We had Hockey Pool Night a couple of weeks back – an annual event for the past 15 years for 10 lifetime friends… guys who went to school together, played soccer, or worked together in our youngest days. A couple of the guys fly half across the country every year to attend.
Brandon, I’ve known since we were 9. He asked me a question while I was gloating over getting the goalie I wanted, and I just answered off the cuff. “I think I’m at Hogwarts!”, I said. I wasn’t looking for a laugh, but it got one and I went back to planning my next excellent move. But I thought about it since, and I think that top-of-my-head answer was true for me. I may have mentioned in another entry that I’m an older student, making a career-path change. I enjoyed my college days but, looking back, I don’t feel any great tug of affection for the bricks-and-mortar of the place. But for sure I felt something the first time I visited the Guelph U campus. And that’s where the Hogwarts connection first came in. I wasn’t seeing ghosts floating by, but it did feel like I was stepping into an invisible crowd. Weird!
Brandon, I’ve known since we were 9. He asked me a question while I was gloating over getting the goalie I wanted, and I just answered off the cuff. “I think I’m at Hogwarts!”, I said. I wasn’t looking for a laugh, but it got one and I went back to planning my next excellent move. But I thought about it since, and I think that top-of-my-head answer was true for me. I may have mentioned in another entry that I’m an older student, making a career-path change. I enjoyed my college days but, looking back, I don’t feel any great tug of affection for the bricks-and-mortar of the place. But for sure I felt something the first time I visited the Guelph U campus. And that’s where the Hogwarts connection first came in. I wasn’t seeing ghosts floating by, but it did feel like I was stepping into an invisible crowd. Weird!
Or maybe not… maybe it was just my hyperactive imagination, set off by the surroundings. All that sense of time and learning and history, and feeling the presence of thousands upon thousands who’d walked where I did… it was pretty overpowering. And that’s just the outside!
Inside, I had no trouble seeing Potter’s place in Guelph’s classrooms and corridors. To my eye, both the fantasy and the real have the look and feel of aproper university.
Inside, I had no trouble seeing Potter’s place in Guelph’s classrooms and corridors. To my eye, both the fantasy and the real have the look and feel of aproper university.
So, I already know I’ll be carrying fond lifetime memories of my Guelph experience… and
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