Welcome to readers from France, Switzerland, Brazil, Sweden and now Taiwan! 🙂
World Record Walk:
- A couple days ago I found out that it is official! Canada set a new world record with 231,635 participants walking one kilometer simultaneously on October 3, 2007, 12:30 PM EDT. I was one of 23 co-workers that were part of the 30,945 Albertans that took part. So I can now say that I broke a World Record!
Sex and the City status:
- I plan to watch more episodes tonight but as I write this I am on Season 3 Episode 10. Episode 4 of this season was an interesting one. It was all about sexual labels. Good to have them? Bad to have them? Especially when it comes to the label of “Bisexual”. This seems to be a hot topic in today’s society and they even held a workshop on it at the LGBTTQQ summer camp I volunteered at this summer. The Sex and the City girls didn’t seem to really decide on if Bi was a real label or not in the show but seemed to end more with the idea that if two people are happy… they are happy. They joke a lot in this episode and Samantha identifies as Trysexual (Try anything once). I don’t think I have ever seen this episode before and at the end I was sure I hadn’t. Alanis Morrisette kisses Sarah Jessica Parker and I don’t think I would have forgotten that but maybe I blocked it out. Episode 5 is the beginning of the Aiden episodes and is also when Carrie stops smoking. I was not a fan of the Aiden story line and by episode 9 Carrie has already slept with Big. So hard to watch.
Big Brother quickie:
- So very cool to see Jase, Mike, Janelle, Amy, and Matty from the past seasons last night! Nice to also see that Libra is finally on the block! I was so sure that Dan was going to blow it when he was feeding Michelle that line of “I am just such a weak player” but he appears to have pulled it off. People I am now cheering on in order of Most favorite to favorite are… Robert ‘Memphis’ Garrett, Dan Gheesling, Michelle Costa, and April Dowling.
Olympics???
- No medals for Canada yet 🙁 Apparently they are coming though. My other favorite countries are doing pretty good. Italy & France are tied for 5th and Czech and Cuba are tied for 8th. I haven’t watched much of the Olympics but a few people caught my eye. I saw Tatiana Guderzo (Italy) take Bronze in the women’s gruelling road race. I saw Marian Drăgulescu (Romania) looking good in Men’s Gymnastics. Mathieu Bois (Canada) in Men’s swimming looks promising as well. Oh and I saw Kitajima Kosuke (Japan) win gold in the Men’s 100m Breast finals. So awesome to see the excitement in his eyes and the good sportsmanship of the fellow swimmers congratulating him.
Neil’s Travel Tip #4:
- Did you know that if you purchase a 1.5L bottle of water (best size for carrying and making sure you stay hydrated in Europe) near a tourist attraction in Europe it can cost up to $4. If you walk 2 blocks away from the attraction it will cost around $2. If you walk one or two blocks off the main drag you can find it for $1-$1.50. However if you find a supermarket/grocery store (often downstairs in space challenged cities) that same bottle will be approximately $0.32. When you find that grocery store tell everyone in your hostel when you are walking there and take them with you. You will meet great people, save everyone money, and they will share with you cool things they learned that day.
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