Category: Life

One of my friends from high school decided she wanted to move to Canada.  She’s interested in all of the benefits and she found a great job.  She looking for apartments for rent in Calgary.  I remember how hard it was to look for a place to rent when I lived in the city.  I can’t imagine how hard it must be to try and find  place while you aren’t even in the same country.

I hope she is able to take a trip up there to see a few places before she has to make a decision on a place.  I know a lot of websites have fancy features that offer 360 degree virtual tours, but nothing beats actually walking around in a place.  I think you can get a better feel for the place when you can see it in person.

I also like to take a good look at the surrounding areas to gauge if it’s a safe neighborhood or not.  An agent gave me the best advice on shopping around for safe places to live.  She told me to drive around the neighborhood at night.  If it’s well lit and not littered with police cars and people doing suspicious activities then you probably have a pretty good place.  I’ll have to remember to share that tip with her before she goes to visit.

Have you ever seen someone who looks just like you? Unless you have a biological twin, seeing someone just like yourself can be unnerving.

A doppelganger is the paranormal double of a living person. Traditionally, a doppelganger is said to represent evil or misfortune. But in modern usage, it has come to mean to any double or look-alike of a person.

Now that school is back in session it’s much quieter around the neighborhood during the day.  All of the kids are back in school and filling their brains with a wealth of knowledge.  Of course with all of the new things they learn they are also tested on it.

In order to get the children to do their best and perform, a lot of teachers are starting to provide test taking incentives. One of the neighbor kids came home and showed off some fancy pencils and bookmarks.  She said her teacher gave them to the whole class.  It reminded me of a time when I was in school and we had to take the yearly standardized tests.  The test was called the CAP Test.  Our teachers gave us all a decorated baseball cap and called them our “Thinking Caps”.  We got to wear them during the times we were taking the tests.  I think the entire class was totally convinced that our “thinking caps” had super powers and made us smarter.

I wonder if the neighbor’s teacher told her class that the pencils had super powers and would help them get the right answers to the test questions.  I’ll have to ask her when she comes home from school today.