Tomorrow marks 3 months at my new job (the end of my probationary period), which means I’ve been a Kelowna resident for a few days past 3 months. Half of me wonders where the time went and the rest of me thinks it’s been a lifetime since I got here. It’s somewhat fascinating to me how normal my life now feels, though in a way if I’ve got my cat, my career and workmates who appreciate my sarcastic sense of humour and inappropriate timing, I’m home.
I do still miss my Vancouver friends, and I have yet to make any close friends here though it is a slow process because nobody here knows how awesome I am until they see it for themselves, and I have only so much time. Also many of the people I do hang out with are also new to Kelowna, which makes them almost completely useless for trading up.
While I did complain a while back about my discomfort at all the niceness of the people here, it now just feels regular and I’m sure next time I hit Vancouver I’m going to be shocked at how rude everyone is and wonder why they’re in such a hurry to get anywhere. I guess that will mean I’ve gone native, which is something that would have bothered me before, but now it feels okay. It’s hard to have a problem with the chilled out life.
(Oh, and the poster above is a billboard on the road to Enderby, BC. Someone needs to have a talk with them about what bubble tea really is.)
It’s an amazing thing about the modern world that something like bubble tea, invented in Taiwan a couple of decades ago, has made its way to a place that was, until quite recently, a mining and forestry hinterland. Although obviously something did get lost in translation to the billboard.
I’m hoping my mom will check the place out for me and report back. She used to like bubble tea back in the late 90s when she still lived in Vancouver.
Re: billboard. It was probably the only cheap/free clip art they could find that was (very) remotely related to the billboard’s theme.