I know I say this enough, but it is worth repeating. I am *so* glad that I am back in Vancouver once more. The past few years, I was quite bored on days like New Year's Eve. Most of the people I knew were not around. This time around though, I got to hang out with my friends here and keep the neighbours up till god knows how long. I got home after 5 and I got a text message at like 8 asking about whether I had seen a lost party animal...
Days like this make me feel very thankful for the fact that I live here and have such awesome friends. Friends who open their homes (and I suppose hearts) to us so that we can have an awesome time. I spent a lot of time last night talking about what we as people from different parts of the world are doing in Vancouver. My drunk friends were listening to songs from their homeland (I think we all owe a thank you to youtube for helping us find obscure things we saw as kids on TV available once more), alternating from regular run of the mill pop stuff to hardcore nationalist stuff from both sides of the various wars they came away from. It was quite an amusing sight.
I also got to hang out with one of my friends who lives in Haiti. Well, he lives on a resort in Haiti, where he enjoys life to the fullest. His stories of Haiti are shocking though. The poverty there seems to be quite dramatic. Some of his stories are similar to the ones I have heard of Mozambique. Haiti sounds wonderful and depressing at the same time. Hopefully, I can go visit soon.
On the whole though, I think this has been one of the best New Year's Eves I can recall with plenty of food (We ordered food from Memphis BBQ), a liberal amount of alcohol and great conversations. I wanted to try doing the polar bear swim, but couldn't convince anyone else to go, so I gave up. There is always next year. This also seemed to mark the first time I haven't really spent time with my married friends (or those that are staring down the road to marriage) for New Year's Eve. Normally, we all meet up, but once you get married, there are families and kids and what not to take up your time I suppose. Priorities change. Still, last night was fun.
I am hoping to hit the slopes on Saturday and then go see a comedy fest with another visiting friend from google land. I hope all of my (one or two) loyal readers out there had a great New Year's Eve as well. Let's hope this year will be a good one.
Days like this make me feel very thankful for the fact that I live here and have such awesome friends. Friends who open their homes (and I suppose hearts) to us so that we can have an awesome time. I spent a lot of time last night talking about what we as people from different parts of the world are doing in Vancouver. My drunk friends were listening to songs from their homeland (I think we all owe a thank you to youtube for helping us find obscure things we saw as kids on TV available once more), alternating from regular run of the mill pop stuff to hardcore nationalist stuff from both sides of the various wars they came away from. It was quite an amusing sight.
I also got to hang out with one of my friends who lives in Haiti. Well, he lives on a resort in Haiti, where he enjoys life to the fullest. His stories of Haiti are shocking though. The poverty there seems to be quite dramatic. Some of his stories are similar to the ones I have heard of Mozambique. Haiti sounds wonderful and depressing at the same time. Hopefully, I can go visit soon.
On the whole though, I think this has been one of the best New Year's Eves I can recall with plenty of food (We ordered food from Memphis BBQ), a liberal amount of alcohol and great conversations. I wanted to try doing the polar bear swim, but couldn't convince anyone else to go, so I gave up. There is always next year. This also seemed to mark the first time I haven't really spent time with my married friends (or those that are staring down the road to marriage) for New Year's Eve. Normally, we all meet up, but once you get married, there are families and kids and what not to take up your time I suppose. Priorities change. Still, last night was fun.
I am hoping to hit the slopes on Saturday and then go see a comedy fest with another visiting friend from google land. I hope all of my (one or two) loyal readers out there had a great New Year's Eve as well. Let's hope this year will be a good one.
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