Lucky..?

I was thinking about how lucky I really am in life..

Monday, the restaurant I am (was) working at, exploded.. there was some people injured and stuff. I was lucky I was off that day. A friend made a comment making fun of how I just "escaped dead".. and that made me think that altough this one wasn't really a close call, I've certainly had quite a few of them.
I've almost died several times, and each of those I've thought of myself to be really lucky. But somehow I feel that that's as far as my luck goes.

By simple things as saying that I've never won anything in my life, to more complex situations.
For example.. that of the restaurant I am (was) working at exploding. They said they could sponsor me for my visa extension which is just what I want.. and then this happens.
At the moment I haven't heard anything about what's going on or what's gonna happen, and I have no means of contacting anyone.
Now, luckily I had a part time at the Four Seaons.. and the housekeeping manager has been giving me a full time schedule for what happened (he even offered me to go back full time to work there).. thing is.. I don't really want to. I'll do it if there's no other choice.. but I'll try to avoid it.

Money.. I always have enough to get by.. but when I start making some savings, something happens and I go back to nothing.

Then, girls.. seems like every single time I find one that I get to love, I can't be with her.. it's happened before (Jaz and Brenda) and it's happening again.. I like her a lot, and she just doesn't care about me. I don't know if it's even worth to keep trying..

I want to stay here in Canada longer, but things ain't looking too good for the close future. I haven't found where to live, job is uncertain and the visa thing seems to be getting more complicate without a sponsor (which I don't have yet). Not even where to live, 'cuz I have to move out in November.

Meanwhile, weather is getting colder. In the morning on the way to work you can see how flowers and plants are all frosty. We're getting under 0 already. Time to get warm clothes out of the closet once more.

So, I think I missed a little bit my point about being lucky.. but that was mostly it. I've managed to keep alive, but always missing the good parts of life.

I miss my family and friend. Thank God Victor came to visit and we had a blast! Best week I've had in a real long time!!
Talking, drinking, chillin'.. and those fun times at the apartment.

Good times

Great expectations!

.. No, this ain't about the movie with that same title.

After swallowing some pride, I decided I could go back and work again for Four Seasons, so I had to get a haircut, take out my piercing and shave. After the first day at work.. well.. I kinda remembered why I had stopped working there in the first place, and greatly regreted having that haircut and removing my piercing (it's closed now).

I'm actually hired as a CASUAL banquets server. Highlighting casual it's important. It shows that I'm not hired as a full time, it means that I just have to work for them whenever they got something for me. It also means that I don't have a steady paycheck waiting for me every now and then, but it may vary depending on how much I worked (which leads to not being certain I'll be able to pay the rent and booze... and food)

So I decided to keep looking for something else. And something else came up!

Tomorrow is my last day working at the clothing store (readers, stay away from working at retail! it'sa easy, but no good-ah!) and sunday I start working as a cook in a restaurant!
I admit i'm a bit nervous on that matter.. it's been a while since I've been in a kitchen other than my own, and not even there I've done much proper cooking.. but it's a good oportunity to take that back (and make some bucks).

Even better than that, Vick's coming (teehee!) to Canada next week!!! that should be fun <("<) !

I'm still thinking about what to do for a near future.. still changing my mind a lot.. should I stay in Whistler? stay in Canada? extend my visa? if I do.. should I do it on my own? or get sponsored by anyone?... or should I try to tramit my permanent residence?

I wonder where's that magic crystal ball that should tell me what's best to do.

Reading some more from Neil Gaiman.. love it!

Uhm... yeah!.. and luckily I'll get internet back this week!

same old story

I've been wanting to post.. over and over.. and I just don't. Many reasons and excuses. It's sad the way I've forsaken my dear blog.

This time I can blame it on my living situation: I have no internet.. (no, I'm not lying, I'm at the library). There's not much to tell anyway.

I'm still working at the clothing store (still in Whislter too). And I'll stay here hopefully for another winter season. But it'll all depend on my visa thing. It expires on December, and besides I'll try to extend it, doesn't mean I'll get it, so we'll see.
Seems like I'll go back to work for Four Seasons. Some friends coming back to Whistler, which gives it some sorta 'familiar feeling'.

Having a booooring life at the moment. The apartment I'm living in has no TV and no internet.
Funny how the lack of those two make life so... 'apart from the world'.
I kinda wonder what was life like when those didn't exist. Also there's only me and another guy in the place.. so if one of us is working, it gets very quiet and lonely.

Hopefully I'll move to another place with internet connection by the end of the month.. so I might come back..

(Probably not, but the will will be there)

Cheers



PD. I forgot to mention.. creepy Hector! aftner months and months of no posting, last time I did he commented the same day! hehehe

Nah, but really.. thanks to all readers and comments welcome =)

Resurrection !!

Will this blog become like Lazarus? come back from the land of the dead?
I really don't know.

Thing is that since a couple days back I've been thinking of writing something again. I have no idea of what I could write about, since it's just so much that I can't think of where to start.
I'll just give a quick hint points, and might repeat a couple things, because I don't remember what I wrote the last couple times (and I'm also too lazy to check it).

So, winter's finished.. I went snowboarding for the first time in my life, and I loved it. I went from zero to blue lines (intermedium). After living with the english guys, I moved out to another room (inside the same building).
I went to live with a couple guys from Chile, real nice guys, good friends. But eventually, as everyone else in this town.. it was time for them to go home. I miss those guys, but I guess that if I'm staying here any longer I'll have to get used to that. People come and go with every season.

I got tired of having my ass bitched off everyday at the Four Seasons hotel, so I changed trades. Now I'm working at a clothing store up in the Whistler Village. Retail. Not the best thing in life, but at least pays the bills.
I just got compromised to work there until August, and I'll stay until then. After that I don't know what I'm doing.. maybe Vancouver, maybe stay here.. who knows..

With the hospitality program I'm doing fine. I'm the one doing best with the exams, but it's completely boring.. I can't wait for it to be over.

Got a PS3!! So nice! got it with Metal Gear 4 and Guitar Hero. It's a nice way to waste some free time. And I started reading Neil Gaiman. I had a book from him since winter, I rescued it from the garbage at the hotel.
Gotta say.. started up a bit strange.. took me like 3 times to pass from the first pages. But as soon as I kept on with it, I loved it! I love it, he's a great writer. I'm reading Neverwhere, I think it's a "second edition" of it or something like that, since at the beginning it says so.. that no matter if you read it before, this one in particular is a different one. Anyway I love it.

And.. that's pretty much it. As I said, I don't know if I'll keep posting or not, but here's this one.

Cheers.

Life in Whistler!!

This is by far the most fun city to live EVER!

I haven't written in a long time, and it's been because first I didn't have internet connection where I live, then I was too busy between work and study.. and also a bit of lazyness.. but well, Tomas' constant sexual harrasment forcing me to keep on writing finally convinced me.. (not that I didn't like it.. hehehe)

Aaaaanyway, I'm living in Whistler, a town 2 hours away from Vancouver, a very high class touristic place where people come most of all to skii (well, actually I live in Creekside, which is 10 min. away from Whistler). I'm working at the Four Seasons (1 of the 2 AAA 5 diamond hotels in Canada, and the only resort with that award in Canada). I work in housekeeping, which ain't much fun.. but it pays the bills and a bit more =)
School is booooooring as hell! I wish I could just keep on working and drop school.. but well, hopefully it won't be forever.

I live with 2 english guys (Ash and Ed) and 1 australian (Murray). The building where I live used to be an hotel and the Four Seasons bought it and rents it to us, so there's only employees living here. It's quite nice, since for the nature of this town 70% of the locals are young people between 18 and 27 years old, and at least 95% of the people living in this building fit that range.

There's been memorable things I'd like to mention..

1. My roomie Ed eating cereal with beer (well, there was no milk.. and that way you save time when you wanna eat something to drink later, right?)

2. For New Year party, I went out of the building and saw Matias and Oscar (2 friends from Chile) on their balcony on the 2nd floor, when they asked me where was I going, I told them to come to the party.. so Oscar just jumped!! (4 square meters of soft snow and a tree in the border).. well, imagine he landed on his back exactly over the tree, just to come near me to tell me he had to go back inside because he forgot his jacket!

3. Fat Tony's Pizza (best pizza ever!!! honest)... ehm.. (while being drunk AND sober)

4. Going up Whistler mountain with my new snowboard just to came down most of it on my ass! (my anus is bleeding!!... well not really, but it does hurt..)

5. Following a total stranger on my birthday because I was so drunk I thought I was following a roomie, and when I realized it was the wrong person I was in the middle of the road.. in the middle of nowhere at 3 am..

Oh well.. it's been almost 2 real fun months up here, and I'm having a great time, met so many peolpe that I don't even know the names of all of them yet, and keep on meeting more.

Cheers!!

Time Goes By..

.. I’m still here, nothing special has happened but a couple things I’d like to post about.

First one is that for the very first time in my life, I got to “celebrate” Halloween at school in a country where it is a holiday (we don’t really celebrate it in Mexico).
Totally different than in Mexico, where people may get a disguise for a party at night or something, in here people even disguise for school. I gotta say mostly as a guy.. OMG! There should be a Halloween every week! I could almost drool all around the place looking at so many girls with disguises so hot and sexy!
So from now on, I make it official that I like Halloween and there should be one weekly (or at least monthly).. and I don’t exactly eat lots of candies.

On the other hand, I got a little traditional too. Pearl bought a big pumpkin (well, I dunno what’s the average size of one, but this one seemed big to me) for me to carve, and I did! I opened it, got the seeds out and then carved it. When it was done we placed it in the kitchen table, lights off and a small candle inside of it. It was neat.
Besides we put the pumpkin seeds in the oven and then put some salt on ‘em (also known as Pearl did all that) so we could have them as a snack while watching a scary movie.

Then it came to me a taste of the Canadian kindness.. at school I told the teacher that since I was running out of money, and we were supposed to be working already according to the first plan of events they gave us, I wanted to get one temporary job while we start with the one up in Whistler (I still gotta start there on November 27th).
So anyway.. seems like the principal of the school, who is also the coordinator for the hospitality program, heard about my lack of money and willing to get a job, so out of the blank he just gave me 40 bucks.
Honestly.. caught me out of guard. I totally didn’t ever expect that’d happen.

Last thing on this post is my ice-skating classes. I like to think I’m proving.. and Kim says so, but honestly, I don’t feel is like that.
Anyway, today he offered me that he’d give me a couple beers at the end of the skating, but for each time I fell he’d take 1 back (that is, I could fall just one at the most if I wanted to get any free beer)
Besides that, he told some kids that he’d give them $1 every time they made me fall, but they weren’t allowed to touch me, they could just skate near me. Of course he didn’t told me about that, I just figured it out, and when I told him that he accepted having made that deal with the kids.
At the end I fell 2 times.. but still got a beer =)

Cheers!

Longest Week Ever!

Finally things are moving in the program, we went already to a couple job interviews (2 up in Whistler and 2 downtown Vancouver). Everything so far points that we’ll end up in Whistler because the high season is just starting there, while in downtown Vancouver everything will slow down from now until March or April.
So because of that seems like I’ll be working in Whistler until summer, when I definitely want to come down to Vancouver (and it’ll be high season).

As I knew it from the beginning we’re being the guinea pigs for this program (we’re the first group ever). This program was designed by teachers at school, and they have no idea of what’s going on with the hospitality industry, so now that we had the interviews the most likely place to go is Whistler, but not only that, also they start hiring on November 27th, which means that we’ll have to stay here one more month without working.
So for the time being, we’ll just keep going to regular classes. The school already talked to the home stays families to arrange that we stay with them.
We don’t even have to worry about the coming group, because so far no one else has got their visas for coming here.. (that makes just 3 of us have got them for no special reason.. seems that just good luck).

I feel happier and happier with my home stay family. Before we new what was gonna happen with us with the job, and where we were gonna be living, Kim talked to me and told me I could stay here no problem, and I shouldn’t worry about the money.
Wednesday was Andy’s B-day, so Thursday we went to a casino to celebrate (I didn’t bet, and Andy lost $100). After that we walked to a bar nearby where we had a snack a quite some beers (Andy also got some tequila shots, hehehe), it was real fun! And Andy got drunk (Kim said that when he got back home he threw up)

Last Monday two Japanese guys (Kensuke and Yazu) came to live here, though they only came for 10 days.
Today we went ice-skating, and man it’s difficult and painful.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’d never skated before (not on ice nor roller skate).

After that I was supposed to cook that soup (“carne en su jugo”) again, because they really liked it and they asked me to, but at the end we went to eat to a Japanese restaurant really good!! It’s the best Japanese food I’ve ever had and the 2 Japanese kids said that it was real Japanese food (we asked dinner for 6, so they took several different dishes).
Also Kim asked me to cook some tacos at his work too. =)
Oh right, and Kim’s mom (whom I met since Thanks Giving and it’s a really nice lady) wants me to prepare her sometime some Mexican dish, just the same as the guys we went out to the casino on Thursday (Andy’s friend family)

Oh well, now with a bit more expectations and a couple more worries I look forward to see what’s to come.

Cheers!

PD. Oh right, sadly for the job interviews I had to get my hair cut, shaved and took out my piercing.. the principal at the school told me I looked better with my hair long, and now the people that already knew me in here make fun of me because I look much younger..