Snowflake Challenge Day 1

[potofsoup]

Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.

All right, let's do this. My happy place is a boba shop where they are playing crappy c-pop. Every Saturday and Sunday, when we get babysitting and finally (!!!) have a few hours to ourselves, that's where we go. We pack our laptops or drawing tablets or whatever, walk the 5 blocks to a boba shop, and instantly I feel more relaxed. It functions in much the same way that being on a train would: there's enough people and stuff around that I can be by myself without being alone. I get my best grading and planning done in a boba shop. Plus the walk is a time when I get to have nice conversations with Hoosband. We talk best when we're walking.

Why a boba shop? I can't drink coffee, and I love the salty snack options in a boba shop. There's a certain degree of sketchiness that I love, too. In fact, I picked our house in part because it's within walking distance to a boba shop. We drink boba so much that I got us reuseable cups and these great glass boba straws, so now our recycling isn't clogged up with boba cups! :D!!

Comments

[przed]

Even when the shop first opened it only seemed to be open a couple of hours a week. So...

In spite of the fact that Toronto and area has four major Chinatowns, and a Koreatown, we live near none of them, which makes me sad. (A side effect of buying where we could afford and was a comfortable commute for us both.) But there is a big Chinese grocery not too far from us, and plenty of Asian-adjacent people in the neighbourhood, so that's good. And we recently found awesome Thai ice cream near one of the rinks where my daughter plays hockey, and that is a fab thing.