#28

i remember my mother saying every time we moved...”i hate to think of how many times i’ve moved”...well i thought about it... and for me it’s twenty 28! that’s...lets see..i need a calculator.... that’s an average of every 1.4642857 years! well...i guess i’m doing better b/c i’ve been here exactly two years..... that’’s .5357143 of a year better...hmmmm....

sure that includes when i was a baby moving from england to toronto...i don’t remember that one.

moving from toronto to waterdown. which is one of my first memories.... noticing that i had an attic in my room...so i didn’t want to leave. i think that was toronto.

saying good bye to the empty house in waterdown with my brothers, is pretty clear in my head too....it makes me feel a little sad....

i don’t really remember leaving ottawa....i lived in alot of places in ottawa...7 in total...two of which burnt down after i left ...i swear it wasn’t me! actually i do sorta remember leaving ottawa the first time on our way to virginia...mum was upset b/c mrs cofftry didn’t invite us in for a cuppa or a drink on our last day.

virginia i don’t remember leaving...but i sure do remember arriving in tokyo...wow! that one is hard to forget as a kid of 14 never really been out of north america much. eye opener doesn’t begin to describe it. i remember the strange sounds in the airport....the smell when i went ouside....from the pollution...the train we took from narita, through what looked like slums to me at the time....but i’m sure now, that they weren’t....it was hot.....really really hot...it must have been aug.

i remember leaving tokyo the last time...staying at a narita airport hotel.... dad said to me and peter to do what we wanted our last night. we spent, i don’t know how much, in the hotel bar drinking singapore slings all night!!!.....that was when i didn’t get hang overs.....peter is a bad influence....hehe....we were in trouble when that visa bill came in!

toronto.....wow.....i lived in three places the last of which took the longest to get over...i loved that apartment...a little coach house on top of an antique store......my first place, really on my own. i use to dream about it afterwards.....it was such a great place...even though it was haunted and not to code. i actually went there last time i was in TO...it’s still there. the antique store isn’t. it’s a chi-chi home decor place now.....and the people who live there probably don’t need the keys to the store to get in at night. that one shocked a few people!

anyway, now here in vancouver...god knows how many years later. i’ve done 8 moves here in total.....three of which i was kicked out of for various reasons...one i only lived in for a week! the owner didn’t speak english very well and didn’t understand us when we said we had cats.

ok well......here we go # 28....lets see how it goes......i’m sure it won’t be the last!


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