April 19, 2013

• Report # 993

  Hey everyone, I hope that you’ve all had a wonderful week. After getting my last entry posted so early in the day, this is definitely a late post. My last few days have been pretty busy as I went to three job interviews. I had two job interviews on Tuesday morning, and my brother drove me to the first one, which would be an office type job for a bus company. I interviewed with a lady, and it had to have been the most thorough job interview I’d ever had in my life, as it was an hour long.

  The lady started out asking me questions about my past experiences, and general questions asking me to describe certain situations that I’ve been involved with in the past. In the later part of the interview she asked me lots of hypothetical questions of what I’d do in certain situations if I was working for the company, and we closed out with a period where I was able to ask some questions. It would certainly be a long ways for me to go for the job, but it would be an interesting type of job, and something that gets super busy during the summer, and winds down before fall, so it would be a decent temporary job.

  After the interview I took the bus, then the skytrain, then another bus to get close to my second interview. Seeing as I was super early, I stopped in at Tim Hortons and had some lunch there. Afterwards I walked to my second interview, which was a packing/unpacking job for golf balls and coffee mugs. The guy there didn’t really interview me so much as he had got me to do the tasks involved with that job. He said that I had an “awesome resume” and asked me if I was interested in the job.

  I told him I still had another job interview the next day and that I wanted to see how that went. The guy told me that they would call me back in a couple of days. I headed home after the interview, and I got home in about an hour, so the commute to that place wasn’t so awful. On Wednesday morning I took the bus to my third interview, which was being held in the White Spot restaurant. I was interviewed by a man and his wife, and they, along with two other partners, were the owners of a company that ships contact lenses around North America.

  The interview was only about 20 minutes, though I got to ask a bunch of questions as well. The job would probably be the best out of the three as it is the closest, and the work would be a lot more interesting then the 2nd job interview I had, as that would be a pretty boring job ! The guy told me that he would make a decision on Monday, and the lady from the bus company told me on Tuesday. I got a call back from the 2nd company I interviewed for, and she was asking if I was still interested, meaning that they would probably hire me if I just agreed.

  The job would pay minimum wage (which I’ve never worked for in my life) though it would be super simple, and a job that would be very easy to leave when I am ready. I told the lady that I had two other jobs which were closer, well one of them is, though I’d prefer even the further job over this job, and that they would be letting me know next week. So the lady told me that I can call back early next week and see if the position is still available.

  It would be a bit disappointing if I don’t end up getting any of the other two jobs, and then find out that this job just ended up hiring someone else, but the truth is I should be able to find something closer that pays a lot better, so it wouldn’t be the end of the world. I’ve continued running with the dogs everyday, though on Wednesday, Molly went into my brother’s car as he was out there cleaning it, and she wouldn’t get out, so she obviously wanted to go to the dog park instead. So for that day I just ran Parker, which was fine with me.

  I vacuumed the whole house on Thursday, and today my dad drove me to the Skytrain so I could head downtown and pick up our shirts and tag numbers for the Vancouver Sun Run on Sunday. Before heading downtown I got off at Metrotown and ended up seeing Oblivion in the movie theatre inside the mall. This was the first movie I saw since I left Mexico the first week of March, and the first movie I’ve seen in theatres here since last June probably. The prices just keep going up, as my price for the ticket alone was $ 14.99 !

  With the large popcorn and coke included, I must have paid almost $ 30.00…. over double the price I was paying while in Mexico. I think the large bags of popcorn here are larger than in Mexico, and I didn’t even finish all of the popcorn. The movie was ok, as it was another one of those movies set in the future after world destruction, but it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be, and it was extremely confusing. After the movie I got back on the skytrain, which also seems to have raised prices, as I paid like $ 5.25 !, to head downtown.

  I got to BC Place stadium and inside was the place where all the people went to pick up their Sun Run gear. Surprisingly there were hardly any people there and I was in and out in less than 10 minutes. Before I got there I had visions in my mind that I’d be standing in long lineups and waiting like over an hour, but I was so happy that wasn’t the case. This allowed me to get back on the Skytrain to head back to Surrey and take the bus home, without having to buy another ticket.

  When I got home I just had some dinner which my mom had made, and I won’t really do much else for the rest of the day. I didn’t run the dogs today, but I will be sure to run them tomorrow and be in the best condition I can be in for Sunday’s race. Some stupid person removed all of the videos of the Mexican telenovela (soap opera) that I was watching online, so I’m extremely disappointed about that. I spent like an hour looking through so many sites, but I wasn’t able to find it anywhere.

  I’ve only seen 34 out of 110 episodes, so I have to finish watching the series in some way ! Hopefully I can figure out some sort of solution to this problem, but as of now I seem to be out of luck. It would be such a shame to not be able to finish the remaining 76 episodes, so somehow I have to figure out something. I just can’t believe stupid idiots have nothing better to do in their lives but remove videos that people watch !!! I’m kind of overreacting here, but I’m extremely disappointed !

  Seeing as I always like to talk to people from other countries, I’ve got to hear some fascinating things from some people. For the most part the people I’ve met from other countries here have been very friendly, though I have to say, some of them are complete snobs. I’ve met people who have told me they don’t like it here for whatever reason, and they’ve made some interesting comments. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I think it’s extremely rude and inappropriate for people to come from other places and talk about where they are staying (either temporarily on a vacation, for studying, or as a place they’ve moved to) in a negative way.

  Obviously some people will like certain places more than others, and that’s entirely understandable, but that doesn’t mean that people need to resort to being so negative and saying such ugly things. I’ve been to some places before that were a little more challenging for me to be, based on things such as the climate, but I still enjoyed my time in those places and appreciated the beauty as well as the places and the people around those cities. Why can’t everyone else be able to do the same ?

  Ok now it sounds like I am implying that everyone should be like me in that regard, but really what I’m getting at is that when people choose to go to another place, for whatever reason, they should be respectful of that place and the people who live there. It’s not cool to be bashing that place, and it’s not cool to be talking about it in a negative way….. especially if no one had asked them for their opinion ! As I’ve said time and time again, if someone does not like the place they live, they should shut up and leave.

  And to those people who choose to come from somewhere else to vacation, study or live in another city, they need to show a lot more respect than some people have been showing. Now I’m not suggesting that we all sugarcoat everything and bend the truth or outright lie about how we feel about a place, but I do think showing respect is key and if we don’t have anything nice to say about a place, we should just keep our mouths shut. And if someone from the city where a person is staying, visiting or living, well then if they want to spout out the truth they can go for it, but they should try doing so in a way that’s respectful !

  I also have to say the worst thing is for the people who just assume how a place would be or that they would not like it, and start talking negatively about a certain place, without even having gone there once before. These type of people are the worst. They have toxic personalities and they are just blatantly talking trash with no experience, and worst yet, no integrity. People like this just need to learn to keep their mouths shut and actually experience something for themselves before going off about something they no little about.

  So all I can really say, for the 10,000th time; If someone lives in a place they really don’t like, they should shut up and leave, no matter if they were born there, or just living there or staying there temporarily. And today I’m targeting the people from other places, because they are a lot worse with this at times. The world is a much better place do to immigration and people from different places moving around. It would be so boring if we all just lived in the same place we were born our whole lives, and no one moved anywhere.

  I’m very appreciative of all of the wonderful people who have moved from place to place and truly appreciate the place they live, or at the very least act respectfully, I am just speaking out against the small group of people who truly act in a snobby matter like they are too good for where they have moved to or visited, and implying how awful a certain place is in their opinion. I always enjoy visiting new places, and I don’t go off saying bad things about the places I go to. I guess it’s just a bit too much to expect some other people to share this way of thinking.

  For the next question:

  Do you think it’s alright to talk negatively about another place that you have visited or lived in ? How does one strike a balance between stating their opinion without avoiding putting down a certain place and upsetting the people who live there ?

  Well that’s all I have for another day. I hope that everyone has an amazing weekend. Take care and I’ll talk to you all on Monday, bye for now.

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