my second day in calgary was rather uneventful. but i’ll make it an event for the sake of good reading!
i worked for a measly two hours. and the whole time was just washing dishes. when i was finished i hopped the bus to a different area of the city altogether, and checked out some cool stores. then i had lunch at a place called ‘Avocados’. a mexican grill. it was good! it’s a franchise, like everything else out here! but a place i would definitely eat at again. i had a bean burrito and french fries with garlic aioli.
then i came back to the hotel, and played a ruthless game of scrabble online with warriorette. she beat me…school’d me, i would even say! but in my defense, i had a Z and a Q at the end of the game…
then today i worked for around 8 hours. started training some guys finally. it was hard times! we’re literally working in a construction site. like, there are guys drilling holes in the walls around us, and plastic sheeting everywhere. it’s overwhelming. it took us like 2 hours to make rice…i think it can only get better though, because everyday the construction crew gets a little closer to completion. so i’ll be looking forward to each day more and more!
after work i decided to check out Kensington Village. and i enjoyed it thoroughly! a unique community which is exactly what i’ve been looking for since i got here. lots of shops, cafes, restaurants, music, and cool people.
i did a walk around the main streets and looked in a couple of shops. stopped into a small gallery and looked at some photographs and paintings. pretty much just explored the area. it’s really cool. i even walked through some of the residential parts, and it made me think of a small coastal town. unpaved back alleys, weathered, but cute houses, lots of rocks and trees…for the most part, a very cute neighborhood.
i ate dinner at a thai restaurant called ‘Delicious Thai’. i had a spicy tofu dish that blew my mouth off! unbelievably spicy, and so delicious! i chatted with the proprietor of the restaurant and he told me about Thailand and why the food is so spicy. he said the restaurant is family owned, not franchised, and that pleased me!
then i went to a coffee shop called, ‘House’ and talked to the proprietor there. he told me the coffee shop has been open for nine years, and how they’re all about fair-trade, organic coffee, and that pleased me as well! he also told me to check out a neighborhood called, ‘Ingleton’ which is similar to Kensington. there were some people hangin’ around inside playing guitar too, which was pleasant as ever.
then i hopped the (wrong) train and rode all the way to the depot outside of town. pretty cool, cause i got to see the city from the outside. then i hopped the right train back home. and since then i’ve just been hangin’ out, reading, and internetting. watched the Blackhawks win, finished On The Road, and blogged!
so far so good!
