I’ve lived quite a few places in my life so far. I have been working on this map for a while now, trying to remember as many places as I could. I have intentionally left a few places off this map for privacy, including my current address, but this is 90% complete.
My wife and I put up an ad to rent our condo (downtown Saskatoon) and we got 4 serious responses via email in under 2 hours. I didn’t put the phone number because I figure anyone who is looking at kijiji is likely to just email anyway and I thought it would help weed out the people who aren’t very serious. Very impressive for $0.
Edit: I should also note that there were a few ads for units in the same building already on Kijiji but they didn’t have good photos or any photos and they didn’t use very good language to attract people to the unit.
I’ve done a lot in the last 10 years. Maybe that’s why I’m so tired. Heres my last 10 years in a few quick notes:
Of course, things have happened in between and since 2006 but things have slowed down A LOT from what I was used to and the things that do happen don’t seem very exciting any more. I’m a pretty laid back guy but I like to experience new things but Saskatchewan and, to some extent, Canada are not great place for such experiences.
I was inspired to write this post because of wherethehellismatt.com. I watched his videos and read his FAQ and I felt hopeful again. Now, I think I need to see the world more and I realize how important it is to me.
Perhaps I have been spoilt or lucky, maybe both, by seeing more of the world than most people during my short time here. However, it has changed me for the better. I have a hard time calling anywhere “home.” I live in Saskatoon and I was born here, but it just feels like another place I have lived and not like where I belong. I have felt more like I belonged somewhere while sipping chai and smoking a beedi in Jaisalmer, India or riding my bike through streets of central Osaka, Japan. These are just two examples but what I am trying to say travel has opened my mind and allowed me to find things about myself that I would have never realized had I lived in one place like most of the world does and it scares me to think I am getting myself dug in to a life that I find dull and unimportant. I really need to get going (for my own sake)…
I was just going through some old photos on flickr that need to be geotagged. I found a few photos from my trip back to my old neighbourhood after not being back for roughly a year and a half. The old parts of the neighbour hood had been completely demolished and there was now a large metal construction fence around a huge area of land where much of the neighbourhood used to be.
This was a shock for me at the time even though I had been living in Seoul for nearly 3 years and I thought I had grown desensitized to the constant reconstruction. However, this had fundamentally changed what I had first recognized as “Korea”. The market was not nearly the same as it used to be and that is where I have some of my earliest memories from. It was kind of like losing a memory
The point that I am getting at is that some places move very quickly. However, some places also move very slowly.
I have been in Saskatoon for nearly three years now. I was born here. I have lived here for longer, but not by much, than I have anywhere else in the world. I will always love it, but I am tired of it. It made me realize that hardly anything has changed here in 3 years let alone the last 15 months like I had experienced in Yeoksam-dong.
Some CLASSIC Canadian hip-hop right here. This is yet another example of a great song and a perfectly fitting video that was made in very little time, for very little money.
I can’t believe that I slept on this video for nearly 5 months… damn.
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