Monday, December 29, 2003
Well, here it is, the beginning of the end!! Its one of those diary things where the whole world can see whats going on in the life of an Irish guy living in Canada. It will be primarily be a chance for us (Sinead and me) to keep you up to date with all of the little things that are of little interest, but are filling our days here in this great country!
Well, there has been so much so far to catch up on and write about now, but I'll try to remember all of the useless bits of information as the Blog continues. I probably won't be able to write every day but I will try to update it as often as possible.
Well we are now sitting in an internet cafe on 17th Ave SW and just passing the time until Sinead goes to her Chiropractors appointment, with a fill-in for Jason (Ryan's brother), while he is away visiting his parents with Ryan in Cairo.
We will probably go for something to eat then. We have been recommended a place to go here on 17th Ave. called Captain Jacks which has 17cent mini-burgers! (Thanks Alison!)
Last night we went to see Chad's band playing in the Black Swan pub. I was a bit shocked at one of the conversations that arised there. In some of the highschools here they actually have to wear name-tag ID's around their necks, as a precaution ever since the whole Columbine school shootings in America. Kinda scary, eh?!!
We were supposed to be going to a Calgary Flames game again tonight but all the cheap-seats were gone (and by cheap I mean $28!!!) so we would have had to be paying about $40 for seats so we said we would try to organise it a bit better and get tickets well in advance of one of their next games, instead of the day of the game!! We are really getting into the hockey and American football. Its pretty exciting to watch. Some of the ice-hockey fights are amazing and it actaully says in the rules that the referees cant break up the fight until one of the players is on the floor...how cool is that!! We were trying to convince Jeff that Hurling is just as good but he's having none of it!! That hasn't stopped him from picking up some valuable Irish vocabulary though - "Alright ya fecker!!"
We go to Mass in the church where Ryan works, every Sunday night at 7:30pm. Sinead has joined the choir there too, and they sing every Sunday night, but its supposed to be a youth mass so the choir is made up of a piano, electric and acoustic guitars (and whatever other instruments Ryan picks up along the way), as well as a set of drums, so its quite a different sound. Mass here is a bit different than what we are used to too, and there's no kneeling, all standing, so at home when they kneel, just think of us here in Canada.... standing!!!
We live quite a distance from the church too so every Sunday our ritual is to walk for about 10 - 15 mins to the train and spend about 20 mins on the train and then walk for another 20 mins to the church and so we have to leave about an hour and a half before mass to get there on time, and since Sinead has to be there an hour early for choir practice, we leave at 5pm for 7:30 Mass - If this doesn't get us into heaven, nothing will!!!!!
Well we have to run now, our time is almost up here. Talk to you all again soon.
Well, there has been so much so far to catch up on and write about now, but I'll try to remember all of the useless bits of information as the Blog continues. I probably won't be able to write every day but I will try to update it as often as possible.
Well we are now sitting in an internet cafe on 17th Ave SW and just passing the time until Sinead goes to her Chiropractors appointment, with a fill-in for Jason (Ryan's brother), while he is away visiting his parents with Ryan in Cairo.
We will probably go for something to eat then. We have been recommended a place to go here on 17th Ave. called Captain Jacks which has 17cent mini-burgers! (Thanks Alison!)
Last night we went to see Chad's band playing in the Black Swan pub. I was a bit shocked at one of the conversations that arised there. In some of the highschools here they actually have to wear name-tag ID's around their necks, as a precaution ever since the whole Columbine school shootings in America. Kinda scary, eh?!!
We were supposed to be going to a Calgary Flames game again tonight but all the cheap-seats were gone (and by cheap I mean $28!!!) so we would have had to be paying about $40 for seats so we said we would try to organise it a bit better and get tickets well in advance of one of their next games, instead of the day of the game!! We are really getting into the hockey and American football. Its pretty exciting to watch. Some of the ice-hockey fights are amazing and it actaully says in the rules that the referees cant break up the fight until one of the players is on the floor...how cool is that!! We were trying to convince Jeff that Hurling is just as good but he's having none of it!! That hasn't stopped him from picking up some valuable Irish vocabulary though - "Alright ya fecker!!"
We go to Mass in the church where Ryan works, every Sunday night at 7:30pm. Sinead has joined the choir there too, and they sing every Sunday night, but its supposed to be a youth mass so the choir is made up of a piano, electric and acoustic guitars (and whatever other instruments Ryan picks up along the way), as well as a set of drums, so its quite a different sound. Mass here is a bit different than what we are used to too, and there's no kneeling, all standing, so at home when they kneel, just think of us here in Canada.... standing!!!
We live quite a distance from the church too so every Sunday our ritual is to walk for about 10 - 15 mins to the train and spend about 20 mins on the train and then walk for another 20 mins to the church and so we have to leave about an hour and a half before mass to get there on time, and since Sinead has to be there an hour early for choir practice, we leave at 5pm for 7:30 Mass - If this doesn't get us into heaven, nothing will!!!!!
Well we have to run now, our time is almost up here. Talk to you all again soon.
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