BONUS POST! Top 10 Hosteling Roommates (Excluding JP Shooter)!

So I move into my new pad tomorrow, and it taken a bit longer than I was hoping. So here is the long overdue top 10 room buddies I had while hosteling. At least I've got plenty to choose from.

1. Micheal:- Of the 6 German roommates I've had he is definitely the best. The only room mate I've had who added me on facebook. We went for several drinks, and swapped traveling stories. His best was one in which one of his friends spent the night in a small police station cell for being drunk and disorderly, and him and his other friends stood outside drunkenly protesting. The police dealt with this by making the guy stay in the cell for 6 hours and not 3. Plus he's back in Vancouver soon with his Girl friend on another holiday, so we get to see him again! Huzza!
   
2. Barry:- He's from A small town in the interior of Canada, he had got a job in a hospital in Vancouver and was looking for a place to stay and hosteling while he searched. We were both out of our depth as each other. One of the first people I met when I got here. I need to catch up with him over a pint some time soon.
3. Boris:- Boris's name is Boris. When he introduced himself, he said "Hello, I'm Boris." This is possibly one of the best names in history. Just try saying it; Boris. Boris. Good isn't it? This is the only thing we ever said to each other. But once he shouted in his sleep in Polish, and woke up entire room. This only made him even better in my eyes.
4. Nigel:- I Only met Nigel briefly last night. He was living in Alberta and is visiting Vancouver for a holiday. He was originally from Nigeria, and had sought asylum in Canada. One of the happiest people I've ever met. (I don't know if his name is actually Nigel, but this is what I mentally dubbed him, the thing with hosteling is you can never remember any one's names).
5. Australian Guy:- I only spoke to him a couple of times, but it was when I was at the lowest point of the great job hunt. He had got work already, and both times when I spoke to him, he spurred me on, and told me I would find work eventually. What a nice guy!
6. German Room #3:- He wore a crazy hat, he had worked as a dishwasher on a train that had traveled across the entire county. Gave me some good advice and advised me not to move to Toronto as the situation was even worse job wise, and that my idea to stay in Vancouver then travel at the end of the year was "something he wished he had done."
7. German Room mates #3 to #6:- We all stayed in a room in the Cambie Hostel, they gave me a free drink, and were generally welcoming. One of them sun burnt his favorite band name onto his back. We played some stupid item naming game, that I came last in even though they weren't playing in there native language... but then by that point I was a bit drunk.
8. Mad Phil:- Mad Phil had a very intense stare, that made him look as if he was constantly wondering if he could kill you, with his massive, massive arms. I thought I was just being a bit paranoid and so attempted friendship. Bad decision! He forced me to watch a 2 hour video on how 9/11 was faked, something that I found a bit sickening, what with the selective evidence selection and playing some of the most disturbing footage from the event. Not that I ever really told Mad Phil. Not that it mattered, he confided in JP that he thought I thought he was "a bit of a nutter". I give the game away far to easily.
   
9. German Room mate #1:- First guy I met after leaving the plane and arriving in the downtown Hostel. Was a bit standoff-ish at first, but turned out to be alright in the end... by which I mean he made a bit of effort to say goodbye to me.
10. Naked Canadian Guy:- He was about 30, and a bit over wait, and kept himself to himself. So it was a bit of a surprise when me and JP came back to the room one day, and found him stood there naked.
    Why he couldn't change in the cubicle after his shower like every one else is beyond me. As JP put it on his blog:- "I saws him naked far to many times. Which was once."

I also had a brief love affair with a shelf. Not just any old shelf, but a FREE shelf. It contained all the food that people didn't want anymore, and as all of you probably know, if you don't want food anymore, I will eat it. The shelf provided me with pancakes last night AND maple syrup. Outstanding!