17/f Canada - Friends
Eric
>Hey everyone,
>
> My name's Jen, I'm 17 (18 in less than a week!) and I live in Victoria,
>British Columbia, Canada.
Jen
Do me a favour go round and say hi to my cousin Jan. She lives in
Vancouver.
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Eric
dunk
>
> Jen wrote:
> >
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > My name's Jen, I'm 17 (18 in less than a week!) and I live in Victoria,
> > British Columbia, Canada.
> > friend from Canada? I'm looking for people to chat with on the Internet
> > - I'm also planning on getting to the UK, most in particular London, one
> > day. Why .. because I've already been once and it's brilliant! If you
> > want to write my address
> > is: jwin...@home.com Hope to hear from you, bye!
> >
>
> Welcome to the list Jen. I've never been to Victoria but have friends
> there. For those on here who are unfamiliar with Canadian geography
> Victoria is the capital of British Columbia. It lies on the pacific
> ocean and is regarded as the most "British" city outside the United
> Kingdom (the second most "British" city is Christ Church, New Zealand).
> One of the great Victoria rituals is to take tea at the Empress Hotel.
>
> Rafal Heydel-Mankoo (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Intersetingly, Christchurch (one word, folks, two words makes it part of
some university somewhere...) is noted in NZ for having a major right
wing / skinhead / neo-nazi / racist problem.
A friend of mine was staying in a youth hostel near the centre
(Cathedral Square) and the local white power youth kicked off against
the local maori youth sometime around midnight. Goes on all the time...
Another mate (pakeha = white) was drinking the dole cheque away one
afternoon down there and was just passing the time of day with a maori
chap. All fine, maori guy left, then a skinhead came over to my mate and
was about to bottle him just for 'talking to a smelly black'...
Also noted for extreme homophobia.
Guess that makes it most British then ;-)
regards
d.