I did two out of the three
CWB examinations for my
Level I certificate this week. This was, probably the third attempt! No! You can call me dumb or anything you want but I don't even want to discuss that here. I either have not had enough time to study or was too tired to do so. That's my excuse! I fail at least one of the three each time and then I either have to re-write it or my time is up and I have to write all the three! I will write about this attempt when the results show, next week, most likely but I paid
Kevin M. a visit on my way back, in his
Downtown workplace building.
I barely remember when was the last time we had met but I think it was
2019, perhaps. He looked much older and had lost a great deal of hair. We are all aging but I think his aging has been fast. Whatever is left is gray now but we leave him alone in that department. The good thing, for him, is that he has been with the same company since, If I'm not mistaken,
2011 and he will, most likely retire there. I don't think he makes anything less than
$130k or he'd be a sucker! Even if he doesn't, and even if he makes
$100k, the important thing is he's all set, in comparison with me that I have to start over! I saw them to see if he could do anything about the application I had earlier sent. I highly doubt that.
Nevertheless, I had to park somewhere and walk to the building and
Downtown seemed scarier as always, perhaps even scarier! Despite a small population of some
Caucasians and some foreigners who work in the businesses and buildings in
Downtown, the majority of the people you face are foreign refugees and asylum seekers, fraudulent immigrants or poor addict and extremely low income and almost homeless people.
Downtown Calgary is way better when you compare it to
Vancouver but still gives you a very bad feeling, in most corners of it, particularly on a cloudy and cold day of
March!
Shopping carts with dirty clothing piled up in it, lots and lots of
Punjabi Sikhs, male and females marching around (I spent an hour with my friend and when I came out, saw the same people wandering around then all went inside a building in
Downtown west side, almost opposite
Kerby Center, which I don't know what it is but we all know many I
ndian Sikhs come to
Canada as student and work), construction and more construction, smokers and lost of smokers. You get depressed by walking in certain parts of
Downtown! And then I saw one or two moving trucks and told myself: I will do anything it takes not to have to move to a rental building and generally anywhere in
Downtown Calgary! My mental health has been affected enough, I certainly don't want to end up in a mental institution!
The interesting thing is you never see disgusting, scary and nasty scenes you see in Western cities in any Iranian cities and despite one or two individuals, I saw no one like these creatures in Tokyo with more than 14M inhabitants!
(Photo: McDougall School, which is known as McDougall Center now, was built in 1907 as a center for training teachers. It is located in the less scarier part of Downtown Calgary!)