A Thread of Destiny(PART 1 OF 3)
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Subj:Oh, you made me
nostalgic, kiddo!
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Halifax
From: diane@vancouver.ca
To: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2012 7:50 pm
Pacific Daylight Saving Time
Hi Kato,
I enjoyed the following article.
■"Halifax to Vancouver"
(July 9, 2012)
Wow! You are really making me nostalgic now.
I do see the similarities between Halifax and Vancouver now that you point them out.
Point Pleasant Park and Stanley Park do share commonalities, as do Lost Lagoon and the Public Gardens in Halifax.
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Point Pleasant Park
I wonder if Point Pleasant Park has a real live beaver in one of its lakes?
I went to check out our resident beaver in Beaver Lake yesterday.
Saw his or her lodge, but apparently the beaver doesn't come out and start working until dusk each day.
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I enjoyed a wonderful article and photos in Saturday's Vancouver Sun.
It looks like the beaver has been in the lake for four years now, most likely coming from North Vancouver's Capilano Watershed area, braving the currents and freighters in Burrard Inlet and shuffling his or her way up Beaver Creek to the Lake.
One of these days I hope to see the beaver in person.
With this lovely weather, it's easy and fun to take a stroll in Stanley Park more regularly, don't you think?
You're right about preferring the weather here to the weather in Halifax.
But some days I question even that as you can imagine.
I came out here in Vancouver on my own when I was only 21 yrs. old.
I had finished business college and had already had two fairly good jobs, but I was seeking adventure and a westcoast life.
I did stop briefly in Toronto where my older brother lived in a really cool hippie house, and considered living there, but decided to go for bust.
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I loved it immediately and made lots of friends.
Eventually my older brother moved out from Toronto and my younger brother moved out from Halifax.
Then my parents decided that, if the kids were all going to live in Vancouver, they should just come out as well.
Except for my older brother, we all settled here in Vancouver, quite happily.
Thanks for this, very well put together kiddo,
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Love, Diane ~
So, Diane, you've enjoyed a bit of hippie lifestye in Toronto, have you?
Yes, I have. Have you been to Toronto, Kato?
Toronto was my first destination in Canada.
No kidding!
Actually, I wrote the following artcle.
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■"Don Juan Spammer in Makati"
【マカティの不倫スパマー】
（April 19, 2012）
Kato, I can't read Japanese.
Well... I translate the related passage for you...
Hey, Don Juan Spammer! You've got a filipino friend living in Toronto, haven't you?
Kato, how the heck do you know that?
...'Cause your spam is advertising the following site.
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This site is selling auto parts made in Canada. Your filipino buddy asked you to send a lof of spam for the above site, didn't you?
Jeez...Kato, you're a darn smart ass, aren't you?
Actually, I lived in the Danforth area in Toronto for three years. This Danforth area is called "Greektown" because many Greeks live over there.
2010 Taste of the Danforth:
Greek Festival
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As a matter of fact, this district is the third-largest Greek community in the world, after the Greek mainland and Melborne.
So what?
Well... Part of the "Greentown" is a philippine community, where a filipino friend of mine lives.
Oh, yeah? ... To tell you the truth, Kato, my buddy lives near Pape Station.
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Pape Subway Station
Kato, do you know the area?
Yes, of course, I do. Actually, I used to live near the station---two blocks away to the south.
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42 Cavell Avenue, Toronto
This is the house I lived for three years.
I know the area.
You gotta be kidding!
'Cause I went to Jones School to learn English with my buddy.
Me, too. What a coincidence!
I wish I could've met you, Kato.
I'd rather not.
SOURCE: "Don Juan Spammer in Makati"
So my mail made you nostalgic, didn't you?
You're telling me, Diane.
What is Jones School?
It was an elementary school, which seems to have been converted to a community center. In the old days, new immigrants learned English at the school free of charge.
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It is called "Adult Centre," isn't it?
...seems like it. The house at 42 Cavell Avenue was my first house in Canada.
Do you still remeber the area, Kato?
Yes, of course, the scenery has burnt into my memory since.
(To be continued)