just wanted to touch in and let ya know how things are going
Calgary is really starting to grow on me now as I start to make more friends and get out and do things with cool people... mind you, warts also grow on ya...not that Calgary is a wart but it can be a definite "growing concern"
had an amazing week.... now that the official count down to me moving out has begun.. Tim and I have been talking a lot more..he must be getting heaps excited that I am finally leaving his place.
as for the boi front... things have been fun....
Ive been hanging out with a dude named Tristen.. who is from Niagara-on-the-lake and just moved out to Calgary too... one of the great things is he has been a good cheap date... we have gone out for dinner twice.. once to Denny's and the other time to the Ikea cafeteria... then this Saturday we rented a raft.. and floated down the bow river... it was really neat.. the river here is really shallow.. and on a weekend there will be hundreds of rafts of all shapes and sizes just floating down the Bow... it was a definite adventure... took us 4 hours... and about halfway into it... he decided he was hungry... so we stopped the raft on an island in the middle of the river.. which even though it is shallow runs very fast... and then he could see a 7-11 on land... so.. he waded across the river and climbed up and embankment, over a fence and 4 lanes of traffic to go and buy some bag of chips and a slurpie.. it was the funniest sight ever.. and when we finally got back to the raft..he tripped getting in and the slurpie and candy got donated to the river....it was a nice hot day out.. so we got burnt something fierce.. and the raft had many leaks.. so we were constantly pumping it up with air as we were floating...but if we sank its not like we had far to walk...
at one point.. we got stuck on some rocks.. and so we got out and walked the raft back to where the river was deeper... but it was also very fast.. and we didnt really pay attention to how close we were to the bridge... and as soon as we pushed off into deeper water.. the fast moving current took us head first into the bridge... poor Tristen was in the front... and we smacked the bridge really hard but luckily we had just re inflated the raft ... and when we hit the bridge... we got jolted back.. and thrown around... but somehow managed to survive...
it was soo much fun.....
its totally cool to be hanging out with people who agree with me that Calgary can be a very cold, mean city... but Tristen.. puts it in perspective really well.... its all about the company you keep./... and I definitely hope I can keep his company. He is all about enjoying life but to him, his enjoyment of life does not come from buying $400 pair of jeans nor doing heroin ... so I think at the very least I have made a really good friend.
Oh yeah 4 more sleeps till I move into the new pad.
posted by matt @ 9:08 AM
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