learning to strum the chords of chivallry
Just back from Alberta and all things flat and green. I spent the weekend in the praries with family in one of Calgary's illustrious bedroom communities. I haven't visited Alberta in the summer since I was 3 years old. Each one of my east-of-BC experiences has been in the biting cold of winter. So I was completely floored at the green, slightly pretty boy that Calgary transformed into during summer.
After 2.5 days straight in small town 'berta I made a break for Calgary to visit some old friends and new. Old = Rotary Exchange buddy, fellow UVic alumni and of course C-town's newlywed power couple. New = friends met at said power couple's wedding in that place I would now love to frequent yearly and chronicled below.
My day/night in stampede city was spent drinking too strong homemade Mai Tais, attempting to dance jive to house music, playing Guitar Heroes (miserably) and catching up on post-Maui life, gossip and photos. And we went for lifesaving, hangover-stopping dim sum and later a hearty amazing potluck. THANKGOD because I really did feel like a pirate on Sunday: my head throbbed, my leg felt like a peg, my hair was natty and only one of my eyes was working.
Speaking of the biggun above...ever noticed the flatter the land, the more the more spirals pointing skywards. Alberta is extremely churchy. I wonder if this is a correlation for the amount of chivallry that exists there. All weekend I thought about one Elaine's May 29 blog about chivallry. It seemed everywhere I turned doors were being opened and people smiled and did something nice, unasked for. At first I thought it was just my friends and family, but nope it's Calgary in general. Everyone is so bloody friendly, polite and nice.
Is it economic? Is is social? Is it religious? I'm not sure, but if folks want to open the door for my mom on crutches or let me jump a grocery queue because they're lovely, swell people then I'll go with the flow of human kindness. I've decided to recant at least 1/2 of the bad things I've ever thought about our neighbors. Now if I could only mimic their manners a little more.
posted by Miranda @ Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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