House of the haunted children

I went to Wreck beach the day I moved into my new house. It's a nudy beach at UBC (University of British Columbia), where I was staying with Beck. It was certainly no Australian beach. It was real cold, there were these logs everywhere, and the sand was a yucky dark colour. Needless to say, I tookk some photo's and got the hell outta there.


Working at Tim Hortans has got me thinking that maybe I just wasn't meant to work. I'm not sure. I sure don't like this, and I haven't liked any other jobs I've had before, and I cant imagine really loving bar work, or office work, and everything else is too specialised to let me in. I dunno what to do.

One of my aims for coming overseas was to become more gutsy, take up more opportunities and be less indecisive. I don't think I've really made a big effort with any of these yet.

House is going pretty well so far. Living with two girls, Trina and April. April is an Aussie and Trina is from Victoria (I may have gotten this wrong, and I'm still not sure where it is). Trina's only here for a month, but April's here for the long haul. We're living right near Commercial drive. People kept telling me that Commercial drive is the place to be and live in Vancouver, I haven't really been convinced yet. There's a lot of homeless people around, and the pubs and shops are okay, but they're not awesome. They're just missing some kinda spunk/character/charm. I'm really struggling to not keep compating Vancouver to Melbourne and think how much cooler Melbourne is. Everything I seem to see or do I think, Melbourne does that better. I did live in Melbourne for like 6 years though, and I'm sure I just need to give Vncouver more time, get to know it more.


The location is pretty good though for my new house, right near the sky train to down town, right near the bus line that goes along a main street to Tim Hortons. It could be a lot worse, I know.. I visited a few houses before I found this one. I made a video to show you around:



April seems to be friends with a lot of interesting people. Today we went to this Art space thing with two friends of hers. One was this Character, Fish. He was pretty crazy, real active and zippy - hippy/ADD/crazy. We drove there in this right drive van, no seat belts in the back, or seats, listening to this blue grass/Techno music. Pretty wild. He was all over the shop, reminded me a bit of Ray Wholohan from highschool. We're all going to some crazy music thing tonight. Will keep you posted.