There are strange things done in the midnight sun…
Carrie posted in Uncategorized on June 8th, 2007
I was invited by this guy I met at the triathlon to come to a pick-up Ultimate Frisbee league on Tuesday nights so I checked it out. It was cool because it had a bit of instruction/practice and then a scrimmage. Really welcoming to people who may not be that good at Frisbee or know the rules. But Isabel (another Rec grad at the game) and I were both wondering how they ever let us graduate from ORPT without knowing the extensive rules and techniques to Ultimate Frisbee. We thought it was course requirement or something…
I’m also ashamed to say that I wandered off on the trails behind my house while walking the dog, ignoring all of my ORPT training and completely unprepared for getting as lost as I did. There are SO MANY trails back there and they just go on forever!!! Eventually I happened upon the Trans-Canada Trail with its nature information signs and well-maintained bridges but that didn’t help me since I didn’t even know the Trans-Canada ran back there so didn’t really know where I was! I tried using the sun to tell me which way I was heading but that’s a bit confusing since it doesn’t really rise and set anymore it just sort of moves around in the sky a bit. At least I wasn’t worried about running out of daylight! I wasn’t really lost for first hour though because I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, I was just enjoying the sunshine and the walk. You can’t be lost if you don’t care! After an hour an a half though I started thinking about dinner and wanted to be enjoying a walk in the home direction. Eventually I climbed up this hill and looked out to see the college buildings. I was really confused then because I didn’t know from which side I was looking at the college. So I figured I’ll just head up to the college and get my bearings and it’ll be all good. I did do one extraneous trail loop (no worries, a bit more exercise is all…though it is demoralising to come across something you’ve already seen once and realise you’re going in circles) but after that I headed off in the right direction, soon recognised some trails and pick up the one that headed home. Two hours longer than I had anticipated, but we didn’t run into Smokey, The Bear so all’s well that end’s well.
It’s been interesting living without a microwave though. You don’t think about how much you depend on a commodity until you don’t have it. The woman for whom I am housesitting/dogsitting/catsitting is a really cool hippie and her place is just awesome but she doesn’t own a microwave. This brought me to a full stop early in the morning because I all of the sudden realised I had no idea how to prepare my breakfast without a microwave:s After reading the instructions I tried it out on the stove and burnt it! I feel bad and I spent a good chunk of the evening scraping carbon off the pot. I wouldn’t say I have it down pat now but it’s getting better. I spent quite a bit of time wrestling with the washing machine as well but I blame Germany for that.
Anyway, I had 2 interviews this week as well so it was pretty interesting. I have another interview coming up with someone from Yukon Quest but that’s all I have booked for now. I’m going to call this guy about the climbing associations around here, and I’m thinking of talking to the guy who was teaching all the Frisbee last week. Just to see what’s the deal with that organisation…I mean, it was obviously a lot of random of people who showed up because there were other people like me who are only there for a couple of weeks so I don’t know what the whole story is.Â
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