Television
Friday, January 30th, 2009It has been a while since you hear my cry from the wild in snowy Vancouver. So here I am again, back with more news about me and peculiarities about my temporary residency. First of all, on Saturday I got fired from my weekend job. Economic recession blah blah blah. But I still had my weekday job, so I was not worried. Until Tuesday, when I got fired here as well. The other girl wanted fulltime and since she was more experienced than me I got cut. Oh well. So out I go, looking all over for jobs. And while I am on this unrewarding task, I think to myself that I did at least actually learn some new skills at my former jobs: I know how to make a good mocha and how to make the perfect crêpes. So the time was definitely not wasted. And slowly fortune smiled on me and offered me a job behind the deli at Choices. The details are not worked out yet, but it does look promising.
But let me not bore you with my job situation here. Let me tell you about the modern phenomena called television, or TV for short. We have a small TV (small like the first TV my family owned, if anyone of you ever saw that). And 63 different channels. This is great in a way, because you can always find something you like. Either a new episode of your favorite show (unless you are Fumiho, my Japanese housemate, who has to wait in vain for new Prison Break episodes), a re-run of your favorite show or an old episode or your favorite show. And get hooked to all the other shows (90210 is among them, I am not ashamed to admit that) just because these are the new episodes that are not aired in Europe yet.
And there are tons and tons of reality shows, most of them about loosing weight, saving money or fake judge shows. It is weird how many of these shows that actually exist. There are also competition shows: Making the cheerleading team, the best coyote ugly, superstar hair challenge, Tabitha’s salong take over – who does actually watch a show where some random woman renovates a hair salon? Beats me. But these show come on running
Or there is actually nothing on TV. Like in the mornings, when I eat breakfast. Either there are news, or really old re-runs that I have seen a hundred times. And then, of course, commercial. In Sweden, we all think that Americans would have commercials every time there is a scene change in the series, movie or news. But we are so wrong. Right then, there is actually no commercial break. The breaks are before and after and following the intro and basically all the time. I am not kidding, there is actually a break each 7-10 minutes. And it is so irritating!
So the best way is to avoid them and actually drink a cup of tea and read a good book!
Cheers,
Ulrike