Filed under: Uncategorized — David @ 10:25 am Comments 0
No… this is not a post about the Montreal Hockey team called “the Canadians”.
This is a post about meeting Canadian people here in Scotland. When we first started this blog I used to post about the Canadian people I would meet out and about Scotland. I haven’t posted about the subject in quite a while but not because I haven’t been meeting other Canadians. Just because the Thesis took over my life.
Well today I was taking the number 8 bus to school when this guy sat across from me. I didn’t think much of it except for the fact that I had to forgo some leg room. As I was grooving to the tragically hip on my IPOD i noticed the guy had a Roots Canada bag. Excitement and intrigue gripped me and I turned to the guy and said…. “Are you Canadian?”. Sure enough he was, and hailed from my home Provence Ontario but from the town of Stratford. He was attending Medical school here. He wasn’t decked out in lumberjack plaid like myself, but his accent was distinctly Canadian!
Why am I sharing all this with YOUS? Well… I don’t really know. Probably cause we have been here so long and It was nice to talk to someone new about things back home.
By the way… does anyone want to fly us to Canada for Christmas? 
Filed under: Neyir's Posts — Neyir @ 5:57 pm Comments 2
I have been trying to find time to sit down and write a post that has been echoing around in my mind for the last wee while. Sadly the time does not seem to be forthcoming so here, rather, are a few thoughts.
A few weeks David looked up from what he was doing and said with authority ‘It has been 4 years today eh!’. As I was in the midst of doing something (don’t remember what) I tried to look moderately intelligent (as though I had some idea of what he was saying) and responded with some vague query. It had been, David informed me, 4 years since we landed in Glasgow, had our Visa’s stamped and began our Scottish adventure.
I had wanted to sit down and write about how ours lives have changed in that time. How we have been stretched and shaped, what we have learned, what we have observed. One thing that kept coming back (in the post I was writing in my head) was that we had only been married a year and a half when we moved here, that our flat on Halmyre was the longest (by far) we had ever lived anywhere together. There are so many things that I wanted to articulate, both to myself and to those who (for some odd reason) seem vaguely interested in these things.
There just never seems to be the time, wonder why that it ;-). I do have one time to say, this simple fact, Scotland has managed more than I think we ever imagined to capture our imagination and we will be oh so very, very sad when our time comes to move on.
4 years has gone so quickly. I do wonder what the next 4 four will bring.
