Monday, 17 November 2014

Anything i want

Opening day at lake Louise, Lake Louise opens very early in the season. They only have enough snow and time to open one run and one chairlift. The skill level is vast as there are people that have never skied before and people that ski everyday. The run is called the WeWaxy 500 it is a 10m wide blue run (about 15%) and there can be hundreds of people going anywhere from 10km/h to 60km/h on a narrow ice rusted run that serves down the mountain with little to know snow around. It gets pretty hectic and you half to be careful not to run over some kid because you weren't paying attention.
I was doing a drill with my group we undid all of are boots to help us learn have proper balance well skiing. this can make stopping particularly hard and staying in control even harder. As i was coming particularly fast out of a steep section my right ski hit a rock and ripped the boot from my foot, the clipped ski went flying down the runn leaving me with one ski and an exposed foot. The ski flew right into a ski patrol snow mobile before stopping. I skied down and just as i went to put my foot in the boot i saw a ski patrol running towards me frantically screaming. He ran up to me grabbed my ski and got on the snowmobile before i could say anything. He yelled back at me. "I hope you can ski on one foot" It took me an extra 5 minuets to get down. I met up with the ski patrol where he told me "Do yout bindings up before tossing me my ski."

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Laughing at people for no reason to make them feel left out

Me and some friends were looking for a specific street downtown, we were somewhat disoriented on where to go so we begin to ask the people around us. After receiving advice instead of a clear answer on how to get where we need to go we thanked the man and moved on. Two minuets later we had another stranger at are disposal this time it was different, i don't know what came over me but i just started giggling. Soon i was laughing at a perfectly innocent man who was just trying to be polite and give us instructions on how to get to a certain street. My friends thought the whole prospect was funny and started to laugh with me. This poor man though he was being laughed at and tried to sneek away, this action caused a even greater uncontrolled reaction of diaphragms experiencing spasms because at this point we all though the whole situation was so funny we were learning on each other for support and frantically gasping for air. We ended up finding prospect street soon after that.  

Thursday, 25 September 2014

Public Transit

The consistent chatter of the train gliding along the tracks is all that anyone hears, if your lucky sniffles beside you might cough into a particular crowed part of the car literally spreading his love with everyone else around him. Otherwise everyone is dead silent as people make their futile attempts to avoid eye contact and even worse a conversation a strange though dawned upon me. Calgary has the most spread out population in the world and in this magical privacy invading moment we have 200 Calgaryians the most private and spacious people in Canada are all jammed in a 3 by 20m train car. Something about this bothered me so after i told my rather brother we decided to try and brighten the mood in this moving coffin. The next day me and my brother got on the Tuscany train. We brought a stool and put it in the middle of the train. We just waited for the train to fill up, the as the heart worming feeling of some one breathing down your next began to consume us both we stood unto of the stools and asked for everyone's attention. The looks we got were so great it was almost as if the people were screaming "how dare you disturb my miserable life" We announced that whoever would hug the stranger next to them would get a free coffee at Starbucks. Of course this was a blatant lie we simply had just take about a 100 empty unremembered Starbucks cards that have no value and gave them to people. Looking back on the awkward silence of my previous ride i decided that no these people are all generally nice, they aren't talking because they think there better or other be nine reasons they aren't talking because many just don't want to break the ice.  The train instantly filled with laughter and applause. I think this experiment i did with my brother was one of the scariest things i have every done but also has left a big impression... Society doesn't suck after all.