This week sees two long term friends leave the hostel. Pearcey who once organized events for the hostel and Mika who once stayed with us for two years while studying in Canada.
Both had returned to Toronto as visitors to do the “tourist thing”. While Pearcey worked for the hostel, he didn’t manage to see much of the country except for a very brief sojourn to the Pacific coast.
When Mika first arrived she had minimal English skills but is now fluent and ended up working aboard cruise ships as a translator. She’s off to Europe in two days time then home to Osaka.
Pearcey left two days ago heading for Mexico by bus. It is a three-day trip to San Antonio, Texas then another bus to Veracruz to visit Genesis one of the original members of his Lager Lout/ Animalette group.
Both of them will be missed here at the hostel. Tiny little Mika with the big voice and Pearcey with his “Beau Bells” Cockney accent complete with rhyming slang and Malapropisms.
