Parties, 'Partments and 'Pun Deli's...

Hi Woolfest!

I'm going to carry on from my previous post that had to be cut short because I ran out of time! Gah! I need to be so much more 'on' this thing but well, you know how it is, the streets are always a-calling!

So I got up to Tuesday? Which is when we found Toronto's equivalent of Magnolia's - Jave Hut! Oh my gawddddd yes! We went for breakfast, which is served all day and it's just as well because as per usual I didn't get my arse in gear til gone midday. When we finally got there I had the Stuffed French Toast, which was filled with cheese and ham and came with homefries and salad! Rarrrgghgfkdf gmfgdgmm IN MY FACE THANKS! While we were eating I got a call for another job interview too - woop! :) I spent the rest of the day giving myself a break from job hunting in light of my latest success and went exploring again. That night we cooked in the hostel for the first time (tomato pasta, not even any cheese either mind) and while we were sat at the table we made another friend - a lovely girl called Jo who is 27 from Manchester and awesome! :) We were also sat at the table with an Irish man who claimed to have met the Dalai Lama and to have cycled across Australia or something. He had a few stories to tell but how many of them were factual is another kettle of fishfingers. We invited Jo to come to the cinema with us that night (because Tuesday nights at the Scotiabank theatre are free popcorn and drinks!) and went to see Up In The Air which has a heart-wrenching twist at the end! You'd like it! Mind you, what you wouldn't like is Canadian popcorn - they don't have sweet popcorn Woolly! Can you be-leaf these people?! They put syrup on their bacon and now they put cheese and jalapeno sauce on their popcorn! I just don't know what to think sometimes Helen!

Next day I had my first interview, at Aldo, so I spent all day in the hostel doing a bit of prepping and watching Dexter. I think the interview went well, I keep being told that I'm very 'enthusiastic' (read: giddy idiot) but I hated my life after the interview because I left my folder of resumes in the shop and had to go back for it...what a spanner :( I went and met Kelly for dinner afterwards because Tara had ditched us to go on a date (which she vehemently denied was a date...then later admitted that it 'turned into one' because he kept trying to hold her hand! Hahahahaah) and we went to a tapas place where I had the most amazing seafood pasta of my life! Some of the seafood in it was questionable but there was loads of mussels and it didn't make me want to throw up either. It also came with a generous side serving of sleaze because our waiter kept commenting on Kelly's perfume and telling us to 'come back real soon' hahahahah...oh the joys!

Thursday I had another interview! Yay! This time it was at Bay, this big designer department store but it's unusual because I would have to act as a businesswoman of sorts if I got the job there - the staff all have business cards, and create client profiles for their regular customers, and have to call them if something comes into the store that we think our customers would like and we get paid in direct relation to what we sell! It sounds like it would be way more interesting than the average retail job anyway so I'm intrigued by it. To cheer myself up after my interview I went to go and try to perv on my boyfriend again but he wasn't there, he's such a tease Helen, I don't know why he treats me like this. It's almost like I don't exist to him. Dejected, I took a walk up Yonge Street to find the Dollarama store and a grocery store that Tara had told me she'd found. Dollarama, well it's just bloody amazing! There's so much cute Valentine's Day stuff, I want it all, maybe when I finally get my place :) I also needed things like face wipes and shower gel, and since I couldn't find any face wipes in Shoppers (the big health and beauty/home store that's everywhere here, bit like Boots and Wilkos together?) for under 10 bucks a packet you can imagine how siked I was to find HANNAH MONTANA branded face wipes by Olay for two dollars! Oh and a shower gel to match! :) Hahahaha yes, now I smell like Miley Cyrus! Went to Sneaky's that night for poutine, nachos and beer with Kelly, Tara, Jo and a Dutch girl called Anna who told me she likes girls so I spent a good ten minutes telling her why she'd fancy Laura hahahaha. She didn't like Tegan and Sara though, so she's not a winner! In Sneaky's Tara ordered a cocktail from the bartender and his facial expression was as though she'd just asked for a dose of the AIDS, I decided to test him by also going over and ordering a cocktail and I got the same pleasant reaction, nice. I tipped him two bucks for his shitty Cosmo (because they didn't have mojitos and I asked him what his favourite cocktail was to make...mostly to wind him up further) but I should have thrown it at his head with my fist still attached. Still love Sneaky's though :) some guys from Liverpool who are also in the hostel came and sat with us and told us they could get us into a club for free, drunkenly we agreed to it but we really should have saved ourselves the trouble as we had to walk for 10mins in the baltic conditions (me in heels, Kelly with no coat) to get to this club called Strangelove where the doorman wouldn't let us in for ages because we were on the guestlist but he told us the club was full (it was empty), then when we got in there the music was dreadful vocal house music - my favourite song being one with some really deep and insightful lyrics - the word 'woo' over and over and over again - and ridiculous orange skinned frat boys and about three girls other than us, oh but the real clincher was when we went to the bar to get a drink and I got charged six bucks for a red bull. Eff that club!!!

Friday I went out into Scarborough (pronounced Scar-bur-OH!) to visit Anna and Andy, two girls who are friends with Steffen and Brad and are absolutely brilliant! They picked me up from the station (I had to get the subway and of course, got lost so turned up an hour late :(...but while I was lost I stumbled upon a cafe called 'Pun Deli'! Hahaha I need to go back and find it! I wonder if their food is all named after bands hahahaha) and we went to get Teriyaki for dinner, which is a takeout Asian cuisine place but it was tasty! We discussed the merits of ice tea versus real tea (I know you'll appreciate this) and I spotted my first Canadian Wal-Mart and then drove to Andy's where I almost died at the sight of all her Forever 21 dresses and leopard print bedroom ahhaaha. I curled my short hair for the first time, had to be convinced that I didn't look like a judge and then we went to Andy's workmates' condo, which almost made me sick it was so fancy - it had a big marble fountain in the lobby for God's sake! They had got so much alcohol in including a huge bottle of Jager! Jager behaviour did ensue, especially downstairs at the bowling alley where I started throwing too many balls down the lane at once and eventually the pins stopped resetting themselves and we had to make a swift exit!...Whoops! Upstairs we were playing a drinking game called 'Cops and Robbers' which was ingeniously simple, even I could pay attention to it, then we all started bouncing on Andy's friends' bed and at some point we realised we were way too drunk and had to go to another party still, which was in a bar and do I hell remember being there!...well you can take the girl out of Sheffield! :)

Saturday morning Andy took us to a little Vietnamese/Thai restaurant for hangover food! Best idea EVER? I had these delicious peanut chicken wrap things that you had to wrap up yourself but the wraps were so thin and sticky they looked like stuffed condoms hahaha! So good though! I also had a bubble tea which was a kind of mango flavoured iced tea with tapioca balls in the bottom that you suck up through a massive straw! It was damn tasty but a lot of effort to drink with the balls being in the way...story of my life Helen. Then it was a swift exit to put me back on the subway so I could go to my apartment viewing appointment! And yes it was a great success - $600 a month (including utilities), really nice, simple, clean and warm apartment, three nice student housemates (I met one of them and he was really sweet, his boyfriend was half English so he said he watches loads of English TV, his favourite right now being Secret Diary of A Call Girl hahahaha), big room with a big closet and lots of floor space to set up beds for my visitors :p, nice large clean kitchen and here's the clincher - it's literally two minutes away from Sneaky Dee's! It's so good! Look at it on Google Earth - 99 Bellevue Avenue. Yes, Bellevue! It's like it was meant to be!

I know $600 sounds like a lot to us, but I asked a few people and they all told me that it's a great price for that area because it's close enough to the very centre of downtown to still be walkable, plus I'll finally have my excuse to buy a bike...yey! There's also a big garden to the front of the property and there were loads of Chopper and Lowrider bikes chained up to the iron fence...only fair I should join in! I chatted to the boy whose room I would be taking for about an hour and he gave me the impression that I was the only person that had come to view the room that he had liked, and when I got home he'd already emailed his landlord saying that he wanted to put me forward as a candidate! Here you have to apply for an apartment, you can't just say that you want it like back home so fingers crossed. I'm actually viewing another apartment tonight which is cheaper, but the area's not so good, we'll see though! The subway is great here, as is the streetcar system, but it's just expensive - a single journey is a flat rate of 3 bucks no matter where you're travelling to so unless you're travelling a long way, it's a pain in the ass, so not having to take the subway home is a big deal to me. I dunno, I just need to accept that here there's no such thing as Flowers Towers! :(

Oh by the way you'd be super proud of me for going to the cinema so much since I've been here - last night was my third time! The Scotiabank theatre runs showings of old movies for really cheap so last night we went to see The Silence Of The Lambs for five dollars, and I was so nervous the whole way through that I demolished a massive box of Milk Duds! I'm still trying to find anything to rival The Clique though...but as soon as I do, you'll know!

And since you whinged about me not posting enough pics... I tried my best to upload some Helen, I really did, but the internet is so bad here that I just didn't have a chance today! It's all those rude Euros downstairs clogging up the wireless with their porn, probably. Sacre Bleu!!!

Miss Ewe!

Bredders x

P.s. I told Andy and Anna why I'm 'Vicky Breadcake'...I don't think they got it. Nobody does...nobody who wasn't in the car that night anyway!