens and stuff were nice it just didn’t have the polish. That park is the last thing on my holiday. Today I am going home.
