It's my birthday

Until I get some more of my actual pictures up, here is one I stole off Ian to keep you going in the meantime. It was taken on my birthday which feels like many years ago. You can clearly see me in the centre in my number 9 Rooney England shirt. I seem to be surrounded by what looks like a group of homeless people.

The shirt was given to me by my sunday morning football team as a leaving present. We were unbeaten until I left and then they lost their first game without me. However they have picked up recently and are top of the league.



Here is a picture of my sunday team "Wards" who play in the Derby Taveners League. It was taken the sunday before I came to Canada for the Derby Evening Telegragph. You can see me kneeling down in the middle with my white boots.

My Car Has Gone

I rang my mum this morning to discover that my lovely 13 year old Peugeot 106 has now been sold. It was my first car and have been driving it for about 1 and a half years. It was fine apart from the fact it struggled in cold weather and required expert control of the choke to keep the engine going whilst slowing down.

Other news in Canada. Woken up again by housemates coming home late. This time someone stayed over and not only woke me up by coughing loudly but at 3.30 am came into my room looking for the toilet and just left the door open. Gavin, if you're reading this, I'm moving in when the other Paul leaves. Just think, you won't even have to call your housemate by a different name.

Random Pictures

So, Hunter S. Thompson, a chef and Donnie Darko walk into a bar and the barkeeper says...

Gavin, Pete, Paul and Chris

Chris' audition for the X factor didn't go down well with the judges

Paul looking slightly more attractive

Dancing on the bar, surely that's not safe

The shot of me and andy from my camera, not gavin's

My room

Another view, isn't it beautiful

Marvellous

Me and Andy the Crayon at Halloween as shown through Gavin's camera.

The darker lighting isn't as flattering.

And so it begins

Hello all and welcome to the first official entry from my blog. First of all I should explain the title of "I can take this geek". It is a quote from probably the greatest video game of all time, Shenmue on the Sega Dreamcast. It and its sequel Shenmue 2 are two of the greatest things you could ever experience in life. The quote itself comes from the character Goro who you meet down at the docks. Looking like a Japanese Elvis, he quickly threatens your character of Ryo Hazuki and tries to impress his friends by beating you up. After saying the immortal lines "I can take this geek" you quickly make him look a fool by kicking the crap out of him and go on to become great friends. I know Glenn back home will truly understand the importance of these few words and the game in general.

Anyway what have I been up to simce I've been in Canada. Well to cut a long satory short I now live in a place called Kerrisdale just outside Vancouver with Gaz, Rachel and Pete. Originally a girl named Tessa lived with us as well, but she left pretty much straight away. It wasn't a huge loss to the group as a whole and we miss her very little.

I work at a products placement company where I get paid to watch TV. Whilst walking home one day I was threatened by a man who said he was going to shoot me. Walking past a bus stop he said "hey you" and I carried on walking. He continued to say "hey you, come here" getting more angry and intense each time until he started to follow me. He then said "I'm gonna shoot you" at which instance I turned around to see him umzipping his jacket and reaching in. At this point I legged it as fast as I could diving herocially through some bushes to hear the man shouting "you run, yeh you run". I can report this was an isollated incident and that most Canadians are nice people.

I now spend my time hanging around with people who flew out with me, the fellow Bunacers still in Vancouver. They include my mums favourites Andy and Ian, the student house dwellers Chris, Debs, Simon and Andrew (Keeny) Keen and not forgetting Gavin, the other Paul and of course my fellow housemates.

We seem to spend half our time at English pubs spending no time with actual Canadians but hey I'm sure we'll meet some eventually.

Anyhow I'm off now as I've just been shopping in Metrotown and picked up some good bargains. I'm going to try the other internet cafe to see if I can get my picture on there as there are no usb ports for my camers here so until next time, which could be in about 5 minutes, stay tuned, keep reading and please leave any comments below.

My first entry

I'm at work now and really shouldn't be posting this, but I've just set up my blog and wanted to get it going. Anyway I shall report back with a more detailed entry to my adventures in Canada at the weekend.