Mo’some Tonebender

The way I sometimes go on and on in my blog, you would think I am having a horrible time. Really that isn’t the case. These blogs are mostly for the people that I don’t see and I want you all to know that things aren’t the same without you. It would be easy to pretend to be nonchalant in my blogs but I have to admit that I am sometimes kind of a mess from the move. Homesickness doesn’t come when I deal with the major changes. Language barriers and culture clash doesn’t make me pine for home. These are the reasons I came here. Nope, I feel most like being in Calgary when I am doing the things that I always did, but are now broken. I still watch downloaded television and drink way too much coffee on Sundays. Though now it’s a bit lonelier because I lack partners in crime for these “inactivites”.

I still eat out more often than I should. Now more than ever, because it’s easier to find a place where I can figure out what I am ordering than it is to buy things in the supermarket. Either I can’t figure out what the things are in the first place, or if I can tell what it is, I can’t read the directions. (It is actually not any cheaper to buy groceries most of the time because produce is crazy expensive) It is also pretty solitary experience most of the time. In Calgary I can usually find a diner companion within two phonecalls and meet within 15 minutes. That doesn’t really happen here most days.

I am making new friends though. The university students I mentioned in an earlier blog are quite fun to hang out with. About half of them are Italian so I call those four “Little Italy” Example:

Schdief: “We are going to karaoke tonight, want to come?”
Mason: “Who’s going; Little Italy?”
S: “Yeah, and the Icelandic guys and some Japanese people”

I have a whole Italian tour plotted by them for next year. They are all from different areas of Italy… Bologna, Milan, Sicily and some other place. One of Little Italy is moving into our house next week and another is dating Schdief, one of my roommates, so we have a little family going.

That’s all I guess for now.