Monday, August 18, 2008

The Restaurant Process

It never really is easy to say goodbye, but we all somehow experience this dilemma at one point or another. Last Friday, my Korean friend Julie, who was to return home the following morning, and I decided to have commemorational party. Now Victoria is a small city, so there's not much selection when it comes to throwing a party. You can take your bunch down to Red Robin, a family restaurant, or you can vie for a more mature option and go with Boston Pizza. The latter was open late, and gave us the option for a reservation at 9:30pm so we went with it.

Come nightfall, we headed there in our various groups of people. Now when you go to a restaurant, there is sort of a process. You go inside the doors, check your reservation, head over to your seats, greet each other and then the most important part...you sit down in preparation of the meal to come. Well you see, we never got past the greeting process and a good portion of our group, about 25 people, decided they were going to stand and continue to converse. This was a mockery of the great restaurant process! How could someone go to a restaurant and not sit down for their meal. Complete blasphemy. Anyway, when you have 25 adults standing around their tables, the area tends to become slightly overcrowded. I noticed as ou
r waiter brought food to a few, he looked as if he wanted to hurl the Thai Chili Pizza he was carrying at our faces. Or at the very least, scream.

Several hours later, as we are all still standing, the last of our group has trickled in to say their goodbyes to Julie and I. We snapped some pictures and shared some hugs and words. All in all, we had a good time as we butchered the sacred restaurant process.

The group outside Boston Pizza
:

Introduction

Hey, my name is Muhammad. I'm a University of Victoria student in Engineering going on a year long trip as an international student to Doshisha University in auspicious Kyoto, Japan. I began this blog as a means of sharing the more interesting moments of my excursion.

Welcome to my blog, and I hope you enjoy my stories!