Where are you, Robitussen?

Have you forgotten our wonderful blog already? I want to hear some more stories! :D
I am in Lake Louise now...I hitchhiked here from Penticton yesterday, and I have finally discovered what I want to do with my life...it has been a most wonderful week. Plus, I have successfully peirced my lip...this time in a Starbucks bathroom hahaha, and it is even better than last time! Who needs a professional? :P Anyways, that is my mini update. See you in a few days! Or maybe 5 or something like that...I leave in 2 days anyways :D
Peace,
Outdoor Edna

Shcool not that much...

As I realized like some other students, I'm back to school really soon. OMG summer, where have you gone?? Well I can't say I had a boring summer, neither was it that much fantastic though. But I certainly had fun more than once! Like this last week, which was my only escape of the summer *sigh* but still fun. With my visiting german sister, her friend and my mother, we spend 4 days in New York city, the closest but hottest place to go when you're out of vacation or money, and even... :P. NYC is quite expensive because of all the cool souvenirs and shop crying for youre money. The shops even got a great marketing help from the temperature for free, only because it was so warm outside, the only way to survive the day was to enter a shop sometimes to cool down with their A/C fully on. Thats how we got to shop a bit, and even, though I didnt buy anything :P. Anyways, it was great, I got to walk the whole Brooklyn bridge, take a free ferry to see the Statue of Liberty closer, see the Mamma Mia musical (!!), eat a 50$ italian dinner (:P), visit the Metropolitan museum of Art, visit the Madam Tussault museum and take picture with celebs (Brad Pitt, Gandhi, Spice Girls, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown.... :D). All this in 4 days! Great times in the Big Apple, but I'm starting to realize cities doesnt suits me that much, and how much I miss the Mountains from the West!! Oh damm, and that week before, I went for a hike with dad and Simone my german sister, and boy was I out of shape, pathetic too :P. I better use that gym card my mother lend me until fall :S bhahaha! The job I do doesn't help neither with all those broken pastries and dropped croissants I refuse to waste. Well you know how I am about this :P. So anyway, I can't wait for Robitussen and Edna to get together for real, so they can actually discuss and laugh together, oh memories are making smiling :). Next post I hope will be a collective one ! :D

Hobo Style Take 2

Oops, did I say blanket? I meant to write backpack....I have two backpacks, and are they ever heavy! So, we walked, oh say about 8km to the campsite and honestly, it nearly did me in. I had a backpack on the back, on the front, and a purse...plus, we bought groceries, but my friend carried those :D
So we got there, finally, and guess what...no water! Did I mention how hot it was? Right, so we had to boil the water...wait for it to cool...then drink it. What a gong show. It was so good to be there though. And the host was hilarious! She was the lady who came around to collect the money, and the first day she was nice enough...the second, she was SO drunk! And she brought this crazy vineyard worker with her who could barely speak, he was so inialated, and they were telling us the weirdest things! Like, while the guy told Ludovik about a million times that in one month, we coud pick anything we want, she was telling me about this hippie commune near here where there are lots of parties and drugs, where she lived for four years...but telling us to avoid it. Alrighty then lol. It was very strange. Then, suddenly, they decided to leave halfway through their "conversations" with us, and walked away. The vineyard guy kinda stumbled and put his arms around her waist, and she giggled, then turned around, looked right at me, and yelled, "You! Don't be afraid of the sun!"
Wtf?
What does that even mean!?
It was rediculous. Then she partied all night with the guy in the hippie van next door to us.
The next day, when she came to get our money, she seemed very embarassed and wouldn't even look at us, then took off after minimal polite conversation. Hahaha.
After a few days there, we found a job...what a lameass job tho. Works out to about 6 bucks an hour, so really with groceries, we have lost money here. Here is where the hobo part of this comes in. For example, yesterday, we worked our lame job, then walked into town to buy groceries. First, we stopped to use the bathroom, as of course, there are none where we are working. Then, we sat outside the (closed) tourist information office, because there are some outlets back there so we could jack their power :D I tell you though, sittin out there in the pouring rain, eating Mr. Noodles we bought and filled with hot water at 7-11 because our stove ran out of fuel, and shivering in the cold while we stole electricity...well, that was a low. Haha, pretty funny though!
Oh right, before there we washed our hair in the river because we have no access to showers...
And then we walked back, pitched our tent at the side of the river, and made ourselves at home.
Of course, since it was freezing, and I have no blanket or matress to keep me warm, I had to improvize! So I wore: 1 pair of normal socks, 2 pairs of wool socks, 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of pyjama pants, 1 tank top, 1 cotton sweater, 1 wool sweater, and my winter jacket...and I was STILL COLD!!! Oh my God, I was FREEZING! It was nice to be sleeping on grass though, instead of gravel like at the campsite :)
Then today, it was still raining so we couldn't work, so our boss gave us a ride into town. We played cards at the coffee shop until the library opened at noon and...here we are!
It's pretty fun though, this hobo adventure. I'm glad it's only for a couple weeks, but it really makes you think in an excellent problem solving type way..think about it...no bathroom, so power, no fridge, no stove, no bed, a tent for shelter, no bike, no shower...the list goes on and on. What an adventure! Stoked to have a dorm room tho :P
Haha, did I write about my lip piercing adventure? I re-pierced my lip in the library bathroom, but since I had this stupid plastic stud that just bent, I couldn't get it through! So now I have a really sore lip and feel very stupid, and have to wait for it to heal so a can get it done proffessionally. Jeez Louise. For those of you wondering about my sanity, don't worry...my posts should become relatively normal in about 3 weeks :P...when I become...a student.
What will I do then? It is so unadventurous after the gong show year I have had...anyways I ran out of time again.
Peace! :D

Livin it up- Hobo Style

I think I have drifted down to the dregs of society. Yup, thats right, I am living the life of a hobo. How did this happen? You may ask...well, here it is. I hope my mother isn't reading this.
(Actually I hope she is- but after I tell her so I get her initial response :D )
So, after leaving the wonderful place that is Creston, I got on the bus and came her, Oliver BC, population...well, looks to be about the same as Creston on the population front. Quite different on the people front though- there are so many Indian people here! And if you interpreted that as East Indian, you are right. If you interpreted that as First Nations, you are also right! Good job, everybody! :D
Yup, so it seems it is more of a multicultural place, somewhat less plentiful of rednecks, horray!
Right, so here is what happened here-
I met my friend from Courtenay, who fortunately has a tent, and brought my little hiking stove from home, so we had that. Unfortunately, I don't have a mattress, pillow or sleeping bag (although I do have a shawl, which I pretend is a blanket lol). Somehow, without all this, I still have on very big and one regular sized blanket....uh oh looks like I'm gonna have to split this post into two because the library internet turns off every half hour...so I'll post this now and continue in a couple minutes.

Througt the bushes

So as promessed, heres my post about that FABULOUS day at paintball. It was for sure fabulous, though tremendously painful, and expensive, but full of awesomeness and fun! Let me explain first: at the paintball, you get to dress as a soldier with gun and mask, in a scenery just like those war video games, but you get to shoot paintballs instead of bullets, which is quite better, because when you die, you don't actually die, you're just out :P. But I think everyone knows that, I'm just streching my post for my own fun. So today, we first had to wakeup at 5am to get to the center at 7am, which was 1h20 minutes long drive. Painful. And of course we got lost, so we arrived 45 minutes late. Once there, it took about 30 minutes to get all set, with the gear and instructions. And on the very first game, a second after the game had started, as I ran down the hill to get to a wall to hide myself, I felt down and kinda badly hurt my right leg. what a good way to start a full day of running in the woods :P. And as I was ready to test my gun, it was blocked. I tried to unlock the security guard, but then a piece of the gun fell down. Oh damm, that could just happen to me. Ahaha, anyways, I got it fixed and skipped the first game, but the rest of the day, it was absolutely great. Even if I was to coward to get to the front lines and face the enemy, keeping the defensive position, hidding in a place and not moving from there until death, I really enjoy it! Its quite manly though, for an activity, the guys get so pumped up about it, its hilarious. But for me, theyre just like kids in a playland :D. Some are really well equiped too, its amazing to see how much they could spend on this for gear and time spend here. They get really serious on the field, its almost like theyre not here to have fun, but as a duty :P, still ridiculous. Anyways, for a first time it was awesome, but I certainly wouldn't do it every month, even every year, so it's hard physically and expensive. At least I got lucky and haven't been shot in the neck like my sister, oh good she got one of those ugly bruise, I felt pain for her! Only one on my little finger, the first I got, that hurt still, and my right leg, that for who knows why, still hurt so bad :S. I even have a huge lump all over it. Thats gonna be great for work tomorrow. Oh crap, work will suck so much tomorrow, I can't hardly think about it. Oh well, that's it for now, can't think anymore since I'm awake for too long, I can't even look at the screen straight. I'll just end this post by saying that my german sister is finally arrived, and I'm so sad to work so much this week to not enjoy more time with her. But I can't wait for the week after where we are going to NYC for few days!! :D It'll be my second time there, but you can't see to much of New York. Ok now it's the very end of this post. I write about a word per minutes, it's pathetic :P. Good nite y'all !

Titles are for People with Categorizable Thoughts

Mine are not. Who knows, maybe this will be a short post with a sudden ending (am am preparing to partake in a boy stalking expedition with the girl I am staying with), and maybe it won't...guess you'll just have to read it and find out! :D
Anyways, boy stalking is none of your business...so I'm not gonna write about that. Expect the unexpected! Lol, what on earth am I talking about?
So I am still in Creston, living among the rednecks, and I really like them a lot. The big trucks and racist jokes are not altogether appreciated, but the people are good and I'm enjoying myself. Today, and yesterday, I have been super tired so kinda have been working less, but that is ok because I have been working all day every day since I got here, so they are ok with me taking a break. Like I said, they are very nice people. I don't know how they do this every year tho! It is non stop hard work!
Yesterday, I actually got to pick some cherries for once, and I am a natural born picker! I think it is because I have a love of trees...and because I have turned out to be quite an efficient person. How this has happened is beyond me, as I tend to spend about 90% of my time staring into space, but I can just focus and go into my zone where I'm not hurrying, but go super fast. I think it is because I have had so many menial jobs by now that I just do whatever it is without thinking. I have come a long way since my frustratingly slow days at Quiznos...those lineups would be so much shorter now! :P
As usual, I have no idea why I am writing about this, but I have to write about something right?
Mostly I am working at the cherry pitting station, where I am first on the conveyor belt and put the most disgusting rotten cherries on nice little leaves and send them down the belt as "gifts". The woman who pushes the cherries onto the belt and I sit there and laugh, as the girl I am staying with responds quite ungratefully and throws them at us. Good times!
I gotta tell you tho, some of those cherries are pretty bad. Like, if they didn't come off a cherry tree, I for sure wouldn't be able to identify them. Still, I love those things and eat about a billion cherries a day :D
However, they do make prime ammunition for cherry wars...looks like we have come out of a violent battle at the end of the night.
I think I am anemic again tho...haven't been eating anything of substance since I got here, which explain the tiredness. Oops. Maybe tomorrow I will walk into town and buy a whole bunch of spinach...that would cure me. Spinach is the best.
Oh wow, I am tired...now I'm rambling on about spinach!
Anyways, I think that this post is really going nowhere, so I think I'm gonna end it right now...
Peace! :)
Outdoor Edna

Bread people

After all this time searching for a topic to write about, I finally came to write also about my job. Meh, why not? It's also kinda fascinating sometimes, though I don't work with rednecks and stuff, ehehe. Nope, I work in a fancy kinda bakery, really good actually, with homemade organic bread, but also faretrade coffee, homemade pastries, and local cheese. So as it's all really good and conscentious, you might expect as well the customers to be conscientious (if the word do exists....Do I need to precise at this point that english is my second language..? :S). Yes, most of them are really nice and fun to serve. Yes, most of them do have a lot of money to shop there. And yes, some of them are snob :P, but eh, it's kinda better than those madmen and women from the store I used to work at, but I'll talk about it in another post maybe.. So anyways, it happens sometimes to encounter really nice customers, the regular, those who come EVERYDAY. It's quite stunning to realize, since we sell 3$ coffee and 2$ croissants, and they do come in EVERYDAY. But I like to already know what they'll get, they look so happy then, to be considered as a regular! What I also like are those who come for the first time, the new ones, but the open-minded ones, not those who just look around and complain about the high prices :P. I love to help and answer questions about the bread, and moslty the pastries. My boss is also impressed to see how fast I learned what was in each of them, I'll just say it's a passion for me, really :). I even sometimes wonder if I should study in this... Anyways, that other day, while I was serving a nice man Hindy looking, oh well, from an Asian country, there was this freaking dumb woman staring at him until he left, and even out of the place, she followed him to the door, to "look for what he'll do", like he will past by her car and punch a window !! She even looked discussed when I handed him is order and wish a good day ! How retarded is she, to even think like this!! I was so shocked and mad about it, like, today, it's really wrong and old thinking. It's almost a taboo to be racist ! On the other hand, can't blame all those ignorants to be like they are, but I just hope they don't have a large entourage that share their opinion :P. There is this old lady also, always coming for a soup close to the closing of the store. Usually she call first to know what are the soups of the day, because we also serve breakfast and lunch, but since we close a 7pm, we don't really have that much to serve for dinner. So this lady call and come not long after. She is quite funny in a way, but annoying too, because she always come when we are cleaning the place at the end of the day, and ask all the employees to make her order, so we're all busy for her, and end up doing like 3 alike ordes for the same person! I Think she is just in need of attention, which is sad, but the bakery is not really the right place to get it, mostly if we are ready to close the store, it's just irritating. Or some customers come at lunch time, while the tables are full, and expect to be served right about their sitting at the last table avaible. HELLO, I saw you, I'm busy RIGHT NOW, let me just a second or TWO and I'll get to you, you don't need to bother other employees busy with the bakery. They think they are the center of the place, how dare you to think you're better than anyone here! It's just disrepectful, really, and egoist. Ahaha, and here I am now writing about all those bad customers. But don't worry, there are lots of nice ones who tell you you made their day, or you have a nice smile :). Which I like the most at my job, and makes me want to work there for a long time, or at least until I'm done with school and finally away :).