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[Jul. 6th, 2009|12:07 am] |
Ok, this sounds weird but when I was a kid I used to keep a list of places I wanted to live. It was really only three places actually; Minnesota, Australia, and Victoria in British Columbia. It wasn't like I based my decisions on anything rational. I was fascinated by Minnesota because it seemed so obscure that I couldn't imagine that anyone actually lived there and yet somehow they were able to support a professional football team. I picked Australia because it was filled with weird animals or something I guess, or maybe because my Mom once told me the plot of the movie "On the Beach" and I figured that was the safest place to be in case of nuclear holocaust. For Victoria, I just liked the name and the fact that it was off on what seemed to be an exotic island. It wasn't like I had any information about Victoria except for the map, I knew nothing about it other than there was a little star to note that it was a Provincial Capital. I couldn't tell you a single thing about it other than I really wanted to go there (remember, this was in the days before Wikipedia so it was hard to get information).
Well, it's many years later and I still have never been to Minnesota or Australia, but I can now finally say I've been to Victoria! I spent five whole days there actually. Even though I never imagined what it would be like, it still wasn't what I expected (it seems to be the San Diego of Canada). When I was a kid, I never thought I'd actually ever get a chance to go, and now I've been. I almost feel like one of those people who dreamed about becoming an astronaut and who actually got to go into space. Except not nearly as impressive. |
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